Immersion assembly

On Tuesday the first day of school, when I went inside the hall, all the teachers were dressed up into funky costumes and alien masks. We were having our Immersion Assembly where we find out what our topic for the term is going to be. It was really weird trying to figure out what it was from all the strange costume until Mr Burt told the whole school that our topic was OUTTA THIS WORLD.All about space.

When Immersion assembly started I was so excited that I was going to see the teachers perform their items to the school . After Mr Burt finished telling us the Manaiakalani story about the hook from Heaven,he announced, “It’s time for Team 1!” in a excited voice. Team 1 made a movie about where the sun is. They were very cold so they made their own sun using team work. The teachers who helped make the sun were Mrs Wild, Miss Ouano, Mrs Lal and Miss Maude. It was kind of funny.

Mrs Barks, from Team 3, came and told us that they had movie about when you are in space. One of the thigs they showed us was how to go to the toilet in space. There was this man who was telling them the information about it. If you are hungry in space did you know that you put your food tray on your space suit with velcro. Your knife and fork sticks to the tray with magnets?

Later on Mr Burt shouted, “Give a round of applause for team 4.” We all started to clap. Mr Sommerville came up on to the stage with a Guitar and then the ballerinas came up on the stage too. They were Miss King, Mr Marks, Ms Squires and Miss Garden. When it started, the song they were dancing to was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by the Wiggles. Mr Somerville was pretending that he was playing the guitar. The ballerinas were doing graceful ballet movements with twirls, pirouettes, leaps and pivots.They holding pom poms.

“Give it up for Team 5!” Mr Burt announced. Their movie was Star Wars and the teachers who made the movie were Miss Tito, Mr Barks, Mr Harris and Mrs Lagitupu. It was really funny because Mr Harris was a Princess

It was not happy because the Immersion Assembly was over but it was fun. I like this topic because you can learn what other planets there are. My favourite Planet is Saturn.

Micheal Fishbach Saving the Humpback Whale.

On Valentines day a Whale researcher, Michael Fishbach and his family motored out over the glassy water of the Sea of Cortez in their small runabout. They were out making whale observations, unaware that soon they would help save the life of one of the world’s most magnificent creatures, a humpback whale.

On that day Michel Fishbach found a Humpback Whale on the ocean. It looked like it was close to death. Suddenly it breathed through its blow hole, sending spray flying. It was trying to breath properly.

The whale was trapped in the net. The net was called a gill net. When Michel Fishbowl swam to the whale he could do something to help the Humpback Whale be still alive.

When they were trying to help the whale they used 1 small knife to cut off the net. It was really hard and dangerous because the tail could still hit Michel.


When the whale was free the whale did something to show Michel and his team a surprising trick. I think the whale only did that to say thank you. Then he waved goodbye with its tail.

Saving the Whale

I was struggling when I got tangled in the gill net. My pectoral fins were pinned to my sides. "Ooh no I can't breath properly." Trying to gasp for breath I thought "what can I do".

“What is that droning noise coming closer?” I thought. It sounds like a song but no, a song does not sound like that.” I feel fear.

When that droning noise stopped I lifted my head up and it was a boat. Who is that man diving in is that a man


“Yay I'm free !” I thought. “What should I do to say thank you to the people who saved me. I know what I could do. I could breach that is what most Humpback Whale do.” I swam and jumped out of the water and made a big splash. I wanted to go near them to show them how happy I was now that I was free. To say goodbye I splashed my tail up and down.

Rugby World Cup animation

This is my RWC it is about kicking for the goal

Badminton

On Thursday after morning tea, Rm 14 we went to Badminton we did it inside the hall. When we got there we meet a lady called Lorene she taught us to serve with shuttles. The first step was put your thumb down and put the racket upside down. We had to keep the shuttle air born when you hit it.

Then she told us to choose a partner and I was with Htawara. We were learning new skills. I said to Hta wara, "Keep on hitting the ball".

Our first practice was serving. I was so excited. When we had to serve to the other player they had to hit it back. We counted how many times we hit it. If you dropped it you would have to start all over again. After a moment she shouted,  "Shuttles" that means you have to put your rackets and shuttles down, and sit down.
Then we try to hit the shuttles for 3 times and hit it under your leg. It looked easy but it was not.
After we finished that game we keep on rotating games they were all fun and interesting. My favourite game was when we had to go behind the red line and Lorene  hit the shuttles to the person who was first in line. We had to hit it back to her. If we dropped it we had to put our racket down and we couldn't use it again. It was tricky to aim because we had to hit it behind the red line. That one was my favourite but it was a competition .When we had only one more racket we had to pass it fast before Lorene hits it to us. But we were too late to hit it. Another skill was  you had to carefully aim so you didn't drop it and you had to work as a team.

Liver

The Liver has more then 500 jobs. It makes the blood warm. We found this out when we met a lady called Tim in the Life Ed Caravan with Harold. She said "The liver breaks down food and warms up the blood.” For example if you eat an apple it goes down your esophagus to your stomach where it gets broken up. The Liver works what ever it can do then it warms up your heart.

When you eat something that is healthy the Liver works well. It is the size of a small melon and it is the biggest organ in the body.