The Legend Of The Seven Whales

There once was a Tohunga who was an expert of any skill and art who lived in the east of the North Island. The face of the Tohunga was covered in tattoos. He also looks after seven whales. Their names are Tahutoria,Takitaki, Hikunui, who was the youngest whale of them all, Tuhara, Korito, Onepoto and Iwitea. They would all go and ask all the other fish in the sea if they had any news.

So they set off to see the other fish for some news. That was their responsibility. Takitaki preferred the Dolphins. Tahutoria liked to talk to other whales. Korito spoke to the Sharks. Onepoto talked to the Swordfish. Tuhara chatted to the Snapper and the Silver Frostfish. Iwitea gathered the news from the groper and the john dory. Hikunui got the news from the paua, with the Mable fish following him.  

One morning when the whales were heading out to sea they realised that Hikinui was not with them . Only Iwitea and Tuhara could be seen swimming out of Waiatai. Then suddenly Tohunga came out of nowhere and spoke to the whales saying, “you whales are in big trouble. If you are not out to the ocean by the time the sun rises, you will be really sorry.”

The sun had risen and the whales were not out to sea. So Tohunga striked the whales with lightning and with a big clap of thunder, they were turned into mountains. Now you can see the whales just east of Wairoa. Tuhutoria, Takitaki, Korito and Onepoto are the closest to the sea. Hikunui is fast asleep in the Waiatai Valley.           

Production Diary Part 2

Thursday 14 of August

Dear Diary, hi it’s me again for a update on our production. Production practice once again. It’s annoying reading my lines out over and over again . It’s boring but I have to do it. The dance that we do is fun. It gets annoying having to do it all the time. Sometimes I want to dozy off like the John Dory. We are getting better and getting louder with our lines. We are also getting a lot better at our dances and getting in time with the beat and each other. Mrs Miller and Mr Moriarty love it so far.            

Production Diary Part 1

Dear Diary, let me introduce myself. My name is Jared and my role in the production is a Silver Frostfish. The production is about legends. Our legend that our class is doing is the legend of the seven whales. When Mr Moriarty told the whole class that we were doing a production I thought to myself, not another one. Do I really have to? Something that is cool is that you get the have the afternoon off from doing some school work. I know my lines off by heart. Something that is very awesome is that you come on stage to a song. My song that the Silver Frostfish and Snapper get on stage to is Wipe Out. Then the song that we dance off to is beyond the sea.          

Swaziland

Waking Up In The Morning

Oh no it’s 7.00 looking at my alarm clock. Time to get up I thought to myself. Oh It’s Monday morning. Getting out of bed I feel tired and don’t want to go to school. I have to go to school to learn. Then I doze off for about 5 minutes. Oh, school I better get ready. My sister was having  breakfast. She was eating marmite on toast. I had some toast with butter. Then I quickly walked back down the hallway to my room and got dressed. I squeezed some toothpaste onto my toothbrush. I brush up and down on my teeth. Then brush my hair.

Then I walk to the dining room to unplug my computer. I put it in the case and zip it up. Secondly I put it in my bag gently. I put my lunch into my lunch box. Click,click goes the clips to lock my lunch box. Next I fill my drink bottle with cold water out of the tap. Next I put it in my bag. Then I grab my glasses from my bedroom and put them in my bag. Finally I grab my book packet and put that in my bag. Mum asked, “are you ready to go” ? We replied yes.

Mum unlocked the shed. Then started up the car and reversed out of the shed and on to the driveway. Our Car is a Honda Accord. Then I put my bag in the car. My sister does the same thing. Finally mum locked the shed door, locked the front door. Then I say good bye to Sam and Ninja. We got in the car and closed the doors. We all put our seatbelts on. Then mum started up the car. Mum let the car warm up. Then we drove off to school.        

Knowledge Test

Knowledge Goal and Reflection 29/07/14

I got 41/50 and got 82% for stage 6 advanced. I did well in number bonds,groups with remainders and addition and subtraction. My number knowledge goal is how many 10s . Somthing I want to learn more about is 100ths and 10ths. Somthing that I am proud of is getting all the groups of remainders right. Here is a picture of my test.

Cameron's Uncle's Skype Call From The Village

The 2014 Commonwealth Games are in Glasgow, Scotland. This morning at 9.00 room 6 and 8 interviewed him from the Commonwealth village. Over in Scotland was 10.00. We were very lucky to talk to Craig Palmer which is Cameron’s and Thomas’s uncle. He is in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games

We asked him questions about the Commonwealth Games. A girl from room 8 asked “how many Commonwealth Games have you been to?” He answered back saying

“I have  been in two Commonwealth Games , In 2006 I went to Melbourne, Australia, so this is my second time going to the Commonwealth Games.”

His job is being a cyclist scientist. He collects the details to make a training program. He told us that the bikes do not  have any spokes. The bikes are very light and are made out of carbon fibre. Carbon fibre is very light and strong. Carbon fibre makes things go faster because it is very light. He also makes sure, that he gets the best out of the bikes and to make the bikes more aerodynamic.

The Commonwealth Games go for at least two weeks , or just short of two weeks.There are approximately about 320 athletes (or just short) from New Zealand that are competing in the Commonwealth Games. He meets with other athletes from New Zealand in different sports. The racing starts Friday morning New Zealand time. In Scotland it would start Thursday. The length of the velodrome track is 250 metres long. The athletes train for most of their lives. They also train every day.  

He even showed us the Scottish mascot. It had a kilt and a white Scottish hat. The Commonwealth Games is, all the countries that the queen owns. Craig, Cameron and Thomas’s uncle showed us the Commonwealth Games village with all the rooms for the athletes to stay in. Then in a little white tent outside there was some spa pools.Then Miss H asked Craig to show us all that it was ten o'clock at night in Glasgow. So he showed us out the window to see the village and the sky. Since Scotland is so close to the North Pole, was still a lot of light in the sky.

5 things my teacher should know about me

1. My sister is in room 17 and she is 7. Sometimes she annoys me when I'm doing something. And she sometimes gets me with the hose and squirts me and splashes mewhen she is in the pool and I'm not even in my togs and I get angry.

2. I like cars like Toyota, Holden, Nissan, Mercedes Benz, Ford, Ferrari Lamborghini. I like all sorts of cars.

3. If I was a falcon I would fly around the sky and stand on a tall tree and look for pray and fly at 350km an hour.

4. I like listening to music like Metallica, Disturbed, Shihad, Linkin PARK

5. I like making stuff with LEGO like cars, trucks and planes, helicopters and all sorts of things.

Maths Town

This is our town that we made. I made it with Jaidyn. We had five pieces of success criteria. We have accurate measurments,plan so the roads connnect,we had to use our 10 times table to upscale,six main things a town needs and a scale for your plan.

Mars part 2

I grabbed the bottle of water so ,Ninja ,Sam and me could have a drink. By half way the water was all gone. So I locked everything in my rocket. Then we all  walked into the distance. I was looking back every now and then to see my rocket. It took 4 hours to walk to Morts house. We eventually got there. Me, Ninja and Sam were really tired from walking for 4 hours. Morts wasn't tired.

Then we got to the door and knocked. Then a old lady answered the door. Mort said that it was his grandma. We walked in the door. I said what a beautiful house you have here. Its fantastic isn't it said Morts grandma. I was the last in so I shut the door. Then Mort introduced us. This is Jared. Ninja the cat. Sam the dog. They are from planet Earth. Then Morts family started to  introduced themselves to us. Hi im Bobby Morts dad. You can call me Bob for short. I'm Betty,Morts grandma. Im Darrell his grandpa. Hello im Michelle morts aunt. Hi Jared im Tom. “Its a pleasure to meet you all” I spoke. Would you like something to drink asked Morts grandma. I replied saying yes please. Ninja and Sam do you want something. Yes I'll have a drink of water. I,ll have it two please. Make that three drinks of water. “Ok” said Betty. 2 minutes later Betty comes back with 2 bowls and 1 glass cup filled with water. I skulled it back because I was really thirsty from the 4 hour walk.

Then all of Morts family asked me,Ninja and Sam if we could stay for tea. I said what are you going to cook for tea. You can pick what you want for tea. I said do you like pasta. They all said we do. Fish do you like that. Yes they replied. Cheese yep. Creamy pasta sauce yes. Ok lets make Tuna bake pasta. Or should we use Salmon. I said why don't we use both. Everyone agreed on that. I ended up not using the food that I took with me. So we did end up having that for dinner. 20 minutes later it was finished baking in the oven for 20 minutes. I sliced it up into how much everyone wanted. I had the biggest piece because I was the guest. It was delicious. Creamy,cheesy,juicy and full of flavour. Everyone said you can cook again for all of us some time again. “Thank you everyone” I said. Then Betty asked if she could have the recipe. So I wrote it down on a piece of paper.“Thank you said Betty”.“You are welcome”. Well I have to go in the morning to go back to the planet Earth. So we stayed the night at Morts house.

Then I woke up on the couch and got up. I woke up to smelling bacon sizzling. Darrell was cooking some yummy streaky bacon. He said would you like some bacon and I said yes please. Can Ninja and Sam have some bacon too. He replied they sure can. Then he was cooking scrambled eggs. He put some salt and pepper into the the eggs. Then some milk. Finally they were scrambled. Then everyone else that was a sleep got up and walked to the kitchen table. Then Betty made some pancakes. They were cooked. Then Betty got the golden syrup. Then I ate all of my breakfast up. Sam and Ninja ate all of there bacon. Then I said we better go now back to planet earth. So I said goodbye to everyone and said its nice meeting you all. Everyone said bye.

So 4 hours later walking back to the spaceship. Then we grabbed all of our stuff. Then put it all in the rocket. Back up to the cabin. Then I made sure that the door was sealed. Then locked it. Then we blasted of the planet Mars back to Earth. 7 months later we have arrived back on planet Earth. Ninja and Sam said awesome we are home.