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 Pierced Ears

Today after school, me and my little sister Ruby went to the chemist with my mum and little brother Jaxon to get both our ears pierced. I had already had them done before so I wasn't scared. 
I had to get buds since I'm going to Intermediate next year. I got my birthstone gem. It's a Peridot. They are greenish stones that are quite cool!

PCJB Explaining Minecraft

This blocky game is rated as one of the most played games around the world! It is a game that is educational because it enhances creativity, problem-solving, self-direction, collaboration, and other life skills. In the classroom, Minecraft complements reading, writing, math, and even history learnings. This game has a loop from where it begins to where it ends and back again. Everything in the game is connected like a chain.

Each game mode that you use is different. It also represents what kind of gamer you are. For example, Creative mode allows you to have every single block in Minecraft. All the blocks show up in your inventory. This means that you like to be in control over your world and build a lot. Survival mode however, is the opposite. You have nothing in your inventory to start with until you get mining and you like to play the game properly to get achievements and coins to get different things in the store.

There are different bosses in the game that takes a long time to come in contact with, that includes entering different dimensions with portals. To spawn a Wither, you need four soul sand in a “T” shape and three wither skulls that you can find in the Nether. Put the skulls on top and wait for the wither to charge and destroy. A Wither is a skeleton-type boss with three heads. It shoots wither skulls that explode and gives you the wither effect when you get too close so be careful! The wither effect makes your hearts turn black while it takes them away. It lasts for 10-15 seconds.

The Ender Dragon. This creature can’t be spawned but found in The End (The End portal can be found in dungeons using Eye of ender’s). This beast shoots purple fireballs and dragons breath along with an incredible dive that does a decent amount of damage. Take out the end crystals to stop it from healing. When killed, the Ender Dragon lays an egg and then an animation for its death goes right above you then explodes and drops 3-10 levels worth of XP.

There are quite a few different tools that do different things to help you out. Use the right tool for the right reason or the durability will drain faster and you might not get the block you want! (The durability is the green bar at the bottom of your Hot-bar) Here is a few of them, Pickaxe: Allows you to mine ores and get cobblestone from caves. Hoe: Allows you to make farms for crops near water. Don’t jump on the farm or it will turn to dirt again. Axe: Let’s you mine tree logs a lot faster.

The main idea of this game is to survive and do whatever you want (although defeating those bosses sounds like fun!). I like to do both, creative and survival (even though you don’t get achievements for adding cheats on), how about you?

PCJB Speech: Teaching is an Easy Job but I Disagree

Introduction
Teaching “isn’t” an easy job. Why? I'll tell you!

Why
Because sometimes it gets overwhelming. In fact, it gets so overwhelming you just want to scream your so frustrated. Less sleep can cause horrible things like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, just to name a few. So be sure to get the sleep your body deserves.

What happens

There is way too much work to be done in such little time and no, you don’t get as much sleep as you really think so your body slowly tires. Probably because some kids don’t listen or do their homework so their poor teacher has extra work. And plus, you can’t spend as much time with your family as you hoped. Hey! Family matters but so does education. Family time shrinks incredibly fast so make the most of it! And even though happiness is a great reward, a day off or two is probably a better one. Even though kids get their education they need and pass on, forgetting things becomes a problem.

The bad side
You worry about the little things more often than the important ones. You also spend more than you receive for stationary, books and plenty more where that came from. The more your teacher teaches you the less he/she can teach you and following on the same subject, it takes longer to learn new things that you think so if your teacher is out of ideas, it can take longer to learn more to teach. That might be the end of my bad side of the speech but my good side however...

The good side
Pupils live their lives happily and you get huge rates of happy smiles and even better, you can also become a favorite! Also, you get goodies. YUM! Children learn quicker with teachers around and you get paid for it at the same time. You share your knowledge with students and they share theirs. More books are even made because of teachers! You can also get awards from teaching depending on how well you teach.

Teaching facts
Teachers aren't just gossiping on the teacher's lounge, during an average school day, teachers are spending almost 5 hours on instruction in class and providing tutoring or extra academic support and approximately 36 minutes on student supervision and discipline. Since 2009, Scholastic and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been publishing Primary Sources. It is a survey taken by thousands of American teachers on issues central to public education in the country today.

Some tips
It is easier to teach when you convince your students that it is magical or something great is going to happen if you do this and that. It helps children to use their imaginations more often. Little kids like to be amazed by how magical the world is and that encourages them to write bigger stories, make cooler things and even pretend they are super. It is also easier to teach when you pretend something bad is going to happen. For example, children like to eat their shirts. To prevent that, (and a teacher at my school told children this) say ”if you chew your shirt, it will make bubbles inside your tummy and you will float away”. Some kids believe it but it’s a great way to stop kids from chewing their shirts when their parents just brought it.

Conclusion
Do you want to become a teacher? If you're a teacher, high five yourself for a good job because you survived the costs for teaching and my speech. Thank you for listening.

PCJB Gills Terrible Travel

On May 22 2019, an Australian mountaineer, Gillian Lee “tried” to climb Everest, his 4th attempt. He thought that using an oxygen tank was cheating, so Gillian bravely ditched it. Gill saw the human traffic jam on the easier route so he took the steep Tibet route on the north side of the mountain.

At a height of 7600m, Gill started to cough constantly. It wasn’t long before he had purple lips and passed out. His sherpas quickly recognized the problem and descended down the mountain. Further down the treacherous slope, they reached his tent. The sherpas put Gill in a sleeping bag with lots of hot water bottles. They tied the sleeping bag to Gillian Lee and made a sled. Part way down they met a group of Chinese rope fixers who helped them. As the went on, the soft snow disappeared and rocky terrain was waiting for them. But the Yak Man was nearby to help get Gill across.

It was a painful ride on the yak. They finally reached Base Camp where a helicopter took him to a nearby hospital. When his mother found out, she was furious. She told Gill that he was selfish by putting others in danger. His mother was a lot angrier than sad and worried.

-By Paige

PCJB Our Te Kauru Assembly: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Our assembly was based on a book written by Jon Scieszka (she-shka). My part was the third little pig who was smart but rude-ish. If you want to see our assembly, visit the site with this link down below...
https://pstekauru.blogspot.com/2019/06/term-2-assembly-true-story-of-three.html

Isabele Thank You Letter Whatuwhiwhi snorkling

Dear Isabel,

On Behalf of our school, I would like to say thank you for teaching Te Manga and Te Kauru (my class) about how to snorkel and the EMR program you run so smoothly. We all enjoyed Experiencing Marine Reserves even though we weren't at one.

The BEST part about going to Whatuwhiwhi was snorkelling and playing in the sand. On the beach, I saw HEAPS of cool stuff. The coolest object that caught my eye, was the Crab and Snapper skeletons that washed up on the beach. They looked SOO cool.

In the water, the seaweed touched me during all the movement. I screamed thinking a weird fish nibbled me only to see that I was overreacting about nothing. A little bit later, I dived down as deep as I could considering my wet suit was full of air and saw a really fast but long fish ZOOM out of the murky seaweed. Jasmine and I thought it was a Piper but I wasn’t too sure since I didn’t get a very good glimpse of the rocketing fish. I saw my first snapper and a lot of spotties and common triplefins and 1 Kina or Sea Urchin.

Again thank you for taking us on this amazing trip. I learnt a lot of cool facts like don’t scream and ever overreact about nothing.

Sincerely yours,

Paige.

Quality Scentences

WALT: Write quality sentences using QV, elaboration and more.
I had fun learning how to make quality sentences because I like learning!

Our Beach Education Day

My class, Te Kauru, went to Ahipara to learn about how to save people in the dangerous waters. First, we sat down so the Life Guards could teach us about water safety as we did with Rhonda. We learnt about water safety in the water and out of water safety. Then, they showed us the stuff they used in and out of the water equipment. My favourite was the paddle boat. After that, we played some games on the beach and had races (safe races but fun races). When we went into the water, I had SO MUCH FUN! I was sad we had to go back to school afterwards.

Report Writing: Bottlenose Dolphins

WALT write reports using quality vocab and elaboration. Sit back relax and enjoy my report writing!

Wait and See!

PCJB: Town Pools

Today, Te Kauru (my class) and Te Puawai went on a trip. We travelled by bus which took a little while but we eventually arrived at the town pools. The one gleaming pool in all of them was the extremely deep, 2-metre deep pool with a diving board, my favourite! As we had to go change, I couldn’t stop thinking about it until Ruby (my sister) scared me. In fact, she scared all the girls in the changing room. We all laughed. The teachers and the lifeguard put us in groups. First, my group had to do a relay swimming race, one of the things I’m bad at. I went twice but as I was about to go onto my miserable third, the change to the deep pool saved me. I did flips, bombs and even belly flops (only once (super painful)). When we had to go into the normal pool but I kept on going at the deep pool. It was so much fun. 2 mins later, I and my sister Ruby tried to go to the bottom but we only got half way before we burst with air. I quickly grabbed Ruby by her arm and rushed up, gulping air as we re-surfaced to the top. We only had a few hrs before we had to go back to school so I had some lunch, went on the bus and slept as it drove us home.

All About Me Tree

This is my All About Me Tree. You might know my first All About Me as paragraphs but this time it's different...

Rhib riding: A moment in time.

Rhib riding: A moment in time.
7.2.19


The first thing that caught my eye was the rhib boats on each side of the navy ship. When it was my turn I was ready with my life jacket on and courage. ZOOM! We went as soon as we hit the water. I saw playful dolphins swimming, creating bubbles as they dived. People behind me screamed and yet I could hear them over the BOOMING motor. The calm waves hitting the boat rocked us a little. The smell was as salty as the sea and so was the taste. Bloch. The wind was cruising through my hair as if it were worms swarming through. The sea water splashing in the small boat covered me and the handlebars that I need to hold on to. Slippery enough for me to think to myself, “Don’t let go or you will fly of like a plane without wings, diving into the ocean floor.” I held on tightly with my legs and my hands, screaming as the boat lifted off the ocean’s surface. But wow, was the view breathtaking. I was disappointed because I wanted another go but sadly, I wasn’t allowed to.
By Paige.

Swim safe with Rhonda

Mushroom Float
If someone throws you in the water and you don’t know which way is up or down. Make sure you have air to spare and that way you will go back to the surface without having to move. Huddle up to yourself making sure that your heel is touching your behind and that you hold your legs to your chest with your hands in order to keep warm.
Paige

Endangered Species: The Dangers!

!2nd day at Te Kauru camp: Rainbows End!

The Haunted House

When we got in the haunted House, it was SUPER SCARY because the people in the pictures were moving. They changed from their normal face or skin into a zombie or something like that. There was a lady who guided us through the house. She told us that if your wearing anything that’s white it will glow because it was very dark. There were lots of rooms, spider webs and frightening pictures. The first room in the Haunted House was scary but cool. In it was an old woman like skeleton on her rock chair holding a dead baby trying to put it to sleep while looking at us with a big evil grin. Bleach. The next room was pretty horrifying. There was blood on a bed with 2 plastic baby dolls ripped apart with their eyes open. Creepy right. In the hallway I saw brown material tubes hanging down from the roof. They were kinda hard but everyone behind me got lost and scared so I had to guide them to where we were. Around the corner I saw an electric chair. A CHAIR,oh yes yes yes YES! Ah. So nice. The tour guide lady lowered the head part that electrocutes you and asked if she wanted me to do this. Pull the lever. I shouted. Do it. I’m not afraid! She slowly pulled it down. Lower and lower came the lever until she slammed it. I SCREAMED for 1 second and then stopped. I wasn’t electrocuted luckily. What the headpiece of the chair actually does is it blows air on your head really hard and fast. Everyone around me stepped back as I screamed. I was laughing hard out. As we came out everyone was looking at us as if they were thinking ‘’what happened in there. I am not going in there for sure’’. I said to them that it was okay. Just got a fright. Everyone was relieved and walked away. That was the best day of my ENTIER ENTIERS LIFE! I wish we could stay here longer but we can’t and I don’t know why.

The End!

Halloween Arguments

Te Kauru Camp 2018-(Writing 2nd Draft)

The Haunted House

When we got in, it was SUPER SCARY because the people in the pictures were moving. They changed from their normal face or skin to a zombie or something like that. There was a lady who guided us through the house. She told us that if you're wearing anything that’s white it will glow because it was very dark. There were lots of rooms, spider webs and frightening pictures. The first room in the Haunted House was scary but cool. In it was an old woman-like skeleton on her rock chair holding a dead baby trying to put it to sleep while looking at us with a big evil grin. Bleach. The next room was pretty horrifying. There was blood on a bed with 2 plastic baby dolls ripped apart with their eyes open. Creepy right. In the hallway, I saw brown material tubes hanging down from the roof. They were kinda hard but everyone behind me got lost and scared so I had to guide them to where we were. Around the corner, I saw an electric chair. A CHAIR,oh yes yes yes YES! Ah. So nice. The tour guide lowered the head part that electrocutes you and asked if she wanted me to do this. Pull the lever. I shouted. Do it. I’m not afraid! She slowly pulled it down. Lower and lower came to the lever until she slammed it. I SCREAMED for 1 second and then stopped. I wasn’t electrocuted luckily. What the headpiece of the chair actually does is it blows air on your head really hard and fast. Everyone around me stepped back as I screamed. I was laughing hard out. As we came out everyone was looking at us as if they were thinking ‘’what happened in there. I am not going in there for sure’’. I said to them that it was okay. Just got a fright. Everyone was relieved and walked away. That was the best day of my ENTIER ENTIERS LIFE! I wish we could stay here longer but we can’t and I don’t know why. 
The End

Physical features:Tuatara

Physical features:Tuatara

The tuatara is nocturnal so it has very good eyesight and hunts for food at night. Its teeth are part of the lower jaw-bone and it chews moving the lower jaw back and forth. They’re teeth are not like any other animals teeth because they don’t have any! The skin on the other hand is generally wrinkly. The maori meaning of tuatara is ‘spiny back’. They shed their old skin and new skin grows underneath. This reptile must have access to water otherwise they can easily dehydrate.




Sincerely Paige