Tag: Writing

Yesterday morning  it was a beautiful day to go to the stone cottage but we had to wait until 10am  to go and  when it hit 10am we had to line up so we could walk there. There is such interesting stuff there. A lady named Terry and a man named Patrick were there to show us around.

Terry showed us a moustache cup that a man would use to drink his tea out of. They loved their tea and the special cup stopped their moustaches from getting wet.

She said “follow me  to the next room and squash up.” She said this  a  pot they used as a toilet and when it was full they had to dig a  hole to put all the yucky stuff  in and put the mud back  where were  used to be.

Patrick  showed us the wooden stilts the children used to play with to walk with. It looks hard. 

After that we had to go up stairs. It was too small for me to walk up the stairs. It was so small that I had to duck down to get up there. Once we were there we saw a room with  a baby’s  crib and a child’s bed too.  .

Patrick told us about the map of NZ  and showed us a Faberge egg that was thar for a long time and from overseas. There were old shoes and an old doll in a bedroom too and some old dresses and clothes that they used to  wear back in the olden days.  

I think it was a lovely outing because we learned so much about how people lived a long time ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier this month we celebrated Matariki which is on July 14th. Matariki is a public holiday for everyone in New Zealand. We weree also on school holiday. Matariki means the eyes of god and it is always celebrated in mid winter  and it is the beginning of the new year for the maori people. Matariki are 9 special stars around us. Matariki are star clusters in the early morning just before the sun comes up.  My teacher said we were going to do make Matariki stars.  We used  cardboard that was cut into circles, a ruler, scissors  and two different colours of wool. This is my star – can you guess how I made it?

 

I am Storm Boy who lives  with  my dad, Hide away Tom  in a humpy made from wooden walls and a tin roof.  I am called Storm Boy because I love being outside when it is crazy wild with wind and rain. My dad is a good dad and he and I like collecting cockles to eat. I have learned so much from our friend who is old and aboriginal, and his name is Fingerbone Bill. I know so much about where I live from him.

I am………………………………………………….Storm Boy

Yesteday after morning  tea  we  had a ki o rahi game . Room 6 and  room7  and room 8  altogether in our houses. After we  were finished changing  everyone was wearing Rimu,  kauri , Totara, Rata colours. Some were wearing black . After that we were ready for the ki o rahi tournament and  who ever  won will get a 100 fake dollar. Everyone could play too but some won and some lost and after that we were  finished playing all the games. We all went  under  the canopy and who was the winner?  It was kauri who won the  ki o rahi tournament. They gave the $100  fake money to the  kauri  team and they were happy and all  of  us were laughing because the money was fake. We all changed  back into our uniforms and went back to class and after that we all went home .

Last Thursday we were having ANZAC biscuits because we had celebrated ANZAC Day on Monday at home. When I looked  at the ANZAC biscuit it looked crispy like a round piece of toast and hard like a brick and when I touched it it was rough and bumpy all over. Then when I ate it, it tasted  like coconut and vanilla. It was so amazing and it exploded  in my mouth and it smelled like ice cream and  tasted very  delicious and  yum. The women baked  the ANZAC biscuits in 1915 over one hundred years ago for their husbands and sons who were fighting far away. The ingredients are Butter and flour and golden syrup, baking soda and coconut. 

 

On Friday we celebrated our Jubilee of 175 years since we started. We were singing and praying in the church all the way to morning tea time. Father took us all to where the time capsule was and we watched them dig it up. Everyone was so hungry so the teacher said we could eat as soon as we got back to class.

And after that we had tabloid sports which were fun because we were in teams and went from teacher to teacher. I liked Ms Kyle’s game and Mr Bell’s when the big kids go and help the little ones hit  the ball  and the Big kids Run far to the line.

When the bell rang we had to move on to a another game. When  we all were finished playing the teachers said we were going to  have ice blocks and the big kids gave them to us and most of us said thank you. After lunch we did fun activities in class and then went home.