Holiday recount

On a sunny Sunday afternoon we were getting ready to go to the pools. Meanwhile when we were packing our bags we could smell something really good, it was lunch!. Finally the last person finished getting ready when we were all ready, we went to go inside the car, we went into heaps of cars because there were a bunch of kids coming with their parents that were coming. My cousins that we came with to the pools we hadn’t seen in for ages since we were 9 years old when i saw them I felt my stomach fill with butterflies I felt really weird when I saw them because we didn’t know what to talk about.

First thing we did when we arrived to the swimming pools we went into the changing rooms to get changed. Eventually everyone met at the same time where we were going to go and put our bags in the markez. We finished having a rest so we went into the pools, it was really cold when we went inside, I felt like I was covered with ice cubes. After that we stayed in there for a long time it was getting warmer by the minute. As soon as we saw the slide open we went to go ask our parents if we could get a wristband for the slide, when we asked some adults said yes to there kids but some said no.

When they asked  the adults if there kid was going on the slide, the parents all said yes so they gave us some money so we can buy the wristbands for the slide. Afterwards when we got our wristband for the slide we were about to run if we did the lifeguards will growl me and my cousins because when we run we might slip on the water that is on the ground. As soon as we were up the top we could see our family under the markeez, we looked over at the pools if we could see one of our family members, when we saw some of our family members in the pools they looked like ants in the water.

As soon as we turned around we were all reading the rules, when we read one the rules we were surprised, we were surprised that  we couldn't go at the same time. Me and my cousins went heaps of times on the slide, afterwards we were getting hungry so we all had a race to the markez so we can have lunch, after lunch I felt like I was going to die because i was so full that I couldn't even move, before we could leave after lunch we had to wait five minutes. When the five minutes went past some of us went to the diving board, some of them went into the indoor pools and some of us went to the slide.

I went to the diving board me and some of my cousins most of them were boys so I felt really awkward, when it was my turn to go on the diving board i was really scared to go on because it was really high and it was my first time going on there, after three jumps on the diving board I wasn't scared to go on anymore but when it closed I went to the girls in the indoor pools. It was really warm in there. When it was reaching 4:40 we went to go get changed because when its going to be 5:30 the pool was about to close while some of the kids finished changing, the adults and the kids that were finished changed were taking down the markeez.

Afterwards they took down the markez me and my cousin  just came out when they just finished putting down the markez and getting ready to go to the cars and leaving the pools. I had a really good day at the pools, we were all feeling tired when we went into our cars

Dropping off my Great Granparents to the Airport

Dropping off my Great Grandparents to the Airport

Early in the morning on the 8th of December, my mum, brother and I had to drop off my Great Grandparents to the airport. They were going on a trip to Fiji and they’re also celebrating Christmas there.

When we were at the airport we had Mcdonalds and I was babysitting all my cousins because we knew that they would go and run around everywhere, so me and my aunty would take care of them. When they were running around, one of my little cousins were crying, there two sisters were fighting, and the others were jumping and hurting other people on the playground.

When it was time to see my great grandparents go, we saw them and my great grandpa was getting angry at my great grandma. When we were saying bye to them, they were going the wrong way because they’re really old. So my mum rang them and told them that they were going the wrong way.

When we were leaving the Airport we went straight to school.

In the weekends

In the weekends

On Friday after school my parents came to pick me up from my aunt's house. After that we were driving home to go to my house I went to get changed into some other clothes cause i was still in my Uniform. After i got changed i had to wait for my mum and dad to get changed for there work.

When they were finished we had to go in the car and go down to a park I don't know what the park was called. We had to go there because I had to help my aunt with her 2 year old daughter, My brother had to go there because he had the church scouts but we call it ICON. When we got there we the boys were playing Touch and Rugby. When the boys were finished the boys came back and they were eating the food that we brought all there was Chips, Drinks, Chocolate, Lollies and Pizza.

On Saturday my mum and Dad went to there work and we stayed home. When we were at home all we did was just Play on the PS4 and I played on the Tablet and the Ipad. My mum left my dads phone cause he wasn't even going to use it but my mum couldn't leave her phone because her phone is her life. When we were bored and hungry i texted my mum if i could make Pancakes. After we ate Pancakes we were playing on our Technical Gadgets Our my mum and dad came at 7:30 with our dinner. I had Wendy's and my brother had Fried Rice.

On Sunday we went to church. Our Church is called Grace International. I started going to this church since I was 7. Every Sunday that's Near Christmas The Children Church and the Little kids come in the Basket Ball Court and we had a party there when it was all finished my aunt Put up a Chocolate Fountain and then we got strawberry and Marshmallow on a stick we got to dip the Strawberry and Marshmallow in the chocolate fountain.

Warren Pohatu art

This is my art of Warren Pohatu.

Athletics Writing

This is My Presentation about Athletics.

Trip to the Auckland Museum

Trip to the Auckland Museum

On Tuesday the 28th of October Year 7’s went to the Auckland Museum. When we went to the Auckland Museum when we entered the first thing we saw was the 2 Maori leaders about to greet the international visitors.

When we were all settled  in the museum, this lady talked to us about the rules. After the lady went we had to go to the Kai room and eat our morning tea. After that we had to go in our groups then we had to go into the gallerie’s. The First Gallerie that we went into we were looking at  olden day cloths and what they were wearing and what kind of furniture they had.

The Second Gallery was The Maori Gallery The first thing you see when you step into the Maori Gallery you can see a big Waka and heap’s of Maori weapons that they use in the war. Out task was to sketch a pattern and we had to sketch a Harakeke made out of flax. At the entry of the Maori gallery we went into a Whare and there was a construction site in the middle. Some of the kids were sketching some of the patterns and some of them were sketching out side. When my group entered

The Gallery that we went after the Maori gallery. My group went to the pacific Gallery. when we went into the pacific gallery we could see Weapons, tapas, traditional cloths and we saw the islands culture and what kind of dance they do. In the pacific gallery there would be more than one traditional mats. In the Pacific Gallery the Islands shown on the floor there were Tonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Papua new Guinea and many more.

After all the gallery’s that we had went into the sea life and looked at sharks, dolphins and fishes and more. Then we took the photos of students with sharks fishes and dolphins. Then when we went into the Volcano Part of the Museum then when we looked at what happens after a volcano is done erupting. When we were looking around we saw this sculpture, The sculpture that we were looking at a person filled in ashes praying before he was going to die.

After we looked around we went into this house that had a movie in it, when we went in there we had to sit down anywhere it looked like a real house but when we looked at the front of us we saw a window and the view of Mission bay. Then when we were all settled in, the new turned on then the massive explosion started and the room shock and it was really loud and one of the girls in my group fell because she was really scared.

When we were finished from visiting the other galleries we had to go back to have our lunch. While we were still arriving to the entrance of the museum to have lunch we went past the Pacific Gallery, The Maori Gallery and The olden day stuff. After our lunch we had to go out side of the museum and do a task that Mrs Lagitupu gave us. Mrs Lagitupu gave us a piece of paper which had instructions on it cause every group had an Ipad and a Iphone.

On the piece of paper it had a task to take photos of different stuff. On the piece of paper it said to take five close up photos of a flower, five photos of an interesting tree from five different angles, four photos of a bird close up, five photos of interesting photos of water and Many more cool task.

The Auckland Museum is very inspiring. We learnt how to do art and Patterns how we do the outlines and the patterns in side of the tapas.

Why do you need to wash your hands? Explanation

Why do you need to wash your hands?

Keeping your hands clean is very important. If you don’t wash your hands you can get sick, get someone else sick and it might cause a diseases. Washing your hands is very important because when you high five someone you touch their hands and they have the germs.

When you don’t wash your hands and you go for dinner, lunch or breakfast you might touch the food with your hands and you might get the bacteria in your mouth and get sick. If you play outside and touch anything that's dirty and after that you don’t wash you hands after that you might put your hands on the knobs of the door and other people touch and they have the bacteria.

Washing your hands are really Important when you put your hands in your mouth you might get the bacteria and dirt in your hand in your mouth. After using the bathroom you should always wash your hands because after you use the bathroom and you leave and you touch the door knob it spread around the door knob and everyone will touch it and the bacteria will go on their hands.

When you see a dog or cat or any animal you must wash your hands after you pat them. After  you pat an animal you must wash your hands after that because you don’t know if the pet had a shower or you don’t even know where the pet had been. You can still pat Pets but make sure you wash your hands after petting the pet.

Washing your hands can stop the germs from spreading. Thinking about what you have touched like dirt, mud, grass, bugs, pets or door knobs. When you blow your nose on a tissue. you need to wash your hands.

Why is it Important to have school/class rules?

Why is it Important to have school/class rules?

If schools did not have any rules it will be dangerous because if there were no rules students will misbehave and leave school and do whatever they want to.

When schools and classes don’t have any rules the students will disrespect the teachers and other students. If the students behave really badly and they are disrespectful to the teachers, the teachers might get really angry at them and discipline them.

Rules should always be in schools and classes or else students would be dodgy, tag on the walls, smoke, steal and they might bully one another. Rules are really important because they might swear and it might be dangerous because students will be scared to come out of class and come to school.

Term 4 Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

On Monday 13th of October, Pt England had an Immersion assembly. Whenever we go back to school we always go to Immersion assembly in the hall at the start of the term. We learn about what were going to be focused on the whole term.

Team 1 did an item when they were playing on the beach and they were surfing and playing surfing music, then they were playing on the sand with shovels and buckets. When they were finished then Mrs George said “we are going down to the river and looking at the environment”.

Team 2 teachers showed us a movie about primary colours. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow. They taught us about what colour makes another colour.

Next Mrs Barks from Team 3 was introducing the other teachers like they were other famous artist on the world. One of the first teachers were pretending to be Leonardo Da Vinci and showing everyone what their most famous portrait ever. Leonardo’s Painting was the famous Mona Lisa. Another famous artist was another teacher pretending to be Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was famous of making his own portrait of a Tomato Soup. The other teacher was pretending to be another artist his special talent was when he falls asleep and he gets his ideas from his dreams. When he wakes up he gets a piece of canvas and a paint brush and paints what was in his dream.

Team 4 did an item when they did a competition of who is the best artist. The teachers pretended to be famous artists in the world. Mrs Lavakula pretended to be Fatu Feu’u and having the most famous Polynesian art. Mr Goodwin (Claude Monet) was famous for his pointillism art. He would just get his finger and paint what ever he sees. Mrs Jacobsen was pretending to be Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh painted his famous art called the Starry Night.

Starry Night was painted in 1889. Mr Somerville pretended to be a French artist and trying to have a French accent but actually had a Russian accent.

Finally Team 5 did a really awesome item. They had a piece of paper and it was hanging from the board and they had to paint important people at Pt England school. When they were painting the portraits there was a video playing. When they were finished they turned it around it appeared to be Mr Jacobsen, Mrs Jarman and Mr Burt. Then everyone was gasping and clapping.

Coming back to school was amazing for me because I get to focus on what I enjoy to do. Team 4 is gonna be really exciting because its a new term and were focusing on Art Attack.

Lacrosse by Leila

This is my presentation about Lacrosse. I had to do some research about the sport. Then I had to create a movie about it. I have a modified version of the game.



Leila and Ata Unique Sport from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Echolocation

This is my presentation about echolocation and what it means, how you use it and who uses it.

Empathy animation movie

Leila empathy animation from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

What is a Chromebook and how is it used?

What is a chromebook and how is it used?

What is a Chromebook? A Chromebook is a learning tool that is just like a netbook. All the students from year 4 and up use a Chromebook or a netbook. It’s a device that can connect to the internet, has email and google docs. Its a small version of a laptop and a computer. It is a learning tool that helps you for our learning.

The parts of the netbook has a screen, charger, cables, mouse, lid, speakers and the chromebook bag. We should take care of the chromebooks parts, we shouldn’t pick the keys off because that just ruins the chromebook. We shouldn’t leave the chromebook on the floor just in case someone steps on it. Do not leave the chromebook hanging off the table because if you do someone might bump the table and it might fall.

How does the chromebook work? you can go on Youtube, Studyladder, Maths Whizz and you can do art and you can type in your google docs. Then you can go on your email and chat to your friends and the teacher’s. You can research anything for your home work, your parents and for your learning. Internet you can do anything on the internet you can search every thing that you can think of.

I love my new Chromebook!