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Last week the year 7&8s were at tech so all the year 6s did lots of fun stuff. On Monday we did ukulele, we also started writing a narrative piece called catch it which I enjoyed most on Monday. On Tuesday we did more ukulele and I finished my catch it piece and then did baking. We made scones ( apricot jam is the best with scones) . On Wednesday we did coding with kid bots, mine was not coded very well and it went into the bush:(. On Thursday we did an experiment about water tension. We did scratch on the computer and I made a fox fly over buildings. Then we swapped classes with room 2, they did ukulele we did gymnastics. On Friday the year 7&8s came back and we had E-CAN  lady come and talk to us about pests and the food chain.

ARWC

 

In Africa, The Meerkats (meerkats rugby team) were preparing for something big, they were growing a fruit on a tree outside of their home, for the ARWC (Animal Rugby World Cup). After tending it for weeks, Bob the captain of The Meerkats, said it would be ready tomorrow. 2 hours went by of tending the fruit  when a shadow was cast over the ground, it was Morris the dumb captain of The Vultures in the ARWC. He glances at The Meerkats, but his gaze landed on the fruit for the ball of the ARWC. Whoosh, in a blink of an eye Morris was gone as well as the fruit, which was clutched in his talons. 

 

Bob commanded everyone to chase. They ran, jumped  and tried to grab the fruit from  Morris’s talons but got tossed on the ground. They come up with a new plan, Bob first and the others follow – they make a meerkat chain. The Meerkats were now airborne, holding on in one long chain to Morris’s leg. Morris went crazy trying to shake them off, he succeeded and tried to clasp tighter onto the fruit, but it was gone. Bob clung tight to the fruit as he and his team fell.

 

 Morris dived, Bob passed, Morris swooped, Bob’s team passed again. Morris caught the ball in his talons and cackled,he was distracted laughing at The Meerkats. Wham! Morris ran into a cliff and dropped the fruit which Bob ran to catch. Bob and his team had the ball in possession, Bob drop kicked it over the goal post, splat. The ball was no more. How were they going to play Sam Cranes ( The Cranes in the ARWC) team now.  By Kenzie

 

 

 

 

The tight long sleeve wetsuit made me waddle down the dried out mudslide. Each step felt like I was going to to topple over, but I never did. At the bottom of the mudslide we were at a very little beach there were a mixture of rocks, kelp and dried salt everywhere. Our instructor, Jamie , found a black twisted thing-from where the tide had pushed all the kelp and rocks from the sea. We all said the thing was plastic but it was shark egg! We found lots more shark eggs as we went along the little beach. As we Left the beach, we clambered up the rocks along the edge, we had to swim to an island with so many barnacles it felt like sandpaper.We reached a big rock pool that looked like it had lots of chlorine in it because of its colour. We marched one by one up the Rock and got pushed off, I got 10/10 for landing straightest in the water.All wet and dripping with salty water we scramble up rocks and looked down on the salty water and kelp soup we were soon walking across a ledge, backs pushed to the rigid rockwall, then we each take turns  jumping off another rock, the water is icy cold as we swim towards another island and scramble up and try to avoid the barnacles from  scraping our hands . We all looked at the mussels and one was the size of my palm.We all again jump off the rock into the washing machine ( water swirling you round like crazy), we climb up the rock while the waves are high and when our  instructor, Jamie, got up the rock  we all got a choice of jumping off a 11 foot rock or a little rock,I chose the little rock.In a single file line we walked up to another rock only Half a metre, the water was really shallow so we could choose to belly flop off it or walk in, I chose walk-in with Brooke and Neve.We swam up current heading back to the Little Beach, when we climbed up the rock we were walking in ankle deep water we could see the little Beach from there, one last Rock, we could choose to walk back to the beach or swim back, I chose swim back, when I jumped in all I could feel was water and a slimy kelp. Every time I kicked my legs I could feel kelp. When we made it back we all climbed up the mudslide turning dirt  that stuck to us to mud. A tiring climb up we finally made it  took 2 car trips to get our whole group to camp. We got sprayed down with water to clean us and had to “Dunk it like you mean it” our wetsuits and  PFDs. ( personal flotation device)

 

In term 3 we have done lots of stuff.

When year 7&8’s  go to tech we do lots of things we would’t do normally in class.

One time we did baking. Emily, Olivia and me did chocolate muffins with candyfloss on top. It was enough to give to the whole school when the year 6s had finished.

We also had youth town with the year 7 & 8’s and we did lots of different games.

In class I learnt a lot  of different things, I got 100\100 twice inn one term! I learnt a lot of new words in Te reo.

My hero is my grandma. She is my dads mum and goes to Cambodia every year to teach English. She also goes with granddad but he doesn’t stay as long, they both go in February and they come back in June and grandma will leave again in August and come back in October. When she is at home she comes back  with a suitcase full of presents for us! Last year she showed us a picture of a student in her class who had stabbed a snake with a pen.

 

 

A loud crack of a whip rang out. The chestnut yearling, Ash jumped with fright and gave out a fear full whinny. A dozen wallaby’s sprang out of the trees and watched cautiously. There herd walked away from the whip but yet more men with a strange smell of smoke were up there too. Ash and his mum, Amber, hid behind a tree and gradually, things started to move and stir. The wallaby’s went back into the trees and stayed, the smell of smoke was gone and Ash and Amber came out from behind the trees the herd was safe.

This Friday Emily , Sophia and I are going to have tea at Olivia’s house for her 11th birthday. We are having nachos for tea and pavlova for pudding. Olivia recently got a puppy off my dog Lottie and they named her Flossie. I’m excited to see her again.

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Last week the year 7 & 8’s were at tech so the  10 year 6’s did lots of fun and yum stuff. First on Tuesday we did baking and Olivia, Emily and I made chocolate muffins, Olivia brought her candy floss maker from her house so we put a little piece of candyfloss on each muffin and we made enough for the whole school. On Wednesday Olivia came with her new puppy ( my dogs puppy)  Flossie. On Thursday we made nachos for our lunch. We had to cut the onions into thin fine piece, we were all crying for a while. Then we cooked the mince and put all the flavour in, best part, the nachos and we had them for lunch.

       

 

 

A long time ago there was a striped zebra who was sick of the heat of Africa and moved to Antarctica for a holiday. Zippy the zebra was so excited at the sight of all the frozen water of Antarctica. Soon Zippy’s legs felt like rubber, they were so cold so Zippy decided it was time to go home and caught the plane back to Africa. All his friends were all so happy to see him again but Zippy was still cold, so his friends made him a  nice warm hot chocolate and fell asleep and dreamed about his adventure.

On Wednesday we had teacher  parent conferences and we went in with them I was nervous what Mrs Campbell was going to say but It was all good stuff so I was happy when I went home. The things I told mum and dad of what I was proud of was my maths and spelling and I want to work on my reading.