Ki O Rahi

Room 13 have been learning a new game. It's called Ki O Rahi. Ki O Rahi is a game that was played since World War 1. Ki O Rahi was created as a peaceful way of sorting out arguments. When Ki O Rahi had been banned, rugby was introduce. During World War 2, Ki O Rahi was played again. The Maori showed other countries how to play, like Italy and France. In 2005 it was introduced to over 31000 schools in America.The first international matches were held between New Zealand and France in 2010.

Tom from Wellington City Council, taught us how to play Ki O Rahi. For Ki O Rahi, you play on a circle field, so someone mowed a big circle with little circles inside, on our field. This is what the field looks like:

The Kioma start with the ball. Someone from the Kioma team, stands in the Te Marama and throws the ball to another Kioma player, in the Pawero. The people in the Pawero throw it out to a player in the Te Ao zone. The Kioma team are trying to hit as many Pou as the can. One touch of the Pou equals one point but they can't get the points until they score a try. To score a try they need to run through the Te Roto zone and put the ball in the Te Kahaarait line. Once a try is scored, the ball starts back in the Te Marama zone and the Kioma try and get another try.
The Taniwha team, try and get the ball off the Kioma. Once they have the ball, they run up to the Te Kahaarait line and throw the ball at the Tupu. The two Kioma people in the Pawero try and stop the ball from hitting the Tupu. Once the Taniwha hit the Tupu, they try and get the ball again, and try and hit the Tupu again and again. The Te Ara zone is a zone that no one can walk on, the only time someone can walk on it, is when someone in the Te Ao zone wants to swap with someone in the Pawero.
 In this video that I made, the Green team are the Taniwha and the yellow team are the Kioma. It is a video of some of Room 13 playing and it has some voice overs of me explaining what it the aim of the game is. You should listen because it has good background music. If you Click Here it will take you to a website that has the Ki O Rahi legend and a Glossary. Here is the video about playing Ki O Rahi:

Do you like One Direction

For Statistics, in Room 13, I had to do a Tally Chart. The Question was:

Do You Like One Direction?

Yes: 11 People like One Direction.
No: 16 People don't like One Direction.

I thought more people would like One Direction because One Direction are really famous. I don't like One Direction but it is ok because everyone has their own opinion. Do you like One Direction? Please write your answer in the comment box.

Animation

At school, I make a lot of Animations, one of them is on Room 13's blog. I showed it to my younger sister(Josy) and she was inspired. At home we made an Animation of a cake getting eaten. Here it is:

 

Made By:

Josy(my younger sister)

Me(Ruby) 

and my Tiger Cake

Tiger Cake

Three Blobs

My little sister(Daisy) and my dad were watching TV and they saw a Cooking Show. On the Cooking Show, the person was making Tiger Cake. A Tiger Cake is a cake that has stripes on the inside. You need to make a normal cake but when it is already to cook, you need to split it in half. With one half you need to make it chocolate and the other half still stays the same. You put one mixture into a piping bag and put the other into another piping bag. Put a blob of one mixture in the middle of a cake tin. Grab the other piping bag and put a blob on top of the other blob. Keep doing the same until you run out of mixture. Once you put a blob on top of another it pushes the mixture out, like this:

Eighteen Blobs

Inside

After half an hour the cake was ready. It was golden with brown circles. We cut into it and it was uneven. It was brown with a little bit of yellow stripes. So if it is uneven make sure it is more yellow the brown. Here is the finished cake:

The Finished Thing

Dodge-ball Semi Finals and finals

We stood up, got ready and the whistle blew. Room 13 were playing dodge-ball against room 14. Dodge-balls were flying everywhere and I got out. After a while there was only Zac left and he was playing against about half of room 14. So you can guess who won but that is O.K because that means we are thrid equal with room fifteen. Room 15 were playing against room 10 and room 10 won. So that means room 14 and room 10 were fighting for first. Nearly the whole school were watching and cheering. Room 13 and room 15 were cheering "POUAKAI...POUAKAI!" At the end I saw a dodge-ball fly from room 14's side of the room and it hit the last player from room 10. Room 14 had won! Well done room 14. Maybe next year we will come first.

My Top 10 Glee Songs

I like glee and I like there music. Here are my top 10 favorite songs:
10:The Boy is Mine
9: We are Young
8: Its Not Right But Its O.K 
7: What Doesn't Kill Makes You Stronger
6: Rumor Has It / Someone Like You
5: Smooth Criminal
4: Shake It Out
3: Dinosaur
2: Loser Like Me
1: Hit Me With Best / One Way or Another
 If you click on the names it will take you to You Tube. I hope you like the songs like I do.

Olympic Medals

The London Olympics Sign

London Olympics

The Olympic Rings

Have you ever wondered about how many Olympic Medals all the countries have gotten these games? I went on the London Olympic website and found a chart that tells you what the tally is. Click Here to see the website. Maybe we will be the country with the most medals. Have a look at these pictures I found.

My Pet Lion

adopt your own virtual pet!

Win, Win, Win

On Friday the 29th of July, Room 13 had another game of dodge-ball against Room 3. We lined up, got ready, bent down, and then... the whistle blew. We ran! Smash, smash, dodge-balls flew everywhere! I dodged, jumped, ducked and ran to get away from the dodge-balls. In the end we won! The players the were still in had to line-up so the Sports Committee could count how many people were left. Yea, yea, yea we WON!!

 On Thursday the 2nd of August, Room 13 played a game of dodge against room 8.  It was the best game we have had in the dodge-ball inter-class competition.  About half way through, I got out.  Like the last two games... We Won!! We did our three cheers, shook hands, walked back to class and celebrated! We made to the quarter finals! I can't wait until we play another game.

More Fairy Doors

The other day, my family went for a walk to find more Fairy Doors. We went behind the boat sheds, across a small field and over a bridge. On the bridge there is another Fairy Door. It's a brown door with a yellow frame and it has a brown square in the middle. Here is the photo:

The next one we found was by a park. It is on the back of a fence. It is light blue and has a cute little handle. It also has a thing that looks like a mouth.The photo:

When we got home my dad got some old firewood from under the house. With the wood he made a little fairy door for my youngest sister, Daisy. I took a picture of it with a Pukeko beside it:

The Fairy Door Man has a website click here to see it.

Gold!!!

If you have been watching the Olympics you might know that we just got our first gold medal. We got it in rowing.It was amazing, at the start we were coming sixth and it looked like we weren't even get bronze. Then a bit later we were going for bronze. We pasted Croatia and Italy and we were going for gold! Yay we won! Gold gold gold! I can't wait till we get another gold.