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Matariki

The Story Of Matariki

Not long ago, there were six sisters and one brother. They all had names. The oldest was Jorden. He was the boy, then Lily, Katie, Sarah, Jenna, Blossom and, the youngest of them all, Bella. 
When Bella turned five, she got a pet bird. It was white with sparkles. She loved it. She named it Snow White. It would sing all the way home. It wasn't far to walk to the secret bird cage, but, when Bella got her bird, she saw a glitch of black with rainbow sparkles on its wings. The family had updated their birds. 
Blossom lost her pale pink holo bird. It was a dizzy dazzling dancer. It would reflect in the sunlight, but it was weird because she would hang around the cage. She would only sleep, drink, eat, sing and dance, but she was acting weird later that day and Blossom didn't know why. Cherry, her bird, was acting weird. 
It was becoming sunset. Jorden looked up at the night sky blanket. He saw Cherry's reflection. The stars started to appear. He saw her flying up to the six sisters, so she made it the seven sisters.

Roanna And Natalies Bush Walk

Roanna and Natalie were sisters. They loved to go on walks in the forest. It would only take them two minutes to get to the forest. 

One sunny spring day, Natalie asked Roanna if she wanted to stay one night in the forest. So Roanna said yes so the two girls packed there bags. Natalie and roanna

Catch That Snake !!!!!

WALT make up a story about a Pet Day problem.

WWBSWW:

• Begin with an orientation to tell the reader who, did what, where and when.

“Pet Day will be on Friday,” Miss Anderson, Tom’s teacher, announced to the class on Monday. “Bring your pet to school and tell us about it, then we will have a pet parade.”

Tom was so excited. He would be able to bring Harry to school to 

show everyone.

• Write the events leading up to the problem.

At the end of the day, he ran all the way home to get his pet ready for Friday.

He loved Harry and had wanted to show his friends for a long time, but his mum and dad had told him that Harry must never leave the house; but, now, his

teacher had given him permission to bring it to school.

Smilingly, he polished Harry’s green silky skin, talking to it with his friendly voice. “You’re allowed to come to school, Harry. You can meet my friends and my friends can meet you.”

As soon as Friday came around, Harry carefully took Harry out of its cage and placed him into his black backpack. He couldn’t wait to get to school, so he ran

all the way.

When the bell rang, he and the rest of the class stepped into the 

classroom.

• Write the problem.

Tom opened his backpack to show his friends what he had brought to school for Pet Day.

“It’s a green, slippery, slimey …...................” he said slowly. “Snake!” he 

shouted.

“Tom Denver, give me that thing right now!” Miss Anderson 

commanded.

Tom opened his hand to pass it over, but, at that moment, naughty Billy Burton lunged to grab it himself. He bumped Tom’s shoulder and Tom hurtled forward, the snake flying out of his hand to the back of the classroom.

“Eeeeeee! Where is it?” squealed Miss Anderson.

Chaos threatened in Room 4.  Children jumped up and ran around, screeching

their lungs out and pushing over chairs and desks, trying to find Tom’s snake.

• Write the events to tell your readers how the problem was solved.

Then one of the kids saw a glitch of green so she decided to gather all the kids' lunches. One kid had a ham sandwich. 
"Thank goodness someone had some meat," said Mrs Anderson. 
A kid found a way to catch the snake. Mrs Anderson got some clear plastic boxes to put the meat in. Tom made a path and put more plastic boxes. Mrs Anderson rushed and climbed the last desk to be safe. All the rest of the desks were used to trap Harry. 
Tom caught Harry. Mrs Anderson was relieved to not have to search day and night.
- Great title!
- You have finished off well, with your last sentence, Makayla.
- Well done on using speech.
- Keep working on writing the events clearly to the solution.

From Jamling Tenzing

Jamling Tenzing

May 14 at 1:56pm · Namche Bazar, Nepal

To all the children of St. Paul's primary school, greetings from the Himalayas.

I know you have been following John and our journey to the to roof of the world. I hope you learned something about our mountains and culture.

I invite you all to join me one day to visit our part of the world.

Hi my name is Makayla and i wanted to say thank you for inviting me and the rest of the of the class on your trip with John to see all the cool things like yaks, different flowers and some of your family.

Jamling Tenzing Hi Makayla, thank you for your message. I am glad to know that you have learned quite a few new and cool things from this trip, when you are older you could visit this places such see for yourself how beautiful it is.

Mount Everest

The Two Magic Shows

Where is the orientation? The reader wants to know what this is about. When, who, did what, where, why. What hall? Who is we?
When we got into the huge hall, we saw a magician wait for lots and lots of children. His name was Jonathon. He was very funny. When he asked a child what colour his favourite was, he said red, so he gave him a blue balloon and did a smiley face with it, then a sad face and then some horns then the really funny part was he bit the balloon and was holding the parts that he bit and said, "These are the horns I like."
After that, we had lunch but we had it earlier than we usually do because there was another magic show starting after lunch. 
All the kids were waiting patiently for El Gregoe, and his assistant, Sue was there too, to help. He was funny too because when he dropped a card, he said that was the floor show. It was funny, but the best part was the floating man. It was kind of funny because it was meant to be called the floating woman and he was floating. Sue proved he was floating when she put her hand over him and under.

Pentecost

The Church is people spreading the Good News about Jesus.

Before Pentecost, the followers of Jesus hid in a dark room. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit down to them, then they had flames on their heads and they could hear the wind. They went out and started to spread the Good News. It was the birth of the Church. That day was called Pentecost.

Mother's Day

Mum and I went shopping on Thursday in the holidays at the Warehouse to get some navy socks for school.

When I got to the entry, my eyes were in Wonderland. I didn't know where to go, but Mum said we had to get some socks so
we ................... Why did you delete what you had written?

Monkeys

Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! I went to the monkeys over the wooden bridge.

It was at Hamilton Zoo. We went because we had filled up the good behaviour jar and that meant that the class got a prize so we went to the zoo. Mrs Thomson made us study animals at the zoo to see if it's better for animals to live at the zoo than in the wild.

"I found the monkeys," I said to everyone. We dashed to the spider monkeys. They were so cute. I also saw a baby spider monkey holding onto the mama and I think one was eating with its mouth open. It was eating an apple. It was eating slowly because it was too hard to eat. It was so funny. The spider monkeys were playing follow the leader. It was cute. One by one, there were five or six of them.

Easter Around the World

St Patricks Day

Makayla 23^rd March St Patrick

WALT retell a story.

WWBSWW tell the story in our own words.

Planning     

Who St Patrick was and what he liked doing and what he didn't like doing

 - where he was born - what his family was like

He liked walking on the beach. He liked whittling his slingshot.

He hated school.

One day,

- didn't go to school

- went to the beach

- pirates came

- stole him and the other girls and boys

- sold him in Ireland to Milchu

- was a shepherd - looked after sheep and pigs (swine)

- started talked to God - trusted God and was happy

- One night, heard God talking to him - told him to go the a ship

- when he was on board, - big storm - ship grounded in France

- crew starving

- Patrick asked God for help

- God sent him pigs and an apple tree- ate pork dinner and apple sauce

There was a boy called Patrick, he was born somewhere in Britain. Patrick had a very happy life I fact his parents were rich. Patrick and his family lived in a massive villa.  One day Patrick said he was going to school but Patrick went to the beach. Patrick was playing around climbing trees and having fun. Patrick was walking on the sand until Patrick froze he felled like someone was watching him. Patrick had turned he saw a pirates, the pirates had stolen Patrick and all the other kid in the village. Patrick went to Ireland and got sold to Milchu. Patrick was a shepherd and Patrick looked after swine. Patrick started talking to god and all was trusted god. Patrick lived happy like this. one night Patrick heard something talking to him he was in shock because they're was nobody else in the room but him then he released it God. God told Patrick to go to his ship. Patrick was on board until there was a storm. the ship grounded to France. Patrick and the crew were starving. Then Patrick had an idea to ask God for some help. God sent Patrick and the crew some pigs and an apple tree. So Patrick and the crew had some pork and apple sauce.

swimming sports

SPLASH I hop in the water it was time to do freestyle. Mr Emms hit the two blocks together thats when i knew to swim i swimmed my hardest i came second. Five minutes later

The Rocket

"Fall! Fall! Fall!" the crowd shouted. I was cracking up. 

I was running quite fast until I saw a big sparkly puddle of pool water. I gingerly walked across the puddle. I made it, then I was running until another puddle came and I missed so I fell in. Mrs Thomson told everyone to stop shouting, "Fall," so they did, but they started saying, Go, everyone!" like the person's name. Mrs Thomson told them to stop so they did. 

We all had two or three turns on the rocket until it was time to leave. I sadly walked to the changing rooms. On the way out, all of the classes got a lollipop. Mine was blue.

World of Maths

Thump! Thump! I walked into the hall. All the children sat down on the hard wooden floor. Mrs Thompson had put us in our groups. I was in Group Five. First, we went to take the cows to the milk shed. It was hard to figure out at first but I put my hand up then I got help so then I got the hang of it. We didn't get all of them done but we got most of  them done. My favourite was, 'Where's Katie?' The time we got was 30 minutes or an hour. After all that time, it was time to sit down on the floor again and ask some of us some questions, then we all left.

The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

Year of the Monkey

sshin-nyen kwhy-ler

Happy Chinese New Year. 

2016 is the Year of the Monkey.

Swimming 2016

Splash! little droplets of water flew everywhere. Ashley told the class and me to hop in the pool. One by one, we hopped in. It was very cold. We started off by warming up so we made a whirlpool. It made a loud swishy sound. Next, we were doing swimming. Ashley asked us a few questions, like, do we point our toes and how tight our arms should be. Ashley and Shenagh put us into groups - one, two, three and four. I was three. First, we just did plain kicking, like rocket arms, then freestyle, then gliding. When the sun came out and some of the others were kicking, it looked like diamonds hitting the water in the sparkly pool, then we dashed to the changing room and got dressed.We then walked back to school.