Spencer Park Camp 2024.

Next week the class of Tangaroa is going to Spencer park for a night.

This year we don’t have a Vehicle to transport us to Spencer park, we ether have to walk or bike to the camp site; this year I have decided to walk the 2 hour walk to Spencer Park and my goal is to show Resilience by not giving up when I want to stop and lay on the ground.

My goal for showing integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking; for example: When doing Beach science or when I’m in my tent or cooking my meal.

I’m going to show success by hopefully putting my tent up, and helping my group successfully cook dinner.

This camp my goal for showing empathy is if someone is struggling with putting up there text I will help them, also if there struggling on the walk to the camp site also helping them by encouraging them and helping them if they need help.

 

2023 Reflcection.

At the start of the year I was scared to move into a new class with new people and new responsibilities, but that has changed. Let’s look and see why!

Term 1.

When the end of 2022 was near I started to feel anxious and uncomfortable about moving into a new class, but nevertheless it happened anyway. At the start of term 1 we got ready for learning 

Like getting into math groups, literacy etc. I also made a lot of good friends as soon as I joined the classroom! We learned about our school goal this year, kaitiakitanga and taking care of the school, and started to go to technology every Thursday  ( Robotics ) .

Term 2.

 We started the term with the same stuff as term 1. We started getting back into literacy and math groups ( Which I was doing ok in ) . We switched technology groups to wood works and started to make box’s. We did financial literacy and hero work and I started choir with my 

friends. We started to do winter sports. I chose to do football for a change and I really enjoyed it.

Term 3. 

We started term 3 where we left off from term 2. All of us went straight back into learning, I was kind of bad in literacy but doing really well in math. In August we went on a ski trip to Mt Hutt. I was in the beginner group but overall it was really fun. Winter sports was starting to end but we had the option to sign up for koru games, basically like winter sports, but where you score and try to win a competition, are football team didn’t win but we all had a good time, In the middle of term 3 we started inquiry with Talei and made non chemicals cleaning products I made a spray and wipe with my best friend Emma L named Gemma & Co. we at the end of the team I started to host football for C&C with Mason D, Izak and Rocky, I made some really good friends and I was in a good place.

Term 4.

This term we have started to slow down on a lot of things, there weren’t really any sports activities, but we did do a big choir performance and we went to camp at Camp Kakariki.

As we are finishing things up, I am getting sad and happy, all my year 8 friends will be leaving for high school, but overall I’m happy that this year is almost over.

My next year’s goal is to always get my work done ( Since that’s something I have struggled with ) . Being nice to everyone. ( Even if those people aren’t nice to me ) . 

But most importantly I’m thankful for all of the staff and teachers that have helped me and the rest of the class. 🙂

The Cure.

This is what I did for inquiry today.

here is what I have written.

 

The Cure.

 

Marcus was a successful man who had been working at the biggest research lab: The National Institute of health. He had been trying to discover the cure for cancer ever since his wife got cancer, he had been working day and night on trying to get a cure but had no luck.

 

“Marcus? MARCUS!”

“What Plumothy…” 

“You can’t keep sleeping in your office. I know you’re trying hard to discover the cancer cure but we need you to help Jack, you are his assistant. Replied Mr Plumothy.

“Just go away, Plumothy.” said Marcus

“I have had ENOUGH honestly GET up or you’re fired.” Yelled Plumothy

Marcus had a shocked expression on face.

“Alright- Alright.”

Marcus went to Jack and helped him do some paperwork.

He was unsatisfied with how he got treated and sneaked back into the main laboratory, and worked the hardest he ever had to find a cure, he had nearly got it but then he heard footsteps from a far, will he be found…

Top Team 2023.

This year the Yr 5 – 7  were competing in Top team, if you don’t know what top team is, it is when kids from different age groups get put together into teams and compete against others with puzzle and mini games.

Together in groups we did 9 challenges.

I was with Anika, Ruby, D’lonte, and Emile and Eve and 2 others.

The final score was 277, but we didn’t win but it was still a fun experience.

The rise values we showed were: Resilience when we were on  these connect shoes and we had to walk at the same time we almost gave up but we  didn’t and gave it are best. We showed Integrity when doing the right thing when the teachers weren’t looking.

2023 Koru Games.

For the last 3 days I have been participating in the Koru Games boys’ football team, it’s been an interesting experience since it was my first time doing Koru games.  At first, all of the teams went to the opening ceremony. After some talking the games began and our team went to Prebbleton.

The first day was kind of like winter sports, as soon as we got there we got our gear on and started our first game. Here are the scores of the games on the first day. We had four 30-minute games. We tied 1, lost 2 and won 1. On the second day, we had 5 games, lost 4 and won 1. On the last day we had 3 games, tied 1 and lost 2. I feel I was successful because even though we didn’t win all our games, we tried our best and supported each other. Koru games has been an amazing experience, I’ll never forget it.

1 Minute Speech – Blog review.

Today I presented my one minute speech to my group about over fishing and I got some feed back that I have to share with you.

What I did good: My keys facts related to the topic, Topic and key questions are identified and made some eye contact.

What I can improve on: Making more eye contact and Speaking slower.

Here is the “Link” to the speech.

I think that this is all true because when I was presenting the speech I noticed those things.

Rakua o te tau / Tree of the Year.

Today in literacy we had some looks at the final trees on the [ Tree if the year site ]

We looked at the description of all of the final trees and we were finding out if their descriptions were informative or persuasive. If you look on the web site you will see the final trees and their descriptions. We had a look at the web site and we decided that, “Gallipoli Oak” Had a lot of facts and wasn’t saying anything to change your vote, but if you have a look of some like the “Hansen Lemon Tree” Has some “!”  you wouldn’t need that to inform someone about the trees plus it says that “ this is a tourist attraction which is visited by thousands of people every year. It’s so important” That text is trying to per sway you/us to vote for it.

 

 

 

 

The Time Loop ( Old story )

I have a lot of old stories backed-up in my Google Drive so I’m going to share this one called the time loop. ( This is a very old story I am better at writing now! )

Chapter 1

 

Nothing but blood.

 

Day one of the time loop.

It was 5:AM. I woke up, randomly I heard a slight rumble, as blue energy blasted through the city. I felt a sudden tingle, zapping through my body but I didn’t question it because I was going to be late for my first day of work!

I grabbed my favourite breakfast meal… Pop tarts! After that I jumped into my swimsuit and then I zoomed to the dock, I guaranteed that the rest of my new colleagues would be waiting for me. When I arrived, the rest of the crew were waiting for me, as expected.

Where have you been Izak?!? Everyone was looking at me like I had killed someone, but that wasn’t true! My new boss, Mr Plum, told us to get in the water right this instance or he’ll do it himself. As we slowly walked to the end of the dock, Mr Plum grabbed me and the rest of my colleagues and threw us into the cold, frightening water. Josh ( one of my colleagues ) cut his chest on the way into the water, the cut looked pretty gruesome.  Josh looked like he couldn’t take the pain anymore so he swam up to dock and got out of the water but as soon as he did that Mr Plum threw him back.

 

Instantly Josh lost consciousness and blood poured out of his body and he started sinking to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. We couldn’t handle the thought of what Mr Plum would do to us because it would be like we killed Josh, so around noon we swam to the shore of the local beach and set off home. As I got home all that I could think about was Mr Plum finding out that Josh is dead.

Chapter 2 

Josh.

 

Day two of the time loop.

It was 4:00 AM. I woke up. I already knew that if I got up at 5:00 AM then I’d be late again. So again I grabbed the pop tart box and opened it, but the same flavoured pop tart was there and the wetsuit wasn’t damp. Even when I was driving to work the 

same sandwich was on the footpath that I saw yesterday, but the craziest thing that happened was that I saw Josh waiting on the dock with the rest of my colleagues!

I was starting to think this was a loop in time… but it wasn’t true right? I just didn’t want to think about it right now. Yesterday must have been a dream. So I got into the water. We were on a mission to find a rare Easter Island statue that has been impossible to find. We didn’t know how to find the Easter Island statue, but we knew that Mr Plum is very powerful and he would do anything to get the statue, he would even kill us if we didn’t bring the statue to him. Therefore we swam to the local beach and saw if we could get information.

We started with the old men and we asked them some questions like, have you seen some old statues in the bay around here?

But after hours and hours we couldn’t find anything that could lead us to the statues and it was time to get back to the dock.

We swam to Mr Plum and he was doing a little happy dance,

”What are you doing Mr Plum??” 

“Ugh, why now Izak?”

“Because it’s the end of the day and we have done our shift for today??”

 ( Mr Plum gasps ) “did you find it, did you find it?! 

“No..” said Izak. 

“What!! You better find it tomorrow or I will kill all of you!!”

“Ok ok be calm”

“NO I WILL NOT BE CALM IZAK!” Mr Plum growled. Me and the rest of my colleagues ran home.

 

Chapter 3

Feeling dizzy.

Day 3 of the time loop. 

Again I woke up at 4:00AM and got ready. I didn’t even question that the same pop tart was there and the wetsuit wasn’t damp and even that the sandwich was still on the footpath. I felt dizzy as I made my way out of the car and hobbled over to the water but then I collapsed… … 

( Hours later )

“I hope he’s ok,” a colleague muttered.

 “Same here..”

“Huh what happened??”

 “Hi, I’m Doctor Plum.”

“Wait”

“- shhh you’re ok go home now, you just were exhausted”

 “ Ok I guess… I went home and layed in my bed. I don’t know why I was exhausted but it was probably because I have been busy the past few weeks. I knew this was a time loop now, but I was wondering if anyone else is in the time loop.”

And that’s all I could think about as I drifted off.. 

 

Chapter 4.

 

Sunday.

Day four of the time loop.

 It was Sunday. Maybe the time loop was finally finished, today I was going to grab a coffee with Josh and talk about how cranky Mr Plum is! But I got called in by Mr Plum, so I got in my car and left. I found it surprising that he wanted to talk with me after all, he was using me and the other guys for money. All he wanted was to be rich, if it was something stupid I would leave in an instant. 

As I arrived Mr Plum didn’t look like he was in a good mood. George, Mr Plum’s son, was there. 

“Hello Izak,” said Mr Plum. 

“Hi-”

” I know you’re in the time loop and so am I. Do you know how Josh died that day? It was me!”

“Well that one was pretty obvious, you threw him in the water when Josh had an internal bleed! 

“Ugh Izak, just let me have some fun.”

 “Sorry I didn’t know you were having fun.” 

“And I’m the Doctor that checked up on you.”

“ I know that too.”

“ No you don’t!”

“ You looked the same and had Plum as a surname.”

“Well I THINK TOMORROW WILL BE YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH IF YOU DON’T FIND THE STATUE TOMORROW!! After that I ran into my car and zoomed home.. 

 

Chapter 5.

The spark.

Day 5 of the time loop

My alarm didn’t go off for some reason.. Something wasn’t right, but I needed to find that statue or I didn’t know what would happen to me.

I dashed to the dock as fast as I could, only to find out that Josh wasn’t there and Mr Plum had a grin on his face. “Come on now, get in the water!” Said Mr Plum. I just ran into the water as fast as I could. We went down further than usual and I saw a light blue spark, but it was time to go back to the dock.  I swam to the beach just so I wouldn’t see Mr Plum and from there I found my car and went home. 

Chapter 6.

 

The Axe.

Day 6 of the time loop

I was so scared to go and see Mr Plum but I had to go in the water before he did anything. I decided to drive to the beach and swim to the rest of my colleagues. 

When I met up with them Josh was there. I didn’t know if it was just me but surely this had to do with Mr Plum right? I told my colleagues to follow me. We swam to where the blue spark was and we finally found the statue. I wasn’t thinking straight so I swam up to the dock and was about to get out of the water when I saw Mr Plum. He had an axe in his hands and BOOM……

 I woke up on the dock at night and there was a blue spark over my head. I had no idea what was going on, so I just limped home.

 

Chapter 7.

Mr Plum.

Day 7 of the time loop  

4:AM I woke up like every other day. 

It was like the first day of the time loop. Everything was the same, but when I arrived Mr Plum’s jaw dropped clean open. I didn’t know what to say so when everyone got in the water I said, “I found the statue” and then I dived into the cold clean water.. 

Everyone went another way, but I went straight to the statue. When I was looking around it I found a giant blue spark in the water, I touched it and it popped!  I heard a slight rumble as blue energy blasted everywhere. It looked the exact same as when the time loop started, but I knew what I had to do.

 I got out of the water as fast as I could at the local beach and I called the police. I told them about Mr Plum threatening us, and how he had hit me on the head with an axe. I had proof because there was still a mark on my head.

 I ran towards Mr Plum ”  IZAK, HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?” he shouted

“I guess I was just lucky? But this is the end of you.. Mr Plum.. “

“PUT YOUR HANDS UP!”

 “NO THIS IS NOT THE END OF ME!!” said Mr plum. 

“Mr Plum you’re under arrest for theft of servers and abuse.”

 “He committed theft of servers?”

“Yeah we had a look at Mr Plum’s history and apparently he did?”

 “I DIDN’T DO THAT! HEY GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!” Yelled Mr Plum. “Izak this is not the end of me! I’ll be back and you’re not going to be ready!” 

“Mhm sure,” 

Bye, have a lovely time!” 

“You little”- ( The door slams shut ) 

“Thanks,” Izak said. 

“No Problem!” Said the police. 

 

“The time loop will come back and it will end you Izak and I know it..”