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My friend group story on how we stayed in class and got in trouble

The giraffe in the corner with the spider in the door, the hippo in the roof, the lion in the sink,the elephant in the folders, the tiger in the library  and, finally, the white monkey on the blind puller hanging down.

 

In lunch time our friend group was working on our project for our inquiry, until the worst thing happened there was a giraffe in the corner Honor stepped up to take the giraffe and calm it down, and then it calmed it down we asked the giraffe to be our friend and he agreed. He then told us that his name is Gerold the Giraffe. 

 

We were playing with the giraffe until Divine spotted a dangly thing hanging down in the corner of his eye. He went towards it to find out it was a Spider. He was angry that we weren’t playing with him. Divine asked him to be our friend and he was as happy as a rainbow.  He said his name is Sam the Spider.

 

We were painting with Gerold the Giraffe and Sam the Spider, until Timothy fell on his head and looked up to find a hippo on the roof. He was angry REAL ANGRY, Timothy tried to stay as calm as possible. He asked the hippo to be his friend but he disagreed. He was begging on his knees so he could be our friend but finally he agreed and Timothy was happy. She told us that her name is Haley the hippo. Haley the Hippo was crying because she tripped so Timothy gave Haley some tissue from Ms Naickers Desk. 

 

We were playing hide and seek, until Fatima found a hiding spot in the library. She was trying her best not to breath hard until she heard a moan beside her. She looked beside her to find a hurt tiger he was crying. Fatima felt bad so she hugged and comforted him. She came out with the tiger and wrapped his injured leg with the bandage from the classroom first aid. She wanted to be friends with him so he agreed and he told Fatima that His name is Tyler the Tiger.

 

Sapphire was tired from the exhausting session of ki o rahi, so she fell back and hit her head against the classroom folders. She was angry at herself until a HUGE! Elephant came out of the folder, Sapphire was shocked and was happy she was cuddling the elephant. The elephant was Kind so the elephant asked sapphire to be her friend and sapphire agreed. The elephant’s name is Emily the Elephant.

 

 Beautiful was so hot she was standing at the windows. She was angry because the wind was hitting the blind pullers and it was hitting her face, but little did she know it was a WHITE MONKEY!. She was shocked and trying to run away but the Monkey wanted to play. Until Beautiful finally calmed down she went to the monkey. The monkey climbed to her shoulder and they became friends. The monkey’s name is Mario the Monkey.

 

Finally they played all together and all became best friends. Until a teacher came and scared all the animals away because the animals didn’t know the teacher. We were angry that the animals left. We were all crying and Fatima and Timothy went to Mrs Naicker’s desk to get some tissues For our friends because they were crying. But don’t worry they’re coming tomorrow.

Sailing trip

Okahu Bay

First Ms Lammas came and got us from our classroom and told us to get in the line. We walked and walked until we reached the oak tree to wait for Ms Naicker to do the head count of the children. We then started walking again but stopped in the car park footpath to wait for Mrs pat and for our bus. Mrs Pat finally came and so did the tech bus for the senior students, but no sign of our bus. We waited for 2 minutes which felt like forever until the bus finally arrived. We got on the bus with Ms Naicker’s final head count of the students before we head off.

 

Then we finally got there. It took us 10 minutes.We got off each saying thank you to the bus driver. The bus drove off and we followed the instructor. He took us to a classroom where we sat our bags against the glass wall. After putting our bags away they introduced themselves. The names were Kim, Jamie, Lola, Sophia, and Jake. Kim introduced us to  life jackets and rashies. She then told us to get in a line from shortest to tallest we got our rashies and aqua fleeces to go change. We got back and put on our life jackets and our helmets. Kim then gave us time to eat lunch.

 

After Lunch we had to get in our group and got our letter on our hand. We put on sunscreen and followed Jake. Jake told us all about the quest and how to work it. We got in our groups and then went to our spots. My group ( B ) went to the speed boat, Sapphire’s group ( A ) went to the quest and Honor group ( C ) went to the classroom and learnt about ropes. We were on the speed boat going slow at first until we passed the sticks we went flying. He taught us everything about speed limits and the sticks. We then did donuts and went really fast. We came back and slowed down because we were in the sticks. We came to shore and switched to salling. Me, Timothy, and primrose went to lola’s boat and Beautiful, Jasmine, and Terrell went to Sophia’s boat. We were shooting each other with water squirters, and Timothy was steering the boat. Sophia’s boat came and we wet them with our water squirters. Primrose fell in because she leaned too close to the water. Me, Primrose and Timothy were on one side and lola was on the other side. It was uneven. So I told Timothy to steer the boat straight so I could walk to the other side but he turned it and I fell in the water. 

 

We got back to shore safe and sound. We went to eat lunch. It was spaghetti bolognese. We finished our lunch and went to play on the playground. We then went to the bathroom and had a shower and got changed. We finished and went to learn about different ropes with Jamie. We had to focus. The knots were called the figure 8 and the reef knot. We had to use teamwork on the last task until we had to help the people from sailing. We had our debrief, we talked about things we learned and our favourite coach. But before that we did a feedback paper. 

 

Finally, I said the thank you message at the end and we walked off to the bus. We waved goodbye 

 

I liked all the coaches and loved the sailing part