St Cecilia

The Little Blue Slipper - Book Review

Title: The Little Blue Slipper	Author: Jude Daly
Illustrator:
Characters: widower Fair Brown Trembling Old Henwife	Plot: This story is about three sisters. Two of the sister went to church every Sunday. They said to the sister that she must stay home and do the cooking, but the real reason was that they didn’t want her to get married before two sisters because she was so beautiful.
Problem: The problem was that the two sisters found out that the women was their sister and so the locked her away in a cupboard where the prince could not find her.	Solution: Trembling solved the problem by yelling out loud, so when the prince put the slipper on Tremblings foot if fitted perfectly so they got married and had fourteen children.
Your opinion of the story: My opinion of this story was that it was really interesting and I loved reading it. I also loved looking at the pictures and I thought that it was a really great book.	Illustration of a character doing something from the story.

Assembly Poster

Cultural Day

“Oh no” I said to myself. I was so not looking forward to be going to school, because I knew that we were going to be doing our Presentation in front of room six and room seven.  I was so nervous that when I got to school I was so scared that I wished I stayed home.

Later on after the bell rang we went to the church to have our Senior Syndicate Mass. I was doing the prayers of the faithful and I was the first one to do the prayers of the faithful. Later on after the Mass we went back to our classroom to get our pencils and pens. We made our way to room seven and were given our rubric marking paper.

First was United Kingdom. United Kingdom had four students and they were going to tell us a few facts about their country. Later on after that it was Germany’s turn to share their information about Germany. One fact that they told us about was that Germany was the country to adopt daylight savings.

Later on after the five groups had finished sharing their information we all heard the bell for morning tea. So we went back to class to get our morning tea, but before we could get our lunch Miss G made us sit down on the mat to collect our Rubric marking papers.

As soon as we heard the play bell ring we ran to our dogue ball spot. As soon as the bell rang for us to go back to class we went to class then made our way to room six.  First off was India and was followed by Thailand. When it came to China I was marking their work. They said that the Great Wall Of China was the only thing you could see from out of space in the whole world.

We were very proud of ourselves at the end of the day.  It was a great day of learning and sharing.

Typing Test Score

Today me and my class did our typing test. We had to type as many word as possible, we had one minute to type as many words. I got 55 words in a minute and I got 16 words wrong, if I hadn't got sixteen words wrong and got them all right I would have 66 words and i would of been happy. I am still happy of the amount of words I got.

Comparing Communion Of Saints

Touch Training!!!

Today after morning tea we are looking forward to doing Touch Training. The thing that I am really looking forward to is playing the games and learning how to play Touch.

I think we are doing this because it is fun and it also keeps us fit. It is also kiwisports for our school, The people that will be coaching us will be coaches from Touch, New Zealand.

Today during touch I am really looking forward to playing some ball games and also learning how to pass and to step. We will also be doing this sport for three weeks and when we have finished our touch training we will be used when we have a tournament with the whole school.

Saint Patrick

Film Festival 2013

As soon as we entered the Hoyts Cinema we entered to see a bunch of students sitting on the red chairs. I saw the big giant screen and I was going to scream, but luckily I didn’t. Later on we sat down with the students from our class, I sat next to my friends Kanesini and Victoria. We were so excited until the lights went off and it was really dark and we couldn’t see each other.  

Sometime later the screen turned on and we saw the world and a man with a hook, hooking the world. Suddenly a student from Tamaki College said something before the Movies could start, then I saw my friend Alecia standing on the stage and Patrick introduced our class movie.

When it came to the part I was doing the cartwheel I felt so embarrassed because the shorts that I was wearing were so short.  I didn’t want to look at that part again.                            

A while later we saw some other movies from the different schools. My favourite one out of all of them was the Magic Teacher. The reason why I liked that movie was because the student was playing games during class, then he had an idea and went to the tunnel at the playground, and while he was playing a big message from the teacher said “ I know where you are, I know what you’re doing.” It was very funny.

Later on after most of the movies finished me and my two friends just sat back and went to sleep, but when Room 7s Film came on we woke up and watched it because that one was our favourite. I loved Room 7’s one because their Film was the video of their song Friends, We enjoyed it so much that we sang along with the song. We saw students from our school which made the song and video singing and dancing as well. That was the best day ever.

Who Inspires Me?

The person that inspires me is my MUM. My Mum inspires me because whenever she goes to work she says “Be good at school and never give up”. She inspires me a lot, because whenever we talk together and make funny jokes she always talks to me like an adult and treats me like an adult.

I love my Mum because she helps me in everything and always tells me “when you grow up don’t depend on other people because you don’t want to end up living a hard life.” That is why she inspires me a lot.

Copy of Prompt 5

“ Come on David are seriously going to suck my hair with a dad’s  hair machine of whatever it’s called,” exclaimed Susan. “ Ah…. yeah, if you don’t move you won’t feel a thing.” “Please don’t do it, it going to feel weird and and scary as well.’

Later on as soon as David and Susan’s mum had come back from work, David ran to put away the hair Machine and Susan did her hair like it was before. Their mum asked them “Now what did my little children during the day when their mother was out and about? “ Mum were not little children anymore, you know I’m only 19 years old, and brother is 21, said Susan reminding her mum. “Or right then your not my little children anymore, you’re my big 19 year old daughter and you’re my 21 year old son”,said mum.

When is was 10 o’clock and mum was at a dinner. Susan asked David “should we play with dads Machine”, David answered “ Yes lets go see if the Machine is Dads shed. Susan put her shoes on and David and made their way to the front door.

So after a while Susan and David could hear a noise on their way to the shed. The noise sounded like someone was breathing out loud. Susan came up with an idea she whispered it into David’s ear and tried it but it never worked. So Susan and David ran into the house like scaredy cats and when the had entered the house they locked the doors and went to bed thinking they were going to have bad dreams. But the person was still outside the window staring and Susan with his eyes glowing red like a Dragon.

Copy of Practice Writing

In and forest where all different creatures lived, many different animals lived with different kinds. There was a animal that was named Martin, he never had any friends and he was seporated from his family when he was a young baby. Most animals would push him around and say hash things to him, like “ Shame on you that you have no family and no friends or even a home, were lucky because we have everything you don’t have,” shouted the Red Panda.

When the sun went down everyone went and snuggled up in their trees with their families. Martin was the odd one out because he didn’t know where to sleep for , so he stayed up looking at the night sky, but he wasn’t the only one awake. “Oh no not those Red Pandas again”, Martin climbed as fast as he could, but the Pandas were right behind him and tried to reach out and pull Martin down. Martin slowed down and the reason for that was because the Red Pandas were say mean horrible things, during the chase one of the Pandas had fell on one of the branches and hurt himself really bad. With happiness Martin hashly said “ Shame on you Panda, you ugly little snot nose.

Later on after that incident the Pandas returned to their home injured and sick, while Martin was busy looking at himself in the pond. When Martin had returned to his home he could see some humans bring Martins kind. Martin was so happy that when the other tiny monkeys had come out of the cage he played with them all night and he lived a life he always wanted to have. With friends and family and he also meet a girl and later on the Tiny Monkeys became very popular in the world.

Prompt writing 1

        

“Seriously there are no places to put our tent. I think we should go to another beach because some people don’t want to share the environment with us, come, lets go Lisa, hurry up Johnny” said Clare.

“There, right there’s a spot to put our tent up, we’ll go there before it gets taken.” said Lisa with excitement. “Johnny you go and get the food from the shop just across the road”, said Lisa. “ Clare you can go and get the mat since you forgot it in the car,” as if Lisa was the Queen Of the city.

Later on when Clare got the mat and Johnny had got the food they both meet up at the tree on the footpath. They started to mumble like nobody else was listening, and Johnny said “Man, Lisa’s acting like she rules the world and keeps on telling us what to do”, “ I know right” agreed Clare. “Sometimes I think, why can’t Lisa do things herself instead of telling us what to do?” complained Johnny.

When they got back to the tent, Lisa was busy reading her magazine and just looking at the pictures of pretty dresses and saying to herself “I wish I had one of those dresses”, repeating the sentence over and over again. Later on after Lisa had finished saying the sentence, Lisa said with greediness “I want Clare to buy me a dress just like this one on the magazine and Johnny you can buy me the same high heels in this Magazine right now,”.

However, this time Clare stood up for herself and said to Lisa “No I’m not going to go and buy you a dress or anything else for you Lisa!” Clare and Johnny left Lisa sitting on her own and enjoyed the rest of the day having fun in the sun without being told what to do all day.

Jam Bus

Dear Jam Bus Team,

Thank you for recording Room Three. We all enjoyed being recorded and also we thank you for the CD you gave to us. I really enjoyed listening to the songs at home and sometimes on the computer.

I was really nervous even though I’ve been recorded before by my uncle. It was quite a new experience to be recorded at school because I’ve never been recorded anywhere but at home.

I really appreciate you guys letting us take our time when we were recording because we did take a long time when recording.

Yours sincerely, Rosalina

Rosary

Squash at School

“Bang! as soon as I entered the hall a yellow ball passed my face as fast as it could. Then soon two young men were there inside the hall.I was so excited because I've never played Squash, but I have heard of the Sport.

I myself and also all the students in our classroom were really excited.

Later on when we sat down the two men told us their names and their names was Michael and Phil, they were our instructors for Squash. First off they asked us if we had ever heard of Squash or have you seen Squash on television, and I said yes and also some other students.

Soon after that they showed us how to played Squash and Michael and Phil had a Rally. Later on when the rally ws over we got sepperated into two groups and me and my friend Alecia Were the only girls in our group because the rest of the students were boys.

Later on when we were sorted we had to do Skills, ehile the other group was having a go at playing Squash on the other side of the hall.

Later on after doing some hard skills, it was finally our turn to have a go at playing Squash with Michael. Finally it was my turn and I was really nervous because it was a first time playing Squash. before we could start we had to stand in a cimicircle.

After that we took turns and the winner had to stay in and the loser had to go out. As soon as it was my turn i was really really nervous because I thought that I was going to lose. The person I was versing Miss G  and  I lost because my serve was too low so I had to go to the back of the line. Later on after it was time for us to go back to class so then when said thank you to Michael and Phil then we went back to class quitely.

Information :

In the game Squash their are two world champions

Boy: Ramy Ashour

Girl: Nicole David

Them two are the best players in the world for Squash. Ramy Ashour is 27 years old and he is from Egypt  and his Birthday is on the 30th of September 1987. He is also Right-Handed and he was born in Cario which is in Egypt.

Nicole David is a female and she is 30 years of age. She is also born in Malaysia and is the best player of Squash in the world for this year. Her birthday is on the 26 of August 1983. She also weighs 50 kgs and her height is 1.65 m

Squash was created by a school called Horrow’s School in England.  

Duffy Theatre

Yesterday after morning tea everyone in the school was going to the hall for the Duffy Theatre. After everyone settled down, the show started the started. They first introduced themselves then after the they got change into their costumes and started the show. The name of the story was “ Duffy Loses his words ”. The story started when Duffy  was sleeping and then all a sudden a man came into his dreams and the mans name was Vautra and he  couldn’t speak propely.

During Duffys dream their was a lady called lovely and she was  from a planet called babies breath. After that when Duffy woke up he put on his t-shirt which said “Debbie” and the other t-shirt said Duffy. Later on when Duffy was going to take out the rubbish instead he took out the toy box. He was taking out the wrong things because he lost his words because Vautra took his words.

Finally when we were halfway of the show the girls name was Afi and she was good at rapping. When Vautra came Afi was rapping and when she said something that rymed with the word she said Vautra snezzed. So Afi keeped on raping and he keeped on snezzing and snezzing.

Later after the that Duffy and Afi had to competition of who can figure out the puzzle and the whole school also helped with the puzzle. Later on after that we finished the puzzle and we won.

Finally after we won we ended the show with the gifts and then we ask some questions and then they told us about  themselves.

What I liked about the show was that Lose was talking Samoan and she said some funny things that made us laugh and I also enjoyed play the Samoan claping game.

Ten Fast Fingers

This term this is my score on typing test.

Kids For Kids

In the morning when the sun was out I was really happy to go school because we were going to go to the Life Convention Center in Mangere to do a rehearsal for The Kids For Kids Concert.  We got there by bus and it was really fun. We all had to sit with a partner, my partner was Kanesini and she was the Ukelele player from our school. I was the soloist from our school and I had to be selected by Jackie Clarke and Nathan King for the soloist part.

Later when we got there we sat on the bus excited and waited until Miss Denny said we could go outside. We had to go from the tallest to the shortest. Finally when we were inside the big building we had to sit on the chairs and wait until we were called up onto the stage. Each school went up on at a time and when the seats at the top were all taken we had to sit on the brown wood ones. They were a bit bouncy because when we had to do the moves to the songs I could feel the chairs bouncing up and down.

Finally when everyone finished getting organised we all started with the first half of songs. It took a while for us to get through the songs because when we finished one song we had to wait until the next song to be sorted before we sang it.

Later on after the first half we went backstage to have a break it was fun because we all ate some chocolate and we played some games.

Healing

Matthew 24 : 36

Physical - What Physical well - being-means is to look after your body and keep it healthy.

Social - Social means loving your family and friends for supporting you.

Mental - Mental means to be able to tell others what you think and feel.

Spiritual - Spiritual means to be able to believe in God.

Filming Reflection

Last week in our classroom everyone did a Film about Success. Before anything could be done we all got into groups of five or six, In our groups we had to do a storyboard about the Film of Success.

What we did before we could take a film we had loads of brainstorming to do. We had actors and a director and also a camera person. We all did this work on our netbooks.

We started doing actors and putting the people in our group into place. We had a main actor which was me and we also had a lot of fun brainstorming. We all decided to film on the field and our topic for our film was Sports. We tried to find out what we can do in sports to have success and so we decided to have a big race.

When the day came to do the filmimg we all got dressed into our costumes and our teacher got the camera ready and when we took camera we decided to do camera angles so that it would look like a real movie.

The film showed a us training and trying to work out what was the fastest way of how to be healthy. We started taking the shots and we started by being healthy, then training and then the time came for us to race, it was quite hard trying to get everybody into place. When I was in the race I was really nervous about racing other kids. After the kids racing finished having a practise race they welcomed me and told me what to do when we run. They told me where the finish line was and it was time for the race. We lined up like the people do in the Olympics do and when the camera person clicked and it was really fun coming first in the race.

Rugby League Reflection

This Tuesday when I walked through the classroom door some of my friends told me that we were going to have Rugby League after Morning tea. I was worried because mostly everyone had got their own change of clothes and I had forgot.

Soon after when the bell rang for morning tea I went to my bag to get my lunch and when I lifted my lunchbox I found my tights and my t-shirt for Gymnastic training after school. After I got my food I zipped my bag up just incase someone other student might come a take my clothes from my bag.

I really enjoyed the training.  We did passing and catching and played a few skills games.  I am looking forward to seeing what we do next week.

TuiTui Shampoo

St Pius X Feast Day

Today which is the 21st of August it is Saint Pius X feast day. Saint Pius X was born June 2nd 1835. His name was Joseph Sarto . He was brought up in a very poor family with 8 children which was his brothers and sisters. When he grew up he wanted to be a priest so he tried very hard in his school and did studies to become a priest. Saint Pius X 

had become a priest when he was 33 years old. 

The Liturgical Calendar

Cross Country

After weeks of training, this is the day I’ve been waiting for. I’ve been trying to lose a lot of weight so that on the day of the cross country I could have a chance to be 1st 2nd or 3rd place.

Straight after lunch on the 13th of August when the bell rang we all rushed to the lineup area so that we could get straight into the cross country races.

Finally everyone went quiet and listened to the teacher. Everyone was excited and a bit nervous as well. We went to the courts and were put into our age groups. I was in the nine year olds group and I was in the front of the line.

Later the teachers sorted out the juniors and came back to us so we could get started. They started from the 12 year olds and made their way down from ages. It took awhile for them to sort out the senior students, and it was quite boring to wait for them. Finally they got to us and we followed Miss G to the start line. Suddenly Miss G hit the blocks loudly and it gave me a fright. When I looked in beside me everyone was heading off down to the street so I ran as fast as I could to try beat the students in front of me.

Later, I found myself in the third place just behind Stephanie so I ran straight up the hill and then I was in the lead. Suddenly I looked behind me and I saw my dad in the taxi watching me with a strange look on his face, he looked like he was just going to yell and cheer for me. I stopped and waved to him but I should of not done that because everyone was running past me and I thought that waving to my dad was a distraction.

Later I was halfway past the street and I saw some St Mary’s College students waving the orange flag and cheering loudly. After a while I caught up to some of the Room 7 students when I was turning around the second to last corner of the race. Suddenly I felt a really bad stitch all over me and I started to get dizzy, really hot and weak. When I was just running to the last corner I suddenly and no one even noticed me and so I was left alone all by myself. After a few seconds I got up and started to jog the rest of the way. Finally I passed the last corner and ran as fast as I could to beat Ma’ata but she was still in front of me.

Finally I was at school and I was just running up the driveway when I saw Stephanie going to check in so I  tried to catch up to her. Ma’ata stopped and went to her car and I ran the whole way to get checked in to become second place. Miss G said to Ma’ata “Ma’ata, Rosalina just beat you because you went to your car”.

I was at the end of the race and I was proud of myself to take a place in 1st, 2nd, 3rd in the Cross Country, but I was also exhausted.

My Celebrity

Celine Dion is one of the best singers in the world and she has also won lots awards in her singing and she has won 86 awards. Celine was named after a French song called “Celine”. She is the youngest out the fourteen children in her family and was the best singer out of all of them.

When Celine was a child she was raised as a Roman Catholic. Celine Dion is 45 years old now and she was born in the year 1968 and her birthday is on March the 30.

The first song Celine has ever performed was at her big brothers wedding at the age of 5. Celine Dion is my favourite singer and some of best song I love is her song the “Power Of Love”. Celine Dion has no children in her life and she has no husband. In 1989 during a concert Celine injured her voice.

The Assumption Of Mary

We celebrate the Assumption because that is when Mother Mary passed away and her body Assumed into heaven. Some people say that she went into a dormition which means was in a deep sleep at that time, and some say that she died. When she passed away or was asleep her body rose up to heaven and that was her heavenly birthday, which is on the 15th of August. Pope Pius was the one who declared that her body went to heaven because nobody on the earth ever found the body so that’s why they said that she went up to heaven.When Mother Mary Assumed to heaven she became the Queen of heaven and she was in the middle of God and Jesus. Many people say that she died in many places but she died in Jerusalem.

Ant Army

Under the schoolyard there lived female worker ants that lived underground. They had a job to do every morning which was they had to go to the school and look inside the children‘s school bags. They found things like some books and a few marbles, a ball and one sock with a muddy jumper.

Later they found a cream donut and it was wrapped in glad wrap. They all gathered up into a group and ripped the glad wrap off. They all went back to their home.

Badminton

Mapping my Report Writing

Definition:	A game with a racket and shuttlecock which is hit over the net using the racket.
Appearance:	The first serve of the game is from the right half court to the opposite. You can play in singles and in doubles. Opponents change court ends after each game. A game consist of best of three,  21 points sets.
Parts:	Racket, Shuttlecock, net
Function:	Hit the shuttlecock with the racket over the net and make it land on the other side of the court before your opponent can return it.  You can hit it - low, flat, fast, high, slow, soft or smash it.
Features:	Loose fitting clothing, professionals wear white. Needs to be able to suck up your sweat.
Uses:	The first serve of the game is from the right half court to the opposite. You can play in singles and in doubles. Opponents change court ends after each game. A game consist of best of three,  21 points sets.
Value:	It is not a hard game to play. Lots of people can play it.  It’s safe.

Badminton is a game with a racket and shuttlecock which is hit over the net using the racket.

The equipment that we use to play badminton is a racket and shuttlecock and a net. Badminton is a simple game to play, all you do is hit the shuttlecock over the net. In badminton the professionals have to win 21 one points. The uniform the wear is white and has to be loose fitting clothing that sucks up the sweat. Badminton is also an Olympic sport that people play. Badminton is a very easy sport and you won’t get hurt while you’re playing the game. Badminton is also a very easy game to teach.

In the game Badminton you verse other people and you have to be really good at the game. Badminton has rules when you play the game and one rules is that you always erve from the right. In badminton you can play in singles and in doubles. The opponents always change after the rounds.

In badminton there is two ways you hold the racket one way is the fore hand and the backhand. Badminton is a good and fit sport to playing because it is an easy game and a fit game to play.

The 7 Sacraments

Sacrament Image	Name of Sacrament and what it means
	Marriage: Marriage means getting closer to God and joining together in front of God. Marriage means that a person wants to be with another person they love.
	Holy Communion: Holy Communion means that you’re going to receive the body and blood of Christ. One other meaning in that you participate in the Eucharist.
	Confirmation: Confirmation means to be apart of something like being catholic.
	Holy Orders: Holy orders mean when you’re dedicating your life to God . Only Nuns and Priests can do it.
	Baptism: Baptism means when you are being welcomed to a family or a church. When you get baptised they dip you into the water or bless you with the Holy Water.
	The last right: Last Rights means when a Priest or a Nun comes and blesses you and says farewell before you pass away.
	Reconciliation: Reconciliation means when you go to a priest and he asks you what you want to be forgiven for, then you tell him all the things and he will forgive you.