Mind blowing fact of the week!

The world's shortest man died at age 21 standing at a crazy 74.61cm tall! Apposed to the tallest man in the world who was 29 when last measured and was 8 feet and 2 inches! What a difference! It would be like looking up at a huge giant!

Mangamahu Cross Country

On Friday 13th we thought it was all going to go wrong. Mangamahu were holding a cluster cross country and we think we won the shield! I can't remember what the orders of the races were but I know that the 10 year olds (that's my race) were second to last. Everyone ran such a great race and we had no injuries. In my race 3rd place was Tineisha 2nd place was Georgina and I came 1st! The day was really fun with baking at the shop for 50c, juicies for $1.00, sausages and hamburgers at $2.00 and a raffle for a $1.00 per ticket. What a day!

P.S. I actually think that Friday 13th is just a stupid saying!  

The Netball Final!

"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" The whistle went, I passed to Lauren. The netball game had started! Ruapehu were in the final of the grade against us, Fordell A Netball team. I was playing C, Georgina was playing GD, Renee was playing GS, Bridgitte played GA, Lauren played WA, Allie played GK and Grace and Anna shared WD. Every quarter the game got tougher and tougher for both teams and goals were going in after each every minute. In the third quarter we were ahead by 2 or 3 points but the score was still close! In the last quarter the ball was getting down to the goal but an intercept from the defense would take the ball back to the center third. The whistle blew in the end, We Won!
Every one had a great game and afterwards we got lots of treats from our coach, Robyn.   

Cross Country

On Tuesday afternoon Fordell school were very tired, sweaty and hot. It had been the Cross Country! First the year ones had their race, then the year twos, year threes, year fours, year fives, the preschool race was very cute, year six's, then the year sevens and last of all the year eights. My race was quite long because I am a year 6 so we did two small laps at the start, then one humongous big lap and then one last small lap. I started to get the stitch in my second lap but then it went away. I was tagging along behind Ryan who was just behind The fantastic... Georgina! Every time I looked behind me
A group of runners were slowly going into the distance. It wasn't until the last lap I sprinted past
Ryan and took 2nd place for the girls and overall. Every one had a great race and finished it with a
  smile. Great running Fordell School! From Rebekah. 
 

Butterflies, Flutterblies

Have you ever really paid attention to the most elegant creature in the world, The Butterfly? Well that's alright because this is my report on the Butterfly.

The Butterfly flaps it's wings up and down side to side. They have a strong muscle in their thorax for power. The Fast Flying Skippers can fly up to 30 miles per hour or faster. Slow flying butterflies fly up to 5 miles per hour or a little more. The Monarch Butterfly flies very far every year during it's annual migration.

Butterflies don't eat but they drink nectar and sip from small puddles. They also drink wet raindrops on leaves and plants. Butterflies don't necessarily sleep but they go into an inactive mode called Quiescence. In this mode they hang upside down but there eyes are always open because they don't have any eyelids.

Butterflies are all different colors but some main colors are Brown, blue, black, copper, orange, green, grey, white, yellow, red and purple. There are also many shapes and sizes.

   2 interesting facts!
The first butterfly fossils were found 40 to 50 years ago!
There are more than 20,000 species of b
   utterflies in the world!

Interesting Fact Of The Week!

Did you know that a normal housefly usually lives for at least 2 to 3 weeks.  Farewell flyer! 

 

Be Funky

Today M.s Whitwell showed us a new website called 'Be Funky' where you get a picture of yourself and customize it. We  had a turn to just mess around and have a play but then we had to get serious. Everyone in Room 2 made 4 photos and put them on publisher. We put our name on it and then Ta-da! We had our very own 'Andy Warhol' pictures.

P.S. You should check the site out. It's called Be Funky!

Andy Warhol was an American artist who had a passion of getting any photo (especially pop artists) and recreated the photo to something amazing. His art inspired a lot of people from back then to now.