nana

As I walked up the stone path to the steps I touch the handrails… Suddenly I am taken back to when I was a little boy running up the steps to give grandma a great big hug every year at Christmas. I let go of the rail and I can't see grama anymore all I see is an old broken down door with the rest of the house surrounded by Ivy and the only thing still working is the old faint lantern. I reach the top of the steps and sat down… suddenly I was taken back again and entered the door holding nana's hand.  

Sand

Under the sea there a lot of sand nearly everything has been found but I decided to look where no one has ever thought deep down at the bottom of the ocean. One day I decided to go down there and got some samples. I didn't personally go down there I sent a robot down there to go and fetch it for me when it came back up with the samples I tested them and it was neo chrome sand it took approximately 9 hours to get back up. And on the way back up the robot found some sort of moving sand and when they tested it turned out to be a new underwater creature.This is one grain of my neo chrome sand and I call my amazing discovery Mathers.

Later on from my research of Mathers, I discovered that Mathers was a relative of mather.

Matahiwi Marae Trip

Today (5.9.17) all of the year eights from Nepia and TeKanua went to the Matahiwi Marae. It was really interesting and the elders there told us about some of their culture and ancestry and history. And seeing inside the meeting house with all the whakapakoko or statues and how the meeting house represented the spine. And how outside the meeting house it had the statues all representing something different and how at the back of the meeting house it had a whales jaw bone.

Mandarin

This week in our Mandarin lesson we made ourselves some name tags the name tags had a Chinese version of our names and an English version, we made these with a piece of card folded into three and then our Mandarin teacher taught us how to say our names in Mandarin. Then she got us to right them on the card,
My name in mandarin is Luokan

Here is my name tag: