The blazing 7 stars of Matariki

The blazing 7 stars of Matariki :

     Matariki a time in the year for celebration

     when the seven bright stars blaze

     in the morning sky

     seven sisters glazing upon us

     with persuasive eyes

     wondering when set free from the skies

     wondering if 7 more men

     will hear their persuasive

     screams and crys

     to set them free

     to persuade another day.

Recount - Long bay Marine reserve

I was on my way to school thinking it was just a normal day but then a thought struck me, I had just remembered that there was a trip. I ran to school just to be in time to sort our groups for the trip. It was time to go so my group jumped on the bus and took a seat and once the rest came on it was getting a bit cramped. But my friends and I got to sit together it took one hour but we made it I stepped out and it was blowing furiously the people who worked there came to greet us and took us to the shelter we got told all the rules of what you can do and what you can’t do.

Next we got some trays to full up with water to put all the creatures we found in the rock pools. My group found lots of different creatures like a starfish, a big empty old shell, a dead crab and two cool looking shells that had crabs in them. Once it was time to go we emptied our trays back into the rock pools then we walked onto the beach and onto a flat area and we got told to draw the best creature we found so I drew a giant starfish then we walked back to the shelter to have some lunch.

Then we got given a bucket for each group. We got told our task was to find all sorts of washed up stuff even rubbish. In the middle of that we found two stranded jellyfish one was dead but the other one we didn't know if it was dead or alive .Then we went up onto the dry sand and went digging for sand hoppers I found a huge one and one of the other children found some sort of grub that  one of the workers said she had only seen two of them before. It was a rare sort of beetle I forgot what it was called but it looked ugly then we took our buckets full of stranded creatures back to the shelter. We sorted the things we found into groups and did a quiz about what we found it was fun we came 2nd but it was good so then we finished and grabbed our bags and lined up to go back to school we walked to the bus and jumped back on by the time we got back we were able to go home.      

The poem of WAR

The poem of WAR :

War is nothing but destruction and death

yet the soldiers who fought for us are now at rest

all though there are the lucky ones who still live among us....

but lets ask are they lucky

they shall live on with the memories of the lost souls

that are now in peace without the sounds

of gunfire and explosions

they are now free but all will be remembered of them.

My loopy person

For the last week room 10 have been working on measurement. We decided to make loopy people they are made from paper. To make them we measured all our body parts and halved them. Then we glued all the bits into the right places. This is an image of what my one looked like. The hardest part for me was to keep the parts glued together. But the easy part was measuring my body and halving the measurements.

Back to school recount - Jack

It was Sunday night and I didn't feel that great to go to school the next day then I went to bed feeling tired and just wanting a sleep in until 10:30 am .But then the next morning I was waked to a continuous beeping noise and that was my alarm at 6:30 am when I was ready I walked out of the door and off to school then I just walked around with some friends until the bell rang .And now that I've been back for 2 days it’s been good .We just finished a netball lesson and it was quite exhilarating and fun .         

Basket reflection

Today was the last day of our basketball lessons .I learn’t the names of how you can bounce the ball you can do bongo drums, left high, left low, right high, right low but you normally have to do bounces under the knee .

The most difficult trick I did was bouncing the ball back and forth through my legs in the end I  still wasn’t any good .But I was pretty good at spinning the ball on my finger that was my favourite trick when we finished the last lesson I gave a big thanks from our class and school.     

Our awesome trip to the Auckland Zoo

Auckland Zoo trip :

Friday the 4th of April was the date set for the rooms 7 ,9 and 10 we were set to meet in the hall at 8:50 am .there were 2 buses waiting outside the gate .

When we were in the hall our class was split into 4 groups I was in Mrs “Parker’s” group we were the first group to go I got on the bus that was at the back and I was the first 1 on so I went to the back seat with my friend Alex .

The trip took 30 minutes to get to the Auckland Zoo and our bus got there first straight after the other bus came we had  to wait for bit in the bus I didn't know why but I wasn't fussed we got off and walked through the big doorway and through the gate at the end .We got leaded by the zoo keepers we then walked to a room by all the N.Z native animals ,plants and insects we had a talk with the zoo keepers they said to be very quiet or the animals will get scared and hide .

After the talk about the rules our class room 10 went with Laura she was 1 of the zoo keepers The we went in the cage that had the native trees and birds .We saw the Nikau tree and the kawakawa plant and up on a high branch we saw a wood pigeon when we started to go up the path we saw some native parrots .Next we went up to the high deck and saw the birds on the roof I didn't know what they were because they were too far away.

Then we left and went with the other zoo keeper his name was John he was British he showed us the lizards they weren't as amusing as I thought they would be .then he took us to the cage with the kea’s we went in and there were weka s as well but there were lots of keas after I just took a photo of kea that was on the ground 1 flu from above and glided along my head and I got a fright but it was cool to get so close to 1 .

Then we went with the last zoo keeper that was with us his name was Richard we stopped at a table and he had a bag he showed us what was in it .It was a stuffed owl and stuffed ferret we were aloud to touch them as we walked through the gate he was taking us to the night forest .But we quickly had a look at the ells they were big he said they were up to 30-40 years old .

After that we went to the night forest but I only saw 2 kiwis they  were bigger than I thought they would be .So that was cool then in the room at the end there was a machine that had a kiwi egg in it but.... it was fake then we walked back to the meeting place where we had a talk we then had another talk and split into the groups we sorted at school and went to the building that was near the tigers and sat there to eat .

Then we went to go see all the animals we saw lots of different animals and reptiles but there was 1 spider monkey that was funny it was hanging by it’s tail while it was fighting its own feet and then it grabbed it’s BUT!!! it was disturbing but funny at the same time.

At the end we went to kid zone and saw the pigs and guinea pigs then Hannah, Eseki and me went down the slide while we were going down little kids were coming down behind us and we weren't even moving then we finally got out that was the worst time out of the whole trip then we went to the front of the zoo and waited until the other classes got there and then we left and went back to school .