Our Wellington Trip

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Room 1's Wellington trip...

Yesterday on the 29th of November my class went to Wellington for a class trip here is my google tour on were we went and what we did.

My tour 

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my Tour!

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TOUR

The rosary!

For the past few day in room one we have been learning about the rosary and what the rosary is, why we say it and how we do it. In this blog post i will be telling you all of those things like why we do it,how we do it and what the rosary is.

What do we say?

The first thing we say is the sign of the cross (name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit Amen) as we are saying this we pick up the rosary beads and hold the cross in the hand that we do the sign of the cross with (right) so that we are doing it with the cross touching us 

Next we say the apostles creed.

After that comes the glory be.

Then the leader says the first part of the hail Mary (Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with you blessed is you among all woman blessed the fruit of your womb Jesus) then we all join in and say the last part of the Hail Mary (Holy Mary mother of God pray for our sinners now and at the hour of our death amen.) we say the hail Mary 3 times first for faith hope and charity.

Next we announce the first mystery, the mysteries are events or episodes of Jesus life on earth.

 Following that we say the our father as we did with the hail Mary the leader will lead the first part of the our father (our father who is in heaven holy is  your name your kingdom come your will done on earth as it is in heaven) then the rest of us join in and say the last part of it (give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us and lead us no into temptation but deliver us from evil, Amen)

Next we say the hail Mary 10 times over with the leader leading it as we did before and each time you say the hail Mary you should be thinking of the first mystery. 

What do we do?

Holding the rosary beads you move one of your fingers along each of the beads. Each time you say the hail Mary you move your finger along one bead we do this to keep count of how the amount of times we have said the hail Mary.

Why do we do the rosary?

We do the rosary to remember the life Jesus and the life of Mary. By doing the rosary it is a way for us to remember everything Jesus and Mary did through out their life.

the sport of reading By: Iona McNaughton

This week my group has been reading a book this book is called
‘’the sport of reading’’ this book was about the catholic lit quiz
and who created it , i found it really surprising that reading is a
sport. I  can relate to this book because i enjoy reading.

My wind chime design brief...

For the past couple of weeks in our class room we have been trying to make a product to sell at our school fair next term made from all re usable products this is my design brief..

Wind chime...

The ideas I had were a planter box, a button necklace, candle holder, flowers made of buttons, wind chime.

The product i have chosen to make is a wind chime because it will be easy to make with reusable products and i think it well sell well.

The wind chime will need to be made from reusable products, it will need to be
useful and it will need to look presentable.

My mission statement is to have a good product that will sell and make money
for the school and will be useful around peoples homes.

The stakeholders of this product is the community and children's parents from
the school.

The products i have available to me is driftwood, shoelaces, shells,clear nail
polish, a hammer and some nails.

By the river

                                  By the river. By:Sarah Penwarden 

This book was about a few young year 8 girls that went on a camping trip to a river with their school. They did a couple of cool things like they went on a hydro slide they had a sneaky mischievous mid night snack and they sat around a campfire, i loved this book because i could relate to it in a couple of ways.

Fallen leaves

1.  This week in our reading group we read a book called Falling leaves this is my summary of it...

Te Kura Tuatahi!

                                           Te kura Tuatahi By: Ross Calman

This book was about the first Maori school and how it escalated to become the schools we have  today and how different it was back then for the Maori, compared to now. Did you know that the Maori children  used to get punished for speaking Maori! Horrible right The first school was opened in 1816 and was run by a man call Thomas Kendall a Missionary from England. Thomas Kendall worked for the church missionary society (CMS) there purpose was to spread Christianity.

All about hanmer

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Priests

In our class we have been learning about being ordained this is what you need if you want to become ordained as a priest.

                                       This is what my group has created...

Pax

For the past couple of weeks in our classroom we have been reading a book called Pax it is about a boy and his fox that are bound together but one day the fox go's missing so the boy packs a back pack and heads off to find his beloved fox.

This is what i would pack...


1.
A torch

I would pack a torch because i know that it will take me a long time to findl the fox and would need light at night time.








2.
 water bottle with water inside it.




I would bring a water bottle because it is an easy way to carry water and you need to stay nice and hydrated.












3.
matches.



i would bring matches because it could be a good way to keep out the bugs away from me at night time and be warm.






4.
sleeping bag





I would bring a sleeping bag to keep warm at night time.





5.
canned food.

I would bring canned food to have something to eat at night and to my energy up.









6.

A first aid kit.





   A first aid kit to heal yourself and bandage your wounds.







7.
pocket knife.





A pocket knife to open up your food.















8.
A tarp






A tarp for shelter at night and if it gets really hot in the day time.









9.
A phone

just in case you have to call someone if you get in trouble.

The odd time

I haven't entirely finished this narrative yet but it would be great if you could tell me what i could add or walk on.
Hope you enjoy!


I crept through the creaky door waiting for the wails of my wide eyed family but instead everything fell silent like the dark night sky. I lurked through the hallway waiting for a sound,a squeak anything, but nothing! I sat there waiting in a corner when all of a sudden  the door handle turned and a crowd of people wearing royal blue vests and gas masks walked in, i sunk behind the couch hoping they wouldn’t find me. But a young boy with dark brown hair and sparking blue eyes grabbed my arm and told me to run, is he some sort of traitor? i thought to myself, I ran to the door but before i could get there a man yelled “stop” from across the room  i kept on running. I opened the door and turned left past the outgrown hedges and then right straight down the alleyway.The wind howled like a wounded lion, the moon lit like a like a candle light, i decided to go back home and see if the people with the royal blue vest were gone, but no such thing had happen, they were still there, but this time they had bright orange body suits  on. There was an orange van parked outside so instead of going in the house i sat in a nearby bush waiting for the van to leave. A while later i saw the people in the orange suits walk out and get in the van, but there was one person missing; the young boy that helped me escape, he was gone! What had happened to him? Had he left when i wasn’t looking? Was it my fault he wasn’t there? These were all questions i hadn’t had the answer to. A while later i looked up and the van was driving away, 'finally' i thought to myself, i crept to the front door and turned the handle then walked in, i looked around everything was the same, nothing was gone or dirty. If anything it actually looked cleaner no dirt marks on the mat near the door or toys scattered on the floor by my little sister. When i walked into my room everything was the same apart from something, something different, something hidden, like someone or something was lurking in the deep dark shadows. Suddenly i heard blood curdling cries  that made my insides reach out for help. I followed the screams to a room, a room i had never seen before, how is it that I've  lived in this house my whole life but never seen this room?. I turned the handle and the door creaked open, within seconds i felt my skin crawl like a billion fire ants eating at my very flesh. I looked around and saw nothing, just darkness, i took two steps  backwards in confusion. Until i found myself standing in the blood struck door frame of the empty dark room.

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The great barrier reef-by Sarah Wilcox

This book was about how global warming is affecting the coral reefs. The oceans are getting warmer! It may be good for us but not for the coral reefs that surround us  the warmness of the oceans is turning some coral white it is also known as coral bleaching which is killing them but the good thing is that some types of coral can survive the coral bleaching.There is also a major decrease in the size of coral colonies in the last fifty years , there is a team of people that are taking pictures of the coral colonies to see exactly how  much the decrease has been.

The very long day.

As i walked down the extremly long road i saw a dark stretched figure
standing near the charcoal trees, all of a sudden a gust of wind shot past
me, hitting my back and running down my spine, i fell over onto the hard
stony ground , ground shock ran threw my body. A couple on minutes later i woke up in my bed in a deep pool of sweat , i had  teardrops running down my plump cheeks! After i got up out of my bed i got dressed into my light green school uniform, my mum was sitting at the kitchen table,so i gave her a kiss on her cheek and left for school. I was almost at school when i fell over and hit my head on a rock, i had the same dream i had last night except this time i didn’t wake up in my room i woke up in a hospital room with a semi circle of people surrounding me, i had a terrible pain in my head. A doctor with a white lab coat walked into my room, he pushed passed everyone and sat on the end of the bed i told him how i fell over and about the pain in my head he told me i was ok to go home, so i left! As i was walking home i noticed that there were no green tree, plants nothing just dead leaves. I turned onto my street only to find that my street wasn’t happy or cheerful anymore ,it was like a vast desert waste land, .I started running towards my house pushing past all the once beautiful leaves. I reached my letterbox when i stumbled to my knees only to find blood dripping from my left leg like rain. I struggled to the door and reached for the handle when a dark figure grabbed me from behind and threw me into the boot of a dark vehicle, . The car stopped jolting me forward and putting me into a deep slumber. A while later i woke up, i was laying in a bed that felt like clouds, i could also hear bell birds singing in the wind and running down the trees like rain hitting the ground,i heard a stream near by running of the side of a mountain like raindrops. After a while a person walked into my room, so i quickly shut my eyes hoping they would think i was asleep but they knew ‘’open your eyes young one’’ said a low echoing voice, i didn’t know what to do so i ran out the door but to my surprise i found myself falling, i hit the ground , with in seconds i was laying in a lake of rosy red blood…  

The old man and his chess board

The murky table shivered in the autumn breeze as the old gleeful man makes his first move on the chess board that is as white as snow,he looks up and around but there was nobody there, nobody to make him win, lose or even draw. So he takes off his glasses and swaps seats what an amazing man he is; he made his own opponent! The game intensifies as his eyes deepen and his challenger makes his first move. 910 moves later the game finally finishes he won!

why space exploration is important...

I Ellie strongly believe that we as a united society of planet earth should explore every possible chance to find extra terrestrial life on other planets threw out the universe!

By exploring the universe it will help us expand our knowledge and help us not be afraid of the unknown which we have been in the past. (for more information visit Hollys blog)

It will help us become more independent so we are not  relying on the earth for resources. We will be given the opportunity to figure out other ways of recovering resources in ways that that do not hurt the earth and make global worming worse.

We will find new information so we can make less impact on our diminishing environment and make planet earth  healthy and beautiful.

So in conclusion, I believe that space exploration is important because... we can expand our knowledge of what surrounds us, we can become more independent by not relying on the planet and we will learn new information that will help us make the earth healthier  and more beautiful.

By:Ellie

please feel free to leave your feedback on what i can improve on.

My mothers day poem

 

To my wonderful mother.

                                                                                                                     Your hair is like a beautiful tree.

           Nothing more beautiful could happen at sea.
You care for the homeless.

        Which makes you dauntless You are not yet a retiree.

      

All About Ellie!

This is all about me,in our classroom we have been learning about plagiarism,plagiarism is when you take someones photos,videos,Ect and say that it is your own work, that is why at the end of my slide there is a slide that says references that is were i got the photos from.

When I was doing this blog I found the references/credits awkward to link and sometimes I forgot to copy the link but i overcame  that by practising. Over all i really enjoyed making this slide. I would love  it if you could leave some positive and helpful comments.

                                                             i hope you enjoyed