Riverside Camp

Riverside Camp

Day 1

Early in the morning we all arrived into the beautiful place of Willow Park. As soon as we arrived into the outside of Willow Park we all unloaded our luggage's from the buses and the trailers. After unloading our luggage we all moved ourselves into the meeting room that is known as the Rimu room. In the Rimu room Mr Burt talked to us about some few rules and our timetable for the day. Mr Burt and Haere also introduced the leaders that made it to camp to help us for the week. Then he called our names and put us into groups and then sent us upstairs to our cabins immediately to settle our things in and choose what bunks we’re to sleep in. After that we had a few minutes left so we decided to introduce ourselves to our team mates and also our leaders. I was in cabin 11 with Rowana, Tatiana, Olivia, Ana, Saraiah and my two wonderful leaders Paulitia and Atheena. Our group name was called Sorority.

It was time, everyone had to meet back in the Rimu room to start our first game held by Mr Burt’s Daughter, Miss Hamilton. Our first game was Amazing Race. Amazing Race was a really good game because everyone got along, we all worked as a team to finish it off properly and to communicate with each other. It took us a lot of time to finish the race, the winner of the game was the best team Sorority. Sooner on we had biscuits and water for our morning tea while half of the leaders were preparing the gym games for us. When that was set up we all made our way to the gym. The games we played in the gym were Machine Bikes, Shopping, Number Shifter and Sock Game. The most enjoyable game that I played was the Sock Game because our team had to verse Taunese’s Team called PTL. What I liked about the Sock Game was that it was so funny and I really enjoyed the game because we had to pull the other teams socks off and the only thing was that we only had to stay inside this medium circle to be in the game and it didn’t really matter, the winning team was Sorority again. We almost won all our gym games but the only game that we lost in was the Machine Bikes - it was alright though. After all those gym games we went to the beach and finished our day with some fun activities. We then made our way back to our camping area and prepared ourselves for dinner and one more fun game in the dark. For dinner we had chicken curry and rice. After dinner we played a really fun game called the crunchie hunt around the whole area of Willow Park. We had to find hidden crunchies with our torches in the dark. The only thing that was hard for people was that some people had torches and some didn’t have torches like me but we still tried our very best to find some crunchies. It was time for everyone to go to bed but first of all Haare had to announce the winning team, the winning team were a tie and it was Sorority and The Boltz. It was time to sleep. For each cabins to earn $100’s each night we had to do the TTB very quickly which stands for Toilet, Teeth, Bed. Our cabin team also finished off with a prayer each for the night and then we went straight to sleep.

Day 2

Early in the morning around 6:00 just about to hit 7:00, I think my cabin was the first ones to get up and get ready for Jump Jump in the gym leaded by Shane and Gabriel, this was our exercise every morning. After our Jump Jam we had breakfast to make our brain work well. After breakfast we prepared ourselves for sports. Lucky the beautiful sun shined outside so we were still possible to play a lot of sports. Tuesday was like a sport only day. The sports were available for us were Volley Ball, T-Ball, Tag and Touch but we didn’t get to play Touch. I was very proud of my team Sorority because we won all our games and we never lost to anyone. After our amazing sports we had free time. Luckily our team Sorority was the first team to be dismissed by Mr Burt. As soon as Mr Burt called out our team, me and Rowana started sprinting to the gym to the Machine Bikes. After our fun and awesome games we had more fun times. In the evening there was more fun games held by Shannon and the help our leaders. Our evening was messy games. We had so much fun that day made day more happier and gratifying.

The messy games were really enjoyable for everyone mostly. There four rotations of the messy games. I mostly enjoyed every messy games I played. While we playing for the last few minutes and seconds the hooter rang. So everyone had to go for a shower and get ready for dinner. For dinner we had a delicious kai and it was vegetable in taco. After dinner we played this game in the dark called spotlight. I was very scared to play because I didn’t know where to go and plus it was my first time playing spotlight. As the game started I just followed my friends all the way along to the otherside. While we were running we ran to hide because we could hear the leaders running and we could hear people moaning because the leaders had to take their glow sticks off them. Later on I almost made it to the end but just got snapped by Howard. I got snapped like about three or four times. When the spotlight game ended everyone had to meet back for supper. We had biscuits and milo for supper. We then had to do the usual thing TTB.

Day 3

Early in the morning on Wednesday it was the usual thing that we normally  do every morning, Jump Jam. We then go back our cabins and clean up and get ready for the day and when the hooter goes we all make our way downstairs to the rimu room and we all move to the dining room for breakfast. They heaps of options that we could choose. There were rice bubbles, porridge, cornflakes, yogurt with pineapple, weetbix, toast and oats. After breakfast Haare gave chores to all do. There were heaps messy areas to clean and vacuum. Our cabin was already finished and all we had to do was pick rubbish everywhere around outside and also we had to vacuum the Rimu room. It was pretty much a easy job for our team Sorority. After our chores our team Sorority was all ready for our expectations and to do our chants.

It was time show off how clean our room was and how good our chant was to Haere. After our expectations we made our to the chapel. In the chapel we learn all about Jesus stories from the bible. What I learnt about is that Jesus is God and also Human like us Human beings, Jesus can heal us in the inside and outside of us. After learning somethings about Jesus we also sang some spiritual songs and also asked for some blessings in our prayers.

It was raining mostly so we had some fun free time and my favourite thing was only the quad bikes. I was really enjoy the quad bikes with Koula and racing against each other. Minutes later it was time to play some sports but it canceled because of the rain. It was a bad weather that day. We were so unlucky to have sports. Instead of sports we had a lot of time for free time. In the gym there group of boys and girls playing touch and a big of people playing Volleyball in the middle the touch. The still managed to carry on with their games. Later on me and Olivia returned to our cabins to the singing in the heavy rain. After our great times at the beach we made our way back to our normal area and dressed up into our disco clothes. That disco was the best disco I’ve ever been to. We had a few dance competitions and Roimata was one of the winners and also Sateki. After that fun time in the disco we did the usual thing that we always do is TTB.

Day 4

Waking up early every morning and doing the samething all time on Thursday morning, we had to meet in the chapel for more bible stories and some games and also plays that goes with the stories. After our chapel lessons we all returned back to the Rimu room. As we walked outside we could see the sun shine outside on a beautiful day. While the sun was out, I was really happy because I needed my wet shorts to be tried. While there was plenty of time left we had our last time to have fun in free time. As we got sent over for free time, myself and my friends spent our riding the scooters to take up the time of having fun for the last time of free time.

It was time for our next session. In the evening we had the best and craziest time of messy games. The best thing I’ve ever seen in the messy games was the foam machine. There were four rotations of the messy games. My best highlight of the messy games was the foam machine. The foam machine was really cool because we had the best challenges ever and we had a lot of crazy times sliding in the foam machine.

After our blast time of messy games we had plenty of more time to chill and relax with our friends leaders before it was time for our last period of concert practice. As soon as the hooter rang it was time. Bring on the concert night - cheehoo...! But first and finalist thing for the last time, was Dinner! And now it was time to move on. As dinner was finished we all made our ways to the chapel to start our concert. As we walked in there was a huge crowd of families that had come to support. While the MC was speaking, I kept on looking to back. As I looked back I saw Mrs Tele’a and her family. It was time for our team Sorority to perform. While we preparing ourselves in front, I was very nervous. It was time for the judges to make their decisions on how much money we get. So it turned out for the Sorority to win the most money in the concert night out of the girls competition, we won $300’s. Yahhh Woohoo! The best performance prefer is our team Sorority because we all danced to the beat and no-one actually made mistakes and we all took our best shot. It was time for our last time of doing our TTB and our last sleep for us. Our night was finished off with prayers and then sleep time.

Day 5

Last Day Of Camp

I wake up in the morning and I, DAB! The first thing we do is our morning rotations we do every single morning. But the most important thing we had to do was that we had pack up our bags and we had to clean our cabins and make it spotless to earn more money. Everything was finished and spotless in our cabins and the trailers were loaded and ready to go. Before we left we had to thank the camp owners and also the chefs for a perfect week that we all spent together. We also announced the 2 winners of the week, the winners of the was Sorority and Thunders.

It was time to leave Willow Park. I felt really emotional of leaving the Willow Park grounds. That time I just wished that we got to spend more times together with the leaders because we won't see them in a long time. Soonly it was time to leave, we were so sad that we had to leave right away.

Well after all the great memories we all spent together at camp was such an enjoyable time. This years 2016 Riverside Camp was the best camp I’ve been to. The other camps that I’ve been to were cool but, not as great as the Riverside Camp. A massive Thank You to Mr & Mrs Burt for the organization of this wonderful camp and also the staff members that helped out. Also a huge Thank You to Haere, Paulitia, Atheena, Ree, Kathleen, Rachel, Marcella, and other leaders that we there to help us through week. Sure we all had great memories with each other and got to know each better. The good thing was that it was great having bible stories and also us learning more and new things about God in the chapel. We learnt that Jesus is made different from us humans being and that Jesus is God and Human.

Thank for the wonderful Riverside Camp!!!

Narrative Writing

Kia Ora Bloggers! Today Team 5 has been writing a Narrative Writing. This Narrative Writing is to see how good we are at writing. I have wrote a story of me doing things at home when its not school days. I really hope its interesting to you. Hope you enjoy it.

On Tuseday morning I woke up early in the morning at 6:30am, it was so freezing. I was thinking if I had school or not because, I saw my cousin getting ready for school. So I walked into the bathroom and washed my face and afterwards I walked into my cousins room and she said “Oii you don’t have school, its teachers only day.” Then I said “Oh yeah that’s right.” So I went back to bed and relaxed myself on the bed. After that my cousin left to school and I was so bored because, I was the only child left in the house with my uncle. A while later I got up and went into the lounge and watched T.V. I was watching Tennis Competions.

After watching the Television it was almost 2:30pm. I stood up and walked around the whole house just to find my chromebook. After that I got sick and tired of finding my chromebook. So I rang my Aunt and asked her if she’s seen my chromebook and then she said that she put it in the cupboard. So I went to where the cupboard was and got my chromebook out and started chatting my friends on gmail if they’re coming to Talitha. A few minutes later I got a message from Raewen and she said she might not make it  to Talitha. As I got the message, I had an sad emotion on my because, I wanted to hang out with her, but she couldn’t make it.

Later then the time was just about to hit 3:40pm. So I quickly ran into the bathroom and turned the shower on. Later then I got changed and jumped on to my chromebook and started chatting to my friends and asking them what time are they coming to Talitha. After that it was almost 4:30pm. When it was just about to hit 4:30pm I started walking to the PIPC church which is Mrs Tele’a’s church. While I was walking I saw Taunese walking towards me. As I saw her, I started power walking towards her and told her let’s quickly go inside.

As we walked into the church hall, it is was so quiet and kind of dark because, they turned off the lights, so they could watch the movie clearly. The movie was called Tangled. It was such an amazing and funny movie that we had watched. In the middle of the movie we had a short break. After the break we finished off the movie and read a little paragraph all together from the bible.

At the end of the session we all went home with an happy emotion on our face.

My 2015 Reflections

Kia Ora & Talofa Lava Bloggers! This Week is the second to last week of school and we can't wait until 2016 comes up. We are so GLAD that we got to the end of 2015. We have been thinking about what do we think is gonna happen on 2016. These Question is quite hard to think about, but its really GOOD to answer so you know some really GOOD plans thats happening on 2016.

A. How do you feel about this year?

I feel very happy that I have done amazing work this year

B. What did you find especially satisfying this year?

When the Year 7’s went to Rainbow’s End this year I really felt satisfying.

C. What did you find especially frustrating/difficult this year?

I feel nervous when I go in front of my class and explain some of my learning because it feels a bit difficult when I go up and explain.

D. If you were to give yourself a grade out of 10 - 10 being awesome…what would you grade yourself?

I will give myself a 7/10 because I’m sometimes not on task on my netbook and even when I’m not on my netbook.

E. In what ways did you contribute to team 5 in 2015?

I brought in Gingerbread Men's for our Netball Teams Cake Store Fundraiser to buy us new Netball Gears and Uniforms.

F. What would you change for yourself in 2016?

I will change my behavior because next year the Year 8’s are going to be the Leaders of the School, so I would change my behavior to a Good behavior.

G. What might you want next year’s teacher to know about you (things you’re good at)?

Next Year I would want my teacher to know that I’m really good at using We-Video to put our work as a video.

H. What things might you want more help with?

I will need some help with some of my time tables and fractions.

I. What could you show your teacher from your blog to help her/him understand those things?

Write 1 or 2 paragraphs on your blog about how you solved it or how did you do it.

Colour Peom

Kia Ora Bloggers! Today I have finished my reading task that I have been given by my amazing teacher Miss Hockly to do. As you can my task is called Colour Peoms. Colour Poems is really great because you can use cool words and you can describe something thats a nice colour.

Just really hope you enjoy reading my Colour Poem :)

Maniakalani Film Festival

 Manaiakalani Film Festival

On Wednesday the 11th of November it was the Manaiakalani Film Festival. On Wednesday as the bell rang the whole of Team 5 got ready for the Karakia, Mihi and the Notices. Soon as the Karakia started I was really excited and thinking about the Manaiakalani Film Festival Trip. Then after the Karakia we started our Mihi. The Mihi was not long, so Mrs Tele’a gave out the Notices. Then a few minutes Mrs Tele’a dismissed us back to our classes.

Then we went back to our classrooms and sat down, so Miss Hockly can do the roll call. After the roll call we had go to our Literacy Classes. Miss Hockly dismissed us to our Literacy Classes. As soon we got dismissed we started Literacy. We had Literacy for 1 hour and 45 minutes because, we had Morning Tea early so we can leave early to the Manaiakalani Film Festival.

As soon as the Morning Tea bell rang we went back to our classes and had our Morning Tea. So we only had 10 minutes of Morning Tea. So we didn't play we just had to eat and go Toilet because we weren't allowed to go Toilet over at Cinema's. After our eating we went to the Toilet and then came back to class. We came back to class just in time to go. So we all went and sat down in the street to get ready to go. As soon as we sat down Mrs Nua called out the names of people that she's gonna go with on the first bus. After Mrs Nua picked those people they left.

After that Miss Hockly said “Room 4 stand up” so we stood up and then Miss Hockly lead the way to the bus. As soon we got on the bus  we sat down and waited for the next class to come in and that was Room 2. As Room 2 walked in the bus the bus driver turned on the bus. After everyone was settled we left Pt England School. So it took us a few minutes to get like about 13 minutes. When we got there Miss Clarke told us a few things where we go.

So we walked out the Bus and also said Thank You to the bus driver. As soon we walked out we saw where we had to cross so we crossed the road walked into Sylvia Park. As we walked inside Tamaki Primary just walked out. So we walked inside and felt it was so cold like freezing ice blocks because, it was so windy inside because when we looked up there was not much roof up there. We got to the stairs it felt a bit warmer. So we walked up the stairs and walked straight to where our Theater was. So we all walked in and then had to stop by the door so Ruapotaka can settle their first and we walk in. So Ruapotaka just settled themselves and we walked in walked to the middle and sat on the left corner.

As soon as we got settled we started they turned the lights off and then we started Manaiakalani Film Festival. So we watch some of Some of our Movies first then we watched some of Ruapotaka’s Movies. Ruapotaka only had like 6 or 7 movies and we had heaps but we didn't get to see all of it because we didn't have enough because, we had to watch some of Ruapotaka’s Movie.

After the Manaiakalani Film Festival they turned the lights back on. After everyone walked out we walked straight down stairs. As we got to the floor we walked straight outside and stood there and waited for our buses. While we were standing out there some of were freezing like ice blocks again because, we weren't wearing a jumper or a jacket because, we thought it will be sunny. While we were waiting we sat down because the bus took a few minutes to come it like took 10 minutes to wait for the bus, So a few minutes got here and we power walked straight into the bus because, it was so windy. When we got in the bus I put my head on the window and closed my eyes so my eyes can rest because, it was so sore from staring at the Manaiakalani Movies. So slept for a few minutes and when we got back to school my friend May woke me up so we can go back to our classes. While we walked out some people didn't want to get out of the bus. So we walked out and then we also said Thank You again to the bus driver. After that the next bus just got here so the whole of Team 5 was all there so the whole of Team 5 walked in the street and walked into their classes to have their Lunch.

Immersion Assembly

Kia Ora! “Today is the beginning of Term 4” “Woohoo”! I hope you enjoy my writing about our Immersion Assembly. "It's So Awesome". Hope Enjoy It!

Survivor - Immersion Assembly

“Woohoo”! “Today is the beginning of Term 4” While we were getting ready for the day the bell rang. Me and my friend May quickly ran to the the street for our morning assembly. While Mrs Tele’a finishing off her notices we were quietly waiting. Finally Mrs Tele’a finished her notices. She then said “Can Room 4 please stand up and walk quietly down to the hall”

Soon as we got to the hall we sat down and quietly waited for the other classes to come and sit down. Finally they sat down and we started our Immersion Assembly. The first team to start was Team 1, then Team 2, after that was Team 3, after Team 3 it was Team 4. Finally it was Team 5. So when their song started I enjoying it so much. When the Teacher got up on the stage they were wearing wearing something to represent their culture.

As Mr Wiseman was telling the story about who’s gonna survive. The teachers had to do a challenge where they had to eat the most noodles in 30 seconds using chopsticks.  It Was So Fun. While the time was counting down Ms Clark just finished her whole plate. When she finished her plate everyone else had to stop eating. Then Mr Wiseman announced the person that survived. And that was Ms Clark.

Then after that Ms Peato came in and said” It’s not fair because I come from Samoa and we don’t it with chopsticks, we eat with our hands.” Then Mesela came in and said “Yeah it’s not fair because I come from Tonga and we don’t eat with chopsticks either.” Then Mr Wiseman asked Ms Hookly.

“What about you?” “ Ohh we sometimes eat with chopsticks in Japan, but it’s not that hard to eat with chopsticks.” Then Ms Ingram said “I don’t really eat with chopsticks because we don’t come from Japan, we just eat with forks, the normal things.”

Then Mr Wiseman announced the winner again, and it was Ms Clark. So Mr Wiseman asked her did she finished plate in almost 30 seconds, Then Ms Clark answered “Ohh it’s so easy to with chopsticks because  my culture, we always eat with chopsticks and that's how I win” “Woohoo” After that, they all cleaned up their mess and walked down the stage and then they finished their show.

 

 

Logo Design

Kia Ora Tamariki I have a presentation to show. My presenttation was made by me and my two partners Katerina and April and our presentation is called Logo Design which you could see up top on the left conner. I hope you enjoy my presentation... Thanx

Smart Footprint T3W2

Hi we have been learning about public and private information. We had to create a google drawing to put all our public and private information. We had to write what was public and what was private!

Remember to think twice before sharing information about yourself online.
I hope you enjoy and leave some feedbacks! Thanx

Explanation Writing

Hello here is a presentation to show you what is an explanation writing. We made a presentation about what is an explanation writing with my two partners Katareina and April. We watched a video to find out some of the answers. I hope you enjoy it... Thanx

Active Vs Passive

Active Vs Passive

A: Remy distracted the cyclist.

P: The cyclist was distracted by Remy.

A: The cyclist crashed his bike into a car that was parked on the street.

P: The car that was parked on the street was crashed by the cyclist.

A: The cyclist pulled Linguini’s hair in order to move his body.

P: Linguini’s hair was pulled by Remy.

A: Remy commanded Linguini’s body movements.

P: Linguini’s body movement were commanded by Remy

A: Remy opened Linguini’s eyes.

P: Linguini’s eyes were opened by Remy

A: Colette parked her scooter in front of the restaurant.

P: In front of the restaurant her scooter was parked by Colette.

A: Linguini’s cooked the food when Colette arrived.

P: When Colette arrived the food was cooked by Linguini’s

A: Colette sharpened the knives.

P: The knives were sharpened by Colette.

A: Because Linguini was sleeping, he herded Colette’s story.

P: Colette’s story was herded by Linguini who was sleeping.

A: Colette slapped Linguini’s face.

P: Linguini’s face was slapped by Colette.

Here this is what we have been finishing off in our class. We have been given some work to do and we had to fix the mistakes. This called Active Vs Passive and I hope you guys enjoy it. Thanx

   

Rough Draft

Hello this is my Rough Draft that I wrote. I wrote this Rough Draft to go with my Brainstorm and Plot Line. I hope you enjoy my Rough Draft. Thanx

Rough Draft:

Andrew, Jacob and William went fishing on a sunny day. William brought his boat over to the beach so they can go fishing. So then Andrew and Jacob was already at the beach. But they were waiting for William to bring his boat.

Soon William came and he saw Andrew and Jacob already waiting down at the beach. Then William dragged his boat near close to the beach.

After that they all dragged the boat into the beach. So after that they went fishing.  But William was like sad because he didn't want to go fishing but he wanted to eat some fish.

So then Andrew was telling William to just go with them but he can watch them.

Then they went fishing and then after they went fishing they went back home and ate the fish at Williams house.

Plot Line

Pre - Writing a Narrative

The 3 P's

Profile Update

Kia Ora! My Name is Finau and I am year 7 student at Pt England School. I am 11 years old and I’m turning 12 this year on the 16th of December. My favourite band is Six60. My favourite sports team is the Warriors. My favourite subject at school is free time on my netbook and listening to music.

Flash Trash

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Victorian Food

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How to make an origami paper cup

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Finau & Elizabeth Kawau Island DLO

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How to be a good Pt Englander

How to be a good Pt Englander

To be a good Pt Englander you will have to be respectful to young kids

and be polite to the teachers. And being cybersmart means doing the right thing. I think this is important because it will help you do the right thing instead of doing the wrong thing.

Being a good Pt Englander is almost being respectful. Being respectful to young kids you will have to respect them and treat them nicely. An example when little kids are copying you will need to show them that you will be good Pt Englander because if you're doing something wrong they will copy you and they will do something wrong too.

Being polite to the teachers you have to show them that you will be polite to them like for an example if the teacher is asking a question you always put your hand up.

Being cybersmart means doing the right thing. I think this is important because it will help you do the right thing instead of doing the wrong thing.