Smart Cookie News- Natalie Rooney

Here is our smart cookie news about Natalie Rooney. Smart Cookie News is a group I made with my friends and we do interesting news items and videos. We work together to do this work and we do it mostly without teacher help. We come up with all the ideas by ourselves. We hope you enjoy.

Rio De Janeiro.  

Natalie Rooney wins silver at the Rio Olympics 2016, in Clay Bird Shooting.

Natallie is 28 years old and finished second overall in the Clay bird shooting semi finals.

Natalie sadly missed out getting into the New Zealand Olympic Team in 2012. However she then trained hard to get into the 2016 Olympics. She has been competing for ten years now.

There was a little bit of funding to help her. She said, “She's got a very supportive Dad that helps her  for funding and stuff like that.

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Smart Cookie News-Leisa Williams

Here is our smart cookie news about Leisa Williams who is Billie's mum. Smart Cookie News is a group I made with my friends and we do interesting news items and videos. We work together to do this work and we do it mostly without teacher help. We come up with all the ideas by ourselves. We hope you enjoy.

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Leisa Williams is my mother (I am Billie Williams) and is  married to Scott Williams.

Today she is 41 and has 5 kids including me. Her kids are  called Saxon, Billie, Poppy, Molly and Mac. Mac is the oldest and Saxon is the youngest.

Leisa Williams was a great swimmer and has gone all over New Zealand for championships. This was when she was younger. Leisa also plays  Hockey for West Coast and Gray Valley and is not famous .Leisa has won lots of medals and certificates for swimming. Leisa also swam for Canterbury Swim Team with her mum and Dad supporting her., Her mum is called Lynn and her Dad is called Kevin.   

Smart Cookie News- Trubridge

Here is our smart cookie news about William Trubridge. Smart Cookie News is a group I made with my friends and we do interesting news items and videos. We work together to do this work and we do it mostly without teacher help. We come up with all the ideas by ourselves. We hope you enjoy.

Trubridge Breaks World Freedive  Record

William Trubridge is a New Zealander who does freediving.  Freediving is when you dive down to a certain mark with no diving gear and you have to do it on one breath.  This sport is very hard and you have to train lots.  William Trubridge has broken 18 world records that were set by him. William Trubridge held the world record but he set a new record with a 102m dive. He held  his breath for, four minutes and 15 seconds. His family and support team were waiting to see if the record had been achieved.The dive location was held in Bahamas at a spot called the blue hole. This is where he broke the world record in freediving.

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Smart Cookie New-Dusty Rhodes

Here is our smart cookie news about Grace's Grandfather. Smart Cookie News is a group I made with my friends and we do interesting news items and videos. We work together to do this work and we do it mostly without teacher help. We come up with all the ideas by ourselves. We hope you enjoy.

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Dusty Rhodes is my Great Grandad and  he was an artist(Grace). His paintings were very cool and hard to draw! My great Grandad survived World War One and he was fighting in France. He got wounded twice and went to hospital in England. Dusty Rhodes’s brother was fighting in France as well.. But Dusty Rhodes brother’s head got blown off by a German mortar and sadly died. Dusty Rhodes was then too old to go to World War Two. A couple of years after World War Two Dusty Rhodes died of old age.

Smart Cookie News- Introducing The Team

Here is our smart cookie news  introducing ourselves. Smart Cookie News is a group I made with my friends and we do interesting news items and videos. We work together to do this work and we do it mostly without teacher help. We come up with all the ideas by ourselves. We hope you enjoy.

My Sea Week Writing.

For Sea Week we wrote about why the ocean is important. Here is my writing work. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment.

Why Moana are Important to  Aotearoa  The moana is important to my whānau and I.First, my whānau and I like going down to the moana to have whānau barbecues on the beach.  Second, I like going swimming in the waves and then swimming back to shore as fast as I can. Third, after we've eaten our kai we  go and play in the water or just swim in the water. I like having  sandcastle competitions with my whānau on the beach. That is why the moana is important to my family and I. The moana is important to Aotearoa. Lots of people have jobs that involve the sea. First, if you are are a fisherman you go out into the water and put out nets to catch ika and then if you get lots of ika you make money by selling the ika that you caught. If there was no moana the fishermen wouldn’t be able to make any money. Second, If you were a tour guide to look at marine life you would be able to make lots of money because you would be showing everybody on the boat the marine life and people pay lots to go out and look at marine life out at sea. If there was no moana there would be no marine life and tour guides would lose their job. Third, the moana is important to the Coast guards because they do most of their work in the moana. The Coast guards are like the water police. The Coast guard's check ships that go through the waters to see if they are trying to smuggle something illegal into Aotearoa. These are some of the reasons why the moana is important to Aotearoa. I think that people should think about our moana and stop littering. First, there is tons of rubbish in our moana because people are littering and leaving their rubbish on the ground and then it is flying into the sea. Lots of animals out in the moana are dying because they think that plastic bags are jellyfish floating in the water then they eat them and they can die. Second, fisherman are putting out huge nets and leaving them there for days. Lots of animals like dolphins are getting tangled up  in the fishermen's nets and then they can’t come up  for air so they drown. Third, the fisherman are taking too much fish out of the sea and they might only want 2 or 3 kinds of fish that are in their nets then they throw away all the other fish like rubbish. Dolphins and other animals are starving to death because there is no fish in the water. People need to try and fix these problems now and fast. There are lots of ways to protect our sea life. First, people could put all their rubbish into their bags or rubbish bins instead of leaving them on the ground and let it fly into the sea because animals are DYING!! Second, The fisherman could only take the fish they wanted and put the rest back into the water and only take the adult ones not the baby fish. Third, Fisherman could also use nets that let the baby fish swim right through but the adult fish would stay in the net and fisherman could take their nets out of the water more regularly instead of leaving them there for days. Those are some of the ways we could protect our moana.The moana is important to me, my whānau and people in Aotearoa because people and whānau’s love playing and swimming in the moana and having whānau cookouts and also lots of people’s jobs rely on the moana. I hope that our moana will be clean and rubbish free in the future.By Mackenzie

My Chance and Probability Work.

This term we have been learning about chance and probability in maths. Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about chance and probability. please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment.