Little Valley Farm

Over the holidays I have had a series of showjumping lessons with Mike Lamb (An Eventer) over the 3 lessons I have learnt a lot:

• To stay off of Georges back, George speeds up and rushes when I 'sit on him' so I need to remember to keep 80% of my weight in my stirrups.
• Keep my reins long. George tends to over bend and not understand the jump, then refuse if I hold onto his head.
• Something Mike kept saying to everyone over the 3 days is 'Release over the jump' for everyone else it was at the jump but for me it was 2 strides out.

Little Valley Farm has an AMAZING cross-country course that ranges from Pre-Intro (45cm) to Open (1.05m) So after my lesson was over me and my friends would gallop from field to field jumping as many as possible. Some of them are to big but I can now Jump the 85cm jumps! Here are some picks of me and George on the cross-country course:

Photos

On Sunday it was raining so I decided to take some photos here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Some of them were taken outside in-between showers.

Now here is a photo from Monday after I rode George, he is picking up a bucket with his teeth:

 

 

 

Free Rice

http://freerice.com

Free Rice is an online trivia game with a twist.
 For every question you get right you donate 10 grains of rice.
Here's a challenge: Donate at least 100 grains of rice then do more and comment below with the number of grains you donated.












Every post I will do a 'Blog Of The Day' here is todays:

Brookes Blog

I really like Brooke's blog because she her posts are regular and interesting, I also like the new background and font. You can see she take pride in her work through her blog.

P.S. Thank You to Mrs Hogg for keeping me motivated with my blog. Check out Our Class Blog Here.

Soccer

On Friday we played sakkaa.

English: Soccer/ Football
Japanese: Sakkaa

Lots of people in my class play soccer and so does my brother and sister. Rachael plays for the Tamahere Tornados and Paul plays for the Cambridge.... Ummm well here are some shots of them playing:

Science Fair Sum Up

1. The First Step of science fair is deciding your topic.  Make sure you choose one you are passionate about and will enjoy doing. 
2. Once you have decided your topic craft your aim. Start with - To investigate- then add what you are investigating. 
3. Next write a background statement, say why you choose the topic (Make sure to elaborate on why).
4. With your hypothesis make sure you have done research on you subject before jumping to conclusions.
5. Write a base of a method then CARRY OT THE TESTS. Make sure to take LOTS of photos along the way and confirm your method along the way ( I found this much easier than writing it before.)

The rest to follow in another post......

Thank You

Thank You for Visiting my blog I am at 2500 Views!!!!!!

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Horse, Horses and Ponies

Horses are my passion so I thought I could share with you a little about this sport.

First I need to say horse ridding is a sport and is also in the Olympics.

Horses are measured in hands:
My pony stands at 13.2 hands which is roughly 138cm.
The horses at the Olympics are around 16 hands but the smallest is Stroller standing only 14.2 hands. He won a silver medal! ( In 1968)

The highest level you can get to is Grand Prix and in the Grand Prix the jumps measure up to a massive 1.60 meters by 2 meters. The Olympic cross country cross is 5.6km of jumps and water.

Me and George only jump around 80cm but hope to compete at 90 soon, which is were the real competition begans.

On my way

In new Zealand a cup of coffee is about $4
In Tokyo it is $353.94
In Adelaide it costs $3.74
In Cape Town it costs $35.31

Here is a collage:

Lets Travel.

Around the world

Plan: Stay about 3 nights in each country using youth hostels which are about 35 to 40 dollars a night.

The Places I will visited:

Africa: Cape Town

Asia: Tokyo

Europe: Venice

North America: Las Vages

South America: Calama

Oceania: Adelaide

Budget: $18,500

Youth hostels: $1,000

Food: $5,000

Taxing: $1,200 and a lot of walking!

Flights: $10,000

Extra: $1,300

How I worked the flights out: Go to http://tripplanner.airtreks.com/ and plan your trip.

George

George is my pony here is a little about him.
Show name: Jersey George

Height: 13.2 or 138cm

Colour: Bay (Brown with a black mane and tail)

Markings: 4 white legs, a white muzzle (nose) and a blaze.

Hobbies: Chasing Poppy (one of our other ponies) around the field and/or trying to take the rug of with the straps done up. Also putting things in his mouth and trying to brush me. Picking up buckets is a awesome way to fill in the time (for George.)

Favorite foods: Grass, apple, carrot, hay, pony nuts and any form of pony treat that I have given him so far.

Is he not the cutest?

Count Out Three

Blogs I visited:
http://nicolef26kns.edublogs.org/
http://leprechaunsarebest.blogspot.ca/
http://zoez2015.edublogs.org/

Zoe wrote a really interesting post about suicide. Although it sounds bad it was informative and interesting.
The mane points she focused on were: Why and What for?

This caught my eye seeing that she put effort in and the end product was amazing. I really liked this post.

The Relax Game

The Relax Game is a new game I invented

Its a range of easy puzzles that you can do in your spare time.

Relax 1 Relax 2 Relax 3 Relax 4

Relax

To Relax,

Dont be like this..

Uno is one of my favourite games so I decided to write about it.

There are a few different versions but I play the simplest version:

Players:2 to 6

Objective: To have no cards left

Rules

1: To place a card it has to be the same colour or number. With exeption to the wild cards if you can not go pick up a card.

Wild Card: These are black, the plus 4 gives the player next to you 4 cards and the colourful circle is a change colour to the one you pick.

Plus 2 gives the next player 2 cards and has a certain colour. How ever if the next player also has a plus to they can add it on and make the next person pick up 4.

Stop skips the next persons turn.

Rotate rotates the way the game is played.

How to play:

Shuffle the cards then deal 7 cards each. with the remaining cards place in an upside down pile then turn over one and play!

Cool

Anzac Day

War is not like this
 

War is harmful and people get killed
this term we are studying Anzac Day

The Poppy Fields 

Gif from: http://giphy.com/

Our World

It is our job to protect the world. Global warming is a real thing and some people are ignoring it. Every where we are effecting the earth by destroying animals and there habitats so we can build more room for us. But do we really need it? Now days we can build UP using the same amount of resources but less space. 

Earth Hour is a program helping save the world. It is a great idea and everyone should pitch in to help the world. Earth Hour made a difference in lots of places. Watch this VIDEO

When: Saturday, March 28 (But I think we should participate all the time.)

Should we participate? Leave your thoughts in a comment.

We should Participate all the time by saving energy

Here are a few things you can do to start saving more energy:

The lights and television use electrical energy, so when you leave the room, shut them off. During the day, when it is brighter outside, open the curtains and use the sunlight instead of turning on the lights Don't leave windows or outside doors open when the heat or air conditioning is on. This makes the furnace and AC have to work harder to heat and cool the house.

When you have a sunny day, help hang the clothes outside instead of using the dryer. Don't leave the water drippingin the faucet. Turn off the dishwasher right before the drying cycle and let the dishes air dry.

Don't leave the refrigerator door open.Decide what you want BEFORE you open the door. Instead of cooking, once a week have a sandwich night. Not cooking saves gas and electricity. Plant trees and shrubs. Deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves) are best to block the sun in the summer and, when the leaves fall, they let the sun shine through in the winter helping to warm your house. If you are cold add a layer don't turn the heating on.

Waitomo

Waitomo:

Websites

My Poppa's website is very interesting so have a look:
Click Here

Puzzle

I have made three puzzles. The easy one is the black horse and the hardest is the fire pony.

Make your own at http://www.jigsawplanet.com/

Please click the images to play.

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1f31dff68e7f