The Life of Riley

“ Be happy with what you got” is the theme that Muritai School did for there production, based on the book “ The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley” by Colin Thompson. Muritai School really brought the book to life. You don’t know what to expect when you see such a big primary school taking such a big task. The show was fantastic.

Having Mr Chadwick dancing in front of us was already a crazy and a funny experience, but then having a clash of Beyonce and Michael jackson thriller was hilarious. I was so excited.

The story was perfect for a school, learning to be happy with what you got is a great story line. It is about a guy called Norman who is sad and wants more in life and then he meets Colin who tells him about Riley who is the happiest person in the world. The book tells an adventure of Norman who learns to be happy with a lot less.

I was nervous I knew I would only be on for about 5 minutes, but I was still scared that I was going to muck up, go to fast, go to slow, be I was nervous I knew I would only be on for about 5 minutes, but I was still scared that I was going to muck up, go to fast, go to slow, be in the wrong place. I’d done a performance before but this was totally different because the people on the opposite side of those dark green curtains were people I knew.

As the year seven and eights performed our last dance. I was buzzing seeing faces I knew beaming and clapping louder than ever. I couldn't see why i had been so nervous, I was having the time of my life.

Memories

Wild waves wash with wisdom,
Sand swishing swaying in silence,
The tide tumbling to my toes,
Gazing goes,
And Autumn appears,
Searching for summer,
I reappear,

Then I noticed,
In the sand,
My florescent pink board,
Outdoing the silky golden sand,

Clutching my board,
I float in the rushing water,
Thinking of my younger sister,

Explanation Term 2

Term two, well, it has sure been busy, but we are up to date. In the past few weeks we have been loaded high with cross-country, evaluation writing, portfolios, carter observatory visit and the big topic of the term, was science fairs, I did my science fair on ‘How does rainfall effect streams’ I am really happy because I got chosen in the top 20 in the whole 7 and 8 side and so did my sister.

It is halfway through the term and I have participated and contributed in lots of activities. The biggest sport event for me was running in the cross-country. I am really proud of my placing because I came second in the year seven girls race. I then went to the Inter zone and came 14th. I could not stop beaming that day, I think I still am.

Explanation writing has been an interesting way of writing and I am really pleased with all three writing samples I have produced. I think that my Matariki explanation was my best produced work out of all three samples of work.

Next term I aim to get more involved in class discussion and improve on my writing and grammar. I am also aiming to work hard on all areas especially my maths.

To sum up this term is way to hard but there is one word that finishes it off it is fantastic this term was amazing, I can not wait till next term but I still want my holiday.

Conclusion

To sum up the Science project I think that I did very well and I am interested that my hypothesis worked out well. My hypothesis worked because I thought that the volume of water in the stream will relate to the volume of rainfall and that the width and depth of rainfall will increase after rain. I also so found some very interesting facts on stream if you look here. I found:

· That rainfall effects the depth and width of streams; in other words the volume of water in the stream increases after rain.
· Sometimes falling leaves and branches block the stream further up hill and that prevents the stream from having a clear flow.
· Heavy rain washes away the leaves and branches and clears the stream but if the storm water pipes are blocked the stream floods and goes into the neighbours backyards and wild life in the stream can get stranded and a property could get damaged.

It was interesting founding about so many lost secrets about some of the Eastbourne streams such as there use to be trout and fish about 4 inches long and you could fish for them, but further up stream some painters cleaned there brushes and that ended up poisoning the trout and fish. I hope people will learn from my Science project and protect our Eastbourne streams.

Unicycling

I can now uniycle yhaa it is so much fun here are some cool pictures of me and Kenzy unicycling :)

The Arrivel Play

On Friday the 12th of March the year 7 and 8 kids went to go see the play called the Arrivel by Shaun Tan. The show has been all round the world to Hong Kong and were it was made Auckland. In the play there was only 10 staff and they all played something different each time. The play was very good and I am sure heaps of Muritai kids enjoyed it was very fun to wacth.

The Staff were very good :)

Swimming Sports

This week we had swim sports it was really fun. There were five different races there was Backstroke, Freestyle, 2 lengths freestyle, Breaststroke, and Butterfly.

Placings:

I came in the zones for 2 races one length breaststroke and 2 lengths Freestyle it was a very fun day and i really enjoyed it I can not wait for zones.

ARTS WEEK

This week it is ARTS week it is so cool. We have been doing art on Lex Benson Cooper. We got to chose our template then we painted over it blending the colours . It has been really fun check out some of the really cool art work we have been working on.

Parvana By Deborah Ellis In Afghanistan the girls are not aloud to go in a school and the women are not aloud outside without there husbands with them. The women and girls have to cover every part of there body including there face.This book tells you how a girl called Parvana lives in Afghanistan with her family but then here dad gets taken to jail and she is the only one in the family that could look like a boy. Parvana cuts her hair so she looks like a boy and then wears her big brothers clothes who had died in a land mine when she was born. Parvana takes her dads job which is to read letters and write letters. This book is a very good book and I recommended this book to every body I would rate this book 10/10

Wow! It’s 2010 goodbye junior school and hello senior school. Stepping into the senior school was a big surprise. A felt a burst of confidence when I came into room 23.

I am hoping that this year will make a difference in my maths. I would also like to step up in my spelling.

Last year I joined all the sporting groups I hope to carry on with all the awesome tournaments, hopefully they will be more exciting than last years, I’m sure they will be.

I look forward to Kapa Haka this year and technicraft. It is going to be awesome being able to do woodwork, cooking, ICT with Mr Eames, Science with Miss Berry, French with Mr Bird, and sewing.

I really like having Mr Eames and I think that I will learn a lot from him this year.

SCHOOL!!!!!

I am in room 23 this year which is really cool i have been having Mrs Milsmith for the last couple of days while Mr Eames had has his baby boy. I look forward to all the task Mr Eames

will set up for my class and I. I am now learning how to ride a unicycle which is pretty cool.

I am really looking forward to do all the cool activates this year .

STRIKE

On Firday 19th STRIKE came to Muritai School they were
very cool. They played all types of instraments.But
mostley the drums they keeped every body listining it was amazing.I really enjoyed
it.Here are some pictures of the drumming team.

I LOVE SURFING

This holiday I have been Surfing with all my mates like Molly,Clara,Moss,Fred...

AND MY AWESOME DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SURFING ROXZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!