today in the morning we had a volleyball game against ngaio class. And I even managed to get a couple good hits in. But halfway through the game me, eko, hunter, and molly had to bring the spades up to the planting area! So instead of playing volleyball we had to heave shovels up a massive hill. I guess you win some and you lose some.

today at school  because eko won the photograph competition we had a paralympian swimmer come to our school! Her name is Tupou Neifui and she told us about her life. After the assembly, eko and Tupou Nefifui planted a tree togther. then therest of us had to start planting. It  was really hot and the ground was hard. we stopped planting at lunch which I was pretty happy about. 

because eko won the photograph competition we had a paralympian swimmer come to our school! Her name is Tupou Neifui and she told us about her life. After the assembly, because Eko won the competition we got a class trip (which was planting)  . Eko and Tupou Neifui planted a plant together and the rest of the kauri class also started planting plants.  We continued planting until lunch.

L.I: To describe a place you connect with using verbs and adjectives so the reader can imagine it.

S.C: 

Success Criteria:

• I can begin with a question to draw in the reader.

• I can use the repetition of “In this place, …” to give my writing rhythm.

• I can finish with a clear answer that reveals my special place.

• I can use adjectives to describe how the place looks, sounds, smells, or feels.

• I can use verbs to show what happens there (e.g., waves crash, birds squawk).

• I can write in a poetic tone that helps the reader picture and feel the place.

I come from a place where the jagged mountains remind me of the ups and downs of life. Where the silence is only broken by the munch of a cow grazing or the westerlies blowing away. Where it’s surrounded by lush grass and the closest neighbours being a while away. 

I come from a place that’s either cold or warm but perfect inside. Where my cozy bed is impossible to get out of. Where my sisters are always fighting and the kitchen is full of beautiful smells. I come from a place where it feels as if the grass is pulling me in place, grounding me. The place I come from lifts the bearings of life for me and makes me feel relaxed. 

My home: kahoe NZ

this term we have been doing a sport every Thursday. The sport is volleyball! Some people in my class are really good at it like hokianga and kodin while others like eco and moss not so much. Im alright at volleyball. Although leaning toward bad since I don’t play volleyball apart from when our whole class plays. In volley ball you have to hit a ball over a net and the ball has to hit the other teams side ground to score a point. you can only hit the ball once and a side can only hit it three times before having to get it to the other team.

for speeches this year I made mine about why grow a garden should make a trading system. As of today [19 Sept 2025] grow a garden made a trading system. And its all because of me! [not really] my speech was 4 minutes long and I thought it was pretty good. The judges must of agreed because I got put in the next round witch was happning on Thursday and it was Monday!  but then tragedy struck and I got sick. maybe I will win next year ]:

a couple days ago for art/writing my class made comics! Mine was about 3 people fighting over a potato. After making my amazing comic my teacher said we also had to make one on Canva! My canva one was wayyy worse then my hand drawn comic but it was still alright… Here is a picture of my hand drawn comic:

yesterday for our pet day art we made Tessellation art. Tessellation art covers the hole page and is made up of animals in a diamond like shape. We were supposed to make it into a pattern but all my faces were different but my teacher didn’t really care so long as the colours were in a pattern. I didn’t win anything from my Tessellation art for pet day but it was still fun to make.

today for tuakana teina we started off with some skipping to warm up. and then our teina had to find the rocks that our class hid around the school. mine and kodins teina was running around pointing out rocks and then running again. at the end of it he found 35 out of the 37 of the rocks our class hid In the time limit. It was a fun day!

for pet day we had to make some art and one of the art pictures we had to make was our snail art, we had to theme our snail and my snails theme was a videogame snail! its shell was replaced as a controller and it was green as well. their were some other really good snails here are some of my favorites rugby snail, space snail, Gary snail, and cinmon snail.