Christmas Summer Vacation

Christmas Summer Vacation.

Introduction: In this story I will be writing about my christmas summer vacation and I will also explain what it felt like and what we did.

One early morning the sun was shining brightly  through my bedroom curtains making my eyes hurt. I got up and walked in the bathroom and had a quick shower. When the water hit my skin, the feeling of the water was very soothing and warm. I jumped out of the shower and got dressed into a white plain shirt some shorts since it is summer and I grabbed my sandals.

I walked downstairs and the smell of bacon and egg filled my nostrils.
I saw my mum standing in front of the stove holding a spatula and moving the frying pan around. “Morning mum” I said walking over to sit across the island table. “Good morning sweetheart, you hungry?”she asked. “Yes, I am starving,”I chirped.

She chuckled and put some bacon and a eggs on my plate and toast. “Mmm smells delicious” I said. “Now eat up and I’ll go wake up the rest because we are going on a family summer vacation” she said. I nodded and started digging into my delicious breakfast.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Car Ride~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I looked out the window and saw people walking by, woman pushing their baby prams, people fixing roads. I was stretched at the back of the minivan.
The boot is full of full suitcases and all the spare seat has 3 small ones stacked up as well. We are on our way to the coast for the summer. Two weeks of swimming, sand and sun, paradise. It’s a 4 hour drive and we’ve been in the car for an hour and a half.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the Hotel~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We walked in and saw a doorman. Then we walked up to the receptionist and asked for room for two and he handed us two keys. We went in the elevator and started looking for room 246 and room 247. I came around a corner and finally saw it. “I found it. I found it!” I cheered. My mum smiled and walked over to open the doors.

When I stepped into my brother and I’s room, it was breathtaking. Everything was beautiful. My brother and I were walking around looking at everything and examining the great view from up here. Our mum stepped into the room smiling. “Okay kids, how about we go to the beach and have some fun?” she asked. My brother and I  started cheering and walked out of the room.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Beach ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was building a sandcastle with my little brother. The sun was very hot, which made me thirsty. Luckily my mum went and bought us ice-creams. My favourite treat in the summer. A few minutes later we went for a swim and I started splashing water at my dad. We were all playing a lot of different games and just having fun until we had to go back to our hotel and take a shower.

Conclusion: In this story I have written what I did in my summer vacation and I have also explained how I felt in the fun adventure.

Netbook Reflection 2013

Netbook Reflection 2013

Netbooks are really fun and a helpful thing. Its is a device that you can learn more things and have lots of fun on it. I love my netbook because I can go on maths whizz tutor and learn lots of maths. Sometimes we always have free time when we are done all of our work. It is really cool and exciting. Learning more things about netbooks is pretty awesome.


Frustration

The thing that frustrates me is when my netbook freezes. My netbook frustrates me because when i’m doing my work it just turns off. My other frustration is when you can’t use your mouse it stays where it was. It is really annoying when it freezes.


What would make it better ?

If my netbook freezes I will just turn it off and restart my netbook. When it turns off by itself I will restart it again.

How does school compare now vs before you had a netbook

Before we didn’t have netbooks was a hard thing. We used paper and pens. Using paper and pens wasn’t really exciting, it made my hands sore and tired. But now we have netbooks is really fun and learnable.

How could we use our netbook better ?


Using our netbooks feels cool. As we use our netbooks we learn heaps of different things. My favourite thing to learn about is Maths whizz. 

Vaifoa Sand Flies

Four days of Swimming

Swimming

Last week year 5-6 students went swimming at the pools. We have our own swimming pool so we didn’t have to walk that far. It was breezy in the morning but we still had to swim. We had to go into the changing rooms to get ready into our swimming gear.

We trudged over to Mr Sommerville and he gave us instructions before we got into the pool. After that we jumped into the pools carefully then we had a little swim until Mr Sommerville blew the whistle.

The water was warm and it was comfortable. We had to get into two separate groups (boys and girls). We played a little game which was really fun and enjoyable.We had to dive and swim to get the ball, if we get the ball we will get a point.  
Mr Sommerville gave us free time to play around and have fun.
My friends and I played a lot of different games like chasing,racing,etc.

A few minutes later Mr Sommerville said it was time to go. We listened and followed instructions and got out of the pool and got changed back into our school uniforms.

Swimming was fun. We got to play a few games and we had a good time. I can’t wait to go swimming again with my friends and learn other swimming lessons.





Thank you to Anthony, Eric and Francis for editing my writing.

My Animation By Vaifoa

Hi my name is Vaifoa this animation is about my favourite thing to play with.

How to make an Origami Rabbit

The crash

Last wednesday on a sunny day Jamie and I went to a skateboard ramp to try out our new skateboard.

We were really happy. We decided that Carlos can come . “It will be fun” We  said. So we went to pick him up and went to the skateboard ramp and got ready to skate. Before We went to skate we saw big seaweed covering the skateboard ramp. “Oh No” said Jamie now we can’t try out our new skateboard. “No need to be sad” said Carlos. Carlos had a great idea, he thought if we can clean it up. “Hurry Hurry!!!” said Jamie. He was really exhausted. He couldn’t help himself.

“Is it finished” said Jamie. Yes replied Carlos, and Jamie was really happy so Jamie went on top and got started. Jamie was excited that he just rushed down the ramp and then dunk his head right on the corner of the ramp. Jamie screamed out loud AAAAAAAhhHHHHH!!!!. His head was cracked open. Carlos was freaking out. So he went to find his phone and called 111 and went to get the ambulance. The ambulance man said that his head is running out of blood. He said that he will get stitches and be alright. When his head was done they went home and never went skating anymore.

And they lived happily ever after. And NEVER EVER GET A NEW SKATE BOARD!!!

Three bears going on halloween

Once upon a time there lived three bears  Mother bear, father bear and baby bear that lived in an old house.  One day they decided to buy halloween costumes at the costume shop so they went to get three scary costumes. As they went they saw a little tiny pumpkin walking. “How can that pumpkin walk” said Mother bear.  “BOOH!!!” said the pumpkin and the three bears rushed across the bridge and into the costume shop. They were all terrified.

After a while they went to find some costumes to wear. Baby bear wanted a frickenstein costume that was ten  dollars. Mother bear and father bear got a vampire one which costs twenty dollars. They were excited. “Lets go to the cash register” said Father bear so off they went to buy their costumes. “That will cost thirty dollars said the cashier. “Here you go” said Mother bear. Then they went to dress up and went trick or treating. “Lets get the move on” said Mother bear.

“Knock Knock!!!” baby bear said. “Trick or treat they said” and a old man came with a bag full of tasty treats. What are they called asked baby bear? These treat are called candy cane. “Here you go” said the old man and baby bear, Mother bear and father bear grabbed a hand full. When there bags were full they went back home and ate it. “YUM YUM!!!” they said. They all enjoy the tasty yummy treat.

The Ant Army

Inside my lunch box is a apple Lasagna sandwich. It is amazing having a lunch box with delicious  meals inside. Lunch boxes are very helpful to people because it keeps your lunch fresh and tidy. My lunch box is a grey lunch box and a black handle so you can take it outside.

• We have been reading the story The Ant Army by Val Neubecker which has illustrations by Tony Anderson who uses photos and drawings together like this one I have created.

Jack and Jill

One day there lived Jack and Jill. They were on their way walking around the forest. They were on a mission finding bigfoot. When they were walking Jack heard a noise it was coming from the bushes. He went close to the bush and found a little bird that fell from the tree so he put the bird back into its nest and went back.

“What were you doing?” said Jill.
He answered  that he was putting a little bird back to its nest. As they were talking to each other they heard a growling sound. They realised it was bigfoot  running towards them. They started to scream and ran back.

When they were running they saw a sign that said exit. So they ran to the exit sign and hide for two minutes till bigfoot goes away. “How are we going to get that big thing” said Jack. It is going to take a while to find him around this place.  When bigfoot was gone they hurried to the bush finding some sharp materials to catch bigfoot. “LETS GO!!!” said Jill. So they went to find him. After a while Jack and Jill caught bigfoot in their trap. And then they took it to the wild where every wild animal lives. And they lived happily ever after.

MY LUNCHBOX

Inside my lunch box is a apple Lasagna sandwich. It is amazing having a lunch box with delicious  meals inside. Lunch boxes are very helpful to people because it keeps your lunch fresh and tidy. My lunch box is a grey lunch box and a black handle so you can take it outside.

Vincent And The Robber

On a sunny day there lived a man called Vincent he was going to the shops. As he was walking he bumped into a stranger  whose name was Ronnie. He looked very evil when he  turned to his side. Vincent said “sorry”, but he didn’t reply back.  “What is he doing ?” said Vincent. So he just continued going to the shops.  

When he came out with a packet of bread he realised there was a robber that was going towards him and stole his packet of bread. When the robber was running he said to himself  “I saw that face before”. He stopped and thought what was his name. He recognised it was Ronnie with the evil face.

After the robber ran he called  111 and chased him down the road. Luckily he had a sleep gun with him and shot him in the back. “Yes!!!” he said as he went over to put him inside his car and drove to the police station.

“Where did he came from?” he said. The policeman answered he was a good man before but he decided to rob the shops. We were looking all around for him but we are so lucky you saved the day.  And they lived happily ever after.

Zac and Alex's adventure

Once upon a time on a hot sunny day there lived a boy named Zach. Zach was a very old man that lived in a sunny place. He met another boy that was walking around the bush.  His name was  Alex.


In the afternoon they went out on an adventure together .As they were walking they started to  hear a watering sound that sounded relaxing. They saw a big waterfall and jumped in, SPLASH SPLASH!!! they went. They had a great time there .When they were having a great time they realized  they had there was a problem . Firstly they had saw a giant
shark between them. They were very scared that they couldn’t get out.


When they were there Zach started to swim down to find something sharp. He saw a shiny little glass and swam up to the shark and began to stab him on the back. Then they escaped from the water before another shark comes.


And they lived happily ever after together. They had a good time going to a adventure. They had fun.  

On the holidays\

On the holiday at Saturday morning  me and my  cousins are going to wake up early to do some basketball training in our church hall. We started to team up with each other so we could play it. There were twelve people playing so we had to split into two groups of six and start to play.

The other team had to start and we had to defend their shots and try to keep in our positions. They passed it down the court and then I sprinted to the ball and then I dribbled the ball to the end to my
cousin to score. He threw it to me and then I  scored.

My Dream Holiday

On the holiday at Saturday morning me and my cousins are going to wake up early to do some basketball training in our church hall. We started to team up with each other so we could play it. There were twelve people playing so we had to split into two groups of six and start to play.

The other team had to start and we had to defend their shots and try to keep in our positions. They passed it down the court and then I sprinted to the ball and then I dribbled the ball to the end to my
cousin to score. He threw it to me and then I scored.

Disadvantage Competition

During the afternoon on monday we had been practising to imitate having amputated limbs.

Our teacher Mr Marks gave us some tight bands
to wear on our left arm. As Mr Marks blew the whistle we ran to the yellow line and came back. After we were done I said to myself “that was really awkward running without our left hand”.

Next we had to do it without our hands tightly inside our bands and run all the way to the end of the court. That was really challenging to run with no hands it was strange. After that we used soft ball balls to throw as far we can go with an amputated arm.

My Weekends

During the weekends on Saturday morning me and my cousins woke up early to do some basketball training in our church hall. We started to team up with each other so we can play it. There was twelve people playing so we had to spit into two groups of six and started to play. The other team had to start and we had to defend their shoots and try to keep in our position. They passed it down the court and then I sprinted to the ball and the I dribbled the ball to the end to my
cousin to get a score. He through it to me and then I got a score.

Tandem Bike

At the paralympics Tandem Bike games there were two persons on it. The person in the front is called the pilot the pilot helps the person thats at the back because he is blind. The Tandem bike games is a really interesting game.

Paralympics

In the paralympics seated volleyball game the team was seat on a small court because they have amputated limbs. The teams that were playing is Brazil & China. While they are playing the game they had to drag themselves through the court and net. They were also sliding and slipping around the court. Some of them were defending the ball and trying to keep the ball inside the court. That was a close match.

Inspire A Generation

My poster design is about the London Olympics 2012. The first thing we had to do was

to go to the website called London 2012.com to look for some poster design so we can get ideas from it. Some looked really old but interesting and the title was Inspire a generation. Finally we had to sketch our posters well and we had to concentrate on it. We all done different designs but they all looked Amazing!!! My sport was water polo. But my favourite drawing was the London bridge and the england flag. Now it was time to dye our design and make it different colour’s. The colour’s looked amazing on it. Everyones drawing was cool. There were a lot of colours to pick.

CROSS COUNTRY

One sunny day Pt. England school had cross country. First we went to get change into our coloured shirts. Our house captain was Starford. We had to drink a lot of water and ate a little bit of food before we went to the start.

It was time to start running. I was really nervous. “On your marks get set GO”!!! said Mr Burt as we all started running. It was really muddy on the way. It was making me slow down but I started to sprint to the front past the bush, walked onto the bridge. As I was up to the muddy puddles I began to feel tired so I slow down for a minute and then began to sprint again. I started to see four people coming past me But I didn’t give up. I was jogging fast. I felt exhausted and lazy.


There were a lot of broken bridges all over the place it was dangerous. I was almost there as I heard the crowd shouting. I was happy. After all that I was huffing and puffing till the end. I was really proud of myself and really tired.


That was fun. It was Amazing!!! I felt really happy about it.

BBQ SAUSAGES

On a hot sunny day, room 15 and Mr Marks had been cooking sizzling sausages this week. First we started chopping some onions. I watched some kids crying when they chopped it. It was fun!!!

Next Mr Marks began to use the onions and the sausages to put it on the grill. We can all smell the delicious and crispy sausages coming out of it. There were stacks of logs sitting on the top and it looks yummy. The onions was cooked too it was like that it was burnt.

We waited impatiently and anticipation. After waiting, Mr Marks told us to grab one napkin and get one piece of cut bread. Next we went and get our delicious sausages and then we waited for our onions and tomato sauce or BBQ sauce. It tasted really good with it .

My favourite part was chopping the onions and waited for the sausages. I saw my friend Faaiua crying and crying but he didn't gave up he went to put water on his eyes so it can get of.

Basketball

Room fifteen are doing basketball for the next eight weeks and we have coaches. Their names were Brooke and Tye. They told us all about basketball skills and tricks that we had to learn. Sometimes it can be really hard for people or it can be a lot easy for most people. Tye helped us with some new basketball techniques. We learned the Jump Stop and the Jump stop pass. It was really easy to learn. Some people struggled to do it but I know that everyone can do it.

After all that tiring techniques we started doing some passings and throwing. I was really tired doing it again. That was really tiring but it was a lot of fun doing the amazing basketball skills with our coaches. I thought it was a little bit hard but I found out it was easy to do. That was a lot of fun training with our coaches. After doing training we said “goodbye” to our coaches and then we went home. I wanted to do it again but maybe next week. It was pretty FUN!!!

CROSS COUNTRY TRAINNING

On Friday afternoon rooms 13,14,15,16 and 17 were doing cross country training.

As we started I ran to the breeze. The breeze were congested by hungry bees trying to come first in a race. My legs were sore and my body lost energy. I couldn’t run anymore but I didn't give up so I sprinted passed Mr Sommerville back to Miss King and went back to the school’s court.

I really hated running too far from school because I hate running. I was too lazy to run again so I tryed to catch my breath and had a little break from running and started walking on the edges of the courts. After that Mr Marks shouted us to do our stretches to strengthen our body.

I had a exhausted time cross country.

Ancient Greece

The Olympics began over two and a half thousand years ago in ancient Greece. In those days they made several states who were often at war. They were Athens,Sparta, and Corinth. The games were Javelin,Chariot racing,Discus and long jump.When the olympics were on they will raise a flag that means it is a truce when the olympics were on but when it finished they will come back and fight again.

ART IN MOVEMENT

This morning we learned how to about art in movement. First we search for sport pictures then we
started to send our six pictures to our leader. Afterwards our leader sends the pictures to miss
muliaumasealii to check it. After 10 minutes we had to go to the hall to practise the movement of
the sports. The best thing about it is moving and stopping for 3 seconds.

Macdonald's

My Favourite thing about Mcdonald's is bigmac because you get a drink and it’s juicy.

OLYMPIC SYMBOLS

This term our inquiry topic is the Olympic Games. We will be taking a close look at the London games and also uncovering some of the amazing stories of the Olympics, both past and present.

The olympics symbol better known as the olympic rings they represent the unity of the five inhabited continents (Africa, Asia, America, Australasia, Europe ). The coloured version of the blue, yellow, black, green and red and the white background forms the olympic flag. Every continent had at least one colour of the symbols of their nation’s flag. The flag was created in 1914 and first raised in 1920.

MY FAVOURITE ART

In the morning Room 15 walked into the hall to see the art gallery to look for our favourite piece of art. The best art that I saw is the green cool shoes sitting on the bottom of the other pictures and it had details all around it so I thought it was really cool. The artist that painted that picture is Senimino.
Everyone saw a lot of contrasting colours and some other paintings. There was lots of paintings there that were awesome. “Time to go” said Mr Marks, so we went back to class. It was a lot of fun there but I wished I could come back again, but too bad maybe next year.

MAKING FRAMES AND PAINTING

ALIEN PET SHOP

Once upon a time there was a boy called Vaifoa . In the morning he went inside his spaceship and went off to a grey planet called the moon. He saw a big huge thing behind his spaceship it was shaped like a crocodile it kidnapped him from his ship to a alien pet shop that was named the napping pet shop. He didn't wanted to be a pet eating gooey slime. He wanted to go back to earth but luckily he had his phone so he called his friend Faaiua to save him from the ugly aliens. But he was in the cage chewing a lot of slime.

Faaiua came and saved him from the planet moon. He went and steel the key for the cage and got him out side. Hey!!!!! “Faaiua said and his friend”. OOhh the aliens are coming back we better go back to the spaceship and fast before they get here. And they had a happily ever after.

CLAY WORKSHOP

In a moment room 15 walked inside the clay workshop and saw a large amount of clay sitting at the right corner. I went to sit on the chair and put on the apron that was hanged on it. Sue wrote some words that we need to do when we start making plates or bowls. First of all we sketched and planned our idea on a piece of paper and so we can do it on our plate with squishy clay.


Georgia gave out some clay and showed us crosshatching and also putting on the gooey and sticky glue. So we cut out a piece with a kebab stick and got us a square shape. As soon we had a square we crosshatched around the sides and put some glue on it to stick. After that we rolled a bit of clay that was cut out to use it to stick up like the other plates and pinch it up a little bit.


We got the clay that was left on our table and roll it or squish it to make some decorations
inside it. When we have finished putting clay decorations we got the letter stamp and put our name in case we don’t lose our work. Next we had a lot of glass to put on it so after it melts
the glass is going to turn colourful and bright. When it was done the room was a chaotic mess luckily we went to wash our hands so it can be clean before we go for lunch.

We had a lot of fun but I wish I had lots of time to do more but sorry we can’t go anymore. But maybe next year. YAY!!!!

Vaifoa's Morning

CLAUDE MONET

Claude Monet was a French impressionist painter who enjoyed painting the same subject,a landscape or a cityscape, in a different time and different season of the year. Impressionists paint’s each time in the season’s. He captures the light in a moment in time.

Monet created his beautiful water garden at home in Giverny. He like the way the water was constantly changing and moving so he used it as his subject over and over again.

The famous paintings of the japanese bridge shows an arched bridge crossing over the pond that was surrounded by shrubs and trees. The pond changes colour in the day or seasons and reflects from the surface.

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay was a french painter he painted with geometric shapes.He and His wife Sonia invented the orphism and the artform gallery. Robert Delaunay was a great poet writer. In his paintings he uses a lot of bright vibrant colours to describe his kind of style.

Robert Delaunay often uses the colours to pose each other to contrast the colours and make it come true and represents the geometric shapes for the objected person in his art work.

At the painting of the tall portuguese women he painted the large leafed plant painted on the left hand side he will use circles in the center to make a table like a kitchen to create the contrasting colours and different colours showing the women doing her work.

Maths Whizz Certificate

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock lived in America at New York city he was a famous painter and he enjoyed his work.
Jackson Pollock was a passionate hard working man. He flicked and splatter on his artwork but I didn't recognized he was really famous . Jackson Pollock was artistically using his kind of style to paint so he can sell it.

Also he was born on January 28th 1912 and died when he was 44 years old in a car crash accident in august 11th 1956. His funeral was at the springs, New York because of that he was a very fantastic painter. He was one of the few American painters to be recognized during his lifetime. His name was Paul Jackson Pollock.

He has a lot of paintings that he sell it when he was a very famous painter. He smoked a lot and drink-ed during his painting. There was a lady called Lee Krasner it was Jackson Pollock’s wife that likes to paint as well.

First Day Of Swimming

On the first day of swimming we were doing lessons with one of the
instructors. We entered the pool safely and we had two instructors. Our instructor was called Ben he took our lessons.

Lesson one is to do your arms as a rocket ship but straight. He said, “you don’t even have to kick your legs”. I was watching my friend go first and he was kicking furiously in the pool. I felt comfortable keeping my arms where they have to go. When it was my turn he called me to go. As I was getting closer and closer he pushed me towards the end of the pool.

I was rotating around and around until I got dizzy. I couldn't breath so I took one deep breath and dived back in the rippling water. I just needed to concentrate with my legs straight without kicking.

We had our last lesson with the flutter boards. They kept me floating on the side of the pool and it made me swim fast. At the end I came back to wait for our second round.

After our second round we had a breathing competition and Texas won it. Ben told us to get out of the pool to go for a rinse in the hot shower and change back into our dry and clean uniforms. We still have two more weeks of swimming lessons I can’t wait. I had great swimming lessons with our instructor.

Hi I am vaifoa and I went to swim with the flutter boards it was amazing!!!

My Holidays

“Amazing” I said. I had a wonderful holiday. After breakfast one morning we went to a barbecue feast down at my cousin’s house. Before we arrived everyone was dancing and eating. I was very bored of sitting so I went along to play with my friends at the bouncy castle.


After the barbecue my Dad ordered a chocolate cake for dessert which was full of colourful sprinkles in the corners with flowers in the middle. We cut the cake into little pieces so we could get one each but the adults got three pieces of cake. We took the leftovers to have at night. My Dad and I had an amazing day during the holidays.

Holidays

Rainbows End is the thing I am most looking forward to in the holidays. I can’t wait until Thursday. I want to go on the roller coaster.

SLEEPING IN A TENT

On Thursday night we had to sleep in our tents and wear our PJ’s. I heard strange noises in someones tent and it was our next door neighbour whispering. The teachers heard it as well so they came and took them outside to stay there for one minute.

‘Crunch crunch’, there were some kids having a snack in the middle of the night and it kept me awake. Luckily I had ear plugs in my bag and I had a peaceful and quite night.

It was shining outside as Miss King said “Rise and Shine Campers”, so I quickly put on my clothes
for doing jump jam in the hall. I had enjoyed my day sleeping in a tent with my friends.

1st Day Of Camp

Hedding of to the beach Mr Burt explained to us how to get in the kyak safely and put on some of the life jackets on. Get in to the kyak he said so I quickly picked up a paddle and get ready to go kayaking. I thought it was going to be scary but when I keep trying I found out how to do it.

my friend and I had a race around and around. Soonly I we came a tie we tried to beat each other but we keep on coming a tie.

SCHOOL CAMP

The thing I am mostly looking forward to at camp is going kayaking at the Pt England reserve. Kayaking is fun but if you want to know what kayaking is then here it is. Kayaking is a boat that you paddle to go fast but I am worried that I might fall out and a fish could bite me. Ooouuchh!

All I am nervous about is dancing in the front of people and singing as well. I can’t wait till Wednesday its camp time. I really love to roast some marshmallow's tonight.