Marc Chagall

Alma The Sequel

Alma The Sequel

Alma gets sucked into the doll. She feels nothing, she can’t move, Alma starts to panic feeling this “I'll never go home.” She gets emotional not knowing what to do. Another girl walks past finding a little piece of chalk on the ground. Picking it up and she writes her name on the wall. ‘Kerry’ is her name. Kerry turns around to see herself in the shop window. 

She starts banging on the door “nothings happening” she says. Kerry starts walking away a grin on her face clutching her hands. Then the door opens with a creek. Kerry starts to smile and runs cluelessly back to the shop. The door slamming behind her. Alma sees her and tries to move but she’s not working.

Alma has an idea and asks everyone to scream and say get out as loud as they can and hope she hears all of them. All the dolls start screaming. The girl was scared, her eyes grew big and she walked back slowly. 

Kerry starts thumping on the door. She pulls the door but it's not budging. She finds a chair from the manager's office and tries breaking the window on the door. The window shatters into the snow. Kerry runs out panicking down the road. Alma thinks and says to herself “I made a mistake, I couldn't save myself but I can save others…”

Alama hopes that Kerry might be able to save her and the other dolls.

                                         

                                        

                                  

                                         

                                                                                                                       

           

Aroha's Way

 Aroha means love, today I'm going to the beach to see my friends. We were all playing tag around the beach. I was feeling happy until they left for the day. I walked over to the water and looked out at the sea.

 As I sat by the water I began to feel sad. I have never felt like this. My body began to shut down. My face was turning into a frown. The sky got dark. the seagulls were coming outand it started raining. Like tears down my face.

I started thinking positive. My hair flying with the wind I hear the waves crashing against each other. Then I get up. Wiped my tears take a deep breathe. Then walk home into the sunset.

Iron Tamariki

        

This is a picture of me swimming in an IronMaori race. I drew this on google drawing as part of a reading activity from the story Iron Tamariki by Paora Tibble.  

If I was doing this race I would feel really nervous with all the people competing.

Mophead

This book 'Mophead' has inspired me to write about bullying and how bad it can affect people.

                                                                    

Yesterday after school, when everyone left, my parents and I went to a restorative justice meeting. 

As the bully approated us I began to feel more and more nervous. He sat down looking scared. I could see the sweat that was starting to drip from his face. My face was a stern business face. His face was a nervous face. I could hear the clock. the time was going slowly. I walked out feeling like a freespirit again and not isolated. The bully said sorry and I accepted it. I hope I will never get bullied like this again and to keep that smile on my face. I now feel joyful and energised knowing that my voice has been heard.

 

Monsters: Kraken

 This week my reading group and I read  about all kinds of monsters around the world. My favorite monster was the Kraken which is a monster that is a big giant octopus. Sailors feared Kraken because they would sink passing ships with their big tentacles.  

Famous Faces.

On the front of every New Zealand banknote, there is a famous face. Each face is of a person who has done something important for New Zealand (and sometimes for other countries too.)

My experience doing student math

My experience with student math was fun and enjoyable playing Go Fish and Snap.  I also learnt some times tables.  The tables we did were 2, 3, 5, and 10.  We also learnt some new tricks like say for example in the 3 times table and you had 54 you can tell because you can add them together so you have 5+4=9.  I really enjoyed these games and learning new things.  If I could I would like to do something like this again.

The blood yard

The blood yard

The little boy woke up to people all around him. He felt like this was the end. When he  was lifted onto the stretcher he felt a big pain in his leg.

Just before they closed the ambulance doors he looked back to see blood all over his front yard. The ride to the hospital was short with the paramedics doing all they could to stop the blood. All of a sudden he wakes up and is lifted onto a bed, he goes past bright lights and starts to lose consciousness. 

The surgeon cuts his leg open to clean the wounds, his heart starts to fail and he needs resuscitation. Before his loving caring soul leaves his body he comes back to life. Five hours later, at 2:37 in the afternoon he slowly awakens. He sees his little sister and mum beside him. Mum says, “oh thank heavens you’re alive.” The boy says “thanks mum I love you and Becca”. 

Thursday comes and Becca and her brother head home, now a bit scared to play in the front yard.

Life Jackets

Covid 19 Smart learner

What is Prayer?

Today we talked about our definition of a prayer in our groups.

Yesturday, for drama we began a study on Rapunzel. Insted of reading the story we had to disign an artical to 10 second drama around different artefacts  associated  with the fairy tale. The artefacts consisted of a black cape, bird/ nest necklace, padlock and key and lastly a crown. Here is the artecle my group constructed around the artefact our group chose.

 

Multiplication Art emoji

Today my class and I did a Multiplication Art emoji. I really enjoyed doing this emoji and would like to do another emoji.

5 finger poem

My why poem, My life

The Tale of Two Mindsets.

The ‘I am’ titles St. John’s Gospel.

My 24 hour digital footprint

Most visited site was: Roblox struicd .
Least visited site was: netflix.

My second day of lockdown school. By-Harley

Today I had a meeting with my class on google hangouts. After I did some writing on this creative app called Sumdog. For morning tea I had two hotdogs with tomato sauce on top. For art I drew marks on my gta map so I know where everything is. Then it was time to do some maths so I did  more of Sumdog it was really fun.Then for lunch I had yep you guess it MORE HOTDOGS!!!!  After those delicious hot dogs I did some reading I read amulet. My second day of lockdown was really fun i can't wait till tomorow!

Drama Matchbox diary by-Harley

As I try to sleep
there are people coughing, sneezing and snoring. It's disturbing. The sound that stands out the most is the clock tik tok tik tok. It's really cold. My stomach is growling telling me I'm hungry. Peoples' body odour makes my nose scrunch. I look down and I see my matchbox, my reminder of home.

This poem is by shel silverstein

Memories:

Skimming rocks at the beach

My memories bring me back to the beach. There was a lot of people. Some people swimming some people playing volleyball. I could hear the seagulls singing and the ocean smashing against the sand. Woosh! Woosh! I got bored so I started skimming rocks. 

The rocks felt smooth like they had been flattened. I smelt the salty ocean and the hot dogs. They made my mouth water and I asked my mum if I could get one. I was so desperate and luckily she said yes. I took a bite and it was so nice it felt like there was a party in my brain.

Blog profile 2020

Kia-ora, oku hoa My name is Harley. I am 11 years old and I speak Maori. I live in Auckland. I’m in year 8 at Saint Patricks school and my teachers name is Ms George, she's a great teacher. My favourite subject is maths, I really like algebra. My favourite thing to do  at home is play games, like Fortnite, Roblox, Call of Duty and Forza horizon 4. Sometimes in my spare time I like to go for a bike ride, or go to the pools. I bike ride around the rotary walkway. My goals are to succeed in my writing to have better handwriting and my other goal is to read more often.

Telegrams

   

Telegrams were used in the great war in 1916. War telegram. In 19th and the first half of the 20th century telegrams were commonly used to send important or urgent news. The military sent telegrams to tell parents of soldiers that their son was missing or had been killed in action.

My first week back at Saint Patricks school 2020

My first week back at Saint Patricks school 2020
On Wednesday I started school. My class is room 8. I think this year will be a bit challenging as I take on the role of being a year 8. This year will my last year atending Saint Patricks. On the first day of school my favourite part was drawing our hands on a pieces of paper then making all kinds of swerly doodles.

On Thursday we worked more on our hands and then went to lunch we played soccer for our whole break. Then the bell rang and we went back into class. My whole class went out to play a game on the grass to play.No one wanted to play so some of us played volleyball and the others played kicks with the ball. When it was time to go home we went back to class packed up then grabbed our bags. We said a quick prayer then went home.

My first week at saint Patricks school was fun.