Kapahaka

Every Wednesday our school have a Kapahaka lesson where we do Maori dances and songs.
Here is a video of our lesson.

100 Word Challenge

This week's challenge was really hard because we had to think about a conversation between a man and a statue.

I was waiting patiently for Air NZ Flight 560 to fly back to my hometown, Leeds, a northern city in England. I couldn’t wait to see my beautiful GrandChildren.

I had been waiting for about 2 hours, I was so tired of standing, so I decided to find a park bench outside a restaurant, where I could also have a bite to eat.

Finally I found a park bench. There was a man sitting there, as still as a statue. We started chatting about worldly news. “How do you feel about everything that’s happening around the world right now?”, he asked politely, “I’m not really sure, I replied.”

My Amazing Race Record

In Rimu Class, we have just started doing The Amazing Race, which is technically a reading project. We have to read Chapter Books. Each time we finished a book we had to write a summary about it and then record a fact about each country. I hope you enjoy my facts, please comment on this. Thanks!

My Reading "2 Diary Entries"

These are my two diary entries that I had to write for my reading as part of my ANZAC reading tasks. I also found out what a diary entry was because I wasn't really sure what it was at first. I have also explained what a diary entry is down below.

A diary entry is a record with different entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day.

Hope you enjoy!

Day 1

Dear Diary, Today I felt horrified and sad for all of the soldiers because of all of the gunshot wounds and broken bones. It was tough looking after them as well because every time I would look at their wounds I felt like I was going to cry.

Day 2

Dear Diary, Today Allied forces landed on Gallipoli the 25th of April. British forces made the main landing at Cape Helles on the southern tip of Gallipoli, while the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed midway up the peninsula. We were sent 2 km north of our intended landing place, we came upon really determined Ottoman forces in the rugged country above the beach (soon named Anzac Cove). Unable to make any convincing advance, we ANZACS spent the next few days desperately holding onto our small beach.

Week 4 100 Word Challenge

This week's 100 Word Challenges prompt was "as the flame flickered and then went out..."
I had a few ideas for this but none of it fitted in with the prompt, so I decided to have a look at some of my friends stories for ideas. 
Hope you enjoy. :)


I know what you’re thinking, weird right. I’ll start from the beginning... It was the middle of the night, suddenly I jumped, I had had a very weird nightmare, it was very detailed as well. I was so scared that I realised that I couldn’t get back to sleep, I needed some light so I leant other to my bedside table lighting all three of my beautiful smelling candles, One of them smelt like roses, and the two others smelt like lavender. Swooosh, I saw a shadow fly past my bed, I began to curl up as the flame flickered and then went out...

Edna Pengelly's Timeline

This Term I started making a timeline of one of the nurses who went to WW1 (World War 1).
Her name was Edna Pengelly. I found out a lot of information about what her life was like before, during and after the war.

I look forward to reading your comments. :)

Edna Pengelly Timeline

1874-1959

1874-- Edna Pengelly was born in Canada on 5 July 1874.

1902-- In 1902 Pengelly and her mother moved to Levin and started a poultry farm.

1904-- She began her training at Wellington District Hospital on 1 January 1904.

1907-- After completing her training in 1907, Edna Pengelly supervised various wards at

Wellington District Hospital.

1909-1915-- After completing her training in 1907, Edna Pengelly supervised various wards at Wellington District Hospital.

 

1915-- Edna Pengelly applied to join the New Zealand Army Nursing Service.

1915-1919-- Pengelly served at military hospitals in Egypt and England.

1919-- She was awarded the Royal Red Cross second class in 1917 and first class in 1919.

1919-- After returning to New Zealand, she was matron of the Queen Mary Military Hospital, a rehabilitation centre at Hanmer Springs, until 1921.

1924-1928--  She was president of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association.

1929--  Edna Pengelly became matron of the Wanganui Collegiate School.

1937-- She returned to Wellington to be near her mother.

1941-- Retiring from nursing in 1941, Pengelly continued to be a member of the New Zealand Registered Nurses' Association.

1956-- Her diaries were published in 1956, as Nursing in peace and war, provide one of the few accounts of a New Zealand nurse's military experiences in the First World War.

1959-- She died on 20 August 1959 at Wellington Hospital, where she had commenced her training some 55 years earlier.

By Laura

    

'One Night'

This Week the 100 Word Challenge prompts were:   

Silence   Orange    Thunder    Pyjamas    Swam

I found it really difficult to write this 100 Word Challenge because we had to include all 5 words in our story.

I look forward to seeing your comments.

One night as I was wandering home from a long day of work, I came across a cat wearing orange spotted pyjamas. I was very confused why this cat was even wearing pyjamas.

I finally reached home. As soon as I walked into the house, there was 10 seconds of silence then, ‘BANG’ out of nowhere the house started filling up with water, but it was no ordinary coloured water, it was ‘Orange’!

By the time the house was completely full of water, we all swam out the window and into the terrifying thunder and lightning storm. 

I didn’t like the thought of this at all.