Flooding

Flooding from Mackenna Chittenden on Vimeo.

Hi my name is Caro and today I have a video about a recent flooding event in Taranaki. Opunake had the worst because when we were going to Opunake there was water all over the road and we had to go very slow. Also we had hail today and our whole front lawn was covered in it and it looked so amazing. The rain also has effected some farmers since it is calving season. 

Enjoy!

The Payout

 Over 2014-2015 farmers have been worried about "THE PAYOUT" The payout was at $8.00 at the end of 2014 and the start of 2015. But.....
It's now $3.85. " I'm sure farmers are extremely worried on what's going to happen next! The payout is when the milk get auctioned and it gets valued by different country's in the word and our major country that we sell milk to is "CHINA" But at the moment the won't buy our milk so the payout is low and that is a big difference for farmers. "Come on CHINA"

My dancing exam

My Movie 11 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Today at 3.40pm I went to hāwera to compete in a dancing exam and for my number I was number 4. The exam took 40 minutes and we had to complete 15 routines and it was so tiring. We have to wear black jazz shoes and everything black. We have a pink ribbon in our hair that went around our bun. The other that I did it with are: Ashley, Cady, Sarah and Caro (Me). The lady who done my hair is called Megan. My dancing teacher's name is Michele Glover and I have done dancing for 6 years.

"ENJOY"

Jerry Collins

Jerry Collins, born 4th of November 1980. Jerry was born in Apia, Samoa. In Jerrys early career he first played for Wellington lions in 1999 then he started his journey in the Wellington Hurricanes in 2001. In June 2006, he was captain of the All Blacks in a one-off Test match against Argentina. He went to Victoria university in Wellington, New Zealand

Collins retired from international rugby in May 2008. Shortly afterwards, he played in a rugby league match in the Wellington Competition, registered under a different name. After a short amount of time the team got find. In October 2007, following New Zealand's exit from the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Collins was vacationing in Devon when he was spotted by Barnstaple head coach Kevin Squire who invited him to watch it play at the weekend. 

Collins was a cousin of former All Blacks captain and Hurricanes teammate Tana Umaga. In March 2013, Collins was arrested in a Hamamatsu department store after he was spotted carrying a 17 cm-long knife.

Collins and his partner, Alana Madill, aged 34, died on the morning of 5 June 2015, after their car lost control and collided with a bus on the A9 autoroute near Béziers in southern France. His three-month old baby daughter, Ayla, was taken to hospital in Montpellier in critical condition. Ayla spent a month recovering in intensive care at the hospital in Montpellier, including two weeks spent in a coma. In early July, it was announced Ayla would move to Canada with the Madill family, and continue receiving treatment at a Canadian hospital

Maori language week

 

As you know it is Maori language week in New Zealand and Myself, Bethany, Jorja, Harry and Zariah created a video when we demonstrate the Maori hand game "PEKE" Whiu means pass it on. Patu means it will rebound off your arm. Peke means jump on person. Peke Roa means jump to people. The filming was done by Mackenna edited by Harry and Zariah and actors Bethany, Caro, Harry, Jorja and Zariah. Each classroom has to create a video and we thought " Why what do PEKE" So enjoy viewers.

The Farming Lifestyle

Untitled from Mackenna Chittenden on Vimeo.

 Over the past few days my family have been on the farm helping with the calves and I thought that I could create a video of the style of farming like:

• The tanker what collects the milk
• Calving
• Maze to feed the cows

And of course "THE PAYOUT" The pay out is important to Farmers because it is how the milk is valued and at the moment it is very low.

 

 

So far we have had over 300 cows in and still 600 more to calve. We have got 100 keepers, 24 Jersey Bulls and about 176 bobbies.

 

 

The milk tanker comes every 4 milkings to collect the milk and take it to the factory to be stored and put into milk bottles that soon go into stores.

 

 

We feed our calves Meal, Powder , Hay and of course Milk. We feed the calves Gold milk and other sorts of fresh milk that our farm produces. The most calves we have had in a day this year is 80. 50 bobbies and 30 keepers.

 

To find more about Farming click Here

 

 

Some amazing student post

Over the past few days Auroa Primary School have been doing some amazing posting. As they are getting ready for the MOA KLUSTER awards against Opunake , Matapu and Kaponga.




 Harry has been on a visit up Mount Ruapehu and done some skiing and snowboarding down the mountain. you can see his amazing post by clicking Here.

   Also Mackenna and her sisters have been working on a Minecraft world and are building a library at the moment but is going to build a head quarters where they can discuss the of the buildings they are going to create. You can look at her amazing post by clicking Here.



Hopefully the keep up the great work on there post because they are doing an amazing job. Get ready for the MOA KLUSTER awards.

Here we go again

Today the 18th of July 2015 I got very lucky to go watch the final Inglewood v NPOB ( New Plymouth Old Boys ) When we arrived it was 12-10 to Inglewood but with 5 seconds to go NPOB scored and Logan Rei seceding the conversion so at the end NPOB won 17-15 and taking home glory. Hopefully Coastal have another chance NEXT YEAR!

Jorja's amazing birthday

Yesterday I got invited to my friend's house Jorja and we got to go and create a resin scrap booking letter that you can hang on your wall. I got to play with there bunnys Bubbles and Squidly and Bubbles was Jorja's bunny. We went to bed at 9.pm and in the morning Jorja and I had a Nutri Bullet which is a smoothie maker and we had fruit. Then we went down the farm to find Jorja's grandad and then we went to have a sandwich for lunch. Then at 1.45 they took me back home so I can rest up for tomorrow. You can get to her blog by clicking here.

Going up the mountain

Today my family travelled up the mountain known as Taranaki since it had recently had been snowing. When we first arrived we had to find out where the 4 wheel drive is because you either needed that or a chain so   

you don't skid on the ice on the road. As we were at the top we found a place where we can play. Georgie and Dad had a snowball fight and it got a bit out of hand. I gathered some snow and began building a    
snow man. Then we made some snow angles and some snow got up my back and it was only 1 centigrade but it felt a lot warmer. We done races and there was a hole that I fell in and it was deep. We saw some people skiing down the mountain and there were frozen things everywhere and the best bit would of been the snowball fight and I hit Mum and Dad laughed and then I got some in Georgie's in the mouth. We soon travelled down the mountain because it started to get to cold and when we got to the gate there was a lady telling people that it was full and they had to come back soon. I hope we come back sometime soon!

The Wellington trip

On Tuesday we travelled to Wellington the capitol city of New Zealand. First we went to see one of our friends Tracy who lives in Palmerston North and who has also just had a baby. We went to a Café in Whanganui for lunch. We then travelled the rest of the way to Wellington. The next day I stayed the night with Nana and Grandad at the Thorden hotel. We set of to town early in the morning to go to a café and have a hot chocolate and then hit the shops. The first shop we went to had a huge lego sculpture of Harry potter and Dumbo off the Disney movies. Then we headed to Te Papa the Wellington museum. Dad and I went to wait in line for the " THE SCALE OF OUR WAR" We were in line for 50 whole minutes. When we finally got to see we realized that Wetta Workshop had created the giant humans. We got to see the original Bugle. When you almost exited the scale we got to feel what war was like. I was shocked to see how painful war was so I'm glad it was over. After we headed to Whitcoulls where my uncle work I got two books one by David Willams and one by Rachel Renee Russell.


We went into the NIKE shop to find some new shoes for me and I found some that fitted me perfect. When we headed to Cotton on kids out by Freedom and on the way back we went back past parliament known as the BEE-HIVE where the national party works. As you come down the hills from my uncles house you have an amazing view of the harbour view. When we went out for tea at the One red dog on the water front last night. Today we travelled home as we went through the towns we saw all the snow on the hills that barley get any snow because it was 4 centigrade but it felt like negative 1 because of the wind chill.    

It's time (Hurricanes v Highlanders)

I bet everyone is ready for the final against Hurricanes v Highlanders at Westpac Stadium Wellington New Zealand. It's going to be a tough game and a close game. The tickets sold out in 59 seconds so that was quicker than Ed Sheeran concert in Wellington also. Who is going to win? Hurricanes. Good luck to everybody who is playing.

Caro