My holidays.

In these school holidays I went on a trip to Wellington and New Plymouth here is a story about my holidays.

Holidays in Wellington and New Plymouth.

These holidays I went to Wellington and New Plymouth unaccompanied minor, I have done it plenty
of times before and it quite fun. On Tuesday I went to the airport and checked in, soon I was in the plane 
and the familiar sound of the roaring engines filled the plane once more. I relaxed casually in my seat as 
the plane sped along the tarmac, there was a slight bump and I was in the air. The rest of the flight was 
casual and in no time at all I was in Wellington.

In Wellington I met my grandad at the airport and then we drove back to their house. The next morning 
I got up at 6:00 to watch Belgium vs France. France won 1-0 with a great goal and I was very happy. 
The next morning was relatively the same, Croatia played England in the morning and it was a very 
tense match. I was going for Croatia and I was very sad when England scored but very happy when 
Croatia scored two more to make a way into the final.

After one more day at my grandparents, I went to my cousins were I stayed up to midnight only going 
to sleep when my uncle came in and warned us with dire threats.

The next day I went to my other cousins house and we went to a dog park with their new dog and 
some of their friends. The park was large and fun and had little muddy pools and swamps which the 
dogs had delight in jumping in and getting atrociously muddy.

When we got home we went to a friends house to see Matariki Fireworks, they were loud and 
exploded into sparks which rained down on the barge that was firing them. The next morning I woke 
up very early and got on another flight to New Plymouth to see my grandparents. The fifa world cup 
final was on tomorrow so we went went and got masks to paint, back at my grandparents house we 
decorated the masks and the TV room where we would watch the match.

At 3 AM the next morning we got up and turned on the match, it was immensely exciting and had every 
type of drama, the final score was 4-2 to France. The next few days I went fishing and my grandma 
caught a kahawai and I caught a red cod. The day I went back to Auckland was extremely rainy and 
there was a lot of turbulence on the flight.

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Soccer.

Me and my friends have been working on a slideshow about soccer it shows players and information about them.
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A Sword, Orcs and Freedom.

I have been working on a story in free writing about Orcs its three pages long and took ages to write so I hope you enjoy.
If you want to see it click on the link and scroll down until you see a story called A sword, Orcs and Freedom. Link
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Mental.

I have been working on a stroy in my free writing called mental, I hope you enjoy. Solomon.

Mental.

I sat in my small but comfortable cabin aboard the Amazon, a small aircraft carrier with the sole
purpose of testing a new solar powered aircraft, and who would be testing it? Me, Me! My knees were
shaking with fear, I had butterflies in my stomach but a look of grim determination was etched over my
face. “I have to go out there and do it,” I thought. “I have to go out there and test that plane.”

Suddenly a shout from the upper decks roused me from my trance, “Come on James, the plane’s
ready!” I gripped the handrail of the bed tightly, the plane was ready. What if I crashed? I stood up
shakily, my face the colour of old porridge. My legs gave way beneath me and I fell back into the
bed with a crash. I stood up again, this time my face was green, my legs were like jelly, I couldn’t
move. My brain sent urgent messages to my legs, slowly and reluctantly they propelled my body
out of the cabin and up the steps to the deck.

When I got outside though, it was worse. Everyone was clapping, laughing or whispering to 
their friends. “You were mental to do this.” said a small part of my brain. “Mental.”

“You can do this James,” said my friend running along behind me.

“I’ll be carrying a mattress though.” said another crew member sniggering.

I shook off both of them and made my way up to the plane, the solar panels hidden on its back
glinted, the nose was shining like someone had just rubbed oil over it. I climbed up the steps, my
brain under tremendous stress, my legs kept threatening to collapse again.

I wrenched the door open and almost fell into the seat. I struggled up into it and pulled the seat belt
over my shoulders. I put my hands on the sides of the cockpit to show that I was ready. Before I
knew it I was flying through the air, I tried to call out but everyone was cheering and they didn’t hear.
“Mental,” said the voice in my brain, louder than before. As the plane soared off the deck, I put my
hands on the controls and lifted the plane up. The feeling was exhilarating, I skipped over waves
and swooped into the brilliantly blue sky. I did a perfect loop-de-loop and then sped back to the ship.
As I swooped around the control tower the plane gave a shudder, I gripped the controls and forced
the thrust back, but nothing happened. Suddenly the engine died altogether, my eyes popped in a
silent scream as the plane swooped a perfect arch and began a graceful but grim descent back to
the deck.

“Mental,” said the voice in my brain as I plummeted down down down…

Classfication activity.

This term we did a chart about a vertebrate, it was fun and I put it on my blog.

Matariki DLO.

This term we have been doing a DLO about Matariki, It was really fun and I learnt heaps about the stars and their position in the sky. By Solomon.

Giant squid report.

These past few weeks we have been doing a report on our chosen invertebrate, I chose the giant squid as it is a giant invertebrate and it is very cool.
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If you want to read my report click on this link.Giant Squid Report.