Pixels!

Yesterday, I went to the movies to watch a movie with a few friends, the name of the movie we watched is called Pixels.

First, me and my friends went to the supermarket to get a few snacks that we could eat during the movie. As we walked back to the cinemas' we waited for the movie to start. While we were waiting, we played in the arcade. I played a racing game and I versed one of my friends. When we had finished the face, I came 2nd, but it was worth the try.

When there was a huge queue and my friends and I had to line up and give our tickets one by one. As we rushed to find our seats, we all sat down and waited for the movie to start.

When the movie started and the lights turned off, I could already feel excited. The movie started and it was a very long movie that we had watched.

The movie was about the video games that used to be played in an arcade years ago (Donkey Kong, Pac Man and other) taking over the world and trying to destroy earth. Years ago, there was this boy that was the best video game player in the world.

The video games tried to destroy earth, but the Army people had made guns which could destroy all the pixels, the heroes used all the guns that were made. But if they wanted to destroy all of them, then had to float into the floating ship which was creating all the pixels.

When they got into the ship they had to complete this one task which was Donkey Kong. There was this one women that he liked, and her son was on the other side of Donkey Kong and he had to complete the game to save him.

This game was very challenging towards him because he wasn't very good at playing Donkey Kong, but he knew that he had to save the boy.

After he had destroyed Donkey Kong, he ran to get the boy and got out of the ship. When we had got back down to earth, all of the pixels flew back into the ship and went away.

It was a very interesting and entertaining movie. I felt very happy that I had watched that movie and that is my favourite movie.

Our Photo Scavenger Hunt

In Room 7 we have been working on something called a Photo Scavenger hunt. The class got spread into groups and I was with Davarni, New-Sam, Setaita, McKenzie and Simeon. Our photographer was Setaita and the back up person was Davarni. Doing this challenge was really fun, we had a little laugh at all of the photos. I was glad that we finished it in time, some of us even did it at home for homework. Our team cooperated very nicely with no arguments. We all learned the rule of thirds which made our photography even better. 

We all hope you enjoy our awesome presentation. 

POP! Goes the Balloon

As the morning began and the fog slowly faded away, Mrs Raj told Room 7 that we were going to play a balloon game. What we all had to do was, we all had to hold hands in a circle on the court and try to make the balloon stay in the air. We played this game for fitness and also to help us write a recount about the game afterwards.

As we glanced onto the court, the girls had to wait for the boys to have their turn first. When the boys were playing, the girls went for a jog around the court while they were playing. The balloon slowly went up and came down, a couple of the boys fell down letting the balloon to bounce off the ground and finally it was the girls turn.

We all hopped in a circle with all our arms linked and patiently waited for Mrs Raj to throw the balloon in the air. When she threw the balloon into the air, we were all competitive against each other, but we still worked as a team. As the game went on and on, the excitement grew more and more. The class members that were near the hill always had the balloon, so they pulled us towards the field, it was funny because we slowly made our way up the hill and onto the field. There was a slight breeze which made the balloon stay in the air, as well as us hitting it made it stay up. All of a sudden, the balloon went out of the circle and no one was strong enough to pull all of us towards it and we all just heard a POP!

As the balloon popped we all laughed because we didn’t see it coming. We all got a fright, but the game was still fun. I felt joyous because of the fun game we played. We all worked as a team and tried hard to keep the balloon in the air. I hope everyone had fun, because I sure did!

Rainbows End!

It was a sunny morning over in Glen Innes. I won’t give you any hints but I you will find out in the story that I am about to tell you. All I can give you is that I went to a very exciting place a bit far with my best friends because it was one of my friends birthdays. Fine, I will tell you, I went to Rainbows End! I was very very excited for the big day ahead of me.

I got ready for the big day that was ahead of me, I was very very excited. I packed a few bags because after the big day I was going to stay at my friends house for the night. My mum dropped me off to my friends house (Ocean) where she was ready to go. We went inside for a while and had some breakfast then Ocean’s mum said that we are going to leave now. We had come to our destination and a few of our friends (Briana and Janeleah) were there so we were so happy to see them. There was only four of us, but we were still happy that we are all so very close. It was a very long line because we went on Chinese New Year. There was a Chinese dance by the entrance and it was awesome to watch. We ran inside with excitement. We went to the arcade where we get our bands, without those we can not go on any rides.

The first ride we went on was the riding Pirate-Ship. We rushed to the ride and went all the way to the top, it gave me butterflies! But it was still awesome.

The next ride we went on was the bumper boats! I was happy for this one but I got soaking wet! We jumped into our boats and started crashing into each other. The siren had rung after a while and my boat broke down and I was stuck for a little while but I ended up getting out.

The next ride coming up was one of my favourite rides at Rainbows End, the log flume. I was happy to go on this one because it seems scary and creative at the same time. As I jumped into the log with Ocean she was scared because she thought that there was actually crocodiles in the water because at the beginning there is a sign that says that there is 3 of them! As we went a long, Janeleah and Brianna were behind us and we looked behind and they were scared too. When we went through we slowly come past a waterfall and it seems like it is going to wet us but as you slowly get closer it stops, it’s really fun. When we got into the cave it got dark, then lights start appearing and the subject in there is Christmas, to me the background music is creepy. When we just exit the cave there is a scary ending, but its fun at the same time. It is like a really long slide and it goes fast so it feels like you are going to fall out. As we hopped out of the log we had the shiffers.

The next amazing ride we went on was the INVADER!!! I was very excited for this one! As we lined up i could already feel the butterflies as if i was on it. Me and my friends rushed onto the ride with laughter. I was excited and scared at the same time, on the edge of the ride that is when i am terrified because it feels like the ride is going to fall off the edge. I was laughing throughout the whole ride. The ride slowly stopped and as I got off the ride I was DiZzY!

The next ride is my favourite ride in the whole theme-park, The Invader! It is quite a scary ride, but it is my favourite ride out of all of rides. When I hopped into my seat I sat next to Janeleah and Brianna and Ocean were just across from us. When the machine slowly lifted up I was eager to ride it! When the seat got loose and started to tilt my friends started to get scared, but I was laughing. When it started spinning I felt joyful! The feeling feels great and tingly at the same time. When the ride started to end my joy levels went down because I didn’t want the ride to stop, but it had to because other people were waiting for a turn. Anyways.

The next ride we went on was the RollerCoaster! When we lined up to go on it, it was a long line so we had to wait for a while.  When I got onto the RollerCoaster I ran as fast I could to get to the front seat. As I hopped into the seat I was happy and excited at the same time. When it started I was excited to go on the Loop! It gave me butterflies. When it finished I hopped off and continued to the next ride.

As I made my way to the next ride, which was the Stratosfear!! This one is one of the scariest rides at Rainbows End too. As I jumped onto the ride I was eager for the ride to start. When the ground started going down I knew that the ride was going to start. As it started to spin I was so excited. It started going side to side, then the fun began. It was such a dizzy ride which was awesome. The ride went side to side a few times then it started to slow down. When it stopped I hopped out of my seat then watched the show. The show that I watched was a magic show, it was freaky and amazing at the same time. When we all sat down my aunty had brought some Pizza for us. So we enjoyed the show while eating.

The last ride we went on was the tall as the SkyTower (not really) the FearFall!! I was happy to go on this one but I was very afraid. When it was our turn to hop on it I was in the middle because I am scared to sit on the edge. When we reached the top the ride just paused for a second and that when I get terrified because I don’t know when it is going to fall down. I was counting down but it never went when I was counting! It just fall without me knowing. I was so scared at the top because I knew that I couldn’t scream. When it fall I couldn’t scream because my blood was rushing up.

When I hopped off I was sad because we were going to leave the amazing theme park. But at least I had a great day. I felt on top of the world that day because Rainbows End is my favourite place. I had an amazing day!

Our amazing trip to Butterfly creek!

Our field trip to butterfly creek

It was a wet Monday morning, the wind was blowing all over the trees. Half of the school students went to the butterfly creek, I felt very excited. We were going there to learn about dinosaurs, animals and butterflies as well.

Firstly, we all lined up in the hall, our teacher gave us our name tags and we went to the bus. At butterfly creek we went to the Papillion to have morning tea before we started our big and fun day.  As everyone was eating Sunita  came to introduce us to butterfly creek and told us where we were going first. Then a man came and told us about dinosaurs, crocodiles and alligators. He told us about shark teeth too.

Secondly, we went to the amazing dinosaur kingdom where they had mechanical dinosaurs.  They were very big and we all took photos with it. Dinosaurs existed many many million years ago. Paul told us about the dinosaur poo, teeth and bones. He showed us the teeth of a prehistoric Shark compared to the dinosaur.

Thirdly, we marched to the long train. We hopped in and locked the doors. As we made our way around in a circle, we saw other dinosaurs too. When I saw a triceratops I thought it was real but then when I went up close to it i saw that it wasn't real. As we hopped off the train, we saw juniors waiting for us to hop off. I saw that they were excited for it.

After that, we, room 7 went to the Farm which had amazing animals and cool trucks. When I first went in there I saw some billy goats, they were eating. When I went into this shack thing, there were heaps of rabbits, hamsters and parrots. The lady that worker with the bunnies told us to sit down so that we could hold the little ones. When she brought it to us, it felt as soft as a cloud looks. I went outside to see the other animals that there were, I went along the lamas and they were all pushing eachother to get the last pile of grass. I walked back to the beginning and I saw some colourful parrots and they were trying to hide from everyone that walked past. I went back into the shack and there was a billy goat, we got to brush it while it was eating. Mrs Parker told us to line up so that we could go to the next station.

Meanwhile, Room 7 went to the amazing aquarium and looked at the amazing fish, some of them I have never seen before. Some students went to go and play with the steering wheel of a ship. I was trying to look for a clownfish, but I couldn’t. As we all had a quick look we started to line up so we could go to the hot butterfly room. As we all entered it was hotter than being on the beach on a sunday. I was walking around and I saw a butterfly that I have never seen before, it was black, yellow and red. When I was walking around my friend asked me if I wanted to hold it so I said yes, it wouldn’t go off me so I just left it there. As we needed to exit Luisa and I saw monkeys, they were climbing trees. I wanted to hold them but they were in a glass room.

Soon we were going to see the crocodiles to see how they were doing before the show started. There was another room on the other side of where the crocodiles are, we went in there and in there was baby crocodiles, lizards and other things too. Then we went to the spider room… It was the most scariest room yet to me because I am very scared of spiders! As I walked into it I saw a cockroach house with quite a lot of cockroaches. Then I saw a huge stuffed spider above the spider room, it was very scary when was in the room because I saw a lot of tarantulas.  I never knew that there were tarantulas in New-Zealand until I saw it, I was terrified.

Once we left the spider room we went to the butterfly room again to see a big tarantula. We, room 7 all sat down and waited for the man to come and show us the tarantula, when he opened the container that it was in I got scared and I was at the front too. When he took it out I was very, very scared I almost started to cry. But it was interesting what Paul  said about it. Paul said that if you get bit it will hurt in the beginning but then it will start to get itchy. Paul said that if you get bit, it means that you did something wrong to it, so if you got bit then you deserved it. He explained how it gets it prey too, Paul said that it catches its prey by staying still and waiting for small animals, like frogs, insects and others.

Meanwhile the juniors were looking around, we went to have lunch then they came after us. Me and Luisa went to go sit down, eat and talk about we had seen so far. The day had been awesome so far. Me and her had some laughs too. We asked each other what was our favourite room so far, I said that it was the Farm and she said that hers was the farm as well. When we finished eating we all lined up to go to the crocodile show.

During Paul and Ruberto  was getting prepared for the show we all sat down in lines so we could see the amazing show. As they entered the show I was excited as can be, scar the crock was getting ready too. Paul was talking about Scar while Ruberto was feeding Scar while putting on a show for us. It was very entertaining too because he was making Scar jump up to try and catch the meat so he could eat it. I was thrilled because he could jump pretty high and catch the meat, but Ruberto lifted it higher. Some of the juniors and Room 8 went on the other side of us and they would've been scared because that is where Ruberto made him jump very high. When Scar had eaten all of the meat he crawled back into the water.

Later on we had to exit the room. We made our back to the Papillion where Luisa made a speech to thank them, she said “On behalf of Glenbrae school we would like to thank you Sunita for hosting our trip today and we learnt a lot coming to Butterfly, Thank You”  well that is what I think she said. We all went out the door to our bus and made our way back to the school. That day was an awesome day to me, I hope that we can go there again some day.