Christchurch Earthquake

Christchurch Earthquake

Crumbling buildings

Humans screaming

Roads cracking

Intense shaking

Sad families

Trembling people

Churches breaking

Hurt people

Unsightly liquefaction

Red blood all over the place

Christchurch Cathedral spire tumbling

Houses falling

Earth rolling

Aftershocks continue

Rubble all over Christchurch

Train lines buckled

Hygiene falling

Quakes are devastating

Under the rubble, trapped people

Asking will it stop

Kind rescue crews

Endless quakes

By K. Plessius

Bradly the Battered Bully

The Case of the Battered Bully by  Marion Thomas is a story about Sally the Sleuth solving a mystery about Bradley the Bully getting beaten. At the start when the Year Sevens get to the Year Seven Camp it was pouring down with rain so they did their lessons. When the rain stopped at dusk, they wandered around hoping that the next day would be better and then later on they watched a video.

At 12:00am there were smokes and beer in Bunkhouse C and no one owned up. The punishment the boys in Bunkhouse C had was rubbish collection the next morning. The next day everyone went kayaking on the lake, horse riding and playing on the flying fox. Everyone had fun that day for except for a few people including Bradley who over the course of the day had managed to give Frankie a bleeding nose because Frankie had referred to the night before, held Keith’s head underwater because Keith wouldn’t give Bradley basketball cards that belonged to Keith and called some girls sissies because of the night before.

Later on Bradley was banned from the flying fox as he had been pushing kids out of the way to get on it and deliberately kicking at to spectators legs. During dinner the boys in Bunkhouse had a food fight and no one owned up so the boys had toilet duty.

At 12:30am a tremendous din was coming from Bunkhouse C. It was Bradley. Someone had beaten him up. Blood was pouring down his face and his right eye was already half closed. Sally went into Bunkhouse C to investigate but found nothing.

Then Sally went to the flying fox and the wire was half cut. She got off and looked down. There were blood stains on the platform and there were big footprints at the bottom of the ladder. The answer was Bradley was trying to cut the rope for the flying fox and slipped so he broke two teeth, got a black eye and had lots of blood all over him.

By Karl.

Lost in the Rainforest

Lost in the Rainforest by Sonya Stoneman is a story about Jade and Matthew’s (who are brother and sister) plane crashing because of a fire in the engine in which everyone except Jade and Matthew are killed. Then Jade and Matthew decided to go and find a village so they would be safe.

After one hour they got to a river and Jade dipped her feet in it and was almost eaten by a crocodile! Luckily Matthew warned her and pulled her away in the nick of time. Then when they were crossing the river on a fallen tree further along the river, Jade fell in and there was an electric eel swimming near there.

Later on it started to pour down with rain and there was some thunder. Matthew had found two massive leaves from a tree and gave one to Jade and kept one for himself. Then Jade found a hollow bit in the bottom of the tree and suggested that they could go in it so Matthew felt around inside it and there was a snake inside it already.

When the rain stopped Matthew and Jade quenched their thirst by drinking water that had collected on leaves and had some berries because previously Matthew had climbed up vines to get some berries.

As they were walking they came upon a column of army ants which stung to death a huge tarantula and a coral snake. A little further on they saw some toucans. Round the next bend in the river they came across a small Indian village. The man who took Matthew and Jade in to his hut couldn't understand Matthew when he told him he was hungry but found out that they were hungry when Matthew was rubbing his tummy and touching his mouth. Then they were given a hammock to sleep in..

About a week after the crash Matthew and Jade heard the engine of a motorboat and heard a familiar voice calling out their names. It was their dad! After one week with the indian tribe they were finally able to go home.

By Karl.     

Fractions Splat

Today I played a game called Fractions Splat in class. It was easy and I got 9 points. I think more people should play it.

Sunday 26 October 2014

Today Robin, Mama, Papa and I went to Arapuni to bike along the Waikato River. One quarter of the way through my bike broke so Mama took my bike back to the car. Then I went on Mama's bike and Papa, Robin and I continued going ahead. Once we got to the Arapuni Dam we continued along on a harder path. After a while on that track I got scared because, I had almost fallen into the water, so we turned around. When we got back to the swing bridge we had lunch and then Robin and I walked along the bridge.

When we got back to Putaruru, we got an icecream from Countdown and then we all stopped at a railway crossing and saw the steam train Passchendaele that going to Glenbrook. After we saw the train we went back to Oma's and Opa's house.

Saturday 25 October 2014

Today we went to Firth Tower Museum in Matamata. Matamata is a town in the Waikato. First we went into the Matamata Church. We could only go into it before 2:00 as there was a wedding. Then we went into the Post Office and at the back of it there was a book sale and that was very awesome. After that we went into Mark Madill Shed to look at all the different types of farm machinery. Then I was looking at a model railway in a old train carriage.

Later on after we had looked at all the other buildings we went back into Matamata for lunch before we went to Opal Hot Springs which is at a campground in Matamata and went on a slide that reaches into the water at Opal Hot Springs. I was playing wrestling with Robin. Last we went to see Tarore's (a Maori girl who had a bible and treasured it but was killed and her bible helped spread the words of god) grave.

Then we came home to Oma's and Opa's house.

 

Why is a Medical Centre an Important Place in our Community?

A medical centre is an very important place in my community because it is place where people go seek medical attention when they are sick.

First of all,  people go to medical centres  when they become sick. At the medical centres, the doctors or nurses decide the type of medical attention to be given if people need it. Without medical centres we could die.

Then, medical centres are also important because it has facilities that  can isolate patients with epidemic diseases, otherwise the people who have epidemic diseases would get worse and spread it to everyone else. Some epidemic diseases are measles, cholera, whooping cough, smallpox and rheumatic fever.

After that, medical centres are places people can go to for emergency treatments. . If people have big cuts, people need to go to the medical centre. However if people have little cuts people don’t need to. If people have a broken bones or a sprain, the medical centre will tell people to go to the hospital.

Then, the people at medical centres can also give people medical advice if people need it. They can tell people how to treat cancer, diabetes and  they give people a diet for obesity. When people have a back injury, they  can go to the physiotherapist.

Before people become doctors or nurses, they  need to train and at  medical centres.  Doctors and nurses at the medical centres  also give training to  medical students. They teach them how to do operations and write  prescriptions.

Finally, at a medical centre they give people prescriptions. If people have a disease, they need to get a prescription for some medicine and people need to go back every three months for regular check ups.

A medical centre is an important place in the community because it helps save peoples lives and provide professional advice and attention to the sick.