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My Tōtara park walk was vey proactive and very mindful. During this walk it was very muddy but such weather and landscape was expected for the night before it had rained which left the track muddy. Trees and plant were surrounding us at all times. Covered by greenery The comfort of the blue sky made this walk memorial. Using the seek app we were able to identify trees and plants our environment was truly unique. 

My botanical garden walk was my favourite it felt a lot shorted and unlike tōtara park, botanical gardens was informative we were given to tasks a scavenger hunt and a informative discussion about how they make use of the rain water and how the water should never say still for the water gets dirty then the water is pumped into the toilet and become toilet water but the tap water comes for the nearest town. For the scavenger hunt we’re we told to find every letter of the alphabet by plants 

Both the walks were amazing and beautiful I loved walking on the tracks and spending time outdoors with my friends.

On Tuesday 30th July me and my entire hapori (the year seven & eights Went on a long walk at tōtara park for 2 HOURS it felt like 4 days to be honest the only way I got the walk was because I had both my friends walking with me on the walk to tōtara park we were told to say in our class groups so I wasn’t with my friends but it didn’t really bother me that much since the walk to tōtara park was a short one.

Once we got there we had to sit down and wait for the teachers to explain the rules. They also mentioned an app called seek by inaterlist. It’s an app that identifies plants, trees, bugs and animals. We had to use that app to identify 5 or more plants, trees, bugs and animals. Our teachers asked if anyone had to go to the bathroom before we started. After everyone was done we began our walk. It was freezing cold outside so I put on my jacket. By the time my friends were already next to me we opened our iPads to go on seek by inaterlist (seek for short) we were scanning plants left and right. Some of them were dead. The track was super muddy. I brought spare shoes but they didn’t survive that walk.

30 or so minutes into the walk was morning tea and both my friends were super mad when we found out that we would eat right back where we started. Around this time we stopped using seek. Everyone just did a lap around the place although it was expected I had a snack and played on the playground and went back to walking. When I’m at school morning tea seems so short but when you’re at tōtara park with muddy shoes and sore legs that little break was amazing but soon it came to an end and it was back to walking. Me and my friends had a separate little group we were at the back back of everyone there was still a teacher behind us since we were separated into two big groups and the teacher behind us was the leader of the second group but she was far behind and when there were to paths we has to yell out and listen to our teachers tell us to go left or right.

An hour later we arrived on this big grass patch. It was beautiful. Our group had stopped for a few minutes to play on it. Some people had so much energy that they were running around. On it we had to go up the grass patch and back into a muddy track. Now all that was left was to get back where we started. Around this time I couldn’t feel my legs at all. We weren’t going back the way we came otherwise that would take us an hour and thirty minutes so we took a shorter route. It was still thirty minutes but it was shorter.

When we only had 15 minutes left to finish the walk l saw that green patch AGAIN I thought we were going back but we just did another round of the place

I was so tired and they tricked me. I thought we we’re going back to school. 15 more minutes passed and we finally left tōtara park. The most dreadful part of it all was the walk back to school. I couldn’t feel my legs, my shoulders were aching because of my heavy bag and my hands were still cold. But we all made it back to school alive.

Aside from all that I genuinely had fun on this walk I got to spend a lot of time with my friends and a lot of  laughter came along. I also got to explore a lot of tōtara park, all of it I hadn’t seen before. I saw the walk as a nice change of pace from my usual routine at school. So I’m really grateful for this trip.

The Olympic Games are an athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and were revived in the late 19th century. They are the world’s foremost sports competition and include athletes from all over the world.The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practiced without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play. The history of the Games goes back around 3,000 years, to the Peloponnese in Ancient Greece. Sports contests organised at Olympia took place every four years and acquired the name Olympic Games. We do not know exactly when they started, but the date of 776 BC is often cited in written sources. The five rings on the flag represent the inhabited continents of the world (the Americas were considered as one continent and Europe was treated as distinct from Asia). It was made to contain the colours (blue, black, red, yellow, and green) which are common to almost all flags around the world.

Matariki is a important part of our new year it’s a time when  peace is restored in everyone in there mind, heart and soul it’s a time where everyone can rest peacefully and take time off work and study when everyone can look up to the stars. In their mind they thank the 7 sisters of Matariki. Matariki is a good time to release your self from all the stress I highly recommend to celebrate it because if you’re in to much stress you can get stomach aches and nausea so Matariki is the perfect time to relax.

J.RR Tolkien was a famous author. He is mostly known for writing the lord of the rings and the hobbit. These books were later adapted into films that are well recognised all around the world.

J.RR Tolkien grew up in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham. J.RR  and his family lived on the side of genteel poverty. J.RR Tolkien was bullied as a child when he went to a private school by some rich kids. Tolkien was very creative.

Young Tolkien liked to draw landscapes and trees but his favourite lessons were those concerning languages and his mother taught him the rudiments of Latin very early. Tolkien could read at the age of four and could write fluently soon afterwards. His mother allowed him to read as many book as he wanted.

By the age of nine Tolkien had lost both his parents his father died of a rheumatic fever in 1896 and his mother was dying of diabetes. 22nd march 1916 J.RR Had found himself a wife Edith Mary Bratt. Edith Mary Bratt had converted to Catholicism to mary him. Tolkien was smart he could speak many languages of which are English, Spanish, French, old English, Latin, German, Welsh, Greek, Dutch, Russian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Middle English, old Norse, Gothic and old Iceland.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was his real name. He was an English writer and physiologist. He was an author of high fantasy works. The hobbit at the Lord of the rings was written by him. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rewlinson and brosworth professor of Anglo Saxon and a fellow of Pembroke college, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton professor of English language and literature and fellow of Merton College, and hold these positions from 1945 units his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C.S Lewis a co-member informal literacy discussion group. He was appointed a commander of the order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28th of March 1972.

After Tolkien’s death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father’s extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including the Silmarillion. These, together with the tales, poems, fictional histories Invented languages’s and literacy essays about a fantasy world called arda and, within it middle earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legend atrium to the larger parts of these writings.

In conclusion J.RR Tolkien had an accomplished career even though his works became famous after he died. His books were given awards.

J.RR Tolkien is from Birmingham. J.RR Tolkien and his family lived on the side of genteel poverty. J.RR was bullied as a kid when he when to a private school a couple of rich kids bullied him. He was inspired to write the hobbit the at the age of 38 in an effort to integrate two literary interests, a mythology of England and stories for his children once he released the book he sold over a 100 million copies making millions which raised the rank of him and his family then soon after J.RR wrote the lord of the rings at the age of 43 which took of in the 1960. J.RR Tolkien was a quick leaner could read by the age of four and could write fluently soon afterwards. His mother allowed him to read many books.

Pink shirt day
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Anzac Day

-where did World War I take place? throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.

-when did it take place? the Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

– how many lost there lives in the battle? There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths includes 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians.
-How did it happen? World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

-World War I began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

-What country’s were involved?Serbia, Russia, France, Britain, Italy and the United States. They were opposed by Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, who together formed the Central Powers.