Kapa Haka

 After a year of practice, we were finally starting, we were finally performing.  "Kiamo!" Our Kaea called.  we obediently, simultaneously, put our hands on our hips. "Utaina Mai toru wha!"  called our Kaea, as we started singing.  "Utaina mai nga waka..."                                                                                                       The school hall filled with voices as Our syndicate carried out the performance.  Than, the Haka for that song started.  I don't even know the beginning to that.  the girls kept the song going though as the boys chanted the Haka.

"Kiraro." our Kaea called as we started another song.  "...Kia maria..."  went the song as we sung it to the guitar in the background. "Poi Kiamo!" came the command as we finished.  We had heard it many times before.  The girls started their poi, as the boys did the actions.  "Aue Rona E..." and the girls but away their poi.   Another one off the Kaeas  then called out the next song, as the original one called the commands.  "ARARA KA PANANA!" called the kaeas.  "IAHAHA, AUE!"  we called back obediently as the transition began. 

The transition had by now ended, as it always did, The girls at the back, and boys in the front as always.  the boys Haka began as the girls sung the Kopu.  We watched as the boys finished, and followed our leaders back to the front.  as soon as the leaders set foot  on the line,  they started the next song.  "Hui E, Taiki E."  we started the actions as we swung around in time to the music.   We finished the way we started, Proud to represent our school, and walked out of the hall.

We all felt proud and glad, as we had been practicing forever.   Now, 2 weeks later, I feel happy that its done cause I don't have to practise any more.

Ilminster Green teams play

 Today I will be telling you about a experience I had less than one hour ago.  It was the Ilminster green teams play which started roughly around 11 am on the 26th of November, 2021. The play was about... well, you'll see.

Nana Koura finished her story, with great inspiration in her voice.  Like she was hoping to inspire her grandchildren.  Instantly, they started begging for another story. "Just One more, Please Nana Koura?"        But she was very stubborn.  "No, go to bed now." she said softly, but firmly.  "Hey," Kina said, "you wanna hear how the kina got their spikes?"   "Yes!!" They cheered. "No," Nana koura said, becoming impatient. "Go to bed now."                                                                                                                                               The grandchildren walked of, mumbling under their breath, Then, "Fine one more story." Nana Koura said.  They screamed with delight and came running back to the rock-pool. ( Their crayfish.)  Nana koura asked them which story they wanted, and it was the time she stopped the aliens, Of course.  "Once, before  I moved to the marine reserve, I lived in the dark blue ocean.  People skated past daily, I got to know some of them.  Than one day 4 kids went to the skate park.  'Today I'm going to do the back Flip,' said one, ' you say that every day'  said another.  'I actually will do it today though!'  He retorted.  he got ready, putting his helmet on and, '3...', 'wait,' said the one from before, 'I have to get this on video,' she pulled out her phone and, 'nah' he said, ' I sprained my ankle  a few days back, I might not do it today.  Everyone sighed. 'Hey' you guys want some lollies?' said the one who had been retorted at. They all agreed and took one.  They threw the litter on the floor, in their little rubbish dump and left.  Then the aliens arrived.  The king of the morons  said, 'is this the perfect place for my dump?', 'yes.', said her aliens loyally.  'Get me my stool and lunchbox.' said king moron.  they gave it to her and started dishing out the plastic at the skatepark.'  

When they were done king moron said, 'Throw out this used stool, lunch box, and robot.  The robot went and threw himself in the dump. the next day the kids came back.  'who did this,' said one.                              He reached out to touch it and got electrocuted.  'No-one. Touch. This.' he said partly.  someone read out the writing on all the things. It said 'single use only,'.  Then suddenly the robot jumped up.  'call your masters.' ordered a girl from the bunch, after the robot had done some explaining.   'I, Will, Copy.  Masters, will, not, be, happy.'  They arrived after a minute.  'Who called ME?' said King Moron, outraged.  Anyway, I have more rubbish to dump.  'Wait!' said somebody from the four children. 'you can't dump your stuff here, It's OUR skatepark!'   when the aliens refused and left the children agreed on going to find Nana Koura to help them with the job of persuading the aliens.  Nana Koura agreed, but only if they promised to pick up after themselves to.  They agreed as well.  'Robot,', called a girl from the group of children, 'Call the aliens again!'                                                                                                                                                               'I, Will, Copy.  Masters, will, not, be, happy.'  They arrived after a minute, again.  'What is it now?'  said King Moron, fiercely.   I walked up to them, and before I managed to say anything other than, 'I am Nana Koura,' they started bowing, chanting Queen Koura.  'Play along.'  murmured Kinna.  So I did .  I, Queen Koura, command you to take all your rubbish back to planet Moron.'                                                              'Yes your Royalness,' they chanted.  After they were done the children put all their litter into the bin.  Now, go to bed."  "Yes Nana Koura." the Children said, bouncing to bed.

Over all, I think It was a Really good play.                                                                                                        I can't wait to see if in two years I get to do it.  

Thanks for reading

  

My Speech

I walked up onto the step stage as all the girls cheered for me.  I started laughing, I can't help it sometimes.  I stood there for a minute, staring at the 59 people in the audience, and the 3 judges. I got the thumbs up signal to start speaking-ish.  I listened to myself as my voice exploded over the room, though I still sounded like I was talking, not speeching.  I watched the effect as I said,

"  

INTRO

‘When we put the whole picture together, recycling is the best thing to do.’  So why don't we? I’m

Charlotte, & I think we need to recycle... more. If WE could recycle, WE could save OUR environment, OUR

ocean, OUR animals, and most of all, OUR planet.  There are many reasons we should recycle and one of them,

the main one, is that  if we keep littering, our world will die.  There are many other reasons we should recycle, but, Sadly,  I can only tell you 3 of them today, as I don't have enough time to tell you ALL the rest.

OUR OCEAN
Our ocean is one of the most endangered things on our planet.  That is because when you litter by/in

streams and rivers, the litter gets washed out into the ocean, and +, the wind blows almost all OUR litter

into the ocean, if not in the opposite direction.

OUR OCEAN 2
For example, people dumpt 2 thirds of the plastic on earth into our ocean, daily. Well, Actually,

I'm pretty sure that's true. Did you know there are 49,000 pieces of plastic per square-mile, in

our ocean?  Soon enough, if we DON´T start recycling, we won't be able to go swimming in our ocean.

If we don't start recycling, we'll be swimming in our plastic, & that could be in just 20 years!

Nobody wants that, It would be REVOLTING!

OUR PLANTS & GARDENS
You might remember me saying, the plastic that doesn't get blown into the ocean goes in

the opposite direction?  Well, that's nearly worse.  Do you know what direction that is?

Correct, sadly. Our plants and gardens.

OUR PLANTS & GARDENS 2 
If our plants get suffocated by plastic bags and bottles, we´ll have no oxygen.  As you probably know,

trees make our oxygen, & hold in our Carbon Dioxide, if all the trees die, we won't have a place to gather

more oxygen. Then, we'll have to breathe in carbon dioxide, but that's IMPOSSIBLE!! 

OUR ANIMAL
Another reason for recycling is our Native Animals, & other animals in the world.  Wouldn't it be

sad if all the animals in our world died out? I would think, & say, so. Unfortunately...

OUR ANIMALS 2
Imagine If all the animals in our world died out, just because of littering, JUST BECAUSE YOU

ARE TO LAZY TO RECYCLE!!!!  That will happen eventually, in less YOU start recycling.  Imagine

how sad it would be without animals in our world, when you know there could be.  No animals =s

no pets, which =s no joy, especially when you Know there could be animals, pets, &  joy.

CONCLUSION
Altogether my point is, If we don't manage to start recycling soon, we may no longer have an earth

to live upon for Ourselves, & the next generations. We NEED to keep our earth alive so that we can

continue living.  Can you believe that ONLY 120 people voted against using plastic bags?! 

That is terrible!  We need at least 120,000 to stop us & others using plastic bags!  When you think

about it, our Ocean, & our plants are on our earth, so if they all die, our animals, & us die Too!!

As Robert Swan once said, 'The greatest threat to our planet is the belief someone else will save it."

I hope you enjoyed my speech, no matter how long it was!!

Athletics, High-jump

Tension was in the air  as the last, and hardest sport neared.  We had just finished 100m sprints and were making our way over to High-jump.  I watched as the last of the year 5 boys made their way over the bar, which was around the height of 1.8m.  Arthur made it over smoothly, though the next made their way into the bar, knocking it down.  

Matua Nick explained the rules, which was mostly about cones, and then started the rights, my sides line.  I Watched as people got over, and as people knocked it down.  sooner than I thought, it was Alivia's turn to jump, she ran, she sprant, she... knocked down the bar. Then it was my turn, I jogged, it turned into a run, then a light sprint.  My right leg flew up, and I suddenly felt confident.  I made my way smoothly over the top of the bar and landed perfectly on the big, fat, blue mat.  I ran back, exited.  Than one after one all the other girls failed, except for Charlotte M, my rival. 

Charlotte was on her orange cone, with 2 more lives, while I was on my green, full with 3 lives, like at the beginning.  the bar went from 1.5m to 1.10m.  I ran, I sprinted, I skimmed the bar.  It wobbled violently, as I watched, my nerves on end.  It didn't fall off!!  I ran back to the green cone.  None of my lives had left me.  Charlotte ran, and... knocked the bar.  She was on the cone with holes in it now. she took her jump she made it over!  It was end on end now, 1 life V.S. 3.  

The bar was moved up to 1.15m.  I ran, I sprinted... I once again skimmed the bar.  It wobbled.  I hoped with my whole heart it wouldn't fall off, my life depended on it.   It stayed standing!  Now Charlotte ran, she... knocked the bar.  that was it.  Matua Nick told me and Charlotte to sit next to Lola And Alivia.  We watched as the boys all fell down rankings until the winner was unveiled.  Matua Nick then announced the placings!  " For Year 6 girls, First, Charlotte A,..."  

My heart leapt, I had won!!  All the rest was drowned out by the cheering that was coming from within my body.  

My-last term-Quickwrite

 All I can say is, Hope you enjoy!

I pulled myself up as the Rottweiler ran at me.  It had definitely inherited the ferocious part of his blood.  I watched as he charged at me, still only 10cm of the ground when Mia hauled me up.  The stump of the old tree branch next to the new tree branches always made me wonder why it got cut down.  I looked at the dog, that had just given a huge lunge at me. It then hit me, the tree had been attacked by a rottweiler! (It was obviously wrong, I'm very stupid.),I decided to climb higher, by the looks of it, the dog was going to get to where I was.  I grabbed onto a branch and placed my feet firmly on the branch just below.  I pulled myself to my full height and did the same to the branch my hands had been on a moment before.  when I got on it I realized it was exceptionally weak.  

The dog jumped into the tree, and I began to panic.  The dog saw me as Mia ushered for me to get higher. I struggled, as I'm very bad at things when I'm under pressure, even worse than normal. I was panicking more than I usually would cause a rottweiler had recently murdered an innocent lady.  The dog clawed at the branch I was on. What if it murdered me to?  Was repeating in my head.   I tried, but couldn't think of anything else.  "Lulu!" screamed mia in warning and panic.  the dog clawed my branch again and it snapped."AAGH!", I screamed as I fell, A look of horror stitched onto my face.  "LULU!" screamed Mia.                                         I still fell.  The dog launched out of the tree at me.  I screamed, again, In my head it was slow motion, repeating over and over until, Thud.  I hit the ground with a mighty thud.  The Rottweiler landed on me, and it was all over.Of course I'm still alive, that was just all I could remember.

Did you enjoy? Hope so, and Thank you for reading. Bye!                                                                               P.s. That didn't really happen, though some facts are real, and I have been chased by a Pitbull!

Hamanutua-Green Gold!

If you didn't know, yesterday was WBS´s green gold presentation.  There's so much to talk to you about,   I'll bore you out of  your shoes.  I´m only going to tell you about Hamanatua.   Me had arrived at our school... Never mind.  That's the boring part about it.  The MAIN picnicking part.  PLAGH!

The adults had left with Te Atawhai, and a whew more people (just to up the hill).  Instead I decided to stay at the picnicking site.  Me and Klara started picking at the pineapple, then we started gouging it down like a Cat to a Rat.  when there were only two bits left we stopped, as we'd had our fill, and me and      Kale´a ran to the top of the steep, small hill.   To the footpath.  The hill was about 5m high, who knows how many wide, and different heights the whole way.  The part we ran down was 5m steep, I mean high, I mean, Whoops, I told you what we did.  anyway, me And Kale´a ran down, Nearly into dirty-ish Hamanatua stream.  I stopped at the edge, Kale´a skidded just before she ran into a tree, staying standing.  then we went to climb a tree, just before we saw our class.  We ran up the hill and back down it, two more times! then we packed up and left. Last we walked ba... thats boring too.  Another big Pl

BYE

Quick write "2"

Enjoy my this weeks Quick Write! 

The phone rang... I awoke with a start.  Who would ring at this hour of the night? But, now I think about it, is it night? Well, before the details, you should know the whole story. Starting waaay back here.

I had awoken at 6:30 A.M, on Saturday.  Particularly early; not for me!  But I couldn't be bothered getting up.  I just lay in bed 'till 7:30.  But then I couldn't be bothered getting up either, it was still to early. At 8:30 I could hear the clanging of pans in the Kitchen as Mum made Pancakes.  But even the thought of Honey covered, Maple syrup topped Pancakes couldn't haul me out'a bed.  Eventually I dozed off.  ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...ZZZZZ, RIIIIING!  The phone rang.  It was 10:30.  I picked up my phone and answered it, "What are you doing calling at this hour of the night?!"                                             The other end said, " It's 10:30 A.M, and I'm waiting for you in town!"                                                          I sat upright with a jolt, dropping my phone. Glass shattered everywhere. 10:30???  What about my walk!? My Breakfast!?  My Town!?  I reached down to grab my phone and say, Meet you at 12:30 instead, OK? Then realized my Phone was shattered.  "NOOOOOOOOO!!" I howled, in my unneeded dispare.  

Thats what happened, unfortunately, soI never again slept in.                           

Quickwrite 1

This is my Quick write for this week!  I don´t exactly recommend boys reading it,  They might not like it.  But Girls, GO AHEAD.  Now please, ENJOY!!! 

Eden picked up the clue, if you could call her that.  I was lying flat on the ground, after my spectacular dive!  She just ran up, grabbed it, and skidded away.  All the girls were cheering, HOW DARE THEY, HOW COULD THEY?!  Boys are stronger, better!  Anyway, what does that matter now, They´ve already made their pyramid, Eden on top.  Oh... wait, No!  I meant Abbott .  HOW DARE EDE... ABBOTT DO THAT? 

I got up & stormed my way towards the other, gruffy, stormy, boys.  Totally, Definitely, the wrong thing to do.    If possible, they were madder at me than even me!!  I stormed towards my house, the opposite direction to fancy, pancy, has to win, Eden, not to mention her gang.  Frown, they were now setting off yellow & Blue fireworks, MY FAVORITE.  I was sooo tempted to join them, but resisted the temptation, somehow.  I opened the door, ¨WELL DONE!¨  Screamed Gran-gran, ¨I new you´d win!  Well, I didn´t, Bout YAY!!!¨                                                                                                                                                      I looked up, my glum face bounced off her many mirrors, & then it hit her, Gran-gran...

A glum look spread across her face, ¨oh,¨ she said, & walked away, not one more word to me.   Well, That went down in history, That race.  It´s made A known record; Girls are as good as boys, If not better.  &, it was all my fault, other wise it would have been, From my choice of course;  Boys are WAY better than girls!  Well, its now, Girls are as good as boys, if not better.  

SO SAIS EDEN ABBOTT.

YAY GIRLS!!!!

Quickwrite

This is my, this week´s quickwrite. This is not real, so don't worry.  Hope you Enjoy, Even though its a tinny bit violent. ENJOY...

Why did it look like everybody wanted her to make a Speech?  ¨-a... hi.  I am tsuami, wait, No.  TSUNAMI.¨  She settled her wings down, but made sure to give a flash of her royal pattern.  Then she heard a splash.  But not a down splash, an up one.  She looked up, and saw the royal patterns.  Mother, her head acked, just wanting to see her face.  The giant, sea blue dragon, tilted Its head in Tsunami's direction.  ¨My Baby!!¨ cried the queen.  ¨How long has it been.¨

 It was more a statement than a question.  ¨nevermind, nevermind. It doesn't matter.¨ she said, ¨why, how un-bejeweled you are!!  HERE, HERE.¨ she said, handing over her own, biggest, pearl necklace. 

Well, that's the beginning of it. At least. Ever since then, Tsunami has found out many more secrets about her mother that were not good.  Such as, her mother had a secret weapon.  Her own daughter.  She didn't even care that Tsunami's sister, Anemone, Might lose her soul, and go evil like her 2000 year old ancestor, Albatross.  She had found out, also, that she would leave dying warriors standing there for an entire council meeting.  She decides to lie, and chain up all of Tsunami's friends in a cave and leave them to drown.  She found out her mother would yank out another dragon's teeth, one by one, for failing. Then smash them against the solid rock, killing her. OH, Noo.  What if I become a queen like that? Like mother...

Quick write

 This is a true short story, which I wrote today, that happened 1 month. Gosh, I can't believe it took me that long to get it on paper.  I hope you enjoy!

The cat sat on the window sill, just,  I didn't realize. Roxy was

sitting behind the curtains, I walked in, and sat on my bed.  I looked

up from the book I had just buried my head in, to look out my

window. I thought, never mind.  I had imagined a cat's tail sliver

behind the curtains. I went back to my book, and continued reading. 

¨Meow.¨  something meowed.  I looked up again. . .

 

¨AHHHH!!!¨ I screamed. There, sitting on the window sill, was a pitch

black cat, as dark as night, crawling out from behind the curtain,

was Roxy. Whew, I thought as Roxy bounded towards me. I petted

her, then went back to my book, thinking, of course she blended in.

I hope you enjoyed!

MANGAONE STATION STOP BY

 Hi, as you might know already, last week, the day before we went into lockdown, me and my class went to Mangaone Station.  It was an action day, and we had planned to do just gardening in the wetland.  Even though it was a class trip because that's what this trip was for. Then this week my teachers made me relive it all through writing.  This is my story of what happened at Mangaone station:

Sophie pulled up outside the shearing shed, all of us thinking we were to be the first there.  We climbed out of the car, and to our great disappointment, found we were second there.  With around 10 boys, we waited for the rest of our class. To my great disappointment, that car was all boys too.  Us two girls waited for the rest of our group to get there, and just when I thought they'd never come, 7 cars pulled up handing us more girls.  Still outnumbered, but thoroughly excited to get started, we waited. through our teachers talking.  I listened a bit like this: ¨4 sharp whistles means there has been or is an emergence . . . 

Then, my head wandered off with me.  Before I knew it, we were starting.  I didn't really listen. Or watch through Koka Rosies explanation on how to do it, but at least we were using sheep dags, not poo. (To be honest, at first I thought sheep dags were sheep poo.)

My team started with mulching the old plants. I wasn't very good at it at first.  Then someone, (I forgot his name), Came and helped me, as did Koka pip.  Koka pip understood as much as I did, but The other guy knew a lot, and made me and Koka pip understand a lot more too.  Then I put the sheep dags, (that did actually have a lot of poo on them), around the teny flax bush.  I continued doing that to every un-dagged plant I saw, until Koka Rosie called time.  We tramped back through the muck up to the shearing shed for morning tea. It was quite fun, actually.   After we ate we had 10 minutes of free time.  In that time Josie decided to go to where the sheep go in the shearing shed.  I followed.  We got stuck, that was until I remembered my way out. The loose bit Of wood.  I used it. Twice, But on my second turn, unluckily, someone turned on the tap. All the water came rushing down through the hole, and landed on top of me.  Then on my 3rd go there, an adult came up.  Afraid we were about to be told off we ran out into an feild, and climbed the fence back into the car park. No-one got told off, so it was sort of a waste of time.

We tramped back to the gardening scene and I started gardening.  Unsure how to take the plants out of the pot without ripping it in half, I asked Cornelia and Ivy, Two of my , should be gardeners, friends.   I squeezed both sides of the pot and then pulled by the base of the plant. POP! Out it came, and I placed it in the hole and filled it in. I did that until I got bored, which was after 3 plants, and then went to explore the wetlands.  There was a little stream, with a fence dangling over top, so I climbed the fence, to the other side of the stream, and explored. After half an hour of that we went for lunch.

 

After lunch we went to see the lambs. We followed Cory, It's his farm, as we ran.  Then, just before we got there, I slipped.  I belly flopped into the mud. Yuck!!  Just able to keep my face out, I hoped.  I got there and started playing with the lambs.  Half way through the lamb journey, I made a friend.  It was a she, I could tell because she didn't have the funny holes for the horns, like the future ram. She let me pick her up, and cuddle her.  Then cash, a boy in my class walked up to see if she really liked me.  He touched her mouth.  Usually when you do that lambs jerk, and jump out of your reach, but she snuggled into me and remained easy to hold.  Just then Sophie came in, to feed the lambs.  She ushered me and Ivy in to help her, but everyone else hopped into.  After the lambs they had been holding finished feeding, we all picked up our special lamb again. By the end of the lamb adventure I had made a name for my lamb.  It was Milkshake, because she looks like a vanilla milkshake.  Then we had to leave, sadly. Not to mention, leave the lambs there! Nooo!! (I didn't actually say that.)

Me and Cornelia started talking about the lambs when we met up after the venture with the lambs. We started talking about which lamb was Our favorite, and what we would name our lambs if we actually had one.  We ran down the slight hill and managed to get to the front of the pack.  We ran up the massive hill we were told we were allowed up, and then ran to the next stretch of it. Sadly before we reached the top of the hill the adults got there and told us to come back. We did. Then we followed Nick, Cory's dad, to the fenced off forest. Before we got there me and Cornelia were at the front of the pack. But then we decided to climb the barbed wire fence so we could jump the stream. (There are A lot of streams there!) We ran until we reached the forest and then made our way into it.  Nick was in there with 8 boys. When he saw me and Cornelia he hopped out, and told them to follow. Me, who was already quite far into the forest, was annoyed about this because I wanted to explore, I had just got there!!! I did not express this particular feeling, along with almost all of the rest of my feelings. I listened anyway, and then I slipped.  I nearly fell into the water, but luckily caught myself before I was soping, I was utterly Dry! YAY!!! I thought in my head. We left, After an unfortunate Neko fell into the freezing water, pulling Olly in with him.  I was a tiny bit funny.  Anyhow, I eventually got back up the hill, then ran down it.  It was so fun! I tramped through the mud and to the shearing shed, once more, and then, Whoosh! We zoomed back to school once more!

I hope you enjoyed my quickwrite, or maybe, DAY! Bye

Quick write: Can you here...

 This week I´m going to share my Quick-write with you.  If you wonder when your reading this, I made it up. It is about a girl called Daniele, who I refer to as me, and the eventful times her city went through. ENJOY!!

Can you here... that explosion? ¨Daniele!¨ my mother called.                            Another bomb went off. The glass in my windows shattered from  the force of the Bomb. Houses were lopsided, ours was tilting a bit too. I didn't want to be in it, when it tipped. Nor to be squashed by it. I freaked out as our house gave another jerk. ¨Ahh!¨ I screamed, as I fell sideways to under and out of the door way. That wasn't a bomb, so what was it? The ground gave another shudder. EARTHQUAKE!! I looked around, frantically for a place to cover me. There was nothing. I ran. I ducked under archways as I narrowly missing chandeliers crashed been under just minutes before came hing down on my head. Yikes, I thought as the archway I was under, minutes before, came crumbling down. ¨Daniele!¨ My mother called, more frantically this time. ¨Coming!¨ I called

I flew down a flight of stairs. Just as I reached the next flight of steps, another bomb went of.I started off down the stairs, but, as my foot hit the forth stair, it crumbled beneath me. ¨Ahh!¨ I screamed again as mybody plummeted down into the mattress cupboard.  The word mattress echoed in my head. There was something I should remember about them, but what was it?POOF!! The mattress´s went as I landed on it. White stuffing exploded out of them as I sunk down. ¨That's it!¨ I said aloud, ¨Mattress´s are soft!¨

I climbed out of the cupboard to see my mother looking up at me from under her desk. Just then another earthquake hit. I stayed on my feet this time, but slid towards the open window. The force of the earthquake made me topple backwards, slightly. To much. I toppled out of the second story window.  The last thing I saw was my mothers aghast face as I fell.

I hope you enjoyed my Quick-write.  Thanks for Reading! Bye.

Murder Mystery Maths

 Hi, I´m Charlotte.   On wednesday, 28th of july 2021, we found 2 people that may be the murderer of an inspector, of a hotel. It's not real, It's just the backstory to make our math fun.  We have to figure out the clues and find out who murdered the inspector. On wednesday we had to answer decimals such as...

2/3 of 27 & 1/8 of 48...

So on and so on.  as I sat down on the mat Koka N, (Naigre), gave me my worksheet. I pulled out my pen as I, Once again, became a detective of this murder.  I scribbled down answer after answer, until there was nothing left.  The clue was...

The murderer rides a Motor-bike...  

I lined up for my check, even though I knew I had the answer right, and waited. I waited for what seemed like was dusk to dawn, then she checked it. I had it right!  She scribbled down her signature  just as I walked away.  Next Wednesday I shall find the convicted murderer.

See you Next week!

To Waste Our Life

Hi, this week Me and my Reading Group have been rewriting a News Article off Kiwi kids News.  Its Called ¨To Waste Our Life¨, by a year 9 student called Ariana Hunt.  It's about Online shopping and/or the Online shoppers.  If you want to change and reduce the plastic in our oceans I recommend, NOT, Online shopping.  Here is my writing...

Online shopping is good but bad.  It's good because it´s ´easy´ and ´fast´, But it's bad for the environment.  Did you know the packaging of online shopping kills, ONLY, 100,000 animals per year? Its been going on for a while now, and we don't want it to continue in the future,  You'd think it's good,  not wasting petrol to drive ´unnecessary´ places, but actually, it's worse.  The things you order get coated in plastic, and more plastic and petrol is wasted to get it to you.  People started doing online shopping last year in lockdown because they couldn't go out of their house´s.  Occasionally the Item you buy says the box is, COMPOSTABLE in big bold letters, but it doesn't break down in the compost.  It just hurts more of our environment.  Plastic is recyclable!!!

L3 Maths strand

 On monday, the 21st of june, me and  some more people from my class had a workshop.  This workshop is about math such as Measurement.  Some of the measurement we have been working on lately is Mass, Weight, Volume, and capacity.  We added in liquid because the things we have studied in strand,´Measurement´, is oranges. this is about how these things can connect to each other and oranges, it is also what we found out when we measured them.

Odd Day

On monday there was a day of school, as you might know, it was the Queens  Birthday.  Than on tuesday we had a reliever.  In room 2 there was a teacher called Koka Katie, in room 1 there was a reliever called Koka Kathline.  The teachers split the classes, even though where used to working together, that was sad for me because most of my friends are in room 2.  Each class was doing some art.

In room 1 we were doing some Picasso Art.  First we chose an odd shaped head, it was so odd.  Than we drew a face inside of a face, we kept doing some more odd objects until we had done it all. we got to choose how we did the face and hair though.   Last we did some odd shapes in the face and coloured them in.

In the afternoon, after lunch, we had to go to split classes for learning through play.  I chose to go to woodburners, its were you create things out of wood and sea glass, occasionally even shells.  I decided to use the hot glue gun.  I glued on to a piece of wood, some shells, and a bit of sea glass. it was a fun, but odd day.

Gymnastics festival

I can't Believe it! The Gymnastics Festival was on Tuesday, and we got callbacks!Box was up first, and so was I.  We each, (Me, Lola, Charlotte, Alivia, And Aria,)  had one warm up, and then, BAM!!  I was over, and it was done!  I sat down and watched as Alivia, Lola, Charlotte, and Aria Each made it over.  Charlotte's score 8.4.  So was Lolas.  Then there was Aria´s, If I hadn´t already told you, she's a really good  gymnast.  Her score was 9.4!!! (Out of 10.)   Next we had beam.  Aria was so good at it.  She did her routine flawlessly.  Lola and Charlotte forgot the Arabesque, Me and Alivia remembered it and did it pretty well. I forgot our scores for the beam. Last but not least was floor.  I was up first, again. I could tell it was way to short, but they still gave me 8.00. That was good enough for me.  Aria was the best, and Lola, Charlotte, and Alivia did it well to.

After about 2 or 3 hours we had rhythmical.  Alivia was our cheerleader, Even though she forgot to cheer. We did our start, and our end, and all of what was in between.   While we did our bow I could hear the crowds cheering.  Somehow, we got into callbacks, and it was amazing fun.

Callbacks were on Wednesday night.  We had to wait for about 2 hours and 20 minutes.  We got to watch all the best gymnasts as a group, and as a solo.  We were about the 3rd to last act.  The crowds were even bigger than last time, and the cheering was thundurus.  the reason the crowd was bigger was because the intermediates and high schools did it to, and most people in every family showed up.  It was extremely fun!! bye🥇

Intense Times

With the Gymnastics festival edging closer were working harder than ever.  We only have 3 days of practice left, I've began practicing Day in, and day out. With A-Grade in the morning, and rhythmical at morning tea, and lunch, Were doing a lot.  All the free time we have is going to gym.  

My Rhythmic teacher is panicking, because we don't know the entire dance yet.  We've booked out the gym for friday, 12.40 pm-2.15 pm.  Our dance is getting better, and we have a few more tricks.

Our practice is getting more and more squashed because were rushing to finish the dance.  We practice quite often now, as we do all the things we need to.

I can't believe It!! In A-grade, we know all our routines of by heart. YAY!!!  We started learning it and practicing it last week. Only 5 people from our school are in A-grade, and yet we all got it so Quickly.  Aria is soooo dainty with her beam, and floor.  We ALL just stare at her while she practices.  she's much better than the rest of us,  she's the best in the School!!  I'm getting more and more nervous about my floor routine, we have, well, had, to make it up!!

With so much going on, all of it based around gymnastics, people are getting more and more nervous.  I wonder how it will all turn out.  Tune in next week to find Out!

Our school!!

Gymnastics Fun

 This week me, and the rest of my school have been focusing on gym.  The Gisborne Primary schools gymnastics festival is coming up, and we want to be ready.  We´ve all chosen the group out of A-Grade, B-Grade and C-Grade.  (There's also A reserve but no one is in that group.)  We´ve been training for about 2 school weeks now, and we are getting more, and more competitive.

This year I chose to be in A-Grade and Rhythmical.  Rhythmical is a sort of gym dance.  I started off as a back up, but improved so much, I think, that I´m in the actual dance!!  Maybe  I was the whole time, Who knows?  Well,  we´ve learnt most of the dance and a couple of tricks.  It's really exciting to be learning so fast in so little time.  We've started needing to bring our water bottles to practice.  Lola's the ringmaster, and Aria is doing a very cool trick, in the middle of the dance!  

This morning I had my first A-Grade practice.  When it was just us, Lola, Alivia, Aria, Charlotte and I  there, in the hall,  Charlotte, Lola and Alivia and I  were trying to learn how to do a front handspring, Aria was our instructor. I didn't have much luck, Lola managed some, and Alivia and Charlotte were very close.  When our teacher came in to teach us, we practised the beam.  I am by far the worst at it, Especially at getting on.  Then we practised the box.  No one had much luck at first, but we all got there. We did the straddle jump.

Thank you for reading my Blog! Bye.

Polar Animals: The Snow Fox

This week my quick write was based on polar animals, and for me, I chose snow foxes.

You might be wondering why I didn't choose a ¨cooler¨ animal, but you'll soon find out.  Their more curious, and sneaky, than we think.  

I hope you like my slide! Bye.

There's writing on the slide, Read it!

My Sign/Tribute Art

Recently my class has been working on signs of old Aotearoa history around were we live.  Me and my friend Kale´a are in a group on a famous horse and his owner.  the name of our sign is Tore te A-Hoiho-John.  

We started by painting the base blue.  That was our base colour.  Then, while I was gone Kale´a had to work on the project alone. She made the grass alone, she thinks that it's to long.  I think it's perfect.  In the days after that (Mainly Yesterday) we added in the ocean, a GIANT rugby ball, a rugby goal that's smaller than the ball, the clouds and sun, a title, and last but certainly not least, The horse himself.  We've only done the out line.

The only reason were not finished is because, Kale´a started to draw the horses leg, but I pointed out it was to long.  Me and Kale´a burst into hysterical giggles.  We went outside to paint over it, but had to do it 3 times for it not to show.  Only because Kale´a did it in vivid.  When it was finally gone Kale´a painted the Ocean while I did white wash.  Then I drew the Rugby ball and we painted it.  The post was simple so I just did 3 lines, and the clouds are done too.  Me and Kale´a also found the perfect orangey-beige colour for the sun.

I Just painted the horse a pale beige with a blue mane and black saddle.  The teacher told us we have to make it paler, the beige, though.  

Thank you for reading about my week, Charlotte.

CAMP!!

In week 7 I went to yr 6 camp.  First, we went up, to run the confidence course.  Apparently, we were the fastest group that the teachers had ever made do that.  We also went on a hike every day,  so we got really fit.  The biggest walk, was up Panekiri Bluff.  YIKES!  In the afternoon, we went kayaking if we had enough time.  We always did, so we went every day.  Then we headed home, in the fanciest bus ever!

Watch the slide to find out more.

Bye!! 

Our Adventure

 ¨Yay! Where finally starting!¨ everyone was Saying.  Pad, pad, went our shoes as we gently strolled up the first case of stairs.  Me and Esther started chatting about the last hike we went on. We began nearing the top, or so we thought.  We were coming  up to the statues of light. All of the year 6s were confused though, when we only stopped there  to look at it.  We  soon carried on.  Suddenly, there were all theese twists and turns! Where no stairs could go.  I slowly turned my head, to look at the view.  It was magnificent.  soon enough there were these odd down hills, then we went back up, and down and up And down. That was until we reached the top.  The look-out.  Personally, I don't call it the top.  We got a drink, and started down.

Me and Esther chatted a lot on the way down.  A couple of times we had to run to catch up.  then it was hard to slow down. ¨There are so many ferns.¨ I said. She agreed then quite soon, when we were almost down someone spotted a native, and rare Owl.  A More-pork.  ¨I've  Never seen one of theese before.¨ I said.  ¨It's pretty.¨ said Esther.  Soon enough we reached the bottom and had some morning tea.  

On the way back up we had a look in the hole in a rock. It was really dumpy around there.  When we started backup most people's legs got very achy as it was very steep.  We, sadly, didn't see the More-pork on the way back up and it felt like it would take us forever.  We did see a lot of Fantails though.  

We were going back down the steps and everyone was relieved that we were getting back to the cars.  As the view got Bigger Cornelia yelled out ¨ I can see the rice sheep Again!!!¨  We finally reached the cars again. That's where we got a drink again.  Happy to be finished the walk we headed back to school.

Crazy Days Back

Week 1

On the day school started I arrived, excited and ready for a new year! Mostly,  I was still pretty exhausted from the holidays.  Everyday in week 1 was crazy! On Monday, the first day back at school, we started our mandala art.  It lasted a while.  But it sure was fun.   

Week 2

On Monday, the first day of week 2021, we went for a walk to Hamanatua stream, since it was walk to our pepeha week.  On Wednesday we walked up Maungaroa.  It was pretty fun and we learnt a lot.  On Friday we did our first round of year 6 surfing, that was pretty fun but in bad conditions. But when that week ended I new exactly what I needed, shoes.

Week 3 

In week 3, I forgot what we did but I remember Surfing. That Friday we went surfing again, At Roberts road.  It was big, fun and dumpy.  When your out the back that is.  That day Klara and Esther got the style award, Tre got the best wave Award and I got the perseverance award.

Week 4

Its week 4 now, and we´ve had fun doing collaborative art.  On Monday we went to our school marae and on Wednesday we  had school swimming sports.  

They were both fun as!! We went surfing again this morning and it was awesome.  I can´t remember who got the awards but it was tiny.  Also I was on a new board. And  I/we just finished some more art called My Pepeha Art and it looks GREAT!