Ponsonby Road Show

On Tuesday the 3rd of September all of the Totara Team went to go see the Ponsonby Road Show on our court. There was guitars,  keyboards, microphones, drums, and lots of other instruments. They also had mats on the court for the cheerleaders. First the orchestra played and a boy sang and then parts of band played and different people sang. After that there were three boys dressed in black and they did a very short samoan slap dance and there music was from a woodblock. Then Fay (the presenter who came to Grey Lynn school last year) introduced two girls and they did really amazing things with their bodies. They also did a bit of ballet. Next was a group that were wearing fairy costumes and dancing with them were the three boys that danced before but this time a girl was dancing with them. There was a girl singing a song when every else was dancing. The song was about  her telling them to get together and stop fighting over her. Then the first band came on they were called Naughts and Crosses they had really great singers. Fay came on again like she did between every act and introduced Dr. Pepper (a 12 year old boy) came on and asked for an asistent Fay chose Queenie. First he did a hand trick and then he did a trick with his briefcase and then Queenie got a chocolate. After that a band came on called the Thursdays and the funny thing was that they acherly had there band practise on Thursdays. Last of all they had the cheerleaders come on they were throwing people up in the air and catching them doing back flips and every thing. Then Hannah performed some gymnastic things and then we all had a good dance here are some of the videos.

By Stella :)

My Holiday

On Friday last week (the last week of the holidays) my cousins from Samoa came over to New Zealand. (they arrived on Sunday)So me, my dad, my mum and brother decided to take them to Clip n' Climb. So we picked them up and took them to our house because our session hadn't started yet. Then it was time to go to Clip n' Climb. When we got there my little cousin who just turned four wanted to go to the bathroom so I took her but then she didn't want to go so I took her all the way back then she started to run away and try and climb one of the walls (without the harness). So I had to literally drag her back to where we were, then the man started to call all the people who were in the next session. He told us what to do and we had to be checked by a parent if we were thirteen or under.The the fun started!! I climbed almost everything except I didn't climb up to the very top. I would say that my favourite one to climb was this green one that had these little circles popping out and if you were really good at it you could use these velcro gloves to climb it and the one that I didn't really like that much was this one that you could only use your hands to climb and it was also not solid it was blown up. After walking around trying to find which one to climb our session was over. So we all lined up to take our harness's off. After that we had to go drop off my cousins. When we got there we were hungry so we persuaded my mum to take us to St Lukes to get us some lunch and it worked. After that we had to go so we said goodbye and took off back to our place. And that was the end of our day (just to let you know I had an unplanned sleepover but its probably gonna take a while for you to read this so this is the end.)

By Stella

My reflection about this term

This term I enjoyed reading the book The Witches. I also enjoyed writing my narrative (which I am still writing) and I also enjoyed doing topic because we got to turn our desks into islands and being able to have a chief and making up what the villagers, queen, princess and chief need to wear.What I didn't like about this term was going swimming because it got really cold for me. But what I most enjoy is having Uala as my teacher!

By Stella