Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 3rd of April Blaketown school did safe cycling. We learnt how to check our bikes in an ‘M’ formation, how to indicate at corners and to indicate when stopping.

We learnt to look behind your right shoulder when passing parked cars, going through an intersection and stopping. We learnt from two police officers named Constable Terry and Constable Jos as well as two parents helping.

There was a course set up for us to do on our bikes and we had to zig-zag around cones, identify what vehicles are behind us on signs, use indications, go up ramps and do stuff like that.

The course was just out on the court, but after we done that he talked to us for a bit then we biked around the block. We had to use the skills we picked up from the course on our court on the actual road and it was just a lot of fun.

Duffy Show

Duffy Show (Diana Queenin)

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th of April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to a semi-duffy show thing. For the duffy show a lady called Diana Queenin came and showed us some stuff that she’s collected while travelling around the world.

She showed us the stinger off of a stingray, which is exactly the size of a tyrannosaurus rex tooth and has barbs on it which helps keep its prey on the stinger, although stingrays are harmless to a human unless you annoy it (in the wild). Also only in New Zealand orcas feast on stingray, which is something she taught us.

Another thing she showed us were geodes which are crystal rocks. She showed us a fake amethyst rock, which is quartz dyed purple and she showed us quartz, which can be found in rocks, which is quite interesting.

She showed us fossils found in rocks like trilobite fossils and stuff like that, that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Other things she showed us was copperite, which is dinosaur poo,  horseshoe crabs shell, which is the closest relative to a trilobite that’s alive, and she taught us how snakes kill you, as well as having a snake skin to show us, so she had quite a pile of weird, interesting stuff.

Top Team

Top Team

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th or April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to Paroa school to do top team. We had an early lunch at 11:00 something, then went to the school at 12:00. Once we got there we waited a bit sitting on the ground then after a couple minutes we were allowed to walk around while waiting. Some of us decided to play bull rush so we went over to a field and played for a couple minutes until we got called in for the people who held the game to talk about the rules and what to do.

After they talked about all that they gave a sheet to the leaders in teams that the teachers picked. On the sheet it says what activity you go to. There are 14 activities and my team started at activity 3. You get points for how well you do in the activities you do but you still do it for fun unless you’re really competitive about it for some reason.  I didn’t have the best team  and it was kind of difficult doing stuff when you team somehow doesn’t know how to move, but we did alright never the less.

The activities we did were things like trying to jump at the same time in bean bag to go forward or trying to walk at the same time on skis, which were really hard because that actually involved your entire team doing the one thing unlike some activities where it’s just one person at a time trying to throw a gumboot at a target and stuff like that.

At the end of the activities my team scored 209 and the highest scoring team got like 350 or some like that. My team definitely wasn’t the best but we tried, at least most of us did.

Eathquake!

Success criteria:

Write a proper recount about the earthquake/s we felt

Earthquake

“Alright, go to bed” my mum said. “Hurry up, you got school tomorrow” she said. So me and my brother, Flynn, turned off our tablets and went to bed. I turned the T.V on, in our bedroom then watched some programs while Flynn was slowly falling to sleep. At around 10:00 or 11:00 P.M my mum came in thinking I was asleep, and turned the T.V off. I said “hi”, so she’d notice I was awake and then she said “go to sleep” kind of grumpily and turned one my radio, then went to my other brothers room and told him to go to sleep, his name was Logan.

Once I finally got to sleep I started to dream about fat unicorns jumping around on clouds and singing ‘Car Radio’ (by twenty one pilots), then my mum stopped that dream, waking me up. She said “get under the doorframe”, I didn’t know what was going but I blindly followed her instructions anyway. I took my blankets off, then when I stepped on to the ground, I could feel it shaking, it was an earthquake!

I ran to the doorframe, and stayed there, I was guessing it would only go for a couple seconds so I wasn’t scared at all, but when it went for over 30 seconds I started to feel a bit unsure, then the power cut out. I wasn’t so scared that I was screaming and crying but my legs were shaking a lot. After about a minute the earthquake stopped but the power was still out.

We went to check for any damage, so my mum grabbed a torch, and straight away we saw cups on the floor, smashed. That was the only thing that happened in the kitchen then when we went out to the lounge and saw that the antique plates and cups my mum had, had all smashed. My mum was more worried about our fish tank that had our Axolotl in it, so she checked over there first, half of the water in the fish tank was on the floor, we were worried that our axolotl  had fell out of the tank and checked around, but he was just hiding in a corner.

After a while I grabbed my tablet and played some offline games, then the power turned back on, so I went to facebook and took a picture of some of the damage and posted it on facebook, the wifi was still not fully on so I couldn't see any new posts but then it started to work after a while and saw everyone's posts. We were all talking to each other then an aftershock came, I went back to a doorframe and waited for it to stop, this was much smaller and did no damage to anything but the power went out again. It didn't go out for that long though so I got to go back onto facebook pretty quick.

Throughout the next hour we stayed awake going to the door frame every time there was a big-ish aftershock until I got to a point where I went back to sleep even if there was an aftershock.






Cabnet from after earthquake :P

The Shoe Story

Success Criteria:
Title
A beginning having who, what, where, why when
Events having what happened in order the oreder they happened
Ending having what happened at the end and an comment that evaluates

WALT: Make a recount about something we did in the holiday from our shoes perspective.

The Beach  

On one nice day my owner grabbed me and slipped me onto his feet then walked out the door to his dad's truck. I was put under the seat behind me while the truck started driving down the street then before I knew it I got taken out of the truck and was on a big gravel car park. Then my owner walked  over some huge rocks to see a beach spreading across further than the eye can see, before I got a really good look at everything my owner started walking not on the beach but instead he started walking around the sanctuary then my owner said to his dad “what walk are we doing today” and his dad replied saying “around the sanctuary then we’ll go up to the tip and down to the beach back to the truck”.

Going around the sanctuary was quite boring, a couple times a bee would get near and my owner would do anything he could to avoid it which was basically all that happened except for the walking part . Once we got out of the sanctuary part of the walk we went up to the tip. When we got to the tip my owner started taking me over all the rocks to the very end of the tip and waited for a wave to come up. Luckily no waves came really high up, although some sea spray got me and the rocks were wet so I got quite damp.

After that we went down to the beach and made me get all sandy then my owner and his brother saw a bunch of foam and immediately ran over to it and started kicking around the foam at each other. It was like a giant water-park, but instead of it being all water it was all foam, eventually they stopped kicking it and just walked to the truck in it.

When they got to the truck I was drenched in foam and water and the dad wouldn’t even let me go into the front or the back seats, I had to go into the back of the trunk with the dog all the way back home and the dog constantly slobbered all over me and sniffed me so much that I wanted to jump out the trunk. I was able to keep my sanity and stay in the trunk all the way home, but when I got taken home I got thrown straight into the wash. Once the washing machine started it felt really weird.

First the washing machine filled up with a bunch of water and once the washing machine was filled with water the machine started spinning slowly and as time went on it started spinning faster, then the dirty water got spun out and fresher water started pouring in. This continued to happen for a couple of minutes, then the washing machine started spinning really fast for a while and all of a sudden stopped, then I got taken out of the washing machine and put by a window while the sun was out to dry them.

The humans were worried that I wouldn’t be dry in time for school as school was starting on Monday, But I drank all the water on me just in time for school and everything was alright, I wasn’t being covered in foam, school was back and nobody got hurt, except for me, I was under a body the whole time that was happening and nobody cared.

I had a good/bad time, it was fun, but foam is really itchy!        

By Kobe