The Indian In The Cupboard.

This term, my class has been given an opportunity to explore an enjoyable story - a novel study. “The Indian in the Cupboard” is the book that my group and I have been reading daily. I have been delighted with this story and hopefully you (my readers) will enjoy it too.

Our story begins with a birthday. It’s Omris’ special day and he receives a second hand plastic indian.  I know this doesn’t sound exciting, but trust me, it really is! This little plastic figure actually comes to life!


I think the story itself so far is a really good and enjoyable.

We read our novel stories from our Notebook, it’s really easy because you don’t have to flip a page you just scroll down.  If you have a problem or trouble you can have a conversation with someone in your group.
Last week we came passed an unfamiliar word, and that word was tantalizing.  What does tantalizing mean? Tantalizing means to torment with something desired but out of reach.

On Friday in our second session Room 18 and 16 has been having a terrific time down at the Tamaki Rec-Centre mostly every Friday.   We walk down to Tamaki College to do some fun games and sports with the Year 12’s.  Our group got three funny and amazing girls.

Last week we did Orienteering. We had to team up with one other person and my choice was David.  We got given a map and a pen and then we headed off.  I looked at the first direction closest to David and I so we could find our first clue but, we had no idea what we were looking for ?

After all of that running it was time to meet back at the Courts.  I looked at how much letters we collected and thought we did a pretty ok job but could have done better.

It was pretty hard but, fun at the same time.  One thing I really liked about that session was running everywhere to look for the clues and figuring out what the letters spelt.

Our topic that we are studying on this term is Art Alive.  Art can be described in a lot of ways like Drawing, Painting and many more things.

Last week we rotated to different classes for other Art themes and only had an amount of time.  Our first class was our very own.  We learnt about putting things into a different perspectives and also not pressing down on your pencil to hard.


Things I liked about rotating was learning about down Art skills and different art people.

Duffy Book's

On Wednesday our whole school had an Duffy Assembly which meant we got our brand new Duffy books. Mr Barks gave out our books the day later and I got Ook and Guk and Geronimo- My Valentine's Day.

Mr Burt said that you always have treasure them and then when your old you can get that book out 40 years later and say oh I remember when I got that book.

Camp Reflections Day 1 Highlight take 2

Arriving here to school round about 7.40A.M. I could fell butterflies flying round in my stomach because I could fell a lot of happiness inside because it was our first camp for 2012 and to see all my friends.


So far my favourite camp highlight of the day was Box Fit and setting our tents up. I’m so lucky that I have good friends with me in my team the Respect crew and my amazing Camp leaders Toreka and Lepa.

Ben Carson

Dr.Ben Carson one brilliant life saver. In 1987 he succeed in his operation splitting up the Siamese's twins.

On it was a miracle because Pt England 5-8 and many other school’s were going to see him at the Center. As we got into the bus I was nervous but in a good way. When we got there we all waited for the manager to come lead us into the Tesltra Clear Event Center.

As Ben Carson come out everyone clapped for he and I said to myself “ We were actually meeting a really life doctor like Dr.Carson WOW”. I was sitting next to David and we were talking about his amazing American accent.

He told us about about some of his stories when he was a kid. Carson was born in Detroit and his was raised up by his single mother, Sonya Carson. He struggled in academically throughout school, boys in his class us to call him dummy and other mean names like that.

One time he actually had a pocket knife and was going to stab his cousin but luckily his cousin was wearing a metal belt and broke his knife and he said “If he wasn’t wearing it he would can been killed. He us to get in trouble by the police, the police had think that they were trapped but actually wasn't they didn't know how good he was at climbing the tall metal fence. It was about 1 hour and 30 minutes later and Ben had about 20 minutes more to talk to us and then he had to head off.

He said to us " The letter K stands for knowledge and The letter T stands for Talent everyone has a talent like singing,dancing and many more and you have to chase that dream and talent.

Venus the planet of hell.

This is one article that I was extremely excited for me to write about. If you want to read more about this article click on this link http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10789050

Venus is a planet from Hell because its atmosphere is extremely hot, deadly and heavy. If someone visits Venus they will risk being killed. Some people may think that Mercury is a planet from Hell but it actually isn't. This is because Venus has a hotter atmosphere than Mercury.

The atmosphere on Venus is 100 kms thick and is made up of 96 per cent carbon dioxide.

A day on Venus is equal to 243 days on Earth making it a planet from hell. The French space explorers discovered that the days on Venus are getting even longer.