Swimming photo

Camping at Kaitieke

Camping at Kaitieke

Cannonball, splash!
My family and I were camping at Kaitieke NZ .There where so many cool things to do; kayaking, fishing, swimming, hunting, bow and arrow.  

Machine Gun Photo Story

Bang! Bang! Bang! The stuttering and explosive noise from the speakers was like a machine gun firing in the giant room with us. Big black speakers were hiding in the blackened ceiling. “We need more ammo!” screamed the speakers as the firing stopped. The soldiers statue was massive and so life like. A big dirty white belt with small bits of metal and bullets were attached  to the gun. On a big plaque it said that the guns could fire out 500 rounds of bullets a minute. The giant gun had a huge metal cylinder to put water in to cool the gun barrel. This gun  had inch thick steel plates surrounding the gun so the man shooting it couldn't get shot.  By Dylan    

Dylan - the Gallipoli exhibition

As we walked through the door, the lights went dim and glowing red lights appeared. We walked in a big round room and there it was a massive man. He was made out of a latex skin and plastic skeleton and wax filling him up so he looked real. He was holding a big hand gun in one hand as he lay on the ground behind a small muddy hill, to take cover from enemy bullets.     By Dylan

Movie making at Capital E

We walked up some colorful stairs and into a big green room. We sat on some couches and talked to Kit about how the movie was going to work and who was doing what part.

He said that we had an hour to practice and dress up. In the dressing up room I found a jacket with a crocodile skin color, a strip down the middle to hide the zip and a strip around the wrist. I also got a cool hat. After that I got my words and did some practicing. I was doing the bit about technology in war. It had bits about machine guns, planes, tanks and gas bombs. It was so cool.

“It is time for the dress rehearsal,” said Kit.

“What!” It only felt like 5 minutes!

We lined up at the door. Brooke went first, then Lauren, Jackson, Tyler … then it was my turn. My goal was to talk clearly and look at the camera. On the camera screen  there were rolling words. On the computer Phinece was controlling the rolling words. She kept on going too fast then too slow and because I hadn't practised my words enough I kept on making mistakes.

I finally finished and went into the TV room with everyone else to watch the film and discuss what we should do and what not to do to make it the best move we could.

Lights! The lights turned on.

Camera!

On went the camera.

Action! Then Brooke started her part … then Lauren, Tyler, Jackson and then me. I looked at the camera. The rolling words started and off I went. I used lots of expression Phinece got the rolling words at a perfect speed this time. I read through the words. It was over way quicker than I thought.

We went in to the TV room and said our thank you’s to Kit and the camp parents.

By Dylan                                                                                                                                   

I saved the day

Write story here: it was Johnny’s birthday and we were swimming in the creek.we swam to the bottom and caught crulies at the bottom it was so deep,it was way over my head .We saw some big cocabillys at the bottom. so we go the nets and a then we dived. down, down, down, smack .it hit the bottom. it was a a lot shallower than we thought.I came up to the surface and tocke a deep breath.I swam down to the bottom.there they were, at the bottom.4 big fat spoty cocabills.I scoped up the net.

I had caught all of them. two of them had black and brown spots and the other one had green stripes.it was so cool .We saw a big fat green frog.We dived in.I hit the bottom again .All the air rushed out of my lungs.I swan up wards despreat for air butt my foot was stuck under a rock. and i couldn’t get to the surface.Tyler jumped in and got my foot unstuck .I came to the surface of the water and i had the biggest deepest breath i had ever took.The air was so nice and cool’d. It filled my lungs and blew through my hair.Tyler came out of the water with the frog in one hand and the rock in the other.the end.

By Dylan

My goal.
For spelling i have to chunk up and sound out my words for spelling.and keep adding

Grip photo

My Mincraft creation photo

Bush walk photo

Badminton photo

Athletics photo

Skiing 2015

Swish Swish ... I was coming down the boneyard in my ski lesson. We were practicing parallel ski turns . Crash! I had smashed into a lump of snow and landed on my face. I got up and carried on down the track. All the others had passed me now and where waiting at the bottom. Donna, the lady teaching us, said that we were all ready to go up the top if we wanted but she suggested that we should all practice and then do the giant first.

As we got higher it got hotter. The giant was hot enough as far as I was concerned but we knew that it would get hotter and sunnier the higher we got. So we did the giant and then went back down to the cafe and got some sun block on.

Up the chairlift we went. We had to get off the movenpick chairlift and get on another one to get to the top .

The view was amazing!! You could even see Ohakune. Blair said that we should go the hard way and ... vroom ... off he went before we could even protest. So we shrugged our shoulders at each other and started to go down. 

So there we were on the side of one of the hardest tracks. Smash, crash and bash. James, Lauren and Sarah had crashed. It was just Johnny, Blair and me. We got to the bottom and waited. About twelve crashes later the others had got down and we got on the chairlift to come down again. We ended up going down ... four times.

I am so proud of myself because my goal was to go down the giant. But I went one better and went up the top.

On the way home everyone went to mcd's and I got a crispy chicken burger and a large combo. My goal for next year is to go from the top to the bottom without crashing.     

A Special Visitor

This week something awesome happened ... a teacher came from China .came Her name is Yaju Cheng. Yesterday we made Chinese dumplings. They were so good.i didint make eny thow .We also learnt how to count to ten in Chinese. 
yt 1 er 2 san 3 si 4 wu 5 liu 6 qt 7 ba 8 jiu 9 shi 10. We did some finger panting .I made a Caterpillar and a snake .it was so fun and so messy .  

Footrot flats cooch

Cooch

Cooch is a nature lover. He loves all living things.

He is a farmer and Wal’s neighbour. Cooch has black hair and a smile and He always wears a black singlet, shorts and gummies. He tries to stop Wal from cutting down trees and he has a girl dog named Jess.

He is a beauty bloke; ask any possum, deer, rabbit, magpie or weta. He is the only joker I know who’d give his hanky to a slug with a sniffle. He keeps goats and black berry. He has a cabbage tree growing up through his verandah floor and the roots of a piriri tree have pushed his house crooked. You have to climb up the floors and in some places and in other places you have to jog down the slopes.

Mind you he is not a vegetarian. He does kill to eat. His eel and puff ball stew is an acquired taste. He is a very good fisherman and the only guy I know that can catch flounder with his bare feet. He owns some deer and a big 14 point stag that the Murphys want to steal.

He also plays rugby for the Raupo old boys.

Wal and Cooch are really good friends ... Mind you they do fight ... but mostly about not cutting down trees, golf and where to put the flounder net.   

footrot flats about me

Hi. My name is Dylan. I am 11 years old. I like rugby, cricket, fishing and hunting. I am a good at hunting. I do lots of possum hunting and have a slug gun and a 4 point stag head on my wall. I like to help dad on the farm and when he does the shearing, help by rousing ... but not all the time.

I like it when dad does the fencing because, when I am not nailing in the staples, I can go hunting for fresh water crayfish and slide down the the hill with some cardboard.

My first production was ‘Apiti’s Got talent’ and my favourite is ‘Badjelly the Witch’. I was Binkle Bonk, the tree gnome. It was kinda like been a Smurf. I had to help Huntah and Zahn by giving them a place to stay.

I have done 3 productions.

For this production I am Cooch. I try to stop Wal from cutting down a tree and tell everyone about Wal leaving. It’s like being Wal’s right hand man. Cooch is a bit of greeny and he likes to plant trees. My favrourite character in Footrot Flats is dog.

In the future I would like to do ‘The wizard of Oz’.

Mushroom report - Puffballs

Round and squishy sat the puff balls in the grass.
puffing its spores out into the grass.

Young.
round and squishy
groups
size of golf ball
brown  or white

Older
same colur
bigger
cap hardens
spores inside

Live
on ground
amongst grass where damp

Eat
decomposers
nutrients from the soil

Reproduce
when cap is hard a hole appears and the spores come out

Round and squishy sat the puff balls in the grass.
puffing its spores out into the grass.

Deer hunting

We were at Jock's place at about 4:30 pm and me, Tyler, James, dad and Jock had just left the hut to go and shoot a deer. It was a long walk through all the bush. After about half an hour we came across some recent deer signs on a rocky slip.
When came on to the tussock we could see lots and lots of deer prints and poo.We rounded a corner and there they where. Two stags right on the bush line.
After about 3 minutes of watching them, the first shot was fired and then a second. Then 3 hinds and a faun came out of the bush and ran across to the other side. We stopped for a minute and caught our breath. Then we started the very difficult way through the bush to get the deer.
We had to bush wack through the bushy gully that was riddled with stinging nettle.
Finally we found the deer on the hill. We gutted it and pulled it down to the finish line.
We cut off its head and started to walk up the hill. That took us about 1 hour and 30 minutes.it was extra hard for me because the head that i was carrying had a muggril antler. when we had finale got back to the ,mum had made some bugers. in the moring we toke the moter bikes and got the traler we piked up the deer carkis.when we got back to the howes we cut out the iner filits and sent the rest to the bucher.

Mushrooms

My writing below is inspired by the piture at 18-35 seconds on the video below

Mushrooms

As the sun rises the mushrooms rocket up. Hundreds of colors grow where the wood mouse stores supplies for winter. Mushrooms shoot up like little space ships.

Horrible histories summary

                                                      Horrible history                                                                                  
1 The tests

2 They tied them up and threw them in the water

3 They got her to hold a hot iron bar

4 They did a blind test on her