The Thrilling Trolls

'' Come on Trolls do your thing'', JP the Indian said in a spooky voice. Yep it was the last night of our school production and it was also the last time we performed my favourite dance "THRILLER".

After the Indian said those words they (the main characters) all cleared off the stage. It was really dark. The fun thing was creeping onto the stage like a real troll with our costumes on. Trying to scare the little kids was my number one goal because I wanted to see if we could but it didn't work at all. Putting on a scary face was really hard because everytime I looked at someone I knew they would always make me laugh. I just couldn't help it.

It was 'show time' for our group because it was time to show off our funky moves to the crowd. Everyone was quiet but then the music began and we started dancing. Everyone was cheering for us. Move after move after move there was more cheering. They just wouldn't stop. I felt really confident after a while because in the beginning I was really anxious. The chorus was the best because we were showing our Michael Jackson moves to everyone. The cheering didn't stop there either. It felt like we were famous 'Super Stars' walking down the red carpet. The Thriller dance was over for the night and we walked off like dead Zombies.

It was both a sad and wonderful night for us. Wonderful because it was the best night ever, sad because it was our last performance.

Here is some footage from the Thriller dance on the last night. Hope you enjoy.

Fathers Day

2 weeks ago was fathers day. It was very exciting.  All I could think about was  all the lollies my dad was going to receive. We dressed up in our fancy clothes and got ready for church.

 It was around 9 and we jumped in the car and left for church. We got there and all the men's were inside in there uniforms. They were very handsome in their  suits.  They were all different sizes but the same colour Cream. 

 It was bang on 10 when they had the opening for our ceremony. What I mean by ceremony was that we had a very special curtain that our pastors wife had to cut  it open. It was very cool. 

 Then the fathers did there 4 items. At the end the kids had to give the lays to there dad. It was the best day for my dad.

My Blog Wordle

Today in extension we learnt how to use wordle with Mrs Burt. We used wordle to see which words we used the most and how many we used the least. Also we can see if we have been using interesting words in our blog post. My big words were Hamish and Campbell. 

 Here is my blog wordle page.

The Cross Country race

Last week on Thursday was a blast because we had our school cross country. It was a very interesting at first.

After a few waits it was our turn. The 11 year olds. But we couldn't run because there weren't enough girls to race. So instead we had to run with the 11 year old boys. I was very nervous when Mr Burt said that. But Mr Burt said that the girls are racing with the girls and the boys have to race with the boys. I was very pleased.

Mr Burt told us to stand up so we did. He had 2 blocks in his hands and he snapped them together. That was the signal to start. We raced off. We just started and I could feel my heart bumping as I was running. I got to the gate and I felt like fainting because my legs were sore already and I needed water. But I kept on going. I sprinted at first and then started to jog with Helen and Kezia. We went past the toilets and then past Ms Tito. Sela was about 3 inches in front of me.

When we were almost there I started sprinting to the end and Sela was behind me. I gave it my all. I tried my best and I made it to the end. The best thing was that I finished the race in 7th place. I am so happy that I made it to the finish line.

Here is some of the footage from the cross country race.

 

Conference with Hamish Campbell

This morning we had a very special video conference with the man himself Hamish Campbell. If you don't know who Hamish Campbell is, he is a famous Geologist and a paleontologist too. We talked to him about the Fiordland earthquake that happened last month on the 16th of July in the South Island.

Anyway Hamish Campbell told us that earthquakes were very dangerous. Why? because he said  in 1976 in China there was a big earthquake. It happened so quickly that it only lasted for 15 seconds. It was super fast and 242,000 people died. The people died because their houses collapsed on them. Luckily nobody died here.

The other thing Hamish talked about was  the seismometer. Hamish talked about how the seismometer or what he called an instrument worked. He said "that the seismometer helps measure and records  the shaking of the ground''.  We made a seismometer too, but it wasn't as good as the real ones. We took one so we could showoff our awesome seismometer. While he was talking we asked him if he knew what we built. He guessed a seismometer and guess what he was right.

A little while he had some sad news for us.   That the dinosaur lady who is known as Joan Wiffen has died at the age of 87. Isn't that sad. She was the first lady ever in New Zealand to find the dinosaur bone here at New Zealand. Hamish Campbell was so lucky that he got the opportunity to go to her funeral.

I would really like to say thank to  Diana-Grace and Hamish Campbell for our opportunity to get talk to him once again. Also I would like to thank Te Papa museum for our chance to talk to Mr Hamish Campbell. Thank you so much.

The Museum Trip

Wednesday the 24 of June. The extension group and Rm15 and also Rm 14 and Rm 16 went to the Auckland War Memorial museum. We went there because it was part of our topic. Our topic this term is all about Dinosaurs like the T-Rex and the Diplodocus.

As always we hopped on the bus early in the morning around 9 am and went to the Auckland Museum. It took about half an hour to get there. It was a bumpy ride to get there. Once we were there everybody was pleased that we were there. The Museum was beautiful, it was huge and amazing. When we arrived there were 2 other schools there but I don't know what their school names were. It was a primary school and a college. I think they were on their trip.

Room 14 walked in first and then us [extension] and room 15 walked inside, sat down and got placed into groups. There were only 2 parent helpers. Sela's brother Havea and my big brother Peleti. My brother's group was Me, Helen Tui , Kezia, Blessing and Moses. There were 5 of us. Our first activity was actually meant to be finding things but we got in late because the other school went in first. So we just explored the whole entire room. It was really amazing. There were all these birds and these crayfish. I just wanted to put my hand in there and grab that crayfish but I think it wasn't real and anyway it was glass so I couldn't actually break it, it was too strong.

Soon after we had our morning tea. We grabbed our food that was locked away because we couldn't eat inside so we went outside to have our morning tea. After we had our morning tea we had 20 minutes to play before our next activity. We played tiggy, running and many other games. It was really embarrassing because I fell down.

We got inside and we had to walk about 25 stairs just to get upstairs to have our lessons. We got upstairs and we met this man named Paul who was going to teach us about dinosaur fossils. About 20 minutes later we had to get into our groups and do activities. Our activity was trying to figure out what fossil or bone we had. One of the groups had a T-Rex poo so it was funny. Once we finished our lesson we did another activity and that was our last one too. Our last activity was answering in pairs the Questions on the paper and it was kind of hard. Soon after that we lined up and went back to the front.

Then we hopped on the bus and left the museum and went back to school. It was a hot day so some people slept on the bus. We got back to school and had our lunch.

Dino Might

This term we are learning about Dinosaurs. The only animal left alive that is related to
a dinosaurs is a lizard. They have been extinct for over 65 million years ago. They are different sizes. On the first day of term we had an Immersion Assembly.It was an amazing Assembly because the teachers were dressed up in different types of clothes to do with our topic Dino Might.

They were dressed up in different costume like Mr Burt and Miss Vafusuaga, Mrs She and Miss Glaze. Miss Vafusuaga and Mrs She and Mrs Glaze did a rap they didn't actually sing but they danced to the music. I was all about dinosaurs. In there movie was all kinds of dinosaurs like Brontosaurs and T Rex and so much more dinosaurs. They were my best group and there were so funny. They were team 2.