Book week

This week it is book character week. We had electives to choose for. I chose the drama one. We are working on plays and readers theatres. A readers theatre is like a play but with no acting. Today we had a parade of costumes that we wore because it was book character day. We got to dress up as our favourite book character I came as Captain underpants. Parris and I got to be the host's of the parade. So far it has been a awesome week and I can't wait for tomorrow.

Porwhiri

Yesterday room 19 did a Porwhirir with room 18.During the Porwhiri I really enjoyed our waita.

I saw that a lot of people weren't that comfortable with doing a hongi.

It was really fun when I had to give a donation to the tangata whenua (The locals of the land).

I also enjoyed it when Hamish used a taiha to try and scare us it was hard not to laugh because the boys from their class were using hockey sticks to try and scare us.

It kind of felt like I was in a real marae when we were doing all of the speeches.

I learnt a lot about the maori culture and some maori vocabulary.

We did all of this so we could learn about Cotrells

culture and it was really fun. The part I enjoyed most would be my speech and singing the waita. We get to do it again and this time we are not going to stop and we will all have lunch together after we have finished.

Blood

                                                         Blood

As I go up for the header the Hereworth Keeper comes out and jumps to punch the ball away. Then I fell the keepers fist go up against my head just above my right ear. I hit the ground and feel the pain man that stings I think to myself. I see my team start crowding around me,”are you ok” I hear my friend Brendon from my soccer team say “Yeah I’m alright” I he field I feel my head a

replie. As i get up of the ground I can feel the dark read blood oozing down my face. As I walk of t

nd I can feel I big bump on my head. It feels as fat as the worlds biggest egg. A big bandage gets wrapped around my head. “Can I play now,” I ask. “I don't know,” I here my mum say But then the next thing I know I’m back on the field and taking a penalty. as I slot it into the top corner I say “yes my team Maycenvale are gonna win,”.

Spooky poem.

This is my spooky poem.

In the Spooky Woods there is a Spooky cottage.

In the spooky cottage there is a spooky kitchen.

In the spooky Kitchen there is a spooky sink.

In the spooky Sink there is a spooky cat.

In the spooky cat is a spooky mouse.

In that spooky mouse there is a spooky  poison.

In that spooky poison there are children captured by the spooky old lady.

One day three boys called Josh Henry and Matthew halford. The three boys were all very sporty and were alike. They all loved to have fun and party. “Tonights going to be awesome,” Matt said enthusiastically, that's because tonight they were sleeping over at Joshs. “We've got popcorn,fizze and were getting meat lover pizza,” Josh said. At five o'clock Josh opened the door and in charged Matt. About five minutes later in comes Hen “the party is officially started,” screamed Hen. After two hours of partying things got spooky.    The door started to open and close the windows locks came of to make it worse there was thunder lightning and rain. Then a dark green face appeared and all of the boys saw it. The three boys started to float “No were getting dragged away and the pizza isn't coming noooooo,” Matt said sadly. “Who cares about the pizza we are getting dragged into the storm,” Hen yelled. The three boys were flying straight into a humongous tornado. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh,” the boys screamed as they flew into the tornado in the tornado was that horrible green face,it was stearing right at the boys now it was getting really creepy. Then the boys saw the body of the green skeleton face what was happening. The body was misty and looked like the skeleton was moving towards them. “The body and the face this time is moving towards us what are we going to do,”. “My name is brodie I am the misty skeleton now you must defeat me,”. The boys pulled out of their pockets a 50 cent mix a 2 dollar coin and a little soccer ball. First Matt threw the lollies and Brodie just ate them. So Henry threw the two dollars and Brodie just caught it. Then Josh threw the mini soccer ball and Brodie the soccer loving skeleton ran after it and he pulled a lever and the boys went back to Joshs place and it was back to normal “we saw a green skeleton right ,” said Matt “We did,”said Josh and Hen. “The time must of frozen because its still 7.30 that's awfully spooky,” said Josh. Then another weird thing happened all of the rugby and soccer balls in hastings came flying through the walls at top speed and whacked the boys in the face. When the boys got up they all were in a dungeon with sports gear all over them and they had a mind of their own. The gear grew arms and started punching the boys. The boys kicked into action Matthew grabbed a f50 sport boot and kicked the rugby balls away,well Matt was doing that Hen was ripping the sport clothes. Josh put on some nike soccer boots and kicked the soccer balls away the boys were fighting evil sports gear well having fun. Then a rugby ball bit Matt he screamed as loud as a girly girl like usual. So Matt bit it back and the ball just went flat it looked like a dog had been chewing on it for a week but Matt has teeth as sharp as a tiger. Matt thought that bitting all the balls would get the boys free so Matt bit away and soon enough all of the balls were deflated. The room was empty except for the three boys all on their own. But the room they were in wasn't Joshs house it was a evil lair “oh no,” Said Hen worriedly. Then a evil little midget scientist walked into the room. He waved his hands in front of a golden ball and turned toward the ball and then lightning headed straight for the boys. The lightning just missed the boys and when it hit the wall the hole room exploded. The boys went threw a little purple spiral and when they were in the spiral they saw welcome to purple spiral where everything is purple written in purple. The boys saw a purple tiger and a purple lion having a little rumble. They also saw a purple chicken getting chased by a purple ferret “Poor little purple chicken,” said Matt sadly “Even I feel sorry for the chicken,” Said Josh. Then they reappeared at Josh's house but this time it was morning and Matt and Hen were at their own home. So everything was back to normal in the small town of Hastings where everything wasn't purple. The town wasn't controlled by sports gear or have green soccer loving skeletons that live in tornados. That is because Hastings is normal.
The end            

Rowing in the Olympics

Rowing
The hooter goes me and my partner start to row. I start to think about how I need to win this race for New Zealand. But the French boat snaps me out of my thinking with their grunts of pain. I start to focus in I start to row my hardest, I can feel the adrenaline going through my blood. Then the pain starts to kick in my muscles start to ach. But then I remember our tactic is to take it easy for the first bit and then we push it. The French are in front and  I look to the side only a quarter of the way. Then Poland drop down to third they must be tired. Their faces are all red and their arms are dropping down  The French start to get away from us they're going to get tired soon, then we will make our move I think to myself. But it doesn't look like the French are getting tired and we are nearly at halfway.


At halfway the French look like they're tired because I can nearly see half of their boat. Then we make our move we start to push. Now my muscles are definitely aching we start to get away from the French thats brilliant. But we want the world record we need to keep pushing. “Aaaargh,” I hear the french teaming grunting they must be in pain but I need to keep my head in the game I think to myself. I'm starting to relax too much the french will catch up and that's not good. I push a bit harder I think me and eric are going to smash this race but we want the world record. Lets keep this going don't loose keep our three year winning streak going.


I look to my side three quarters of the way done and dusted. Now we push it awfully hard lets become the world record holders. “We better put all of our energy into the race now,” Eric says to me tiredly. “Ok,” I replied I had been waiting for this part of the race. I keep rowing but then I see hungry dropping away. I feel so sorry for hungry at least they haven't given up. Now lets keep going and win.


I predict that there is about 250m to go we are nearly there and we are so so tired. So close to the finish. As we hear the crowd chair we cross the finish hooray. The commentator says “The kiwis have broken the world record by 6 seconds”. “Yes we did it,” I say excitedly. But then I realize that was only the heat,so that means more pain for me.

The end

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Ultimate school bag

Cloze activity

This is one of the things we do during reading.

Timetoast

Homework on Gareth Bale