Beneath the Surface

He looked down. There was still such a long way to go… His heart started beating as fast as a race car, his fingers started shivering. When they lowered him down, splash! A piece of pebble fell into the waterfall and made an echo through the dark cave. His hands were throbbing while holding on the rope. Thud! His sore fingers slipped in the breezy shallow water! “Brrrr…”  He put his flashlight on and weakly ran to the dark mysterious cave. Then, a thump started coming closer and closer. It was a… a hungry lion! The lion started leaping across the cave to rip him apart! Unexpectedly, a helicopter threw a ladder down the waterfall and he quickly climbed up. The lion started tearing up the ladder and his foot got jammed! The helicopter started going up, flying him away safely and the lion fell down into the waterfall and hit his head onto a gigantic rock. Crash! He died.                                                              

Onomatopoeia

Hello, room 8 have been learning about Onomatopoeia! Here's a Google Slide I made about Onomatopoeia!

Kupe

Kupe

History tells us that Kupe was a brave, clever explorer that sailed all across the Pacific Ocean and discovered New Zealand.  He drowned his cousin to marry his wife, Kura. He sailed in a waka from Hawaiiki to New Zealand and fought a humongous octopus who crashed into the waka.

He was from Hawaiiki and his family included his wife, Hine-Te-Aparangi and his 2 daughters, Matiu and Makaro.

I think he wasn't a great leader because he desired his cousin's wife, Kura and he got jealous so drowned him into the sea and he already had a wife, Hine-Te-Aparangi. I think that he would always put himself first and not other people. A good leader needs to look after everyone first and you need to be able to trust them with your life.   

Dolphins

I have been learning about dolphin body parts, facts and more! Here's my genial.ly I have made about dolphins. What fact do you know about dolphins?

Howick Historical Village

 Hello, on Thursday room 8 went to Howick Historical Village. We tried to pretend we were in the 1850's! We learnt about how to communicate with morse code and flag semaphore. We learned how to have manners in the olden days. It was super fun!


















On our next activity we went to school! it was super fun. until the teacher came.. girls and boys weren't allowed to sit together! The teacher was very strict but funny! We had to learn songs, maths and try to write in cursive letters! The teacher only wanted it to be "PERFECT!" It was more harder than we normally do it..

On our last activity, we learnt what children would play in the olden days. Some of the toys were very delicate. But they were all fun and tricky! My favourite was the skipping rope.


After that, we had one adult to explore in the village. There were so many houses! But some of them had a red rope across it so we couldn't get through. Finally we ate some lunch and went back to Owairaka School in a bus. When we got back we were all exhausted! What would be your favourite activity if you were there?