Narrative!

Every time I hear a noise, something unusual happens

Sweat of fear dripping down from my forehead and down to my lips. The horrifying noises that keep repeating in my head was giving me a migraine. “What’s that?” I asked my mum. She came walking swiftly to where I was and said “what do you mean?”. I then replied with “that noise, the one that keeps repeating over and over again, I can’t be the only one”. She stopped instantly and started to burst out with a laugh. She then said “your funny”. My heart stopped at that moment, and my mind was as empty as my thoughts. I started to think. Am I over exaggerating or is all of this true?

Walking down the empty and quiet corridors at school, my head was in pain as well as my ears. All I could hear was the sound of old church bells ringing and the sounds of people screaming. Every time I thought about the noise, the more it became louder and it kept on coming back. I desperately wanted it to stop! It was like I wanted to blow my head off every time I heard it. The teacher kept talking but all I seemed to do was stare out into the distance thinking about the noises. I started to hang out alone, and I kept thinking I was a maniac.

My friends that I use to hang out with came up to me and asked “Are you okay?” but instead I ignored them and sat there looking out the window with my hoodie over my head. “Can you hear that?” I asked. Their faces were clueless and they replied with “hear what?”. I looked at them and said “the noises, like the noise of a church bell ringing and the sounds of people screaming?”. They looked at me with a glimpse and they almost looked frightened, so they walked off quickly without a word.

Looking down at the concrete floor, as I was walking home the noises then stopped. They started getting quieter and quieter every time my feet touched the ground. I started to pull a smile as I ran quickly back home. My pale brown hands reached over to the door knob while I zoomed through the doors. I walked into the kitchen and all I heard was “on today’s news an innocent young girl, hanged herself on a church bell, her whole family was tragic after her loss and as you can see people are out here screaming and crying”. I walked slowly into the living room and turned off the TV. I then fell to the ground and the silence then hit my mind. Not a gust of wind was heard, and my heart then broke into pieces. I was afraid of myself and every time I heard different noises something unusual always happened.

I began to take medicines to help get rid of the noises and to rebuild myself. It took me a while to get rid of the noises, but it was worth the wait. Some people were afraid of me but they gained my trust back. I stopped thinking about the noises and I finally heard the noises of birds chirping and the breeze flowing past me.

The woods

Green and dark moss, flowing everywhere on the soft brown dirt. Skinny old trees growing its roots underneath the earth, making its tallest branches reach the sky. A patch of sunlight beaming through the trees and ground, making mother nature to continue to grow. Bugs and insects, roaming around finding its small little prey in between the dirt. High pitched voices of birds singing, making everything in the woods to rise.

The lord is Almighty

The lord is Almighty

He is powerful

He is great, his creation made all the trees

and grass so we can all go play

He is the greatest man alive

He sacrificed his life for us

He thought about the animals and us which is why

he took the risk to go die on the cross

He showed us what love really means

So we should be grateful for what he has done

He helped us through all of our hard and rough times

So that we can go have fun

He is always in our hearts

He answers us when we call him

He’ll always be there to listen to us

Whenever we have a problem

He sends us his blessings from above

Whenever he notices that we’re giving up

He helps us to strive to succeed

So that we can stand strong ourselves

Play based Learning.

Play based learning 

In class, our beloved teacher Miss Tupou told us that we get to do play based learning for one whole block! At first we were confused on what that is, we were looking at each other with confusion. Until she told us that play based learning means that we get to do whatever we want for one whole block, but without no technology and we had to use the stuff that she gave us and we had to stay inside. In the middle block, on Thursday may 24th, we did play based learning. It was super fun, we played with items that we usually don't play with, like blocks, costumes and bunch of other stuff. 

My thoughts on the new edition that they added which is Play based learning. Its really fun for me, but not just me but for everyone else as well. Its good seeing people laugh and smiling followed by having a good time. Something that was enjoyable to me, was just having a good time with my fellow class mates. Laughter everywhere, it was really fun and good for us. I think what I'd like to do during play based learning, is to have the opportunity to like decorate the classroom more. You know. just to spice it up a little, but not just me like the whole class too. But I don't know, its just a little opinion of mine. 

The purpose of doing Play based learning in class, is to let the teachers know, what we can do with the items they give us to play with and how we use them in our point of view. It also gives us a opportunity let the kids, have fun and be free inside class. Even though its hard for the teachers to watch us make a mess! Hopefully next week, we get given more opportunities to play with. Something that we could do better is to actually put the items back where we found out, and to clean up our mess after we're finished with it. So that if someone else wants to play with it, they don't need to run around the classroom looking for it. 

We were learning how to play with items, that we usually don't play with, and without technology. It was hard for us, to play with the items as it seemed boring to play with. But it gets turned into something fun if we use our imagination. And that's what I think of Play based learning!

Dawn Reids

The Dawn Raid

The dawn raid first started in 1970 and ended in the early 1980s, where the palangi people, and white cops came and raided the Polynesians homes to deport them back to the islands. The people that were involved in this tragic moment, were the white people, cops, the Pacific islanders, Maoris and strangers. The white people informed the Polynesian people to come and work for them, so they took that opportunity to work, to send money for their family to provide for them. But the thing was, they were only allowed to stay in New Zealand for 3 months. So they decided to overstay their visit, and the white people didn't like it so they drove over to where they were staying and tried sending them back to the islands, which was horrific. The palangis were racist towards us, because they thought they were like the kings & queens of all of us, they were racist towards our skin color and our appearance which made them treat us differently. The white people today, would probably feel ashamed of what their people did to us. Embarrassed, because they don't get given the treatment they want, because of what happened in the past. Depressed, because they probably think that whenever we see someone like them, we think of them differently. 

Anzac

Dear Mum and Dad,

First day on our journey, and theirs already explosions. People jumping off the boats and drowning due to all the heavy stuff their carrying.  Honestly, it's like a never ending nightmare. It haunts all of us.

Some people are too young to be here, there's endless tears running down from their eyes. Frustration and confusion filled in everyone's head, their eyes are searching up and down, side to side, wondering where the bullets are coming from. But here I am,  just sitting in the trenches surrounded by millions of dead bodies, knowing that we have to leave their bodies to rot in the dirt.

Someone was right next to me, talking about his little girl that he had to leave at home. He said he promised her that he was gonna come back, but turns out he had to let that promise go. Right in front of my very eyes, I watched him die and watched his blood scatter everywhere and then it reached my hands, they were shaking with fright and gulitness. And I sat right next to him, until he took his last breath and all I could hear him say was “I just wanted to go back home”.

All I could think about was that man, I didn’t even know his name. Until I heard heaps of men yelling at  me telling me to hurry up, and go with them to safety. My mind was miserable, I was speechless and as still as a statue. I couldn’t move my body nor my mouth.  The guilt that everyone had was unspeakable, we had no choice but to leave behind our teams dead bodies.

The never ending tunnel.

Slowly and gently, my eyes started to peek open, my vision was blurry and all I could see was bright green and hazel brown. My vision started getting clearer and as it went clearer, I started to see the sunlight beaming through the walls and shining into my eyes. At a slow pace I started to get up and gazed up upon a grassy long tunnel. I started to walk, while my hands were in between the roots and grass throughout the whole way. I thought I reached the end, but it kept going and going, and my assumptions thought I was stuck here forever.

Circle of Flames!

I strolled around the hallway, and into the kitchen. And then there it was, that nice strawberry smell from a little candle. The little flames were going up in the air, making the house smell like strawberries. I gripped onto the candle and stared at it for a while, then left it peacefully on the table, my hand shook the table as I was leaving, and the candle started wriggling around like a bowl, but I walked out. That little candle, fell on its side, making the fire go onto the table and slowly burning it. It went onto the edge of the table, and started going around like a circle, causing the house to get all smokey and blazing hot. The fire made its way down to the rusty wooden floor, then slowly making its way up to the chairs and against the white pale walls. I came back in, and I couldn’t see anything, I coughed and coughed, trying to see where the fire was, but all I could see was black and grey smoke and more smoke. I opened the door leading to the kitchen, and saw flames up in the air. Burning everything in its way, I could’ve made a different choice, and should’ve left the candle where it was placed before, and maybe, the house wouldn’t be in a state like this..

Castle Midnight.

Misty dark sky, fog surrounding all areas, and all I see is a silhouette of a dark castle. A patch of light was in one spot of the sky, as if it was the way to heaven. The water splashing against each other, and as for me, I was placed in a car. Like those 1900s car, with those big wooden wheels, along with those horses pulling the carriage. But this time it wasn’t just a horse, it was more like those magpies, but all black and scary. With super long claws that could sink their sharp claws into your skin. But it was 10 times bigger than an actual horse, and all I saw was that mysterious big bird leading our carriage to that castle. Then I started seeing things disappear, like the castle was fading away into pieces, the water was sinking away, and then I was placed in my bedroom. But everything seemed so real, was it my imagination or did it actually happen ?

Summer poem!

 Have you ever smelt summer ?

Sure you have!

Remember that time..

When you were trying to go to sleep at night, but it was too hot so your body had the urge to roll
around a lot, keeping you frustrated

That was Summer..

Remember that time..

When you just finished your shower, and later on your body smells like B.O because your body,
couldn’t take the heat

That was Summer..

Remember that time..

When you went to go look in the freezer to see if there was any ice cream to cool your body down,
but you were left with just the ice cream box with nothing in it

That was Summer..

By Paige

The girl and the fox..

It was a snowy day, the fresh breeze was flying around making it cold! A young girl appeared and came across to a terrifying state! She looked down slowly and saw blood on the snow, along with a innocent dead bird lying peacefully, on the snowy pale ground. Looking mysteriously around the bird she was thinking, who killed it?

She looked around the bird and saw evidence that was left behind! There was strange paw prints leading all the way to a unusual dark forest. She couldn’t resist but to go and find the killer that was somewhere in the forest. She held her coat and gently pulled it over her head!

The wind was blowing her scarf, as she was staring at the forest with furious. She zoomed straightly into the, dark forest! With the lantern in her hand holding it tightly with her glove. She jumped above a little tiny snow mountain, and landed on the ground like a cat! Then started seeking for the creature who, killed the bird.

The killer was nowhere to be seen. She took one step, looked down and saw a, grey fur or feather that was lying on the ground. She picked it up and looked at it closely thinking who could this feather belong too? She looked right in front of her and saw a bush that was shaking as if it was an earthquake! She went closer and closer trying to get near the bush. SWOOSH! She leaned back just as the fluffy grey, fox jumped over her. It ran up a little tiny mountain took a glance at her and swiftly ran off into the woods!

The ground was white and pale. Soft and fluffy but lying in the middle of nowhere? Was a lantern with the light shining bright! It was so mysterious. Running swiftly through the trees, and bushes the fox slowly stopped. Peeked through the bushes while looking around and saw the lantern. That was strangely left in the open! The fox was focusing on the lantern while being distracted and popped his head out of the bushes.

Took one step out into the open and swoosh! The young girl came out of nowhere and jumped onto the fox. Pulled out her sharp knife and held it up against its throat threatening it! With a furious face she looked at the foxes innocents eyes and she couldn’t kill it. As she gently let go of the knife the fox glared at her, for five seconds and ran off!

As the fox took off the young little girl walked slowly through, the freezing cold woods. The sun was setting down and it was starting to get even more cold! The young girl couldn’t walk anymore so she started walking like a zombie. She tried to walk fast as she could to get home! She suddenly, collapsed onto the snow fluffy ground and her eyes slowly closed. The big fluffy fox found her after she collapsed and realised that she was freezing cold. It lifted her body up and snuggled up against her trying to keep, her warm and cosy through the frosty cold night.

The sun rises high in the sky while the sunlight, gazed down at the fox and the young girl! The fox opened its eyes glared at her and ran off quickly before she noticed. The young girl woke up and noticed that the fox had left but there was two shadows that she saw walking towards her. She looked up and saw her beloved parents run to her with relief! She opened her arms wide just as her mum held her up. They walked back home slowly along with happiness and the young girl was happy. But as soon as she looked back the fox came back and looked at her normally! The young girl looked at it and the fox dashed back into the woods!

Role Models !!

Why my parents is my role model
Remember the T.I.I.C structure.

T	Title - What you will be explaining
I	Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I	Information - Explain the elements or steps in a logical sequence
C	Conclusion - Final summarizing statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title	“My Role Models”
Introduction	My parents and my sister are my role models. So in this explanation I will be writing why they are my roles models, and what makes them one. I hope one day when I grow up that kids will look at me as a role model!
Information 1st element	My mum is one of my favorite role models. Why? Because she cared for me and loved me like a mother should. She was there for me since day one, and she means the world to me. She is hardworking just like my dad because she cooks for us, she cleans the house for us, she cleans up the mess that I made even though I should be cleaning it up. She will do anything for me and my siblings and she will clean up things and do things without being asked to. My mum is a women that is courageous, caring and mostly everything in many different ways.
Information 2nd element	My dad is also one of my favorite role models because he works hard in many different ways, and he wakes up in the early hours just to provide for food and money for our family. He is courageous and loving, he does everything for me like my mum. For example if there is no one by my side I know that my dad will always be with me all the way. He never wants to go work but he still goes because he’s doing it for me and my siblings.
Information 3rd element	Its shocking but my sister is also one of my role models as well even though she is mean to me half of the time. She helped me when I was little all the way up until now. She has done many things for me without being asked and I would say that she’s like second mum. If I’m showing disrespect to people she would always teach me to do the right things, instead of the bad.
Conclusion	These are the reasons why they are my role models.

Dreaming..

            Planning:

Scene/Setting:

Characters: Martina/Martinez/grandfather/Parents/Jaden

Problem: Martina casted a spell that he was unaware of and freed the bad wizards

Solution: Martina learnt a difficult spell that would lock all bad wizards.

                Dreaming...

Long ago a child got given birth and the baby was a boy. His parents took a glance into his eyes and, they were bright green. The color of his eyes were so beautiful and it reminded his parents about his grandfather. So the baby's mother decided to name him after his grandfather. “Martina” was that the baby got given. Martina’s parents wanted him to have a better future, but there was a huge history behind Martina’s grandfather's past and what happened to him didn’t have a happy ending.

In the year 1986 Martina’s grandfather got given the name “Martinez”. His eyes were exactly the same color which was bright green. But he was born with the powers of a wizard. They always had to move to village to village but wizards kept on casting spells on the village, either making the houses go on fire. Or killing animals or people, and humans thought that wizards were a threat to them, but it was actually bad wizards that kept casting those annoying spells on their beloved village. So Martinez did a spell that only he knew, and locked them up far, far, away. Someone saw Martinez do the spell and assumed that he was one of the bad wizards so they snitched and sadly Martinez died. But his last words were “Don’t free them” but no one knew what he meant.

While Martina was growing up he was deeply interested in wizards, magic, and the history behind it. He read all sorts of books about wizards, drew pictures of it and to Halloween he wore a wizard costume as well. Martina was a huge fan of wizards and wished that he could be able to meet one while growing up. His parents were really strict about him and worried about him 24/7 and made sure that no one found out who he really was. Martina’s friend “Jaden” came over to his house. They were both reading books about wizards until Martina came across a book that said “Wizard's secrets”. Martina and Jaden were deeply interested in the book and came across a spell that said “Do the spell on your own and don’t free what you don’t know”. They were so confused but Martina decided to do the spell. He closed his door and the windows and started repeating the spell over and over again but it kept on failing. But nothing worked so Jaden said “Pfft this is just a stupid book I’m going home”. Martina glanced at the book and threw it across the room and went fast to sleep. But what Martina didn’t know was that the spell he casted, freed the bad wizards and their village was not safe anymore.

Martina went to the library and said “Hi I’m here to return your book back and these ones”. The librarian then said “Uh thank you but this one is a mistake”. Martina looked confused and lost and said “Uhh yes it is when I issued these books this book was with it”. The librarian said “Uh no it wasn’t I haven’t heard or seen that book ever in my life”. Martina thought he was dreaming so he tightly pinched his arm, just in case he was dreaming. So he said “Oh uh um.. I’m gonna go I’ll come back next week..”. Martina walked off strangely looking at the book wondering why it ended up in his room.

The sun went down and the moon was rising slowly. The light of the moon shined through his open windows and the fresh breeze blowing the curtains. Until he saw his grandfather's spirit in the light of the moon. He was blinking 50 times every 5 minutes but his grandfather's spirit was still in front of him. He said “Which spell did you do Martina?”.

Martina replied and said “Uh umm this one it says do the spell on your own and don’t free what you don’t know”. His grandfather said “Martina where.. Where did you find it? This is a trick do you know what you unleashed?”. Martina said “Uh I don’t know I just said the spell and my friend was with me”. His grandfather then said “Time's running out.. You need to do another spell to lock them in now”. And slowly his grandfather's spirit was fading away.

Martina was learning a difficult spell and was searching through, every page looking for the spell to lock the bad wizards. Since he didn’t find the spell he started writing his own and it took him days to figure out that perfect spell. Martina was crying so bad because if he didn’t do that stupid spell, he wouldn’t be in that much stress.

He heard sounds of people screaming, shouting, crying and begging for help. He wiped away his tears picked up a feather dipped it into black paint and began to write. He wrote “Lock the bad wizards in and die within” as he was making small galaxies in his hand and he kept saying the spell and it was becoming more powerful than ever. But the bad wizards power were stronger than Martina’s but he kept saying the words over, and over again until they were gone.

The bad wizards were hurting people and their homes but Martina shouted and said “LOCK THE BAD WIZARDS IN AND DIE WITHIN”. The bad wizards powers were getting weak and weaker and Martina’s powers were getting stronger than ever. All of the good wizards came and swooped in and helped him build up his power. And the bad wizards were gone like flash and Martina nearly died. His parents rushed to him and sprayed him with a memory loss spray. Martina woke up in 1 month and heard his mum say. “Martina..? Martina..? MARTINA wake up please..” and Martina was like “AHHH WHAT HAPPENED??!!!”.

Martinas mum then said “Woah you’ve been sleeping for ages”. Martina was like “I’ve been sleeping uh..”. Martina was left speechless and he was so confused, then Martinas mum said “Uh yeah I’ve been trying to wake you up for ages but you wouldn’t so uh get up buddy get ready for school”. So the mum shut his door and walked over to her husband and said “Don’t you ever tell him what happened no one can know who he is and not even him..”. So Martina wasn’t dreaming after all. His parents just didn’t want him to find out who he is because they didn’t want to lose their beloved son.

Exploring other kids blogs !!

In class all of us were exploring other peoples blogs from different schools! here is what I found out and saw that was on her blog!

Faded !!

Monday 13th February 2017

Anika & Paige

Key Questions

     1.Why is everywhere empty and derelict?

• Everywhere is empty and derelict because he got separated from his family and ran away to an Abandon House with nothing but broken walls.

       2.   Who is the man in the mask? Is he trying to keep his identity hidden?

• The man in the mask is a teenageer struggling he is a orphan looking for his family. No-one knows him.

3.What is he thinking as he is looking at the photograph?

• When he was looking at the photo, he realised how much his family meant to him.

4.Where is he going?

He is going to search up and down to find his family’s house. He wonders what his home would be like.

5.How do the lyrics link with the moving images?

• The lyrics link with the moving images because it represents of what he feels and where he’s going because the lyrics say “ Where are you now.”

6.After he has set off- Where do you think he is going? Why?

• He is going to look for his family’s house, where he used to stay before he was an orphan.
• Why? Because he is trying to look for his family that he was separated from.

7.How do the character’s feelings change throughout the film? How does the director show this?

• The character’s feelings change because in the beginning the orphan feels abandoned and worthless. But during the end he feels free and lets his mind lead him to places he has not been before.

8.How does he feel when he sees the house?

• When he sees the house that he has been searching for he feels, like he has accomplished what he, was looking for to try find his family.

He feels delighted and shocked at the same time.

9.Whose house was it?

• The owner of the house was the orphan’s parents house. He is destroyed inside because the house is nothing but he will carry on searching to find his real parents.

10.What happened there?

• What happened was that the family had sold the house to a friend of there’s. The friend’s family decided to burn down the house. One day they would come back to keep the land.

11.Why does he drop the photograph?

He dropped the photograph because when he found the house, there was nothing there except for broken walls, that was tumbling down into pieces and no one was there to be seen.

My revolting recipes!

( Worm meat balls  )

                             :Ingredients

  <> Mud <> Giant can of Worms <> Can of Maggots <>

<> Frog slime <> Cup of Blood <> Salt <> Black Pepper <>

            <> Hot water <> Uncooked spaghetti <>  

                        

                             :Material:

   <> Pan <> Pot <> Bowls <> Plate <> Teaspoons <>     

        <> Wooden spoon <> Cup <> Sift <> Spatula <>

                                {} Method {}

Reminder: Grab all your ingredients and material but don’t forget, to wash your hands before starting!

1 ) First you wanna grab your pot, put it on your oven and pour water into the pot and, start boiling it. Add a teaspoon of salt into the water to give the pasta a tasty flavour!

2 ) Add the uncooked spaghetti and start stirring it. If you think it’s done taste it just incase. Then pour your spaghetti into your sift so all the hot water comes out. Then pour it into a bowl and put it in your microwave!

3 ) Then grab your pan put it gently on the oven, and pour oil into the pan and boil it. Get your worms and maggots and pour them in and start cooking it with, your spatula. Then leave it on the side!

4 ) To make your meatballs grab your mud and start rolling it into a small ball. For a bit of sliminess add frog slime along with black pepper, and salt! Then leave it in a bowl and leave it on the side!

5 ) Heat up your spaghetti just in case it’s cold, then once it’s heated up grab your worms and maggots and pour all of it in. Put your meatballs on the top and for the sauce grab your cup of blood, and pour it all over the meatballs and spaghetti. For sweetness salt it and done! Enjoy!