mystery fruit description

Miss Taylor told us that we would need something to cover our eyes. A surprised murmur rose up from Room 7 as the bell rang for morning tea. We all jumped outside unaware of the what we were all excited for…

I could smell the bitter fruit, it was strong and sour. From just the first sniff I could tell what it was. It smelt so bitter that my nose was burning. The sourness overwhelmed me even though it was just a slice.

When it was time to feel it most people were still puzzled but I knew for sure what it was. It felt like a semi circle with juice coming out of it. It had a squishy part and a hard part. The squishy part felt like little diamonds joined together and the hard part felt smooth and thick.

Then we took a bite of this peculiar fruit. It made shivers in everyone’s spine. The bitterness made us shake. It tasted sour and bitter like those sour lollies you buy at the store. The bitter disgusting feeling shot through me like a bullet.

We uncovered our blindfolds and screams of shock were sounded. What we were eating looked yellow and wet as we held it in our hands other kids started eating the whole thing. I ate it too.

The lemon tasted horrible. I hated it but it didn’t stop me from eating the whole thing.   

Real life superheroes - William Wilberforse

We have been doing research for inquiry on real life superheroes, mine was on William Wilberforse. He was the co founder of the SPCA, along with Henry Bergh the real founder. But I decided to make my presentation a little bit different. <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-
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Scratch

Hello again I just wanted to say that I love coding and Scratch is the best place to go for it. check it out!!! I have been doing lots of stuff with it one of my friends (aka Jonathan). He is a master coder, he helped me make a game and I just wanted to show you how to play.

You have to control the girl with the arrow keys and make her jump by pressing space. The aim is to catch all the butterflies but don't let them touch the red or game over. get a good score with the score button in the top left. (Shout out to Ari-Elle the beta tester and Jonathan the master coder.)

metophor poem

 Recently we have been learning how to write metaphors. We had to describe ourselves as trees, sweets, clothing, sandwich, something in our community and a vehicle. For each one we had to do one that represent us in some way, like i said i was a bag of snakes for my sweets category sweet and sour from that you can tell that sometimes I can be bossy but also nice. 

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China Masks

Dance Night

On dance night I wore a blue and white dress with brown boots and Sparkles in my hair with pink lip stick. We danced to the music 'footloose'. There is a movie and it's about a boy and a girl moving to a town with no music. We did a flash mob which means we had to sit in the crowd like normal people but when the music starts we jump up in the crowd.    

We had lots of fun doing our dance and we really enjoyed being on stage in front of the parents. 

BFG art

Today we made  BFG art. To make it you need black paper and white paper. We first had to cut the black paper into a man with a cape and a trumpet.  After that  we made houses out of black paper and stuck them on to the bit of paper. 

My Published poems

Laura Trott - Olympic Athlete Research

School camp

this year on camp we went to a mride and had to do a hionge  we went to the velagrom and saw a nz biker we got to go to a musem we got t 

My Speech

If you qualified for the Olympic games you would go wouldn't you? Well,  the Olympic games is  good  but it is also bad because  you get robbed by people of Rio that need money.

Some of there people in Rio steal from athletes and tourists from all over the world, they do it because they are poor. The Australian athletes had to evacuate their accommodation because of a fire. While they were outside their laptops, phones and wallets were stolen from their rooms. Some of the athletes are too scared to even go into the local villages in case they get robbed.

One kiwi athlete was kidnapped and taken to a money machine by men dressed as Brazilian police officers. They made him take out all of his money and then they left him there. It would be cool to go to the Olympics, but unfortunately this is not what I would expect or what I would want, so I would not go.

Another reason I would not want to be competing in the Rio Olympics is because I would not want to compete against the Russian drug cheats. The Russians take drugs that make them faster and stronger than the other athletes but they do not work as hard to be there and that does not seem fair.

I think they should all be tested the day before they go and then the Olympic committee could choose whether or not they are clean to compete, and if they are not, then they should not go. I would not like to be beaten by someone who had taken drugs, I would feel like it hadn’t been a fair competition.

I think it would be frightening to do my talent in front of a huge audience. It would be terrible if you did something wrong and the whole audience went “Ohhhhhh!” That would definitely scare me. I think there would be a lot of pressure and I don’t think I would like that. Although it might be nice to represent my country, and visit Rio and show off in front of the crowd, I don’t think I would actually want to if I was selected.

So, you might think going to the Olympics would be really cool, but I think, that it is not really that safe, and there are too many dangerous risks. I think that I wouldn’t like to compete against drug cheats, and I think that I wouldn’t like the pressure of competing in front of such a big crowd. If I was selected to go to the Olympics, I would just say “Sorry, I can’t be there.”

Book Fair Colouring Competition Winner

Snowy Comes for a Visit

cross country 2016

Yesterday was cross country and it was such a good day for a run that the school made us run all the way round the lake. And yesterday I learned that you don't have to beat everyone, all you have to do is run. So I  think we  had a really different day than what I expected. And I know that this cross country was a good cross country. And I am really proud.

my term 3 learning goals

To use topic sentences and good supporting ideas in my in my persuasive writing

To learn my 3, 4, 5 and 6 times tables off by heart

To learn my 7, 8, 9 and 12 times tables off by heart

To participate really well in our class dance on dance night

To look after my property responsibly, like clothing reading books etc (not to lose things) 

Student of the week

my koru family

Mum is on the left.  I’m beside Dad because I like to go on the farm with him and I do a lot of things like him.  Annabelle is with Mum because they are both tidy.

my term 2 goals

¨ To write an information report that has important facts in it

¨ To explain my strategies clearly to the group

¨ To learn the correct tikanga and rules for staying on a Marae

¨ To skim and scan over a text to find out information

¨ To give everything on school camp my very best effort and have fun

My Mihi