All Blacks VS South Africa

All Blacks VS South Africa




I was excited
and ready to have fun
I was hoping the all blacks would win
The whistle blew
You could feel the nervous air around the stadium
Everybody was tense
And so was I
I have been looking forward to this game for weeks
The Grudge match against South Africa and New Zealand
A win for the All blacks would put them ever so closer to the Tri Nations title
I yelled out loud “Go All Blacks”
The game was exciting
And before you know it it was half time


The second half was underway
Everyone was cheering
The crowd started a mexican wave
It went around the stadium three times but then it died out
The game was getting exciting the All Blacks were starting to score points
And at the same time scoring great tries
The game was nearly over
The All Blacks got the ball and scored a great try
The All Blacks had won
Everyone in the stadium was screaming
The All Blacks had won against South Africa once again
What a great game!

By Strom

Michael Rosen Poems

In our class we have been writing Michael Rosen Poems to extend our knowledge in poetic writing styles. These are our two poems.

I have always liked soccer.
No matter how hard I try
I can never let a ball go
without smashing it into the back of a goal.

Today I am trialing for a spot in the Nelson team
to go to Blenheim and have a good time.
When I hopped out of my car I thought
“ There’s not too many here, I may have a chance”
But 5 minutes later they all started to get here.
And I mean all started to get here.
There were around 60 kids there of all shapes and sizes and now I thought
“What have I gotten myself into Sam.”
(excerpt from Sam's poem)


Event: First Day of School

I looked through the big metal gates,
Dreaming and thinking about all that could be,
I looked to the left,
Looked to the right,
I saw lots of buildings stacked up nice and high,
I saw children bustling and playing,
With gleeful smiles stretched wide across their faces,
Mum opened the gate,
I cautiously walked forward,
Not knowing where to go,
Just following my feet,
I walked into one of those high buildings,
Hung my bag on an empty hook,
Pushed open the door.

It was warm and toasty inside,
Ms Dawkins greeted me at the door with a cheerful “good morning”,
I sat on the mat with my legs crossed,
Arms crossed,
Eyeing up the rest of the class,
We learn our ABC’s,
And count to three,
The bell has gone that means the day has passed,
In comes Mum to pick me up,
I look over my shoulder for a final glance,
But I know I’ll be back tomorrow though,
At that moment I knew this was the place for me.

By Nikau

our poems from Michael Dan

In Room 11 we've been writing Michael Rosen here are ours

here's Michaels


Day of the smiggle robbery
It all started one morning ..........
I was at Mapua school thinking to myself I’m gonna play with my smiggle rubber.
When it happened I look in my pencil case it was gone
That’s when the investigation began
I called my team of trained detectives, Hayden, Jordan and Myself.
We were to bring down the suspects one by one.
First we searched Hayley's desk
People saying they saw her with it and she was away
So it was a lot easier than we expected, but Hayley has helpers like Laura and Ellie .
But we got nothing nothing!
We will get them both tomorrow.
The next day Hayley I asked Where is it? I know you know were it is
“Fine here you go" she gets it out and gave it back
Every one was happy until!
"Again it’s gone again"
Hayden says it must be Hayley, Laura or Ellie again
But Jordan says no I know that they really want it, but I think somebody else has done it this time.
We will see if it was them anyway.
I was very convinced that they did it
We were busy arguing when Dan walked in as they were saying you will never find it!
When Dan pulls it out of his pocket
Yes they will never find it!
We all laughed I got it back and we enjoyed the rest of our day.

by Michael



here's Dans

Mountain Biking
Mountain biking with the cold wind seeping through your jersey
You pedal the whole way down the mountain as you fly into the burms
throwing you around the corner as you fly
Up to the jump with a huge rush of adrenaline flowing through your body
With your heart pounding you hit the landing with another rush of relief
As you know you’ve landed successfully as you keep on peddling you come to a straight
You pedal harder as you hit the burm

You gear out
You know you’re putting in 100 % effort in
You see another burm you know you have to slow down or you are
Going to it getting closer and closer you get to it and
You lock on the brakes as you hit the burm
Slow right down but now you have to build up all you speed again
It’s not the safest sport but
It is one of the most fun things to do in your spare time

By Dan

Michael Rosen Poems

For writing this term we are focusing on poems. In the past few weeks we have been researching about Michael Rosen a famous poet. Then we had to write a poem in Michael Rosen's style. Here is a poem Keegan wrote.

Michael Rosen Poems
SNOW DAY

I like snow day
I had to get up at 6:00 so that I would not miss out.
Hurry up I yelled my granddad was going to take me and Kelly to school so that some parents could take us up skiing. We arrived there in about ten minuets at school I said good bye to my granddad and I walked down to Room 8 and waited for the other people to arrived when every one had arrived they started to brief everyone witch is just a fancy word for telling everyone what to do then we got in to are cars.
It toke a long long long [now keep saying long for about an hour] and then finely we got there we had to meet in a little hut. were we had to go into our groups my instructors name was george I thought he was tall. We had to go and get are boots and skis. We had to have a 90 minuet lesion we learnt how to tern and stop then he toke us up the intermediate slope that was fun then we had the rest of the day to go up and down up and down up and down the slopes and I only fell down two times
By Keegan
THE END
By Storm and Patrick

Michael Rosen style poems!

Our class did Micheal Rosen style poems for writing.  Here are some excellent examples of them.

                                                The Last Day of Term

I’m always excited when the last bell rings

I can run outside and do all my things  

I run out the gates full of glee

Finally I can run around wild and free.

I go and see my Mum and Dad

We go down to the wharf and get an ice cream

We play tag and play on the beam

C’mon I yelled 

lets play on the beach

We saw a fish, it was just out of reach.

We drive on home 

Past the school

That place seriously isn’t cool

Now we go past the dairy

The lady in there is really hairy

We’re back at home

I pick up the phone

I call my Granny

I say it’s the holiday!

By Hayden

My life 

HI my name is Jordan and Im all ways  sad 

is it because my parents are mad 

why is that so bad.  I’ve a cousin  

his name is chad he’s all ways glad.

I step out  and look at the sea and think

 why my parents are so mean  

 what’s wrong with me and what am

 I doing here and what are you doing there  why are my feet so bear 

 and why do you have so much hair.

My name is Jordan and Im all ways mad

 is it because my parents are mad.

Michael Rosen style poems ❀

Hey! Its Lid and Luc here!
This week we did some research on Michael Rosen, then we used the information that we gathered to put together an effective and descriptive poem to express our feelings through a Michael Rosen style poem. Then we had present the poems to the class, each poem that was presented had its own individuality but still was based on Michael Rosen. It was interesting to find out about how he likes to perform his poems to adults as well as children and goes around to schools to help other students express their feelings through poetic writing. It was a lot of fun in the pr0ccess.

Lid&Luc :)

Micheal Rosen Poems

Hi Ya room 11
I think you would all agree that the Micheal Rosen Poems were great fun to brainstorm, write, and read out to the class.
The last few days, Room 11 has been looking at the work from the famous poet, Micheal Rosen.
Our task was to design a poem that explains one of the things/moments in life when we felt happiest.
There where great Ideas like, First day back at school, Soccer or rugby Rep team try outs and loads more.
Here's an example

The Beach

I wandered by the water
and wondered what there’d be.
A crab,a fish,a tadpole
Or things to small to see.

As I looked into the water
What then did I see?
All those curious little creatures
Staring back at me!

I took a walk along sand and I meet
hermit crab I watched him scurry on the sand
to find a house that’s second-hand
He crawls in someone else’s shell
And stays because it fits him well.

We have loads more poems like this one.
It was great fun.

By Jeanine and Jess.

Michael Rosen Poems

We have made some awesome poems about what we like and what we dislike. My poem was about Easter Day which is my favorite day of the year! And here is an example of my poem, I hope you like it.

The Easter Sensation

I love Easter I’ve always have.
Every morning every night, I think about it all the time.
When its Easters eve, I think about it so hard I burst into thousand of fleas.
Now its time to say good night, good dreams are coming tonight.
Its 6:30 I can’t hardly sleep I’m so excited I can’t even speak.

Half an hour later, I’m finally awake, its easter!!!
As I hoped out of bed I can already smell the goodness of rich chocolate.
My Mum and Dad were out already out they said to me “go and have a look in the bag you'll find lollies there”.
As I opened my bag I saw nothing there, I looked around the room as I saw my dad grinning with a laugh, What had happened last night!

By Laura T :) :0

MICHAEL WAYNE ROSEN’S POEM’S.



MY PINK TUTU . . .

I made cake in my fluffy tutu!!!!!!
my tutu was pink as a bubblegum
I have a pink strawberry stocking that I wear
Now their covered in sticky chocolate
What do I do?
I can’t tell mom,
I can’t tell dad,
I can’t tell my sister,
I can’t tell my brother.
My tutu It’s all sticky,
It use to be pink,
But now It’s brown but yum It’s chocolate.


The cake is yummy.
It taste like creamy chocolate,
It’s so gooey
It’s stuck to my teeth

Did I bake It?

I’m not quite sure
Is It meant to be gooey?
Its very sticky I feel sick, to much chocolate
I guess I should tell mom?
Or dad,
Or my sister,
Or my brother.
Should I tell or should I not.

By Cacilda and hana

Micheal Rosen Poems

Micheal Rosen Poems all turned out fantastic. It took a couple of days but it was worth it. As they all were very funny or informative. I know that everyone did enjoy it. Everyone had a different topic that they did it on some examples are, Christmas, Easter, School and lots more. And here are some of our poems

POI!

The first time I touched that poi
I knew it was for me
I held it in my hands
And swung it in delight
Tried to catch it I don’t know what happened
But it hit me in the face!
I knew I wasn’t great
But I know I soon will be

As we learned
How to use the poi
I knew that it wasn't hard
and If I practiced I could be as good as good

So I practiced some moves
Over and over
Until my arm was nearly broken
And found that I can,
Use that poi

Now I can do it well
And are teaching others
In Kapahaka!

Done By Lucy.H

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

It is nearly Christmas eve and everyone is really pleased. My sister and brother are ready to unwrap presents. My mum and dad are really excited but sad at the same time because all the presents have made one big bill. When us three kids went to bed dad came in and read a book to us called Jack and Jill. Man that is a great book!!!

What if.. I stay up all night? What will happen? Will I get a fright? Maybe Santa will not come and then everyone will call me a bum. Maybe I should just get some rest because tomorrow I will do my very best. I am really excited I have definitely run out of breath! Now all is left is to get a good night rest!.

By Hayley


Weren't they great!! Great job Lucy and Hayley, you worked hard on them.
Done by Hayley and Lucy H

My own holiday Michael Rosen style poems

My own holiday

Fun

No brother

No sister

No house work

No home work

Just all me

My holiday started with

Movies,games of soccer,

Riding billy man walking up

With rocky boy on the end of your bed

Taking weird and bazar pictures

What’s not to like

You feel happy,free,great,fanatic

All at the same time.

You wake up with sounds

Of the chickens in your ear

And the sound of the birds

When you walk down the stairs

You feel like nothing can stop you that day

So where am I .I hear you say

I could be any where france china and many more but for now

I with just stick in my head as long as i use my imagination i can dream it all UP IN BED.

by Renee & Ellie

This is our one we hope you enjoy this poem.

Micheal Rosen

We all wrote Micheal Rosen poem's mine was on Panthers....
To see the muscles ripple beneath the night black fur,
I say “what a creature, with those yellow gleaming eyes”,
I twist to watch that magnificent creature circling me,
It disappears into the night playing with my mind,
I see a flash of yellow, then a black bullet,
I hear a rustle, then a snapping twig,
I feel those eyes watching my every move.
I think its coming, I think I'm dead,
I yell into the night “come out and face me”
I stomp on the ground when all is quiet.
It is coming, it stalks me, I hear the hissing of it breath on my neck,
I feel the sharp claws rip me to the ground,
I turn to face the panther of the night. I think its in front of me,or behind?
I let out a cry of pain and anger as the gleaming white claws slice my back to ribbons,
I swing a fist but it only slices the air where the panther had been,
It sprints along the barren treetops I see it, now I don’t I hear the air slush behind me I feel the the serrated teeth grasp my neck
Now I don’t feel,Now I don’t hear , ,Now I don’t talk, Now I’m dead.

Kynan

Term 3 - Week 7 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Hi guys, early this week for putting the newsletter on the blog! Congratulations to our Yr 8 BP Technology Challenge Team who came second in the Motueka Cluster competition and first in one of the challenges - great team work and lateral thinking!

Another busy week, hopefully all of you have put your College applications in by now, good luck with those options.

Have a fantastic week

Mrs. S

Term 3 - Week 6 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Abit late putting the weekly newsletter onto the blog this week, although you have all had it from Monday!

Fantastic week last week, especially being able to go up in the snow to Rainbow on Thursday.

Have a great rest of the week Room 11

Mrs S

Soccer

Every Friday at Mapua School it comes down to a full on game of soccer with the Year 8s vs everyone else. It's a fast paced game with slide tackles, fouls that do not count and a perfect curling ball into a goal. It is a fun filled game, so come and watch.Kynan

ski day

We had lots of fun at rainbow ski field, I learnt to ski down the shirt front backwards

DAN

Mapua on a cold morning, but it was worth it! We went to rainbow ski field all of room 9,7, 5, 8 & 11 went and had so much fun on the snow.

MICHAEL

A Grade Gymnastics Competition!!!!!

Gym was on Thursday 19 august 2010.
Gym was exciting everyone was excited.
We all had butterflies in our tummies.
Everyone got involved in the activities and enjoyed it.
Now it was our turn to do our floor routine and i reckon we did good better than our practices.
We got 49 points out of 100 even though we didn't win we still had a lot of fun.
GO GYM!!!!!!!!!!

Ski Day

There was not that much snow but definitely enough to have a good time, and this year strangely there were no arms or legs broken!
[Jake snow boarding]

Gymnastics

HEYA ROOM 11!!! =)
Thursday the 19th was an awesome day!!! Some of us went skiing :P, while the rest did...
GYMNASTICS!! :D We were all ready to go and came to school and double checked on the dance and our floor and stuff, then we set off, we all had the excitement and knew that on the day, we would be perfect! We arrived and warmed up with none other than ZUMBA! :P It was er, cool.
But after that, the real challenges, first up, floor one we all did great on that! Then vault, little scary, but we managed to pull it off! We had a break and ate all of Ellie's biscuits, then back onto beam! We were all good on that, but lucy (me) couldn't chasse, but at least I finished it and got good marks. Then long vault, we ALL did handstands, no matter how scared we were, and we all succeded! WOOP WOOP! Then floor 2, Cacilda did the demo, and then lunch, we all had a nice big wedge of Lydia's cake and the rest, after lunch we had to wait a while until it was our turn to do the team floor! It was really cool, we may not have got a placing, but we all still came away with a big smile on our faces :).

By Lucy and Jess

Snow day

The senior syndicate of Mapua School went to Rainbow Ski field on the 19 of August. As soon as we arrived we were rushed over to the rental shack to get equipped with our boots and skis', then we hit the slopes the beginner slope it was epic we twisted and turned but we managed to reach reach the bottom, Phew! We all had to have lessons to get a grip on the skis' afterward we had free reign. We started off at the Pomer (Intermediate Toe) We had to manage the toe to get the top some kids had epic fails on this toe such as Daniel Reid others like Nikau Webster and Hayden Squance strutting their stuff. The T- Bar also had its fair share of fails such as Jake Mclachlan falling off the toe but still regains his balance just to fall of again and get dragged by the belly up the toe until after much encouragement from Hayden and Mrs Stephens to let go. While Jordan on the other hand suffered going up and down owning himself in a pile on, on the way up but got a cool ride on the snowmobile. Overall it was a day of epic stuggle and big falls but we still think it was one of the best days of the year!

Gymnastic

Gymnastics was a great experience. I had never done Gym before for the school. It was great fun especially when Lucy and I snuck away to do some kart wheels around by the toilets at break time.
We didn't come 1st 2nd or 3rd but we did around 6th or s0mething like that. We all had a really good day so it didn't really matter what pace we came because we know that we did our best!

This is done By Hayley.

Technology Challenge Practice.....

Term 3 - Week 4 Newsletter/Home Learning....

Thanks for another great week Room 11, hope you are enjoying making your raps :)

This week is a short week for 2/3rds of class who are competing in the Top of the South Winter Tournament - play hard and play fair!!

Have a great week

Mrs S

Decision Time!!!

Over the last two weeks we have been visiting the colleges. We have been impressed with all the High Schools as we toured around the them. Hayden and I have been impressed with all the opportunities they have to offer such as the sports pro, the science rooms and the technology areas. We are going to have a tough decision choosing which High School we are going to.


Written by Sam and Hayden

College Visits

One of the open evenings were at Waimea College. Waimea College was a very big school and had a variety of opportunities. Waimea college had a very good first empresion and looks like a very good school and staff avery nice. One thing that stood out was the new gymnasium. This gymnasium is huge and will be ready next year. Overall this looks like a very good school and could be the the best college in the Nelson Region.

Storm and Jake

Getting the tour of the colleges was really exciting I liked seeing the different activities and options that the colleges have to offer. My favourite was the science lab where they were doing really cool experiments. I am really excited about choosing a college and I can't wait to start.
Hana

Cool Schools....

Well, we all went to High School open nights. We went to Waimea College and it was awesome, I loved the science experiment with the dry ice and helium.


Michael + ??????

College Vists

We are working our way through all the different secondary schools and are trying to make the all important decision of where we are going next year. So far we have been to two colleges. First we went to Waimea for a look around. Our first impressions were good and it looks like a great school with heaps of options and a new gym! The second school we went to was Nayland it had really good hooks to get you to go there with their really cool science experiments with lots of different classes and information. We got to taste some really nice ice-cream made by liquid nitrogen, and saw a container explode and picked up jelly beans with chopsticks. We are going to Nelson girls for the opening night on Thursday. This is going to be a very hard decision as all of the colleges look really awesome!!!!!!!!

By Alice and Lucy

College Visits

We have been to most of the College visits, we only have one more visit and that's is Nelson Girls/Boys. I really enjoyed the Nayland but I think that the best at the moment is Waimea. We were really impressed with the effort that everyone has put into the colleges and the time that they have taken to show us around!!

Done by Hayley & Laura!

Decisions, decisions......

There are so many colleges around our area and none that people dislike and would not send there children to. The colleges are going to be our next step up after primary. We have been to most of the open nights they have all been inspiring to us. The girls and boys who showed us around the colleges were great, they had a laugh and joke with us WHICH was nice at the time! The best colleges that shouts out what we need in a college is so far is Waimea college. We hope that Waimea will be good to us when we are in high school.

by Ellie and Renee

Colleges.....Where to go! ♥

Hey guys its Lid and Luc, ✰
As you know us year 8's have to make a big step up ☝ to college and the decision of where to go is not easy.☹ There are so many choices and all the schools around here are brilliant!☺ Most of the open nights have already been held, they were interesting and informative. Still to come though is the Nelson Collage and The Nelson Collage for girls open night. Lydia and I, are both thinking of going to Nelson College for Girls as it has a wide range of opportunities and is located in a convenient place. We are both really nervous and excited about making that big step of going up to college and working in a year 9 atmosphere. Its going to be a new adventure and we are looking forward to it.❤

❀ Lid & Lucy x ❀