Explanation Writing 3

My opinion about basketball is that it is one of the best sports in the world and that it is the sport that you run around the most.

I am going to be talking about  Basketball. Basketball is a sport which is good for tall people usually people taller than 6 feet. The Basketball hoop is 18 feet high. The aim of the game is to Shoot the basketball into the hoop.

You are not allowed to hold the ball run that is travelling. In basketball you have to bounce the ball with one hand while you walk.  You are not allowed to bounce the ball with 2 hands because that is a foul.

You can play Basketball in any basketball court.

American’s play Basketball on any day in the NBA but mostly on Mondays. But you can play basketball whenever you want.

Who plays Basketball? Basketball is a worldwide sport, it is a sport played in the Olympics. America is the best country in basketball. Anyone can play basket.

Basketball players play the sport because love playing basketball and they might also be paid big money and also it is good for their fitness.

My opinion about basketball is that it is one of the best sports in the world and that it is the sport that you run around the most.

Last Day of School, 2013

Today was our last day for School this Year. We did lots of fun stuff this year like playing and learning lots of new Kiwisports,Swimming in the Swimming Pool and having lots more fun. My favourite thing we did this year was Going to the Manaiakalani Film Festival because you got to watch and learn new stuff by watching a Movie. The other thing I like about the Manaiakalani Film Festival was that I was a presenter for my classes Movie with Alecia. I am going to Miss 2013 because this was one of the most funniest and most happiest years that I have ever been involved in. But this year there was some bad news we were going to miss one of our most important teachers Miss Gleeson, (Miss G). This year was a highlight of my life. I am going to miss 2013. 

 

Recieving a Brand New Bike

On Friday at our Assembly I got presented a brand new bike because I was good with my blogging and showing good attitude. I wasn't the only person receiving a bike the other person was Alecia because she was helping Miss G we she needed things to finished off and do. I am so proud of my self for being given a brand new bike.

Netbook Refelction :-)

From the beginning of this year I was excited to be able to be given a netbook as a learning tool throughout the year. When I first had my netbook I didn’t understand anything about my Netbook, but now I am getting used to it. My teacher has helped me on my netbook and information and helping me understand stuff online.

Using a netbook is different than using a book because we do most of our work online. To get access to our work we go to our Google Drive where all our work is kept. When we have completed our work we post it to our individual blog where each student posts their stuff.

Using a netbook now is much easier than before. It is very cool to be able to use a Chromebook.

Cultural Day

I was so nervous because today was our Cultural day.

On a lovely morning the Senior Syndicate was going to attend Mass which is looking at Diversity. Diversity was the Topic for the whole day. During the Mass one person from all the countries they had been studying carried their flag up and placed it down on the Altar.

After our Mass we went to our classes and went to get a pencil and went to Room 7 to assess them. My Group Peru and Room 6’ s group Indian were assessing United Kingdom. I reckon United Kingdom did really good. My Group Peru had to mark Spain because Room 7 had 5 groups. I reckon Spain was the best groups of all the Room 7 groups.

After morning tea had finished it was my groups turn first. When my group had finished I felt very proud of our group. My favourite presentation in my class was Brazil because they were well organized and learnt there parts off by heart. I never knew that Lansanah was a traditional food.

Straight after my class had finished presenting we had to go to Room 6 to assess them. My group was assessing the first group, India and they presented well. I never knew that Indian’s speak in Hindi. I really liked China’s presentation because they told us about the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China is the only seen landmark from Space. I reckon Room 6 were organised well.

After Lunch we were going to perform our dances we have practised for many weeks. First was United Kingdom. United Kingdom was going to perform a famous Nursery Rhyme from England called London Bridge is falling down. It was a fun Nursery Rhyme because it made us want to dance. After United Kingdom was Germany and they were performing a Traditional Dance. It was funny because they did it in partners and I could tell that they were nervous. My favourite Dance or song that Room 7 performed was the United Kingdom’s Nursery Rhyme called London Bridge is falling down.

I was getting nervous because we were going to perform our dance after Room 7 had finished performing. Our Dance was a South American Carnival Dance. We were dancing with a partner, my partner was Petra. I really enjoyed the Carnival Dance because it made you want to have a little boggy by yourself. Miss G told us to bring clothes to dance in for our Dance. The girls had to wear a skirt and a t-shirt, the boys had to wear long trousers and a t- shirt as well. After we finished performing our dance one of Room 6’s groups India did a cool dance because the Indian music matched the dance moves. After India was Thailand, I could tell the Thailand felt embarrassed. My favourite dance in Room 6  was China’s dance which was a dragon dance.

It was a very entertaining day and lots of reports about other countries. It was a fun Cultural Day.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2013

“I could feel the nerves in my stomach, the nerves were getting worse” .

On Wednesday the 13th of November we were be going to the Manaiakalani Film Festival. I was so excited because I was going to be a presenter with Alecia for my classes Movie. Finally we arrived at Sylvia Park. We were going to be attending the morning session. The Schools that were attending the morning session were Glen Innes and St Pius. First Mr Coakley did the Introduction. Me and Alecia were going to be the first ones to present our movie ‘Success’.  So when we were standing on the stage we could hear screaming as we were in place. It was fun presenting because this has been the first time presenting.

Then we saw Samantha and Fiapo presenting Room 1’s and 2’s movie about Te Reo Maori. Their movie was cool learning and understanding the colours in Maori. My favourite Movie in our theatre was Lookdown by Room 6 because it was very funny. There was one part where Leki shot the ball at the hoop and it went down the hill. Mr Slade had their Basketball and freaked out Leki and Simione. Then Miss G told us that we had to go to the Extreme Big Screen theatre where Panmure Bridge, Stonefields and Glenbrae were so we could present our movie there too.

I was so amazed how big the screen was compared to the last theatre’s screen. I was so excited because I really enjoy presenting our movie. When we got up on the stage a few people shouted out my name in the crowd. It was so cool the people knew my name in the crowd, that made me confident. Miss G told us that we were going in the other theatre again, this was the last time we were going to present until the Evening session. I was happy because we were presenting the last time in the morning session because it was a long day for Me and Alecia, we stayed there for about 3 hours morning till lunch time. I was glad Mr Coakley said “ We are going back to School now”. We arrived at school at it was nearly lunch time.

Finally it was the night session. Me and Mum headed of to the Sylvia Park Hoyts to attend the night session. When we got there we had to meet up with Miss G. We were waiting for a long time for Miss G. Finally Miss G arrived at Hoyts and she said that I was presenting the Sommerville Movie as well also Alecia had to present for them also. We had to wait for the other presenters to arrive. Then all the presenters stayed with Miss G to get ready to go in the theatre because it was going to begin soon.

Finally we started to go in the theatre and get in order to present. I was getting nervous because there were heaps of people in the audience. When everyone in the crowd settled down it started to begin. Me and Alecia were the first ones up. While we were saying our parts a few people from the audience shouted our names out, that made me confident on the stage. When it came to my next part I was the only one. I was presenting for Sommerville Special School, their Movie was called ‘Change’ it was about being good when they are having a reliever in your classroom. Not long after that Alecia presented for Sommerville, the movie she was presenting was ‘Our Dog Meg’ it was about their Pet Dog Meg and how they treat Meg.

My favorite Movie in the Night Session was Faith and Harmony, ‘Friends’ because it was a Music Video. That was a long Night Session, I was so tired.

Prompt Practice 6

“ Come on Poppy lets go to the beach” said Katie excitedly.

On a dry Saturday afternoon Katie and her pet dog Poppy were ready to go to the beach. So they packed up their stuff and headed off to the beach. They arrived at the beach, “ Poppy I will go get a stick for you” said Katie, “Roof Roof” barked Poppy. Katie found a stick so she threw it. poppy chased it, Poppy saw another dog with the stick, So Poppy tried to pull it off the other dog. Poppy was wrestling with the dog trying to get the stick but she couldn’t get the stick off the dog. Katie was worried that Poppy was out a long time finding the stick so she went to see where Poppy was. “ Poppy where are you” Shouted Katie. Katie could hear a bark coming from the far distance so she went to check. There was Poppy fighting and wrestling with the dog. The owner of the other dog came over and said “ Hi is that your Dog” Katie said “ Yes” . I saw my dog come over and fight over the stick with the dog. They both laughed “ HahaHa”. So they both went to play with each other and had loads of fun.

Prompt Practice 5

“Hurry up Johnny said Kelly”

Johnny got a phone call by her Younger Sister Kelly saying Johnny I have a problem with something can you come over and see what's wrong please. So Johnny rushed to see what was wrong. Johnny appeared at Kellys house. Johnny said “ What is wrong”? Kelly said I want to go Hot Air Ballooning but I can’t afford it. Johnny said “ Sorry Kelly I can’t afford it too” said Johnny worried. So Kelly was so sad because that was one of the things on her bucket list. So Johnny thinked about something else to do with her, Johnny had nothing in his mind. Johnny said to Kelly “ We could go to lunch at your favourite restaurant”? said Johnny Kelly Said “I am not in the mode to go”. Johnny said you can imagine that you are Hot air Ballooning, Kelly said “ Maybe”?. Kelly said “ But what are we going to be using to imagine to Hot Air Balloon”  Johnny said “ You know that I got some stuff to use” Johnny got a hair blower and started to blow the Hair blower on Kelly face and Kelly was enjoying herself just like she is a actually Hot air Ballooning . Kelly said “Thankyou so much for solving my problem” “Johnny said no worry’s”. Kelly said if there is any other problems or things  to be solved or dealt with I will call you straight away and another big thank you for taking up your time to fix my problem No Worry’s said Johnny. So Kelly was alright and enjoyed that rest of  her day thanks to Johnny her big brother for solving her problem.  

Prompt Practise 4

“ Henry look there is a attacker” said Richie nervously.

In the Gold Coast Rainforest animals in the forest saw an attacker come and frighten them. Henry and Richie are animals called the meerkats and they were so frightened that he climbed up a tree with Richie and to ask  for safety because they saw that the attacker was coming closer by the seconds they were so scared. The attacker was a animal and the animal was very dangerous causing other attacks before. Henry said to Richie, “ Richie we can’t let the attack find us don’t make any movements” whispered Henry. So Henry and Richie stayed in the tree and making no movements. The animal was a Tiger and it tracked down both Henry and Richie and was ready for the attack to happen. Suddenly Richie and Henry saw the Tiger coming closer by the seconds. Henry was so frightened that he ran away as fast as he could and screamed for help begging Richie to help him.

So Henry hurried up and followed Richie for help they went to one of the staff Paul, Paul said “ Are you guys okay said Paul friendly, Henry said “ We were being attacked from a Tiger. Paul quickly moved them into safety. Paul went for a look where the Tiger was he was looking for along time. There was the sound of the Roar from the Tiger, Roar !!! so Paul suddenly go the net a captured the Tiger. Paul gogt the Tiger and called the Zoo to come and keep the Tiger there a the Melbourne Zoo. Paul went to see Henry and Richie to see if they were okay. Paul said “ You have to beware  of the other wild animals”. Henry and Richie were kept in there until there were no more wild animals around. Henry and Paul met some new friends when there were in there like a Monkey, Orangutan, Koala and a African Lizard. Henry and Richie had friends to protect them. Henry and Richie had the most frightening moment in their lives. Another day finished at the Gold Coast Rainforest.

Prompt Practice 3

“Come on Steve lets go experience some Tigers” said Bryan.  

On a breezy afternoon Bryan and Steve were going to the Melbourne Zoo to experience Tigers. So they arrived and the zoo and they were speaking to one of the Zoo keepers. The information that the Zookeeper said to Bryan and Steve that these Tigers were the most dangerous female Tigers in the world. So they went to take photos of the Tigers to get some more information that they see. These Female Tigers were transported from South Africa to Melbourne, Australia. In South Africa these Tigers made an attack on a Journalist studying Africa. The Journalist was lucky that he could escape climbing up on a tree and the Tigers gave up.  So the Tigers went back to there playhut. So Bryan and Steve wrote the information down.

Prompt Writing 2

On a shining afternoon Sam and Ben were ready for their exciting surf day. So Sam and Ben quickly gathered up their gear and headed their way off to the beach. They were at the beach and the couldn’t believe how much people were there. So they were ready for a perfect surf day. The tide was in and the people were swimming and playing in the water. Sam and Ben said that they were into a big wave which they saw. They knew that they were in for a big wave. They went down to the beach and started to get ready for some surfing. Sam and Ben were having a lot of fun surfing and doing a little bit of swimming as well .After they were surfing and swimming they packed up their gear and went back to their towels.

The lost and found!!

Thank You Jam Bus Team

Dear Jam Bus Team,

We thank you for taking time to come to our school to record some songs for us. It was an honour to be recorded because it was all of our first times being recorded live.

We are grateful for being recorded and being put onto a CD so we can remember this remarkable moment.

I felt very nervous being recorded and it was fun seeing all the equipment that helps you to record. We all appreciate what you guys have done for us and the school. We know that it is heaps of money to pay for the CD’s, we really appreciate it all.

Yours sincerely, Patrick

Squash!!

“I am so excited to learn the new sport that we are going to learn, I wonder what it is?”

On the first day of school on term 4 we were going to be learning a new sport, the new sport we were going to learn was squash. We were having squash in our school hall. When we arrived at the hall we saw to instructors.

When we all settled down the instructors introduced themselves there names were Michael and Phil. I really was looking forward to squash because it looked really fun but Michael told us that they were going to be teaching us squash for only 3 days I was hoping that they were going to stay to teach us squash for longer so we could be good at it.

Michael told us that the real squash court was three times bigger than the squash court that they brought in and the ball was smaller and harder and very bouncy. I was so impatient to play squash.

The best women and men player in 2013 are Nicol David and Ramy Ashour. Squash is going to participate in the Olympics on 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

The sport of Squash was invented in the 1800s. Squash was invented in a school in England called Harrow School because they had racquets and at the school they were hitting the ball onto the wall, so it is similar to squash.

Women normally wear a short skirt and T-shirt or a sport dress and men normally wear comfortable shorts and T-shirt and a bandana to suck all the sweet up from dripping.

As we were going to go into squash Michael and Phil gave some Registration forms for squash so if we wanted to play and to learn some more rules we were going to be allowed to join squash at Panmure Lagoon Stadium. In our lesson we were going to play a new game the game was called King of the court. I couldn’t wait to play it. Phil told us that we could pick out of 5 squash courts or you could go in the practise court.

I was in court number 1 that court was the main court and it also had a back wall so we could use the back wall to hit it on the front wall. My first opponent was Seuati and I beat him. Michael said that he was going to time us for 6 minutes a round and the two highest point scores stay in that court and the three lowest go down to the other court. Me and Rachel stayed in the same court and we were waiting for the other 3. My highest score on squash was 15 which is heaps. The first game I had  was against Rachel and she beat me and she had 1 point. But luckily when the round was finished I won with 11 points. Then the next opponents were Misiotei and Tokilupe. I won again with 12 points but Misiotei was quite good scoring 7 points against me which is quite good. Then Michael said that this was going to be the last round of King of the square. The people in my square were Rachel, Me, Kalolaine and Ma’ata.

“I am so excited to learn the new sport that we are going to learn, I wonder what it is?”

On the first day of school on term 4 we were going to be learning a new sport, the new sport we were going to learn was squash. We were having squash in our school hall. When we arrived at the hall we saw to instructors.

When we all settled down the instructors introduced themselves there names were Michael and Phil. I really was looking forward to squash because it looked really fun but Michael told us that they were going to be teaching us squash for only 3 days I was hoping that they were going to stay to teach us squash for longer so we could be good at it.

Michael told us that the real squash court was three times bigger than the squash court that they brought in and the ball was smaller and harder and very bouncy. I was so impatient to play squash.

The best women and men player in 2013 are Nicol David and Ramy Ashour. Squash is going to participate in the Olympics on 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

The sport of Squash was invented in the 1800s. Squash was invented in a school in England called Harrow School because they had racquets and at the school they were hitting the ball onto the wall, so it is similar to squash.

Women normally wear a short skirt and T-shirt or a sport dress and men normally wear comfortable shorts and T-shirt and a bandana to suck all the sweet up from dripping.

As we were going to go into squash Michael and Phil gave some Registration forms for squash so if we wanted to play and to learn some more rules we were going to be allowed to join squash at Panmure Lagoon Stadium. In our lesson we were going to play a new game the game was called King of the court. I couldn’t wait to play it. Phil told us that we could pick out of 5 squash courts or you could go in the practise court.

I was in court number 1 that court was the main court and it also had a back wall so we could use the back wall to hit it on the front wall. My first opponent was Seuati and I beat him. Michael said that he was going to time us for 6 minutes a round and the two highest point scores stay in that court and the three lowest go down to the other court. Me and Rachel stayed in the same court and we were waiting for the other 3. My highest score on squash was 15 which is heaps. The first game I had  was against Rachel and she beat me and she had 1 point. But luckily when the round was finished I won with 11 points. Then the next opponents were Misiotei and Tokilupe. I won again with 12 points but Misiotei was quite good scoring 7 points against me which is quite good. Then Michael said that this was going to be the last round of King of the square. The people in my square were Rachel, Me, Kalolaine and Ma’ata.

When time was up I scored the most points I scored 15 points. But I really wanted to go to the other stations because I justed stayed in court 1 for the rest of the lessons. When Michael told us that the time was up we all sat down and Michael and Phil had a question for us the we had to research the question was who is the best women and men the answer was Nicol David from Malaysia for the best women and Ramy Ashour from Egypt for the men. When it was the end of the lesson I was sad because I really enjoyed squash it was a cool sport to play and it is good exercise to keep you fit.

When time was up I scored the most points I scored 15 points. But I really wanted to go to the other stations because I justed stayed in court 1 for the rest of the lessons. When Michael told us that the time was up we all sat down and Michael and Phil had a question for us the we had to research the question was who is the best women and men the answer was Nicol David from Malaysia for the best women and Ramy Ashour from Egypt for the men. When it was the end of the lesson I was sad because I really enjoyed squash it was a cool sport to play and it is good exercise to keep you fit.

Duffy Theatre

I am looking forward for the Duffy Theatre because we are going to see a live show and getting entertained about reading.

On the 23rd of September straight after morning tea we were having a exciting Duffy Theatre in our school hall. Most of the school have seen a Duffy Theatre because the Duffy Theatre has been to our school before. The Duffy Theatre shows us things and facts about reading and also experiencing live acting because most of us haven't seen live acting before.
 
The play that the people were going to do was Duffy loses his words. The characters in the play was Mafi, Duffy, Scruffy and Vatras. Vatras is a evil guy who appeared in Duffys dreams and Vatras out a curse on Duffy. Vatras curse on Duffy was stealing Duffys words for the speech competition. Vatras left Duffy without any words to remember for his speech and Duffy was horrified. When Duffy woke up the next morning he totally forgot his words and got his friend Afi to help him. Afi was trying to help Duffy with any other way she could but they didn’t find a way to get Duffys words back they were trying and trying and trying and didn’t know any other way. Vatras left a message and told Duffy to say his name 3 times and he will appear to Duffy, So Duffy called Vatras name 3 times and Vatras appeared to Duffy. Afi said to Vatras that they were going to have a crossword battle. Afi was confident but Duffy wasn’t Afi said “ You can do this Duffy”. Vatras was keen to have a battle and Duffy then agreed. Vatras was saying questions to Duffy and Duffy had to get the answer right. Duffy was going quite well but at the end he was confused he wrote the words in Maori.
After they finished their show we could ask them some questions Vatras was NZ European from Rotoroa, Afi was Full Samoan from Otara and Duffy was Samoan from Mangere.

Kids 4 Kids Yay

Finally I am so excited because we are going to practise for the Kids for Kids, it is going to be fun”

On the 13th of September my class were going to attend the Kids for Kids rehearsal. There were going to be the rest of the schools that were going to perform in the night session. We went to the Life Convention Centre to rehearse for it. We went on a bus to the Life Convention Centre that was the only transport we could go on. I was excited because I had never been to the Life Convention Centre so I was looking forward to going there. We were rehearsing for it because there was going to be a night session as well and that was going to be the real one. There were a lot of schools there , there were about 15 schools most of the students were Year 5 and 6.

When we got there a lady called Dayna escorted us into the Convention Centre, she also told us where to sit so we would know where to sit in the night session. I was sitting in row 2 on the wooden seating which were wobbly. We saw Mrs Carter with Sancta Maria School, Mrs Carter teachers our school and Sancta Maria as well.  

Nathan King and Jackie Clarke were there because they were going to sing with us, also there was another guy called Chris, he gave us actions to do during the songs and to play the piano. Chris also told us to wear some bright coloured clothes and to wear some clothes that will not make us feel hot because there will be a lot of lights and the lights will reflect on us and it will be hot. The first song we sang with Nathan was Haere Mai and it was kind of easy because we have been practising for a while on that song. Chris gave us different actions and movements to Six Months In a Leaky Boat because in my class we have different movements and actions.  

We were very confident singing most of the songs that showed that all of the students practised hard. While we had our morning tea break the soloists went to audition. We had 1 soloist that made it through it was Rosalina she made it in to sing solo for Weather with you and she was amazing. The first solo song we sang was Maybe Tomorrow the soloists were from the same schools they must be good singers at their school. After the soloists finished singing their songs we sang. The most confident song that we sang was Something in the Water, it is also a famous song from Brooke Fraser it is very famous in New Zealand. After Something in the Water we sang Wonky Donkey but it was normally not us it was the Narrator. Chris was playing the Piano for Wonky Donkey, he was playing it faster, faster and faster.  

When Kanesini went to audition for the Ukulele player she got the chords to play and she had already had practise it in class and with Mrs Carter in music time. When we were going to sing Poi E Chris got some girls to do the Poi and just 2 boys that would break dance. My Favourite song in the Rehearsal was Selfish Shellfish because I was singing loud and proud to it. After the rehearsal was finished we went back to school on the bus.

When we got to school we got to have extra time of playing because we didn’t make it to play at big lunch.

Duffy Assembly

I was looking forward to the Duffy Assembly because  there was going to be a special guest. When we all were seated Mr Coackley came in with the special guest. Our Duffy guest was Nathan Grey. Nathan Grey could speak a lot of languages. Nathan Grey likes traveling and telling stuff about his traveling he traveled the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China is very long the people who made the wall took over 2 thousand years to build it. Nathan Grey was a good guest because he told us a lot of information  about other countries.