Athletics Day

Athletics Day

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I had a great successful day at my school athletics day. Competing in these events, long distance, Throw, Long jump, high jump, sprints and hurdles. Here is my poem about athletics day.

Athletics Day Poem

I sprinted faster than Jesse Owens,

I pushed a heavy ball as far as Tiger Woods could've hit a golf ball,

I jumped like the great Michael Jordan going for a slam dunk,

I ran like Peter Snell sprinting down the straight,

I hurdled like Omar McLeod jumping to victory,

And I leap like a frog trying to catch a fly.

PNINS VISIT

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Visiting Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School (PNINS) was pretty fun. I got a full tour round the school visiting all the rooms like the hard materials, drama room, science and a couple of the class’. I liked the look of the monkey bars their was small ones and large ones. There was also a large climbing frame planted at the end made out of rope. I also liked the sports gym. It was huge.

Overall I think it’s a really fun school and I’ll definitely go there.

Culture Festival!

Culture Festival!

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The culture festival started with a bang. First we watched the IPU drummers from Japan perform in the school gym. They performed three outstanding performances that blew my socks off right onto Saturn. They whacked huge drums with thick wooden sticks. I couldn’t see the drums from where I was sitting so it looked they were murdering people by whacking their chest with the sticks. I noticed they were doing hand movements so they were in time with hitting the drum. Next it was room 5’s turn to step up, they were going to perform a dance. The dance was cool. Mrs Denison ask if they could perform it again so we had to watch it again.

It was time to go back to class to have a cultul shared lunch with room 5. I munched on one of Tama’s yummy pastry buns that were covered in this really sweet sauce it was literally the best thing I’ve ever had in my life! I then went out to play there was twenty minutes till the bell rings so I thought I’d just muck about  on the deck.

Finally it was time to share my learning about Tonga. Me and my friend, Jacey shared our learning and then got people to do a Kahoot all about what they had just learnt. We were doing our activity for forty minutes then we left to go and look around our class and GRill 2.0. In my class we learnt the Haka and carve our names into sand in Egyptian letters. We then headed of to GRill 2.0 to see what they had set up. They had a coloring in competition. You had to color in a hand that had lots of patterns on it. It looked so cool. I did lots of beautiful drawings it turned out great in the end.

What a fun afternoon I’ve had I wish I could do it again.

Earthquake!

Earthquake!

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12:02am 14.11.16

On Monday the 14th of November there was a 7.5 earthquake that rattled  lots of towns around New Zealand. The earthquake struck near Hamner Springs at 12:02am. I had woken up just before my mum was about to shake me like a fizzy bottle. I rapidly hopped out of bed and stumbled to my bedroom doorway. My house was shaking like a milkshake getting blended. It had been shaking for like a minute then finally the drama was over. My Dad came up to see if we were OK (we were.) My Dad shouted out to my brother who was still lying in his bed awake “Nelson what are you doing” he shouted back “well there’s not much I can do” my Dad then said “well, you can get down here right now.” I think it was quite rude to talk back to your Dad like that. “Well, what a rocking start to the day.”

By Fergus Doolan.

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