Do You want to Become a Priest?

In Religious Education we are studying more about the Sacraments of the Catholic Church. We learn about this because we are in a Catholic School. Today we learnt about being ordained as a Priests by our wonderful student teacher Mr Williamson (he doesn't have a son called William just in case you were wondering, but he does have a great, great uncle called Bill). I digress. In anycase, enjoy the post and if you have any inclination to become a priest let our Parish know and we can hook you up! Emilia out.

Pax

PAX: WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE?

If you were to pack a backpack for a long journey such as Peter’s, what would you bring?

In the space below and on the next page, add pictures of the items that you would bring with you in your backpack. At the bottom, write a brief explanation of why you would

• A torch: so you can see at night.
• A jersey: to stay warm.
• A sleeping bag: to sleep in at night
• A soft toy: to sleep with at night
• A phone: if you're stuck, you can call 111
• Water: You need water to survive
• Pants: To stay warm, or if your pants are dirty you can change.
• Blanket: To keep warm.
• Sunscreen: So you don't get burnt.
• A tent: So you can have somewhere to stay - otherwise you might get cold or wet.
• Apples, bananas, bread, muesli bars: Food to survive.

Math patterns

  Today I have been doing e-ako math problems on patterns with my friend Sara.

African Elephants

 African Elephants

 

Facts

• Live up to 70 years in groups of 6-10
• 1979 more than 1.3million elephants
• 1989 fewer than 544,000

Dangers

• 1979-89 poachers killed over half of Africa's elephants for ivory tusks.
• Many more people in Africa- need to use elephants habitat.

Actions

• Make safe game reserves. Kruger National Park is very secure-elephants number  growing quickly
• Tell local people elephants useful- bring in tourists
• 1990 ban put on international trade

This is what my group has been reading about. I hope you enjoy reading about the elephants, too.

Please post a comment below.

The forest

The Forest

In the forest there lived four friends, they were Kirsty the Kiwi, Devon the Deer, Kilroy the Kea and Potato the Pig. They all enjoyed each other’s company and lived close to each other in the deep, dark, dry, grassy deserted forest.

It was a burning, hot sunny day, the temperature raced to over 40 degrees! All the animals felt like they were burning up, like a sausage in a flaming BBQ, which made Potato especially worried. Killory shouted out to the others “I’ve got me two freezing, cold, icy ice creams for the first friends to fan my feathers!”

“I’ll help you fan your feathers” said Devon in a calm voice. Immediately followed by Kirsty who quietly muttered “I can help you too”.

“Haha” laughed Kilroy, “Just joking I don’t have me any nice freezing,  ice cream”

Potato sighed, “You guys always fall for Kilroy's silly jokes”.

Devon and Kirsty blushed as they hid their heads in dark shame.

While the animals lay in the nice cold shade, a logging truck raced by and the driver threw a cigarette butt out his window. As it flew by Kilroy was planning his next prank. Suddenly Kilroy smelt something, it was something mysterious like a smoky breeze of a house catching on fire! Kilroy tried to wake the other’s up by shouting “Fire, Fire, wake up you dosey animals.” They woke up saying “We’re not falling for your jokes this time.” Kilroy replied “But there is actually is a fire, look!”

“We told you we’re not falling for your jokes” said Potato

“Just look” said Kilroy.

“Ok, ok” whispered Kirsty “Where are we looking?” shouted Devon

“Over there, look!”

“Oh no!” said Potato “You weren’t joking!”

“No, I’m not” shouted Kilroy

Potato calmly explained, “This is how we are going to survive, follow me to the cold, freezing river, we can hide under the water until the fire passes”

“But what about all the other animals?” Cried Kirsty

“I will gather them up in my arms and carrying them with us” replied Devon.

All the friends ran to the cool river sea and dived into the refreshing, cold, crystal clear water. The fire raced over the forest, past the animals, leaving a trail of black ruined forest in its wake. The animals were saved and everyone lived happily ever after except for Frederick the frog because he didn’t make it to the beginning of our story.

The End

*This is my narrative I wrote with my writing group ‘Twain’. We had to create characters using the following success criteria

1. Interesting names
2. Show who they were by speech and actions
3. Contrast characters personalities

Please leave a comment and thanks for reading.

Ki o Rahi

Ki o Rahi

How to play Ki o Rahi

Ki  o Rahi is based on a Maori legend

First you need 2 teams, Kioma and Taniwha, and a large round field (see below).

The game is  played over 4 quarters or 2 halves. Teams swap roles at half or quarter  time.

Scoring-Kioma touch pous (sticks) with the ki (soft ball).

Taniwha - must stop kioma scoring by ripping the  tag off.

Taniwha- score by hitting the tupu (barrel in the middle of the field) with the ki.

Numbers of players -8 a side.

Skills needed- Running, tag ripping, blocking shots, jump shots, communication and teamwork- it is a real team game.

Equipment-1 tupu (central target)

                -8 pous (poles)

                -Ki (the ball)

                -Team rippers

At our Winter Sport we play against 5 teams in our cluster. Girls score double points because otherwise the boys might hog the ball all the time.

I like playing this game because it is fun and different. Please leave a comment and ask me some questions!