The marae visit

 

Hi bloggers. Last week on friday we went to a marae. At rest time me and my friend played chess and your going to find out what we did for chess and who won. I hope you enjoy what we did for rest time. 

Me and my friend slowly walked to the wharenui to play chess. We were at Takipu marae where there were lots of bugs and grass. It was a boiling hot day at the marae. Year thima and ono were at a sleepover at the marae.

When we were at the wharae kai we sat down and set the board up so we could play. We started playing and I almost straight away I got a pawn out. It was only my first time playing and my friend had been playing for a long time. I was very proud of myself.

When we were halfway through the game, My king was in alot of danger. I was thinking really hard. What was I going to do. I finally made my move and saved my king by just a whisker.I sighed. I was relieved.

Suddenly, Without me noticing my queen was right by his king. I shouted “ Cheek mate.” We set the board back up so we could play again. We made our first moves then we had a pause to talk for a minute.When we moved the players they made a tap tap noise on the board. My king was right in front of his king already.

I made my move, I had won, I shouted. I was feeling more than excited! I had got a victory and it was my first time playing. I explained To my friend I am definitely going to play chess again!

Written by Thomas.

My Easter Story

This week we have been learning about holy week and what order the stories go in. I hope you like my easter story.

To make the easter story we had firstly color in the pictures and match them with the readings. Secondly we had to cut them out and cut the readings out to. After that we got too plates that were different sizes and a big piece of paper and followed the lines around the plates. After we had drawn the lines we cut around the lines that we had drawn and it made a circle. When all of that was finished we got the glue and glued the pictures onto the round piece of paper and that is how you make an holy week reath. With the reath we made a flipgrid that explained what the order of the events that happened and when they happened. The flipgrid was fun because we could choose if we had sunglasses or if we had blue hair. But the coolest part was picking our frame. That's how you make a holy week reath. 

HOT CROSS BUNS !!!

 We have been creating a collage with the pictures from making our hot cross buns. The cross on top of it resembles the cross that Jesus carried. The bread and the raisins resembles the body and blood of Jesus. There is also the spices and they resemble the spices that they put on Jesus.