Prayers of the Faithful

Dear Lord,
We pray for our world. We pray that all the hungry get food and water to drink. Lord hear us.

Dear Lord,
We pray for Pope Francis, Bishop Steve, Father Danny and all that live in your world. Lord hear us.

Dear Lord,
We pray for the people in our community who have died and are now in heaven, especially Olivia's dad. May they rest in peace. Lord hear us.

Dear Lord,
We pray for all the people in our parish who are sick. May they get well soon. Lord hear us.

Dear Lord,
We pray for our school. We pray that all the children can follow Jesus. Lord hear us.

My Bible Reading

00029 from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

They love the knight life

“Will King Arthur ever escape from these guards?” the narrator thought. As he waited to be rescued, the St Paul's rugby team came to cheer him up.

Today was Wednesday. It was the big day and we had been practising for our 2016 St Paul’s Catholic School's production.

The curtains opened like walking invisible potatoes. In the Rainbow Reading Room, it was as cold as ice. The audience were waiting as quiet as a mouse. Ten minutes came speeding away and it was time for our part.The boys came up like wild rushing bulls. Michael, Brandon, Flynn, Jaxon, Noah and I were rushing up the stairs fiercely.The school's costumes were shivering like golden nugget rings.
“I got this feeling inside my bones,” the absolutely lovely song said.
As the girls were doing their fancy somersaults and cartwheels, the boys were moving and grooving to the beat like dancing frogs. The spotlight shone on us like the planet Mars.
As soon as the dance and the Mooloo song was finished, the stunning king asked, “I really liked that song, Can I please have the Ipod?”

Ella gave him the ipod and the grooming King Arthur replied, “Thank you.”

Ella, the shimmering golden girl, replied back ,“You're welcome.”

I liked the production for our part and everybody's part. My favourite part was Room 1 and 2’s part. That was the funniest part. My second favourite part was Room 4’s because I liked the boys and girls dancing because the audience clapped after we did our dance.

The Name Mystery Creek

 Did you know in the 1990's there was a solider that was also a farmer. The soldier was in the army as well. Other farmers knocked on his door, then one day there was another knock on the door, so he walked to the door, opened the door and then, when he opened the door, he saw that there were two robbers at the door. One had a knife and the other one had a sack in his hand.
The first robber had cut a mattress open and had found 18 golden tokens that the solider had hidden in the mattress. He never told anybody about this when he put them under there.
The second robber got the sack and said to the other robber, "Let's get out of here."
The robbers didn't get away. The  two naughty robbers didn't notice that the farmer was a soldier. The soldier forgot he had his gun, so he got the gun and the first robber dropped the sack and they had a little fight. He loaded the gun and was trying to get the robber, then, suddenly, bang! Instead of the gun shot into the robber, it shot the soldier in the arm. The robbers got away but he didn't care.
After the robber shot him in the arm, he had to put a lot of pressure on it so it wouldn't lose so much blood. He walked all the way to the doctors and the doctor said, "Sorry, you'll have to go to the hospital."
He walked and walked and walked to the hospital. As soon as he got there, they had to cut his arm off.
After a couple of weeks, he was now a farmer with one arm. It got its name because the robbers had gone forever and the 18 golden tokens too.    

My How To Play Basketball Speech

Caleb Basketball Speech from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

In the Holidays

Crash! As the waves splashed onto the hot sand I was playing with my brother and sisters on the steaming sand.

In the hot holidays, I went to my grandparent’s house.Dad drove us to the big sandy beach with my sisters, my brother and I.
When we dashed to the big sandy beach, Dad was thinking, “Where should we go?” Dad had an idea. “Let's go to the big waves over there!” he said,so we scrambled across the sore rocks to the big waves. “Yay we finally got to the big waves!” I shouted.We were watching the big waves while we were sitting on the sore rocks.  “We're ready to go!” Dad said to all of us, so we went back to my grandparent’s house and had a shower.

Matariki

The Legend of Matariki

Long, long ago, there lived seven young men. They liked to go to the beach and swim. They walked to the beach every day. They made sandcastles in the sand.
One evening, they were walking to the beach. They were about to build a sandcastle, but it was time to go home. "Oh! They shouted".

They were going home when it was already a pitch black blowing night.They couldn't find their way home in all the flying fog. They were waiting for the flying fog to vanish. They were calling out, "YOU CAN'T PICK US UP!!!!!"
The moon was so angry that he picked up the seven young men and threw them up into the sky.Then they turned into seven little stars.    

Peter and Wiki

Peter and Wiki loved working in an indoor pool. They were best friends. They were living in a hotel. They liked going swimming in the indoor pool too. They also liked going shopping. Peter and Wiki only worked in the weekends.

One sunny Saturday morning, they could smell the odours of the pool. The pool was like slim shimmering water.They saw a man behind them. The person behind them was trying to walk soundlessly into the pool, but Peter and Wiki couldn't hear him. 

"Hello, can I swim in the pool?" he said.

Wiki and Peter didn't answer, so the person who wanted to jump into the slim shimmering pool pushed Peter and Wiki into the  pool.

They were about to drown when their Mum and Dad were calling, "Boys, where are you?" 

 They looked everywhere,but then they looked in the last pool.

 There they were!

"Come on, boys. Let's go back to the hotel," said Mum. "You can make yourselves a hot chocolate."

The Snake

Harry, the snake was gone.
Tom said, "Shhhh!" to the class. He found it again. He saw it marching towards the hole in the wall. He tried to catch it but it slid into the hole in the wall.
Miss Anderson was really angry.
Tom had an idea. He got some supplies from the classroom like Miss Anderson's lunch. He also got some paper, glue and wire, then he got the paper and glued it together, then he got the wire and tied it around the paper.
Finally Miss Anderson's lunch. The snake slowly slid across the green slimy soft rug. It took a bite then they put him back into the backpack.
"Don't bring a snake to school again," said Miss Anderson."

Well done, Caleb. You are having a go at using speech marks. Look at 'then' in your story - too many. Use words like, Next, After he got the paper, glue and wire, he glued the paper together. After it took a bite, they put it back in the backpack.

From Jamling Tenzing

Jamling Tenzing

May 14 at 1:56pm · Namche Bazar, Nepal

To all the children of St. Paul's primary school, greetings from the Himalayas.
I know you have been following John and our journey to the to roof of the world. I hope you learned something about our mountains and culture.
I invite you all to join me one day to visit our part of the world.

Hi my name is Caleb and I would love to join you to climb Mount Everest.  


Jamling Tenzing Hi Caleb. It will be our pleasure to help you when you visit in the years to come.

Mount Everest

The Magic Show

There were two magic shows at our school.
First, this magic guy named Jonathan. He was funny. When he blew the balloon up, he swallowed it. We all cheered and clapped. 
My favourite part was when Jonathan swallowed the balloon.

After lunch, El Gregoe came. He talked about antibullying - a bully-free school. He did do a little bit of magic. 
At the end of the show, they did the floating man. My favourite part was the floating man.

The Birthday of the Church

The Church is people spreading the good news. Before Pentecost, the followers of Jesus locked themselves in a room. They didn’t talk about Jesus because they didn’t want to get arrested by the guards, then the Holy Spirit came down to them. Flames popped up on their heads and they got courage. When they came out of the room, they began to spread the Good News.

Tigers

Giggle! Giggle! Giggle! As the tiger pounced onto the window, Waylon started laughing loudly.

On Tuesday, we drove to the Hamilton Zoo because we had filled the marble jar up. We had to investigate if the zoo is a good place for animals.

"Those tigers look really fierce," I thought. Next, one of them jumped onto the window. Waylon started to giggle again. After that, the tiger jumped off the window. The tigers' tails were orangey orange and as black as dirt. Their whiskers were as white as snow and their tongues were as red as blood. Next, the tiger jumped on the window again, then it jumped off and walked away.

Easter in Hungary and New Zealand

St patrick

WALT retell a story.
WWBSWW tell the story in our own words.
Planning
Who St Patrick was and what he liked doing and what he didn't like doing
 - where he was born - what his family was like
He liked walking on the beach. He liked whittling his slingshot.
He hated school.
One day,
- didn't go to school
- went to the beach
- pirates came
- stole him and the other girls and boys
- sold him in Ireland to Milchu
- was a shepherd - looked after sheep and pigs (swine)
- started talked to God - trusted God and was happy
- One night, heard God talking to him - told him to go the a ship
- when he was on board, - big storm - ship grounded in France
- crew starving
- Patrick asked God for help
- God sent him pigs and an apple tree- ate pork dinner and apple sauce

One day there was a man called St Patrick. His family was really rich. He loved going to the beach but he hated school.But when he was at the beach he saw a big ship.So he froze like a stachue. The pirates stoal  him and took St Patrick to Irland. He got sold to a man that needed to look after the sheep and the pigs. So he looked after them. Then god said there's a ship waiting for you. So he went off.A person pulled down a rope to St Patrick then he got the rope then they got out of Irland. Then a    big storm was aproching. The ship grounded in France. when they got to France they where starving. St Patrick asked god for some food. Then all of a sudden god sent them pigs and an apple tree. For dinner they had pork and apple sauce.

Swimming Sports

At swimming sports, I was so excited to go to the swimming pool. When I got there, I was hungry but I left my bag with my lunch in the changing rooms so I had to get it. When it was the 7 and 8's turn, I hopped into the pool, ready to go.
"On your marks, get set, go!"
We raced to the other side. I came no place. I came 3rd place in the 2nd race. In the last race, I came 3rd again. Yay! I came 3rd in 2 races.

The Rocket

"It was a sunny day. It was the last day of swimming lessons so Ashley brought a rubbery rocket. It was bright red and blue. It felt rubbery like a bouncy rubber floating on the water. I was floating in the water with my life jacket when I slipped into the water. "Go Caleb! Go Caleb! everyone shouted."  The 2nd time I had my turn, I slid into the water then I floated in the water. At the end, we got to have free time, then we hopped out of the pool and walked to get changed.

World of Maths

Thump! Thump! Thump! as we came into the grand school hall. "Hello, Kath!" we said. First, Kath told us some instrucions, then we played some games. First, we played, 'Build a Bridge.' After we played Build a Bridge, we played, 'Where's Katie?' We had to look for a red door and, in the red door, was Katie, then Kath said to come and sit on the floor so we did, then it was time to come out of the grand school hall.

Swimming

"Come on the side of the pool," Ashley said, so we went soundlessly to sit on the slippery side of the pool. Splash! all of us sprung into the water. Next, Ashley said to call out our names, so we called our names out. When we got into the pool, it was freezing cold. Next, Ashley said to go around the sparkly water, so we followed the instructions then we had to go back to the wall.It was then time to do rocket arms. We had to swim to the other side of the pool. It was bubbling, "Blub, blub, blub." Finally, we had to get out of the pool.Wow! That was the first lesson I ever done.

The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

Year of the Monkey

sshin-nyen kwhy-ler

 

Happy Chinese New Year. 

2016 is the Year of the Monkey.