First Day of School

I walked down to the car and hoped in. My mum tells me to take my bag off my back. We go down a hill, up a hill and down another hill. When we get there, I see two big white buildings with red roofs. I t was my first day of school. We walked up to my classroom, I reached out to open the door, I opened it, looked inside and.... black. I woke up, it was a dream.


Today is my first day of school and I knew it wasn't a dream. I ate my breakfast, got dressed and ran to the car. When we got to school there were kids playing outside and I asked my dad if I could join them. He said " After we meet your teacher." My teacher's name is Mrs Jones and she is really nice.


Arter school, my mum asked me what did I do at school today. I told her that we sang the alphabet and wrote our names on a big piece of paper, to put on our books. I can't wait to go to school tomorrow because I'm a big girl now.

Small to Big

Do you want to know about the stuff we can't see or how big things really are? My mum showed me this awesome website that teaches you about a lot of stuff that you might not know about.Click Here to see the website.

P.O.U.A.K.A.I

At Tawa Intermediate we have Inter-Class Competitions. If you don't know what and Inter-Class Competition is, it's when two classes play a game and the the class that wins gets some points and at the end of the Competition the class with the most points wins. For the Inter-Class Competition, the we are play at the moment is Dodge-Ball. I will tell you about rooms 13,14 and 15's (Pouakai Syndicate) games. Yesterday room 15 played their first game against room 16 and room 15 won. I wasn't there to watch their game but I've been told that when they won room 15 only had four players out.
 Today rooms 13 and 14 played their Dodge-Ball game. Room 14 played against room 7. I watched their game because my class (room 13) were waiting to play our game. Half way though room 14's game the people watching started a chant. It was "Go Room 14 Go" room 14 won and after a while it was our turn.
 We lined up, bent down and when the whistle blew we...RAN! I was about the seventh person to get out. We played against room 11 and won. We had 14 players still in, when we won. The whole Pouakai Syndicate won but we still have a few more games ahead. BRING IT ON!

Fairy Door Hunt

 There is this man that lives in Titahi-Bay and he make cute little Fairy Doors. He put the Fairy Doors all around Titahi-Bay so people can look at the or hunt for them. So my family and I went on a Fairy Door Hunt. Some of the Fairy Doors are hidden and some a really easy to see. I took a photo of all the Fairy Doors we could find, to show you.
 The first one we found was by the hairdressers by the Whitehouse Rd Shops. I think it was the first one he made because the Fairy Door is quite plain. Here is a photo:





The second Fairy Door we found was at Porirua Little Theatre. This one was a bit more colourful and had a window and a doorstep. I thought it was quite cute. Here is a photo of it:











At a Early Childhood Center called Browyns Place, was the next door. The Fairy Door is orange with a butterfly. Here is the photo:

 We went for a little drive to find the next one. It is on Whitireia and is on one of the posts at the look out. The Door is just plain orange but it still looks cute. The photo of it:








Down the road a bit, from the last one, there is another one. There is a cattle stop and there is a little bridge that people can use to climb over the cattle stop. By the bridge is the next Fairy Door but you can't see it from the road because it is hidden under some long bits of grass. The photo of it:





On Shelly-Bay Beach there are two more but we could only find one. The one we found was under a the dirt by a big rock. It's a blue circle. My mum calls is the Hobbit Door. A cute photo:

Back at Titahi-Bay Beach, there are two but one has been stolen so I couldn't take a photo of it. The one we found is at the north end of the beach and is and a post by an old cafe. The cafe was called Aunt Daisy's but it's close down now. Here is the last photo:




There is a website about the Fairy Doors click here to see the website. Maybe I could save up and buy a little Fairy Door to go in my room.

My Goal....

I decided that I'm not going to save up to buy a laptop. I'm going to save up to buy stuff in Aussie. Hopefully I can buy a mini koala or mini kangaroo. Maybe I could buy a laptop next year.

Dora the Explorer

When you were little, you might of watched Dora the Explore. Well my mum showed me this really funny viedo on You Tube.Click Here to see the video.

My Matariki Panel

If you wake up before dawn at the end of May or the start of June, you might see the Matariki stars. The Māori celebrate Matariki because it is the start of the Māori New Year. For Matariki Room 13 have been making Matariki Panels.
Most of Room 13 students got a piece of wood each that we had to divide into three parts. Each part has a different pattern and each pattern represents a different thing. The top pattern is about ‘New Growth’, the middle is about ‘You and your Family’. I like the last pattern because it is about ‘Matariki’.
 For ‘New Growth’ I made a flower out of ovals and koru. I made a flower because to me it is new life, new growth. The ovals are purple and the koru are black like the background.
In my family there are five people so I drew another flower, but this one has five petals. I painted the petals, light blue, dark blue, light purple, dark purple, and light green. I choose these colours because they are my favorite colours.
For ‘Matariki’ I did the seven stars. I painted my stars white. After the white had dried Ms T suggested that I put a black spiral on top of each star, as she thought it would look unique.
 After the paint had dried we touched up our panels so they looked nice. Some of my lines were wonky, but I fixed that. On my middle flower one of the petals looks like is floating and I couldn’t fix that, but it looks good anyway.
 On the night of the Matariki concert my Matariki panel was up on stage as a decoration. Now they are going all around the school, then they will be given back to us and we can take our Matariki panels home.