Fo Guang Shan

On Tuesday the 22nd of May all the years 7 and 8 were going to the Fo Guang shan temple. We've  learnt about 3G that means- Do good deeds, Say good words, Think good thoughts. 4Gs are Give confidence, Give joy, Give hope, Give convenience. We also made a flower out of paper that is called lotus flower. It is a flower that can float on water.

When we were going upstairs to see the pretty art it was so cool. I like how they gave us a tour around the Temple it was so so cool. When we were going downstairs together we all got water tattoos. When the police came we were doing school values. I also tried the police uniform on. Then after we took off the police uniform the tour guide showed us how to do meditation. I was relaxed when we were meditating.
                                 

The Day of Athletics...

Yesterday, 28th of November we did Athletics in our school. Some of the things that we did was, sprints, long distance high jump, shot put, discuss and long jump; of course we also had rest time. All/most of the students, from junior to senior participated in every sport, we all showed resilience when things got hard for me I think the hardest ones we're the jumping sport because I don't really jump that high or long. But I did do a pretty good job at the high jump, sprint, shot put and discuss.

Deadly snakes

 Introduction

    Deadly snakes

Kia Ora my name is Shanarnia. Have you ever heard of snakes? If you haven't heard about snakes I can tell you about snakes. Like what they eat and where they live and how they grow and how they have baby .

How they grow?             

Do you know that snakes can grow up to  3.9 metres or be as short as 10 centimeters long. The largest snakes can reach up to 9 meters.                                                                                  

Where they live?

 Do you want to know where snakes live? I will tell you where snakes live they live in Greenland, Australia, UK and America, Mexico.

What does a snake eat?

Do you want to know that Snakes can eat any animal. Snakes eat eggs, birds, rodents, deer, pigs and people.

How can snakes have baby?

Female snakes produce young about twice per year. In some species babies are born alive. Other species lay eggs. Snakes can have anywhere from one to 150 baby snakes at a time.

How can snakes hear?

Snakes have no visible ear, so they don't hear sounds as we do. But it's not quite right to say that snakes are deaf. They have vestiges of the apparatus for hearing inside their heads, and that setup is attached to their jaw bones, so they feel vibrations very well and may hear low-frequency airborne sounds.

How snakes move?

Snakes have four ways of moving around. Since they don't have legs they use their muscles and their scales to do the "walking". Serpentine method: This motion is what most people think of when they think of snakes. Snakes will push off of any bump or other surface, rocks, trees, etc, to get going.

Snakes jaw?

The jaws of the snake are not fused together.  That means that unlike our jaws, snake jaws are not connected at the back of their mouths.  This makes it possible for them to eat very big meals, bigger than their own heads!  That would be like you swallowing a whole watermelon!

If you had your mouth full of a watermelon, do you think you could breathe?  Not likely!

Snakes can.  They have a little tube at the bottom of their mouth that comes out far enough to get air when the rest of their mouth is full.

In conclusion

Some people don’t like snakes because they bite you so hard. They  swallow you down like a big  watermelon. I love snakes because they eat any animals like  for example pigs or deer.

Some people from different Islands they like to eat snakes. I haven’t try a snake before but I would like to try one.

By Shanarnia

BOLD

W.A.L.T Read the instructions then we are going to teach you how to play BOLD.
This week and the past few weeks we learnt how to play some games. We got some games from the Warehouse. Because the Warehouse donated some money to us so we can buy some games. So our teacher decided to buy some games for us to play with. We just wanted to say thank you to the Warehouse people. Me and Khaylanie decided  to play a game that we haven't played yet. So we picked a game called BOLD because it looked really cool.

Maori word

W.A.L.T  Say some  new Maori word. In the super readers we have been read a book called Mossie.

Animal in the oecean

Partly cloudy

        Partly cloudy

One sunny day I saw stork flying through the sky carrying babies and cute animals.The sky was light  blue like an ocean. We went back up to the sky and watched the cotton candy clouds making cutest animals. I saw a really cutest puppy it had chubby cheek and big brown eye. The storks carry the puppy all the way to his new kennel.

There  was a big sad lonely cloud. He made some bad animals. He made a crocodile, a hedgehog and a goat. The lonely cloud was about to make a shark.I got really angry at the stork . I was crying out loud because the stork went to the cotton candy cloud to get some protection.

Adventures are the pits.

One terrible day I was at McDonald's, I felt anxious and terrified.  I had goosebumps it hurts so bad it felt like I was going to cry but I held my tears. I didn’t want to go down the scary slide.            

I went down the scary slide. I fell into the ball pit it was pitch dark. The ball thudded on my head hard and it hurt so bad. The ball hit my head. I had a sticky lollipop on my icky face. I tried to rip the lollipop off my face.There was a skeleton at the bottom of the ball pit.

I nearly fell off the edge of the ball pit. I keep climbing up and falling down. This stinky plaster landed on my face. I tried my best to climb back up and this sticky lollipop  helped me climb back up. I ate the purple sticky lollipop.

The piano

It  was a dark night. I was  playing the on piano that  my wife gave me . I was playing the piano loud as I can play. I was sad and lonely . I sit straight on the comfortable chair on my own.  I just realized that I was sitting next to my wife.                                          

She was a ghost. I loved her so much when she died in the war. She kissed me then she disappeared.The next part of the song was when I was in the war. Then It made me really happy to see my best friend who died. He was the only friend that I had . I was  still playing the piano and I couldn’t stop.

I was a little kid I got a present for my mum and dad. It was a fake wooden horse. I was ride the horse  around the piano.We were playing the piano together.

Extravagansa

W.A.L.T.  perform on stage.

Wednesday night we all went to the Hornby High School and performed on the stage. It was extremely amazing. I felt nervous and scared before my performance. In my group we were dancing and lipsing to Slice of Heaven. I was really proud of myself. It was fun that the lights changed colours as we danced. My favourite performance was room 3. They did the Flintstones. It was cool that mum came to watch me and my mum is coming to watch me again. I was proud of myself.

Thursday night we all went to the Hornby High School and perform again. It was amazing and fun. I felt scared before our performance stated. In my group we had Brooke, Sam, Sage, Jasper, Corbyn, Tasharn, Dominique, Mikaya. At the end of our performance the Pacifica people did  the sasa. I am in the Pacifica group. The boys were doing there Samoan haka. The girls were dancing. The Philippine people were doing their dancing. 

Making a model about bees.

In the Super Readers we have been making  a  model about bees. We have been reading a book called the buzz of the bees. I have lean't that bees can collect nectar  from flowers.

Somalia

WALT write a narrative through the eyes of one of the crew, or robots.

• Describe the setting in detail.Think about words to describe the situation, what you see, smell, taste, hear. Try to use words that create the mood.
• Now…..Write a first person narrative through the eyes of one of the crew or one of the robots. How you are feeling when the boat is invaded by pirates.

One day I was in a old boat sailing across the sea, I was drinking my coffee then I saw people coming towards me.They were on a small boat they grabbed a humongous heavy anchor they put it on the boat.The bad guy said to the captain give me the key and the captain gave the key to the bad guy. They were grabbing my people then they went to the big container to looking for the robots. The robots came out of the container to rescue us, there were lots of robots attacking the bad guys.

Stan Walker

                                         In Ako Ngatahi's  we have been doing NZ music mouth I did Stan Walker.

Extravaganxa

Hornby Primary school Extravaganza

This is our performance extravaganza. It is on Wednesday the 30th or Thursday 31th of August the time will be at 6.30pm.This will be at Hornby High School. Tickets cost a gold coin are available from the HPS office from Monday 28th August. There are a small number of tickets for sale on the night so get in soon!

Buster the Boxer

It was night time before Christmas I was sitting on the ground watching my owner jumping on her soft bed.

Then I saw the dad making the new trampoline it was very cold.  I was looking outside the big sliding  door window.

I saw some animals jumping on the new trampoline they

were communicating with each other.

The orange fox said, “this is really fun.”

The other fox is Tom.  He said “that the new trampoline was fun.”

The black and white skunk said, “the trampoline is fantastic.”

The Hedgehog said, “that new trampoline is so fun.”

The squirrel said, “this is fun. “

They decided to leave the trampoline because they were tired after all the jumping.

Then it was morning I ran down the stairs.

When they opened  the big sliding door window I quickly ran out and I jumped on the new trampoline.

I was really happy and excited and I never wanted to stop jumping.

My owner was disgusted and not happy.

Time telling

W.A.L.T Do quarter past on the clock.

Amazing crop circles

W.A.L.T  create a model that shares something we have learnt about our mystery. In room 11/12 we have been learning about our mystery. My mystery is about crop circles, how we made our crop circles, what we did is we grabbed a paper and then we traced it around the paper . In my group we had Meleana, Tehya and me. We worked on our crop circle. 

My Mysterious speech DLO

My mysterious about crop circles.

Shanarnia learning goal

This is my Learning Goals about what I have bean learning about. I will be showing mum tonight I`m going to try hard to achieve them .