Willow Tree

Underneath the willow tree,

As the wind rushes by

Making the leaves go

From side to side

It turned my frown upside down,

It got me so calm

As I watch the sun go by

Trees all around

But this one tree caught my eye

Podcast Script 2

This is the script to the book "Storm" we have made a few mistakes by not following the script. If you could see some those mistakes please comment down below. Also you could read while listening to the video.

Kerstein and Samoa: Podcast

Nau mai, Haere mai Ki KPE, You’re listening to Korero Pt England, coming
to you from Auckland New Zealand.  My name is Samoa and I’m a Year 8
at Pt England School. Joining me today is Kerstein and she’s here to tell
us about a book she has been reading.

Kia Ora Kerstein

Kia Ora Samoa

So what have you been reading lately ?

I've been reading ‘a book called Storm which is written and illustrated by Margaret Beames.

Who are the characters in this book?

There is a girl named Erin, she’s fourteen years of age, and she lives in a farm with her
mum, her dad, little brother and her little sister on the way.  

What do you mean by on the way?

Well her mum is pregnant

Anyways tell us more about the book Kerstein?

So Erin is stuck with doing her inside chores because her parents think that she’s
not capable of doing anything else.

Well at least she’s not doing chores like us islanders do?

Ok Samoa relax now

Sorry!

Anyways what’s the message that the Author is trying to tell us?

What the author was trying to tell us is when things are hard the number
one thing is to Never give up.

WOW, Thanks for the korero Kerstein.

To our listeners out there, we’ve been talking about the book Storm by Margaret Beames

and You should read it for yourself. Don’t forget to join us on KPE next week. This was

Samoa and Kerstein

from Korero Pt England

Ka kite ano

Podcast Script 1

Samoa and Kerstein: Podcast

This is our script to "The Secret Game Plan" while listening to the podcast you could read your way through if we made a mistake please leave a comment down below.

Nau mai, Haere mai Ki KPE, You’re listening to Korero Pt England, coming to you from Auckland New Zealand.  My name is Kerstein and I’m a Year 8 Student at Pt England School. Joining me today is Samoa and she’s here to tell us about a book she has been reading.

Kia Ora Samoa

Kia Ora Kerstein

So what have you been reading lately Samoa?

I've been reading a book called the Secret Game plan written by Maria Samuela 

Tell us who the characters are?

There is a girl named Mata, she likes to play rugby, and her one wish is to win one game against a boy called Sami and his friends. 

Why does she want to win against them?

That’s Because the boys in Mata’s class, kept calling the girls useless, and so the girls wanted to prove them wrong. 

Tell us more about the Book?

Well while Mata was in class she wrote a secret game plan at the back of her writing book. She leaped over to whisper to Nga, saying Training at lunchtime.

What do you think the message the author is trying to tell us?

It doesn’t really matter what kind of gender you are, just know that you should not let anyone or anything stand in your way?

Thanks for the korero Samoa,

To our listeners out there, we’ve been talking about the book the Secret game plan  by Maria Samuela and You should read it for yourself. Don’t forget to join us on KPE next week. This was Kerstein and Samoa.

from Korero Pt England

Ka kite ano

Rhyming Poems

WALT: Poetry that Rhymes
This week we have learning about poetry, We also have been learning what each poem has in common and that not all poems don't need to rhyme as long as they rhythm.

Basketball Court Poetry

Basketball Court

Shooting hoops all around

Not getting shots gave me a frown

When i saw some pro’s

I gave it one more go

Bouncing the ball

As I gave it my all

Always having fun

With people all around

 Seeing smiles on faces

In certain Places

Sunset Poem

As the sun has set,

 My life was so upset

   When the sun went down,

      My smile turned to a frown.

     The next day came,

      my feelings changed.                  

Fragments & Sentences

WALT:identify and write complete sentences

Holes 7

Inferring - I search for clues within the text. I read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning not directly stated in the text.

My Writing Test

Explanation:

Have you been to the netball courts before? If you haven’t you should go and check it out, It is so amazing I love going to the netball courts. Wait a minute where are my manners  I forgot to introduce myself, Hi my name is Kerstein and I am a year 7 student at Pt England School. I am going to tell you about where my special place is,  as I already said the netball courts.

It is so special because I love to watch and play at the netball courts, I sometimes watch netball on the television but sometimes  I watch my sisters play at the netball courts I play netball to but I only watch when I am on the sideline.

I started playing at the netball courts in year 4 with Mr Jacobsen he was the best coach I’ve ever had he was my coach from Year 4 to year 6 this year he couldn’t be our coach he had to coach another team which was the year 5 princesses. I bet that they will love him.

Last year in 2016 I played in a team called Patriots my coach was Mr Jacobsen again but other people call him Garth, We weren’t allowed to call him Garth we had to name him by his last name. Anyway he was my coach and last year we were in Grade A Section 2 I did not know if we came 1st or second I was very confused. But in 2015 I already knew that we came first because all Mr Jacobsen said was that we came first.

The netball courts are my favourite and special place ever. It's the best place ever I am going to the netball courts again this year.

My test results

Hey readers, Do you remember how I showed you my writing test, well I just got my results today and my highest mark was Ideas, Structure, Organisation, Punctuation and Spelling. My lowest was Vocabulary and Sentence.

Scientific Questions

Walt: Hypothesise what we think will happen during this experiment

Write a conclusion and say what it happened

Verbs

WALT: Use different language tools like adjectives, nouns and verbs in our writing

Homonyms

WALT: understand the difference between the two words and their meanings

Editing a Paragraph

Original

when it was our last day camping out in the bush my friends and i discovered that there was a bush that was really rare because there wasn’t that much bushes around because it was actually a huge forest it looked so amazing it had the smell of chocolate and strawberries on the outside it looked just like a stinky old bush

Change this paragraph

When it was our last day camping out in the Bush my friends and I discovered that there was a Bush that was really rare. The Bush didn’t really have that much bushes around because it was actually a huge forest it looked so amazing! It had the smell of chocolate and strawberries on the outside it looked just like a stinky old bush.

Walt: edit a paragraph so that it has the correct punctuation marks and makes sense

Narritive

 Lost in the forest

One day Emily and her classmates were going to a camp at Kawau Island. At Kawau Island there was a forest, in the forest we went to go out for a hike. They thought that it will be a very good day to go out  for a hike, The first thing they went past was a big and beautiful Maple tree.

When we went out for a hike which in other words walk, Well they were out  they saw some wallabies so Emily and her Best friends went to go and pat them. They were right next to a big rose.

As they were patting the wallabies their class was still walking. But something happened, Can you guess what happened? ……… Well when the wallabies ran away they stood up and looked shocked because their class just left they were too distracted.

When they got lost they were so afraid they didn’t know what to do. So when they were lost Emily thought about where they were before “I’ve got an idea” said Emily, “What is it” asked Sofia ( one of Emily’s friends ). “ We should go back to where we came from” said Emily. Her friends were confused. But Emily was thinking of the places they been to already.

As Emily was thinking she was walking around in little circles. “ I’ve got it let’s go back to the big rose we were just at. So they went back to the rose then they took a little rest, after that they got up then they went to the big maple tree “ Yay we are almost there” said Lilly ( her other friend )

So when they got to the Maple tree they went straight back to camp and it was already night time so then they went back to their cabin and went straight to sleep. “ I wonder what tomorrow will be like” said Emily and her friends.

If I had a million dollars.....

If I had a million dollars I would use it on……

I would use the million dollars for my family and to buy me some clothes and shoes. I really want to go to the JB-HI-FI store to get a flat screen.  That would be so awesome, What would you do if you had a million dollars?

The other thing I would do is that when it's christmas I will buy some presents and give it out to people I see. But if people are in the streets then I will give all the presents to them.  Every special Occasion I will buy presents even on my sisters birthday.

The last thing I will do is give all the rest of my money to my Papa and Nana in Samoa because I really love them and I really want to go and see them that was my big dream and I know that one day it will come true. Once I finish all my money I will just wait another lucky day for me and my family that’s coming.

And so if  that day comes and then the day will start all over again but I will share it all with my loving family that I truly love. And then that will be the end of the million dollars.

My Holiday

In the holidays I went to this arcade in botany it was called time zone I went with my cousin Josh and my sister Norah - Jade, At the arcade there were games and prizes, first we had to buy some tokens and then we had to go play some games to get our tickets after we played our games we earned tickets from the games we played. The games I played the most was the basketball hoop shot game it was my favourite game in the arcade.

When our tokens ran out we went to this machine which counts our tickets I had 36 my sister had 85 and my cousin had 125 he had the most, when we counted our tickets we went to the counter and showed the amount of tickets and told us to go and choose our prizes. My cousin came up with an idea he said that we should put our tickets me and my sister agreed, so altogether it was 246.

We all picked two things I choose two bracelets and one tattoo, my sister choose a slinky and three rings and Josh choose a tattoo and a hand clapper. It was the best part of my holiday I wish we could go to the movies next time.

After all that we went to eat at pakuranga mall and me and Josh wanted to eat butter chicken and my sister wanted to have burger king and so we ate everything up. So then we all went home and we all went to sleep we were all exhausted it was a big day.

The Olympic History

The first Olympics was in the city of  Olympia, With the Olympics started  776 BC, BC stands for Before Christ. It was only for men and women weren't allowed to watch. There was only one event at the Olympics, called the 200 yard sprint. It was held every four years it was because they did the Olympics as honour of their god Zeus.

In 391 AD Rome invaded Greece. Two years latter the Olympic games were abolished in 336 AD. A Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin started the Modern Olympics in 1896.

In the 1900 Olympics the IOC allowed women to compete and watch in the Olympics.

Baking Comic

Walt: Tell a story using pictures (comic strip) We needed to Write in the speech bubbles about what each character would say.

My Camp Experience

WALT: Retell our experience of camp This is my camp experience I had so much fun, The funniest thing that ever happened to me was when I fell out of my kayak it was the funniest thing at camp.