The Wonderous, Fabulous Extravaganza.

The whole, performance theme was a retold story of important ages of New Zealand.  My class' performance, was New Zealand music month.  To perform the extravaganza, we went to the high school auditorium, sometimes practised our performance there, and one time, we practised using our costumes.  For my class' performance, I was in the group sway, we had to pretend we were in a ballroom dance.  Here is the song link to Sway by Bic Runga.  Sway - Bic Runga.  The extravaganza was on Wednesday the 30th of August and today, a.k.a Thursday 31st August.

I wore a red patterned shirt, black skinny jeans and black shoes.  At the start I felt really excited that I was performing as Maui, I think I did a good job and everyone else did aswell.  When the time was about at the middle of the extravaganza, I think I did good because that was when my group performed.  At the end I felt like I could have done better because I didn't do the Haka well.  The performance started at 6:30, but ended at 8:45.  I learnt that it takes a lot of time to do something, and it takes time to perfect it.  The other roles in the performance were really cool, such as room 10's, they used rubbish to make really cool costumes to demonstrate that anything that be beautiful, and be happy of what you have.  

I think I did really well on stage because I felt excited, happy and proud of myself.   I think that were awesome because they were doing the right thing and they were brave and courageous. My next step is to practice getting on stage without having an embarrassed smile, because otherwise I will look like I have stage fright but also laughing at the same time.

Number The Stars Novel Retelling

Dominique, Keyana and I have created a slideshow about an important part of a novel called "Number The Stars".  We have done a lot of work on it, to make it really good and we all hope you like it.  It was hard to make at first but then we got the hang of it.  I think I could have done better, what I think I could have done better is, that I could have made it more realistic, but I chose not to push myself.  Dominique and Keyana have helped a lot and we have worked together on all of this.  I have worked really hard to finish this because I had to finish it in my own time.
 For this part of my learning, the WALT is to Retell an important part of the novel that we are currently up to.

This is our slideshow, we hope you enjoy.

My NZ Music Month Presentation

I have created a presentation with facts about a NZ singer called Lorde.  I have put pictures into it and I have worked hard on it to complete it.  I really hope you enjoy my presentation.  Here it is.

Vestel - Somalia

I have put into my own words, a narrative from a vimeo video that is called: Vestel - Somalia. I have watched this video about 2-3 times. I have created writing of this video, and I am one of the robots in the story.

The characters are Pirates, Crew Members, The Captain and Robots. I hope you enjoy.

Vestel.

I heard a rubble on the ship, I came out of my box and I flew onto the side of the boat, I saw the beautiful view of the shiny ocean as the sun came up.  I didn’t know what my use was, so I flew around the boat and I saw my fellow robots grabbing humans and they seemed rather weird.  I think, maybe I should check and see if the crew members are okay, I fly around, and I see them tied up, so I untie them.  I should check what my friend is doing.

My friend robot C-136 a.k.a. Greenie, was tripping up humans and catching them.  So I found a human, and I grabbed him with all my fierce grip I had, I gave him to one of my fellow robots as I saw a human trying to escape.  So I came in and I pushed the human into the water, I threw a floating ring into the water with the human because I know they can’t swim properly.  Well, I’m not known as C-137 a.k.a. the Sea Robot for nothing.  I fly to the stern to get more humans, I saw C-150, the newest robot in the bow so I grabbed the human and I held the human up with my tightest grip.  My fellow robots and I threw all of the humans that were dressed like hippies, into the water.  

I looked around the ship and I noticed that the ship needs cleaning, I thought, maybe we should go into our huge boxes now.  I went into my box and was ready for power down.  I felt a modest touch of electricity static and it felt really weird because It felt like I was about to power off now-.

Top Tips For Writing Quality Blog Comments

This is the video that I have watched about how to write a quality blog comment.
I have collected information from this video, here it is.

Comments are a great influencing on conversations.
Start with a compliment.
Add facts that the blogger doesn't know.
If the blogger has had an experience close to an experience that you have had, then write about it to make a connection with the blogger.
Add a question on the end of your comment so you can get a conversation going.
Proofread your comment before you publish it. Always at the beginning of a sentence, use a capital letter, and at the end use punctuation, never use more than one exclamation mark at the end of a sentence, if you want to release your excitement, just add more words also, if you use a pronoun: I, always capitalise it.

The Lethal Ridge Ride

Today I have been focusing on a story that I have already completed named The Ridge. I changed the name of it for my story and I had to write what I thought the man was seeing, here is the link for the video, I advise watching the video before reading my writing.

The Ridge

The Lethal Ridge Ride.

I was sailing across a sea of mirrors, I was going north trying to find the most fatal challenge ever. I had found land and massive bumpy rocks that were almost as tall as Mount. Everest!  The lethal mountains were staring at me like they had a grin on them, but they didn’t, I just had an imaginative mind.

I got my bike out and rode it like I was trying to tame a donkey with two legs!  I rode across rutted rocks like they were keen crystals trying to blitz!  I found two rocks that I had to jump over to get across, of course, I did not fear because I worship challenges.  I jump across the rocks like it was nothing, I ultimately found a trail that wasn’t bumpy, but that lasted for a little amount of time.  

I climbed up the precipitous rocks with my bike, hoping to be a legend, It’s easy jumping up these rocks, I want more challenge and I want it now.  I looked to see how lofty I was above the floor of the earth, I was about 100+ ft above the ground!  I had to carry my bike across a cliffside because I had known that it was going to be unfeasible to jump up all these colossal-like rocks and because there was no clear trail for me to go on.  

Once I was at the top, I had taken a break and stared at the beautiful view.  It looked like there were vanilla icing on the mountains, and the sky had white cotton candy in it.  I stopped staring and rode down the ridge like I was falling from the sky, it was fast, but unstable, something I finally had in mind.  When I got to the bottom I had already gotten really tired out, I had taken a break from biking, because I had been biking all day so I sat down in the sand, wondering what a great time I had.

Buster The Boxer

W.A.L.T. write a narrative through the eyes of Buster.

I have written a narrative about a dog called Buster the Boxer. I have used descriptive words, speech marks, and punctuation. First I had to watch a video about Buster the Boxer, then I had to turn it into words, instead of vision. Here is the link of the video.

Buster the Boxer.

Now here is my story, I advise watching the video first.

On a cold, icy, frigid night, I was sitting in the most great room I could ever think of, getting lightheaded because of watching my owner’s little girl jumping on her bed like there was no tomorrow.  She was probably hoping for a trampoline for christmas, she was so excited that I almost fainted.  My owner told her to go to sleep because it was getting too late, she hopped down into bed and fell asleep straight away.  I saw my owner’s husband setting up the trampoline for their daughter, he almost cut himself, but once he was done setting the trampoline up, he headed back inside.

I saw something, I saw a fox come out of a bush, it headed towards the trampoline, it’s companion followed it saying “I - I - I don’t think we should be here, we could be followed.”.

“It’s okay, dude, we won’t be followed, trust me, I am always right, even if we are - wait what is this rubber?  It is so stretchy we can jump on it!”.

“Oh - Okay, dude, wait, this is so much fun!  We should invite other animals to play with us on this hopping machine!”.  They were having so much fun I felt resentful.  “Woah, what are those two Foxes doing?  I wanna join in on it!”.  Said a Badger as it joined in on them.

“Me too!”.  Said a Squirrel and a Hedgehog.

They looked like they were having so much fun, I felt sad because they were poking faces at me and the first fox said, “Haha, that dumb dog is missing out on our furlough.”.

I woke up and saw the girl racing downstairs like a race car in a race.  Her dad opened the sliding door and she seemed shocked to have a trampoline for her first time, I raced her out there, I ran like a cheetah and I bet her to the trampoline before she could go on it.  I jumped high in the air as I felt the wind swaying in my face as I saw the animals watching, the first Fox said “W-why does that dog get to have all the fun?”.  

“Because I am their protector.”.  I said.  The little girl was shocked to see me jumping on the trampoline, she said, “Oh - My - Gosh - HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?”.  I just kept on jumping and jumping, she joined me after a while, then she hugged me and said  “I love you, Buster.”.

Fin.