Matariki

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The Red Panda

Skye and Storm

One day, near Christmas, a mum and a dad with to kids suprised them with a gift they were not going to forget. While the kids were at school the parents brought two cute black and brownish puppies, called Skpe and Storm. A few minutes before the kids got home the parents put the puppies in a box wrapped in red wrappping paper. The kids walked through the door and looked at the red box sitting in the middle of the  soft, white carpet. Thereeyes were wide open. The kids sat by the carpet and opened the box gently. Their sitting in the middle of the box was Storm and Skpe sitting there. The two kids were overjoyed, and cried out tears of joy. There was love and happiness and love all around the room.

El Grego's Magic Show

Last week, Friday, my school and I went El Grego’s Magic Show in the school hall. The point of the Magic Show was teaching us about anti-bullying. My favourite trick was the magic wand.

First, El Gregoe picked someone from the audience. That was Hunter-Rose. Hunter-Rose walked up the wooden, brownish, stairs onto the stage and stood by El-Grego. She looked very nervously at the kids sitting on the ground. The students’ eyes were wide open in waiting for what El Grego was going to do.

“I am going to make a bird appear in this brown wooden box,”

he said. He asked Hunter Rose if she could just wave a black and white striped wand over the box.  

“Yes, please,” she said.

El Grego showed us that the box was empty.You could see that the kids were not impressed yet.

El Grego said to his wife, Sue, “May you get me a wand, my dear?”

“Yes, my dear,” said Sue.

Hunter Rose held the black and white wand in the palm of her  hand and waved it over the box. She said these exact words, “It better work, it better work, it better work.”

El Grego opened the box and no bird.

The kids faces just went dull.

“Let’s try it with a bigger wand,” El Grego said.

Sue brought out a huge wand. It was bigger than Hunter Rose. She held the wand on her shoulder and said, “It better work, it better work, it better work.”

“This better work,” El Grego said in a gentle voice.

One, two, three, he opened the box. A bird appeared.

El Grego took the bird out.

“What!” I said. It is a fake bird. The crowd laughed. 
I left early to go to a funeral but then he pulled out a real bird.

The experience was really cool and fun. I can’t wait for next year.

Bullying

I was once bullied
I don't like it
She called me names
I was so afraid
I tried to ignore
But nothing happened
I wish she'd disappear
It was just so unfair
I wanted to tell someone
But she'd bully even more
What could I do?
She called me a pathetic whore
I tried to fit in with their group
But it got way out of hand
She shoved, pushed, punched and hit
What could I do?
She'd just kick
Somehow her mum found out
I was never bullied again
I've learnt my lesson
If someone bullies you
Tell someone and it will never happen again

Easter

On Easter Friday, my family and I celebrated my beautiful baby cousin Melanie’s 1st  birthday party, at Horotiu School.

I jumped out of my lovely white cosy bed, quickly put my denim shorts and my cross tshirt on and I started to make pretty pink sparkly cupcakes.

I suddenly heard a loud knock at the blue wooden door. I opened it and Aunty Dee Dee walked in onto the tiled floor. I was going with her to the cool party. My mum said that I would have to stop at Jahnyva’s because she was coming to the party too. Jahnyva was letting us use Lapatte, her soft adorable bunny. Laplatte had black and white fur. We were using him because it was an Easter themed birthday party.

Once we got to Horotiu, we went into the hall. Amanee, Jahnyva and I played a game of basketball with an orange and black striped ball. The basketball felt quite hard and firm. Also, there was a soft bouncy ball, not as hard as the basketball.  After a while, a face painter turned up. I got a  pink bunny with some silver glitter. Amarnee and Jahnyva got  that too. Everyone started to show up, but the birthday girl wasn’t there yet. A car showed up. Melarn arrived. She was so pretty. Everyone cuddled her. No one wanted to let go of her. We were all having so much fun. Dee Dee said, “It doesn’t stop here.”

1, 2, 3, a bouncy castle showed up. There were two bouncy castles, one for the little kids which was red, yellow, and blue. Jahnyva, Amarnee and I got into trouble because we were on the little bouncy castle. We only went on it because we didn’t know that it was for little kids. The big bouncy castle was colourful. Kalen, my cousin, wanted to do a bouncy castle and Jahnyva said, “Why not?”

This was how the trick went: there were gaps in the sides of the bouncy castle. We went through the sides and, when he said, “I will bring them back,” we climbed back through. We wanted to stay on the bouncy castle longer but it was (kai food ) time.  We were in the middle of eating when it was time for the big kids’ treasure hunt. 
We had to go to the senior playground and find five Easter Eggs. Once we had found the Easter Eggs,  Dee Dee and my uncle Marin gave us clues. My clue was, The Easter Bunny gets sick of climbing up the stairs. I ran as fast as I could. I thought my legs were going to die with the amount of running I did. I found my Easter bag. It had a lot of little tin foiled wrapped, colourful little Easter Eggs in it. My favourite was my big Easter Egg. It was wrapped in red tin foil. I went back into the hall but it was quite late so Jahnyva and I went home.