Our Awesome Trip

As I was walking in class and hanging up my bag Mrs Pole said "Eden get your bag", Oh yeah we are going on a christmas trip to the Aotea Center. So I got my hat, got my name tag and headed of outside. I was walking to the senior park and on the field, but then I just noticed that Mrs Pole said in the classroom to line up in the hall. So I headed of to the hall. Once I got there I was the leader, I was so excited and happy. We said a prayer and walked down the hill to the bus and Sonia, Rachel, Jane and I hoped into the middle of the bus and sang what ever we wanted to sing.
Once we got there then I said to Mrs Pole, "Mrs Pole this looks different it dosen't look like the Aotea Center". Then Mrs Pole said "Well this is actually not the Aotea Center it's the Town Hall". We walked the stairs to the Auckland Town Hall. Once we got there then we couldn't believe who I was looking at it was Daynah from 'studio 2' and I didn't know why she was their.
I thought she would be in New York City, but then I saw Matt with a brown beard and a brown moustage.
There were 7 people doing a hip hop dance and then they said that we were going to do a dance too. We did a dance and the boys and girls were having a battle and all of the battles the boys won because they were screaming louder than the girls but I think the girls screamed louder. Even the teachers danced too. We were cheering for Mrs Oldfield but sadly the men won.
It was lunch time and I was starving. So we ate. Went back to the town hall and did banners then we went outside looking at all these amazing photos, and it was really fun.
Then we took of our shoes and we were looking for New Zealand Rachael and Justin found it and started looking for Samoa and Tonga. Later on we went to go get our bags.

My favourite part was when I saw Daynah and Matt.

The King Of Savannah

Room 4 used easi speak microphone for their movie.

They talked about making their own lion masks and how to make them.

Elephant Report

A elephant lives in the Savannah. A big elephant drinks 150 litres of water but a human drinks 3 litres of water.



An elephant eats berries, bark, branches, peanuts, grass, leaves and many more.



An elephant plays a very important role in their environment like an ostrich eats insects whenever a elephant is walking the insects annoy him.



A dead elephant may feed a lion for a whole week. Some animals die when they're fifteen years of age. An elephant is the most largest animal on the land but a blue whale is the largest animal on earth.



The boss of the elephants are the mum.



The baby elephants have big floppy ears for them to cool them down. The tusks are for the elephants to dig up dirt and sand to find water for them to drink. An elephant's enemy is the crocodile.

A Sad Time

My sad time was when my nextdoor neighbour died.My nextdoor neighbour collapsed at the shop.My family helped everyone to calm down.They said that it was ok and said that our nextdoor neighbour would be alright.I got over it because I forgot but then they shifted. But I still think about the good times when she was alive.The thing that made me sad was that the nextdoors were singing a song for her and it was so sweet. The next morning we gave flowers to them because she died at the hospital.

A Big and Long Day

On an exciting day me, my little brother, my two older sisters and my mum went to church to watch my two older sister's perform their dance with everyone else that was in the dance. My sister said, "Mum you and Eden and Ben can go to church by ten o'clock, we are going at nine o'clock because we are going to go to the hall to practice the dance." So I got changed and my mum already had a shower and got changed. My mum changed my baby brother too. My mum said for me to put on my baby brothers shoes but my baby brother kept on going outside because he wanted to go and my mum said, "We should not of put on his shoes because he thinks that we are going now but we are not." My mum said that we could go now.
When we arrived at church we found a seat and sat down. We saw that the dance was before the final blessing and it was very beautiful. Then I saw this old lady crying but it was a happy cry. After that my mum said that there's another dance from the hall and that there's a big feed over at the hall. Alecia and two other ladies came up because it was their birthday and I didn't know what the two lady's age was I just knew that Alecia was turning seven on Sunday. So we sang happy birthday to them in Tongan and Samoan then after that it was the final blessing and after the final blessing we had a song and I sang my way out and walked straight to the hall feeling shy.
As I walked in my mum, said, "Can you hold my bag I need to take Ben to the loo?" So I was holding my mum's bag still shy and this lady came and my mum and my little baby brother just came when the lady called Sialia and said "Are you in the Sunday School?" My mum nodded but I didn't want to sit with my sisters because I was too shy but Sialia said that I had to sit with the Sunday School with everybody else. Before my mum said that we just watch the dance and then we can go home. But we ate first and then we could play outside, after that we went back to the hall and watched the dance. I wasn't feeling shy anymore.
There were dances, after the three dances me, my little brother, and my mum went home leaving my sisters to eat ice-cream at the hall. But we had chocolate ice-cream at home. I said to myself, "What a big and long day we have had." My mum said, "After when your two sisters come back then you and I will go shopping so Ana and Gloria can look after Ben at home." When they came back I was making my dad a coffee, and then my mum and I went to the shops and my two sisters were looking after my baby brother called Ben.
We came home and we were happy. We all had a big and long day eating and watching people perform their dance and we also had a big and long day playing on the senior and junior playground. And tonight when we were watching 'White Chicks' there were two men dressed up as two lady's because they lost their job and after that we went to sleep. Asleep at last!

A GOOD DECISION

On a nice hot, sunny day I was very excited because my Dad decided to bake a cake. One that had Milo in it and another cake with cocoa in it. At first we got the ingredients and we started to bake the cake.We put the cake in the oven and waited till it was ready.

Ring! The bell rang from the oven and I screamed because I had a shock and my sisters laughed and laughed. We checked the cakes in the oven and we saw one of the cakes was melted but still it did taste nice. So we told our dad about it. He said to put it on a tray. One of my sisters took out the cake, it cracked into pieces. Then my dad said that we could eat it. My favourite part was when we ate the cake and it tasted nice.

Loving Heart Of Jesus - A Prayer

Loving Heart Of Jesus,

I thank you for your forgiveness when I do something nasty, bad or wrong to others. I also thank you for the beautiful world of New Zealand for us to live in. The creating you did was very helpful for you to do.

Thank you for making me grow up to be loving and kind like you.

Amen.

A Hero - Firefighter Matt.

Firefighter Matt is a hero because he was brave enough saving people in car crashes. He is also a hero because he tells people how to keep safe from fires and accidents. Firefighter Matt decided to be a firefighter because his friend told him that this is a good job where he could really help and save people. His messages to us are that we can learn if we practise, also he told us that we can be a good reader if we read heaps of books. I think firefighter Matt is a hero because he has compassion, courage, peacefulness and LOVE.

By Eden