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Have you ever heard a single fact or any evidence about the Ambury Farm? We were lucky that our school has taken us on a beautiful Ambury farm trip.

In the morning we got to school early or else we would miss the bus.  After everyone was here we did the roll and got into our groups.  Soon after the bus arrived I bet everyone was very excited about the ambury regional farm.We got on the bus quickly and got seated, everyone was hyped up and couldn’t wait to get there ( well some of them).

After about half an hour we finally arrived. I can’t wait to go in. There were two staff there and their name is Richard and Jennie they both have worked for over 20 years at the ambury farm.  They told us where the toilet was and introduced everything here.  Our teacher told us to have morning tea first then go to do the activities that they have planned for us that day.

The first thing that we did was the sheep sharing.  Inside the shed there was a very strong smell, there were 2 men’s sharing and one man taking care of the sheep that had not been shared yet.  Jennie gave us a pile of wool for us to sniff and rub it on our skin.  The wool is soft like marshmallows and it smells weird.

After we went on a 1 hour walk on our way we saw pigs, chickens, sheep, goats, turkeys, sheep dog, horses and peacock. The peacock was beautiful. Its feathers were just like eyes that are staring at you. If I was an animal I would be scared just imagine you saw hundreds of feathers that look like eyes that are staring at you, for me I will be terrified.  

The last activity was the felting where you have to put three layers of wool on top of each other then sink it with hot water, after it’s wet and hot put dishwashing liquid on top of them then keep tapping and scrubbing until 5 minutes have passed. As soon as that has done you will find out that you can’t take the layers out and that’s how you get a piece of felt.

Nathan was walking down the park with his friend Parker. They saw a squirrel stuck in the lake and it tried to get out but it didn’t know how to swim, so they quickly jumped in the lake and carried the squirrel back on to land.  The squirrel was wet and dizzy so the boys brought him home and warmed him with a towel.

After they fed him some warm milk and nuts they went back to park and played with the squirrel.  The squirrel was friendly and cute so the boys asked their mother to keep the squirrel as their pet because of their kindness. His mother sweetly agreed.  They were racing with the squirrel. Obviously the squirrel won but it was a lot of fun to have a new friend joining them.

The very next morning at 7:00AM Nathan found out that the squirrel went missing so he quickly called Parker to search for him.  They searched from morning to midday so they gave up on him.  In the afternoon Nathan and Parker were bored and had nothing to do then they heard a very strange light noise at the front door.

As soon as they opened the front door they saw the squirrel with a bunch of peanuts waiting at the front door.  That’s when the boys knew that the peanuts were for them because they helped the squirrel from drowning.  Soon after Nathan went to school and the squirrel came as well Nathan made a secret basement inside his bag.

The squirrel can’t stop poking his head out from Nathan’s bag, once they almost got caught by Mr Wong so Nathan have to leave the squirrel home his learning was good but some of his classmate have already saw his pet to every brake time they always ask him to show them the squirrel Nathan has no idea what to do so he bring the squirrel back to school again.

This animal creature is called Pigcorn it has a unicorn style with long ponytail.  It eats wild creatures, and it can fly like an unicorn and run like a snail.

The Pigcorn can fly 13 km per/h.  It sleeps on top of the mountains, and his favourite thing is to dig down in the ground. It eats wild animals and the Pigcorn hangs out in the jungle the most. It can’t swim. If it does he will drown to death, it weighs 200 kg and also the It has 2 lounges and 5 stomachs.

When Pigcorn is angry he will start to destroy everything that he sees. You can try to calm him down by giving him some apples.   He loves to eat apples or other fruits, if someone attacks him he will take revenge after healing.

Pigcorn likes to fly around the sky like a bird. The Pigcorn doesn’t like the dark, it is also afraid of insects.  He has its own enemy and it’s The fire breathing monkey.  The Pigcorn is scared and nervous to fight with anyone when he isn’t mad or angry.

When the Pigcorn gets sad it will automatically summon a rainbow.  The pig corn can live for 69 years then it will dig by itself and berry themselves in that hole.  One special thing about the pigcorn is that it doesn’t drink water in its whole life.

Do you know what halloween is? And who invented this celebration? Well it‘s a day that we celebrate and wear creepy costumes. At night we go trick or treating, trick or treating is when you go to someone’s house or your neighbourhood to get candy.

Halloween is a day that people celebrate well. Some people can’t celebrate halloween because of their religion and it is a holiday that we can spend the time basically on candy.  On Halloween we also decorated our houses to make it scary.

The Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain   a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”, a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

People should prepare a lot of candy at home because at Halloween night kids go to knock at peoples door and get candy that’s just trick or treating. People celebrate Halloween at night. It is a scary celebration out of all the other celebrations.

You need to wear spooky or creepy costumes outside during Halloween evenings like skeletons, clown, witch, ghost and more.  If Halloween is tomorrow what would you wear for trick or treating?

Yesterday was the Athletics day, it was the best athletics day ever. There were so many events that you could think of. There was the 400 meter run, 100 meter sprint, 200 meter run, 800 meter run, there was also dicus, shot put, high jump, long jump and the house relay.

First of all was the 400 meter run. I have to miss out on an event for the 400 meter one and it is the high jump. We all got settled and got ready to run in our position as soon as the judge said that your marks get set BANG!! We all run. My friend and I were tired at the end so we walked to the finish line and both came last.

Secondly was the 100 meter sprint as the teachers called our name and gave us a number we were all ready to sprint. Suddenly the BANG went on. We were all sprinting on our life in the first place but I didn’t make it. I came 5th. Well, it’s not that bad to me.

The last run for me was the 200 meter run I didn’t do well on that one but after the race I went and bought myself a fizzy drink and a bottle of water I went to the spectator seat and sat down with my friends we talked for a bit and went down to cheer other people for their own races.

I finally finished all my races so I was chilling with my friends and got some juices. We were just cheering for people the rest of the day. The year 7&8 were so fast just like lightning it was the best athletics day in my history. At the end the house Kowhai won the 2022 athletics congratulations to them.

Have you ever heard of Queen Elizabeth II? She was the Queen of the UK (United Kingdom). She is a really kind person and she just passed out. It was really sad.

Elizabeth was born on April 21 1926. She grew up in a normal family, at that time her granddad was the king George V then he died on January 20 1936. Then her uncle took place and he was king Edward VII, but he gave up on the king just for an American woman.

Her family didn’t think that she was going to be the Queen so didn’t really give Elizabeth fancy outfits or a lot of money.

This week our school learned the Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori we used a lot of Māori words this week and also what Māori people eat or use.

I like the taste of a hangi because my friend invited me to her house and we had a party over there. Her dad was making their Māori traditional food and it was called hangi. The first step was making a fire, digging a hole and putting wood stone and iron in there and lighting it. 

While you are waiting you might want to go and get ready for the food you will need: heihei (chicken), paukena (pumpkin), mīti poaka (pork) kōtero (potato), kāpiti (cabbage). Then you put the food on top of the fire and let it burn for a few hours and take it out, if it’s not ready then wait for mow hours then it should be ready and enjoy.

I found out that learning Māori is hard. It’s hard to understand it if I learn Māori then I know how to speak 3 different languages sounds cool but I’m just too lazy to learn a new language.  I know learning any language is not an easy thing to do .

I wanted to be a clown but the clown that could save people Because clown is a hero.  They save the cowboy from getting beaten up by the bull so I wanted to be that hero. And here is the first person story.

It was good weather today plus the 5 challengers, they all look proud of themselves. I should be proud as well if there wasn’t a clown like me they probably would get ran over by that chunky bull.  Well I guess it’s time to start SHOW TIME!

The first guy sat on that ginormous chunky I opened the gate to let them come out, suddenly the bull started to get grumpy jumping high and spinning.  Yup I knew it of course he fell out then got stepped on his back.

I quickly grabbed the red towel and shook it in front of him. I started to run but I was too slow.

 I got bumped in the butt then went flying to the sky boom… luckily I learned how to land. I landed perfectly on the sandy ground and the first rider was eliminated.

writing choice

Ingredients:

• Two friends
• A bunch of annoying 
• Play fight until your make them feel annoyed 
• Angry powder,vinegar, baking soda 
• Make jokes 

Method :

Step 1: You need to find a way to annoy your friend e.g tickle him.

Step 2: After you’ve made them annoyed you need to play fight with him until he says I’m not your friend anymore 

Step 3: He is now mad you need to take the angry powder out of him and add vinegar and baking soda to make it explode 

Step 4 : Then make him drink it 

Step 5: Boom you succeed to lose a friend

Enjoy!

Do you like swimming? Well I do, I went on a little swimming trip on August 2nd with the Piwakawaka students we went to the Manurewa Leisure Center. John Walker Field of dreams that everyone needs to swim so basically he was the one that pays for the swimming lessons.

Hmmm… I’m confused
By the time we got there we sat on the bench behind the pool waiting for the other group to hop out. Finally it was our turn. The coaches told us how to get in the pool and start to see the stage that we’re at. At first they started off by me and Kacey. Well, she’s just a little bit faster than me so she was at stage 3 and I was at stage 2 sadly. When we started, I was halfway to the end. Suddenly coach grabbed me from underwater I was a little bit confused for a second then she told me to go to stage 3