Showing Respect on our Playing areas

A few days ago, I have made this are about Respect on our Playing areas. I have used some shapes and lines to make this digital piece of art. I have created it on Google Drawings on Google Drive. It has some colours and a lot of playing obstacles.

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Autumn and I's friendship story

WALT: Recount a special day with a friend.

(Memorie 1)

Have you ever just thought back about all of the memories with your bestfriend? Well I have, and we have a lot of memories together and I can’t wait to explain what me and Autumn have done!!

Well, today was a usual day, I was bored without Autumn because she was in Whangarei, but her mum wasn’t. I went to my mum and begged her if she could take me to see Autumn, but she said that we have to go to her mum and ask for permission. As always, Autumn’s mum is very kind, but I asked if she could come with us to Whangarei, and she obviously said yes.

We had packed a few bags and all of us loaded into the car (Autumn’s Mum, My mum, My sister and myself). On our way to Whangarei, I never told her that I was going so it would be a surprise. When we got to the house in front of the massive yard, my mum told me that Autumn wasn’t there, and only Autumn’s sister was there. (My sisters Best friend). We kept on driving, until we arrived at this beach, I didn’t know that we were here because I was asleep. All of a sudden, I heard a “Click” of the door and a scream say “ WAKE UP HONEY!”

I was in shock because I never knew where we were, but then I saw Autumn, I was so happy I jumped out of the car and hugged her for 5 minutes.

I had asked Autumn if she could help me unpack my bags out of the boot, she said sure.

We had finished unpacking everything then we went for a walk around the beach, It was also so low tide. As the tide drifted out, we went for a walk along the beach until we reached the other side, I could see the backyard of the  house that was further along. There was a lot of shells and Autumn had cut her foot, she said that she didn’t feel it when it first got cut, but as she stepped inside of a salty puddle, it started to sting. I gave her my jandals because I didn’t want her to get hurt again. So, we walk back to the house and went inside of our tent.

I said I was bored because there was nothing to do and it was still 12:00, she asked her mum if we could go to a beach called “Mt Greggers”. She had told me what it was like and I was so eager to go. She had a few cousins there, and enough boogie boards for all of us. I was so excited and full of joy.

We rushed to the beach and I had already got my swimming gear on, I run and splashed into the water and it felt more warmer than I had expected it to be. I felt that the cold water had slightly gotten a little bit colder, but I didn’t mind. When I had gotten on my boogie board, massive waves started appearing and I tried to run because there was this one huge one. I had just made it onto shore, but i was still where the wave could splash, it had caught me and flipped me over and over. The salty water tasted disgusting because it got into my mouth. I had a lot of scrapes from when the wave hit me, but it was kind of fun.

When we were finished swimming, we went back to the house on the hill and it was quite late and I was tired, so I went for a little rest. I stayed with her for a week, then it was time to go home because school was going to start tomorrow. I started to cry because I didn’t want to leave her, but then, her mum said “If you want to come back home, you can” and Autumn replied with “Yes, of course I want to come back”

So, on our travel back to auckland, we got dropped off by Autumn and her mum and I said “Goodbye, see you next weekend”

I haven’t see Autumn in a while, but I will be seeing her soon. This has also been my first time going to Whangarei, and it was even better because I was with the most important person. I hope I get to experience this again. I loved going to the beach and going to other amazing places in Whangarei.

Going to the movies

It was a bright sunny Saturday afternoon. My friend and I had gone to watch a movie called Born to dance. It is an awesome movie about dancing.

It was a sunny afternoon and I got dropped off to my friends house, her name is Annalise. When we got there, we hopped in the car with her parents and they dropped us off to Sylvia Park. When we got to Sylvia Park, we went to the cinemas and booked our tickets for Born to dance. When we had finished booking our tickets, we went to pak'nsave to get some snacks to eat during the movie.

We walked back to the cinemas and waited for the movie to start. While we were waiting we played in the arcade, the game we played was Air Hockey. What we have to do is put a $2 coin in the machine and air comes out of the little holes in the table. When the air comes out of the table, we get given this disk and two handles. What we do with it is try to get it in the goal, but try to protect our own. I won the game, the score was 4-3.

The game had ended so we walked back to the waiting area and we could see our line forming. We went to our line to give our tickets so we could watch the movie. We got our snacks and made our way to cinema 4. The seats we had were all the way at the back so we went there, sat and waited for the movie to begin.

A few adds played then, finally, the movie started. We had enjoyed the whole movie, but we didn’t finish our snacks. When the movie finished, we came out of the cinema and went to the train station. Annalise took the stairs while I went on the elevator. I met her at the place where we get the tickets. I booked my train ticket and she booked hers, all we had to do was wait for the train afterwards.

When the train had got to where we needed to go, we needed to walk home. We walked to her house and waited for her dad to get home. When he got home, he dropped me off at my house.

I was very happy that I had finally watched Born to dance. I had waited for quite a while to watch it. I had a lot of fun too.

6 places I want to go

Today, I am going to list the 6 places I want to go

1. Mysterious Island

The first place I want to go is called The Mysterious Island, it is on a movie called Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. 

2. Fiji

The second place I want to go is to Fiji, I want to go there because they have beautiful land and beautiful water. They also have really nice houses on the side of the beach. 

3. Hogwarts

The third place I want to go is Hogwarts, I want to go hogwarts because it is in the movie Harry Potter. In the movie, that is a school where the students get tought magic. I'm not sure if it is real, but I still want to go. 

4. Easter Island

The fourth place I want to go is named Easter Island. I want to go to Easter Island because they have these heads that pop out of the ground which makes is look ancient. 

5. The underwater hotel

Another place that I wish to go is called The Underwater hotel. In the hotel that is under water, it is protected by glass which incase the water could get in. Another reason why I want to go to the Underwater hotel is because when you are lying in bed, you can see all the fish swimming around, and you can sometimes also see divers. 

6. Paris

Last but not least, I want to visit Paris. I want to visit Paris because it has a beautiful culture and it also has the Eiffel Tower. 

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.

Glenbrae science week!

Glenbrae school science week!

It was Week 10 of Term 2, also science week. Glenbrae senior students rotated to different classes of every day  for science. We did science week because we needed to learn about the world around us, our science projects were based on physical and chemical changes of matter. We went to other classes to see the different kinds of science experiments. In all of our visits to each classes there were different chemical reactions which we had to write on templates printed out for us.

It was Monday, we were with Mrs Raj. Room 7 learned about States of matter, Condensation, The water cycle and other things about water.  The experiment we did with Mrs Raj was, she made a cup of coffee and then she put a glass over the top of the cup.  When she took the up off the top of it, there was little drops of clear water at the top of the cup. We learned a lot about Condensation and what water can do.

On the second day of science week (Tuesday), all of the classes were with their own teachers. In room 7, we baked bread. The reason we did this was to see what carbon dioxide would do to the bread. When we made the breads dough, we halved them into two parts because we wanted to let one last for half an hour and the other one for about an hour and a half. After it had been half an hour, we placed it into the oven for it to bake. Time ticked by, then it was time to get out the one that had rest for a short time then we put in the one that had been resting for a long time inside the oven. As Mrs Parker cut into the two different bread, some of us spotted a difference between them, the one that had rested longer than the other had more carbon dioxide in it because it got a really long time to rest in the sun. Mrs Parker cut them both into little pieces until everyone could have one of each. We all jumped up to get the two different pieces of bread and see which one tasted better. I thought about it for a minute then I said that the one that had less rest was more yum.

I really enjoyed baking bread because I got to learn more about carbon dioxide. It was so yum as well, I hope that we can do it again sometime.

It was Wednesday , the Third day of science week. On Wednesday , we went to Room 10 with Mrs Tofa. The science that we were doing with her was baking scones. What we did first was get quarter of an apple from Mrs Tofa and pick which liquid we wanted to dip it in. The challenge

was seeing which liquid would stop the apple from going rotten. The options were vinegar,

L & P and Sprite. We all got spread into 3 groups, the groups had to pick which liquid they wanted. We all thought that the best option was vinegar. As time ticked past, we checked on it every minute to see if it was rotting, we were curious if we were wrong. After ten minutes, it hadn’t gone rotten, we were so happy because we thought that we would of been wrong.

After that, we started on the scones. When all of the ingredients were added (I can’t remember what they are) we got into the kneading. In our groups, one person got to do it, but 2 of us in our group did it. Luisa and I were the kneaders, but it was very hard for me because it was too wet and it didn’t have enough flour, so it started to stick to my hands and I couldn’t get it off.  

Luisa, Alex and I went to the staff room and put the scones into the oven, we had to go back in another 15 minutes to grab ours and other groups scones. When Luisa and I hand them out with some milk, our groups flavoured scones were L & P. I sat down, but before I bit into it, I could smell the beautiful smell of it, it smelt so yum that I almost started to drool.

When I took a bite into it, it tasted superb! As I finished my milk and scone we all got told to sit on the mat. When we sat on the mat, Mrs Tofa told us a few riddles, but she didn’t know that I knew almost all of the riddles. I answered most of them and she said “ Oh my gosh, you know all of these!” then she started to laugh.

I had a great day with Mrs Tofa baking scones and telling jokes.

Here is a riddle: We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day.

What is it?

Answer: The Letter ‘E’

It was the third day of the week (Thursday) On Thursday, everyone was with Mr Nath, but I wasn’t here on Thursday so I didn’t know exactly what they did. All I know is just that they did an experiment with Coke and Mentos! I think what is supposed to happen is that it is going to fizz up and is close to exploding?

Finally, on Friday, it was just a normal kind of day. We just did work and everything that we usually do.

This week was my favourite week this term. I learned a lot about Water, States of matter, baking and so much more. I  hope we get to do this again, but with other kinds of science!