Mr. Yamasaki

Today we did origami with our Japanese teacher Mr. Yamasaki. We were learning to make a crane (the bird). I didn’t make a crane because I had to leave class. Next week we’re going to make sushi. I want to learn the Japanese alphabet.

Four way race

Cook Island Language Week

Today we had three visitors from Auckland Museum that came to our school. I learnt much about their language and history of their ancestors of how they made their rope out of coconuts. The ancestors burnt a tree log and scraped out the charcoal to make it deep. They said that the american team got the inspiration from the ancestors. We were introduced to a special drill. There was a special way to work it they asked boys and girls. I was the only one to show them how it worked. I liked how we got to interact with the equipment and weave the rope through the wood. I hope that they can come back again to teach us more about other things.

Jim Thorpe

This is my athlete profile that I made based in Jim Thorpe. My reading group has been reading about him so we made a athlete's profile.

Matching Metaphors

Walt: match metaphors with meaning in sport and nonsport activities

Few days ago we were introduced to sport and nonsport metaphors. To help the classroom we all got into groups of three and matched the meaning. The target writing group had already done it so they stepped out, at the end they checked to see if it was right. I really enjoyed the metaphors In also used it in one of my writings I did. The metaphor were really handy and easy to link to sports related and not. My metaphor that I used was " jump the gun".

Bonnie Blair