Come on, let's have a karate lesson!

On the 20th of November my dad and I went to Hill park school for my karate class.

When we got to Hill park school, my Sensi Christian decided to have a meeting with us first to discuss what we were going to do for our fundraiser on hypnosis night. A hypnosis night is when a hypnotist comes in and they hypnotise some people. After the meeting, our class started.

Before we started the class, we had to bow in. A bow is when you sit on your knees and think about what you thin is going to happen. After that, we had a warm up. We had to find a partner and stand opposite each other and I was with my friend Cooper. Next sensi Christian said, " Run to each other and do 10 to 1 push ups then go back and do 2 to 1 setups and keep going!" After 15 minutes of a warm up, we did komate.


Komate in English means fighting. First we had to put on our mits and pads. Mits and pads are protection guards for our hands and feet.

After we got ready, we went back to our partner and started to fight. Cooper said that I was as blind as a bat because I always forget where I was hitting. After we fought for a little while, I partnered up with my friend Morgan. Morgan is a person who has a heart of gold because she is sweet and kind.

After that, we rehearsed for the hypnosis night. I was with my friends Andrew and Jess, they are people who are always as busy as a bee. We had to think of activities to do on the night.  My friend suggested that we could do the mannequin challenge. The mannequin challenge is when you stay still like a mannequin. After we did the mannequin challenge, we went home because we were tired.

I had a wonderful time doing the mannequin challenge. I hope next time, my friend Sam could come because she really wanted to do the mannequin challenge.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use appropriate similes to describe my karate class.

Do you know how to say plane in Te Reo?

Learning Intention: We are learning Te Reo Maori.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I say the vocabulary for our topic flight in Te Reo Maori using blabberize.

Wow, that's wonderful news!

Learning Intention:We are learning to develop our understanding of descriptive language.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that interjections are parts of speech that is usually expresses emotion or strong feelings.

Pair up and follow my moves!

Learning Intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps for the 'Tigress duo routine'.

Come and sing 'He honore' with me!

Learning Intention: We are learning Te Reo Maori.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabbarize to record the waiata 'He honore'.

Practise makes perfect!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria:I know I can do this when I explain that proverbs are common sayings in everyday life.

Happy first birthday Jodha!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use adjectives to describe Jodha's first birthday.

On the 29th of October, my mother, brother, sister and I went to bounce and beyond for my dad's friend's son's birthday party. My dad's friend's son's name was Jodha and that he was turning 1 year old!

Before we went to Jodha's party my mum, brother, sister and I went to buy him a birthday present from  Fulsun. When we got to Fulsun, my mum went inside to get a present while my sibling and I had to wait in the car. After a while, my mum came back with with two bags and one one of them looked like it had clothes in it. When she got in the car, she told me to open one of the bags. So I did and I saw  a birthday bag that had, "Happy birthday!" After that, my mum took  her phone out and entered in the in the address for where Bounce and beyond was. It was 10a Kerwyn Ave, East Tamaki, Auckland.

When we got to Bounce and beyond, we noticed that Jodha and his family were not there so while we were waiting, my brother and I went to play on some of the equipment that were also there. First we went to the climbing wall. When we got to the climbing wall, we saw that there was a big queue so we went to the slides.

There were two slides. One slide was really big and it was coloured red, yellow and blue. The other one was a combination of two slides and it was coloured green, blue and yellow.

First, my brother I went to the big, red, yellow and blue slide. There were stars that went up to the top. When we got to the top my brother told me to push him down but gently. When he got to the bottom, he started to cry so I quickly got down and asked him if he was ok. He didn't answer me so  I took him to my mum and she told me to go and play while she looked after him.  

After a while Jodha and his family came so we all went to to the party room. The party room was dark and was a medium sized room. The room was filled with lots of food.  I ate some chips, chicken and fish. The chicken was so crispy and delicious.

After we had finished eating, we all sang the happy birthday song to Jodha and and ate some cake. It was a rainbow layered cake with white icing. After we all had some cake, my brother and I went downstairs to get some ice cream. I had some chocolate ice cream and my brother had a vanilla ice cream. After we had some ice cream , we went home because we were all tired.

I had a wonderful day at Jodhas' birthday party. I hope my dad could come next time because he really wanted to come.

Hey, don’t cry over spilled milk, we'll be fine!

On one sunny morning, Alice and her family went for a picnic at the park because it was Alice's birthday.


When they got to the park, Alice's mum Jill packed a beautiful lunch for them, they had fruit and ham sandwiches and lemonade. Just when they were about to start eating, Jill got a phone call from her mother. Jill's mother told Jill that her dad has passed away and that they could come over and see him.

Jill told Alice and the family what had happened that they should go and see him right away. when they got to Jill's mum's house, they all felt sad and miserable.

Jill's mum saw Alice crying and she told her to not cry over spilt milk, because they can't change what has happened.

Learning Intention:We are learning to to write a narrative.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a narrative to write my story 'It's all right'.

Let's do the Kung Fu Panda routine!

Learning intention: We are developing our fitness levels through Physical Education.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Kung Fu panda routine that I have learnt from our first Kung Fu lesson.