Let the Games Begin!!

The Year of the Commonwealth Games are here! The Commonwealth games have finally come and I am so excited. I can’t wait so see New Zealand compete with other Countries.

Have you ever known about the Commonwealth games? If you have what is your favourite sport from the Games? Shot put is really cool but Valerie Adams always wins so I never get excited. Cycling yeah thats cool but hard and I’m always scared that people might come crashing down on the bikes. My favourite is going to be shot put because I can learn from Valerie Adams and 2 years ago I tried shot put with a little tiny soft light ball and accidentally hit my friends face (it was really funny to me).

Hey, Did you know there are 17 awesome sports in the Commonwealth Games? Awesome right? But thats not all wherever the Commonwealth Games are held that country can pick 7 of the sports so basically theres 10 original sports and 7 are picked from a country. Anyway back to the sport like Swimming, Badminton, Netball excertra. Netball I trialled for that this year and I made the team YAY!!! But most of all I had fun.

Do you know any New Zealander swimmers? I don’t but I am going to research and tell some of the names to you be back in a sec. Turns out theres only 2 New Zealander swimmers and their names are Sophie Pascoe and Lauren Boyle. Pretty cool names aye. Sophie has 2 Gold Medal and Lauren has won 1 Gold and 1 Silver. Thats totally awesome!

Until this year I think its cool to have the commonwealth games because it good seeing different countries cooperating together.

Strings of a Guitar

Parts of a guitar

Titanic Animation

Here is my Titanic Animation. I hope you Enjoy :)
Kat Titanic Movie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Boat Sale

Here is my reading followup. Enjoy reading:)

Titanic Research with May

Here is my research about the Titanic.
Questions:

1. What were the dimensions of the Titanic?
2. What was the biggest cause of the sinking of the Titanic? Explain...
3. How many children on that boat died? *
4. How many people went on a lifeboat each?
5. Why did the captain decide to go through the Atlantic?
6. Did people who sleep down by the engine survive?
7. What was and is the price to go on the titanic?

Answers:

Question 1 information:

882’ 9” Feet long 92” Feet wide

Question 2 information:

The captain wanted to get to where ever they wanted to go quicker than they said they would so they speed up the titanic and went through the atlantic. The guard people were too slow to see the iceberg they hit it and the water was racing in the boat.

Question 3 information:

7% of children and woman died in the 1st class, 19% of children and woman died 2nd class and 53% of children and woman died 3rd class.

Question 4 information:

So if there were 1,900 passengers on the boat and about half of them survived (700) there would be about 40 people per lifeboat (20 lifeboats).

Question 5 information:

The captain wanted to go through the atlantic because he wanted to go where ever faster than he said he would and he wanted to be on the newspaper.

Question 6 information:

The people who slept by the engine still survived but most of them didn’t.

Question 7 information:

The titanic cost $40 for poor people (3rd class) and $6000 for rich people (1st class). Today it will cost $150 for (3rd class) and $9000 for rich (1st class).

Links:

• Titanic Sit
• Wikipedia
• EyeWitness to History
• About.com 1
• About.com 2
• National Geographic
• Britannica
• History - Titanic by the Numbers

The Haunted Mansion 1

Here is my story about the first part of The Haunted Mansion. Enjoy :)

It was a quiet deserted night I could smell the blood of my frightenedness. I was alone and scared even if it wasn’t halloween. At the end of the road was a really big house with alot of spider webs on it. I had to deliver the papers here. All of a sudden the doors started flapping open and shut. This must be a joke. Why would people live here for. I  continued delivering the papers until I got to the big house. I want to explore this monstrous house because it looks evil.

I opened the gate and it made an ugly rusty sound. I’m going to leave now. I heard a whisper “Come closer” I was so frightened. Suddenly somebody shouted “GET AWAY or else YOU WILL BE CURSED and I WILL HAUNT YOU FOR EVER, HAHAHAHA”. Voush then a song played a weird ugly and horrory song.  I opened the massive door of the house and when I walked in the door shut loudly and I hear a lady walking up and down the hallway saying “I WARNED YOU”

All I was thinking was get out of this house straight away but when I turned that lady that dressed in black stood in front of me. She was singing "Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack, She’s dressed in black black black, She has a knife knife knife, Stuck in her back back back, She cannot breathe breathe breathe, She cannot cry cry cry, Thats why she begs begs begs, She begs to DIE DIE DIE". Miss Mary Mack started to cry and yell saying “You are the only person who has ever come into my house and you are the DUMBEST”. “I will kill anyone that goes into my room and this time listen to me”.  I went into her room and... To be continued