Escape from Kraznir!

This term in my writing group we have been writing a storey called 'Escape from Kraznir.' Every week we have to finish off a chapter. We have slides that we look at so we know what to do each day. I have only done 2 chapters. Some days in our story we have fights and others we are just walking. I chose my name to be Gabrielle and I am the leader of the spies. Kraznir is trying to take over Slinsil, so we got sent to find out his plans.

On the first day we escaped from the dungeon with the chest, got past the guards and collected food. Then we went down a tunnel that led to a cliff, we slept there for the night. On the second day we climb the mountains, fight the Wargs and find a wizard.

At first I thought it would be fun, it was for the first chapter but now I'm not quite sure. Personally I would rather do quick writes, if you don't know what one is than you can look at one of my other blog posts. Would you like to do something like this?

 

Cross Country

Today our whole school went down to the  course and participated in Cross country. It was a really good day to do it on because the sun was out.  The year 6 girls were up first. I still remember Matua Nic saying on your marks. He clasps the blocks together and I sprint off. We had to do 2 big laps. 

My competition was Josefa, she is a really fast runner. For the first half I am just behind her, but as we get near the 2nd lap she sprints off. 

I run out of energy and decide not to chase after her. I keep a good pace and when I get near the finish line I hear my house singing our chant. I have a sprint finnish and pass some of the year 6 boys. I end up coming 2nd place. I find a patch of grass and lye down. After I have cooled off I lead the year 1 and 2 girls. A few races pass and I get asked to help pack up. After that we walk back to School. 

Cross country coming soon!

Next week we have Cross country. The whole schools has to do it. It takes a whole day for all the school to run it. It is right next to the beach so when you get hot the sea breeze will cool you off. The track is through hills, and on the sand dunes. We run in our year groups. We have to do 2.5 laps of the course. It takes me 13 minutes to do it. The first five get to go too interschools, I did the interschools last year. It is even longer then the schools one, it's 3km. It is mostly on grass but there is a few obstacles on the way.

Houra writing

This term our inquiry topic is Houra (wellbeing.) Every week we have a quick write about our wellbeing. There is our Taha Tinana (Physical wellbeing), Taha Whanau (Social wellbeing), Taha hinengaro (Metal & emotional wellbeing) and Taha Wairua (Spiritual well being.) We had to write about each of those and take out the main bullet points. For our BF challenge we had to make a cube 8x8. On one side we had to draw ourselves on another our name. Then on the others our bullet points. I think it was tricky but worth it.