Waitangi day

WALT:use the structure of a recount to write about a holiday highlight.

On Waitangi day.….. I woke up really early but I knew it was a public holiday so I slept in until maybe close to 9:00 and then woke up. I then went into the sitting room and I was the only one there at the time so I just had breakfast and started watching tv.

Later when everybody woke up and had some food I did some baking with my mom. We were going to make cookies with little white chocolate drops in them, after some time, they were done! and we started eating them and it was yum. After that not much happened we only stayed at home, my dad just put on the movie Despicable me, and my mom made some yum popcorn.

Later on I think my mom let me and my little sister got to have some tasty ice cream and then we went to bed. Overall I think I had a fun waitangi day hanging out with my family at home.

task description: We needed to write a recount about our day on Waitangi day.

Year 5 & 6 Camp

WALT: write in paragraphs.

Last week the year 5s and 6s went to the 29th annual Camp!. We went to school in the morning with mufti clothes and had our day bag for all the fun activities & stuff we were gonna do today. Camp is an exciting experience where you do energising activities with your friends.

It’s also a fun thing because in Camp you don’t do things that are boring like just staying inside. We went on camp on Wednesday the 6th of march and we were gonna sleep in tents in the field. We did it because the teachers wanted us to have a fun experience and our group teacher’s name was Miss Tuiā and our whole group was called Batay which means children in Philippines .

We did activities like Killer Zone, Slip n slide and inside games, like blowing down cups with balloons, bottle flip challenges and also things like bouncing ping pong balls into cups. When all of that finished we went into the ginormous tent to eat our morning tea from our lunch boxes. Our next super call activity was going to be kayaking down at Pt England beach, when we did that, we had a lot of fun kayaking and learning how to kayak.

 When we finished we had lunch and then we did our next activity. After that we had dinner and then we watched a cool movie called Small-foot which I loved.  I loved all the activities at Camp because they had  a lot of intense fun and they were really wild but I actually liked Killer Zone the most of all because most of the challenges in there included working as a team.

 I also really loved watching the movie Small-foot because it was full of action and comedy. I think kayaking was my third favourite thing because It was really fun kayaking, thanks for all the other kids that help us know how to kayak. This camp probably wouldn’t be enjoyable if all the lovely helpers weren’t at that awesome Camp.

if your a helper at this Camp and you’re reading this, thank you for everything that you did, we are truly grateful for all the hard work all of you people put in to this camp.

Task description: We used a template to design our paragraphs in our writing doc well we wrote.

The Mission Recount

WALT: Structure a recount correctly
Today our weird teacher decided to make us act like we were in the army training, and we did some weird stuff because it was part of our mission.

At first our teacher Mr Goodwin made all of us stand in a straight line. Mr Goodwin then looked at us with his face stern and serious, he started yelling at us with words like “ back straight!” or “hands on your sides!”. Our teacher told us to start marching still and straight in our lines up until we all got to the stairs that lead to the pavilion.

Next our fake army leader told us to sneak past the pavilion without making a single noise so they don’t hear us. We started walking up the stairs onto the deck but everyone else created a lot of noise because they decided not to take it seriously or it was just really hard to make no noise on a wooden floor. We finished getting past the classroom down the stairs onto the concrete when our leader told us to halt and explain our next instruction.

Overall i’m pretty sure we all had a fun time and thought that it was hilarious or interesting that  Mr Goodwin gave us that crazy but fun experience.

Finally our last activity was to go on the field and start doing exercise because our teacher wanted to annoy us once more. Our leader started shouting for us to do push ups so we started doing that but half the class was being unfair because they either did fake push ups or they didn’t do it at all. Next we did sit ups and people were still struggling to do it well others were energised like me. At last we needed to stand on one leg and put our arms in the air and wave them like we just don’t care, Mr Goodwin tried to push me over but unlike others I didn’t fall because I was balanced evenly and properly.



Task description: We needed to listen to all of Mr Goodwin's instructions.