Auckland!!

On Thursday the 31st of July we went to Auckland. We started in the dark thick night waiting for some light but then I fell asleep laying there with my eyes closed having a dream that cost me about 4 hours. Then I explode with happiness and wake up and there we are at a toilet.
After we go toilet we take another 4 hour drive to Taupo, another 1-2 hours and we were at Auckland and it's like 6-7 o'clock in the morning.
We lead our eyes towards the roller coaster and say wow in a opened mouth form.
Straight away Franklin says can we go?!

Rugby - Quality sentence structure practice

I wake up feeling like a very tired cat but I knew I had to pounce out of bed to get ready for my game.
I jump out of the car and the butterflies start again as I watched the crowd cheering for each team. 30 mins later I smash through my rugby game that same hot and sunny Saturday.

lacey 2014 speech!!

Intro:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,while imagination embraces the entire world,and all there ever will be to know and understand. A quote by Albert Einstein 1945.
Albert Einstein was a very kind man. He was also a very smart and inventive scientist.
He could build and think things very unusual.
He also had a very big part in the first nuclear bomb.
I am hoping there is another Einstein out there working on many more things and helping science to the next level in modern math and equations.
Here is some more interesting information about Albert Einstein.......

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Biography and early life:

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in the kingdom of Wurttemberg Germany on the 14th of March 1879.
His father Herman Einstein was a salesman and engineer.
His mother was Pauline Einstein.
In 1880 the Einstein's moved to Munich.
Albert attended an elementary school for three years.
He then built mechanical devices for fun and began to show his love for mathematics.
The first nuclear bomb went off in a massive explosion in 1945.
It proved Albert's E=mc2 equation right and he became the smartest scientist in the world!
Einstein is an icon of creativity and genius.
Did you know:
When Albert was just a wee little boy his parents thought he was stupid because he couldn't talk right, but look what he was ... he was the smartest man ever.

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Theories and inventions:

Einstein made lots of things but he had the magnificent knowledge to create the very smart theory E=mc2.
When the first nuclear bomb went off in a massive explosion it proved Albert Einstein was correct and he became the most incredible scientist on earth.

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Death of a great man:

Albert Einstein was a great man but unfortunately he passed away leaving us with his genuineness and creativity.
He died at the age of 76 on the 17th of April 1955. His death caused by heart failure and internal bleeding he died.
Albert Einstein inspires me. He was a very intelligent person and reminds me to try and be smarter than the average person!
Let your imagination run free and create new things!!!

An Adventure to remember

As I woke, full of energy, I glanced at the sun rise sitting right beside me.
My name is Laura Jones. I'm 15 years old and I have only one fear and that is.... NOTHING.
Have you ever wanted to go on a journey and be in the wild for a night?
Well I can take you there, Follow my words and listen if you want to survive.
As I jump from rooftop to rooftop I notice my brother on the old Halcombe Bridge. I stop silently but quickly and spot a gap between me and my brother. I crawl through hoping it will not collapse on me.
I eventually get through I get to the blue sunshine sea water and jump onto a cruise ship,
Now the journey can begin.


Part 2 to be continued.

camp

This year, for camp, my group was in charge of the third day which included the pizza in the park, the Weta Workshop and also the Circus School.

These activities were a lot of fun and really cool.

Weta workshop was more magical than last time I went there, They had trolls (three of them) and  they looked real.

“One whanau group at a time,” said Mrs Fielder and we went in.

It looked the same; just some of the stuff was moved around alot. I gazed at Gollum. As he started to stare at me he was holding a fish and it looked almost as if he thought I was going to steal it! As skinny as a skeleton and looking more and more unfed, Gollum is a very weird character.

We watched a trailer and then we floated towards the making room where they make everything.

Beautiful paintings were everywhere, along with realistic plastic axes, swords and more.

Looking around like dogs searching for cool things, we finally get to the Warthog from ‘Halo’. It is actually powered by an engine and a realistic man is sitting in it. Someone asks if the life-like man was real and the woman said, “No.”

Cool tyres and hardcore details make the Warthog sound like it’s out of this world.

We come to an end at the front door an avatar woman is standing with a very friendly face.

 We say our thank you’s and head off to the Circus School.!

We arrive at the front of the school and then we get our pizza. We walk out to the park just across the street and wait. We finally sit down and dig into the delicious meat lovers pizza.

After lunch we go back to the Circus School and I have a gulp of water. We start off with some exercises and do roly polys. Then we do it backwards and then I go and do some juggling. We also do some trapeze. These were really fun activities and I hope we can do more next year! We said our thank you’s and head off to the train station.

We get back to Waikanae and and get our transport back home. We got in and went home. The trip home was very long and I loved it because I got to sleep in my own bed at home.

By Lacey

With the sunset lowering for attention, I look at it and it looks more beautiful than ever.
The purple red sky sparkling and making the day end with some beautiful colours.
We sat on the boat and powered through the sea with laughter and smiles.
Being on a boat was really fun. I was smiling and having fun looking at the beautiful sunset and the sky made me happy.
This was my first time on a boat. I didn’t realise how fun and fantastic it was until I got on it.
This was a magical experience for me and I hope I can do it again.
I really enjoyed this activity because I have never ever been on a boat before and I really enjoyed it.
As we crawl through the sea with Captain John we start to drive the boat and we all act like sailors wearing the captain’s hat and driving like crazy wild animals.
We finally come to a water fall of rain and get all wet. We start to laugh and the salty sea water gets in our mouths.
I start to spit and run inside. Most of us go inside to eat some biscuits and crunch on them. I start to feel tired. I stand and go for a walk and arrive at the front of the boat. 
Feeling like I was superior I look at the sea and I start to notice a flock of jellyfish. I watch as they dance around in the water blue as blue. Can they be dancing in the blue sea I start to think in my head.
This was the most beautiful experience for me.
We watch the ferry going towards the sunset and I start to get tired again. As we arrive at the dock we sit down and get ready to go. We say our thank yous and say bye to Captain John, his assistant and his cute little dog.
We jump off and Captain John takes off like a speed boat. We all start to walk towards capital E again but we were heading straight towards a really yummy japanese restaurant. 
It was really cool on a boat since it was my first time. This was a really cool activity that can really help me with my learning. This was a really cool experience.
Next year I really hope we can enjoy another camp floating on a boat.
I loved camp and I loved spending time with my friends. This was amazing and cool.
By Lacey

inspirational poem

1.Cooking
2.Cleaning
3.Great person
4.Great mother
This is my mum’s list of things she does everyday One more to add ... she is the most kind mum a kid could ask for And she’ll love me forever Do you now realise why my mum is so inspirational? Of course you do but I’ll tell you more anyway My mum inspires me by doing all her hard work cook and clean She inspires me to be a good person.She is the best mum ever! Do you still remember how she is still so inspirational? You probably do so read this again Just for something to do.

A Fairytale Story

A Fairytale Story

As the tiredness begins to set in from racing against my two best friends Jessie and Purl, I foolishly get distracted by a trail of flower petals. II follow it.

I finally leave the forest.

Behind the trees I find an unknown castle.

I peek around the castle corner and see an old injured bridge which has two old rusty chains just keeping it standing.

As I walk across the bridge I hear cracking under my feet.

I think and try to go back but there are two trolls blocking both entrances to the bridge.

Troll Hans yelled: “Hey Charlie. I haven’t had human in a while!”

Troll Charlie replies: “Me neither Hans!”

I can hear more and more cracking.

I fell through the bridge, yelling and screaming for help, before the green furious crocs come wanting to snap me in half like a pencil.

Just then a peasant comes and saves me and chases the trolls away, threatening them with his axe. Then he disappears into the forest chasing the trolls.

After waiting 3 minutes for the peasant to come back I could see from the distance a man riding on a horse. I start to chase him to see if it was my hero.

But he doesn’t stop?

His dog is following close behind.The dog stops and sniffs the air. He charges at me like a mad bull and bites me on the arm. I scream as loudly as I can and the dog is howling more and more, adding his wild howl to my crying and screaming because of a huge wound now stuck on me like glue. I’m gushing out with blood crying for help.

Then I grab the end of my dress and tear some off and wrap it around my arm like a cast. After a few minutes of calming down I start to feel dizzy.

He starts to shout for his brother and I’m not talking about barking. I’m talking about talking and I cowardly tie him to a tree with a string off an old kite.

I think that I’m out my mind ... a talking dog really?

I’m going crazy!

The dog tries to calm me down with his old-like voice.

I sit down and think and he starts to say how pretty I am but I just calmly say..

“Quiet please.” He starts to tell me about the guy on the horse. He was struggling to talk with the rope around his neck so I carefully take it off him. Now he is bleeding so I try to make it better with some of my dress.

He keeps talking about the guy that was on the horse. He said he is a handsome prince but unfortunately he is not my hero.

My hero was a peasant with blue and blonde hair and blue eyes with the best smile but he is a peasant and I am a princess. It cannot be.

So the magical talking dog takes me into the forest. On our journey I find my hero sitting on a stump and shining his axe. We finally meet face to face.

I say my name: Lacey. He says his: Levi.

He tries to run but I grab his hand and he walks back towards me holding my hand.

He says that if he gets seen with me he will be executed by the hunter’s mother.

I say, “ will take you to the castle only a 10 minute walk from here.”

He trusts me and we walk back together and even the annoying little dog too.

We get to the castle and I see the hunter and his mother. I was in shock to see that the handsome prince was also the hunter.

His dog/brother yells at the hunter. His mother looks at me and she sees me and Levi holding hands. She comes flying past us with her broom turning red.

Just because of one simple touch on the hand she threatened Levi again and he held my hand tighter and tighter until I hugged him. Then he let go of my hand and whispered to me. He told me the plan. I went along with it.

We both fooled the witch and her son. She tried to cast a spell on him that would turn him into nothing but a skeleton.

She aimed at him but he dodged it. She hit the mirror and it reflected back at her. She died. Because she died her son’s powers faded away and Levi turned into a prince; a handsome prince. We kicked the hunter out and the curse was lifted off the castle.

I kissed him on the cheek and I told him it was for being my heroic hero.

We lived happily ever after.    

By Lacey