Helen Taylor - Illustrator!

Rimu class was lucky enough to have an Author/ Illustrator (Helen Taylor) to come in and teach us how to make books and she also wanted us to do some drawing and this is my duck or is it a pukeko?

I think that she could of been more better at explaining by not taking very long breaks in between sentences and to be more 'child friendly'.

100 Word Challenge

For the 100 Word Challenge this week I learnt how to use personification which is a powerful form of a metaphor. We had to write a few sentences with them in it. I hope you like my one!

The fireflies shone the way to my house. They are yellow with a tinge of gold. The trees swayed in the wind like little brothers having fights.The wind was gashing my flesh, it felt like bees stinging me.

The ground was as soft as a pillow. The sky was the same colour as hazelnut crunch. The trees in the distance waited for my arrival. I was walking through paradise.

I heard the water in the creek falling down the waterfall

The fireflies said goodbye as I walked on.

Term 3 Timetable

Welcome to term 3!
This is my term time table. It has been made by Mrs.Blair so it should be good every week.
If a box is coloured green then it means that I have done all of my work. Orange means that I could have done better And red means that I have hardly done anything at all.

My Port Hills Haiku poem

This is my port hills day hike haiku poem.

It is a 17 syllable poem.

5 in the first line, 7 in the middle and 5 on the bottom.

This is my poem:

The port hills are cool.

The spring water is clear white

Then I got a fright

This was for our william pike challenge.

We were focusing on 3 of his values.

Pride, Resilience and Teamwork. 

I think I did good in all of these.

Half way through the year!

This is my half-way-through-the-year reflection prezi. It shows all of my strengths and weaknesses throughout term 1 and 2. I hope that you like it and please give feedback.                                                                                         ENJOY!

Rock climbing tour

It was Monday the 20th of June when Rimu was destined to do rock climbing. At first for me it was hard. I strolled to school at 8:40am only to find that this was the day that we were going, and to find that I was the only person who was in school uniform and I wasn't packed. So I scrambled home and got myself sorted and packed and came back to school just before they left also known as 8:55. Only this time I was sorted and ready to go.

I was going with Miss Blair in her car along with Jesse, Gus and Jack. It was a talkative ride.

Once we had got to the top of summit road it was really misty and let’s just say, we were in the clouds! It was so cold and we were all thinking that it would be like this all day. But almost as soon as we started walking the cloud lifted and it was sunny! There was a very rocky track leading to where we were going. Steven one of our instructors showed us where we would be abseiling and Josh (the other instructor) showed us where we were climbing.

It was abseiling time and me and 4 others went. It looked cool and safe for everyone but me. And I was right in a way. Jo came down really good and he was followed by Isaac and he was followed by Zach. They all went down like it was easy! Now It was my time to shine. I slowly went down... when I slipped and smacked my head, legs and shoulder. It hurt so bad!  I gave up and went to rock climbing. I had one turn at this and went just less than halfway. Let’s just say that I hate heights!

The day went better from there. I just kept exploring the place. Joe showed me this weird hut under the rock, and I almost overcame my fear. But to this day I still haven’t. Now it was time to go home and we took the track back to the cars. It seemed a lot shorter to get back. We were focusing on these values: Pride and Resilience and I think I did good on both of those, because I tried again after my big knock/fall.

But in the end I thought it was fun even though it was for school!

!00 Word Challenge

The Violin Girl

One day there was a girl who loved playing the  English violin. But she was now faced with one of her worst fears... Being on a Yellow airplane. She feared that it would crash and she would be sweat away in the sea. But she had to go to the national violin comps. And she had to fly from Christchurch New Zealand to Melbourne Australia. Before she went on the plane she had eaten and she was starting to feel sleepy. She soon felt sick and vomited all over the plane’s toilet.
She didn’t feel well for the rest of the trip...

                                     To Be Continued...