My views on Christmas.

Before I begin I would just like to state that I respect and value everyone’s opinion, even if they don’t agree with some things I say or if I don’t agree with them.

Personally I love the jolly festival that we call Christmas or Xmas to those who do not believe in God or simply just aren’t religious at all. I agree it is fun to wake up Christmas morning and rush towards the Christmas tree to see what Saint Nick has left for you but that is not the best part of this wonderful festival.

I love that Christmas is one of the few times I get to see all my family gathered together just hanging out and having lots of fun with each other, enjoying one another’s company without all that family drama. The music during Christmas time always just make’s me so happy too I don’t know how to describe it but it fills my spirit with lots of happiness and joy, so that’s just my views on Christmas.

Time to talk about how should our school celebrate it? Well here’s an idea, just have a little disco or something. We don’t need to do something huge, honestly we could just have like a fun day or something. It doesn’t have to be big to be meaningful.

Something as simple as baking  food or crafting cards for our friends and others would be special, though this is my idea. Thank you, reader for reading all of this.

Ngararu trip.

Yesterday I went to Ngararu to draw a picture about Katiakitanga. I drew a picture of a kawaii piece of land with Suzy sheep and Peppa pig cleaning up rubbish. I gave them a moko and a taonga so they were basically just a maori version of the characters since this guy told me to.  I drank water, I went to the toilet. It was so long and low-key kinda boring but I went there anyways and I did my work. I sat next to Anty and Caira. It was nice talking to them and laughing alot. I saw a few other peoples drawing and oh my snaps they were so good. One person drew the maori version of Steven universe, one did Coraline but the maori version, someone else did the lorax but the trees had maori flags. I don’t know how but it was almost fun but boring at the same time. And then we went back to school in Whaea Marias car.

Ratana Pa visit.

On Monday the second of December we went up to Ratana Pa, to learn more about Ratana Pa’s interesting history.

First things first we went to Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana’s old house which has been up for around a hundred plus years. There was already some people in there though some of us didn’t see someone in there. Next we moved to look at the Atamera (Stage), next to it being the marae. We ate some lunch before going to the Maoere Marae which had a lot of spiritual things in it. After that we went to the temple and learnt about the buildings structure also about things they do in the temple. We then headed to the little playground there which had a basketball court next to it. After a short break we did a little thing where we had to see who get the most street names in groups of three. It was so hot I felt like passing out. After that long tiring walk we drove back to school.

Narrative writing story.

I walked through this surreal Enchanted forest, fiercely, as I was an a very important mission and wasn’t going to let anything get in my way. I was searching for the beast, Grimgar the name. After a long, exhausting journey I came face to face with the mighty beast. His empty pitch black eyes gazed upon my much smaller figure. Towering at nine feet tall and covered in rough, brown skin, Grimgar looked terrifying. Despite his intimidating appearance I stood my ground. I was about to attack him with my trusty steel sword, but he said something that made me pause in my tracks. He raised his calloused hands and pointed at the scar on my face with his finger.  “Hurt” his gruff voice echoed through both of my ears. I was taken aback when he noticed, even more surprised when he almost seemed to actually care. He handed me an eye patch which seemed to be handcrafted and made with a lot of different plants that could only be found in this very forest. I took it, still on high alert. I carefully put it on and was almost instantly hit with a soothing feeling. Over time Grimgar and I  grew closer with each day that passed together. He’d show me the flowers he tended to, make me new clothes, bake me new treats with ingredients that could only be obtained by going into this forest. Oh the trust he had in me almost made me take pity on him. And now here I stand with that same steel sword just barely touching his back, as he slept ever so peacefully. It’s so very sad and kinda stupid how we all become so naive when we’re just looking for a friend.

This is a narrative story about a beast named Grimgar.

maths

Today we used mathslearningcentre to compare fractions. We compared 3/8, 4/10, 1/3

 

Recount writing.

Today our school was visited by a New Zealand Olympian named Max brown. He is a twenty-nine year old kayaker. He has competed in a couple races, a few of them include the 2022 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics. He has set two whole new records for New Zealand which is very impressive. He taught us about what you have to do get into the Olympics. You have to go through a trial against a lot of people from your own country to get the spot in the Olympics. He told us about his own personal experience and how he had to do the trail twice because of the global COVID outbreak. He also encouraged us to stay resilient. It was pretty fun to learn about the Olympics from an actual Olympian because it’s way more fun learning about the Olympics from someone who has actually been in the Olympics, We all got to take a picture with him which was pretty cool. Overall it was a fun learning experience.