Monday, March 25, 2013

Te Wera secret buddy mission...

At Frankley School the year fives and sixes have a school camp. They go to Te Wera campsite or Konini lodge. Recently room eleven went to Te Wera camp. Te Wera is past Stratford. There were lots of different activities. These are some of the activities: making eeling lines, bivouac, stretcher challenge, night line, spotlight and kayaking.

When we go there, Mrs McAllister called us into the lounge. She gave us each a piece of paper with our name on and another persons name on. The other persons name was the person you had to watch out for, think of the good things, achievements and their behavior on camp.

My secret buddy tried really hard in archery and everything else. He also was a little afraid to do the seal entry but then toughened up and did it; that was one of his achievements. He was nice he was funny and a little annoying to some people. Overall out of ten I think he got and eight out of ten.
 

Friday, March 22, 2013

Nightline by Jacob

It was night! A night on the nightline, but in this story nightline turns into nightmare! When on the nightmare we get attacked by a small creature with black and yellow stripes. They can sting as many times as they want and they work in a swarm. “Muh, ha, ha, ha, he, he!”

I watched as the sun came down and day turned to night. I was brave, brave enough to go on the nightline. I got ready, I was going to do this. 1, 2, 3! I started the nightline but I had a bad feeling. I kept it to myself. Later on I thought “Nah, nothing’s going to happen or will it?”

I ate boysenberries even though they might be poison berries or sour. Here comes the rope. I gripped onto the rope not letting go as the hill was steep. There was a cliff beside it. Some people didn’t hold onto the rope because they didn’t think they needed it but then they slipped over. We were near the end of the track then. “Ow!” I felt pain by my waist. “What was that?” We kept on walking still wondering why my waist hurt. I decided it was a prickle. I put my hand down by my pants. Then, “Ow, my middle finger hurts”. “What’s going on?” Then I realised this was a wasp attack!

 Oh no, one stung. When you get stung it sends out a smell, a smell that attracts more wasps. This is going to hurt, it will hurt for other people too. “Ow!” My foot. Heaps of other people were saying the same thing and if you’re not listening, just in case. “Ow!” ZZZap! “Ow!” My nose! Wait my nose! That’s close to my eye. “Get it off, get it off!” I started screaming. “Get it off, get it off!” There was a gentleman behind me that thought, right, that’s enough! He started pulling the wasp off my nose but it was trying to hold on. It was saying “Leave me alone you beast, stinging people is my duty!” “You!” PLUCK! The wasp came off, then SPLAT, squashed to juice.

Then, still screaming because there was still one on my foot. It’s going to sting me, it’s going to crash. The gentleman crushed it. It was still alive so I kicked it away. WHOOSH – it was flying and straight into an ants nest. “Kill him” screamed the King of the Ants. “Wait, wait, this is a mistake!” said the wasp. “I’m an ant with a costume on”. Too late, the ants had already eaten him alive!

Anyway, I got rushed out of the bush and into the area where people went when they got hurt. Freezing cold ice packs on me. I was suffering from pain. I had spray on. I was in my bed, I was having nightmares then Ow! My legs hurt. I went to see what it was. Then ZZZap a hundred wasps came out from my pants. AAAAARGGGH!! Then I woke up. And since I was having nightmares, I was sleeping with Mum and I fell asleep quickly. When I woke up I didn’t think "breakfast", I thought "that was no Nightline that was a Nightmare!".

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Spotlight - written by Abby - put on the blog by Mrs McA!


Spotlight
“Are we going the right way” I ask, “saying isn’t this the wasp way?” 

"No, it’s not,” says Rusty for the 15,000th time “it’s the same way as we came
up”. 

We saw the spotlight people shining their lights trying to find the
kids. Gregor starts pretending to be a gorilla. Everybody including me are
making more noises.

 “Ahh”!! I said in a frightened way. "Don’t do that," I
said to Rusty. I was at the back of the line and so was rusty. He frightened
me. We finally got to the bottom. 

“Wait at the stairs please” saying Miss Keenan in her Irish accent. We looked at each other.
 “Ehh” we said. We kept running. Let's start.

 We went the wrong way instead of going over the
gate. Isla, Shikain, Isaac, Evette and I climbed up a little hill and over
an electric fence (but don’t worry it wasn’t on). We carried on. 

Bridget
(Jacob fletcher’s mum) said to another adult “I don’t think they were
allowed to go that way” I heard them but I didn’t say anything. I started
to play the game. I was crawling along the ground like a lion spying on an
elephant and about to pounce on it.

 “Down!!” I say to myself as Mrs McA shined the light on me. I finally caught up with someone… hunter and
patch. They were going to stay there but they decided not to.

 “Eww,” Hunter said. “I just put my arm on sheep poo”. 

“Down” we say to each other,

 “oh poo” Evette said. “I’ve been spotted”. 

I hear Mrs McA say to Evette “is that EVETTE”. Ouches! I put my hand on a bunch of prickles.

 “We’re nearly at the top” patch said. I repeated. We got up to the steep, steep bit of
the hill. Is this the top have we made it or do we walk to Mrs McA? She
shouted out just come to me now since you’ve made it to the top. Just come
to me now and wait here quietly. We meet Kieran, Billie k and someone
else. I can’t remember who it was but we made it to the top without being
spotted. We sit down. It was about quarter to ten by then. Some other kids
came up after we finished. I ran down the hill like a cheetah chasing its
predator. This time I went out the right way. That was fun I was saying to
myself. We get back. 

There was a movie on for the people who didn’t play
spotlight. The movie was ratatouille there was drink and bikkies for
supper as usual. We watched it for a few minutes. 

“Bed time” says Mrs McA, we paused the movie and then she stopped it after we left. We all went to
bed. Oh mummy’s not here to give me my goodnight hug so I say goodnight to
mum and dad in my head and then I say goodnight to my roommates and say to
them “that was a fun night!”

My Pets

Mountain Adventure!!!!!

Important ideas and questions - Hunter

Keeping the uniquesness of New Zealand

1. It is important to sing Maori songs

2. It would be good to have more signs

3.How did the treaty  get signed?

4. We need Frankley school kids to greet in te reo

5. Kids should make signs in te reo

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Greetings in Maori

Greetings in Maori
words of the day!!!




Tena Koe - Hello to one person

Tena Korua - Hello to two people

Tena koutou - Hello to three people or more

kia ora - be well/healthy


please can you learn these and come back for some more @ frankley school website click on our classrooms room 11 scroll down and click 2013 blog


thanks