My Adventures in the School Holidays

As I descended onto the rubble track, William and dad joined me. Excitement filled me top to bottom, as we arrived the wet rocks slightly moved. The waves crashed, sadly nothing seemed to really move around so I was hard to tell if it was the creatures we were looking for. Can you guess the animal?

There was an other rubble track but we knew they wouldn't be here. This was a new adventure! Big sandy cliffs, there was a archway half of it was buried in the deep blue. Wild big bushes why hadn't they destroyed them? We made our way three quarters down. We stared at the sandy arch. 

Then dad pointed out the stone tunnel. We slowly made our way down the steps the wet stone walls around the small tunnel. I was surprised how does my dad a 6.6 foot man not have to duck down to get down these steps!? As we arrived at the end of the tunnels big rocks made up the ground there was a little sand. dad and William adventure to look into through the archway, I was to scared to explore. dad encouraged me to venture forward. So I did I looked through the archway before the tide came up to me, though I didn't see much I was to small. Now we just had to get back up to the car... Can you guess were I went?

We were to late can't see them this trip, I was disappointed we couldn't see the them this time. It was disappointing I really did want to see their chicks. at least I got to watch a video about them sadly long line fishing has been most reasons for their deaths, I hope they will live and thrive in the future! Can you guess the animal?

We had been it the car forever it felt like but it was time dad called me and William out of the car he wanted to show us a special place. We walked down the beach. William made a jump over a small stream making its way to the ocean, I made a leap but it came with a cost of slightly wet shoes. We could see them the strange round stones, how did they even get here. once we arrived at the strange stones dad took some photos and we made our way back. we found a rock pool like an actual rock pool, one of the rock had a crater in it. Water had filled that crater and sea life was in it, we even managed to find a starfish in there! Can you guess were we went?

Reflection of my term

My Reflection

This term when we were learning about New Zealand history, my favourite thing we did was when we walked the Bridle Path. Because I understood the how the European settlers felt and I also liked sliding down the hill on the way down (that was my favourite part.) Sadly my mum fell twice and injured her knee. I also liked I got to the top I felt like I achieved something that I could be proud of (im never doing it again.)  Overall I enjoyed it, not the part when my legs were dying though.

Just imagine getting off the boat that you've been on for months and then having to walk up a big hill with all of your stuff. With handmade shoes, yeah probably not fun. It would feel painful going through that for hopefully a better life.

Capture The Flag 

This term winter sport started I have chosen capture the flag and I have been enjoying it so far. For capture the flag we have been VS other schools sometimes we have to have some of our players go on the other team. I remember that time on my first game when I slided on my knees to rip them (I think I saved the day.) Also that game when I scored for the first time. 

School Lunches

Now for a couple terms school lunches have been delivered to us. I never really ate them it was nice to have them delivered but I never ate one, because well I didn't enjoy them. Now I do collect them a fair bit the record for me was well... 14 of them I collect them for my mum she eats them and she doesn't have to pay for sandwiches to have at work. She enjoys them, we even did work about them for maths once! Though I still don't eat them. 

The Bridle Path Walk

Why did we go?
Because we wanted to experience what the Europeans went through.

What did we do?
we walked up the easier end which is the Lyttleton side and went down towards Christchurch. I had a lot of fun sliding down the mountain but my mum fell twice and badly bruise her knee ):

How did it feel?
Painful at first then more painful but when I saw the top I felt like I was in heaven. On the way down I was just having fun (:

How hard do I think it was for the Europeans?

Well on the way up me and my mum saw this picture of them they were using horses and had loads of luggage. They didn't have the best shoes and there were no fences to keep them from falling. So they had to carry all of there heavy luggage, with handmade shoes and with no fences to protect them from falling off. 

What was the hardest part for me?
Climbing up the steeper parts and the wind at the top my bag almost flew away.

How did I feel when I achieved it?

I was proud and really happy. Im never doing it again :3

The Mystery Door

Today was the day she and her friend were exploring the forest. “Hola Hatsume” said Bella as she walked over. They entered the forest behind her house. Tall lush trees covered the land, dead leaves crunched as they stepped on them. There was a clearing in the forest, fresh grass and “a- a small hill” I muttered. Small rocky doors and entrances covered the tiny hill. Darkness crawled inside the two archways. A grey carved door, could it be opened? I stepped closer slowly, Bella stayed there as still as a statue. “Click” went the flashlight switch as I flicked it. Bella sat there as if she was listening. I shone the flashlight into one of the archways. A twinkle of golden dust fluttered down and the sound of tiny wing beats. I moved my flashlight to the other entrance… A small looking girl with a pink dress and “W- WINGS? Could it be?” with a flash she was gone… Bella walked over and she looked terrified.

Bella pointed to her phone, there was a notification  “WARNING FLOOD.” In a second she grabbed my arm and ran up to the top of the rocky hill, slowly muddy water appeared rising. It was around the height of a one story house, me and Bella started to swim. “Wait a second THAT FAIRY” I shouted diving back to the archways. The flashlight pointed into one of them, two fairies had passed out in the middle of the archway. I grabbed them and swam to the surface.                                                                      

1 hour later… 

The water had sunk to around half a one story building. The fairies had woken up and thanked us. me and Bella grabbed some silver buckets from a nearby well. “Why do you think the fairies live here?” whispered Bella “you think I have an idea!” I said in return. We started filling the buckets up with the water and dumping it into the stone brick well. The water was gone, the fairies thanked us and gave us “golden dust particles?” I said to the fairies “ITS PIXIE DUST” one of the fairies yelled at me.

“Bye” I said running off. I woke up “it was a dream”

My Inquiry V hut

Our V hut

For Inquiry we have been learning about New Zealand history. So we have created a Model of a V hut, which early Europeans lived in. They lived in V huts because they were easy to build. 

We made the V hut out of cardboard because it was similar to the wood, the V huts were made of back in the 1850s. We covered the roof with brown card-like paper and tied it up to look like flax. Which the people would cover their roof with to keep the inside warm. We added a fire which they would use to cook or heat their ironer. We made a clothes line made out of cardboard to symbolise the wooden clothes line they used to dry their clothes in the 1850s. We created a two man crosscut saw which they used to cut the wood for the fire back in the 1850s. We made a garden because how else are they supposed to get vegetables and fruit? We made a laundry bucket because that's how they washed their clothes in the 1850s.  

                                                                                                      

Stargazing

The milky way revealed itself glittering in the sky. shining stars brightly shimmered in the milky way. Clouds of stardust glimmered scattered around the night sky. Reflecting off the water the milky way looked like a glittering ring. There are all types of stars in the milky way. She could white dwarfs, red dwarfs, brown dwarfs, red giants, hyper giants, main sequence stars and more. Their beautiful colours remain in the sky but not forever

She stood at the very edge of the water. She slipped a grey old camera from her pocket and snapped some photos. The moon settled in the middle of the sky. The sky grew darker around her as the black void appeared in the sky's place.

She was viewing a supernova through the lens of a telescope. Giant space rocks floating in the endless void as they blasted away in the explosion. Feeding its mass back to the universe. To create a new series of stars to shine in our night sky. 

Emmie The Empress of Light

 my only words are  "I love her"

													Emmie The Empress of Light
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