TOKU MAHI NA Zion

Hello.  My name is Zion.  My Toku Mahi post means, My Work.  This post will contain all my online work over the year.  I hope you enjoy it.  I am 12 years old.  My favourite food is pizza.  My favourite colours are blue and green.  My favourite sport is Netball.  My goals for this year are to get better at Jump Jam and swimming.  :)

1 march

TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL

Jump Jam 'rock this party'

On the 24 of February at 4:00 pm me, Ruby and Amelia were at Parklands school for the Turangawaewae multi cultural festival ready to sell lots of things.  The year 7 and 8s had a kiwiana store which had ice-creams, cup cakes, canned drinks, $1 and 50 mixtures and punch.  In other stalls there was huge pieces of watermelon, pottles of chips and the famous fried bread.  There were alot of costumes  and activities too.  On stage there was Jump Jam, island dancers and singers and lots more. :)

AWAROA TRIP

Awaroa bay with boat

Tomorrow we will catch a Wilson's boat to Awaroa.  We will go on a walk and look at the old homestead.  I can't wait. :)

15 march

AWAROA RECOUNT

The reasons we went on the trip were:

Part of SS, to make our history live and to get more fit.

The journey went from:
Kaiteriteri to Awaroa

The highlights for me were:
Seeing the stingrays, going on the walk, seeing the homestead and going on the Wilson's boat.

The benefits for me were:
To gain more fitness, learn about the history and to appreciate modern living.

Best view in the world

Eating lunch

Friends on the Wilson's boat

Syndicate photo

DUFFY THEATER

On Wednesday the 14 of March the whole school came and watched the Duffy Theater.  It was a story about The best book in the world.  Duffy and Scruffy were brothers. They found The best book in the world in a garage sale box.  The book was called Marvel.  Marvel told Duffy all about the adventures she had while Scruffy tried to get Duffy to play with him.  Marvel had been on a sailors' boat stuck in storm.  She had been put in a school library and went to space.  She'd been chosen for a birthday present and finally went on an adventure with Duffy and Scruffy, but we didn't find out what the adventure was.   

It was funny and very entertaining.

BOOK WEEK

We have book week because it help kids get into reading.

During the week we had other teachers come into our class room and read to us,  Miss Sefton also read us a chapter book called Nim's island, then we watched the movie.

On friday we had a school parade.  Everyone dressed up as a character from a book about islands.  The school walked around town in our costumes and then came back to school.  Book week was all lot of fun and it was funny to see everyone's costumes.  Thank you Becky.

So many costumes

Pretty

Island girls

Zion & Teigan's Bookweek Show on PhotoPeach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

TREASURE ISLAND

This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn.  Jim  Hawkins (played by Quin) works there.  Billy Bones (played by Shanti) comes to stay.  He has a map.  He was once a pirate, a member of Captain Flint's crew.  He is visited by Black Dog(Stevie )who fights him.  Then the evil Blind Pew (Sasha ) comes and scares him to death.

Jim gets the map.  He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (Charlie ),  Mr Dance (Shannen ) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola.  The captain is Captain Smollett (Makayla ) who gets Long John Silver (Madison ) to collect a crew.  Long John Silver is evil and one of Captain Flint's pirates.  He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.

On the trip Jim  hears of a plot to kill them.  When they get to the island the Goodies go to the stockade.  The baddies go in search of the treasure.  An old pirate called Ben Gunn (Zion ) who has been marooned, arrives and joins the goodies .

Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island.  The pirates have nowhere to go.  There's a big fight.  The pirates are winning until they hear Ben Gunn who they think is a ghost of Captain Flint.  Ben screams horribly..

They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England.

My favourite part was:  The end

My favourite character was:  Ben Gun

The show as a whole was:  A lot of fun

We thank the producer Smiddey and all the helpers.

crazy man!!

our heroes :)

THE OLYMPICS

view medal table

The olympic games were held in London,    England.   Different countries from all over the world came to participate. New Zealand did very well getting 6 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze.

New building

This morning the whole school and some guests came to our school to celebrate the unveiling of our new multi-purpose room.  They started off by blessing the building.  They got every teacher who had taught in the two classrooms that had turned into the multi-purpose room to come up and stand in front of everyone then they all followed a lady with blessed water around the room then the whanau walked around touching the walls then the rest of mainstream did the same.  They then told us that the hall was called Aniwaniwa (which means rainbow).  They told us the story of why they called it that.  It was about all the colours fighting over who was the best and most important colour then they all came together, worked as one and became a rainbow.  We got shown the pannel with stitching on it and got told that it was about climbing the stairs of life and the very important things in this community.  After that we thanked everyone who helped make the building and we got a piece of chocolate handed out to each person.

The pannel

Blessing the hall