Shopping holidays

Can you guess what occasion this is with all the information. Good Luck. 

 'We're going shopping Selena "screamed my sister while I was asleep.  "What" I screamed back".

''Shopping'' she answered. " Now go get ready I don't want you to go to Sylvia park like that.

As I dressed up I was thinking about what to buy. I walked downstairs in a yellow short dress with tights underneath. I was so cold so I grabbed  a warm coat and walked into the car. My sister walked out of the house like a princess.

''WOW'' I exclaimed as I walked into Sylvia Park. There were so many people running around the store like Sylvia park was just about to close down.  Me and my sister just walked through the crowd slowly.  The place I wanted to go to most was the Warehouse, But we had to go to jay jays.

I bought 2 T- shirts and 1 pair of skinny jeans. My sister got 3 T- shirts and 2 jeans.

''Warehouse here we come" I thought to myself as we made our way to the biggest ,red shop in the world.  I raced inside the shop and started looking at the Cd's. It was so hard to pick only one CD but since my sister felt so generous she said I could get 4.  So at the end of the day I got two Michael Jackson Cd's  a reggae Cd and a Hip Hop CD.

Did you guess what occasion It was?

Yes it was my Sisters Birthday.

My retelling of Cinderella

Once upon a time, In a great Kingdom, a gentleman lived happily with his wife, who was sweet and good, and his pretty little daughter. But something sad happened. The wife past away and the father had to get remarried. He got married to a hideous , self centered women, who gave birth to two ugly girls that was just like the her. Sadly the father past away. So that meant that the mother was in charge so she ordered Ella (who was the daughter of the mother who died ) to do all of the housework for them. One day the prince had sent a invitation to all of the houses inviting them to a royal ball at the castle to find a princess to marry. The ugly stepsisters demanded Cinderella to make them a beautiful dress. She worked for 5 hours making their dresses. As soon as she finished she had to do their hair ,makeup and polish their shoes. By the time she finished she asked in a sweet voice" Can I come to the ball?". The Stepmother said" After you have finished cleaning all of the rooms and swept the floor , But you have to do it all in 10 minutes''. After 10 minutes she came into the room with a lovely pink dress, but cheekily the stepsisters riped and shredded the dress and they just left Cinderella crying on the porch. In an blink of an eye a wondrous sight appeared. It was Cinderella 's Fairy Godmother. Cinderella's Fairy godmother asked her" Why are you crying my dear?". She replied " I am not allowed to go to the ball ". She answered " Well if you want to go to the ball you have t0 go and get me a pumpkin, Six mice and a rat. So she raced of and found all of those stuff and brought it back to the Fairy godmother and she told Cinderella to go and have a shower. As soon as Cinderella finished her shower she was amazed at what she saw. She saw a carriage, six horses and a coachman. Then she sighed" Despite the stuff I can see what am I going to wear"?. Then without answering the Fairy Godmother waved her wand around Cinderella and there she was, standing with a beautiful aqua dress. As Cinderella was about to leave the Fairy Godmother said " Oh one more thing". "What"? said Cinderella. "You have to be home by Midnight or else your dress will turn back to rags", and off went Cinderella. As Cinderella stepped into the ball room all eyes were on her. " Do you want to dance" asked the prince"?. "Sure" said Cinderella. As the two were dancing the ugly stepsisters were jealous. Cinderella got so carried away that she didn't know what the time was. Ding Dong Cinderella ran as fast as she could out of the hall , Down the steps and away into the dark night sky. "No" the prince thought to himself, but as he was walking up the steps he saw a glimmering light in the distance. it was the beautiful girl's shoe. As soon as he picked it up he raced inside the palace and commanded his gentlemen to go around the whole kingdom and see if any girl fit's this shoe. So the search was on for the girl that the prince danced with. They went to every house in the entire kingdom , but no one could fit the shoe, until they came to Cinderella's house. The ugly stepsisters were beautifying themselves, while Cinderella was washing the clothes in the wash house. "Will you try this shoe on for me"? Asked the servant. "Of course" replied Anastasia. "Too small" said the servant. "Will you try this shoe on for me"? "Of course" replied Drizella. "Too big" said the servant. "Do you have any other daughters"? asked the servant. " No ". Then he could hear the sweet melody of the Cinderella's voice. "Who is that?" "Oh that is just our maid". "Let her try on the shoe". "No". "Yes " insisted the servant. So he got Cinderella and she tried on the shoe and... It was a perfect fit. So they took her to the palace and told the prince that this is the girl that he was looking for. The prince asked her " Will you marry me?" " Of course " and so they lived happily ever after.

THE END

Thank you to this website for giving me this lovely picture.
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My blog Wordle

Today in extension Mrs Burt taught us how to use" Wordle".  She taught us this so when visitors come to our page they can get an idea of the kinds of things I write about and also they will keep on coming to my blog to see what's new.  The biggest words are the ones we used most in our whole blog.  Enjoy.   

Cinderella Dialogue

The conference with Hamish Campbell

In the morning the whole extension class had a video conference with a famous Geologist named Hamish Campbell. We were talking to him about the earthquake that happened in Fiordland this year. To prepare for our conference with Hamish Campbell, we made Seismometer.

He told us that it happened at 9pm and it was the 16th of July. On the north island the Pacific plate was going underneath the Australian plate , but on the south island the Australian plate was heading underneath the Pacific Plate. It lasted 30 seconds and no one was killed, but it was measured by a Seismometer and it was measured 7.6 magnitude , the biggest earthquake worldwide in 80 years.

Speaking of earthquakes i am going to tell you about an earthquake that happened in China in the city of Tangshan in the year of 1976. It lasted 15 seconds and it killed 242,000 and around 50, 000 people were injured. It was recorded as 7.8 magnitude. The reason that so many people die in earthquakes because are really because are really dangerous because they happen so fast and they do not have warnings like for e.g Volcanoes , Tornadoes and all kinds of disasters have warnings.

The facts that I mostly like is when Hamish Campbell told us that in the earthquake was felt in New Plymouth. Another that I want you to know about is that the Plates that are covering New Zealand are not in a circle shape they are in any different shape.

Last term we were learning about Dinosaurs and Joan Wiffen was part of our important project but just today Hamish just told us that she past away. She past away on Tuesday at the Hastings Hospital.

Thank you to Diana Grace and the Te Papa Museum. Huge thanks to Hamish Campbell.

To find out more try clicking on any of these links:

Hamish Campbell

Fiordland

Joan Wiffen

Seismometers

Te Papa Museum

Glossary:

Seismometer: A Seismometer is a instrument that records the intensity of an earthquake.

The Mighty Megalosaurus report

Megalosaurus

(Great Lizard)

Megalosaurus was a Lizard hipped dinosaur.  It was a 

therapod and a teturan.  Megalosaurus was a large 

meat - eating dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic

period about 181-169 million years ago.  Megalosaurus

was the first dinosaur fossil discovered  in England 

in 1616.  It was also the first dinosaur in Europe

and given a scientific name by William Buckland in 1842.  

The Megalosaurus was 9 feet( 30 metres) and weighed 

  about 1 ton.  It had two strong legs.  It was a Scavenger. 

 

Nutrition

A Megalosaurus was a large Meat- eating predator.  

It's jaws were packed with sharp , serrated teeth 

which curved backwards into it's mouth.  They

were ideal for cutting through meat.  It's jaws

were very sharp.  It's teeth were as big as a small 

mammals whole jaw.  The teeth were deep in 

so it will be a struggle to take the teeth out.

Habitat

We know that it lived lived 170 million years ago

at a time when the earths weather was mild.  

The worlds plants were large and plentiful

as in a rain forest today.  There were forest

trees such as Conifers,Cycads,Ginkgoes

,Ferns and Horsetails grew on the ground.

This scene would have been home to a Megalosaurus.

Extinction

There are lot's of theories why dinosaurs died out but 

the most popular theorie was that a meterorite hit 

earth and a dust of cloud flew over the whole world 

and it covered the sun and the dinosaurs could not adapt

to the weather so the died.  

Fast Facts

Name:Megalosaurus

Description:A bipedal Carnivore

Name Means:Great Lizard

Period:Middle Jurassic( 70 Million years ago)

Location:Europe

Length:9 Metres (30 feet)

Weight:1 Tonne 

The End 

This report was written by :

Selena Hafoka

All about my family.

KIA Ora

My name is Selena and today I am going to talk about my family.

First I am going to talk about my Mum. Her name is Flora. I love my Mum because when I am sad she always cheers me up. I respect her because she had to move from house to house so she could have enough rooms for all of her children. She has five children and she had to look after them. The thing I love about her the most is that she is hard working . She works 3 or 4 hours a day.

Second I am going to talk about my one and only sister. Her name is Patrice Fa'ulua. I love my sister because whenever I have girl business she is always there for me to talk too. I also like her because she let me name her baby. Her baby's name is Dereon Phoenix Joseph Thomas. My sister's most great talent is cooking.

My nephew Dereon is cute and chubby. I love him because he smiles at me and talks to me in baby language.

Now I am going to talk about my youngest brother. His name is Leka Fa'ulua. I sometimes feel sorry for my little brother when he is crying because someone made him cry I sometimes go angry but sometimes I just stay with him. I think he looks cute when he is sad.

Now is my second oldest brother. His name is Samuel Fa'ulua. He is my closest brother. We kind of like the same stuff. We both like sports and we both like to play rugby in the afternoon. But that is a family sport. I like him because whenever he goes in to town he takes me with him.

Now my last brother is the second oldest out of all of the children in my family. His name is Mone Fa'ulua. He is silent just like me. He doesn't talk that much only to family members. I love him because whenever I am hurt he comes up to me he says:" Lena are you alright '' and I say ''Yeah I am alright ''.

Now it is is my nana's turn. My nana does a lot of stuff to help people. She doesn't do it for

money, she does it for free. She tries to make medicine to help people to get better, and she massages

people and helps them get better.

Last but not least is my papa's turn. I love my papa because he tries to speak English everyday

and whenever he comes back from church he sings a tune from a church song.

Well that is all of my family I am going to talk about today.

Well bye for now.