Maniakalani Film Festival 2012

Entering hoyts Sylvia park was really cool because me and my friends couldn’t wait to watch the movies that a cluster of schools including ours had made. As the lights started to dim all you could hear was people going “shhh!” to each other.

There were heaps of movies made by different schools but the ones that stood out for me are the ones I will be talking about. First of all my favourite movies would be One Direction east side styles by Tamaki College and The Test by room 18 at  P.t England school.

One Direction by Tamaki College was hilarious starting off with some of the boys that come to our school dressed up pretending to be the One Direction group. The most funny thing in this movie is when at the end it has the the kids dancing but 50+ years.

On The Test by room 18 their movie shows their class in a test and all you hear is the clock ticking then they started talking, with their eyes and facial expressions. For a movie that has no one speaking in it it was really really funny. You can find all these movies on the maniakalani web site.After I lot more movies we had to go back to school. 

When we arrived at school we quickly went inside our classrooms and headed of. The manaiakalani film festival was awesome and I can't wait to go go next year. You can find all these movies on the link below.

http://www.manaiakalani.org/film-festival/2011-film-festival/2012-film-festival

Athletics 2012

Today was Athletics Day and the field was scattered with sports equipment. When I arrived to school everyone was wearing their team colours. My team is Matatua a.k.a green. Javelin was our first activity, I was soon to have my turn. I was really excited but nervous at the same time. “Brooklyn, you're up” Mr Barks said to me. As I nervously walked up to take my turn, I grabbed the javelin stick and through it as far as I could. Unfortunately it didn’t stick to the ground but it was a very good throw.

I was quite disappointed in myself but I knew what I did wrong, every time we let go of the Javelin we were supposed to flick our hand so it would land diagonally. We all got reminded to flick our hands because that's the main reason hardly anyone got placing. Luckily my friend Huelo- ata came 2nd.

Our next activity was  softball throw so that meant it was pretty simple to do. When I through mine I became second place one ahead of my friend Huelo-ata. All the kids that got a place had to go to Mrs Clark and tell her the order of the placings.

Next was discus I was kind of freaking out because our class didn’t practise it. But when it was my turn I did pretty well coming 3rd but then getting put down to 4th.


After discus it was morning tea we didn't do much then but as we started to do our activities it all started to get interesting. Sooner or later the day had to end but the last activity was relays. Parents vs kids and Teachers vs kids. They were all great but when the clock stroke three we all went home in a good mood.   

How To Make A Teddy Bear

How To Make A Teddy Bear

                          You would need:

* Lots of different coloured felt fabric.
* A couple of different coloured threads.
* 1 pair of googly eyes.
* Stuffing.
* Glue.
* 1 Button
* Needle
* Scissors

Instructions:

1: First of all gather together all of the equipment and lay it out in front of you.


2: Thread different coloured felt materials together with different coloured threads, make 2 sheets of 
felt.


3: Cut out a bear shape as a template and use pins to pin down on the felt.


4: Cut out the shape of the bear on both sheets of felt.


5: Make a slit on the back of one of the sheets for stuffing.


6: This one step would be the hardest out of all of them but try and do your best. Sew the 2 edges 
together to make a bear a 3D shape.


7: Grab some the stuffing and stuff it into the bear.


8: After stuffing the bear sow the slit at the back of the bear together.


9: Position the googly eyes onto the bear and glue them on.


10: Then Sow on a button for the nose.


11: Last but not least sow on the mouth you can do this any way you want you can put a smile on or even a sad face.

                        Thanks for reading my post now if that was you first time keep practising and you will soon get better and better.

My Favourite Toy

My favourite toy was a singing puppy toy because it was the first soft toy that my grandparents had ever given to me. It gave me three dogs to play with. This is because I also played with my grandparents two dogs named Muffy and Pari.

My favourite toy looks like a puppy with blue floppy ears and different colours on his paws. Also when you press on one of the paws the puppy sings or plays games with you. It’s actually quite amusing when you're only three or four.

My favourite toy makes me feel happy because it reminds me of when I was younger and all the things I did with it. The best memories I have of my favourite toy are going to get it from my grandparents room and playing with it loudly. My nana would growl me because she was trying to sleep.

Now it is probably stuffed into a bag never to be seen again. It brings me happiness thinking of it because all the things that were there aren't any more like my nana and papa’s dogs.  

Arch Way To Another Dimension

“Its time to leave were not safe here you must go through the arch to another dimension you're our only hope”."Okay daddy but promise you will find me"."I Promise now go before its too late". When there was war there was death so as the child of chief Abner ran along with her baby to one of the the arches that magically transport them to this dimension. The women wasn't alone though. Her enemies followed her here and she was killed but before that she sent her baby to a foster home knowing that she was the only hope.  

20 years past and now there are no more wars and the new apple Ipads are out. But as Eden grew older she had no idea who she was or what things she had to do. She was now with her friend Sam walking along with their tour guide. Walls of dark green bushes travel by as our tour group wonder along the path way. "And as you may know that years ago the greeks built statues of people to symbolise their love, they also built arch ways to transport themselves into different dimensions" said our tour guide Matt. Of course they were restricted for know one knew what would happen.  

My friend Sam and I were walking down the path to find ourselves standing in front of a restricted area sign. Eden felt something in her telling her to go in so out of nowhere she grabbed Sam and pulled her into a different path."Where are we going the group is heading the other way" Said Sam." I know I just needed to come here, to see what they're hiding"."Who's hiding Eden?"... "I see it" said Eden in an excited way."See wut? Im confused" "The arch". They came to a stop just in front of the arch What do you suppose we do know? asked Sam.

"Go through and see what happens I guess" Said Eden."No way i'm going back". "Okay then but i'm going through" said Eden. She knew she had to like someone was telling her to. Suddenly as she took one step through the arch she could see war happening. Heading back to the tour group she realized Eden wasn't there.

Narrative Practise

Once upon a time there was once three work colleagues named Stuart, Sue and Zoe. They were volunteers for the ANZ business association. They were part of team who were to help to clean up the zoo. Their job was to clean the crocodile enclosures. They felt so excited.  When they arrived at the zoo they went to check in and were escorted by one of the zoo employees, who was trained to feed the crocodiles.

When they arrived at the enclosure, Sam the zookeeper had forgotten to get the food for Crocky. So the the three of them all went to the cafe to wait until Sam was ready for them. But they failed to remember to close the door.  Crocky, the eight foot crocodile, came crawling out eating everything that was in his path.

“AAAArrrrgggghhhh” says Sue as she saw Crocky came up behind her. The first thing she thought was how did the crocodile get out of the enclosure. And if they would still get paid.

While she was thinking she quickly rang animal control. Not knowing that Crocky was coming up behind her luckily she got to speak to animal control but she failed to stay alive.

After that the animal control came but there were only a small amount of survivors and some were badly injured. So then the animal control and split up to try and find Crocky it took awhile but they finally found where he was.

The problem is solved when they took Crocky to his home country so he could live happily ever after in his own way and everyone who survived lived happy ever after but still having a fear of crocodiles.

Going To Willow Park

Excitedly hoping into the car with all my bags and sister my mum took us down to school on Monday the first day of the school holidays. Sounds crazy right , going to school the day of our holidays but we had a reason actually lots of students had reasons. We were going to Willow park for our school riverside camp.

When we arrived at school my sister and I saw loads of kids inside the breeze. So I went to my friends Huelo-ata, Ashleigh and Vivienne and sat down ready to listen to Mr Burt. Sooner or later all of us were on the bus waving to our parents slowly dissapearing into the distance.  

The way to Willow Park was so fun, talking to my friends, and the speed bump wren't so bad either when we went over them we bounced up off of our seats and came back down again.