Matariki

The Seven Stars of Matariki

Long Long ago there lived 6 girls and one boy. He was called Jack.The girls were thinking of a plan to get the toy star off Jack. The girls were jealous  of Jack  because he was the youngest and they thought he was spoilt. They decided to use a skipping rope to trip him up. 
They pretended to be Mum and called  him in to dinner.  Jack came running and tripped over the skipping rope. The girls poured water on him and snatched the toy star. Just to be mean.

Jack was so mad he stomped over, grabbed the toy angrily and threw it up to the sky as hard as he could. Then the sun caught it with its arm and broke it into seven pieces. These pieces became the seven stars of Matariki.

You can see Matariki in early June.
Much better, Ella. You have given us some details - why things happened and how things happened.

A Walk Around The Forest

Sophie and Alex were best friends. They loved exploring around the forest. They lived next to each other, so it wasn't a far distance to walk to each others house.

They wandered down the path to the forest. laughing away at jokes.

They heard birds singing away. And saw tress all around them brown trees with green tops.

Suddenly they saw a big sloppy mud puddle blocking the way. Stepped gingerly on the rocks, across the mud. accidentally Sophie dropped her bag in the mud. ''Oh No, it's stuck''. 

They heard a bunch of wild dogs heading for them.

They ran as fast as they had ever run before. 

Sophie and Alex were run so fast they couldn't stop.

They looked around the forest they were lost because the path was gone and they didn't recognise the place.

In less in a second a hunter came and took them back to the path.

They arrived home they talked to their mum and dad about what happened to Sophie's bag, and their amazing adventure. 

From Jamling Tenzing

Jamling Tenzing

May 14 at 1:56pm · Namche Bazar, Nepal

To all the children of St. Paul's primary school, greetings from the Himalayas.
I know you have been following John and our journey to the to roof of the world. I hope you learned something about our mountains and culture.
I invite you all to join me one day to visit our part of the world.

To Jamling.
My name is Ella.  thank you for inviting our class to come see you. When I grow up I will come over maybe. I learnt so much about your adventure. And Mount Everest. Was it a nice walk to base camp and did you go any further. Say to John it was nice of him to stop and  put out rubbish bins.  


Jamling Tenzing Hi Ella. It is our pleasure to share a part of our history and culture. It was a very nice walk to Base Camp. I hope you will be able to experience it first hand in the years to come.

Mount Everest

The Magic Show

We all stared at Jonathan, the magician, as the balloon went further and further into his mouth - maybe! 
Our school went to the hall to see a magician on Catholic School Day.
His first trick was giving someone a balloon and letting it go and making a fart  sound. 
Jonathan' s tricks were so smart I couldn't find out where it went to. My favourite trick was when he had a bit of string and he turned it into one piece and then two pieces. 
Later on, we got to watch another show. 

El Gregoe, comes every year. One of the funniest was the pizza one. He had two pizza boxes stuck together. They weren't real boxes of pizza. He said that nobody has found out how he did it but he kept on putting the boxes to the side and they moved to the other side. At the end of that, it ended up on his t.shirt .
The best trick of all time was when Sue, his wife, made him float in mid-air. I was so surprised, my mouth opened wide and my eyes were getting so big. 

The Birthday Of The Church

The Church is people spreading the good news.

The followers of Jesus were scared that they would be taken away by the guards that took Jesus, then the Holy Spirit came. They knew that it was here because they could see flames on each other’s heads and they could feel wind.

They received courage so they went to spread the Good News.

This day is called Pentecost. It was the beginning of the Church.