PCJB Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil

I just got back from the cinema watching Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil and thought that there was so much action, adventure and excitement that I decided to make a blog post about it.


Maleficent travels to a grand old castle to celebrate young Aurora's upcoming wedding to Prince Phillip. While there, she meets Aurora's future mother-in-law -- a conniving queen who hatches a devious plot to destroy the land's fairies. Hoping to stop her, Maleficent joins forces with a seasoned warrior and a group of outcasts to battle the queen and her powerful army.

Fabulous costumes, vibrant art direction, and the on-screen duelling of two Hollywood queens -- Jolie and Pfeiffer -- save this from being another uneven, unnecessary sequel.

With widespread death and destruction, this fairytale costume drama is by no means a child’s play. However, it has enough live-action magic to bring the big screen alive.

An improvement on the first film, in the end, and an encouraging rallying cry against fear and intolerance, but it’s still far too busy and baroque to match its leading lady’s elegance.

I really enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to be 8+. It is an action, adventure, PG, and most of all, exciting!

PCJB Manaiakalani Waiata

WALT: Sing the Manaiakalani waiata without the words or video
Lyrics: Kia tau te rangimarie Kia tatou katoa
Kia maimoa nga mana reo o tena
Kia mauri tau
Hihiritia te henengaro
Kia ako, Kia hanga Kia tohatoha
I roto i nga mai Katoa
Kia eke panuku Kia eke panuku Kia eke Tangaroa
(boys) tuturu whakamoa Kia tina (girls) tina
(all) Haumi e hui e
Taiki e
My Reflection: I quiet enjoy singing this song and know it off by heart. It's a little wordy but I like it!

PCJB The Town, The Park

WALT: Write a memoir inspired by James K Baxters "The Town"

The Town 

The town was usual enough; It had

A library, a park, a fountain, an ice-cream truck and

Pizza Hut, my favourite store

That we sometimes ate at. Me, myself and I

Did what nerds do - read books

In the quiet library, eat ice-cream and pizza while doing research, annoy my big brother

To help with my homework,  and code

For hours on Scratch, 

Doing nothing important.

The park 

The park was usual enough; It had

A swing, a slide, a small zip-line, a jungle-gym and 

fish n chips shop that we 

always ate at. Me, my sister and my dad

did what we do best - have a lovely picnic

on the grass, have races through the park, play tag until we tire ourselves out, 

play Pokemon Go! And eat the fish n chips that we brought,

Doing nothing important.

It was easy to make these two memoirs when I had an example of James K Baxter's memoir. A memoir is sort of like a poem but a little different.

PCJB Maths Quiz: Written Expanded Form

PCJB Peanut Butter Slice Baking

WALT: Work together as one to bake peanut butter slices.

My reflection: It was sort of hard to make the "dough" but patting it down was fairly easy.

PCJB Moment in Time: Film Festival

I was super excited to see all of the movies that went through to the film festival. I was nervous at the same time. There was red carpet, waiting for us to step on it at the front door of the cinema. Me and seven others from our class could go because we were the eight that made a movie that got in as well as Te Manga.

We won a couple of awards that day but it was Te Manga's movie that actually won it. They got tied in 2nd place for best film.