Have you had your Holy communion?

On Sunday we went to my cousin’s house. But Before we went to my cousin’s house, my family and I went to church to celebrate my cousin’s first Holy communion. After I woke up, I went to put my blazing white T-shirt on and pants on. After I got changed we went to church  and I saw my cousin Faith. She was going to receive her first Holy Communion. So we went to find seat to sit down..Then the Mass started, we sang  like a lion in the church. When we started singing I saw my cousin wearing a white dress and  she looked like an angel. After Mass we went home.

When we got home I went with my sister and my mum to go and  get my cousin’s cake at Magere. On the way to Mangere, I fell asleep in the car. I woke up when we arrived to Mangere. I had to wait in the car until they came back. When they got back I opened the box. When I opened up  the box all I could see was white bright things shining at me. It has writing on the cake that said “Happy first Holy Communion Faith”.

When we got back we all had to get ready except for my mum and my sister because they looked after my mum's new born baby. I had to get change out of my nice clothes and into my home clothes. After I got changed out of my clothes we got into the car. When we got to my cousin’s house and there were a lot of people there including my cousin’s. I had to get things out of the car and take them inside the house.

After I bring the food inside I went outside to go play basketball. When we played I chose Matthew to be in my team. We were the first to score. So the score was one-zero.The person that scores a goal gets to continue the next play off. When the second round started again, we checked the ball first with the opposite team. My cousin blocked me from getting a goal, so we tied on the score.When he blocked me they got the ball then they got a goal. When they got a goal i got a goal, it was one all. Then they checked the ball and my cousin blocked him from getting goal but he still scored.

                                                                                                                                                                    After the basketball game we and all went inside to have some food. I had Sushi and chicken and it was yummy. After I finished eating I went on my cousin’s IPad and their Playstation. When I was playing on the Playstation we played “Black Ops Call of duty 2”, online. We invited people that were good at “Buried” and then we started playing. I got get a gun from the mystery box and  a Ray gun mark 2. Then I tried to free the big guy because he was one of the main characters in the game but I died in the 10th round. After I played on the Playstation we went home.

At my cousin’s house I had the best day ever. I hope we come back next time and have more yummy food.

WALT write a recount using the correct language features.

I know this when I use past tense correctly in my writing.

Slow down sun, slow down sun!

On Friday,Miss Chao chose 4 captains for the Maori song performance. Ingrid was one of the captains. We told the story of  Maui and the sun. We had to perform after lunch and if we did not know our lines, we might mess it up for our group. So we practised our lines and I had the easy lines because they were short.

After I practised my lines, I went to go and get my costume. I was dressed up as the sun, Lasike was dressed up as Maui and Siu was dressed as Maui’s brother.  They started practicing their lines.

Lasike knew his lines off by heart and Siu knew some of his lines.

After lunch we performed in front of the class. Miss Chao picked the captain’ names out of a bag to decide the order.  Ingrid was the narrator. Maui thought that the sun went down too fast and there wasn’t any time to do anything. He could not see his food so he called his brother to came. When the brother came, he said to Maui “I can not hunt or eat”. Then Maui came up with a plan to catch the sun. They jumped out from behind the rock and tied up the sun. The sun said “Let me go!” Maui and Mana let the sun go after some struggle. From that day on, the sun slowed down so Muai and his friend can see and hunt.

After the performance we all felt proud of ourselves because we all tried our best.

 WALT celebrate and incorporate the Maori culture into our lives.
I know this when I can perform a Maori creation story to the class.

Holy angels, please write back to me!

WALT  write a friendly letter using the correct structure.
I know this when I write the body, followed by the closing for a friendly letter.

Valentines with my family!

On Sunday, we went to my baby cousin’s baptism. He got baptised in the church. Father Roach baptised him by washing away his sins with the holy water. After he washed baby Luke on the head, we made the sign of the cross. After we had the baptism, we took photos of him. He was like a popular person because people kept on taking photos of him. My cousin and I went into the car while this was going on.

After that, we went home to get our jackets because it was raining outside. While we were inside, I went to get my cousin’s iPad. When I was on the iPad, I downloaded a game from the app store. The game that I downloaded was called ‘Dead trigger’. Then my Mum called my cousin and I because we were going to Valentines for lunch.

When we got to Valentines, I was happy because it was a long drive there. My parents paid for us and then we walked inside. There was a lot of food for us to eat when I walked in. There was sushi, chicken and many more yummy food. We went to go find a table. The kids found a long oval-shaped table. We said our prayers before we went to get our food.

I got sushi, prawn, fish, chicken and chips with tomato sauce. I took a bite of everything and it was yummy. When I finished the savory food, I went to get chocolate eclair, some ice cream, jelly and a piece of fruit for dessert. It was rich and sweet. After I ate my dessert, I went to go get a hot chocola It was puffy on the inside.

Then my parents had a little talk with Father. The kids went outside to go and see the goldfish. There were two goldfish in the pond and they were swimming around. They were orange and yellow. The first time I looked in the pond, I thought they were rocks.Then my Mum came out and said ''We are all going now''. I hope I come back to Valentines again.

WALT write a recount with adjectives and adverbs to make my writing more interesting. 
Success criteria: I know this when I use action words and describing words appropriately and correctly in my writing.

The sleepover!

Last Saturday, I slept over at my cousin’s house. When I got to their house, we hooked on the PlayStation to the television in the living room. After we hooked up the PlayStation, we went outside to play basketball. I challenged my cousin to a shootout. He went first and he got the ball in the hoop. Then he started dribbling the ball. I tried to get away from him. When I was trying to get away from him, he shot the ball and it spun around and fell out of the hoop. Then I got the ball and shot it into the hoop and scored 3 points.

After we played basketball, we went inside to play on the PlayStation. We played ‘Grand Theft auto V’. I got my gun and  shot the police. Then I went and got my sticky bomb and threw it onto the cop’s car and it blew up. After that, I went to steal a car and when I was driving, I threw some more sticky bombs on the cop’s cars. After I blew up the cop’s car, I jumped out of the car and blew myself up. Then we turned off the consoles, we went to pump up the mobile pool with our mouths.

After the pool is pumped up, we filled it with water and played passes with the rugby ball. We played a game in the pool. The rules for the game was that if you dropped the ball, then you are out. I was the first one to get out, then my cousins started passing it to each other. After that, my cousin got out and Matthew won the game.

After we played in the pool, we took a nap because we were tired. Then we had dinner and we had fish and chips, it was yummy. Then I went into the living room to blow up the airbed and it started to expand. Then we put warm blankets on the airbed. Next, we went to play some more games together.

It was the best day ever.

WALT write a recount of my weekend.

I know this when I use correct punctuation in my writing.    

APOPS Pirates!

There were two pirates, one played the electric guitar and the other
played a harmonica and a kazoo. There was a double bass, a violin 
and an accordion.  


WALT write a recount using the correct structure. 
I know this when I write main parts of the APOPS in my own words.

Let's play netball everyone!

WALT write a recount using the correct structure.

I know this when I write the events of my day in paragraphs.

Awesome Duffy Hero!

 
 WALT retell an event.
I know I can do this when I retell the events in order.