Walking Up The Farm On Scarlys Way

 Walking Up The Farm On Scarlys Way

Yesterday was our Green Gold Reflection, this means people come to see if we won green gold. Green gold is a award that  enviroschools win when they have been keeping up with all there enviro work.  Instead of staying at school, our class was going up to Scarlys Way.  

We lined up on the deck to walk to the farm. I was at the back of the line so sometimes it took a while to understand what the teacher was saying.  I am NOT a outdoor person so really I was not that excited to go up a muddy farm and have to walk there!  We were there, I used my jersey as a seat then we got in a single file line. 

Pretty soon we were at a HUGE tree for brain food.  We had walked so far and I don't get why the teachers want us to do this. They got all the way here and are not even panting!  In 30 more minutes we were half way up and we started to go down hill. When we got ot the bottom we then had to cross a river full of yucky gunk.

Sentence Starter!

                           Sentence Starters

This is one of my sentence starter - quick writes from this week.

The rain was pouring down. So I turned my face to a frown. I was supposed to go to a friends house and my Mum wouldn't drive me so I gave the rain the crown.  Then I looked up places around the town. There was nothing fun to do around the town so I put my head to the ground.  My sister came in covered in brown so I decided to back down on asking for a friend.  I decided to make a poem full of nouns that turned my frown upside down.  My mum came in with a matching gown but turns out mine was just a dressing gown.  Then dad came in to say the car had broken down and showed us a picture of a red or brown car and took us to the country town.   

Cross Country!!!!

 CROSS COUNTRY!

Each year Wainui Beach School does something called cross country.  No, it is not what it sounds like.  We do not run around the country.  What we do is... go down to the sand dunes and do a run around the course. Last year I only had to do one lap and then half a lap but this year I had to do two full laps.  Looks like you know enough about what WBS cross country is for me to go on.

"GO YEAR SIXES!" I shouted. "Year five girls" said Koka Sue. I lined up to start my race. "Take your marks. Get set. GO" said the starter. I started to run. I had a great start off then it got worse.  I really don't care what place I come in school sports because its just a fun activity that the teachers plan to keep us active. 

I was only one quarter through the first lap when I realised that I was getting tired. Even though I was tired I kept on running. Then I realised that there was a hill and that was why people were starting to walk.  I slowed down and started to walk up the hill then when I got to the top I ran across the little hill and ran down as fast as I could.

Completing the first lap and feeling rather tired I needed to carry on to do the second lap!!!!   I thought  - will this ever end?  This time I knew the course so it was a lot faster. I kept thinking how much further? I really don't get why we have to run so far.  It's definitely easier said than done, I thought.  I turned a few more corners then I could see the finish line. YAY!!!!!!!

I crossed the finish line feeling really  of myself. I had done it. No more cross country ...

...till next year!!!!        🏃

 

Lockdown family movie night!

 Lockdown Family Movie Night

This lockdown we have fat in a lot of activities, such as baking and remote learning. But the first week of lockdown we went on search for something to watch at night.  One night we remembered a movie that Dad bought a few weeks ago that everyone had been dying to watch called The Girl Who Believes In Miracles.  It was a awesome movie about a girl and how it was being her.

She had a older brother who had a girlfriend. The three had a lot of fun together. But one thing they loved to do was to go fishing in the lake at there grandfather's house. The first night we didn't get to finish the movie because I have two little brother's and a little sister and mys brothers had to go to bed.

That night I thought weather we were going to watch the rest of the movie and what was going to happen at the middle going to end.  Its lockdown,so Mum and Dad can't go back and say that we have a babysitter.  This meant that since they said we could watch the movie we had to because restrought are close due to lockdown and the babysitter's can't come and babysit us.    

Lockdown

 Lockdown

Lately NZ has been in lockdown. In lockdown there is not much to do but school work. 

Lately though, I have been baking and colouring and all the stuff I do in my weekend ( Well, except for going out and about to the supermarket and ice-cream shops.) We are so lucky to live by a beach and because of that we get to go to the beach every single day of lockdown ( Unless its raining.)

The night before it all began we were all watching the news as a family wondering what the prime minister was going to say.  It started off with saying that the case of covid 19 was in Auckland which most people knew then she said a lot before it came to the fact that we were in lockdown.

My sister was so happy because she felt like she needed a break of school.  I had been away on holiday so I needed my time at school.  Two very different things put together. I was still happy because it was only till friday but now it the week after on thursday and we are still in lockdown. We are supposed to be back at school soon but that will be announced tomorrow.

I don't want to stay in lockdown because i'm away from all my friends except for my family, but I do want to stay in lockdown because I will have more time with my family and more time to finish school work without being distracted by a friend.  Either way I will be able to wait or get back to school.           

The Olympics

The olympics

I don't know about you, but lately I have been watching the olympics on tv.  I have been loving the hockey and swimming.  Since I am part American, I have been cheering for America as well as New Zealand.  There are many other sports I love to watch but I have manley been watching swimming and hockey. In school we have been doing our inquiry on the olympics and so much other but while the olympics are on, we will work on them.  We have been learning how the olympics were postponed last year and moved to this year but is still called tokyo 2020. Did you know that the US made a world record for the Freestyle relays? If you didn't, its true and if you have the channel you really should start to watch the olympics.  

On Monday, our class was introduced to some olympic activity booklets.  They are full of activities about the olympics and paralympics such as our favourite nz athlete from the olympics and our favourite nz athlete for the paralympics. They also have fact files. Fact files are a page with a whole heap of questions about a topic, in this case the questions were about the olympics. There are way more activities in the booklets and they are meant to last us till week two or three.

Writing workshop

Writing Workshop

Today, just like any Tuesday, I had a writing workshop.  Whenever I go to a writing workshop I alway think I will learn something,but I never do.  When I leave a writing workshop I think that I will learn something next time, but I never do.  Today we were learning about using different sentence structures for effect. By looking at other peoples faces,I could tell some of them knew that it is putting in commas and finding things that make the sentence a compound sentence. It is also finding a way to make a long sentence to a simple sentence that makes sense,we learned that  some sentences can only be made to a shorter sentence that make sense if you  use  different places in the sentence put together. 

The teacher explained what it was and gave as a worksheet.  The worksheet was titled, 'Your turn'.  I could tell that we were going to find the commas and that stuff by ourselves on this worksheet.  Before the teacher said go I started to work as fast as I could.  I was done before so many people because I didn't listen to the teachers talk about each question.  Again,I left the writing workshop thinking I will learn something next time, so I have just got to wait and see.  

Even though I always know what to do every single time that I come down,it is sort of fun. Bye, thanks for reading my blog.