My Writing - It's My Life

This is my this weeks writing on a girl how wins a book competition called Maya.

Chapter 1

Maya lay there with tears rushing down her rosy red cheeks, her face sunk into her pillow. Her bright blond hair sat on the tips of her shoulders, glowing blue eyes filled with tears stared at the ground.  Maya heard the clip clop of her Nanny’s shoes coming up the stairs, she wiped away the tears. She sat up and picked up her book, a tear dripped down her cheek and onto the the page leaving behind a stain.

The creaky door flew open and her Nanny walk in and sat with her on her little bed. Her Nanny's hand reached out to touch her hand " I know you're sad pumpkin but please come down stairs "

" Ok Nanny, I will come down in a bit" replied Maya . Maya was upset because it was her birthday and she didn't get anything from her Mum not even a card. Her Nanny left the room and went downstairs to make her favourite  dinner mac and cheese. Maya’s mum had lifted her when she was little, sometimes on her birthday she got a card from and if she was lucky she got something little.

A little book covered in bits and bops laid on Mayas bed, in it written with neat writing:   

Dear Diary

Today was my birthday, I turned 13 teenager yay  . I’m a bit sad though because I didn’t get anything for mum not even a card or a letter. I know that mum left me but sometimes she sends me things on days like my birthday and Christmas today at school Summer Rose give me a new diary that she handmade, I really like it too. Any way for tea Nanny’s making my favourite, Mac and cheese. All is the same with Jamie she is still bullying me and Summer Rose. Tonight is a full moon and i hope to see a shooting star.

                                 Love Maya  

Chapter two

" Tea time Maya , come to the dinner table " called Nanny

" Ok, Coming Nanny "replied Maya. They sat at the dinner table eating their tea .After tea Maya noticed the newspaper poking out on the chair, maya saw on the front page in bold black thick  letters” Writing competition for ages 10 and up” the winner gets their writing made into a book. Maya went and had a bubble bath and then she went to bed. Maya started to get to work she, got out her notepad and pen, she started planning and thinking of and idea something good that people will like.She had an idea that she thought would be good and know one would do, One about her life. “Hey Nanny I’m going to enter the writing competition for kids, it was in the newspaper,”

“ Thats cool honey, what are you going to do it about “

“ My life “ said Maya.

Chapter three

Maya hopped into her nice warm bed and snuggled down. All night she tossed and turned in her bed because she keep, thinking about the writing competition and what would happen if she won. To Maya winning is like the world because she had  lost her Mum not to anything bad, she just left one day when she was only 6 years old and she hasn't seen her since.

" Maya Maya, time to get up " it was her Nanny leaning over telling her to get up for school. Maya had a big yawn and then hope out of bed and got dressed for school.  She made her way slowly down stairs to the kitchen. Maya stuffed her feet along the old flora carpet in the hallway. Maya chummed on her breakfast and skulked down her milk. Before she knew it was time to go to school, all the way there she didn't say a word just sat there.

Chapter 4

Maya walked into school with a grin on her face. She ran up behind her best friend Summer Rose, she had thick brown hair covered in ringlets, dull green eyes  gazed into the distance. “ Hey, Summer Rose, guess what? “ Maya said happily.

“What?”Summer Rose replied

“ I have entered the young writers competition, if you win you get it made into a real book”.

“ Wow thats so cool Maya, what is it about”

“ My life”.

Chapter four

Maya spent all lunch planning things out for her book, Summer Rose sat and help her too. everyone walked past them thing what are they doing, doing homework during school?.

Later that day when the girls were going home they past a big bull board that had “Young writers competition, enter now online or full in the form”. Then you would never guess how came walking past, Mrs perfected Hollie Cat. “ Well hello, hello there Maya, if you did know I’m entering the writing competition “

“ Really Hollie, really you ”

“ Yep me and do you want to know something, my mum is very good friends with they jugie ”.

Maya and Summer Rose walked off home they looked back at Hollie and her so called friends, Hollie just laugh and walked away.

Chapter five

When Maya got home she went up to her room and sat on her her bounce bed. she pulled out her bag and got out her planning book. She ducked her head under her bed and got out her diary. She went into the office and started writing the start of her story. She coped word for word out of her diary. Each chapter had about a month worth of writing in it. Maya was so brave to put all of her feeling and thoughts into a book.

Maya walked into school where everyone was waiting for her arrive. What seemed to be lines and lines of people were waiting. She felt funny inside and didn't know why too. It was because she had won the book fair young writers competition, her writing was going to be made into a book.  Maya was so happy she was over the moon. Maya screamed with joy and jumped up and down. Summer Rose run up to her and give her a big hug.

That day when Maya got home she burst through the door with excitement, “Nanny Nanny guess what?"

"What Maya?”

"I won, I won the young writers comp "

" Really?" screamed her Nanny with excitement. That night they snuggled down together on the couch and read the book Maya had Written - This is my life.

                                                                  The end

Show Time J Rock

This week the Ngatea J Rock team went to Hamilton to perform their wonderful show. We Spent all day there getting ready and going to meetings and rehearsals. Each school got about three rehearsal  before the performance. About an hour or two before the show, we started getting our hair and makeup done.

The show started at 7:00, we were 2nd to perform. It seemed like all that hard work, for what seemed to be just a few seconds but it all payed off. I had heaps of fun at J Rock and we worked so hard, putting in every lunch time to get our show to where it was that day. We got about five or six awards.

Some photo's

Waka Arma

This week we went to Huntley college to learn all about Waka Ama, we also did other activities. When we arrived we played a game and then we were put into our house groups, the house groups were put into two groups. My group went to the lake first, I was in the waka first up, we learnt how to do it like the people do in competitions and we learnt how to do it tardily and at the end we had a race and my team won. After the Waka we went mountain biking around the lake in groups, I went second. when the other group went we did this off road track. . After that we went back to the school and the girls went to learn the wita and the boys did Army training, then we swapped around. At the end of our visit we got lunch. Over all I had a good day and learnt some cool things too, I really enjoyed the Waka the most.

Sushi

This week for impact we made Sushi. We learnt how to roll it the way that people in Japan do it, by Jesse. We cooked everything down at tech and made two rolls of Sushi there.They didn't stay together well, it all crumbled, when we cut into the rolls. Our first one was really bad because most of the rice came out the ends when pushed it down. They ones we made at school were rolled nicely and then we put them in the fridge to cool down so the rice stayed sticky . I had fun making the Sushi with the girls . Next week we are going to be making brownies but they will be healthy and delicious, I can’t wait.

My Hero( My Nana )

Dark brown hair flattened down with mosses, her glowing  hastily  eyes wink at me . The  smell of l her perfume  runs up my nose . Thats my nana Gail, she always  brings a smile to my face and makes me feel like a bird flying in the sky. She always gives me her support and is a guiding light in my life. In her gentle ways she shares with me her recipes for a successful life . She can always make me laugh in the darkest times.

I, like so many others,  love arriving at her house, to the smell of her hot homemade scones with jam and butter which melts in my mouth. She is a healthy helpful happy person, who has a kind heart to share, a  hard worker and always makes time for us grandkids. Nana loves baking  delightful treats for us  and she also pass down our family's recipes to our generation. She is a nana to more than just our family, she shares her love all around  and is a great friend to all in the community. That’s my hero.

Visiting schools

Visiting schools

 
This week we went to two different schools in Auckland. We went to see what their schools were like, because they are doing the open  learning plan like us . The first school we went to was Stonefields School, they had a nice school with 4 rooms, also know as hubs to them. We looked at the ways they learn and their furniture too.  They had some cool things like a white board table and bean bags with their school’s name on it. They use computers for their learning tool, like us. Then we went to Elim School and learnt a bit about what they do. They had some cool bean bags and they use ipads for their learning tools. Overall the day was fun and for lunch we went to the food court at Botany Downs. We got some good ideas for our school to have in our open learning spaces.

Pizza ( Impact )

Pizza

Yummy Yummy Yummy

Pizza, pizza, pizza. This week for our food impact we made our take on an Italian pizza.  Rose came into help us make the homemade base. We spent all day making our pizza to perfection. We learnt a lot of new skills, one we learnt was how to cut up the vegetables and herbs like real chef’s . We got people to try the pizza, everyone loved it, so did we. The teachers got a piece too and they said “that they would pay for it”. We were happy with our pizza and we will be doing that our the Cooking Show.

ASB Get Wise Program

ASB Get Wise Program

This week on Friday a man from the ASB Get Wise Program came to talk to us about how to save our money. He talked to us about three different people with different jobs and they all work different hours too. We found out who was on what wages and how long would it take for them to save up to go on a holiday. He told us a bit about when you loan money from the bank and a  bit about paying interest on your credit card. At the end of the visit, we played a game. We were going on a holiday and we had $1,600.00 to spend on everything like flights, accommodation and activities we did on our holiday. We did it in classrooms and in the end room 8 won. we came 2nd and room 9 came last because they had no money left over. I had fun that afternoon and I learnt a lot about saving money and putting it into the bank.