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A lot of creating has been happening in Team 4 as we prepare for the art exhibition. We are finishing up our plans of our comic art action scenes and moving onto our final pieces of art! Our medium is water colour pencils and fine-tipped sharpie pens. As the art exhibition is a couple of weeks off, we thought we would give you a taster of what is to come! Watch this space for our completed masterpieces!

The day my toy came alive!! - By Mya

Hello there and welcome. I would love to tell you about the day my toy came alive so here it go’s. Once upon a time I was sitting watching T.V , minding my own business with my favorite toy right next to me. Then dora the explorer came on T.V. I heard an annoying voice ask, “Could you turn it to another channel please?” I looked around and then said, “Who said that...?” “I did,” answered my Elmo toy. I freaked out and started running around inside the house because I thought Elmo could be evil but he was friendly. I finally calmed down and sat down to continue watching TV. with Elmo.

I soon got use to Elmo talking because it became normal... I was the only one who knew about talking Elmo. Every time it was dinner I would bring Elmo with me but he wouldn't talk in front of other people. It was weird! Then every Time when we were in bed Elmo always sings songs to make me sleep. I'm a messy sleeper, that means I move around the bed or sometimes fall off.

Sometimes we have a walk together but sometimes a dog grabs him off me and starts treating him like a chew toy. I take him to school and some people hear him talking but they think its me. After school we watch adventure time on T.V sometimes Elmo pretends to be jake the dog!

It's sort of creepy that a toy is talking, walking and eating by itself but you get use to it. If you don't you’ll just give him away... And they’ll not like you.. Forever.. And ever....

The World’s Biggest Sneeze - By Jouan

Achooo!!! And there goes another window! Oh, excuse me. I have a really bad case of the sneezes! You might want to stand back a bit. You might not know so I’ll tell you I have the world’s biggest sneeze ... Achoo!!! Well at least the doctor thinks so... oh no, I made another hole in the roof!

I really don’t know how I got my sneeze, neither does my doctor! All we know is that one morning I got up from bed aaa... Achooo!!! Ohh man not again! Now we need a new wall! Anyway, my mum always says that in my Dad’s side of the family they have always sneezed and sneezed and sneezed! She says I got my horrible case of sneezes from them. But I really don’t know!

Achoo!!! That was an astronomical one! Not the new plasma TV!!! Ohh Mann!!! Every time I sneeze something breaks! As you can see(The window, hole in the roof , the wall and the plasma TV) Even at school. No one wants to sit next to me because they're worried I would sneeze and break something or even someone!

My doctor says the only way I can stop destroying things is to cover my mouth when I sneeze. And you know what... he’s right! Everytime I cover my mouth surprisingly nothing gets broken! It is also good because my sneeze won’t spread! I mean the last thing you would want is a bunch of kids spreading a case of the world’s biggest sneeze!!! Right?!

Archery at the London Olympics - By Mya

Archery is a Olympic sport, there are different types of archery so there are different rules. Archery is gonna be held at lord’s cricket ground at the London 2012 Olympic games. Did you know the first archery competition was organised in Finsbury, London, in 1583!

Archery competitions can be held inside or outside, in each competition the people will be divided into ends with each archer shooting 3 or 6 arrows. Archery is suitable for competitors with experience. If you get a bulls eye you get a huge score for your team, if you hit anywhere close to the red dot you get a smaller amount of points.

Archery is a challenging game. All you have to do is concentrate on the target it will be very tricky because you might fall over or shoot the arrow in the wrong place. Before archery was an olympic game people used bows and arrows for hunting and warfare 10,000 years ago.

If you want to try this sport you may need: something to keep you balanced, if you're playing it outside you may need glasses so the sun won’t distract you, bow and arrow. You also need a target and some protective gear. Don't forget practice makes perfect!

Great New for Valerie Adams! - By Ashlee

With all the training Valarie has done she had beaten the Belarus shot putter's score from the final when she was just training. But with all the stress of her name not being put down for the NZ Olympic team she didn't perform at her best. She was very angry but to her luckiness of showing up early by 3 days Valerie Adams was able to tell the team that she was the defending champion and she needed to be on the list! Because of that they had let her in but did not have a room to sleep in with all the drama! Of them not putting her name on the list .

When the day came to do the shot put Valerie Adams through an alright distance but the other competitor through a distance that was longer than Valerie. But after the devastating day for Valerie the Urine tests came back and all four of Nadzeya tests were positive. They then found out that she was taking steroids and was disqualified. Coming clear to her that she was not aloud to play athletes for 2 years and may never come back to the Olympics ever.

Knee Injury - By Ashlee

On Tuesday night while training for our Netball game at 5.05 I was side stepping and suddenly I fell over and hurt my knee. It was funny to see as I looked like a handy cap! When I fell I went to try and get up but my leg felt all wobbly and I couldn't stand up properly .

That night the pain didn't really help but I was really happy to go home and see what was going on instead of embarrassing myself in front of my netball team. When I looked down I thought that my knee would be worse but really it was just a bit swollen.

When I woke up I tried to find the time and eventually I saw a phone so I waddled over but when I checked the time and it was 5.35 I started letting my body wake up. Every thing was awake in my body except for my knee. I wanted to go to the toilet but when I stood up I collapsed on to the couch. As many times as I tried to get up it just made it worse. So I heard somebody in the house awake and I waddled over and asked for help. It was that bad that when we woke up we went to the doctors.

The doctors said that it was a possible sprain or tear to one of my ligaments and that to make sure I had to go to the Otara doctors to take a x-ray. The next day we went back for a check up and he had already looked at the x-ray and we just had to let it heal by itself but if some body hits it that would have to mean one thing and one thing only. OPERATION!

Swimming Animation - By Giselle

This is my Swimming Animation I have been working on. Please enjoy!