Holy Week.

Holy Week is the week we get ready for Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday is when Jesus rose from the dead.
The start of Holy Week is celebrated on Palm Sunday. This day reminds us of Jesus riding into Jerusalem.  The people were so excited to see Jesus that they laid  their cloaks on the ground for Jesus to ride over them.
On Holy Thursday, Jesus shared the last supper with his disciples.  For their meal, they had bread and wine which were the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
The next  day  was Good Friday. This day is the day when Jesus was nailed to the cross, but Jesus did not stay dead for long.
Two days later, Jesus rose from the dead.  We remember this  day as  Easter Sunday.  On Easter Sunday we eat Easter Eggs. Easter Eggs represent new life.

My Birthday

Last year, when it was my birthday, I had three friends over. Their names were Stevannah, Olivia and Eden.
The first guest to arrive was Eden.The first thing we did was play with my toy food and my baby alive.
A couple of minutes later, Stevannah arrived. Eden and I explained to her what we were playing so she decided to play as well.
Soon we got sick of the game we were playing and we decided that we were going to play something else. When we decided we wanted to play hide and seek, Olivia came. She didn’t want to play so we all decided to play with my playdough. We played with it for a while until Stevannah said, “Why don’t we mix all the playdough together?”
I said yeah, Olivia said yes and Eden said ok, so we grabbed all the playdough and mixed it all together.
We went to play a little bit of hide and seek because we were bored.
When we came back, we saw our playdough was all dried up but I said, “Oh well, I have a lot of other good toys.”

St Patrick's Day

Swimming Sports

Our whole school went to swimming sports at the Ngaruawahia pools yesterday.
Mr.K called the eight year old girls to the small pool to start our race. I stood behind the small brick wall along the line of my contestants. I stared at  the water and it stared back at me, beckoning me into its trap. I suddenly heard Mr. Emms say, “Hop into the pool!!!!”
I dived into the pool and shivered like nothing else because the pool was ice cold, so I  held onto the edge of the pool and waited for the whistle to blow. Suddenly I heard the whistle blow so loud that I couldn't miss the sound and I started swimming as fast as I could. I tried my best to catch up to them but they were too fast for me so I ended up coming last.
At the end of the day, we had our free swim. When I heard that we were having a free swim, I quickly got into my togs, and hopped into the pool.
When I was in the pool, I swam as gracefully as a mermaid to the other end of the pool. When I got there, I swam around in circles, then I swam as fast as a cheetah to the other side of the pool. I spotted my friends in the deep pool so I hopped into the pool and met up with Alex.

Proper Nouns

This morning our class learned Proper Nouns. Proper Nouns are special names given to normal nouns. They all start with capital letters, for example:
Name of a girl, Stevannah.

Name of a boy, Bob.
The name of a squealing boy, Fred.
Name of a dog, Poppy.
Name of a cat, Mr. Whiskers.
The name of my school, St Paul's Catholic School
The name of our school's street, Belt Street.
The name of my town, Ngaruawahia.