Thursday, 30 June 2016

totara hub

Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale that many people have retold.
The actual authors of Hansel and Gretel are the Brothers Grimm.
I have retold this story at school and this is the starting of it In the Amber leaf forest there lived a brother and a sister. The boy was called Hansel and the girl was called Gretel. The two siblings had a parrot called nibble cause he nibbled a lot. They also had a stepmother that hated them and a dad who loved them.

The reason people like to retell story's is because they might like to add things to the story
and people might think it's a little old fashion and would like to make it more modern or add a pet to it.

My Hansel and Gretel had a pet in it, it was a parrot named Nibble.

I made mine more modern by adding fizzy bricks.

In the end of my Hansel and Gretel they opened a cafe and if you would like to read my version of it read it here: In the Amber leaf forest there lived a brother and a sister. The boy was called Hansel and the girl was called gretel. The two siblings had a parrot called nibble cause he nibbled a lot. They also had a stepmother that hated them and a dad who loved them.

One day the family chose to have a walk in the forest it was all the stepmothers idea she planned to leave her two kids behind but it was lucky that hansel and gretel had brought nibble their pet parrot with them because when their stepmother had left them while they were playing nibble had seen the stepmother dragging the lovely father away and quickly warned the children. “Mum leaving mum leaving,” squawked nibble in his parrot voice. The children quickly ran after their parents. The stepmother was mad about this and she locked them in their room.

At 5 o’clock in the morning Hansel and Gretel woke up they looked at the koo koo clock on the wall and saw that it was only 5 o’clock and they tried to go to sleep but they couldn't so they tried sleeping in different positions but no matter what they couldn’t get to sleep. Well they did hate the house they lived in and just at the moment Hansel came up with an idea “We should run away! We should jump out the window so pack a few things and a sleeping bag,” The two started to pack a bag each and they jumped out the window.

They had walked for a while when they came across a house completely made of candy the two children dropped their bags in amazement. Suddenly the door to the house opened and an elderly woman peered out and said “Hello you there girl can be my maid you there boy has a nice surprise,” and she did a little evil giggle.

The elderly woman pushed hansel into a big cage and said “You will get lots of treats,”and threw in a pile of candy for him to munch on and  for Gretel she was given her new maids dress.

Gretel was shown to her room but as for Hansel he had to sleep in the cage. Gretel’s room was amazing it had a fizzy brick pillow and a rainbow stripe blanket. “What should I do first?” asked Gretel to her new mother “Clean the stove!” Gretel didn’t want to get the lady mad so she did what she was told to do when walked into the main room her brother looked sad so she said “Don’t be sad you will be happy soon,” but he didn’t get happier days went by every time Hansel was feed (fed)he would eat one candy and chuck the rest away.

One day Gretel woke up to find nibble squawking at her Gretel had now started to love the elderly woman now so Gretel shooed nibble away but nibble did not go away he stayed and squawked “woman will eat brother, woman will eat brother,” Gretel then was in shock, she raced to the main room with nibble. They saw the elderly woman carrying Hansel while he was asleep and she almost put him in the oven when she saw the fire wasn’t hot enough so she picked up another bit of coal and while she was doing that Gretel made her move she pushed the elderly evil woman into the oven and the evil elderly woman let out a horrifying scream but before the woman could finish her scream Gretel slammed the oven door shut. Gretel woke her brother up and said “Roast evil elderly lady anyone.”

The next day Hansel and Gretel decided to call the evil elderly lady’s house their home and they would invite their father to live with them. But as for their mother I am happy to say she lives alone and has to do her work by herself.

Since Hansel, Gretel and their father had moved into the candy house they opened a cafe and they build the cafe out of real materials like bricks and they used the candy house as their supplies. Now they get lots of customers and this is what they serve at their cafe.

  • Lollie slice
  • Ginger crunch
  • Chocolate muffins
  • Afghan bikkie
  • Chocolate chip bikke
  • Plain cookies with pink icing and sprinkles
  • Vanilla cupcakes
  • Chocolate cake
  • Mint slice
  • Caramel slice
  • Banana cake
  • Vanilla cake
  • Flat white coffee
  • Chocolate milkshake
  • Banana milkshake
  • Vanilla milkshake
  • Apple juice
  • Orange juice
  • Pineapple juice

Customers from all over the world came to their cafe.

Now let the ending of this story be a question for you.
But there was one thing that they didn’t serve but they cooked…………………………… the evil elderly woman.

Monday, 6 June 2016

Hockey

Hockey is a sport that I like. New Zealand's hockey team is called the BLACK STICKS. I once went to a hockey game it was New Zealand vs England. New Zealand won that game of hockey.
This is my hockey stick
At school I play hockey it is fun and every Saturday. I play a game my team is the parkvale minis.
I have my own hockey stick and ball. my practice is on Wednesdays before school. I started playing when my class started doing hockey lessons it was  fun and when the notices for hockey came round the school of coarse I grabbed a notice. My practice is at Karamu high school. For the games we go to the sports park. I love hockey it is a very fun game and I don't really care if we win or lose because as long as I have fun I'm fine.

this me in hockey position 

Friday, 3 June 2016

Mould

This my groups bread mould well our moist bread. It only took us 12 days to turn out like this photo here. To make this moist we put our hand under the tap and sprinkled the water that is on your hand onto the bread. We waited for 4 days and then we checked on the bread there was very little spots of mould but our wet bread had a big yellow spot on it. Mould can sometimes be helpful like slime mould. 

DID YOU KNOW?
do not breath in when you are close up to mould because mould can be in the air. Mould is toxic.

These are some foods that use mould to make that food: pepperoni, blue cheese, mushroom (related to mould). 

Mould is amazing and just forms on its own so it is amazing.
Something I am proud of is us working in a group to create a fair experiment.

by OLIVIA 

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Me

My name is Olivia and I like writing and I go to Parkvale School.
I learn lots of things but my favorite subject is art.
My second favorite subject is writing.
I like doing math that include the hundreds.
My favorite maths is 'divided by'.
The art I'm doing class this term is perspective.
I think I'm very good at doing perspective art.
I enjoy doing perspective art in class.
I like painting and drawing to but my favorite is perspective.
The story I'm working on right now is 'a amazing life,2,tropical holiday.
I like writing story's that have adventure in them.
Perspective art means that your making it look like it is going far away.
I have two cats their names are Fluffy and Bungy.
Fluffy is a very fluffy white cat I'm the one who adopted her.
Bungy is a black and white cat that my mum adopted.
That is what I can tell you about me I love cats and all pets (except for rats and mice).

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Drama

Drama is a fun club like thing that children can sign up for and go to before lunch time on Tuesday. I signed up for it this year. We do lots of games and at the end of the year we are going to do a play. At drama this term we are singing poems. I'm in a group with Taylah and the poem is three little kittens and it goes like this 
'Three little kittens one stormy night began to quarrel and then to fight, one had a mouse and the other had none and that's the way the quarrel begun.'
 I really enjoy doing drama. One thing I learnt was how to stand on stage without stage fright. But I get mixed up in the role because there are two other Olivia's and that gets confusing. Drama is mostly about acting and our Drama teacher is really nice and fun. We play lots of acting games like 'building machine' or 'space-jump'. I am learning to get used to being on stage in front of lots of people.I go to Drama with Emily, Luca, Tayla, Olivia, Olivia and Gemma. Sometimes I wish Drama was every day but its only on Tuesdays. 
The Drama class I go to is 'WEST END PREFORMING'.  At Drama we have lots of dress-ups and Emily just loves the dress-ups. Each lesson is 15 minutes long but sometimes half an hour if we are really lucky.


Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Camp Omatua

                                                                                                                                                                   
                       Me, Issy, and Hannah showing our backpack.                     

Me watching Angus eat a Brussels-sprout.
my groups mummie.




















Camp was amazing we had a tie in the backpack challenge. It was between my group and Ashley's group.
At camp we did fear factor and Angus ate some funny foods but I loved the last food it was a jumbo gummy strawberries and you can only get those at NEW WORLD HASTINGS I love them. Angus ate a Brussels sprout a radish and some others.

Also on the second night before bed we had to dress the parents up as mummies it was so fun but my group won the competition for the best mummies walk and working together.

Another thing we did at camp was TUBING  I loved it even though it was cold. What I like about tubing is getting to relax and seeing how fast I can go down the rapids.

Monday, 21 March 2016

Favorite Book


I am learning to share information about my favorite book.    
I enjoyed sharing my favorite book and information about it to persuade people to read it.
I like story books and factual books.
This book has lots of DRAGONS in it.
On every page with a DRAGON on it it shows it, speed, size, fear factor, some others.
The DRAGONS in this book don't just breath fire they also shoot spears out of there fire holes and also lightning.
This book is so interesting and it also shows about DRAGON tongues and eggs.
It also has a big map of the  barberein arcipeligo.
People who like DRAGONS would like this book because with this book you could know every thing about DRAGONS.
There are little DRAGONS and DRAGONS as big as mountains!
This book is a book that is exiting, funny, and serious.
I hope if you ever read this book you will like it.