Saving the whales

Whale researcher, Michael Fishbach and his family went to sail the seas in Cortez. They were not trying to find any whales. But they were in for a surprise.

The whale researcher approached a suffering animal- a the whale was stuck. They thought the whale was dead until the whale blew it’s blowhole.

Micheal jumped in the water and saw what was wrong and he discovered that the whale was stuck.They quickly tried to pull the whale to them. then Micheal said “The whale needs to breathe.” The whale was on edge it was really emotional.
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It took a full hour to get the net out of site but it was worth it. After a long session of hard work they were finally up to the final cut.Then the whale was sent free.

After a long emotional journey the whale was finally free.The whale’s thanks was giving them entertainment for about half hour.She did about 40 breaches. It was amazing.The whale was really happy that it was free.

Cross Country

“Stand up 9 year old girls!” Mr.Somerville announced.We began walking to the reserve, for our cross country race. Shivering with exitement we got to the start line. When I thought that we were going to start running, the 10 year old boys got told to stand up.”Go!” shouted Mr Burt, and they all sprinted off.

Eventually it was time for the 9 year old girls to stand up. Mr.Burt said, “ On your marks. Get set. Go!” Ashlee,Kaycee and I started sprinting furiously.But after a great start I started lagging behind. I felt like I couldn't breathe properly. It felt like my lungs were screaming.

Once we got up to Ms.Squires the track started to get narrow.I was too scared that I was going to fall in the creek. People were bumping into me trying to push past. “Stop it!!” I yelled. Eventually I made it past the narrow bit. But when I was back on track Brandon and Lorenzo were blocking everyone. I pushed Lorenzoout of the way and I moved on.Stumbling down the stairs I was thinking, “Oh oh I’m going too fast I hope I don’t fall down.”

I ran up a steep hill thinking, “I hope the end is close.” At the top of the hill I saw Tyla Baker. ”Go Porscha! she yelled so I started sprinting. Just as I was going to start to walk I saw Tyla and Jonita and they started yelling Run.Run!And I sprinted to the finish line.

R.W.C

Every 4 years there is a Rugby World Cup.In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and New Zealand won. There is 48 games to be played. There will be 20 countries competing for the Rugby World Cup, the current champions are South Africa they won the William Web Ellis in 2007(William Web Ellis is the man who picked up the ball in the middle of a soccer game).The Rugby World Cup will be held all around New Zealand on the 9Th of September.Only one week and a day.

Badminton

Every Thursday we go to Badminton with these ladies called Lorene and Donna they taught us how to hold the rackets.The positions were were called the back hand and the forehand. Lorene told us that we had to keep the shuttle airborne.
She told us that we could use a short racket or a long racket. We got 5 shuttles and tried to hit them into the shuttle filled bin. And I got none in :(.

The second time we went to Badminton a lady named Donna taught us. The first activity that we played was Badminton soccer then she said we had to get a partner, my partner was Jonita. First we had to put some cones separated like a soccer post. Then we started playing. I yelled to Jonita go”, I only got 1 goal in and Jonita got 3.

And then we played a real game of Badminton there was 2 on each side if it did not get over the net or you made a mistake you had to get to the back of the line and wait for your next turn I felt like I was under a lot of pressure. The longest I stayed in was about 5 minutes.

Have you ever touched snow?

Have you seen snow in real life?

Well I think that's going to be a yes because on Monday there was snow in Auckland.

Usually it snows only 3 times a century which is a pretty long time.

It was 4 degree’s but it was pretty warm inside.

But the sun came out so it turned out well...

Rugby History

Did you ever wonder what the first Rugby Ball was made out of ?

The first Rugby Ball was made out of a pigs bladder in the late 1800’s. was GROSS. There were a bunch of problems about having a pigs bladder as a ball. 1st because it was so smelly, it was disgusting to play with. 2nd because they had to blow the bladder with their lip’s (because pumps weren’t invented) , it was not healthy.

Immersion Assembly

This morning, the first day back at school, there was an Immersion Assembly. An Immersion Assembly is when the teachers talk about our topic. We found out that this term our topic is Keep Your Eye On The Ball, which is learning about the Rugby World Cup. When we walked in I saw almost all of the teachers wearing wigs for their items.

My favorite item was team 3 because the teachers,an All Black, French and Canadian representatives had to get a partner from the audience. Their partners had to sit at the back of them and feed them the Weetbix. The winner was the one who finished first. The All Blacks won (Miss Lavakula)

The best bit was though, if you sat up nicely you got a ticket and then the vendors gave you chip’s - hot chips with a sausage or a fizzy drink.
Then we went back to class.