Bowling

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I have been working on my Writing. I have been working very hard on it by adding detail and trying to use different words to describe what I do at 10 pin bowling.

I am proud of this writing as it is my personal best. I have added pictures into my writing and tried to make it interesting for the people reading it.
I use my Perseverance muscle all throw my writing by not giving up and used it all throw my tenpin bowling from the start and the end.

I hope you like my story.

Tenpin bowling

Whoosh goes my tenpin bowling ball down the lane. It is a really cool pink ball with black swirls all over it. It was made just for me as the man had to drill out the holes on the ball to match my fingers.

I really love going to play 10 pin bowling and I am in the kids league which is on a Monday night. I am practicing heaps so I can go to the NZ National Championships in Wellington next year.

The bowling alley has 14 wooden lanes that are really slippery with a black line on each lane that you can’t go past. At the end of each lane are 10 pins and you have to try and knock the pins down with a special ball. You get to have 2 turns each time it is your go.

You have to wear special bowling shoes so you can walk on the lanes. They look really funny and the ones I get always have cracks in them. It can be really noisy when there are lots of people playing as you can have 10 people playing on one lane at a time.

I had a really great score one time I went with my Mum. My mum said to not look up at the scoreboard because I lose focus as I have to think about what I am doing. I have to walk up 4 steps before I bowl the ball . On my third game I got 5 gutter balls which means the ball goes into the gutters which are on both sides of the lanes and you don't get any pins down. It is not good to get gutter balls and you need to get a high score to win the games. I got 2 spares and that means when you get some pins down on your first turn and all the rest down on your second turn. I got 2 strikes and this means you don’t miss any pins at all and get them all down on your first turn. I am so happy when this happens as it makes your score high. At the end of the third game my was score is 116.

We decided to have chips and toast and I took back our tray after the game. Next we went and got a printout from the counter to show my dad my score when we got home.  I placed my bowling ball in my room and when I went to bed I felt pleased with myself that I scored 116 because it is my highest score yet. My mum and dad were so proud of me.

These are photos my cool pink and black
bag and equipment like my ball,rag and spray that I use to clean my ball at the bowling and a folder to put my score sheets in.

          

 

My art at school

I  chose a distance  road art it all was just pastel to celebrate Matariki. I had to draw a light white triangle to make a outline of the road and so I noow where to drew the trees to the end of the point of the triangle. The trunk was a challenge to me because I had to get it the right size and the right height to get it looking like it is going away from me with the big trees at the front and the small ones at the back of the triangle.I used Light to dark or dark to light green for the trees and a dark brown for the trunks.The sky is light blue if it is dark blue you can not see it so light blue is the best.Now you do the the koru all blues and a white and also do the flax with red, Orange, yellow and a woodish brown.Now you put the Seven stars in the sky once that is finished you can do the road gold or yellow and do the outline and lines in the middle as wall.The last thing I did was the black for the road.

Drumming

Drumming

 I have been learning to get better at my drumming when things are hard.
 I am proud of my drumming  because it is my favourite thing to do it gets me moving and grooving.
 Something that challenges me at drumming is when I get a new tricky sheet I have to practice and practice to get it right because Practice makes perfect. The learning muscle I am growing is my perseverance muscle.


Drumming is my most favourite thing to do. On a Tuesday I go to Taradale to have my lesson and my teachers name is Cameron Budge. I have learnt to hold the drum sticks in the right place - when I first started he put marks on the sticks so I knew where to put my hands.

I am learning a new piece at the moment and the beat was created by the popular singer Michael Jackson.

The hardest part is at the beginning when I have to drum with the drum sticks on the floor tom and snare at the same time.

I can tell you what a floor tom is, it is a drum that stands on 3 legs and the top is a clear skin.  This is what a floor tom looks like:   

The snare is smaller and shorter than the Floor Tom 

This is what a snare looks like:

     It takes me 5 or 6 times at home practising to get the music sheet right and when I get it right I can get a new piece of music to practice. I hope to one day play in a rock band.  

Rosie's drumming video

Matariki

Matariki

Matariki is the Maori name for a cluster of Stars which rises in Mid Winter. It is the start of a New Year for The Maori.


This is the cluster of the stars.

We celebrated Matariki at school on Wednesday this week - the 6th June. There were different activities like hand sewing, carving, cooking, flax weaving and mural painting. I chose to do the mural painting with Mrs Hill. It was so much fun.

There were 6 of us in the painting group with Mrs Hill. We had to design our mural and then paint it onto big sheets of wood.

 This is our group:
Ashley who designed our mural
Charlotte, Izzy, Beau, Chris
and me.

In this picture we all had our different pieces to paint. 




I painted the whole river and helped Beau with Te Mata Peak.






I loved painting it and can't wait for it to go up outside the staff room at school.

Something that challenged me was painting the river challenge because I did not want to get blue paint in the koru.
I am proud of my learning because it took along time to paint it and we had to persevere and work together like a team.

Art by Rosie

MY ART

I have been learning art this year. I go to lessons every week and my teacher is Katie. I really love going and painting pictures that we can hang on our walls at home.

I wanted to paint a picture that would challenge me, so I chose to do a painting in a Van Gogh style. It was really hard as his style of painting uses lots of little strokes and has lots of different colours painted on top of each other.

This is my finished art work. I am so proud of how it looks. It took me 8 lessons to finish. I did it all by myself. Katie just showed me how to mix the colours and how to do different brush strokes.

This is the steps that I did my painting in. I hope you enjoy looking at my pictures.

Rosie

First I had to choose a canvas that I wanted to paint on. Then I had to outline in pencil the type of picture that I wanted to paint.

I started to paint my first layer of blues and greens.

Then I added the colours of the houses and added more layers of blues and greens.





Next I added yellow for my stars and moon. I also put more layers onto my houses.





The next step was to start painting the clouds. This part was hard as it was hard to get the right colour.

This picture is me doing last few details on my painting.

I am proud of...my I am poem because it is my personal best and it took a while to think about the I am. 

I am…

Success Criteria

Use a thesaurus to choose the best vocabulary

Choose the best nouns for the poem

Choose the best adjectives to describe some nouns

Leave the reader thinking about your poem by sharing what it inside you

I am different

I wonder if I will ever be a policewoman

I hear lots of people talking  and chattering

I see all my friends all the time

I want to go a lot faster on the softball field

I am different

I pretend I am a mistletoe, apple and a rose

I feel glad that I’ve got my puppy Milly

I touch Milly’s soft pink blanket

I worry about my granddad every day and me at school  

I cry when people die

I am different

I understand what my teachers say when they talk

I say good morning to mum every morning when I wake up

I dream of teddy bears and my family

I try to be the best I can be at everything

I hope I get better at tenpin bowling

I am different

ART

I have been learning to put the pieces together for my art and making them the right size and shape for a mask. There are so many colours  vilot(violet) blue, raspberry pink, butter yellow, chocolate brown and skin and I had to mix and make them all. 

My initials are on my mask R and K. I have a hart because I love lots of things and my favrite (favourite) colouers(colours) are pink and blue.

I am proud of my art because of how it looks and me working quitly(quietly) by myself and solving my problems.

My Hoilday

"Wow what a beautiful site," I said. While we drove to Taupo my 3 year old puppy was lying on top of my lap.'Are we there yet?' I asked. "No we are not there yet Rosie' mum said 'Only 30 minutes to go''Yay ' I exclaimed. Finally we are here now we drop Milly off at a farm and hopped into the car and drove off to our hotel in Taupo for 1 night. Feeling exited when I woke because we were off to Auckland . I had a spa bath and got dressed and hoped in the car and drove off. After stopping in Matamata for lunch we drove on the motorway to get to our hotel in Auckland - the Jet Park Hotel.

The next morning we got up really early and boarded our plane for Australia. Arriving in Australia, my family and I went and picked up our suitcases and our 2 cars and put our luggage in the cars and drove to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. When we got inside I could see a waterfall and a Lizard scurrying into the garden. Next we all stepped onto the train which took us to green patch station where the animal hospital was, a free flight bird show and shearing sheep show. The 2nd stop was wild burger cafe. The next day we went to Movie world. We saw a 4d movie was playing which was about road runner - the seats jolted and water was sprayed in our face during the movie. Dad and I went on the Road Runner Roller Coaster it was quite scary when it tilted on my side. When it stopped  I wanted to go again so the lady

let us stay on. Another day we visited Sea world where I got out of my comfit (comfort) zone and went fling (flying) in a helicopter with my dad for half an hour which was exiting. 

We had an amazing time in Australia together.  

Writing

I am proud of my writing because I have lots of detail and I have never written so much before.

Squelch squash as the sand pushes up threw my sore toes.I glance at my feet a fire red crab is climbing up them, ’’Owch’’ the feisty crab bit me with its nippers they were 30 cm long. My leg started to bleed, I shook my leg and the crab went flying back into the sea.I walked to the edge of the island and knelt down to scoop some salt water on my leg to wash away all the blood. After I washed away the blood I quickly walked into the jungle and found some coconuts in the middle of the jungle hanging down from the branches of the coconut tree.I looked around and sore a flax boshe and made a flax basket and then climbed the tree using my hands to poll myself up where some coconuts were and twisted the coconuts until they came off and I chucked  them into the basket on the ground.

Now I am going to tell you how I got to Jungle Island...  

It was a really rough night in the deep ocean and we were in the our vessel The Mary Celeste was bobbing up and down with the mighty waves when suddenly I felt the ship tipping over and cold salt water was flowing into the ship and the crew and I were tipping over as wall as the ship.Then we all tumbled into the water I could not see my crew because the waves were too high but I could see our ship sinking to the bottom and hearing blob blob blob as The Mary Celeste went down down down I was being pushed by the massive wave and my head was going up and down and I could taste disgusting salt in my mouth .I spotted a piece of driftwood drifting towards me so I reached out with my tiered ames and grabbed it pulling it to me and hauled myself onto it.I looked up and saw trees in the distins so I paddled and kicked like crazy. After 2 hours  of kicking like crazy I could finally touch the sand as I crould to the island.

Searching in my pockets finding a soaking wet notebook I put it on the hot sand for it to dry once it was dry I wrote a note and put it inside a bottle and walked to the edge of the island.I throw it into the clear blue sea hoping someone will find it. I

Dogs and Puppies

I am really proud of how well I have done so far with my writing and how much information I have in my presentation.I love all types of dogs but my favourite dog is a Labrador. I have a puppy of my own and I learn a lot from her and her name is Milly.I have used a lot of pictures in my presentation and I have tried to make them all different. Something I learnt was putting my information under sub-headings.