Jaeden’s creative writing

Yesterday we did creative writing about a picture that Mr bell put on the screen. We could make our writing like a recount or a story. Here are the pictures we used yesterday and the day before:

                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are 2 paragraphs of the picture on the left;

The trimmed, somewhat perfect grass, with a modern house, dull red and pearl white, just like any house you’ve seen. The giant trees towering the house, like a castle, barren and scarred like a dying tree, without the lush leaves, colours of a flame not like your formal autumn.

The tenebrous  water, with an ambiguous castle. Magic scintillated the diminutive, murky, latitudes, just enough to reason the castle and the sky. The moon, illuminating  the beauty of the mystifying castle, yet on the outside, looks serene and tranquil.

We will continue to write more creative writing about pictures.

What My Group And I Are Doing For Mission Day

Today I wanted to blog this post because Mission Day is tomorrow maybe you wanted to know what Room 7 and I were doing for Mission Day. Our groups were Crochet Keyrings, Polymer Clay, loom bands, origami and other keychains. We did Polymer Clay for Mission Day.

 

Here is the link for you to access.

 

My Recount For Cycling

During Thursday, we had cycling today because it’s in the school curriculum. Our coaches were both girls whose names are Stephanie and Lucy. Most of us were usually excited and couldn’t wait because we were lucky to have another lesson for cycling this year. She first showed us these tickets with the words; ‘reckless driving’, which made me sink into my mind about speeding tickets. Stephanie said that they’re temporary and can help you to get better. Stephanie is on the left and Lucy is on the right.

 

After the reckless driving tickets, Stephanie showed us a red ticket, again, made me think into the past where I watched football matches with people getting a red ticket. She said that it’s similar to what happens when a player gets a red card but when it’s put into driving. She said that hopefully we wouldn’t get any of the red tags and even the reckless driving cards. Luckily, we didn’t get any cards but some of us still crashed which was pretty funny.

 

After showing those cards, Lucy showed us a helmet and said to check the 4 s’s on the helmet; Shell, Styrofoam, Straps and stickers. To check the shell, check if there are any large dents or cracks. The scratches are fine. For the styrofoam now, squeeze the helmet with the shell facing you, and if it moves, you have to change it. If it also has large dents or cracks you have to also change it. Next, straps. There shouldn’t be any rips in the straps but you should change it. The last and final one, stickers. Check the sticker if it has a bicycle picture on it or if it has the word, bicycle on it. There are different helmets for different terrains and uses.

 

We all checked our helmets and got more instructions to wear it; first wear your helmet and feel the screw that should be behind your head. Turn the screw to the loud side or the right side. Use your pointer/index finger and your middle finger, then, put those 2 fingers on your forehead. If the helmet is past the 2 fingers, turn the screw to the left side. If it’s too close to your hair, turn the screw more to the right side. Next, clip your straps together and make them more tighter with the 2 straps on the side. Use your 2 fingers again under your neck and make the straps touch your fingers.

After doing those steps, shake your head facing your feet and get your 2 arms to catch the helmet. The helmet should stay on your head a little tight. 

 

Stephanie got 2 people to say vegetables which were carrots and broccoli. I was in carrots. One went with Lucy and the other went with Stephanie. Next, Lucy showed us how to check our bikes, which is ABCDDQ. The first one, A, is air. Check the wheels if it’s firm like a hard potato not a soft potato. Second, B, is brakes. Use your 2 fingers like last time on your brakes and press them. Push the front and back wheel, They should have had the back and front wheel go up.

 

 Third, chains. The chain in the back wheel should look like the colours grey and black. There can be speckles of rust but not big clumps of rust or you have to change it. The 1st D, direction. Use your legs and press them together with the front wheel in the middle of your legs. The control bar for the bike shouldn’t really move. 

 

The 2nd D, Drop. Drop the bike only a little close to the ground and listen close for any funky and weird noises. The last one Q, quick release.There should be 3 quick releases on the front, back and seat. To check it, press down the quick release and pull it gently.  You can also customise the seat by opening the quick release and putting it back on the seat height you want.

 

My group and I got our bikes and went to the bottom court and followed her instructions once again to check our bikes, then we played green light red light in a circle. Then, Lucy showed us how to use gears. Gear 1, the biggest gear, is the easiest gear. Gear 8, the smallest gea, is the hardest gear. You can use gear 1 for mountains and Gear 8 for sand and concrete.

 

We also did more practicing skids, going through small spaces, and stopping in the box. This made us confident with bikes and speed. Next, we did our signs which were the left, right, and stop signs with our arms. 

To end it, we put our bike gears to 2 and put on the grass with our helmets on the concrete and thanked them for teaching us cycling.

My Recount Of Rippa Rugby

On the 28th of August, I woke up, prepared, and got ready to arrive at school. I was filled with excitement, but also scared since I hadn’t played with schools for a while. When I arrived at school, I went inside my class, Room 7, asking to get my tags but I was just in trouble so in a fright, I went to cloak bay, wore my sport shoes, and brought my sports and school bag to the canopy.

I dropped my bag on the wooden stairs, where some of my friends would sit there, talk about things and maybe play with the other students playing under the canopy. While playing, I used my excitement to warm myself up by playing football with my friends for about 15 minutes, until Annamaria’s Mother, Mrs Tuugasala, called out our names since she’s our team director, so we jogged there using little to no energy and waiting for her to give us instructions.

Instead of giving instructions, she gave us pretty important information which were the matches my team and I were going to play against. She told us that we were going against Panama Road, at Field 3, 10:40 am. I was a little nervous and anxious at first, but I got courage when I warmed up. 

Since it’s a long story, I’ll shorten it enough so it can’t be too long but not too short as well. Basically, Mr Bell told us to sit down in our groups, then he threw belts to all of us and asked if there were any problems with it but there were none. Then, Theo did a prayer so we could be safe and there could be no problems. After the prayer, We all went 2 singular files to the school gate, crossed the 2 pedestrian bridges. 

While walking, my shoulder kept on hurting since my bag was very heavy so Mrs Tuugasala asked if I needed help with carrying my bags so I said; ‘sure!’ Why not? I had to try and keep my energy. After arriving at Dunkirk Park and walking across schools where they were practising, I felt more nervous and Intimidated when they were looking at us.

After arriving at the spot where no one claimed, Mr Bell opened the sports bag, getting a traditional Mat with patterns on. Then, 3 people helped him to lay down the mat. 

Inside the bag was a med-kit, a rugby ball and mouth guards which I looked forward to. After they helped Mr Bell lay down the mat, we all put our bags on the mat and also laid our shoes near our bags since we had to be barefoot. 

Mr Bell asked if anyone wanted mouth guards since you didn’t have to have a mouth guard since it’s non contact. I went to Mr Bell for the mouth guard. As he gave me the plastic box with the mouthguard inside, I felt excited, glad, satisfied, all these happy emotions.

 To fast forward it more, I wore the mouth guard and drank warm water in my metal bottle and kept it in my mouth while doing warm up drills and training with my friends and team director, Mrs Tuugasala. Our first match is Panama Road in Field 3, 10:40, which is near us. While waiting, we watched matches of schools playing against each other. I want to end it pretty quickly so the match my team played against is Panama Road 1, Panmure Bridge 1, Stanhope 1 and Pt England 1 in Field 7, Field 7, Field 2 and Field 2 at 10:40, 11:40, 12:20 am and 1:20pm. We luckily won against Panama Road and Stanhope but we lost against Panmure Bridge and Pt England.

The people in my team is Annamaria, Geo, Kava, Marii, Franceska and Ezekiel. When it was 2 pm, we took a picture and went back to our school to  wait for our parents/caregivers.

 

               

 

Reasons Why We Do Mission Day

The reason why I posted this blog is because Mission Day is coming in 2 weeks or basically in week 8. 

Why do we do Mission Day?

We do Mission Day because our partner, Holy Angels Orphanage and Children’s Home in Kalyanpur, India, needs money and food. So we get food cans and people like our parents give a donation or do an amount of money, say, for 50 cents a question. 

What is Mission Day?

Mission Day is when we do stands in our schools which do games, wool and clay figurines and loom band bracelets, which sell them from prices of 50 cents to two dollars, then, we donate all of the money we got from stands, donations, and the money we got after how much questions we got right in our test, then we donate them to charity and the needy.

When did Mission Day Start?

Mission Day started from our founder, Euphrasie Barbier, who went to New Zealand to spread the word of God. Here is the Link for more Information on the Holy Angels.

Mission Day is starting on September the 13th so look in our blogs for how much money we raised!

My New Story In The World Of Dragonball

Today I wanted to do a blog about a story I created that was on the map of Dragonball which is actually pretty huge if you ask me. The things I found challenging is to start the story, finding the perfect place to set the action, make characters, but to also make a problem and a solution. It all started when my teacher, Mr Bell, read us chapter books where Goku was placed in the mountains, until, a girl called Bulma found Goku which started the adventure.

After he finished all of  the chapter books, he made slides about Dragonball where we would do activities like exploring other characters, doing drama, and more. This is 1 page of my writing;

A mysterious person asked Goku, “Goku, don’t you recognise me?”

“Wait, who are you and how do you know me?”

“I’m Commander Brunette, and I have come to defeat and torture you, for obliterating my father, Staff Officer Black.”

“Staff Officer Black? I remember him in the Red Ribbon Army. Those guys were really evil!”

“Enough of this, it’s time for you to go against my army, including my generals and myself!”

“This isn’t my problem…I’m out! Kinto Un!”

In confusion, Goku calls Kinto’ Un, and flies away. 

“Nuh Uh, Goku. If you want to escape, you need to earn it! Soldiers! Fire the missiles!”

As missiles aim and target Goku, they fly and soar into the air, one after another. Changing trajectories, searching routes with the most accuracy and velocity.

Goku flies into the air with Kinto Un, steering clear of missiles. 

“Come on! Can’t we make amends?”

“ARGHGH!” Commander Brunette Shouted with anger. “We’ll get him next time!”

If you want to read more, this is the link. I will still continue for this story but having this adventure with Dragonball always made me excited for what we were going to do everyday.

 

My Poster For Helping People With Our Gifts

Today I did a blog about my poster because I had to do a blog since I haven’t done a blog in a while. The poster I did is about using gifts that God gave us to help others in need and to spread the word of God.

The photos I used are usable and they are from Caritas helping people from places like Africa and more.

Cybersmart Challenge For Making Reply Comments

Today I did the cybersmart challenge for making comments and replying back to them because I needed to do a blog. For the slides, I had to put an arrow to sentences that were a greeting, a positive sentence, a helpful sentence, a thoughtful sentence and more.

It’s not hard but it’s also not easy because you need to read it again and it takes some time but it’s possible. After that, I had to make a comment to someone. The comment I did to is to Eldrich, one of my best friends.

 

Road To Paris

Today we finally finished our goal to reach Paris, so we had to blog about it. I also wanted to blog, “What is the road to Paris? Why did we do the road to Paris?” and more. Road to Paris is a site where we could compete to reach the goal. You can  compete with other schools and classes, including people.

To reach the goal, you need to do exercise like running, including sports. If you find trouble trying to convert, there is a link to find how much kilometres you did. The goal is to reach 1507 km. The reason why we did it is because we needed exercise and we wanted to also train like the athletes.

There are also milestones which give you information about it and how some of the milestones have athletes can congratulate you for reaching the milestone. The time we started it is on Term 2, week 2.

We started in Marseille and ended in Paris.

 

What I Did In Matariki

Last Friday, my family and I went to Auckland city because my mother bought 2 tickets for my sister and I to ice skate. When we parked our car, walked and arrived at Paradice Ice Skating,  it was already one o’clock pm. So we waited in line for 5 minutes then my mother showed her QR code so we could get our skates.

After we got our skates, we hurried along to try our skates. At first, it felt kind of wonky since I forgot to ice skate. After 10 or 15 minutes, I got the hang of it. I tried to spin like my sister did, but I almost fell so I just focused on speed skating. After a while, I felt bored so I kept on trying to spin until I also got the hang of it. 

After skating, we went out and walked around the city, looking to try out new food and stores. We also found a 3 storey building that was closing down so we went inside and explored the first floor which had clothes and makeup. Unfortunately, I’m not patient so I kept on complaining to my mother since it’s only for girls. 

Then we went to the second floor which also had clothes and more girl things including jewellery if I remember correctly. Then we went to the third floor which had decorations and ornaments. 

It also had expensive wine and champagne, like gucci champagne and wine. Fun fact, they served gucci champagne when people entered to shop around. Lastly, there’s special chocolate and sweets like mixed fudge. (which is vanilla fudge, chocolate fudge and russian fudge) and more. Since the store is closing down, we bought the chocolate fudge for eleven dollars if my memory serves me right. Then, we left and continued walking until we were getting hungry.

  We then proceeded to a pizzeria and got a 40 cm pizza (I forgot how much it cost). It is one of the cheesiest and most delicious pizzas I have eaten in a long time which filled me up a quarter but remember that we were just getting started and we just wanted to taste  it.

While we were eating, we also ate the mixed fudge but I looked at the ingredients and it had so much sugar so we only ate one! We also looked at an ice cream and waffle shop because it’s next to the pizzeria. Unfortunately, we’re only tasting not eating like it’s dinner, so we ordered one waffle with ice cream (I forgot the flavour) and cinnamon.

The waffle is really crunchy and a little soft. The ice cream is creamy like any normal ice cream but it’s a little more special because of the sweet cinnamon. We all took bites but my sister and I  ate most of the waffles because I think that it is too sweet for them.

Now I was either one half full or even three quarters full so we walked for some time, looking around shops. We were also craving for more sugary foods so my mother bought four donuts. Two of them were oreo donuts and the other two were caramel. My sister and I got the oreo donuts since my mother and father don’t like them so they got the caramel. When I first bit in the donut, I thought that its a normal donut with just toppings, but when I took a bite again, I realised that it has an oreo cream filling and it is one of the most unhealthiest donuts I’ve had so I gave a little bit to my mother and father.

I was so full that I tried walking but it was hard, so we explored more and walked more until we found a bakery so my mother bought a matcha bread with small mochi in it and a dirty chocolate bread with cream in it if I didn’t forget.

Since I was so full, I didn’t eat anything until my sister told me that there is mochi inside of the matcha bread so I ate some. I also ate some dirty chocolate bread so I knew what it tasted like.

Since I rested while eating, I had some appetite and because we looked at a chicken restaurant, we went there and ordered 2 crispy drum and 2 wings, with a little bit of spicy bulgogi which is a sweet sauce. When I tasted it, it was spicy but not too much. 

Sadly, there’s only more crispy skin than the meat. At Least the skin isn’t flabby!  After we finished eating, washing our hands, we waited 20 or 30 minutes for my dad to write a message to his work mate or something. I think I might’ve made my dad angry since I kept on complaining until he told me to stop.

After he finished his message we walked around and I thought that we’re going back home but remember that we’re just exploring so sadly we went to Nando’s Chicken for dinner. When we sat down, we ordered one full grilled chicken, 4 large thick rippable pitas, spicy rice (which isn’t spicy),4 extra small pitas and hummus with a free hot sauce for it. When we got our food, my sister complained that she wanted fries instead of spicy rice but my mothers explained that we’re eating dinner so no more exploring since we’ve eaten at Nando’s two or three times.

The chicken tasted so fresh and tender, even the breasts of the chicken which is normally dry were tender! The pitas tasted a little bit fresh even though I think I saw them microwaving them but they tasted a lot more fresh with hummus. The hummus had a light taste but with the free hot sauce, it had a good kick!  The spicy rice wasn’t  that spicy but my sister said that it was spicy. I think her spice tolerance is low since she doesn’t try spice that much. Usually, we’re hungry if we don’t eat anything, but my sister and I ate so much that we had to get boxes for our food to take home.

In the end, we walked on our way back to our car and put all our things, including the mixed fudge into the trunk of the car and went on the motorway back home. I’ve had the best time here in Auckland even though I complained sometimes but I wish I could do it again in Auckland city with my family.