Flower power and plants.

This term our unit is called Flower power. We are focussing on the importance of plants in the environment and our communities. Room 7 have started off with learning about the different types of plants we have. Loto's research is about moss. Here is a slideshow he created to share his findings.

Kickstarting Term 4 with learning about being Sunsmart.

Telesia's exciting recount about her holiday.

Introduction

School finished not too long ago and it was time for our two week holiday. I had already known that it would be the same routine. Eat, sleep, work and more sleep. As boring as it seems, the two weeks holiday were hectic. This is how my holiday went.

Working

During the two week holiday, my sister and I joined my parents in a cleaning job. This meant waking up every morning at around 3:00 am and coming back around 4:30 am. It was very hard to prioritize our sleeping hours as we came back from day activities at around 10 or 9. The cleaning job was a restaurant named Mission Bay Pavillion. We mopped the floor, cleaned the windows, cleaned the toilets and mopped some more. Talk about Cinderella alright!

Cleaning was alright, but the best part was getting to walk along the beach and watching the sunrise after everything was all done. Sometimes we even got to dip our feet in the cold sea. It was so beautiful, the sunrise I mean, not our feet. Unfortunately we didn’t receive any money ourselves, but we were happy that the money that we earned was used to provide food that was very much needed for our family.

Church

After working in the early morning, the majority of the day was spent at church. Our family rode back and forth from St Bernadette Mt Wellington Catholic Church which was crazy due to the amount of family members we have, and the addition of our cousins who tagged along. At church, with our Tongan community, we practised a maulululu for a special performance coming up. Our practises were super fun and exhilarating. Other than that, we had a normal mass on Sundays and Saturdays.

Family Time

During our break we took the opportunity to spend time with family. We played outside in the cool breeze, played card games and watched movies at night. My little siblings always roamed around our backyard singing songs which always entertained us.  Usually after spending time outside we played card games such as 500 and drum. At our house, card games were intense and competitive, so winning was such a big deal. It felt as though my sister was always a hostile competitor which was so intimidating. But at the end of the day, my sister and I walked out of the lounge being the kings of 500 and drum.

Conclusion

I had a thrilling two week holiday and am looking forward for the next one.

Narrative writing by Salote about the interesting blessings sharks have.

Interesting blessings of sharks

Meet the voyagers, Takeshi and Nobyukki from Japan. They travel the world discovering new things in the animal life and take full responsibility for themselves when they get hurt or are in danger by a threatening animal. Throughout their journey, they come across an amazing discovery and assimilate more about the animal’s life.

It all started off with a pleasing sunny morning. Takeshi and her husband Nobyukki rented a house near the shallow waters to discover living species that are most likely to live there, and are on a journey to hunt for sharks.

“Nobyukki, get the engine running so that when we leave we don’t to struggle on starting the hidoi” Takeshi asked while putting on her protective gear.

“Ughh, stop worrying. I’ll do it in five minutes, right after I watch my programme” replied Nobyukki with a grin on his face

“Fine! I’ll start it myself, I can go hunting on my own” Takeshi replied angrily

“OK, OK. I’m coming, don’t startle yourself” replied Nobyukki in serious mode.

Nobyukki starts the engine then puts on his protective gear while Takeshi kisses their cats goodbye. When he finally starts the engine, they were off on their undersea adventure.

Although they’re voyagers, Takeshi still had a problem with undersea creatures and a huge fear of sharks. But, she still explored with her husband because she doesn’t want to break Nobyukki’s heart by saying she hates going far out in the ocean and attending new adventures. It’s been 20 minutes far out in the shallow waters, they came across a group of dolphins that were frighteningly swimming away from another group of sharks. They saw the shark’s fins and got their net ready, as they tried to capture the shark in their sights more come and they got nervous.

“Nobyukki, what do we do?” asked Takeshi in panic

“Just, calm down. Breathe, everything will be alright” replied her husband calmly

Takeshi tried turning the boat around while her husband catches the shark, as Takeshi grabbed the wheel she noticed something was wrong because it was very unstable. It’s turned off and she told her husband the fan was caught up in something.

As time went by, they are surrounded by sharks. They put their life jackets on and prayed they don’t get eaten by the sharks. It took them a while to figure a plan to distract the sharks so that they could get out of the situation. They placed a fish in the fishing rod and threw it into the ocean. That way Nobyukki could go and get the fan running. Takeshi tosses the fish as far as she could and Nobyukki jumped into the water lightly, he saw a plastic bag caught up in the fan so he pulled it out in a hurry. He got the plastic bag out and the fan started running. He got back into the boat with relief on his face and tears in his wife’s eyes.

As soon as they arrived back at the shore they carefully took the bucket out and placed their boat on the sand. Nobyukki put the shark immediately in sleep mode so they can investigate the right amount of teeth a shark has. He took the shark out of the bucket and forced it’s mouth open. He tried to count but there were numerous amount of teeth it was incredible.

“Wow. I’ve always imagined what it’s like to have a huge amount of teeth” says Nobyukki in relief

“No wonder why sharks never run out of teeth” replied Takeshi with a huge smile on her face.

Music learning with Miss Bashnee.

Room 7 really enjoy their music lessons every Monday mornings with Miss Bashnee. We have been learning about instruments, genres of music and also reading musical notes. Salote created a google slide to share what she has been learning.

Learning about special effects and cultural costumes from other cultures. Here is Telesia and Newsam's presentation about their learning.

Learning about special effects used by other cultures. Davarni is a very dedicated K Pop fan and is interested in Asian cultures. Here is her learning about Japanese makeup.