Taha Wairua - New Zealand Sign Language Week

 

Today is the start of New Zealand Sign Language Week and in honor of it my class and other classes at my school are learning how to use sign language. We've only been learning easy/simple signs but i hope we end up at least learning how to make a sentence.    

Cross Country

 On Friday our school had our annual cross country, Everyone was super excited about it and couldn't wait. We had our morning tea and got changed into our house colors, Then we had lunch.

After Lunch it was time for the moment we've been training for the big race. Our classes lined up and walked to the netball courts, All the students participating we're there waiting to start the races. 

Mr Burt told us where to go on the track then handed the mic to Inga one of Pt England's house captains so she could say the prayer. 

The year four students we're the first to race since it would be easier for them the school to keep track of time. When the year four students finished their race it was the year 3 and then year 2 and year 1, they didn't go at the same time but that was the order they went in. 

Now it was time of the big races a.k.a the older kids. The year 5 boys were the first to start the races. A little while after the year 5 boys started the year 8 girls where up. 

We all lined up and waited for Mr Burt to slam the pieces of wood together, I felt nervous about the race but at the same time i didn't. 'BOOM' the wood was slammed together and all the girls started running. 

It was a rush of nervousness and excitement, I ran a for a while before stopping and walking. I walked the rest of the way not bothered at all what over people thought. I finished the race and everyone was drinking their water bottles and cooling off. 

Everyone finished their races and we got changed out of our clothes so we didn't stink for the rest of the day. When we were done getting changed we went back to class and chilled out until the bell went for us to go home. 

 

Year 7&8 Leader Highlights

 10 things i heard the leaders or year 7&8 

1. They all stepped up 

2. They all got our of their comfort zone

3. The year 7s liked the shared lunch 

4. They captains were proud

5. They enjoyed being with their own year groups

6. Liked watching people help each other

7. They got along

8. They worked hard

9. They communicated well

10. They all participated 

Those were some of the things i heard 

Year 8 Camp

 On Wednesday 5th of August most of the year 8 students at Point England School went to Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp.

When we arrived at camp we meet the owners of the camp, they introduced themselves and told us the boundaries and told us about a couple of fun activities we were going to do that day. 

Our first activity was called "Cross Games" it's were your team vs other teams compete against each other in multiple activities. They were really fun and they showed us how to work and move around like a team. 

We had a lot of activities we did during our leadership camp but these are a few of my favorite ones. 

Go Karts 

Go Karts with Mr J was one out of three of my favorite activities, It was super fun being inside the go kart and driving really fast and it was just a rush of excitement. Also i had the second fastest time out of my group 48.0 seconds. 

Air Riffles 

Air Riffles with Samanda with Air Riffles we had to draw our own target. I put dreams on my target because i was shooting for my dreams. I was proud of myself because i shot my target 3 out of five bullets. 

Railway Jiggers 

Railway jiggers was the last activitie i did, i liked it because it was really fun and full of laughs. I loved how everyone in my group were laughing their lungs out. 

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed... 

Unfinished Story

Beginning: Max’s Pov 

As I was dreaming about being in a world-wide racing tournament, I heard the sound of my blinds opening and a clatter of whispering voices. I woke up with the beaming warm sun in my eyes. I got up when I saw a strange looking object on my bedside (>_<) table. I picked it up when it slipped out of my hand and rolled under my bed. I went to pick it up but to my surprise I saw a door, I was really confused because I've never seen it there. I opened the door and got a huge fright when I saw what was inside... 



Task Description:
In room 2 Literacy we had to choose a photo on our photo gallery and write about it. The photo you can see is the photo i chose i hope you like the first paragraph of my story. 

Dragon Eye Lake

In Inquiry today my class went to Mrs Tele'a class to learn about the Legend of the Dragon's eye lake. We learned the Legend of why it was called that and why it looked the way it did. I hope you like to poster i made about the legend of The Dragon's Eye Lake. 

The Myth Of Hermes

Today for inquiry we learnt about Greek Mythology. We learnt about the different Greek gods, the great creation story and about Hermes. When Hermes was a baby he in-twined fire and lyre a harp. See my story.