My Hometown

My hometown is Christchurch, New Zealand.

Christchurch is the biggest city in the South Island and is also known as The Garden City.

It is called The Garden City because it has lots of beautiful parks, gardens and tree lined streets. I live close to a park and love going over there to bike on the trails, play on the playground and play roller hockey on the tennis courts.

Another great thing is that it doesn't take long to get to the beaches. We love going boogie boarding and catching the big waves. Our favourite beach for boogie boarding is New Brighton. At New Brighton they also have a great playground with a whale pool and cool new water play area. There are also cool climbing nets and a pirate ship.

Christchurch is mostly flat but does have the Port Hills which had a big fire a couple of years ago that started on my birthday! It took two months before the fire was properly out.

Another thing Christchurch has been known for in the last nine years is earthquakes. The first one in September 2010 (when I was a baby) was at the Greendale fault and caused lots of damage to buildings. The next big one was February 2011 which caused further damage to buildings but also took lots of lives. The earthquakes has meant a lot of rebuilding in the city which includes the new Margaret Mahy playground which is one of my favourite places to go to.

Fun facts of NZ

New Zealanders are crazy about cars! In 2018 there were 3.4 million cars registered but only 4.8 million people living there! This makes NZ one of the countries that has the most cars registered per person.

New Zealand is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire. They even have an actual active volcano called Mount Ruapehu. Mount Ruapehu is in the middle of the North Island.

Did you know that the movies ‘Once were Warriors’, ‘The Whale Rider’, ‘The Piano’ and the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy were filmed in New Zealand? I'd say that's a pretty decent success for New Zealand cinema.

T4W8 2018 Dance party writing

This week we have been learning to code our own dance party with lots of functions and properties. We also wrote a back story about the party.

Wally the Wicket

This week we have been creating our own characters and putting them into our own stories. I chose Wally the Wicket. It's about a cricket wicket that runs away from home because he doesn't like getting hit by the ball.

Have a good look at it and leave me a comment.

cooper blog issues

today in cybersmart we had to investigate Cooper's blog we found some information was private. like were he goes in the weekends and his last name. he also told us what his mum and dads names were that is really not good cause that means that people can identify his parents.  

Here is a link to Cooper's blog so you can have a look

School holiday adventure

HERO work

This is my hero work about giving everything a go.