Courtney





= Hi my name is Courtney I am 10 years old and i am a year 6 I don't love TURTLE's any more I absoulutly adore them when we do stuff that involves Turtles (also Tortise's) I freak out because i'm absoused with Turtles. I espeacilly like squirtle the tiny Turtle he\she is so adorably and cute so I guess I like pokemon but only for squirtle and torkal but also their envolments.I am sporty and I love to run,play netbal and even soccer but the best of all is swiming because Turtles live in the water and some times when I swim in the pool it makes me feel like a turtle I even know how to swim like one. my second fav animal is a polar bear because they're cuddly and cute and also very furry and most of all they are so adorable thats why polar bears are my favourite animal along side turtles.. Guess what my favourite colour is....green, I live in a family of 4 sisters(Ella 7,Coutney 10(me),Shannon 11 and Emma 22) including me and 1 brother (Cameron 22), Cameron and Emma are twins they live somewhere in Duniden (Emma) and Cameron(Cristchurch, poor Cameron he has to live within the earthquakes ), my favorite artist are RIHANA,SELENA GOMEZ,ADELE, Kristina perry,The Red Hot Chili Peppers,Taylor Swift,RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS. = = Are are some stories a made up about my favourite animal turtles!!!!!! =

here is a story called Turtle Zen
== There once lived a tortoise in a forest shaded, shallow stream. It had watched the sun rise over a mountain all its life. Seeing this, the turtle thought perhaps if it were to climb to the top of the mountain and with perfect timing, it could step onto the bright ball and catch a ride on the warm sun. For turtles love basking in the sun. == == The turtle had spent nearly a year walking upward on a twisting and turning mountain road. The journey was a long, uphill battle and the turtle nearly had forgotten why it was making such a pilgrimage except for every morning it was reminded when the sun came over the mountain and renewed his desire for the suns warmth. == == When the turtle finally reached the mountain top he realized that the sun was to high to step upon so it gazed down into the valley below and saw a beautiful lake. It then decided to go down the mountain in order to swim in the wonderful blue waters of the lake below, for it had not bathed in cool waters for a very long time. So he began its decent toward the valley, abandoning his goal to step onto the sun for a new destination. == == As the turtle walked downward it lost its footing and balance and began to roll down a steep hillside. When the turtle quit tumbling and rolling it found itself upside-down, on its back. It struggled for a long time, unable to turn over the turtle decided to rest. == == When nightfall came a wolf happened upon the turtle. Thinking that the turtle would make a delicious and easy meal the wolf clawed at the turtleand nudged it with its nose but was unable to find any flesh to bite into, the wolf soon left. The turtle however was now right-side up, thanks to the wolf. It then began to make its way down the mountain again. == == Not much farther down the mountain, the turtle became victim to gravity and fell a great distance before coming to a stop. Once again the turtle found itself upside-down and helpless. Struggling helplessly the turtle tried and tried to get right-side up but was unable to. A hawk saw the turtle wiggling and waving its legs in the air and swooped down and landed on the turtle. The turtle retreated deep into its shell. == == The hawk gripped the turtle and began to fly away with it. The weight of the turtle was to much for a hawk but the hawk was persistent in getting the turtle to its nest. Flying rather low the hawk was unable to gain much altitude and eventually released the turtle in order to fly high. The turtle fell to the earth, landing in a bed of pine needles and once again rolled down the hill. When the turtle finally came to a stop it found itself close to the lake in which it was attempting to reach. The turtle crawled to the waters edge and submerged itself in the cool, refreshing blue water. == == The next day the turtle was swimming under water and saw the bright sun above, so the turtle surfaced. It wanted so badly to bask in the warmth of the sun so it found a stump and crawled out of the water. There the turtle absorbed the sun’s warmth and contemplated the past events. The turtle found that the trying journeys it had endured had brought it to heaven. A place where it can swim in the cool blue waters of a lake and bask in the warmth of the sun. It’s only goal now… was to feed itself. So the turtle set out to accomplish this new goal. == == (moral: We set goals for ourselves and pursue them, meeting challenges along the way. We may find ourselves feeling helpless and our world gets turned upside-down but patience and preserverance will help us prevail. Sometimes the dangers we come face to face with is just what we need to help us achieve these goals or makes us wiser from them, and as we reach one goal we tend to set another goal for ourselves.) ==

May you find peace and tranquility everyday on your journey as you attempt to reach your goals, whatever they may be.
= Term 1 =

= In Term 1 the topic was Responsibility. We worked on making our leader projects where we explained why our chosen leaders were influential and inspirational. My leader was JONAH LOMU. We also worked on trying to be a leader ourselves. = = I think being responsible means to be reliable and being able to do all you roles constantly. = = ‍There are lots of responsibility and leadership roles at school like being Librarians, Road Patrols, Student Councillors, House Captains and more. = = In Term 1 we also had fun activities.The first one was Waterwise. = = Waterwise was fun each week, being able to sail and kayak at a young age. I am looking forward to doing it again in Term 4. = = I think its strange to not have waterwise in term 2 and 3 but I asked my teacher and she said it's because i't gets really cold and I mean frosting cold in the Winter and in Autumn. = = ‍Also there was camp. = = = = = = = = I enjoyed Year 6 Camp because it was very fun and interesting. We went to Camp MERC ( Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre). We stayed there for 2 nights and 3 days. There were lots of cool activities there like Archery, Orienteering, Raft Building, Abseiling, Tree Climbing, Stack'em, Surfing and Rock Climbing AWESOME. = = ‍My group did Archery, Orienteering, Raft Building, Abseiling, Tree Climbing, Stack'em and Surfing (all of them !!!). = = ‍My favourite was Tree Climbing, Surfing,Abseiling and Stack'em. = = here is my moment in time on abseiling from camp: =

I am a soldier peom our my anzac poem
= I am a soldier = = I can smell hate and dishoner from the flickering fire, = = I can hear screams of death and sadness from loved ones, = = I can see hearts breaking and tears reolling down peoples smooth faces, = = I can touch swollen scars throbbing like a heart beating frantically, = = I can taste the brightness of hope through my dry tonuge, = = But now we lie in peace amougst the poppies at flanders field. = = = = here is my circus recount enjoy: = =** \ **=  ** JJ **** I **** Circus recount **** I **** JJ ** My hands were shaking but my heart was pumping frantically, while we were wondering to the assembly hall everyone was buzzed with excitement. Once we got to the cold metal hall we lay ourselves down on the ice cold ground room 10’s eyes gazed upon a ginger hair freak with a bright but dull tangerine coloured moustache on his freckled face this man’s name was George. George was a magnificent circus performer and George was smart, quirky and funny. But opposite George was a small lady with reddish and bright orange likes hair her name was Lil, Lil was also a flexible circus performer but Lil was George’s partner for shows Lil was very flexible because she is an acrobatic. Lil and George and Lil looked comfortable and comfortably relaxed in their coloured but lightly dull circus clothes. Our first activity to do was to use our space around us wisely, room 10 stretched out and awkward positions which George screamed out at the top of his lungs. But now Lil took over and made us pose in uncomfortable positions like happy cat and sad cat that was fun and cute, after that we stretched as long as we could and as small as we could and is fat as we could and as skinny as we could. George and Lil arranged us into groups if you were in group odd oddie 1 you were with the clowny George for slapstick but if you were in even Steven group number 2 you were with the stretchable Lil to do some fragile acrobatics moves. I was with George so we were doing miming and fake stuff which is called slapstick, slapstick is where it looks like your kicking punching someone, even running into wall or doing something naughty but it’s not really real they fake it by using facial expression to show that your hurt or angry and that’s the same with miming but with miming your like creating an image inside your audience’s head and making them believe that your crouching down and opening a unique box because it can be anything you want the box to look like and pulling up a pole and making them believe that it’s actually real(we did this miming one. For miming we did the box and pole which I just explained and we did this pulling the glass were you stand in one spot and pull your arms out one other your head and the other one below then you pull your body and there you have it how to do the pulling the glass move. Now we did slapstick it was really fun we did so many different moves but I can only talk about one and this one was my favourite one it was tricky and fun it’s called pull that hair, this move was where a person was lying on the ground as still as a statue and then you grab their hair firmly but not too hard while they grab on or hold on very tightly to their wrist and when the person holding the wrist needs to put on some painful facial expressions and to wriggle around while the top person try’s to pull across a smooth but clean floor and it looks like your pulling their hair really hard and they’re getting hurt but really I’m not. Now lil took over and my group did acrobalance, for acrobalance we were touching, sliding and balancing firmly we formed strange positions and shapes like the plane which is where one person lay down flat with their arms up and the other person grips onto their ankles firmly and the bottom person grips onto the top persons ankles and there you have it that is how to perform the bunk bed (to do this you need have someone about your height). We also did more things like the plane, the chair which involved lots of focusing and especially concentrating it was really fun and especially hard but I think Lil taught us amazing skills pro tricks. Now our final task was for all of us (rm10) to get into a circle, it started off to be one ginormous blob but it turned into a proper circle while holding hands. Lil told us to lean back and trust one another but rm10 didn’t so guess what we all fell we tried it again …. CRASH we failed again after we tried it one more time but we failed how embarrassing even though we failed rm10 was chatting and laughing away nosily. I think that it was very fun and it was filled with laughter and amazement that’s why it was so enjoyable. But next time I wish that we had more time so then we could learn more tricks but other than that it was amazing and I would love to go there again and see George ad Lil do many more tricks and hear laughter in the air. By Courtney JJJ

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