Touch Rugby With Trevor

For the past three Thursdays our touch rugby couch, Trevor had been teaching us the basic skills and rules of touch including a few games we played to warm up. 

Trevor taught us how to plant the ball which is when you put the ball between your legs, step over it then to the side, step back and one of your teammates is free to pick it up and run. There was also this one practice when you ran up with your dummy half, you pick it up run a little while getting touched, plant it, then your dummy half picks it up moves forward and passes it back to you. For our warm ups we played a lot of games including my favorite game where we were in a circle and heaps of balls were going around, then you would eventually drop the ball until there was only a little bit of people left.  

In the end we had some touch games with girls against girls and boys against boys. In these games we used all the skills Trevor had taught us even though he still had to remind us on what we had to do. Then soon later we had to say goodbye and go back to class. 

Tori Kelly

Everybody has a favorite singer right? A singer that they can listen to all the time and sing to their singers songs 24/7. Well that’s the same with me as my favorite singer is the fabulous, amazing, beautiful  Tori Kelly. 

She happens to be my favorite singer because she's inspiring and writes her own songs to perfection as well as, being able to sing high, low and in between with no trouble. Tori is my favorite singer because she writes music that I like to hear and her voice always sounds fabulous. But every time when I listen to her songs it feels just like she’s directing her lyrics to me so that it becomes a part of me. It feels as if she’s giving me an important message which really means something to me and will stay with me forever.

Tori Kelly- (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Child Hood Friends Switched At Birth

Luke Monias and Norman Barkman recently discovered they were switched at birth over 40 years ago. They were both born on the same day in Canada in 1975, grew up in the same little community and were good friends through out there lives. But as they began to grow older people started to joke around saying they look exactly the same as if they were twins. This made them very aware and both decided to take a DNA test. Soon later the results were confirmed that they were twins and had been switched at birth. Now all they want is some answers from there family. 


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Our Garden

Today some college students came to our school and dug up the plants outside our classroom so that we can plant new ones.

We then had to decide on one flower that we thought should be in our garden, which I decided on a fire lily. I chose this particular plant because it's something really different, interesting, cool to look at and spot on. It's a plant I hopefully think that everyone thinks is awesome and amazing that it might just be able to get a spot in front of our classroom.

 
CC-BY-SA-Fire Lily

Titanic's Last Dinner Menu Sold

A menu from the last dinner served to first-classed passengers on the titanic has been found and sold for 184,000 at an auction. Five businessmen wrote there address on the menu while sharing a dinner table the night before the ship sank. But sadly only four of the five survived the disaster which was very unlucky. 



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Prince Of Penzance wins Melbourne Cup

New Zealand-breed prince of Penzance won the 2015 Melbourne cup in horse riding, while his rider Michelle Payne was the first female to win alongside her horse. Jumping from barrier one, the prince of Penzance made his way out in the final straight and broke clear of the pack 200 meters from the line. Prince Of Penzance  became the third horse to win from New Zealand. 









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Can Taylor Swift Shake This Off?

Taylor swift is well known for her song 'Shake It Off' in 2014, but now she may not be able to shake off the law suit against her. 

US R&B singer Jesse Braham has accused Taylor Swift for using his words from a song that he had wrote called haters gone hate. So now Taylor is being sued for US $42 million dollars for her hit song Shake It Off which had been viewed on you tube over 1.1 billion times. Since Jesse Braham has copy write ownership over the lyrics haters gone hate and players gone play, he doesn't only want the money but his name added to the track as a writer of the song.   
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Huge Earthquake Hits Afghanistan

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit northern Afghanistan in the mountainous Hindu Kush region about 250 kilometers north of Kabul. It hit about 1.00 pm on Monday and was so big that Pakistan and northern India could feel it. There were quite a few deaths so far with 167 dead that had been found already but there still could be more.