Story of the Week

Our story of the week comes from Tamara, who has written about how much loom bands have annoyed her teacher.  Classic story, Tamara!

Wow their is a new popular thing at school want to know what it is yeah it is the crazy loom bands. Our teacher really hates them and he tells us nearly every day DONT WEAR THOSE ANNOYING BANDS AROUND YOUR WRIST OR ELSE I WILL TAKE THEM OF YOU and what does our class do….. yeah they still wear them and im like hahahha nek minute mine gets tackin of me and im like dammm it. Mr Dawson has a whole pile of them in his cupboard from people who do not obey his rules.TBH I am a really big fan of them and I wear  them nearly every single day. These bands are also really really really distracting and guess what….. you can make and do like 1 million or so things out of them. Its crazy because all of our class wears them and its so random. One of my class mates brang a whole packet of bands (not made) to school and out the door her bands went. I was like what a absoulute waste of money. He’s sooooooooooo Sad with a capital s because he can be nice and give them another chance but other times he just takes them of them and either tells them he’ll throw them out (in the bin) or we have to get a parent to come and get them. He specifically said that he will tell our parents the reason why he confiscated them.

Story of the Week

Our Story of the Week comes from Tiara, who wrote a sensational recount about our trip to the Maritime Museum last Wednesday.  I was really impressed with her use of paragraphs, as well as some of the interesting language choices she made.  Ka rawe, Tiara!

What a splendid day. That’s what Room 20 and Room 22 had on Wednesday in the blistering heat. We went on a journey in the city at the Maritime Museum it was really cool what we had done was listening to this really nice lady named Karen, Karen took us on alot of tours like riding the boat called Ted Ashby. We all had to wear life jackets because if you don’t have one you might fall into the water and then you wont be able to swim but anyways.

On his boat we gently rowed underneath the harbour bridge if you don’t know what the harbour bridge looks like search it up or go to a town named Auckland city down in New zealand.

(Excellent Fun)

 What i saw was men jumping off the harbour bridge but actually it was called bungy jumping  we were all screaming out to them and saying JUMP JUMP JUMP !!! but they were to shy we all wanted to see some action but we had to move on so we turn around and we went back to the maritime museum. My friend and i had to put something bouncy into the water so we don’t smash in to the big pile of rocks.

It was actually had alot fun going on the boat really enjoyable i cant wait to see some more Enthusiasm stuff during the trip Anyways the next thing we done was going to another boat but this boat is a really special boat it was called Aotearoa 1 i think but we weren’t actually going out on another travel around the sea in Waitemata again.

Karen was talking all about the Aotearoa 1 have learnt alot of information about the treasured stones that they have hidden because they are very special stones and its because they are not aloud to leave the Aotearoa 1 because the boat will die and they will burn into ashes in the Waitemata beach.

The next thing we done was time to have lunch what i had was chicken sandwiches and chips it was really yummy and scrumptious tasty to eat.

(Delicious)

After lunch we all had been given a paper to find these objects in the Mari Time museum we all had to get in a groups and go with a teacher because if we don’t go with a teacher we wont be able to know how to find our way back to our class.

(10 min to find all objects said Karen)

It was really hard to find all the objects in a really big place like the Mari Time Museum.I was like sweating hard out trying to find all the objects but it doesn’t really matter because going around the hole museum was cool.

(Times up)

We all came back to the teachers in the room and then we had to clean up because we were about to leave to go back to school but first the boys did Haka.

Then the girls stand up to thanks Karen for giving us a tour around the hole place.

We all enjoyed having alot of good times.

Thats all fokes thanks for listening to my incredible story Bye.

Story of the Week

Our story of the week for Week 9 is from Tamara, who has written a great story about Number Bowling, one of the maths activities we do in our class.  What I really liked about this piece of writing was that Tamara talked about what she liked about Number Bowling, as well as what she has actually learned by playing it.

Ka mau te wehi, Tamara!

PS Can any of you figure out how to get 28?

Today we had the privledge of having Matua Dudley in side our class to help us complete a few strategy’s. Number bowling has been really cool because Mr Dawson gives us new numbers every week and he makes it challenging enough for us.We did not quite finish the activitie today because we only had the numbers 8,5,2 and I can’t remember the last number.I even noticed Matua Dudley was struggling to work out the answer for 28.Mr Dawson said that he did this with his daughter and she got up to um.. can’t quite remember but yeah and I was like she must be pretty brainy because like he alway’s   talks about her and how she achves most her stuff (she must study a lot.)Number bowling is like uplifting because like I get better and better at it.One thing that I’ve also learnt is Bodmas, the B stands for brackets ( ).The O stands for operations like square roots  and something to the POWER of something.The D stands for division.The M stands for multipulcation.The A stands for addition  and the S stands for subtraction and their you go.Mr Dawson also gave us a way of saying 8 times 8 like I ate and ate and got sick on the floor.

Story of the Week

This week, we were privileged to have Joe Naden come and talk to us about the Pioneer Maori Battalion and their involvement in World War 1.  Our story of the week this week is from Kyoto, who wrote a fabulous recount about the visit.  I really enjoyed some of the sophisticated language she used in her story.

Waiting patiently in the Whare for Joe Naden & his associate to arrive at Clendon Park. I was so excited when he showed up. I thought he was going to chat about WW2 but no he talked about WW1  but it didn’t really bother me at all atleast we got the chance to hear a marvelous story about out ancestors and WW1. He talked about his father & brother being in the war. Building trenches for the allies. The Maori demaned permission from the Goverment to fight in thier war. The German were prepared for anything. They had guns, bombs and knifes, when the Maori had well no protection and no weapons at all. So pretty much they had no chance of winning. We also done a waiata towards Joe Naden for his amazing story (Whaka Moemiti). It was such a pleasure to hear it. I’m so grateful for being here today and thankful for all those soliders that died for our souls to be here 2014.

Story of the Week

This week, our Story of the Week comes from Jessie.  What I really like about this story is the message behind it.  Ka mau te wehi, Jessie!

When I was doing my homework, I done my current events, and it was about girl fights,When I was reading the story, I said to myself that  all those kinds of things are happening in my class, and I dont like it, and the reason why is because I dont want our class to be the lowest class in the school, my teacher Mr Dawson said “we are the flagship class and we are role models”, but if we are the flagship class then we got to be proper tuakana, and we kotiro got to make this class the good class, the leader class, the top achieving class, and… you know what I mean, and here is a little message for our class: NO MORE GIRL DRAMA’S!:) koa e patu mo nga kotiro raruraru, stop fighting!

Story of the Week

Each week, I am going to publish what I think is the best piece of writing from our class writing blog, 'The Kahu Courier'.  (The link to this page is on the top right of this page.)

This week, our winning story is a recount of the Kahu Noho, written by.....Myra!

As you should know, on the 27th of February, the year 7 & 8 girls in TWA had a noho.

First, we had a waiata, himene and karakia.

We played a lot of fun activities with the two girls from AGGS. They were Manaia and Te Ataiti.

Last night, we played pukana a lot of times and Matua Tuiono was getting annoyed. But who cares, it’s not about him, it’s about the Kotiro A.K.A Girls.

Last night a bunch of girls got no sleep at all (NO NAMES - Christina, Courtney, Tamara and everyone else. They were all hyped up, I mean everyone was hyped up.

The dinner we had last night was so scrumptious. We had K.F.C chicken, which was nice, but I couldn’t eat it all. We also had chips and coleslaw and potatoes and gravy

We learnt about the tikanga in the Whare and in the Whare Kai.

That afternoon at 6.00 or 7.00, a bunch of girls went for a swim. While those girls went for a swim, the other girls were learning a Karanga.

It was like 9.00 or 10.00. Manaia and Te Ataiti taught us a new version of pukana. After that they left and we all had to go inside and watch Pitch Perfect and then go to sleep. During some of the movie, we all went in to the Whare Kai and had supper.