Monday, September 13, 2010

Welcome to the new school year in Tech Ed


Hello students! This year we will be doing interesting projects, expanding our technical skills, learning a lot about science and sharing our work with other students!

We are going to visit New Zealand and look at their blog and leave appropriate and complimentary comments. Did you know that New Zealanders are called Kiwis? I guess we should be known as Quahogs! Did you know that if I was fooling you, here in the states I'd be "pulling your leg". In New Zealand, they'd say "Get off the grass". Hmmm, which is more strange? Maybe we can trade some idioms to start with - okay, sprogs? Be like a box of Budgies!


17 comments:

  1. Hi Lisa,
    My children will be replying before the end of the week. They are highly excited about getting comments. After this week, we are on school holidays for two weeks and will be back at school on October 11th. I'm sure we can Skype, I will try and sort it from this end about doing that - but probably not till next term. It would be great to see videos too.
    Ainslie

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  2. Hi there,
    Thank you for commneting on our blog.Yes we can were bare feet to school.
    we live near a forest called The Redwoods we go for lots of bush walks.
    In the summer we love to go to the beaches and lakes. surrounding us are about 11.
    In New Zealand we have lots of VOLCANOS!!!
    In Rotorua pepole stand on the tarawera volcano for tours!!!
    Do you have mufity days (or do you were mufty
    every day for uniform!!)
    Stella and Claudia.

    PS My email address Lisa is ahowiehale@xtra.co.nz (home) or room10@lynmore.school.nz (school)
    Ainslie

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  3. Hi Josh, my name is Sacha I live in Rotorua, New Zealand. I love to horse ride. The sports that i play are waterpolo,netball and horse riding. I love going to the beach and surfing. At school I love to so writing. I love the monarch movie it is cool.

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  4. sup max i play computer games all the time and i like bmx biking nz is really cool rotorua has lots of lakes and red woods and the blue lake we like boating and swimming.and walking in red woods.

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  5. Hi,
    In the weekends most of the time I play soccer and play computer games.When I'm at my Dads we play in the bush.We are called Kiwis because they are our native animals.It stinks in Rotorua because of the sulpher in the mud pools (but it only stinks in certain areas.)

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  6. sup Josh. I like playing on my nitendo Wii. I play touch rugby and normal rugby. New Zealand has a lot of fun things to do.The main animal is the kiwi. Rotorua has mud pools, and many lakes.we have lots of tourists in Rotorua and the museum.our school is Lynmore.we have lots of green fields and open spaces in our school and we also have a bush area.what does your school look like? Our national anthem is Maori and English. What is your national anthem.we have a bush area named the red woods it is also a dog park.we have a racing track for bmx and motor bikes.

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  7. Hi Olivia my name is Natalya. I like Lynmore School. In Rotorua it is a busy place we have lots of works -making the roads bigger. We have Rainbow Springs where you get to see the kiwi. Kiwi's like to live in the dark. In the wild they are only in certain protected places where other animals can't kill them. So if you want to see a kiwi you have to go to an animal centre. Most people in Rotorua like to go boating, go to beaches - the beach is one hour away.

    from Natalya

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  8. Hi my name is Reggae I like playing sports.In New zealand these are the languages that we know Maori and English.These are some teams in NZ: All Blacks is our rugby team. All Whites are our soccer and the silver ferns is the netball.
    From Reggae

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  9. Hi Kendra it's Stell here,
    I'm going to tell you a bit about me and New Zealand (lets start with me!!!)
    I like to play with my friend claudia as you know from the one previous letters (p.s reggae)
    NZ!!!
    round here we have lots of native animals.(let me name some ...)
    The kiwi as in the legend used to fly but now it lives on the ground.
    There's also the kakapo.
    we've got a diffrent timeline to you so when were at school your asleep its very funny.
    thats all for now I will write again sometime...
    yours truely Stella

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  10. Thanks for sending me a comment I like it! the best place in rotorua is skyline at skyline we go up the goderless when we get up we pay for how meney luge rides we whant and then we go for the rides we payed for it is so fun going down the tracks advands is the funest track. My best firend is kuljyot. My favourite thing in the world is lego! by Jacob.

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  11. Thanks West
    Do you like sport?I do I like playing touch,soccer and rugby.There is lots of sport in Rotorua and there are lots of lakes in Rotorua.I do Athlictices and I like bugs.Do you like bugs?
    I like dragon flys Do you like dragon flys?.I like trucks.I like lolies,bubble gum and fruit and i like the event center.we have a night market.By Kyle

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  12. hi maddie rhode isiand we is it.we went on the 18 and the 19 to camp we had fan. absailing was cool.

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  13. Thanks for the comment matie m im going to fiji tomwrow. What is it like having thanks giveing? does Ameraca have lots of snow? from Jacob.

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  14. helo Reagan i went to camp !!! Ausame my favoret thing was absaling and rock climbing i liked them because you walk down backwards

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  15. hi kendra sorry i couldent email you earlyer i was busy at work any way we went to camp last week it was awsome we had a flying fox that was my favirite thing. we had pancakes for breakfast.we had to sleep in dorms with a bunk buddy ine was sacha we went to sleep late . i all so liked the night walk beacuse people popped out every were there was a person under a log and the person under the log grabed my leg and i tripped.it was fun beacuse in achery if you got a bullsie you got a lollie pop and if you hit a ballon u all so get a lollie pop.and when i got picked up from school we went to abracadabra it was so delicous.

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  16. Hi MacKenzie. Next week we are doing a Camp cookout in Waitawa Bush. We had to plan our own menus. Our group are cooking sausages, marshmallows and melted chocolate and some other stuff. We are cooking over a fire. There are 4 in my group and there will be an adult helping us, but we have to cook the food. This will be my baby brothers first Christmas.

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  17. Hi West and Aili,
    Next week we are having a camp cookout in Waitawa Bush. We are cooking over open fires. Our food will be really yummy - sausages and hot chocolate.

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