Samoan Narrative Writing

As I woke up to the birds tweeting in the sky, I jumped out of bed and looked out the window. “What a lovely day to go for a bike ride. I wonder if my friends want to come”. I grabbed my bike and rode down to Rosalina’s house and knocked on her door. “Hi!” Rosalina says “Hi!” I reply “Do you wanna go for a bike ride?”. “Sure” Says Rosalina “I’ll go get my bike”. “Okay.” I say.

Rosalina came out around her backyard with her bike and helmet, “I’m ready!” she says. “Okay, let’s go” I reply “But wait, I’m gonna go see if Quinlan wants to come” “Okay, I’ll come with you” Rosalina says. We went down to Quinlan’s house and knocked on her door “Hi, is Quinlan aloud to come with us on a bike ride?” “Sure. Quinlan! Your friends are here” “Coming…” She says while she rushes down the stairs. “Wanna go on a bike ride?” I ask her “Sure, let me get my bike”. Quinlan ran to her backyard and grabbed her bike “Let’s go. Is anyone else coming?” “No,” I reply “Let’s go”.

We were riding our bikes up and down the street when suddenly a car appears in front of us leading us to doom, we tried to turn but there was 2 men carrying a glass window to a building and we crashed into it. The broken glass popped our tires and we fell down a huge cliff, but luckily there was a river. But little did we know, it was a time traveling river!

It sent us to the dinosaurs age! “Ahhh!!” We all scream as we got teleported. “Where are we?” We all ask each other. “I don’t know! do you think this is… the dinosaur age??” I ask. “How will we even survive?” Quinlan asks “Eat a dinosaur?” Rosalina replies “Of course not!” Quinlan says “How will we even get a dinosaur down? It will eat us!” “I know” Rosalina says. “Stop whining! We need to get out of here! Where is the river we came out of?” I say curiously “Is it that river?” Rosalina says pointing to a random river. “No! It’s right behind us, duh!” Quinlan says. “Ohhh” says Rosalina “Let’s go before that dinosaur eats us!” I scream.

We all jump in the river just in time and we teleport to the cliff. “We’re home! Well, sort of…” Quinlan says. “I guess we’re stuck down here unless we can climb up?” Rosalina asks “We can try to climb, I guess. Let’s try” Quinlan says. We tried to climb but we just fell down, but we got back up because we can always try again. We climbed up once again and yay! It worked! We were up! Just before 6:00pm. If we weren't home by 6:10pm we would be in trouble! Oh wait… It’s 8:00pm.

Darcy's start to school: Part 2

One day Darcy went to school with her popular brother. People were making big fun of her. They were throwing stuff at her, too. She ran to class and put her bag in the cloak bay, sat down and started reading her book. People started walking into class and randomly mocked her. Poor Darcy!

A few hours later, about 2 hours, the bell had rung for morning tea. Darcy had packed banana yogurt, a wholemeal sandwich and an apple. Darcy ate her yogurt and apple, leaving the wholemeal sandwich for lunch. She never went to play, she just sat under a tree. She thought the tree knew her well, it did. She named the tree, Tree. The bell had rung, once again. “Time to go to class!” Darcy says while she stands up. “Goodbye Tree, see you at lunch.” But little did she know, Tree wouldn’t be there because…

Tuis Samoan Similarities

For 2 whole weeks we have had to make a DLO about Samoa. Do you even know what DLO is? If you don't, it's a Digital Learning Object. A.K.A... A Movie. So we did this little movie about the Similarities between Samoa & New Zealand. Here is a few things I have learnt;
The buses are free in Samoa
The capital city of Samoa is Apia, it is pronounced as Abia.
Samoa & New Zealand are different because not much people in New Zealand eat Coconut. But In Samoa everyone does.

The things I didn't like about the planning and making was that whenever I wanted to do a plan the other team-mates would deny it. I don't know why they would deny but I think they just don't like the planning.

The things I liked about doing the planning and making the movie was how we would keep having to restart over and over again once we've made a mistake. That's when it had gotten funny.
So sit back, Relax, and enjoy the video!

My high bar

The High Bar 3.3.00
WALT: Analyze surface features and the language usedThe authors describe the high bar in different ways by giving it human/animal like characteristics (personification and simile (using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’). List examples of these characteristics below.

The human or living characteristics of the high bar,  gravity, her legs.	Page	Copy the sentences from the story here.
	17	The high bar is a DARK DEMON.
	17	To small to reach the High bar.
	18	Inpatient like a wild horse.
	19	And the bar glows softly at her.

Using personification. Write a sentence personifying the items/objects listed below.

Object	Write your sentences below.
a netball or rugby ball being passed to you.	When my friend passed the Netball to me it hit my face.
a kayak	Today I was waiting for my turn on the kayak.
your netbook	I nearly broke my Netbook by dropping it but lucky it was in the cover
your shoes	I made a mess in the class because I didn’t take off my shoes.

Using simile. Write a sentence that describes these items/objects like something else.

Object	Write your sentences below.
the grass	Soft like a pillow.
a kayak	Is hard like a wood or a rock.
a pair of scissors	Is like a knife.
a pie	Yummy like a treat.

Darcy's start to school

Darcy has been picked on at school because she wears glasses. But she’s pretty without them. But when she has them on they call her a geek. When she takes them off she can’t see, so she has to keep them on. Her brother is popular, too, and Darcy is jealous.

Swimming Event

Did you know swimming started in the first century and has been in the Olympics since 1896. Captain Matthew Webb he has was the first recorded person to swim, He has been swimming since 19th January 1848 to 24th July 1883. When people swim 50 percent of them have pain in there shoulder.

Lauren Boyle is a Swimmer that represent New Zealand, She was the fourth fastest in the heats of 400meter freestyle 4:03.63. Lauren has completed three commonwealth games and two Olympics Games, I reckon Captain Matthew Webb and Lauren Boyle will win the Gold for New Zealand only if Matthew Represented New Zealand.

World War 1

Why is today special? Today is special because it is the 4th of August 2014. Why is the 4th of August 2014 special? Well, the 1st ever World War 1 was ended on this day. No, not this year, the year was 1914. That was 100 years ago. Want to know why this started? It all started when a 'king' was in his carriage. Another man came along and shot him.

1 country were mad at the person who shot him, and the other country was against the 'king' who died. So they made war. And that is how the World War 1 started.

Here is a video of a few facts of the first world war.