I can swim and float

I divided into the water

I was excited.

Last Friday it was Mission Day. If you do not know what Mission Day is; it is when we open up stores and games. You can wear anything if you bring a gold coin. In my class we did fishing and the prizes were a slinky, handball, lollies and a yoyo. The reason why we were doing Mission Day was because we were raising money for Holy Angels in India. If you want to know who Holy Angels are, they are an orphanage in India.

Mission day started when we went to Mass. Later Paula and I went to a tossing the ball game for a drink and then we went to our own shop and started playing. I got a slinky and Paula got a yoyo. By the time we finished buying stuff it was our turn to work. The games

were very fun and enjoyed by the other classes. I liked giving out the prizes and doing a timer. 

Then it was lunch after lunch and after the bell rang, we watched a movie called Pete’s Dragon. The movie was about a dragon that could become invisible and the owner of the dragon was Pete. We could not finish the movie because it was too long. By the time the movie was half way finished it was already home time so we turned off the movie, said prayers and went home. I had a great day.

Last Thursday, Room 6 and Room 7 lined up behind Room 7 for cycling. There were 2 cycling coaches. Coaches called Stephanie and Lucy. The people that were not confident riders  went with Stephanie and the others went with Lucy. I went with Lucy because I can already ride a bike. 

Lucy told us how to check our bikes and helmets. We went to the bottom court and put our helmets on and got ready to ride. We started to go around the bottom court and whenever Lucy said green light we started to ride and when she said red light we stopped. We went around the court about 10 times, then we started to go around 4 cones. After we went around the cones we went towards Lucy and when we got to her, we had to do any sign we knew. I just did a wave because I did not know what to do. When we finished it was morning tea.

When morning tea was finished we put on our helmets and got on our bikes again and got into 2 groups and we each took turns to look right and then left. After we did that we had a race and the last one to the finish line was the winner. The rules were we can not move side to side or stop. We had to go when she said ‘go.’ 

At the end of the day we were all tired but it had been so much fun riding a bike again and playing different games with my friends.

Yesterday morning at St Patrick’s school we met at school before walking to the Rippa rugby tournament at Dunkirk  field. When we got there we put our shoes in our bags then we set up our mat and put our bags on top. The first team we played was fast but we still won. The score was 3 to 9. The second game we versed Panmure Bridge and they were fast and good at side stepping. We tried our best but we still lost 4 to 7. On our third game we versed  Panmure District and we played our best again. we won 4  to 6.  On our last game we versed Point England and it was a hard game and we lost. At the end of the day I was exhausted and tired. Then I went home and went to sleep. I can’t wait for next year’s tournament.

Last term we made a Taonga or treasure out of clay and I made a twist first. I made the shape of the twist first and after that I made a koru. I left it to dry over the weekend. After the weekend we came back it was already dry so I took them gently and painted them with some dark green and a little of white and black. After I  finished painting I left to dry again. The next day I chose one Taonga to add onto a hessian shaped piece of material and then black paper. I also put a thin black and white string through the Taonga and hot glued them onto the black paper.

During this international language week, I researched my country, my culture and my language. I come from Tonga.

Turtles and tortoises look similar  but  they  are both two very different animals. Turtles live in water but tortoises live on land. Turtles and  tortoises are basically like each other because they both have shells for protection and they both eat vegetables. Turtles’ shells are not heavy because they have to be able to swim  easily but on the other hand tortoises shells are very heavy. Tortoises can  live up from 50 to 150 years while turtles only live up from 20 to 30 years.  Both of these reptiles lay their eggs on land.