Alan Duffs visit to Glenbrae School

Today Mr.Alan Duff came to visit us in our class room.Mr Duff showed the class the book he has created. He told us that he wrote once  were warriors and other various things. Alan Duff is a famous writer. He gave students the opportunity to ask questions.He also asked a question. His question to us was what are dreams were.

Socially Responsible person.

Socially responsible person.

A socially responsible person is someone who looks after their community.They have to be kind to people and help others.

A socially responsible person should  be honest and make good choices.They have to be able to relate to others.If they get in to trouble they should tell everyone in the community so they can help he or she instead of keeping it a secret.They should be able to contribute to the community.They should also be able to respect people they don’t like very much. They should also make people feel a part of the community and not make them feel useless.They have to be kind and helpful and should able to help out around the community and give help to those in need. They shouldn’t turn them away because then it’ll make them feel small and helpless.

Waitangi day activites

	Meaning	Synonym
Staggeringly	Amazement	Huge,enormous
Aroma	it is a distinctive smell.	A odour,scent
Ambivalence	Mixed feelings.	When your now sure about something.
Mourned	cry over a death of a family member.	weep over something sad.
Indigenous	Things that appear naturally	Something native
Aggrieved	treated unfairly.	unhappy and disturbed.
Conversely	when you reverses a statement	when you say the opposite

Answer the following questions.

• What do you think about Keiran’s opinion?  I agree with her that they should celebrate waitangi day more.
• What does Waitangi Day mean to you or your family? It is a time to celebrate the signing of the treaty.
• What groups do you think benefit from Waitangi Day? The maori tribes benefit from it.
• How do you think New Zealanders could do more to celebrate Waitangi Day? They could do more things to celebrate the day they signed the treaty.

Water Fun Day

The water fun day was on friday the 7 of february.It started from 9am to 11am.We got into our four house groups.Rata(red),Kauri(green),kowhai(yellow) & nikau(blue).Students represented their house by wearing the same colored clothes.

We played water related activities.The first activity room 10 was the obstacle course.Each house had to line up in separate lines.The aim of the game was to get a cup full of water and crawl under a set of chairs.It was hard because water was driping out of the cup.

The next activity we did was the water slide.We filled up the milk carton and slid down the soapy slide. Two people went the water slide at a time.The next activity we did was the Zig Zag.We had to fill up a milk carton run down the slope in a zig zag motion.

Then we had the sponge activity we had to soak the sponge in a bucket full of water we had to run to the buckets quick because the water was dripping out of the sponge.The next activity we did involved passing a sponge under your legs.After that we had a three handed race we got into pairs.each house had to cups we had to run to the bucket and fill the two cups with water and run as fast as we could.

The final activity we did was walk the plank.We had to fill up a milk carton and walk over the plank.We then raced to the house bins to tip the water in.By the end of the water fun day evrybody was soaked.Rata and Kauri came won Kowhai and Nikau weren’t far behind.

Explanation writing

Success Criteria:To explain how to get to school, so the reader can follow your directions.

Topic: How to get to school from my house every morning

Everyday I walk to school. I walk with my brothers and sisters to school, it takes us at least 10 minutes to walk to school. These are the directions from my house to school.You go out the driveway and turn left and walk past the alley way. You keep walking until you get to the corner of the street.Then you have to turn left until you get to the crossing then you cross the road. Next you go through the reserve you know you’re there when you can see the park. Next turn right when you're on Leybourne Circle. Turn right again and walk straight up until you get to the next crossing. Finally,  you cross the road and you’re at Glenbrae School.