Pillow day!

Pillow Day

Hi everybody, welcome back to my blog. Today I'm going to be talking about pillow day, last Thursday we had a fun day called Pillow Day! The teachers made a fun day which was pillow day, we had a  lot of activities and work to do. We also had a special guest come to our school because it was Duffy Assembly. We went into the hall with our pillows and sat on them while listening to our guest. Then after the assembly we got our box of books and went outside with room 2. We read the books they got to them and some of us got to read to ourselves. We got to have half an hour to read our books and then go to our class. When we went inside we played a game of kahoot about the Maori gods and what we know in Maori. After the game of kahoot we played again, but this time it was about our own knowledge. I came 16th place and I didn't even know that much knowledge about movies, math's, and even the Alphabet. At the end of the day we lay down and chilled out till we had to get up and hand out notices. It was a fabulous day and it was the most craziest day of my life too. Thank you for reading on my blog and make sure before you go look at the photos down bellow. See you later bloggers!

Fun Cross Country!

Cross Country!

Hi everybody! It is nice to be back on the bloggers website. Today I'm going to talk about Cross Country on Wednsday the 11th of September . It was amazing and fun because there were relaxing stations where you got a combo of an ice block or a banana cake or a brownie. We first started off at different stations. There was an obstacle course through the mud on the field. There were also soccer goals where you had to kick 25 goals into the soccer goals. The hardest one was skipping 120 skips with a skipping rope and doing it for fifteen minutes. Each rotation we were at, we stayed there for at least fifteen minutes and then the hand bell rang for our next rotation. Skipping is not my favorite thing and kicking soccer goals is also not my favorite thing either. Waikowhai was cheering on each year group until it was our turn to go next.

Everybody was cheering really loud and some of them were screaming. Before we did the run we had to do a warm up with one of the teachers. After the warm up we were at the starting line and I was really nervous. Then we started running after one of the teachers said go and people were already ahead of me. We did two laps around our field, it was difficult but at least I made it to the finish line. I didn't really except a long run when we had to go through a bush. Even with people that had bare feet.
My favorite thing about the day was having lunch with my friends and resting after that long run. The thing I wanted to go to was the bake sale, but I had no money. We went back inside and talked about how it was. That's how Cross Country went on 11th of September. Make sure you look at the photos and make sure you come back on my blog.

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The most amazing camp at mt ruapehu!

Awesome Camp At Mt Ruapehu

Hi everybody, welcome back to my blog and during week 4 we have been on camp. I was really excited by the time we got there. Enjoy the story of camp!

Feelings about camp and packing things.

While I was trying to find my gear, I didn't have all of it yet. It was really hard to find somethings. Some of the ski jackets we brought from trade me did not fit me or my brother. Anyways they were too small for me when we wasted a lot of money. I had ski pants, but not a ski jacket or waterproof gloves. I was not very happy when I had to pack all my things and trying to fit all my clothes inside the big Kathmandu bag. While I was packing I thought I would not be able to look after myself or my brother. I felt really scared going by myself and making sure that I don't get into trouble.

Traveling to different places.
While we were in the bus we traveled to a park called Jim Barker Park. It was made from a famous guy called Jim Barker. It was really cool and there was two flying foxes that were really fun. There was a boat and a water stream flowing by. After we went to the park we also went to Hamilton Gardens and it was amazing. It was colourful and it was full of decorations even though it smelt a lot. We did a treasure hunt around the gardens to see who would find all 24 gardens first. We took photos of our teams and a big one all together at a water fountain. After that we were heading towards the Ed Hillary Walkway and did a treasure hunt again. We went in buddies and started looking at the boards where we collected information. There were also sounds,  you needed to press a button on the left side. Then we had lunch and headed of to Taumaranui School to have a little play on the playground. Me and my friends were playing tag and then we played on the playground trying to climb up the rocks. About half in hour later we went into the bus and was of to The Crossing Backpackers, where we were going to sleep at. 

Arriving at The Crossing Backpackers!
By the time we got there I thought that the bedrooms were going to be really big, but they weren't  and I thought that we were also going to suffocate inside the room.
There was a tiny window and the bathrooms only had two lights on for the girls to go in. At night time we had a lot of fun and we played spotlight with our torches too. Before we went outside we had to check if our layers were thick enough to go outside because it was really cold even though we were far away from the mountain. I was also amazed about the movie room and how they made it inside a wardrobe. They put in three couches, some pillows and beanbags, and a big TV for everyone to watch movies. The food was amazing that on the last day which was Thursday we had the best nachos in the world. They were so tasty I had to have seconds after I finished my plate. For dessert we had ice cream and donuts and a flake in the middle. On top of all of that we had chocolate sauce and it was delicious.

Mountain time!
The next day we went up on the mountain it was freezing like you were turned into an ice block.

I was really cold, but I had fun playing with snow and making snowballs. I was so happy when I went to go and do sledding down the snow. There was different types of lengths. There was a long one, a short one, and a medium one which I went down the fastest. We also went skiing and snowboarding down to the bottom of the hill, where a queue of people was waiting to go on the chairlifts. On the mountain the weather was crazy and when snow was falling down it hits your face like prickles from plants. We had a lot of people complaining about the boots we put on because they were way too heavy. I was not happy at first, but then when I started skiing I was happy again. I was so relieved when we left the mountain because my feet were sore and I was really hungry.

Free time with friends!

Taupo pools was the best and the thing I loved about it was that it was really warm. There was a Tarzan swing were you swing off the rope and there was also floaties to lie on. There was a small area around the corner were you could just relax and there was a bombing zone which almost all the boys went to. There was a BBQ area and the teachers and parent helpers were cooking hot dogs. The best thing about the pools is that I got to play games in the pools with my friends and that we got to eat a brownie or a cookie and 2 hot dogs.

How I felt after camp was really sad because I wanted to stay there just a little bit longer and then go home. I also felt happy because I got to see my family again and got to have pizza. That is my story of camp in week 4 and make sure you have a great time at camp if your going soon. Here is a link of my reflection slideshow of how I felt. I also have another slideshow about the details about Mt Ruapehu. press the link and it will take you to my slideshow. Don't forget to look at the photos! Bye!

Orienteering!

Talofa everybody! On Tuesday, the 21th of May, the seniors of Waikowhai primary school went to Orienteering at Blockhouse Bay Reserve. Orienteering is when you find the pegs by reading a map and to collect stamps on a piece of paper and find the finish line. They also time you and calculate it with other times that you raced with other schools. We went in different groups and went at different times to race. Some of us got different courses on our sheet. Our group came third or fourth place out of all the schools that raced against us.

It was long and fun race while trying to find the pegs. 

After the long run, we gladly took a rest and drank a lot of water and had time to enjoy the playground. It was really fun that we got to keep the map and go there again. Some people got lost and at the end the leaders went to search for the lost students so that they know who won and lost. So 

here are some photos. Thank you for looking at my blog post.

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My Awesome Narritive

Hi guy's I am sharing my Awesome Narrative. If you don't know what a Narrative it is another name for fairy tale. This is one of my longest Narratives that I have written in my life. We had a couple of weeks to finish our Narratives and I love my story because its long and I love it long. My characters are very brave and they are very talkative. It is a very long story and you can read my story everyday if you can't read that much. Here is a link to my Awesome Narrative that I wrote all by myself. Enjoy my story 

My Awesome Narrative ( click here )

Thank you for reading my story. 

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My picture I wrote about.

Gumboot Friday!

GUMBOOT FRIDAY!

Hello bloggers! On Friday we did fantastic GUMBOOT FRIDAY! Gumboot Friday is about raising Mental Health awareness. If you don’t know what Mental

Health I will tell you what it is. It is about your

brain and how healthy your brain is. It could also be if whether you are positive everyday and you are able to do things. We also did little cards to put inside letter boxes. We did this

because if anyone is struggling we can uplift them again to joyfulness. We wrote positive short quotes and drew a small picture. I wrote on the card Create your own sunshine, whatever you do make sure you’re happy.

I did a blue and red card and wrote small short ones. I also drew a heart at the bottom of the writing and who it was from. We got the idea from the Healthy Puketapapa student questionnaire. 30 students were chosen to do the form. We also got an idea for posting in letter boxes, it  was from a student named Neeve in my class. It was very fun and we went in groups of 8 or 9 and we went on different streets to put in letter box. It can relate to us because of the WELL BEING survey and about our school values like Respect. We have our topic for the whole year which is HAUORA  - WELL BEING. A lady rang up our school office and she received a card. She said that it brightened her sons day. She was almost about to cry because he was struggling with mental health.

You can pass on the card to people that you know that are struggling with mental health.

Make a card if you want to make one for everyone and share the kindness, and help.

Bad thoughts are like you are stuck in the mud, and you need gumboots to get through the mud to happy thoughts.

Change other people’s thoughts to happy thought

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these are the people who brang gumboots

Amazing Tread Lightly

 Tread lightly Caravan 2019

Hi guys, I am going to tell you about the Tread Lightly Caravan. It was amazing and I learnt a lot of stuff about how to care for our drains. Some of you already know the Tread Lightly caravan and think its boring. Well this one had VR head sets and talked about a lot of things. We went into three groups and and went to different places and we were very excited. I firstly went outside with Phil to the caravan and we talked about were things go out the drain. the caravan also had a big model of little statues to. Rubbish that goes down the drain ends up into the sea and floats around. When you flush the toilet it goes to a place called''Waste Water Treatment Plant'. I learnt that smoking segregates can poison 7 litres of water which is the size of a milk bottle. Then I went with Ramana and we went to go look around the school drains to see if there was rubbish in there. there were a lot of rubbish in two drains and grass clippings. one of them had grass growing out of a drain which was blocking the rubbish .Then I went with the last session was with Hannah and we talked about the wet lands. My favourite thing about the Tread Lightly caravan was the VR sets. It was my favourite because they talked about rubbish and it looked like it was real. Here are some photos about the Tread Lightly Caravan. 
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How rocks and sand clean dirty water in the Wetlands. 

This is called the Water Waste Treatment
Plant.

This is the VR head sets that we looked in to.