Christmas Symbols

Volcanoes

Heat

My Koru Prayer

My Prayer

Gracious God,

I can see your wonderful creations waking up to a new day and spreading joy around to everyone

i can feel your presence as you surround us with your warmth and love

i can hear your loving voice leading us in the right direction

We thank you for everything you have done for us

Amen

My Personal Saint Narrative

St Maria Goretti

Hello, I’m Maria Goretti, and I am an Italian virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. My full name is Maria Teresa Goretti. I was born on October the 16th 1890 on the Eastern side of Italy. My parents were Assunta Goretti and Luigi Goretti. I was the third child of seven children, Antonio (who died in birth), Angelo, Maria, Mariano, Alessandro, Ersilia and little Teresa.I was baptised in the church of San Francesco in Corinaldo. Then I had my first holy communion, in the church of Conca, ( which is now called Borgo Montello ). My father passed away when I was only nine years of age, because he started to become sick with “malaria”.  My family had to share a home with another family, the Serenellis. While my mother, brothers and my sister worked out on the fields, I stayed in to cook, sew and watch my baby sister, and I’d make sure the house was always clean. It was a difficult and challenging life, but my family has always been there for me.

Maria became famous because of her strong faith in God and Jesus.

My Brainstorm on Why People Wear Masks

My Book Trailer

My Pourqoi Story

The Legend of the Bunny Rabbit

Once upon a time, there lived an ordinary bunny rabbit, who longed to have a life filled with company and she also longed to have a special appearance so everyone could see how unique she was.

One day she set off for a journey, to look for someone who could change her lonely life. She went over hills and mountains, under fallen trees and through savannas in the hot sizzling sun,

“ Phew, I need to stop, for a long refreshing drink!!!” she said huffing and puffing. Then she stopped by a nearby water hole. She saw some giraffes and asked them “ Um, excuse me, do you know who can make me unique, so I’m different from everybody?” She waited for an answer, then the smallest giraffe replied, “ I… I know where you can go!”

“You do?” said the rabbit.

“ Yes, go and see… th..the wise owl, who lives in the deep...deepest part of the forbidden for..forest!” And with that, the little giraffe galloped off to be with his family. Then, the little bunny rabbit set off for the deepest part of the forbidden forest, to see the wise owl that the young giraffe had told her about. Soon dusk covered the woods, and she was frightened. With every twig that broke, she shivered in fright. Once she had found and entered the forbidden forest, she heard a sudden howl, “Hoooooooooowl!!!” Now she wished that she had never come on this long, tiring  journey. Suddenly she heard a whizzing sound, and a sound of flapping wings. “ Is...is anyone there?” She said.

“Hoot, Hoot!” said the wise owl. “ I sensed that you were coming! What has brought you here?” The bunny rabbit replied “ I ca...came to see you because I he...heard that y...you could make me “SPECIAL” and “UNIQUE” different from everybody else!”  

“But, what will you give me in return for my excellent magic wonders?”

The bunny rabbit replied “I have no wealth to give you but I will stay and bake you the richest carrot cakes. I will also repay your friendliness to me by being your most loyal friend.”

And with that, the bunny rabbit began to transform before the owl’s very eyes.  She began to rise and then she suddenly dropped and she was the fluffiest, cutest bunny rabbit ever, and she had the longest ears in the whole woods.

The End!!!

Earthling Book Trailer

Mary MacKillop Centre visit

              Mary MacKillop Center

“ There are actually two different types of sisters, the Brown Jo’s and the Black Jo’s, I came from the Black Jo’s!” said Sister Colleen. As we are sitting on the mat, made from sheep’s wool, we are listening to some of the Josephite Sisters telling us about their past and what they did at schools. I think to myself… “ What a long way for them to travel, just so they could go and teach at Christ The King Catholic School!” I wondered how they managed to get up really early in the morning to catch a ride and travel such a distance.

I turn my head to the curtains and suddenly I feel the warmth of the beautiful sunshine. The rays are like a rainbow shining through a waterfall. I see another sister sitting right in front of the window. She looks very cheerful and happy. The other sisters sit patiently and wait for their turn to say something and tell us about themselves. I feel really calm and welcome in the Josephite Sisters’ home. It makes me happy to see all these women who have committed their life to God.

By: Kaydence

Lunch Lady Book Review

Lunch lady

And the mutant mathletes

Author: Jarrett. J Krosoczka

Rating: **** stars

Favourite Character(s): Lunch Lady, Dee, Hector and Terence

What is it about: This book is about how the breakfast bunch ( Dee, Hector and Terence ) join the mathletes team for skipping their museum tour. After lots of studying, and a very smooth season they are ready to try and win the math bowl championship for Thompson Brooke Elementary School, But have to take down the defending champs from Willowby Academy. After a while, Lunch Lady feels like there’s something fishy and suspicious about their opponents and their mean, not so friendly coach. This is about how Lunch Lady and her sidekick Betty try and sort this situation out, and help the Breakfast Bunch win victory and take the trophy away

Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who love reading comic books and who love mystery and adventure!!!

My Writing Sample

As I look to my right, I see hills from a distance, far away with a little farm on it, with stacks of hay next to it and a large fence guarding it like a dozen of knights guarding a castle. I look down to see fields and fields of dead grass laying in the hot summers sun, turning from green to brown, almost looking like hay.

The sounds of a motorcycles zoom draws my attention to the back of me , I turn around to see a little girl on a mini bike who was racing around on a dirt track , jump up into the air, bouncing off a bump in the ground. She tenses and I see her clench on tight to the handles of her bike. I feel both fear and excitement at the same time. In my mind I’m thinking all kinds of things like, “Will she make it?” “What if she falls?” “She can do it!” “Or will she end up in hospital?” I bet she’s thinking the same things. My heart is racing, it beats faster every second. I wonder if the man across of her is feeling scared for her, or if he will be impressed if she makes it? I stare at her in amazement, and feel speechless!!!

I feel glad that kids are allowed to race mini bikes these days and are allowed to use high tech vehicles!!!

My Earthling Book Review

Earthling

Author: Mark Fearing

Rating:****stars

Favourite Character(s): Stel, Haz, Gort and Bud

What is it about: Earthling is about how Bud catches the wrong bus, and ends up going to Cosmos academy in outer space, instead of Abraham Lincoln Elementary school. On the way there, he meets a nice alien named Gort who comforts him on their journey their. But once he finds out that Bud is an earthling, he is so shocked, and tells him not to tell anybody that he is a human, because it is the most feared planet in their universe!!!

Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who love aliens, adventure and alot of mischief.

Airy Fairy Book Review

Airy Fairy’s Book Of Magic

Author: Margaret Ryan

Rating:**** stars

Favourite characters: Airy Fairy, Buttercup and Tingle

Least favourite character:  Scary Fairy

A three in one storybook

What is it about:  Airy Fairy is about how she is in a magic school and how she tries to fit in and learn new magic spells, but every time she tries, she always ends up making a big catastrophe. She makes trouble everywhere, but her friends Buttercup and Tingle are there to help her out. On the other hand, the mean fairy Scary Fairy always is there to poke her and push her around. But to her Aunt, the magic fairy troop leader thinks of her as a sweetheart. Airy Fairy eventually finds a way to the top from the very bottom!!!

Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who like muddled up spells, magical mischief, but overall a fun adventure

Matariki

Matariki

It is very dark, and all I feel is sand. Suddenly I see  the fires already lit, then I see my relatives sitting by the fire. Next thing I know I hear my grandpa yell out to me “Quickly, or you’ll have to wait another year to see the Matariki stars!”

I scurry through the soft smooth sand to search the sky for the special seven stars, looking up at the night sky. Then, I feel that my feet are wet, then I look down to find myself in the freezing cold water. So I ran to warm myself up near the flickering fire. I gaze into it, looking at all the wonderful colours, then it just occurs to me that it looks like millions of tiny beautiful rubies and ambers.

Then aunty Crystal calls out to everyone, “ Everyone look up, their finally here!!!”

Cookies

Cookies

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

Rating: **** stars

Favourite characters: Beauty Cookson

What is it about?

Cookies is about Beauty Cookson, and how she puts up with unsupported bullying at her school, and not just teasing and pushing, worse than that!!! Also how she and her loving and caring mother fight their way through Beauty’s father's hurtful criticism to both of them. They live in an uneasy fear of her fathers blazing rage, frightened whenever they disobey one of his discriminating house rules.

Reconmendation: I recomend this book to young mature readers who love interesting books.

Fright Night Book Review

Fright Night

Author: Geronimo stilton

Rating:**** stars

Favourite Characters: Shivereen, bitewing and Creepella

What is fright night about?

Fright night is about creepella von cacklefur’s

father, Boris von cacklefur entering a competition for poets, but when he was a young mouse he entered a competition and had a wonderful poem another young mouse named Chester Cheater, stole it from boris, so he ran away. years later he gets an invitation in the mail saying that he is invited to a poem competition called: Fright Night, But halfway through the competition, at intermission, Boris disappears, and the three rattenbaum triplets, Milly, Tilly and Lilly are sneering and giggling around and seem very suspicious.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who love to read mystery fiction

My book review

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The invention of Hugo Cabret is about a boy named Hugo who lives with his uncle in a clock. One day his uncle leaves and never comes back. This is about how he copes to live by himself for many years.

I liked the way the author kept the book interesting and it was easy to picture it in your head. The author made it seem so real that it felt like you were in that setting. Especially when Hugo and his friend were looking out of the biggest clock in the station to reveal the beautiful city of love (Paris).

I recommend this book to people who love to read long books and to people who love a good challenge when they read.  

Donkey Google Presentation on adaptation

I learnt about donkeys with my partner Amy and we made a Google Presentation on it.

The early Polynesians

How the early Polynesians adapted to their new country

Food:  When the Polynesians came they ate some food that they brought with them but they needed to find more, they had to find some similar foods.

The Polynesians couldn’t grow all the things they had before because the cooler climate stopped them from growing. So they learnt how to grow some foods such as kumara and gourds underground.

Fishing and Hunting: The Polynesians wanted to get some meat so they started to think, then they got it. They started to get to work, they made a noose. It was a rope that they would tie around the moa’s neck and it would strangle it and then it would die. So then they would have plenty of meat and flesh and protein that it would last them about a day because they only took off the legs ( the nice juicy parts ) and ate that. Then they would leave the rest to rot on the ground. They killed heaps of moas a day,  but they left the bones and the skeletons for their dogs to bite on.

By: Kaydence

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty & the Beast

Have you ever seen the fairy-tale Beauty and the Beast live theatre? Well on Friday the 9th of May, Christ the King Catholic school went to the Vodafone Event Centre to watch the Sancta Maria College perform the Disney version of “Beauty and the Beast”.

The back story was that there was a prince who was selfish, cruel and mean. One night an old woman came with a magical rose to his door and asked him for shelter, but he was so self-centred that he refused. Suddenly she started to melt into a beautiful girl and the rose had transformed him into a hideous beast. He tried to take it back but he couldn’t. Years later he fell in love with a beautiful girl named belle and tries to win her heart in order to break the curse before all the petals on the magic rose fall off, but she also has to love him back before its too late.

The actors were Beauty(Belle): Olivia Brown, Beast:Roman Bennett, Gaston:Elijay Florendo, Lumier:Matthew Laguda, Cogsworth:Connor Farrell, Mrs Potts:Keelin Weekly, Babette:Tayla Sloan and Chip:Aidan van Heerden. All their acting was very convincing. They could have had more props to make it feel like you were actually in the place.  

Nunuku's Law

Nunuku’s Law

Long ago, there was heaps of fighting among the tribes of Rekohu. The leader called Nunuku made a law to finish the war and killing. All the other high authorities of Rekohu agreed to this.So if two people started to fight, they were permitted to hit each other, but if either one of them drew each other’s blood, their argument had to stop immediately.

In 1835, Rekohu was invaded by the two tribes of New Zealand, the high authorities of Rekohu gathered together to make a decision on what they should do (about the invasion. After a long talk, the high authorities decided that they could not disobey Nunuku’s sacred and ancient law of peace. They made a decision to not fight against the invaders but to divide their land with the intruders. Over 200 Moriori men, women and children were killed. Many others became slaves or died in captivity.

All the people who died, their names are carved on the pou at Kopinga Marae to honor their memory and their legacy of peace.

Heat explanation

Heat explanation by kaydence1n9sh on GoAnimate
This is my heat explanation, which I made using Go Animate.

My study on heat energy

Kaydence

Energetic, Enthusiastic, Fun

Sister of Azaria, Vincent and Iliyas

Who loves being around friends, reading books, playing video games and sleeping

Who needs to come to school to learn new things

Who gives time for netball practice, cooking at home and games

Who fears snakes, spiders and big dogs

Who would love to see the Eiffel tower, the tower of Pisa and America

Kaydence’s Bio Poem

Kaydence’s Bio Poem

The Chatham Islanders

How the early Chatham Islanders adapted to their new home. When the polynesian people came from New Zealand to the Chatham Islands they had to adapt or change their way of doing things. Firstly they found out that when they moved they couldn’t grow their normal foods which were… Taro, Yam and Kumara, nor could they grow any vegetables at all because the cooler climate prevented their vegetables from growing. They had to adapt or change the way they ate, but the sea and the land gave them more choices for food to eat. The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands had to learn how to fish, hunt and kill. Soon they became good at all these things, but they needed stronger boats to carry their people to the different islands because the seals the killed were found in their colonies to one island, so they had to find that island, and because the different birds and fish were a little far from their home. So they got to work, the amazing boat they created was made out of reeds and at the bottom of the boat they put a little cage and filled it with kelp (seaweed). It had a stern and a bow and it was controlled by oars. The boat was very thick and big, they called it the “ wash through waka ‘’ because the water went through the boat to help the kelp go up so it would help it float. The reason why they didn’t sink was because the water didn’t stay in, once it went in it went straight out.

I learnt about the Chatham islanders.