Young Leaders Day

“Fern” whispered mum “time for young leaders”, CRASH! I sat up and accidentally banged into mum so hard that I sent her flying across my room “YOUNG LEADERS” I cried, “shhhhh” whispered mum “your sister is sleeping”.

I tiptoed to the lounge were mum gave me a hot chocolate, I sipped it quickly and ran of to get changed and brush my hair. Mum had started putting my lunchbox in my bag. 5 MINUTES LATER: The car door slammed and the engine roared away in the darkness.

“Bye mum” I said “see you at 7:30” I hugged mum and trampled onto the bus with Maliesi. ABOUT 1HOUR LATER, “Maliesi look it's getting light now” I looked outside again staring at the slightly risen sun.

A few stops and many Pringles later… “EVERYONE OFF THE BUS” Shouted mr Anderson. We walked in a line towards the building and entered. Mr Anderson handed out wristbands (pink or blue, because we had to wear them) the wristbands all said ‘I am a seed born of greatness’.

We all walked through the doors and into our seats, well not entirely, there were blue notebooks and a pen on every seat.

“Maliesi look it's starting” I whispered pointing towards the stage. Sadly while I am writing I can't write about ALL the speakers so I will just tell you about my favourite speaker Matt Brown.

Matt Brown has 8 other siblings and when he was a kid their family was poor and couldn't afford most things like camp trips and food for lunches, and one day his school got given notices about camp. Later on that day he showed his mum the notice and she said that they couldn't afford it. The next day their teacher told everyone to hand in the notices everyone got up but Matt didn't, his teacher asked why he wasn't getting up and Matt said “umm umm my uncle died and he lived in America so it's a funeral” his teacher just said “ok cool”. I think that this was a great act of kindness so Matt didn't get embarrassed.later Matt discovered that he wanted to be a barber one day so he went to the wharehouse and brought $20 equipment, now days he has $400 equipment and it just goes to show that you can achieve your dreams starting with nothing.

I hope you enjoyed this bit of writing!
                          THE END

First Week Back

The first week back at school… It wasn't exactly exciting but it could have been worse.

This week my achievements mostly involve math.

The first thing is that we did a Ikan test (maths test) and I found a new knowledge goal because of the test (The things I got wrong was put down as a potential goal), the goal is Order Any Fraction and I am very excited about finding this goal.

This one is also to do with my maths goal,I finally understand it by looking at both of the videos on our class google site, now I am searching for practice work. (Order any fraction includes ordering improper fractions and many more types).

Also I finished my plan for a story called “Cherry Tree” about a mysterious world hidden by a cherry tree, the world seems fantastic but ends up much worse, which will be going on my blog when I have finished the story.

Another thing is that I finished my goosebumps scream school story. It is about a kid who has a horror movie making dad (who always wants his kid to admit he's scared) and jack ( the kid) pulls a humongous prank on his dad, who believes every bit of it.

That's all my highlights of the week, hope you enjoyed!

Swimming Day

Goal: I can use a range of powerful figurative language features.

Why am I writing:Because I enjoyed this day and wanted to share about it.

On Thursday last week I was walking down the school pathway, nearly tripping up on the

Concrete with excitement with my tog bag in my hand, my bag on my back, excited for the day ahead.

It was finally time to walk up to the bus to go to the Highlands school pool, at this point in time I was feeling VERY nervous, thoughts raced through my mind ‘what if I'm not good enough’ ‘what if I embarrass  myself’, but now that I think about it I shouldn't have overreacted because I was only doing width.

The class hopped out of the bus and walked down to the gate of the Highlands pool. As Mrs Mca reminded us to be quiet one of the other teachers opened the gate. While we were stumbling down the steep concrete path the pool just came into view and I thought ‘Woahhh’.

Everyone was settled on the concrete terrace when the teachers started talking, “BLAH BlaH BLAH” while the teachers were talking I stared into the shimmering crystal blue pool. I forgot to mention that we were allowed to eat and that the teachers were saying all the rules.

When the teachers finished talking they let the people that weren't changed get changed. After I got changed or some time later Mrs Trinder announced the width races, the flutterboard events went first.

I jumped up as I heard my name being called for front glide and kick. I got to the line where everyone else was and we waited for the recent width display to finish. It finished. Mr Anderson was waiting there telling us what we do. He let us into the pool,by the time I  slipped into the refreshing cold pool and ducked under, Mr Anderson was counting down.

..2..1.. The whistle blew.SPLASH! I kicked of the wall, trying to stay in the same place while kicking\gliding. The water felt surprisingly comforting as I touched the edge of the pool.

I shivered all the way to my towel and seat ‘I hope I did good’ I thought. It took quite some time until my next one...Freestyle…. I didn't feel as nervous as I did the first one but I still had my worries because I wasn't as good as Freestyle as I was at front glide and kick.

Once again I hopped into the water waiting for Mr Anderson to count down, he finally did. My hands swept the water as I did the stroke,as I was feeling slightly more confident I went faster and I reached the end in a few more seconds and went up the ladder, dripping water everywhere.

The wait for my next stroke came quicker than I expected for my next one was Breaststroke. Same as usual I walked up to where Mr Anderson was and before I knew it I was bobbing up and down in the water and touching the wall.

All my activities had ended/all the width activities had ended and time flew by and before I knew it we were walking up the path to the Highlands pool gate, I smiled as we walked out, feeling way less nervous than I had when I walked in.

                        THE END!!

Best SHOP EVER!

If I could own any shop…

Welcome to pets r us this is a huge pet shop filled with,       cats,dogs,rabbits,fish,turtles, chinchillas, mice, birds,guinea pigs, snakes and lizards. Also comes with food/supplies for any animal and we can babysit your pets!

The reason I want a shop like this is because I love animals and I would love to be with animals mostly everyday. For a job like this you would get paid for having fun and I think that is amazing.

Normally at a pet store you do all this work to get a pet but have to buy some toys separately but at my shop you would get two toys, a certain pet toy for each different animal and a bag of the animals food.

Everyone at different places would always complain about money but for my shop you wouldn't care about money.

The main reason I want to own this shop it's  not money it's the enjoyment that you get from the animals, maybe grouchy animals will come and go but come on who can’t resist grumpy cat.  

Also we have sold: 30 cats and dogs 45 guinea pigs and mice and lizards 33 Chinchillas and  birds 25 rabbits and turtles and 17 fish 11 snakes!

And that would be my shop!

Classrooms for next year

Rotorua Trip

Goal: To write as detailed as Possible & To write exciting

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I smiled as I walked out of the door while carrying my huge black bag, despite the bags heaviness I bounced up and down and put my bag in the boot of the car.

FINALLY we sorted out everything, so I hopped in the car (Along with Ellie Libby Bruce Bonnie & mum). Bruce started the car and off we went, then the car turned into a cheetah.

We stopped the car at one point to have a picnic but it was raining so instead we just had the lunch in our car!

We had a bun with cheese and ham in it also we had juice and yogurt YUUUUUMMMM. After that we hit the road!

Bruce all of a sudden stopped the car, mum started whispering to Bruce. I asked where are we mum? She said we went the wrong way. My stomach churned over I felt sick,the juice curdeld around in my stomach now we had to wait even longer to get to Rotorua!!

“Fern come on wake up” said Bonnie shaking me, everyone walked out of the car carrying as much gear as possible. After I had done my fair share of transferring items back and forth, I walked inside and we chilled for a while exploring the place when mum said wanna go to the park, so we did.

When we got there we saw a carnival going on in the background so instead we went there, when we realised that I was to short to go on any of them.

After the carnival we went back home and chilled out and mum ad Bruce started making dinner ( chicken pasta and feta) after we had dinner there was HeApS of leftovers. Afterwards we went ten pin bowling.

At the ten pin bowling place you had to wear socks because they provided shoes that needed socks. So when we got there we went up to the counter and did all boring stuff, blah, blah so afterwards we ended up wearing shoes that fitted us and our names above our lane on a tv screen!

So we started and Ellie was up first she got 4 then Bonnie went up and got 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 WAIT BONNIE GOT A STRIKE, ON HER FIRST GO. Sadly I forgot my score but overall Bruce came first Bonnie came second and I came third YAY.

After the excitement of coming third we were allowed to go to the arcade and I got everyone at least one piece of candy afterwards we went home and slept.

In the morning I woke up and half an hour later mum said ‘ do you want poached eggs on toast?’ I said “yes please just one”. I went into the kitchen and mum let me make my own cup of tea so I sat down with mum and with my breakfast and after that everyone was ready we packed our swimming gear and we went in the car and off we went to Taupo.

When we jumped in the car I said to mum “can we not get lost this time?” Mum laughed and said grinning “ we will try”!

For the WHOLE trip I was bored out of my skull until, we stopped the car and hopped out, this wasn't Taupo but it was HUKA FALLS!!

(15 mins out of Taupo basically)!

“We are going to have a look around Huka falls before we go to Taupo” Mum said, smiling. We walked onto the bridge and looked down, our heads hanging over the rail. I looked around  in awe, “that is really light blue water” I said with my mouth open and my eyes wide. Bonnie Ellie and Libby immediately started taking photos enjoying every single bit.

Mum and me walked around, going as far as we could go, meanwhile Bonnie rushed over showing us ALLLLLL of her photos as for Bruce he was just walking looking on the bridge. 5m later we walked to the car and Ellie and Libby was showing us their photos. Once we hopped in the car we were on the road… AGAIN.

Once I hopped out of the car the concrete grabbed my feet and tripped me up slightly, anyways that’s beside the point we had arrived at the Taupo thermal pools with three spiraling water slides and steaming pools.

We went to the register desk and  everyone but me and Bruce wanted a wrist band to go on the waterslide. So I went into the bubbling water with mum and after ten  minutes we decided to move into a different pool and when we did Bonnie Ellie and mum went on the waterslide.

Some time later (10m)  Bonnie Ellie and mum decided that they would go on the slides so mum asked Bruce if he could watch me while they were on the slides meanwhile Ellie and Bonnie were trying to persuade me to get a wristband to go on the waterslide “no thanks” I replied, before I could say anything more mum Ellie and Bonnie slid away to go on the waterslide…

5 minutes later they all came back down “mum can I please have a wristband” I said, I hopped out of the pool and mum took me to get a wristband.

I ran up the steps to the slide and pushed myself forward and I went spiraling down, in it there was a really dark part and you would nearly flip upside down. 500 turns later I went back into the pool with mum 5 minutes later we hopped out and got changed and went back into the car, mum said I could have an up n go so I did and then we went home (Rotorua).

Once we got home it was say about 5:00 and I said “ Can we go to rainbow springs?” so we did and the lady said that we can come back tomorrow because the ride was closed and if you buy a ticket after 5:00 you can come back the next day.

So we walked around and we saw a place were you get to see live kiwis. So we walked in and straight away saw a huge kiwi and it was so adorable. We looked around for a little longer then we left the kiwi area.

Ellie said that there was a playground somewhere so we tried to find it and we did but on our way we saw birds, one of the birds talked to us and said hello and do you have a bird. We could not stop talking… Whoops I mean THEY could not stop talking.

Once we had finished with the birds we went to the playground and at the playground there was a big swing, little swings, a slide, a climbing wall and much more other stuff. I jumped on the big swing and  seeming that I was tired I almost fell asleep…..

To be continued!

The best thing about school this year

The best thing about school this year is…

That they have made the system in the class rooms exciting, like instead of having to be told when to finish a certain subject eg. Writing reading and maths. In 10.11 we can decide what we want to do and when we want to do it and for as long as we want.

We also have tracking books (a book with what we do in it) and they help me alot because normally you wouldn't have to write anything down because the teacher knows what the whole class has done but in 10.11 you would need to write it down because the teacher doesn't know what you are doing… I think that 10.11 is the best classroom I have ever been in.

Photo of Tracker

link to 10.11 blog

Link to frankley school blog.