Production Diary: Entry 4,5 and 6

19/8/14

Dear Diary, we are are better again today. But always room for improvement.

20/8/14

Dear Diary, we had another practice in the hall today. We did it with our props and it was really fun. Tomorrow we are performing to the rest of the Nga Raku Nui.

21/8/14

Dear Diary, today we preformed in front of Nga Raku Nui. I think our group did pretty well. It was boring wait for our turn to show though.

Production Diary: entry 3

15/8/14

Dear Diary, we were in the hall today. We practiced on the stage and we were pretty good for our first try. We had Mr Moriarty’s son Leo,watching us but he fell asleep in the first five minutes. I’m not sure if it was because he thought it was boring or if it was because he was tired (Leo is only a toddler) and just finished his milk. But I’m sure he would have enjoyed it so lets just say it was the tired thing. Anyway thanks for listening.

Production Diary: Entry 2

14/8/14`

Dear Diary, Me again. We went back to production practice again. We’re really good now!Everyone is much louder and almost everyone has got their voice at the right speed. I’m starting to get use to the position I need to be in on stage. And everything is starting to get much more relaxing. Any way no complaints today and hopefully not for the rest of the production. Bye Diary.

Production Diary: Entery One

12/8/14 

Dear Diary, lately we have been doing production practice and, oh let me introduce myself.My name is Elijah and lately I have been practicing for my school production, The Journey Through The Legends. There are four legends in the production and my legend is called The Seven Whales. It is about seven whales who work for a great Tohunga (a very skilled and powerful man). They have to gather news from the oceans and bring it back to him. My Role is to be one of those whales. I play Onepoto the whale that likes to head north and talk to the sword fish. In the play I have a very lazy young brother who sleeps in, and gets us turned into the hills of Wairoa for being late.

When we started me and the other whales, I must admit, were pretty bad, but now we’re much better. We are starting to get our timing right and we sound and look much better (most of us). And everyone else is improving lots to. but we still need to work on being quiet while we are waiting back stage. I think that personally I've improved to. I feel much more confident walking on the stage, then I did when we first started.

The Little Lizard's Sadness

In my reading group, the Jedi  Knights I have just read a book called The Little Lizard's Sadness. It is a traditional  Vietnamese legend about a rich man and a beggar here is my retelling.

A long time ago in Vietnam there was a very Rich Man who had invented a game. He loved to play this game with other rich men in the country because he would win almost every time.

This is how the game was played. One man would say I have 50 gold bars and the second man would say I to have 50 gold bars and no one would win. But if the first man said I have 10 cows and the second man said I only have 5 cows the first man would win.

One day a stranger in ragged old clothes came to see the man. "What are you doing here?" the Rich Man asked.

"I have come to play your game," he said. The Rich Man thought that this man looked to poor to play this game but he let him play anyway.

"Where do you come from? What is your occupation?" asked the Rich Man.

"What does it matter to you? Lets just play," the stranger replied.

"But," said the stranger "I have some Ideas to add, to this game of yours,"

"What sort of Ideas?"

"Well I think the winner should get a prize," replied the stranger "So if I win, I would like in return all your belongings and if you win you can have all my belongings and myself, as your personal slave."

"Well... What sort of thing do you have to offer me?"

"You will be amazed at what I own," answered he.

"Very well then. Lets begin!"

"Oh and one more thing," said the stranger "I would like to go first"

"Well I guess that will be ok,?" the Rich Man replied.

"Ok" said the stranger removing something from his belt and holding it out "Do you have one of these?" In his hand was a chipped up, old coconut cup. The Rich Man thought that for sure he had a cup like that and told his men to find it. But the men did not find it. All the coconut cups were new not old. And smooth, not chipped.

The Stranger had won and was very pleased. In the next few months the stranger gave away all his new belongings to the poor people of the country. When he had given away all his riches, he once again set off, and was never seen again.

As for the Rich Man, he turned into a lizard. These days he crawls around on the ground crying "tsst tsst" in self pitty saying "tsst tsst what a pity."

And that is the story of the little lizard and why lizards say tsst tsst.

My Letter To R.J Palacio

As most of you know we have just finished reading Wonder in our class. So lately we have been doing a lot of wonder related tasks. One of those things was to write a letter to the author so this is my letter to the Author of Wonder R.J Palacio!

Dear R.J Palacio

My class have just finished reading your book  Wonder. It was very exciting and every time my teacher finished reading the whole class begged him for more. My favorite character was Jack Will because of how he stood up for August. all the time. My favorite part of the book was the very last bit when Auggies Mum said  “you really are a Wonder, Auggie. You are a Wonder”.

We would all sit on the mat with our notebooks writing down details while our teacher read. The only sound you could hear was Mr Moriarty (my teacher) reading and the fish tank. When I had other jobs to do I would beg Mr Moriarty to save the book for another time, so I didn’t miss out.

We have done art about Wonder to, this is mine...

Thanks Elijah.C.

By the way I hope everyone likes the art and please comment!

India

For homework I have been researching India. This is what I've learnt...

Das Piano

Lately I have read a book called Das Piano. It is a story in one of the School Journal  about a boy named Thomas, who is at war with his teacher Mrs Biggs. At the same time World War II is going on. He is caught pretending to be a German (not the good guys) and is told by Mrs Biggs that him and the rest of the people being German's to have to sing god save the king under the flag pole. The singing gave Mrs Biggs an idea. She would invite the Mayor, to school and they would put on a concert. She brought a huge piano for the concert. And they practiced everday, until it was the day of the concert. Thomas was standing next to Mrs Biggs. He accidentally sneezed on her and was made to sing a solo... Find out what happens next in the School Journal June 2014. Click this link to download digital version of the story and this to download the whole Journal.

My Tough guy and gal challenge recount

Back in may I was in a race called the tough guy and girl challenge. I ran 3km in 30mins. I did it with my friend Braeden from room 10. We had lots of fun. Here is my recount on the day.

Tough guy and gal challenge

“It’s finally the the day,” I thought as I hop into my friend Braeden’s car. “Friday the 23rd of May”. I’d been thinking about this date ever since I’d signed up for the race. Braeden and I talked about it while his Mum drove. We had to wait a while at the bridge because of construction, but we soon get back on track.

We arrived in Clifton. There was a huge stage covered in spot prizes and medals and stuff like that. 20m in front of that was a gazebo. Inside the gazebo some men were cooking sausages for after the race. Behind that there were boxes and boxes of Hydrate Zero for people who finish the race. 10m to the side of the gazebo were the showers. Surrounding everything were dry fields covered in prickles. At the back of the fields was a beach. And in the middle of everything were all the competitors eager to start the race. We met up with Braeden’s Dad, while his Mum, goes and gets our race numbers. She comes back with the race numbers and a goodie bag. It had lots of stuff to give us energy. Like muesli bars and jellybeans. We also got soap to wash our clothes with later. Just then a man walked onto the stage. He said that this was the first tough guy and girl challenge to be held in Hawkes Bay and that at the end of the 3km race there will be a prize giving. He said that there were some electric dingly dangly bits at the end of the race. We could either go through it or take the chicken run, which takes longer. Then he wished us good luck and called the 1.5km races to the start line. All of the 3km racers (the race Braeden and I were in) ran through the fields to watch the little 5 year olds race through the course.

After about half an hour it was our turn. The commentator called us to the starting line and we waited and waited and waited. All of a sudden the commentator called “on your marks..” We got ready... “Get set.....GO!!”. We all raced over the haybales and headed for the fields. We both get tripped by bigger kids but we recover fast and get back into it. The first obstacle was crawling under barbed wire. I got a prickle in my hand. “OWW!” I say as I crawl along. I get pricked in the butt a couple of times by the barbs, but it doesn’t hurt to much. We quickly reach the end and once more start running.

We reached the second obstacle. We have to crawl through a dark tunnel. I start crawling and get another prickle in my hand. When I come out the other side I pull both prickles out. then keep running.

Braeden is still beside me as we run along the beach. We turn the corner and find that we have to run through a swamp! I literally jump in, wetting Braeden as he slides in behind me. I look at him and see him laughing. I wait for him to catch up. Then we carry on trudging through the sloppy mud at the bottom of the swamp. It smells like rotten fish and chips mixed with seaweed as we struggle up a muddy hill. I cover my face with the mud and smile. We run back through the fields and over the fence. Then we have to run through the electric dingly dangly bits. “OWWW!” I hear someone say as they run through the electric strings. The strings weren’t that bad but they did hurt. Finally we made it through and were on to lap 2!

After the race we each got handed a bottle of Hydrate Zero by a volunteer. Then we took a quick shower and lined up for a sausage. I saw my cousin in front of us and waved and he waved back. By this time I had finished my drink. Soon it was time for prize giving. Braeden won some popcorn and we ate it together. I had a Crunchie in my bag and offered him some but he said no. My Mum had just arrived and was talking to Braeden’s Mum. She gave me a pat on the back. I loved the race and can’t wait to do it again next year!

Skyping the Commonwealth games village

Reflection for Skying Cam's uncle

Today we skyped Cam's uncle Craig Palmer (a sport scientist for the Commonwealth games (he works with the cyclist). He was inside the Commonwealth games village.

He told us lots of interesting things.

Heres what I thought:

Something I was pleased with was that we were lucky enough to see inside the village.

I really enjoyed learning was that there is about 320

It was really cool hearing about all the things that Craig does as a sport scientist. His job is to make sure the athletes are eating right, he collects the details of their performances to make training programs, makes sure the athletes are improving etc.

I also learned things like the velodrome in Glasgow is 250m around, he has been working in the Commonwealth games for 2 years, the athletes have to train everyday etc.

Elijah Man: The Clone Returns: Part one: THE KITTEN!

And now the moment you've all been waiting for! The amazing! The awesome and very handsome I must admit, ELIJAH MAN!!! season 2. 

Warning: may contain kittens!

Previously on Elijah Man... The Secret six have disbanded and Elijah Man and Agent Black are looking for new additions to their team. They find two other heroes Hulk Brayden and Bat Traylon. They call their new team S.L.O.S.H (Secret League Of Super Heroes). And lived happily ever after...

2 YEARS LATER

“Alarm clock, alarm clock, alarm clock!” went Elijah Man's alarm clock at 6am. “Ahh another super day of being suprely super and saving cats and stuff,” said Elijah Man as he makes up his bed “Yap nothing like being a super hero”. Just then Elijah’s Mum comes in with a surprised look on her face.

“Umm honey... you know you're not really a superhero right?” she asked.

“Ohh um of course I was just playing pretend with Balin. Right Blain?” Elijah said glaring at Balin, Elijah Man’s superhero brother.

“Ya what ever,” Balins said as He puts his jacket on.

“Where are you to off to?” she said as they opened the door.

“Ohh we're going over to Cam’s to play video games,” Elijah said back.

“Ok then, be back by lunch,” .

“Sure Mum see soon,”.

As soon as they walked out the door the two brothers ran round the side of the house and into the shed. “To the Elijah cave,” Elijah Man said as he unlocked the secret passage to the underground base. Balin Man rolled his eyes and followed him into the base. “Hi ya’ll,” Elijah said as he walked into the room. 
“I AM BAT Traylan!” Bat Traylan called from the bathroom. 
“Ellooo,” Brayden said over the sound of Gummy Wars (the best show ever) on TV. Just then the alarm went off. The S.L.O.S.H ran over to the computer to check it out. 
“OH NO!” called Agent Black “THERE’S A KITTEN STUCK IN A TREE.... ON A FARM!”
“THAT’S HORRIBLE!” Elijah screamed back. Balin rolled his eyes. 
“I AM BAT Traylan!” yelled Bat Traylan. 
"LETS GO!" called Brayden Hulk.
“OK” they all shout back.
“TO THE ELIJAH MOBILE!” Elijah yells.

TO BE CONTINUED....

My Inquiry

This is my inquiry note taking. My topic is the galaxy. I have some facts, my key words and some questions and their answers. I got all the facts from Mr M. Please comment!