word of the week.kaitiaki

 this is my word of the week I hope it is ok our word was kaitiaki. Kaitiaki means guardian in te reo. 

The Tsunami

 It was that time again… Our annual surfing trip to Devon. While my parents packed up the suitcases and loaded up the car for the long journey ahead, we chatted excitedly about what an incredible holiday this was going to be!

Not too long into the journey, the beautifully clear, blue sky became dark and ominous. All of a sudden, crashing towards the long line of traffic, was a colossal wave – not the kind you’d want to catch on a board either…

Desperately, people raced wildly out of their cars, running, screaming, and panicking yet as I looked to my left, I saw a man…

The man was discreetly trying to get his children out of his car. the wave was curdling towards me I began to run. as I was running I relied on getting to my serf bored. I pooled my bored out of the car and got ready to serf.

I knew it would be a bad idear but it fort I would be able to do it. as the wave got close I jumped and!. I made it I was surfing on a tsunami I was terrified but I had to concentrate or I would be dead. 

I made it to safety with many cuts and bruises. eventually, I meet up with my family and of course, the surfing trip to Devon was canceled the so we went back home.

today a I had to finish a story so there was a story starter and i had to do the end of the story.

the tree of life

 She held hope in her outstretched hands. Kneeling gently on the ground, she prepared herself for what she knew she must do. The cool water trickled through her muddy fingers, and the soft, black earth felt comfortingly warm on her palms.

Planting the tree of life would mean a new beginning. The opportunities were endless…

Feeling the excitement course through her quivering body, she lowered the tree of life into the small hole she had prepared. It was time…

as she planted it she felt peace in the air. she left it overnight by the morning it had grown 4 times the size it was the previous night.

my holiday

 it was a boiling hot day in blaketown I was at the rugby field with my friends and we were hanging for a drink. it was really hot as we were biking around the streets so we decided to go for a swim in the cold sea. we started to head to the water we got there and began to start splashing and crashing in the salty sea. but when we got out of the water we were freezing so we quickly got our clothes on and started to go back to my friend's house and worm up. after that, we went fishing but didn't get anything, and then it was the end of the day.

last week in class we had to write about something we did or somewhere we went so I wrote about when I went to blaketown with my friends and went swimming. 

Camp

8th of September me and my class went to Bridge Valley camp for 3 nights and 4 days the first day we did orienteering for that we had to get a map and look for numbers around the campsite and we had an adult in each group and they had an answer sheet but they can tell us the answers and there were four groups. 

The second activity of the day was team rescue. This was when you had to walk through the obstacle course with planks holding a guy with a stretcher. This took a while. There was heaps of gaps and we had to use the planks and weight them down and walk across them. If you fell off you got a point and the team with the most points lost. Everyone in our group fell off at least once. After that we got free time. For free time we went on a zip line flying fox thing and a massive playground. There was also an obstacle course over by the archery place. 

That night after dinner we played spotlight. 

Day 2

We started the day with the Burma trail. There was a big rope and we had to go through the bush on the hill and follow the track while we were blindfolded. I fell over a few times. I was the first one to get to the finish. We then did laser tag. For laser tag, there was a big area with tyres and a broken-down car. Our team got split into two teams of 5. I was in the blue team. For the first two rounds, we had to shoot a box and whoever shot it and help it for the longest one. For the third one, there was also a perk box. Our team won all the rounds. It was very exhausting. The guns were very cool. we also went on a water slide into the lake

Next, we did low ropes where we had to go across a swing bridge thing and keep our balance. I ran across it without holding the rope. After that, we had to walk along a triangle-shaped rope while holding on to two ropes. Then we had to balance on a rope while holding a rope and walk around the whole triangle. I don't think anyone did that. After that, there was a rope we had to balance on our head and then there was a monkey thing. Then there was the chicken walk thing and then walk along two ropes that got closer and closer together. 

Then we did team initiatives. There was an area with police tape around it. There were 9 people holding the ship rope and there was one person dangling off it trying to get items out of the area. We then had free time again. 

Day 3

my team did fire and damper where we had to cook stuff on a fire and most of them got burnt but I cooked mine really slow so it didn't get burnt after that we did abseiling is really cool because there was this big tower we had to climb up through and it was like a maze it was really cool going down it as well then we did kayaking it was really fun and I flipped everyone apart from my friends and everyone got soaked then the last activity of the day was Archery the bows were really hard to shoot because they were massive I didn't get a Bullseye but a few other kids did

Day 4

we didn't do much that day because we were leaving but we did a game about Team work or something though then we had lunch and left

WEEKLY WORD OF THE WEEK

WALT learn different words every week. I liked it when we tried using it in a sentence.

Onomatopoeia

we are learning to write poems with onomatopoeia.

Splish splosh splash
goes the wavey river

woof woof woof
goes the hungry howling dogs

Boom goes the explosion
in the background
at the hungry and whiney animals
rush to the shelter.

John WIck and Slade

Today I bought my rat John Wick into school. He is a black rat with white hands. He is a male rat and he is cute. He loves to eat popcorn and raw pasta. He is small. John Wick is the son of my other rat Fink that I bought in last year. I built him a hut around his cage to make him feel safe, it is very messy and he needs to vacuum it.

Here is me and John Wick at school

WALT: write an acrostic poem

All New Zealand soldiers fighting for britain
Nice amazing soldiers fighting for us in world war 1
Zig zagging around the battlefield dodging lots of bullets
Anzac soldiers in their trenches
Countries around the huge battlefield

Digging trenches to save their lives
Australia and New Zealand arriving at the battlefield
Young men injured in the battlefield

by Slade and Yazmin

We wrote an ANZAC day poem because of World War One. 

 

My Holiday

During the holidays my cousin came over from Christchurch. We went kayaking and we built a hut for my little brother. We built the hut out of blankets and a chair.

I also went to the movie and watched Jurrasic World. My favourite part was when the man got eaten in the cage. When we were at the movies my little brother spilled his popcorn on the floor. I also saw Duck Duck Goose at the movies.

Welcome