The Day of Cross Country

 All around me, the other runners crouched forward like really good runners waiting to be released. My legs trembled, from the cold morning breeze, and the from nerves. Then I hear a sound it was

“Go!”

The field erupted into chaos. Bare feet pounded the grass, arms pumped furiously, and within seconds I was swallowed into runners. The first stretch felt easy, my feet bouncing off the ground like springs. But as soon as we hit the hill, reality kicked in. My lungs burned, my throat felt dry, and my legs turned heavy, as though someone had tied weights to them.

As I came up the top of the hill I could hear the crowd up ahead—parents, teachers, friends—shouting names,  cheering. Their voices mixed into a blur, but it was enough to push me forward. A girl beside me slowed to a walk, I clenched my fists and kept running. “Just to the 2 more laps to go ,” I told myself. Then, “Just to the corner.” Breaking the race into tiny goals was the only way I could keep going.

As we rounded the final hill, the finish line came into sight. My body screamed at me to stop, but my mind shouted louder: Don’t quit now. I found one last burst of energy, sprinting with everything I had left. The world around me blurred. I crossed the line, chest heaving, sweat dripping, but with a smile stretching across my face.

I hadn’t come first, or even close—but I had finished 8th but at least I did my best. And in that moment, that felt like victory.

A few weeks ago my friends made a person on the chair,  now when I say made i mean made a person on the chair out of a student leader jumper and a peice of paper. They drew a simple face on the peice of paper and tied the jumper on the chair. it was nice to have a little laugh in class because usauly just work and boringness boring, boring, boring soooo boring. This is the picture of the creepy cuy on the seat-

I hope he comes back to class. Thank you for visiting us creepy guy, RREEEEHHHEEEHHHEEEEEE.

This is our WALT 

1: Understand and perform the basic actions and sequences of a selected Te Ao Māori string game (whai).

WALT 2: Understand and perform the basic actions and rhythms of a selected Te Ao Māori stick game (tītī tōrea).

This term we’re learning about stick and string games. The first string game we played was the cup and saucer that was really fun for me and Madeline. At the start we couldn’t figure out how to get the strings around our fingers well.I think Madeline was having a bit of trouble so i helped her.. We still enjoy doing it and we got it at the end. The stick games were really fun. We learn how to do the beat with the song. We taught some other people from the other class how to do it. We were all very well beat.

When we started throwing sticks it didn’t really work because maddie kept on trying not to throw them too hard so they all ended up in their lap and we got really angry at her. We had to start again once. We’ve done it like 20 times!!! 

Today’s production and I’m really excited about it but I’m also nervous because this was my first production and probably my last production. I can’t wait to do the production. My purakau is about glow worms and this is are story.

Once upon a time they was a cave in wiatitoki and it was full glow worms and it glowed like a town. One day the pakeha put in a culvert so now you can not see the glow worms. One story say the a Maori stood up on the hill and could not see the glow worms.

Our costumes include a tutu, black shorts ,black socks,Some t-shirt  green or brown t-shirts and they’re baggy so that we can tie the lights on the back and  some face paint also some cute  little glowing lights on our butts.You can choose whether your face paint is an Elsa Crown or a half a face of strips.

I can’t wait for my family to see me.

I think that we could have done way better because our practises were way better. The song at the start was a low in sound. I think are class did well. But we were super lucky that we got to do it. Miss Bates was crying because we were amazing!!!

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This week is NZ sign language week and we have been learning to finger spell are name and the ABC.Me and my friend did are names in sign language.

I loved doing this it was super fun and cool.It was a bit hard with the small space to do it.I loved seeeing what other people like and what siblings they have and all about them!!😃

This week, both of the senior syndicates’ classes went on camp, and Whangarei first,t we got to school at the normal ti, which was 8:00 to 8:50 we had to first put big bags in the trailer that had all the clothes in we had in our day bag we had to have a raincoat swimming togs towel lunch box and water bottle, and that was it at 9 05 we got on the bus to do a rurapekeapeak, and we all walked up from mori areas they had so many trenches they may walk to the British war spot and go to the bathroom we all walk back to the bus to go to the place because surfing because I got my confidence back my challenges getting to sleep that we did because the five sixes went there and I would change the menu and the shelves for longer and I would add that we go to the park of fun. I am grateful for Mum and Dad paying for camp and the yummy food.  by JESSICA