Wednesday 10 April 2019

Lightning Never Strikes Twice





WALT use adjectives, similes (and to use other language
features) to describe a setting clearly

Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

As I said to my friend, we were frightened out of our minds as we crouched, huddling together in bottom of the windmill… As I peered out of the small window lightning blinded my eyes. I waited Boom, Bang, Crash lightning strikes shot from the bruised looking sky. I looked to my friend but all I could see was her clear blue eyes in pit black light, I could tell she was shaking in the cold breeze of the night. It was exciting now that it was over but fear took over as the windmill started to creek. The objects in the windmill started to move and we could here steps on the ground “Hello” ……. ‘Who’s there” ……. “ Come out” …….. “Were just kids” …….

Friday 5 April 2019

Turangawaewae Artwork




In Room 8 we have been doing some artwork about where our Turangawaewae is for me is in my backyard and because I live so close to the beach I add it to my backyard.

Beach Cookout

Today room 1 and 8 went to the Karoro beach for the beach cookout. We went with two
teachers a teacher aide and a group of parents. In my group was Clem, Jack, Brighid, me
and our parent with us was Kelly Swinburn.


The first thing we did when we go down there we got into our teams and then looked for a
place to build our fire. When we found a good spot to build our campfire we build a rock barea
and then started to collect kindling. Once we had enough kindling we built a teepee around it.
For our main course we made sausages in bread and for dessert we made pancakes with
maple syrup and mini marshmallows.


The whole team took apart in this by bringing something for the food and we all participated
in the building and putting out the fire. We did this because it was apart of the William Pike
Challenge. We also did this for a fun challenge and to learn new skills.


I really enjoyed going to the beach and doing the cookout. My favourite part was putting out
the fire because when we put water on it I like watching the flames turn to smoke. Next time
I would help more with the cooking.

The Noho Marae

The Noho Marae




On Tuesday the 6th of March the yr 7’s and 8’s went to the Arahura marae, it was lots of fun.

First was the powhiri; we waited at the gate for the tangata whenua to open the gates and the
karanga to start. As they were doing the karanga we slowly walked onto the marae. When we
made it to the marae we let the boys take their shoes off before the girls. Then we go inside
the marae and the men did the whaikorero (speeches). When the whaikorero (speeches) were
done we went to the wharekai for morning tea. After the morning tea we shared our mihi and
Ms Kemp read us a book about Poutini and Waitaiki.  


Later in the day we went to the Arahura river to collect some pounamu (Green stone) anything
we find we can keep. Only five people found some pounamu and four of them were boys. Most
stones that I thought were pounamu (Green stone) were serpentine. Serpentine is pounamu
(Green stone) that just hadn’t been in the ground for as long.


From the river we walked down a track to the beach and had a sculptures building competition.
In my group were Charlie, Korban, Daniel, Summer and me. We built a waka. We had sticks poking
out of the ground for the sides. For the inside of the waka we put sticks for panels. We had two
massive logs for the front of the waka and the back of the waka. By then we had to go back so we
left the sculptures and went back to the marae.   

In conclusion, for me the marae visit was really fun. I would definitely go back to the marae. My
favourite part of the marae was the building of the sculptures because it was fun building it.