A Dog Ate My Homework.

It all started last Friday. There I was stepping along confidently, clutching my homework in my hand. I was pleased with it. I’d spent hours finishing it the night before.

Then I heard it ! A low growl....

I looked down slowly and silently to find the neighbourhood’s worst known dog tugging viciously at my homework. Deciding to take instant action,  I snapped at him hoping it will scare him off. But NO! I pulled  on my school work and  still it didn’t get the reaction I had hoped for. “I’ve worked hard on this, I am not just going to give up on it”. I yelled. The only sound I heard was the  growls that seem to get  louder and louder. I looked down at his drooling mouth dribbling with saliva.I yelled  at it, but still it didn’t  work.  Cars passing by  looked at me in a weird way thinking no doubt that  I am some kind of lunatic. I felt really embarrassed.

“You have caused me enough embarrassment, it is time to settle this once and for all”. I screamed at the dog. I dragged the dog to school with my homework still in his mouth.

Finally once I got into class, the dog let go of my work and rushed to another boys paper hanging down from his hand and began fiercely tugging on it. I laughed and laughed, desperately  holding my stomach.   I handed my paper to the teacher all torn and sloppy with disgusting dog saliva, and all the teacher could say was “eeewwww, goodness gracious me, I am very disgusted”.  Her eyes met mine and there was a empty silence, I swallowed ... “My dog ate my homework!”.

My Flipping eBook On Sound

Created with Padlet

Today I used a new exciting tool to brainstorm, this tool is called 'Padlet'. I used this brainstorming tool to brainstorm about what I know about sound. Next time we will be learning on how to research on this tool to find our answers to our questions.

Sound Popplet

This is my popplet on sound. In room 8 we are learning about sound this term. Popplet is a brainstorming tool that is fun to use if you need to brainstorm.

Euphrasie Barbier

Euphrasie Barbier had a lot of courage and did not give up and because of her positive attitude she always kept her faith in God by spreading the word of good news to the rest of the world.

Euphrasie Barbier joined a small a Missionary group which was the Sisters Calvary in 1848. In 1851 she was part of a group that was sent to England to be taught how to speak proper English. The Sisters now recognized as the Institute of Compassion. This group established a Religious House and became drawn - in to the Parish schools.

Green Is Everywhere!

Ko te Ratu 18 o te poutu-te-rangi o tenei ra.

Donegals, Tipperary's, Emeralds, Shamrocks, Limericks and the leprechauns.
‘Happy St Patricks Day everyone’.

The special day started off with a Mass. During mass one child from each class took a green painted hat, that had virtuous words that described Saint Patrick. After Mass, it was time for the short interval. Following this  the school made their way to the front of room 4 and 5. Then each student was put into one of 5 different groups. Darrelle, Natalia, Agnes, Soana, John, Dehnyse, Carlos and Myself were the leaders of each group. The names of the groups were the shamrocks, donegals, leprechauns, limericks and the emeralds. The reason for the teams were so the younger students have senior people to guide them to do the right thing. All of the groups were named after Irish things.

As the Donegals walked into room 8, our group seated ourselves down into a chair in front of a desk that had tray with a face that had google eyes, a cloud of orange hair, strips of  green paper,  dark green strip of green papers, popsicle sticks,  gold squares, shamrock papers, plates of glitter and pva glue. The activity was to make leprechaun bookmarks. First of all we had to colour in the top of the drawn on pencil line with the green vivid, then we had to fold over the popsicle stick, and then we added a dark green strip under the light green strip, then we all added the strips of paper, the next thing to do was to add the face with google eyes but before that we put the cloud of hair behind the head. Then we added a gold buckle on top of the strips and then under the leprechauns face we stuck on two cardboard shamrocks. And for the final touch up was a pinch of glitter. When everyone finished their bookmarks Jordi, Destiny and I helped Mrs Dines distribute more things into the trays for the next groups to use.

Our next stop was room 1 which was bowling. This time is was girls against boys. All the girls were sure that we would win the competition. And so it was the girls challenging the boys. Cheering, screaming, clapping all of us on our knees thinking of the right time to bowl the ball. Each player had the same amount of turns to come up and try and bowl the bowling pins over. We all had 4 turns then the bell rang and then Ms Craig called out the total of the points. “16, 21, 32 to the boys”, said Ms Craig, and “ 21, 28, 34, 36 to the girls, said Ms Craig. It was official that the girls had won.

Then we made our way to room 2 which was to create a shamrock that has virtuous words over the shamrock and to conclude to making our masterpiece we stuck on a straw so that we could hold it.

Our last class was room 6. In room 6 we had to paint a small shamrock. Each side of the shamrock represented God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit. We all did different colors. To finish off with our shamrock painting we punched a hole in the top of the shamrock and we threaded a piece of small ribbon in the hole so we could hang it on our door or on the wall.

To conclude the day we all gathered in the front of room 4 and 5. And for all our hard work we got a ice block each. The team that won over all was the Donegals my team. "We all cheered and and gave thanks to the teachers for planning this awesome day.

How Do You Express Your Feelings?

There are different ways that people can express their feelings. They can express their feeling through body language or through speech.

Many times when people express their feelings for example happiness the person you are resulting your feelings to may see a smile being formed on your face and even a bit of laughter. People usually are happy when they are around their friends or around something they like.

Often when people are delivering a bit of anger they show some aggression that may lead to the use of inappropriate language and even furniture or objects been damaged at school or at home. Humans may even take their anger out on the person they are angry at by being physical. When the person gets physical, it may look like a person being punched or been hit by the angry person. The cause of the person being angry maybe because he or she might of been teased.

Sometimes when people are scared of anything for example of a bully, the person would lock themselves in the toilet or somewhere they are not in sight. Usually you can tell when the person is scared is when their eyes are watery from them being crying and they also may have red eyes from rubbing them or from crying.

When people are sad they usually have water in their eyes and even if their eyes are red.If people are sad it usually is caused by teasing, bullying and even through someone who has passed on in their family.

There are many different feelings that people may have and many different ways that they express it. The most common feelings that people in the world have are happiness, sadness, anger and even scared.