Otahuhu Park

Staying at the park, although it was still dark. It was actually quite fun even without the bright sun!

During the two weeks holiday off from school my three year old  niece, Vaiola, my older cousin, Sophia, my mum, three sisters Rose, Lupe and Malia, Taveti and I went to the park. We all traveled all by car.

On the way there it was a bit funny because Vaiola was always on her own buzz. She kept singing and screaming the whole way there. What made it even more worse was that I was sitting right beside her. The things she was screaming were “The wolf finds the sheep and then he eats all of them”.  

Vaiola is very tall for her age. She has super curly black hair. Her left leg has a small light brown birthmark, the same as her father. She loves nursery rhymes and fairy tales and most of the time she is really stubborn and will almost always disagree with anything unless they were compliments about herself.

At some point I realized that I’d knew the nursery rhyme she was singing. It was at the tip of my tongue then all of a sudden it hit me. The rhyme she was singing was the ‘The Wolf and the Seven Little Sheep’.  

I was relieved that I finally solved the mystery of the rhyme she was singing but sadly O wouldn't be relieved from her singing. It was useless trying to prevent her. In fact it would just make her sing even louder.

With all the bellowing and the singing during the car ride to the park I started to have a sore head ache. I was also really tired but unfortunately I couldn't possibly sleep with all the noise and rackets that one little three year old child was making.

Finally we made it to the park and I was so glad that I wouldn’t have to hear all the bellowing anytime sooner. It was a bit crowded at first until it was getting darker in hours that just felt like minutes. At the park there was a humongous spider web climbing course where anyone and everyone could climb so I climbed it. It was at least 5 metres off the ground. Once I made it to the top I looked at the view that it provided me with which was amazing.

I could see a glimpse of the beautiful orange sun from the distance as it was settling down in the Western side of the country. As well as the sun I could see the big enormous pine tree that preferably looked as big as 6 adult elephants stacked up . In the corner of my eye I could just see the corner of my cousin’s house two blocks away from the park. There were also men on the field training for a rugby touch game.

We played, and played and played and played until our feet started to ache then we all just laid down on the dark green grass that felt either damp or just cold. A few minutes later we were off back home. 

It was very fun and at the end of the day I was overjoyed and excited for the next time we’ll go back there again.

Nelson Mandela Biography

Nelson Mandela has become well known and respected all over the world as a symbol of the struggle against apartheid and all forms of racism. To aboriginal Africans he is their icon and hero of African liberation.

Not only is Nelson Mandela known well for the struggle against apartheid but also for preventing less racist violent policewomen and men against citizens and also because he played a major role for the battle of South Africa's Independence.

In the late 19th century Nelson Mandela became the first black President of South Africa. He became actively involved in the ANC also known as the African National Congress in his middle aged 20s in 1942. He served South Africa for 5 years from 1994 to 1999.

Nelson Mandela was born on July the 18th 1918  and died 2 years ago on December the 5th 2013 at the age of 95 years old. Nelson Mandela died after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection. Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg. Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, Tranksei South Africa.

Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlala Mandela . Rolihlala in the Xhaos language literally means "pulling a branch of a tree", but more commonly translates as a trouble maker.

Although Nelson Mandela has done many great things in life he has once been sent to jail. Did he do anything wrong? No he didn't but only stand up to the apartheid. Why did he go to jail though if it's just protesting you guess? Its because back in those days when the apartheid were in control that was apart of their law. Whomever protested towards the apartheid had to pay a price, which was Nelson Mandela's price, sentenced to prison for 27 years.

Once Nelson Mandela became in charge of everything being President of South Africa he managed to change everything. He gave everyone equal rights so therefore everyone could speak their minds to everyone and anyone.

In 2009 Nelson Mandela's birthday was declared "Mandela Day" to promote global peace and to celebrate the South African Leader's Legacy. Nelson Mandela has changed people, countries, laws and the world. He's also made many inspirational quotes, sayings and many more things.

  

Pt England's Dress Rehearsal

Monday the 21st of September 40 children from the senior syndicate were selected to be able to go to Pt England's Dress Rehearsal. We were there to watch their own made up performance called "Cindy and Josh." It was very entertaining and full of talented Pt England students dancing and singing. We all enjoyed the show but unfortunately it came to an end. We were all lucky to go and watch their Dress Rehearsal and all appreciate them inviting us. Thanks Pt England!

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Great Effort on Coming 3rd Place

Everyone crowded, pushing each other while trying to fit through our school gate. After all the pushing and bumping each other we finally made it through. During the time we were running we could feel the pressure and perspiration forming on our bodies. Everyone was cheering while coming through to the finish line. We felt relieved. At the end of the day we were all proud of ourselves and others who tried their best.

Places:

Mikayla at 1st place

Ofa at 2nd place

Miria and Elizabeth (tie) 3rd place

By Elizabeth, Miria, Mikayla, Ofa

Learning Square and Cube Roots

Recently Room 12 have been learning about Square and Cube Roots. To help us understand and learn more efficiently we used uni-link blocks. We learnt how to build a 2 Dimensional square and 3 Dimensional cube. At first it was a bit complicated but in the end we got used to doing it and were faster than ever. To me the uni-link blocks helped a lot. To not forget what square and cube roots look like we display them in class. It was very important of us to understand square and cube roots so next term they will help us to solve other equations.

Our Paper Creatures

Lately we have started to do origami for our visual arts. As well as doing origami we had to understand the definition of the word "origami". While finding the definitions we also found out what country it came from which is 'Japan'.