China Adventure

I had gone to china a few months ago and I wrote this piece of writing about it but I forgot to publish it

Terracotta warriors

There were 2000 terracotta warriors just in one pit. So one day a group of farmers wanted water for the farm so the dug a well. But instead of water they found 1 terracotta warrior. They didn't know what it was. The first one was found in 1974. When they were first found the terracotta was all in little pieces. Then they go to the terracotta warriors hospital where they get fixed. They used to have colour but when they hit oxygen the colour is gone. There are three levels of warriors. Leader governor and solider. In pit one there is still 5000-6000 warriors still underground. Terracotta is an Italian word. Terra means clay and cotta means like oven cooked.

Desert adventure

It was so fun. There was so much sand and no water. We were going to play in the sand and ride camels. I got a white camel to ride on. When it got up off the ground it was kind of scary. But once we got moving it was so fun. The camel behind me kept sneezing and sneezing. I really scared me. I called it the angry camel. Later in the day we went into a car that was made for the sand to get back to the start and later we went to play in the sand. The view was amazing. The yellow river below you the warm sand between your toes wind blowing through your hair. The best feeling ever.

Famous street in China

One day we went to a famous street in China. There was food and sweets and accessories. It was so so busy. So many people everywhere and it was so busy. The smell of all the food was so good. There was so many people everywhere but what there was even more of was food. Lots of delicious Chinese food that made my tummy rumble. There were Chinese hamburgers, dumplings, sweets, and of course a giant candy floss. There was so much food to eat it was a hard choice of what we had for dinner but we choose dumplings. They were the best dumplings I had ever had.

Dear Future Self.....

Hi future self. Do you remember the time when you were in GRi11 2.0? If you don't, take a second to think about it.

Well in 2016 you were a part of GRi11 2.0. GRi11 2.0 was the name of your class. ‘ G ‘ stands Gordon. ‘ R ‘  stands for Robertson. ‘ i ‘ stands for 10. ‘ 11 ‘ stands for 11. Your teachers were Miss G and Mr R. Miss G loved music and Mr R loved sport.

That year was your best year at C.S.N.S. You learnt how to use google products like drive and docs and sheets and classroom. Ever since you started to manage your own learning, like choosing where I sit and what you do, you never went back to learning when the teacher tells you what to do. Also you were making your way through agency and the agency target.

I have made so many great memories in GRi11 2.0.

• Camp
• Sports coaching

And many more.

Exciting. Challenging. Fun. Amazing. Horses. Glow worms. Water slide.

That was your camp experience. It all started off when you went for a trip in Danny’s Car ( Aisha’s Dad ). You went for a trip to Ashurst. And when you were about to get there, in the middle of the road, we were turning around in circle at the intersection. Danny was asking what way to go.

Another highlight at camp was the Glow Worm cave. It felt magical inside. Later that night, we went to the glow worm cave. It was cold and slippery but exciting at the same time. You could see all the little Glow Worms glowing on the ceiling. The water was cold on your toes and it was sinking into your shoes. You didn’t care because it was magical.

Mr R gave you a chance to be a sports coach. The moment he proudly announced my name to be a sports coach was a great feeling. You could coach Badminton for the Seniors, Badminton for middles and Games for the juniors. You could also coach circuits.

I would like to thank Mr R for being my teacher and giving me all these sports opportunities like table tennis, futsal and sports coaching. Also I loved the EPro 8 challenge. Building a robot car was awesome. I would also like to thank Miss G for giving me a lot of music opportunities like kids for kids.

Thank you for being helpful in 2016!

Thanksgiving

This term we have been learning about cultural diversity. We had to do an inquiry about culture. I choose Thanksgiving.

Some of you may know about Thanksgiving and what it is about.
My question was How do people celebrate Thanksgiving?

What is Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in North America, Canada and America. In Canada, it is celebrated it the second Monday of October. In America, it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is a time for family's to come together, enjoy a large feast and thank each other for what they have.

What do you eat on the day of Thanksgiving?
Traditional food on Thanksgiving is a must have. When thanksgiving became a national holiday, Turkey wasn't on the menu. Neither was potatoes or pumpkin pie. CRAZY!!! Most people on Thanksgiving day like to enjoy, Turkey, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin pie, Gravy, Corn and Green beans.

History of Thanksgiving.
On the first Thanksgiving holiday, it wasn't a big meal, it was a three day festival of hunting eating and other entertainments. Also in 1789, president George Washington announced the first national Thanksgiving holiday. It was to celebrate the success of the fall harvest.

Athletics

On Wednesday 2 weeks ago, it was the C.S.N.S Athletics Day. Each year, there are 6 main events and 6 championship events. The main events are long jump, high jump, shot put, long distance, sprints and hurdles. My favourite events are long jump, high jump and sprints. This year I entered in 2 championship events. They were long jump and sprints. I thought that I did really well. At the end of the day, there were house relays. I was in the Kea relay team. After all the kids relays, there was a parent vs teachers vs young leaders relay. I was part of that to. I love athletics at College Street but this year was my last athletics at College Street. I love athletics. 

GO KEA!

Yearbook entry

Post 7 of the blog post challenge. This year will be my last year at C.S.N.S. Each year children leave my school, we get a yearbook to remember our time at College street. Each person has to write something they enjoyed about C.S.N.S to put in the yearbook.
Here is my entry for the 2016 yearbook.

My earliest memory at C.S.N.S was when I was in New entrants and I had lost my tooth at morning tea. I got my friend to hold it. Suddenly she sneezed and my tooth fell under the deck. I am a successful College Street kid because I try my best at most things and I take most opportunities that are thrown at me. I have improved in spelling, maths and boosting my confidence by having a growth mindset and speaking in front of others. My highlights at College street are coming second and first in swimming sports, building a robot car in the EPRO-8 challenge and being in GRi11 2.0 and having cool teachers and classmates. The things I will miss most about College Street is being mufti. I have been involved in Dance NZ Made, Kids for Kids, Weet-bix tryathlon, Road patrol, Futsal, EPRO-8, Badminton, Sports coaches, Mathex and Table tennis. Next year I’m going to P.N.I.N.S. I will try my hardest to earn all my blue badges. In the future I would like to be a professional swimmer, dancer or a flight attendant.

Bike safety

Post 6 of the Blog Post Challenge

Next year we are going to P.N.I.N.S. We can walk bike or drive to school. This term a police came in and taught us about road rules and how to be safe while biking on the road. The police taught us how to indicate and that being on the road is more safe than biking on the footpath. After the presentation he took us outside to put on our helmets. He taught us how to put on a helmet the proper way.

After lunch we got to try out all the things that the police had taught us. On the quad there were round-a-bouts, intersections, roads and right turns. We had a ride around all the things so we could feel what being on the road would be about. After that we had a competition to see which group, group 1 or group 2 could have more people on the road after 3 minutes. We had to follow the road rules otherwise we would get kicked off the road.
I am really excited to go to P.N.I.N.S next year and maybe I will bike to school.

Break-Out Education

Post 5 of the Blog Post Challenge

This term we had a challenge to unlock a lock. It tests our communication skills and how we work as a team. First Mr R showed us a little video about what we had to do. We had to unlock a combination of locks to save the Galaxy. The whole thing was a star wars theme.

We had found a box with medals and a UV light. That led to finding a clue on a music sheet. The clue on the music sheet was the password to yet another lock. This lock was a word lock. Inside there was a USB. On the USB there was a clue to solve a lock. Inside the black box that my group had found earlier were some medals. On the back of the medals were numbers. The numbers helped solve a number lock. In the video we saw earlier, there was a clue. ' Another Jedi's trash is another Jedi's Treasure.' I immediately went to the rubbish bin. Under it was a key that opened another lock. Soon we had cracked all the locks. Inside was a prize. Some chocolates!

Break-out education was really fun and tested all my skills.

The lucky hat

Post 4 of the Blog Post Challenge

I had entered this writing competition and it rules were that you had to write a narrative. 

I was standing on the edge of the boat saying my last goodbyes to my family and friends. I had to go on this voyage so my family could get what we needed. We were very poor. My family was relying on me. It felt like all the weight on the family and piled on my tiny shoulders. That very day I was wearing my very lucky sailors hat and my stripy red and white top. I was leaving my relatives to go on a boat voyage to the Pacific Oceans. 

As the night fell I became more and more scared as we set off for sail. Our boat was called the ’lucky jelly’. It was old and jagged and was a brown oak color. My job was to catch the fish. At this point of the voyage I really truly missed my family. I wanted to go home.

When the sun rises the boat is awake and a new day has begun. We race to the kitchen to scavenge for anything we could eat. I managed to find a few pieces of bread and a tea bag. After I devoured all that I could find I went to my cabin to grab my fishing gear. My goal was to catch my daily fish so I could solve my starvation problem. In the evening the  above looks like a pretty picture. When the ocean is calm I like to sit on the edge of the boat and admire everything around me. 

 Once the sun has crawled down, I would of finished fishing so the cook can cook dinner. Sometimes when I wait for catch of the day, I like to sit and enjoy it while it lasts. In my mind, I like to think what the day has done to me and my life. Sometimes I have multiple thoughts running through my head, I don’t know what to think. When the fish is ready we race to the dining room to get our dinner. After the feast we get ready to transform into normal people and sleep for the night. As I sleep, the stars a winking at me. At night, the sea is very rough and the wind howls like fierce wolves. The waves are crashing upon the near broken boat. The clouds are glum and the sky is crying. 
As the night grows, the sky makes more and more noises. I couldn’t get to sleep. 

I woke up to the sounds of the sea. I found myself in the cold deep Pacific Oceans, swimming in the middle of nowhere. “At least I got to my destination.” a little voice cried in my head. I thought to myself, this couldn’t possibly happen to me! I couldn’t spot any other members from my voyage with my beady little eyes. ‘I guess i’m a man of himself now.” My eyes crept around my surroundings trying to spot land. Suddenly I saw a little island not far off from where I must of drifted off in the night. I began to swim rapidly towards the little island. I thought to myself my hat isn’t so lucky after all now.

Once I was on safe land I began to search for food, shelter or anyone that could help me get back to my ship or back home. It was only day three of the voyage and 1 man had already gone overboard. I found a few coconuts at the top of a very steep tree. I had to climb so high that I lost grip and tumbled back to the bottom. My hands felt the top of my head and I soon realised that my very lucky hat had disappeared. I had to think of another plan if I wanted to survive. I found my hat lying on a bed of seaweed. I adjusted it on my head. Underneath that very bed, I found a beautiful chest made of oak and gold. I was ecstatic to open the chest. Could this be the jackpot I had been looking for?

Inside I found a note. It said, you have found a jackpot. You will choose to go back home right now or stay here and wait for someone to come and save you. Remember they might come in 1 year. They might come in 37 months. You will never know. If you choose to stay you can receive whatever you wanted for 56 months. I knew that my family would be worried whatever happens so I decided to go home right that very moment. The voyage was meant to go on for only 1 week. If I stayed and they came in 37 months they would be really worried about me. I thought to myself, my lucky sailors hat is really so lucky after all!

P.N.I.N.S visit

Post 3 of the Blog Post Challenge

On Thursday all the year 6's walked to P.N.I.N.S. We went their to have a look at all the performing arts groups that we could join when we go their next year. There were so many types of groups that I could join that I didn't know what I wanted to join. The groups were Jazz band, Rock band, 3 different types of dance groups, Pacificia, Kapa Haka, Orchestra, Choir and Drama. I really want to join the Drama group and also the Jazz band & the choir. 

I am so excited to go to P.N.I.N.S next year!

Blog post challenge

Post 2 of the Blog Post Challenge

The blog post challenge is when you post a blog post every day for 7 days.

7 days = 7 posts

The blog posts must include

• 1 of them must include a photo or image
• All of them must be about different things
• Add humor
• Think about your Audiance when writing the post
• One of the posts must be about learning