Limerick poem

The singer By Tyrone Harmer and Elijah Casson

This poem is a limerick. It is meant to be funny. Did you notice the rhyming patterns? Lines 1,2 & 5 rhyme. Lines 3 & 4 rhyme also.

1. A singer stepped up onto the stand,

2. He sang so good he joined a band,

3. They went to the beach

4. Saw an old peach
5. and their car got stuck in the sand.

Beans moment

Here is my beans moment in Waipukurau, I hope you like my Beans moment story of when I was about 7 years old. 

Beans Moment (Energy)

WALT choose words that describe a moment for the reader

YOUR SIGNS OF SUCCESS

• begin in the action
• present tense (I am, not I was)
• short, sharp sentences
• uses the senses (smell, taste, look, hear, touch)
• strong verbs

On a wondrous and muddy Saturday I went to Waipukurau and our Coach said that we had to save our energy.

I was about 7 years old when this happened. We played about 7 teams and lost 3 games I think?

Some of the games were tough and 2 teams were little. We all had mud all over us after the first game.

Tyreese dived and had great tackles around the legs. We all had a great time and when we were facing this big team taller than us, I tackled 2 people and one of them were taller than me and the other was about 7 centimeters taller.

He cried for a little and had to toughen up.I got a sausage in a bread and it costed $1.50, it smelt really good and there sodas, cookie times.

We all went to face the kids that were bigger than all my team and even Rashaan.

He wanted to help us and he did, a tiny bit. Otane (which is our team) had to face them again!!!!

We lost against them 2 times and we also lost against the other team but at least we all tried our best and had fun.

I don’t really know all the teams names because that was in 21/9/11.

                                                                                                                             

When it was Otane's 5TH game we all jogged out onto the field, I always stayed behind in all the games and waited for Tyreese to kick the ball and we all chased it.

Tyreese, Ollie, Dylan, Gabriel, Rashaan, Grant, Zachary, Jonty And I really did some great teamwork.

Kereru/NZ wood pigeon report

Here is my Kereru report, I did this report in kereru. If you want know some facts about kereru you can read this and you'll know how to save this spectacular creature, the kereru. There are some sights to look at for more details and facts. Enjoy reading this report!!
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The Amazing NZ wood pigeon

The NZ wood pigeon (Kereru in te reo Maori) are spectacular creatures. You might think they just fly around and eat food from our national trees but no, there’s more to Kereru than just that! Kereru  fly up to 50 km in search for food. Kereru are special to our national trees and you’ll see why in the facts soon on Life cycle. Kereru can live up to 20 years and some people think it’s alright to eat them! Read this report to find out more about this amazing bird that flies in the air.

Description:

Red beak. Red, white,blue and green feathers. Claws are red and it’s eyes are reddish. Also it looks like a pigeon (It is a pigeon, New Zealand wood pigeon). The biggest pigeon (also bird) in the entire WORLD!!!!

Habitat:

It lives in New Zealand and where they live are Kaitawa, NZ forests, parks, gardens and the forests of Northland. Kowhai tree, Tawa, Tariri, Karaka, Kohekohe, Nikau, Miro, Pigeonwood, Titoki, Supplejack, Kahikatea,  and Puriri trees. Mainly all kereru live in forests.

What they eat:

Kereru eat leaves, flowers, berries, and fruit of all the many, native and introduced trees New Zealand. Oh and also they eat some of the food off Shrubs. Their favourite food is small fruit, shoots, leaves (already said) and buds.

Threats:

People that try to eat them for their feathers and meat. Windows are also their threat, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!!!! Windows are threats to kereru because they get killed or injured when flying into them! Possums are a threat to Kereru too, they eat baby kereru and eggs when they haven't even got a chance to be an adult!! .Cars are one of the other threats when people don’t watch where they’re going!! The biggest, threat, ever, is.........

PEOPLE DESTROYING THEIR HABITAT!!! What I mean is that some people are cutting down NZ’s trees and without trees, there’ll be nowhere for the Kereru to live. The loss of their habitat (home) has been from  Kereru falling off trees with food when getting cut down by chainsaws.

Bird Types in NZ:

Tui, Riroriro, Kakariki, bellbird, NZ falcon, Blue duck, Kiwi, Kakapo, Morepork, Kokaka and Long-tailed Cuckoo are all endemic. Theres more so if you want to see more types of birds in NZ like the Kaka ( or the others you can look here at Native birds of the NZ forests.

Actions:

Kereru can fly up to 50km in search for food.  

Life cycle:

Female Kereru has one egg per nest. Kereru eat seeds, spreading them by POO helping our native and introduced trees.The mother and father kereru take turns at sitting on the egg for 30 days!!! Kereru eat between 60 to 70 native tree food varieties. After the baby kereru receiving so much love and care, many kereru eggs and chicks do not live because of the possums and other animals. Possums and rats, occasionally stoats and cats who invade, attack, inroad and foray nests, killing them!!! Young Kereru are lucky enough to survive and are already leaving the nest after six weeks has past. Kereru can live up to 20 years, that's not so long.

Did you know?:

Did you know that Kereru are the largest pigeons in the entire world!! Did you know that Kereru are 650g and 51cms long. Did you know that Kereru are birds of the lowland forests, and forest margins. Did you know they make a slightly “coo” noise, you are most likely to see a Kereru because of it’s “whooshing” sound their wings make when flying. Kereru are our the only surviving bird since the moa with it’s beak that can open wide enough to to gulp down native fruits more than 12 millimetres in diameter, such as the Tawa tree, taraire and karaka tree.

If YOU want to learn more, go to www.Kereru.org,  http://www.kcc.org.nz/, www.forest-bird.org.nz, www.doc.govt.nz or www.kaipatiki.org.nz. Now you can save our native bird from getting killed by people, possums,maybe stoat and maybe ferrets? Thanks for reading this report about Kereru!

This is the end of the report I hope you had fun reading my report about the kereru.

Book character costume

Here is my Tintin costume of The adventures of Tintin the book. I had fun making my costume but I didn't really make, I just got things at the store and yeah. I had to use hair spray to make my hair orange, my normal hair color is black, brown or blackish and brownish. My brother dressed up Captain Haddock from  The adventures of Tintin. By the way, Dylan's Haddock (short for Captain Haddock) and I am Tintin. Here are the images.

                                                       Image of Tintin and Captain Haddock

                                                                          Tintin

                                                             Tintin and Captain Haddock

Camp Reflection

Here is my Camp reflection of Camp Kaitawa. the photos I put up are my favorite. Hope you like it.

Reflection for Camp

My goal for camp was to complete all the activities in the Amazing Race and have much fun as I can!

I achieved this because my group came second and I did have fun during the 5 days.

Something I was pleased with was how everyone did their best in the confidence course,

                            

because some of the things were a bit hard for the adults and children but I was most pleased with myself because I did the flip on the 5th or 6th  course of the Confidence Course.

I really enjoyed learning  how to Kayak backwards even though I’ve done it before, and I learnt how to cave.

                  

Because I have never done caving before in my entire life and it’s been really fun just trying my best.

Something I found hard was caving up the steep cave was difficult for me.

Something that made me think was the amazing race,

because it was difficult to try and solve the questions.

· My top 5 favourite things about camp were:

Favourite Things	Reason Why
1.The amazing race	Because it was so similar to the real amazing race
2.Kayaking	Because it was so fun kayaking with two people.
3. Dodge ball	Because I got some people out and staying in long.
4.Touching the Kiwi	Because it was my first time touching a kiwi
5. Zach’s birthday	Having fun with Zach and eating the cake and ice-cream.

Camp Kaitawa (Kayaking)

Here is my moment in time story, kayaking was really fun! It looked really exciting and it was! Have fun reading it.

WALT choose words that describe a moment (in an exciting way) for the reader

YOUR SIGNS OF SUCCESS

• begins in the action
• present tense (I am, not I was)
• short, sharp sentences
• strong verbs
• language features (simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor)
• show personality (sounds like you, humour, feelings, exaggeration)

Kayaking

Splash,Splash,Splash, goes the paddles in and out of the water. “Run away from David, I mean paddle away from David” I said. We were paddling away from David (Teva’s dad) because he was in (for Tag). Bump, went the Kayak against Josh's kayak and he got stuck in 1/2 a rectangular prism in the water. He couldn't get out until he finally got out and paddled again.“Paddle slower because you’re getting me wet” said Cam, “My butts wet!” I groan. “Lets paddle over there, not there your paddling us to shore” said Cameron. “Oh man!...”  Cam looks at me “ You have to paddle us away from shore now because you paddled us over here in the first place” said Cam. “ OK, OK, OK” I said, all of a sudden a loud pitch of the whistle blows “Come on in now,other people want to have a turn so paddle back.” Cam and I were staying where we were and then the whistle blew again so we had to go back to shore, “My butt’s sooo wet from kayaking” I moan. 10 minutes later.......   “Yeahhh!” I said, I’m kayaking again but with Elijah this time!” “Left, right, left, right, left, right go right now, no no no!” said Elijah “lets go over there were Dylan and Marcus or Inderpreet. “I going to sleep OK Elijah” I said “OK”......  30 Seconds later....  Suddenly I heard a high pitch noise “Huh, what, where!” I thought I heard Elijah scream like a girl but it was the whistle! “Time to come back into shore people” Mr M said. Whizz went my feet when I slipped on the Kayak. Some of us carry the Kayaks back. We leave for Camp. “That was fun!!!!” I said to Dylan, “Next year will be fun also.”

Kereru art

Here is  my Kereru art that our class did with pastels and copied it onto our camp book to a black piece of paper. (The image is below the words) I hope you enjoy it  and also a "Kereru VS Possum" facts.

       Kereru VS Possum

       

“As Ku Ku slept” by Erin Devlin, Annie                            Kereru	Jeanne                         Possum
Native Bird Native bird Wood pigeon Eat seeds whole and spreading them by poo, helping our native trees. Its illegal to kill and eat Kereru Kereru can fly up to 50 kilometers in search for food. Kereru eat between 60-70 native trees varieties.	Pest Brown Big eyes Threat to birds Dangerous Black Family with Stoats and Ferrets Kills birds Killer zone Almost every female possum has a baby every year. Possums can live up to 14 years. Possums damage and eat our bushes  and farm props.

Kereru art
                                                               Sketch art

                                               
                                                                      Real art

                  
                                                               Real image of Kereru at camp!
      

Camp Kaitawa (Onopoto caves)

Here is my Onopoto caves moment in time story (but not recount). I had fun there and it was also dangerous, but fun! Hope you enjoy reading it!

WALT choose words that describe a moment (in an exciting way) for the reader

YOUR SIGNS OF SUCCESS

• begins in the action
• present tense (I am, not I was)
• short, sharp sentences
• strong verbs
• language features (simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor)
• show personality (sounds like you, humor, feelings, exaggeration)

Caving

“Wow it’s dark in here” I said. It’s dark and wet and the entrance out is muddy. We walked through one cave and still had to go through more caves, after 2 hours we stopped at a great place to sit down. Then we called our numbers “1,2,3,4.......” all the way to 28. After 3 caves we had to go down a ladder and climb up onto the other side. Whoosh! Went Jessica’s foot, “Watch where you're stepping Jessica because you almost hit me in the face.” “ Sorry” said Jessica. “Arrrghhh!” said Jessica  “Ha, ha, ha, ha!” replied Ellis. I thought I wasn't going to make it and then I did after 10 minutes! The class was way ahead of me, only some of them. It was raining and we stopped to have a break. After 5,4,6 or 3 caves we got to the vehicles and our driver drove us back home.

Camp Kaitawa (Touching the Kiwi)

Here is my Camp Kaitawa story on Day one, it was amazing touching the Kiwi.

Hope you like reading it, enjoy!

WALT choose words that describe a moment (in an exciting way) for the reader

YOUR SIGNS OF SUCCESS

• begins in the action
• present tense (I am, not I was)
• short, sharp sentences
• strong verbs
• language features (simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor)
• show personality (sounds like you, humor, feelings, exaggeration)

Touching the Kiwi

Day one

Vroom, Vroom! The car goes. Everyone was already at the Pan Pac Kiwi Creche. “Oh man” I said to myself. We all walked to the front of the Kiwi Creche gate, it was big and nothing could get in except for birds of prey and mice. Cherry (the Kiwi caretaker) was calmly, carrying a box. “I bet a kiwi’s in that box”. Snap! The kiwi was angry because it was awoken from its sleep like getting woken at 2:30am in the morning. Snap! Again it was angry, when it did snap it made me blink. Its fur felt soft and spiky. It feels amazing touching the kiwi on the back, I feel incredibly lucky! I've never felt a kiwi before, it was my first time. After that we were heading back to the car, Nikkitah.H goes to the toilets. The next thing I know, a bunch of kids are going to the toilet! I think 18 or 23 kids running for their life! We all walked to our vehicles and drove to Camp Kaitawa.