Seasons

I wrote a play for the night zookeeper called Seasons. Hope you like it.

Winter: Hey summer, what are you doing today?

Summer: I’m going for a walk in the park, do you want to come?

Winter: Yes, Hey look there is spring.

Spring: Hi guys what are you doing?

Summer: We are going for a walk in the park, do you want to come?

Spring: I would love to come but I can’t.

Summer: Why not?

Spring: I have to find Autumn.

Winter: Why?

Spring: We are playing hide and seek.

Autumn: There you are. I was looking for you everywhere.

Winter: Anyway lets go for the walk. The End

NZ Writes

My class has been doing NZ writes vs Aussie authors on the Night Zookeeper. You can battle, make animals and write things. Hope NZ Writes wins

Drama Exam

Today I have to do a drama exam at the Uniting church. You have to do a book report & a speech about an exiting moment you have done. I'm picking my trip to Europe. 

British Columbia

In my class we have been researching and reporting about a community (or a country). I picked British Columbia and here is my work about it.

British Columbia

Culture & History

Since the retreat of the great glaciers about 10,000 years ago, Aboriginal populations have inhabited the British Columbia landscape.

British Columbia's first people may have journeyed to the region from Asia via a land bridge across the Bering Sea. As the ice receded, forests advanced and fluctuating sea levels exposed the temporary land passage linking Asia to the New World.

It is thought that British Columbia's coastal region became one of the most densely populated areas in North America. Prior to European contact, British Columbia's First Nations populations may have numbered some 300,000. The Aboriginal way of life would continue undisturbed for thousands of years, until the arrival of the British in 1778.

European Arrival

When British naval explorer Captain James Cook reached the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1778, he was eager to trade with the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people. In his wake, waves of European settlers arrived, carrying smallpox and other diseases that decimated Aboriginal populations in the late 1700s.

Nearly a century later, British agent James Douglas was searching the Pacific Coast for a new Hudson's Bay Company headquarters. He was welcomed by the Lekwammen, whose villages dotted the shores of what is now Greater Victoria. Douglas settled in and selected a site called Camosack. A year later, in 1843, Fort Victoria was built in the area now known as Old Town, the heart of Victoria's downtown.

Gold Rush in British Columbia

The discovery of gold in the Fraser River and the Cariboo brought a rapid influx of prospectors, merchants, pioneers and other colourful figures to BC in the 1860s. They came from around the world, arriving from as far away as China. It was a time of rapid economic expansion; sleepy hamlets became bustling cities, and new roads, railways and steamships were constructed to carry the extra load.

Boomtowns were born and legends made, but not all experienced good fortune. The Aboriginal peoples lost most of their ancestral lands and, in 1876, First Nations populations were made subject to the federal Indian Act, which regulated every aspect of their lives.

My Olympic Update #1

My Olympic Update

This morning I watch the Men’s Rings.

Eleftherios Petrounias from Greece got the gold, Arthur Zanetti from Brazil got the silver & Denis Ablyazin from Russia got the bronze. Liu Yang from China came fourth. Name: Country: Placing: Points: Eleftherios Petrounias Greece Gold 16.000 Arthur Zanetti Brazil Silver 15.766 Denis Ablyazin Russia Bronze 15.700 Liu Yang China Fourth 15.600

The olympics

Have you been watching the Olympics because I have, every morning when I get up and night time before I got to bed. This morning watched the men's golf & Justin Rose from Great Britain won the gold medal. I also watched men's gymnastics on the floor. If you have been watching the Olympics please comment about what you have been watching.

Availll

For reading we have been AVAILLL.  You watch a movie but have the subtitles on & you stop the movie & you write down the last subtitles that were on the screen. My class have been watching Epic & Tintin. Hope you will be able to  do Availll.

Mindful Colouring

In my class we have been doing mindful colouring after lunch. Kurt Berry brought a colouring book into class & now we photo copy The pictures and colour them in.

My site

This is a link to my new site. Hope you enjoy it:)