What In The World Is Going On!!! Puppets Puppets Puppets !!!

What in the Puppet World is going on? Let’s go and find out!

It has been that a number of the amazing Muppets and Sesame Street crew such as Miss Piggy , Cookie Monster, Elmo, Bert, Ernie, Fozzie Bear and Kermit the frog have been surprisingly donated to the National Museum of American History in Washington. Over twenty of Jim Henson’s puppets and props have been donated on the anniversary of Jim Hensons Birthday.

The lovely diva Miss Piggy will be on view for a exhibition in Early 2014 and the other muppets and sesame street characters will be displayed in November. The collection won’t be on display immediately as they need to be repaired in the museum’s conservation lab. The museum’s senior costumes keeper, Suna Park Evan., and executive director of The Jim Henson Legacy, Bonnie Erickson, are working together to make these repairs.

This Has been Asena and Roezala reporting from Point England School Bringing your Puppet news.

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Mahia's Mural

Mahia is an artist. She has been commissioned to paint a mural on wall of a company's warehouse. The company wants the mural to be abstract (not representational) and they want it to show the colours of their company logo. They have specified it needs to have 1/3 blue,  1/6 red, 1/12 yellow, 1/12 white 1/12 purple and 1/4  green. They want it to have 2 lines of symmetry (reflection)  and  a rotating and translating pattern somewhere.

This is the mural I made.

My DLO Reflection

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Positives: The fact that it was about an event in history made me enjoy it even more. Learning about the twin towers itself before starting was enjoyable. A positive was that we completed our movie and that we conveyed the emotions of sadness, loss and sympathy. I was happy that we also used a lot of different images that we made and not off the internet. I was also happy that the music i had suited the vibe of the movie.  I enjoyed trying to make some of my groups ideas reality even though I Thought we could of have done a lot better. It was also neat learning about the emotion that children felt towards losing their parents. But overall I loved watching and editing our final project and seeing it along with a lot of great DLO’s on Friday.

Minus/things to work on: I didn't like that some of my ideas that I really wanted to do to make my movie more effective didn’t happen. I also didn’t like that we were in our uniform for the characters where we should have been in mufti. I think the sound in the background needed improving and not using the same picture again. Sometimes our voiceover didn’t quite match the footage. So we think there were quite a few things we could have tweaked just to make it better. The next time I think we could just work a lot more and focus about getting our movie perfect.

Interesting: I found the emotion of the kids really interesting and finding out how they feel. Another thing I found really interesting was how many children under the age of 18 lost a parent.

Overall I loved the finished product and I'm really happy about it.  I had a lot of fun making my movie with 2 great girls.

1970's clothing

Training- My Bike !!

The shone sun down and it just  hit 11:20 but training starts at 12. Like a dash I rushed outside all ready for what my trainers have coming for us today. I jumped on my bike and as fast as I could I peddled to Otahuhu. The bright sun shone down on my face and the calm breeze gently blew.

I had just arrived right on time. Only four of us turned up but they were all twice my age. Katie, Wayne,Remigius and I knew we were in for some torture and  with a cheeky smile our trainer Mike laughed “Sunday Funday”. We ran around the field 5 times but by the 3rd one I was puffed from already riding my bike up the hills to get to training. We had just finished our laps and I was exhausted . That was only a warm up. “Ready for the hills now”.

The actual training had just began. Beep Beep Beeep alarmed the timer , Off we went. Pushing up Victor our other trainer to the very top of the steep hill.

I ran down and again ,up we went.  We had a quick rest just shadow boxing for a few minutes then straight back into it doing it again another 2 more times till we move on to the next one.

“Next drill” . I knew this drill will be a killer . I grabbed the “6 kg medicine ball and threw it up the hill.  I sprinted to where the ball landed and then straight away burpied on the ball. Throw it up again till I reach the cone. Back down i ran with the ball. Wobbling down I felt like I was gonna fall flat on my face.

Last but not lease sprints. One of us has to be hitting the pads while the other one sprints 4 times there and back there and back. I sprinted first  when i was down I swapped with katie and it was her turn to sprint. We did this 3 time till finally we were done and dusted. With relief I ran to my drink bottle gulping down all the water in my bottle.

I jumped back down on my bike luckily this Time I get to go down hill. The wind wasn't so gentle anymore riding down the hill the wind whipped my face but I was in a rush it was now 1:40 and I was gonna be late for the warriors game that started at 2. “Oh what another challenge “

Such an exhausting day riding to training then doing hills and then riding home yet to go to the warriors game.

Open Day at Rangitoto College !!!

Wow! as soon as I reached the top of the concrete stairs that lead to the audotoruim all I could think was OMG this is a massive school. This could be my college there is a possibility that I'm going to be a pupil here.  With shock and butterflies in my stomach I  sat down.

There was a nicely dressed man in a suit standing with a group of people. He looked at me with a big smile and suddenly he walked over to me.  "David Hodges principle of Rangitoto college, he said."

"What school do you go to" " Point England" I happily said. "WOOW! Do you know I was the principle of Tamaki college before'." Ok if your really serious about coming to Rangitoto Ill make it happen anything for my girl'. With extreme happiness I smiled from one ear to the other. 

It was finally Tour time. We got partnered up with these two very kind girls showing us all around shcool showing us all the departments Music, Science, Maths, Socila Study rooms, Their Gyms. WOWW!! was all I thought I love this school already.  After the beautiful tour we got taken to the libary for all the information packs.

I walked in the libary and and walked out with alot of panflets and a prosictive . When i walked in I staright away went to the uniforms and staright away i loved it.  Year 9-10 wear blue uniforms and Year 11-12 wear red uniforms and year 13's wear mufti. I walked arounfd to the sports side and there were so many sports to choose from.

I was soooo impressed with Rangitoto college that I really really want to go there next year. I was also happy that we get to bring our own devices to school. They also have google docs there too. YESS! I really hope that next year I'll be going to Rangitoto.

My Creative Strand reflection

Yellow Hat - I loved learning and creating designs. My personal favourite was using the carving tools to carve out my design.

Black Hat - I didn't like that we had to do a reflection other than finishing things of.

Green Hat - I found the names and the patterns very interesting finding out the meaning and trying to pronounce it. I found the ink and its sound quite interesting.

White Hat - What did I learn?  I learned how to draw Samoan designs and I also learnt how to use a carving knife.