Ultra-Violet Light

5 Kingdoms

Rainbows End Trip

The Real Thing

U.V Sensors Term 4

DNA, Genes & Chromosomes

Te Reo Maori

MeMe and Me

Trade 2!

Pelican???

Once  long ago, no  not  long ago it was actually last week. There was a relatively peaceful beach. A place for people or should I say animals like me. Hello my name is Florence, and today I will be telling you about the time I was a Flamingo.

I spent half my life in a remote lagoon, located in the depth of the amazon rainforest. I had many relatives there, my mom, dad and little sister. We lived in a small lagoon that wasn’t visited often by humans, only once or twice a year. Sometimes we’d have other animals voyage through but they weren’t any trouble either.  Indubitably, I had an amazing life, but not long after that changed.

Humans emerged into the forest, with substantial sized gadgets. They pillaged and plundered all about. They cut down trees and drained out the water. The circumstances were insufferable, we soon had to make an arduous decision. This only continued, and as time went on it got worse. More trees were cut down, more family killed and more humans came.

The time came when we carried out our plan. Evening rolled around and we tacitly fled the lagoon, in search for a new home. As we fled the humans, were awoken and our plan was wholly destroyed. There was no purpose of them, to take notice yet they still panicked and came out with sharp weapons of mass destruction. 

I guess it was not my lucky day because I was one of the people captured by a mere human being. Parkour was never my choice of sport anyway, some say “it’s a piece of cake”. The small excuse of a human  carried me too other normal sized humans, and from there I was put in a cage. From that  moment on I knew that I was never going to be free again. This was my life now, I have to get used to it.

A few weeks had passed and the humans had brought me to a diminutive sanctuary. There I met a well vitalized sloth called Joe, and Veronica a monkey with minor allergies to almost everything, but mainly bananas. Those two became my closest mates they were family, and still are to this day. Many years past and Joe and Veronica told me their stories and consulted me about mine. We learned each others strengths and weaknesses and time went by faster than we’d thought.

It had been 5 years, and I was moved from that sanctuary to another place. A place the humans I believe called a lab-ora-tory. Anyways there they would conduct all types of crazy stuff, and yes I’m called the animal here. Getting back to the point, there was a young scientist her name was Rachel. She’d take care of me and often take me out of the cage and let me sit in a room for a few hours. 

One day, I overheard Rachel talking to her fellow colleague about some bird. She said that they had mistaken tests and observations and that the bird was not a sick form of  flamingo but instead an entirely different species. I was taken aback by this news, I didn’t know there was more than 1 flamingo in this place. I resumed my listening and found out the name of this, certain Flamingo was Florence. Wait a minute I had thought, MY NAME IS FLORENCE, SHE’S TALKING ABOUT ME!

My mind went blank, I was having a malfunctions and a panic attack put together. I returned to my cage, with a troubled expression. What more could I do, I was helpless.  Anxiously I began to form a plan whilst I was doing this I drifted too slumber.

The next day, Rachel relocated my cage to another place. This was my home for the next few day, there I was watched by a man called Chandler. He wasn’t the nicest person, but deep inside, he was just as caring. Rahcel came and checked up on me three to four times a day, and it did get quite lonely not having anyone to talk to. I’m surprised, I didn’t go insane!

After what felt like a week, I was taken out of the cage. Yes, I was finally free. Well not exactly, Chandler was carrying me, to what looked like a field. He held me in his arms as if he was waiting for me to do something. It wasn’t just me there were other bird there and they looked just like me. Except they were taking off, I guess they want me to fly as well. It had been a long time since I flew, but I knew they wouldn’t  leave me for long. This was, a one chance opportunity and I planned to take  it.

I finally took flight, and I as I flew I followed an angelic female pelkin to a nearby beach. There I introduced myself and we became close acquaintances, her name was Phoebe. I met her family, and I lived there happily. I mean, I have come on after all I’ve been through. I deserved to be happy. I ended up proposing to Phoebe, and together WE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

Trade!

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2019

Athletics Day

Role Play

Six-sentence story

Once upon a time there lived an expert chef. She lived in a town in the large city of Tokyo. People travelled from far and wide to come and enjoy her food. Sadly the chef was surrounded by phony friends, they only liked her for her food and fame. She didn’t realise this until much later, and was disheartened. The chef fled the country and found a remote cottage in Russia, where she met a handsome woodsmen and together they lived happily ever after.

D.N.A

Museum Trip

K.P.M.G

Today we had our 4th K.P.M.G Trip. As always it was to support this terms inquiry topic "Life's A Stage". We did some fun and activities and as always learnt heaps. Read on to find out more!

When we arrived at K.P.M.G it was around 10 in the morning. We then had to wait for a whilst the staff got ready. It wasn't to long of a wait and we entertained eachother in the meantime. After a couple of minutes we were greated by Justine, someone we meet everytime we visit K.P.M.G and she led us to the room we will be spending our time in. When we entered we were greated by a couple of staff members, and morning tea. There was chocolates muffins, brownies and fruit, it was all very delicous.

After grabbing a quick bite we were greeted by someone from a copany called Pop Up Globe. She, told us about William Shakespear someone you may have heard of before. The woman told us about what, when, where and why her company does what it does. We learnt that Pop Up Globe was a company that recreated shakespear plays in a recreation of a theatre shakespear made, and destroyed.

We focused on one of shakespears well known plays "Romeo and Juiliet". It was forbidden love between 2 star crossed lovers, whose death brought their families together. We had to summarise the whole story in 5 sentences and then again but each line had to have 10 syllables. This is exactly how william shakespear wrote his stories. After we all presented our groups work we played some games.

After those activites we went to lunch, and let me tell you it was delicous to. I mean common who doesn't like pizza, and salads. It was healthy but also had some yummy additions. I'm pretty sure you can tell the food that ran out first. During lunch we sat down and socialised in friendly chats and games. Time went by pretty quickly because soon after it was time for our next activity.

After lunch, were asked to stand in a line from tallest to shortest. I didn't love this part because I am one of the shortest people in extension, 5th shortest to be exact. Anways so we were put into order from tallest to shortest and then given a number between 1 and 5 we started from the tallest side. I was given the number 1. Thus meaning I was in group 1. Along with me in the group there was Bethan, Paikea, Alison and Justice the tallest person in extension. Yes I was the shortest person in my group too!

Our job was to put together a short play which was close to 3 minutes long. It didn't have to be exact, we decide to mash up 3 well known stories the title was, "Captain Drac Sparrow and the Three little Pigs". We rehearsed this and made back drops, we even had sound affects and a good ending. When is was time to present we were ready.

There were 2 groups before us and both of them were pretty good, when it came to our turn our group was quite prepared and non of us looked nervous. I was only worried about the amount of practice our groups did. When it started a few changes were made but we rolled with it and didn't think to much about it. The plot was good and there we some funny and dramatic moments. I accidently made a dramatic moment when I caught the hat Justice through in mid air, but it was only a reflex cause it was going to hit somebody so. Shhhh!

Once each group had performed we played some charades, whilst the judges confirmed the placements. Most of the answers we related to drama or our plays. But some of them were just random movies we have seen recently or are in theatres now. Pirates of the carribean was one of the most easiet ones possible. A lot of the plays were related to pirates of the carribean so it was very obvious!

After all the placements were finalised judges finally let us know our places. In each group there was the best actor, in our group it was Justice who played Captain Drax Sparrow. The winning group overall was Grama Measles. The award for the best actor overall went to Amelia and I agreed she put on and amazing show and had something for everyone!

Soon after we packed up and it was time to head back to school. I enjoyed this trip as much as I did every other time we visited and, K.P.M.G has helped us a lot throught the year in many other school wide events. THANK YOU K.P.M.G, we had a great time!