The Sky City Fire-By Storm

On the 22nd of october 2019 there was a fire that  hit the Auckland Sky City Convention Centre. 

Large flames were coming out of the building just after 1pm. The fire started in the roof cavity and it was difficult for firefighter’s to get inside the building and to the top. More than 200 people made it out in time before the flames really took off. The fire services are still there now watching the building.
Scary.

Tekoteko Art by Storm

Every Friday Mr Reid teaches us art skills or something to do with art.

For the past few weeks we have been focusing on our tekoteko. If you don't know what a tekoteko is, it is a Maori carved figure that is normal on a roof of a Marae to show greetings to new people and family members of the Marae. 

We have now all finally done the tekoteko and ready to move on to Samoan and Tongan designs. I am so happy to move on.

General Knowledge-By Storm

For the past two weeks Room 12 has been writing about General knowledge. If you don't know what that is, it is information that is important and you should know by now.

General knowledge  are facts about important and interesting things. They are like bullet points but have different meanings to them. I didn't know anything about  General Knowledge before we started this.

My Two Books I Got At Syndicate Assembly-By Storm

I had been chosen to go up and choose two books and the name of the two books I chose was The Ghost Light and The New Girl. I chose those books because they looked and sounded interesting. . I was nervous because as soon as they chose me, I had a numb foot and whenever you have numb feet its means you have pins and needles and that makes you kind of walk like a penguin or cricket which is really embarrassing.  I was extremely nervous and I even had to take a picture.

Daffodil Day by Storm

Today we had Daffodil Day.

Daffodil Day is to support the people who have cancer. We supported cancer by fundraising to help the people who research the disease find a cure for those people with cancer to maybe live for an extra  day or maybe even for the rest of their life.

Later we made paper daffodils and I asked Mrs Vickers how much money we made  today and she said, "$73." I was like WOW!
That is amazing that we are going to definitely give that to the people with cancer.

A Huge Storm! by Liza

On Tuesday I was watching the news. I saw that Auckland was going to be hit by a huge storm so I prepared myself. A few hours later there was an enormous storm. I was terrified because I thought that something could have happened. A tree could have fallen on my house or the roof might have flown off so I snuggled in a fluffy blanket to keep me warm and relaxed.

 As I was watching TV I heard a buzz. Then lights went out. The television switched off automatically because there was a power outage. Suddenly, I heard weird banging noises coming from my balcony so I went upstairs, hopped into my bed and fell off to sleep.

School Assembly by Storm

On Monday we had our assembly for term two. To start off we had the NZ anthem, karakia and our school song. 

All teachers had to choose one learner  from their class to get a Duffy Award while Mrs Vickers was reading out information from her  interesting neon orange paper. As the students chose one book each we all started clapping. Room Twelve's student was Katrina, who is the head prefect. She had chosen a book called 'Logan Likes Mary Anne'. 

After that Mrs Pederson came up and gave us an impressive talk. She had told us she sang the Australian NZ anthem at the Anzac ceremony she went to. I said in my mind, ''I just studied something like that.''  

Later Mrs Vickers said her last word and said we were over our limit and it was almost time to leave school.