Touch and Netball

As we walked to Paterson Park, I could hear the trees whispering to me saying, "Try your best."

Yesterday, Rooms 4, 5 and 6 went to Paterson Park. I saw colourful bags filling the tent. The dirty court stood there like a grey blanket.
I stretched and ran a little bit to warm up. When I was on, I started like I was going to start  a running race. Piper passed the ball to me. I passed it to Kruz. She passed to Olivia. She went shoot. Oh, she missed. Oh no. It was the other team's ball but I leaped in front of my partner and got the ball. Ring, ring, ring, ring. It was the end of the game.
It wasn't as long as a normal game. We were on again. This team was good. We did get the ball but only for a few seconds. The team we were versing got about 3 or 4 goals and we got 0. 
Yay!  The sausages were out.
Drip, drop, drip, drop went the rain on to the ground. Ding, dong, ding, dong! It was time to go onto the court for prayers. There was a trophy for one school for good respect and for playing fair. We didn't get it but that doesn't matter, as long as I had fun.
I trudged back to school.

My Bible Reading

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My Speech How To Make Play Dough

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At Leap

Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! We Go!

One rainy Friday, my brother and I drove to Leap.

When we hopped out, we had a game of Dodge ball. I saw black bouncy balls fly through the air and people bouncing away, and lots and lots of trampolines. If the ball hit you, it would be soft as a feather.  I didn’t know what team to join so I joined Team Red with my friends.

The next thing I went on was the trick foam part. At first, I was scared to do a forward flip but then I did it.

The basketball part was hard but my uncle was so good at basketball.  The last part we did was the main part. It was a bunch of trampolines on the wall you could bounce on.

There was a high concrete wall and I wanted to get up.   My uncle told me to climb up the wall because other boys were doing it. I got growled at and, worst of all, I couldn’t get down so my uncle Josh had to help me down. I was a bit embarrassed.
15 minutes had already passed. There were only 35 minutes left.  For about 5 or 10 minutes, I was in the trick foam pit. I really really wanted to do a back flip, but I could only do a forward flip.
For the rest of the time, we had a real game of Dodge ball. Nobody tried to get me on the other team. I was the only one left on my team and two people were left on the other team. I got one person, and that was my trip to Leap.

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.