This coloring that I have done is inspired by one of India’s biggest festivals. Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and Fiji celebrate this festival as well by wearing their finest clothes and having feasts with their family and friends.

I chose this coloring because it was so beautiful and artistic. The lady in this drawing has a nice navy blue Indian dress and is preparing for Diwali.

This coloring I made was inspired by Christmas which is going to be celebrated very soon. This coloring makes me feel like playing jenga with my cousins on Christmas day and gathering with my family. My favourite part of this coloring is the cute reindeer’s about to fly on Santa’s sleigh.

This Summer Learning Journal is super fun because I love art as one of my favourite subjects!

When the gates open we rushed into the canopy and lined up ready for the tournament. When everyone was here, we started to walk and cross the road. With excitement I was Jumping up and down with joy.

We were half way there and saw tents and mats already set up for us and schools arriving. We all sat down and had something to snack on before the tournament. Some people were doing vlogs on their phone.

There was a beautiful beach in front of us. We could hear the sounds of the ocean sway back and fourth. We had our first match then we walked to our number field and started to play.

We tried our best but we lost because they were big and too good. Us on the other hand were so small and didn’t really work as a team. But at least we had so much fun and trusted in ourselves.

We lost on all the other matches sadly, but there were still Room-8. At the end we cheered for them and hoped they would win. They lost but still came 3rd place. We tried our very best in ourselves and still has smiles in our faces when we walked back to school. We were very proud.

 

 

Early in the morning everyone was drowsy and exhausted. It was the day I was going to Samoa! We drove to the Airport and sorted out our luggage. As I was walking I glanced in the air and saw a big plane hanging from the sky.

My Family and I came early so we sat and waited until it was time to go. There was a big entrance that we would go into. It was time to go so we pulled our luggage handles up and zoomed off to catch the plane. There were heaps of seats.

We sat in our booked seats and had little TV’s in front of us! The plane started to rumble. My Grandma was go glum and I could tell she was hoping her prayers would answer her.

We were given free headphones so we wouldn’t distract Passengers from sleeping or relaxing. I played some music and watched movies with my headphones on while drinking my delightful apple juice.

Then I had a little sleep and was awoken with hot cakes in front of me! With my stomach full I drank up my apple juice and laid myself back on my chair, relaxed hoping this would end soon. I felt nauseous and sick.

But luckily I saw a nearby land and I just knew we were arriving in Samoa very soon. I was ecstatic inside I couldn’t wait to see the other side of my family! We went in the airport looking everywhere for my uncle who was picking us up.

We hopped in their modern car and gave lots of compliments about it. We drove and  parked to wait for the ship to come and pick us up. We waited and waited. The ship finally arrived when darkness started to appear.

We gave our tickets that we purchased and went in along with the car. It took 3 hours. We gave my family members food for some fuel. I would hear the ocean breeze and feel it sway and feel it pushing it against us.

I saw light and shouted with despair meaning everyone was too cozy and sleepy. Our car came off the ship and took us another three hours to arrive to our destination and it was already pitch black.

We saw cows running away from their homes like maniacs, almost hitting one. I saw familiar people from our village going for a night stroll knowing we were close to home.  Kids began crowding our car as we parked into the garage.

Younger kids I last saw when they were babies were questioning who I was. Answering them My eye caught one of my favourite people in Samoa.  My Great-Grandpa and Grandma! They were very delighted to see me.

I went inside and ate salty sea grapes, pork soup that I drizzled at and a loaf of bread that was perfectly cut and was spread with butter. I enjoyed eating and there were 2 more days until my Great-Grandma and Grandpas birthday celebration.

I finished eating and hopped into my bed. I made myself comfy and went to sleep. When I woke up, all the children had already eaten. I got ready and went and sat down to eat eggs on a slice of bread.

In the evening we went for a stroll to a nearby beach. The water was clear blue and It was just my family there. I heard the crashing waves. We finished and went to a pool in another village to wash all the sand off our body.

2 days had pass by it was my Great-Grandma and Grandpa’s birthday today! We all wore our matching merchandise for the family and it had a picture of them. I chuckled because they put in a green screen of a royal chair for my Great-Grandma.

We celebrated with two cakes representing them. We hit off some music so we could dance to it. I helped my cousin with his live on Facebook. We went to feed some chickens and tried to open old coconuts on the floor.

We continued staying in Samoa and playing fun games with cousins and relatives!

 

(My Dearest Family)

 

 

 

“Brianna wait for me!” yelled Zachary, Brianna waited for Zachary and looked up at the stunning view. Zachary catched up with Brianna and walked to the cliff because it’s where you get the nicest view. As they were walking,Zachary and Brianna heard a little girl yell “Help!” near the cliff.

 

They ran to the cliff as fast as possible and saw a girl holding a ginormous balloon taking off with the balloon. Zachary and Brianna thinked quickly and took both of her legs and pulled them back to the cliff. 

 

“Thank you so much for saving my life!” The little girl said. “No worries there were other kids doing something similar then DIED” Zachary trying to scare the little girl.”Im not dumb those are just rumours” The little girl said angrily.

 

 Brianna laughed at Zachary and elbowed him “ow Brianna!”. The little girl offered them to watch the view with her and come for dinner at her house later. Brianna and Zachary agreed and watched the gazing galaxy view.

 

 They talked about what the real world was like. The real world was called “earth” but their ancestors were working with a famous legend called Buzz Lightyear. So they are stuck forever in a world far from the real world. One day Zachary and Brianna wanted to go and build a ship and save all the people and go to earth. 

 

The little girl had a spring green watch that lets her know when it’s dinner time or call her parents when it’s an emergency. Her watch was buzzing and it said “Dinner time!”. The little girl told Zachary and Brianna it was dinner time so they walked to the little girl’s house. Their eyes were amazed by how big the little girl’s house is.

The parents came to open the door for them and welcomed them with a generous smile and greeting. When we reached the diner table, Brianna and Zachary jaw dropped. The little girl forgot to tell her name and said “Oh by the way my name is Naomi and I’m 11 years old!”. Zachary was only 2 years older than Naomi and was surprised because they thought she was 7 years old.

 

They all sat and butchers came and served us a big chicken with cheesy onion on top, with gravy that melted in your mouth and  potatoes surrounding the chicken. Everyone dug in and had the best dinner in the world!

For writing, Mr.Bell taught us this trick called “lifting a line” It’s about taking a sentence from a story you have made and using it as a start of your new story. It made huge differences and changed my story more interesting.

We lined up in a line and walked down to the bottom court and started our P.E session. We all got Basket balls and did some practice around the court. Coach Trey told us to gather around and put the Basket balls back in the net bag. We played Bulldogs which are similar to Octopus and Bull rush, but we have to  bounce the ball in order to get to the other side without the ball being taken by the opponent. There were only boys left because they were too fast and too tricky.

Our next game was where we separated into 2 teams. The Number 1 team lines up with one basketball and the Number 2 team goes in a circle and passes the ball and counts how many they pass to each person.  Number 1 does a lap around the circle and counts how many laps each person made. People swap sides and whoever gets the most points passing it in a circle under the time limit will win!

In class a guy called Chris Judd and he said our subject was about pests and predators and a little bit about nature. He showed us some traps and explained about them.

The bus arrived and everyone got in a line, everyone started walking towards the gate and entered the bus. Everyone was talking until we arrived at Cornwall Park.

My friends and I looked at the amazing view. We saw sheeps everywhere and their poop smells horrible. When we arrived at our destination we split into two groups and had supervisors named Lisa and Charlie.

We explored and talked about trees and pests. There was a little box called the weta/cricket hotel. We saw poisonous traps because they are used for killing or trapping pests or predators. We switched groups but instead my group went with an Auckland Council member, Chris Judd.

Chris and our group went for a walk and explained deeper into trees and traps. It was fun because he would tell us where the traps were and we had to spot them. We spotted this bird and it had a pukeko-like head and a chicken body and it moved like a chicken.

Chris gave us binoculars to have a better look at trees. When the other group arrived we laid the mat and took out our lunches and had a lovely picnic. We played games such as snakes and ladders. The bus picked us up and went to school with a smile on our faces.

Chris Judd Came on the bus with us and gave us this thing called a tracking tunnel. He gave us a tracking card which had ink in the middle and he said it was best recommended to put peanut butter in the middle of the tracking card.  

 

 

Today I did the Cybersmart Challenge 7. The Challenge was about making a scene underwater with Google drawing. It was super fun making it. I used my creative brain and put some details on to make it more interesting. I put a photo of a Diver  of them looking for seafood, and fishes with beautiful orange scales and one with a black and white hat, If I do it next time I could be more creative!

By, Laura

At School my class and I went to the field to play cricket. Our coach taught us new games and one of them was called “Power Play.” We had to spread into  two teams only and throw the ball under our arms. Each team is in a square and you need one ball. It was so much fun and my team had lost almost all the rounds but I enjoyed it so much.