The Quest For Myself

The Quest For Myself

She was staring in my eyes saying “Wake up Jake”, “wake up”. I shouted stop to my ten year old cousin Grace. In case you didn’t know my name is Jake and I am twelve years old, I live a pretty normal life, in Texas.

But today I woke feeling funny, I felt like I wasn’t in my normal home in Texas, America. Grace said  “Come and look outside it’s amazing”.

As I stepped outside on the balcony I almost fainted, this was my normal home I was on a tower about 200 metres off the ground looking out on a town of a busy village.

As a normal person I was stunned at the sight of this. I felt like a king looking down on his kingdom. As I turned around Grace was already running out the door with some sort of piece of paper in her hand. I managed to catch up to her before she went down the stairs, and I almost froze There was a beautiful young woman standing at the bottom of the stairs, even Grace looked shocked too.

She looked so graceful and her emerald dress/gown flowing in the wind. Her voice was as soft and sweet as a gentle flower I was falling in love with her… She said I know where you come from and I also know how to get back.

And so the quest begins. “First you will take the back door out of the castle, then you follow a path to a forest with meat eating monsters in it (be safe), when you come out of the forest you will find a big raging river to cross, after the river will be a massive mountain made of glass, soon after that you will meet a wizard that will give a choice to make, later on the quest you will find a very wicked witch who owns a fire breathing dragon, after you escape her you will find a pond and your object that will get you back home will be at the bottom of the river but the sand around the edge is quick sand”.

“I have packed some things in a bag for you use them wisely”. The bag included, rope a mirror and a piece of chewing gum. She opened up a curtain and there was a dish of items “Choose carefully” she said in a deep low voice. On the dish was a stick, a piece of meat and a diamond, this time I let Grace choose, she decided on the diamond because it was the prettiest.

“Now you be on your way”. Called the the woman who I called the green queen. Grace still hadn't read what the paper said, so I snatched it off her.

The note read Do not tell  her your name and don’t trust her at all…

I was speechless, I just didn’t know what to say at the sight of this.

I quickly showed grace, she covered her mouth in shock and pulled the face she always pulled when she’s is surprised.

My questions after that fiasco were how did she get that note?  And why doesn't the person who sent the note want us to tell the green queen who we are? My mum and dad always told me don't talk to strangers, and this was the perfect example of that saying. So I and Grace decided next time we saw the green queen we would try to ignore her.

As we followed the path into the forest we kept an eye out for any meat eating monsters. Not long after that we heard a low growl and I dragged Grace Into a bush, she was screaming so I had to cover her mouth until she stopped screaming.

I told her not to move a muscle. Surprisingly she listened to my instructions (She doesn’t normally do that), maybe she listened because her life was in danger, and she was scared so much she wasn’t thinking straight.

We out smarted and out waited the monster for 45 minutes at least that what it said on my watch, I felt like a champion but I knew there were but I knew there were many more challenges to overcome.

And I was right around the corner was a raging river spitting water at us. Although there was a fallen tree crossing over the river it would take us a long time to cross it with that face Grace has got right now. It was getting dark so we slept behind a bush for the night.

The next day we finally crossed the river with the tree and you won’t believe what we saw a massive mountain made out of glass I Knew then I had a long way to go before we got back home, and the treacherous journey began.

As we climbed the glass mountain we kept sliding down, and then Grace had an idea. As she pulled out the chewing gum my eyes lit up like diamonds.

As we chewed the pieces of chewing gum they became stickier, and soon we were able to stick them to our boots and climb to the top of the mountain. When we climbed to the top there was a peculiar hut with a fire going outside.

We walked inside and sat there was an old wizard with his pink Llama in the corner drinking water and eating leaves. He sat there looking like he had been waiting for us all this time. He spoke his voice very crisp and clear.

He whispered “ you can ask one favour of me”, I thought about this very thoroughly. Then I said i’ll take the pink Llama. The wise wizard raised one eyebrow then said ok then, take at your own risk.

But little did I know that this normal Lama would be a big help on our quest. As we started heading down the mountain to get going we had the same problem as before, but this time we knew what to do.

As we continued through the forest we came to a tower in a forest clearing, we saw steps up the tower, but there was one little problem I wanted to go up but Grace didn’t.

So I decided she could stay here and keep watch,while I go up and explore with Mooooo the pink Llama. As I climbed up the tower I noticed that there was no windows at all. As I got to the top an old lady was brewing something in her cauldron and then suddenly out of nowhere as if by magic a massive fire breathing dragon appeared.

The witch cackled continuously and threw a massive piece of rope around me and the pink Llama, I screamed as loud as I could and instantly Grace came rushing through the door as if she had been waiting all along. The witch shouted “you have to make a decision, either I get to keep the girl or I get to keep the pink Llama”. This was one of the hardest decisions i’ve ever had to make.

I sat there with my mouth open speechless almost breathless, then the pink Llama snapped rope in half and managed to knock the witch and the fire breathing dragon out.

We all managed to get a quick escape, but then the witch woke up from her concussion fuming she then revealed herself she was the green queen  she screamed and then blasted a hole in the wall, but little did she know that that hole in the wall would help us.

I said jump and pulled Grace and the pink Llama down with us, then after I realised that the sand we jumped into was quick sand, the pink Llama shouted stay still.The quick sand started to sink into itself and we managed to escape.

It was just as the the evil green queen had described a lake with a beach on it, I swam around in the lake and then discovered a mirror.

I looked in it and thought I have finally found my self, the power of finding myself was enough to send me back home, and guess what I got to keep the pink Llama too. THE END.

The clan wars

It was a stormy night me jax and percy were having nightmares about meeting a evil dragon then something strange happened when we woke up from the nightmare i will tell you so me and my friends were walking up `a mountain until we came upon something strange it was a level 7 wizard.

.He said i will set you a task we were honored to do it and we all really needed help for our base or to lvl up so he set us a task to go and find a magical witch and if we found her and brang her

back he would grant us all a wish and everyone was so excited because we would probably wish to level or protect our base.Anyway off we go on a great mission to bring a witch back to the wizard so the wizard can heal from the poison because one day that wizard went on a clan war and a golem poisoned him. me jax and percy the three barbarians off on a quest to save our village.But we were walking and found wooden walls so i decided to jump over to see if anyone was there there was no one there so i told my friends yep you can come now. But 3 small archers came and surprised us and wanted to take us so we all of a sudden we got a magical power up and went purple and got really really strong so we took out all the archers and stole all their loot then off we went on the right track to the witch. One day later we were so close to the witch how do i know because i saw a massive castle everyone celebrated yay. So on we go straight to the castle. Finally we are there but just before we got there we found 4 skeletons but they took us to a spooky dark ugly forest. And we had to fight them but we were lucky because every time we fought a group of troops we kept on turning purple and getting way more powerful so on we go versing those 3 skeletons. Yay finally we bet them and stole all their loot. So finally i am at the castle ready to get the witch but she didn't want to come with us. So we had to force that witch.Anyway after we finally managed to get the witch to come but once again we found another base so we had to attack them but it was strange when we looked at the troop because it was only one troop and was big and strong and had black cool shiny armor on.we were all scared but lucky we turned rage and the witch casted spell abra cadabra then the pekka got knocked out and we were on our way to save the wizard again. But we found a cristal wall and i jumped over to have a look and what do you know it was a dragon and i thought to myself wait we had a nightmare about this but i can not remember the rest so we had to think quick.and once again we turned purple but we couldn't reach the wizard so it was all up to the witch to save us but she didn't cause she was not on our side so we went over and grabbed her magical stick and cast a spell. But the dragon didn't go down we were all shivering but something happened before the witch granted a spell and that spell poisoned the dragon and the the dragon fell on the floor we all celebrated.After that i was so so tired from all that hard work and we also got a bonus while we were fighting we all leveled up to lvl 5 and we were way more powerful and way more strong.

But then we went to celebrate but not to go save the wizard this time so me and the other 2 barbarians just slept all day until we were shipped to another world it was like a dark land it was a builder base and that is where everything got to extreme first we level up and then we try to save the witch but this is just way too cool let me tell you. We were on our way out until i came across black mysterious water it was named dark elixir i dipped my hand in and my hand got bigger and stronger i couldn't believe it so i cannonballed in and walla i turned into a king a barbarian king and now i could fight anything. Wow finally me the king and the 2 barbarians finally got to the wizard we got there just in time because the wizard was dying and we could just about heal him. Finally we got our wish granted i was so happy but the wizard seemed weird i asked what happened and he said i am sorry but i have to go now and this also happened i forgot to tell you he said if you bring the witch back aswell i will be in your clan and help you win war but unfortunately he is too old we took too long to bring the witch back but we still have the 3 wishes i wished for our base to be protected my friend wished to level up and jax wished to level up aswell and off we go on the clan war fighting people winning leveling up protecting our base when we fight and finally we leveled up to level 8 and we looked so cool with all this mean armor on we looked like nights shining nights. And i hope that tops it off my cool clan war.

      

🔮  🔮The stone🔮

Starting the quest and finding Annie:

I woke up with a yawn. My eyes👀 could barely open.

Another Saturday  morning,no work. Suddenly I get a call📱 from a unknown number so I pick up (person on the phone) “The stone is in danger you have to save it.”  Then he hang up . So I get my old bags and my horse and  find the location of the stone.

I ask an old friend to come with. I call 666 and Annie👧 picked up I told her that we had to stop the black temple keeper🕵 but first we had to find him and we know someone who will. Jake half goat and half human we found him at the park wearing a long pink dress to cover his goat like legs. He said he would help if we could help him find a glass stone. I don't know what he was on about but if we get through this alive then we might have time .Then we go and find the stone.

Finding the black temple keeper:

All we know about this keeper is that he wants the stone to kill and take over. Know one knows the background story but we know his family got killed. Jake Told us that he lives in the forest of death. We walked for hours. A few hours later and still not close. Far away we see the forest. Near Forest we see a note saying stay away we ignore it and move on.

When we had entered the rocky forest of death  we had a break from walking so we found a nice looking cave to sit in. Then we heard footsteps and grabbed our swords then this weird looking  big monster came out with a bullet in its leg.It had green eyes and blue hair and brown feet with yellow teeth we tried to help it so we put a rope around its leg. When we helped it walk it jumped up  into the sky and came down in the middle of us and almost killed us then the monster made this call and more and more came out. We ran as fast as we could though the  wet dark forest . When we had lost them we sat in a tree up high. “Why did we have to do this” I said    “we didn't  you did” Annie said

meeting lisa :

Soon after Up in the trees me and Annie saw something or someone! This girl shows her face she looks about 12 years of age. She tells us how she got here and how long she has been here she told us that she was going on a walk in the forest and lost her way and had been here for 5 years her name was lisa. We asked her if she had seen a temple. She told us everything and had to come with us to show us the way. She took us to the temple and stopped at the door and left telling us she will be back and not to go in.  Jake got bored so he went in and didn't care about what lisa said he told us she was a kid and probably left us to die. A little after Jake hadn't come out but lisa came back we told her about Jake she told us that he would be dead unless we're are not too late. She gave us each (herself)

a block made of glass but it felt jelly and told us to eat it and not to look into the red eyes of the keeper and the horse had to stay outside . The soft glass is designed to keep us safe. We went in there he was holding jake dead. Annie tried to kill the keeper but she looked into his red eyes before even laying a hand on him and said to RUN! In her last breath.

Big decision :

The black temple keeper told us to look but Lisa and I didn't he gave us a deal I don't  know why but I can't pick he said the girl or the boy lisa told me that Annie had the glass and had the most chance of living and jake put this on himself. “But she looked in his eyes and doesn't  that kill you”I said “it makes you lazy of 10 or so minute” she yelled . I knew it was wrong “ jake! “ I yelled he let jake go and I remembered he was gone .”Lisa on 3” I yelled

Lisa kicked the keeper as he let Annie go and they ran. You won't get away said the black temple keeper as quick sand appeared on the ground. We all (not the keeper) fell in with a yell ahhh help! We stopped and this black dressed wizard just appeared and told us to say glass then vanished into thin air I was wondering if it had anything to do with the soft glass  we ate? But no time to think just do “GLASS!” we all yelled.😲

The stone :

(We fell through this hole)

Ahh doof! We run off not looking back without jake we don't know where the stone is we only know that the stone lives in a cold place the only one I know of is over the glass mountain and to the cave of the Dragon🐉. As soon as we find this stone we have to destroy it. We kept going left hoping this was the right way lisa told us the dragon likes fruit🍉 so Annie and lisa picked some

It was cold and about 3am. We couldn't see much but we saw this big hill like thing that had caves so we thought we would stay there for the night.

(Next morning) The sun was struggling to get up in the pink sky. I looked around where was lisa? I woke up Annie and I looked around for lisa. “Up here” lisa yelled. She was up on the glass mountain we made it Annie and I rushed up the mountain like rockets🚀 boosting into space. The mountain looked a little small and I felt like I could do anything ( HOURS LATER )

we finally made it oh wait just a little rock again came on we can do it said lisa.

(TWO HOURS LATER) we finally made it few

 more steps and we were at the top of the glass mountain now we had to go down

“Nope we have to find a better way” then lisa spotted a glass piece “let’s go down” lisa said. :”No”I said “give it a go” said Annie.

So I hopped on “Ahhhh”! Down we went down the thin glass mountain as soon as we hit the grass we felt like we had our brain where our ribs should be. We tried to walk but we had to wait. When we could walk we headed to the caves and I told my horse to stay here. Then we headed into the caves where the dragon laid. We hard something and out came a wicked witch. With her dragon she told us we had ten seconds till her dragon would be released we ran into a trap then I remembered my horse🐎 I called her and she came but the dragon looked like he needed a snake “ Annie lisa still got the fruit?” I asked

“ yup why?” They replied Because he looks hungry ok… we hit the dragon as it  run in a flashed to get the fruit. Come here girl she came with a smile she pulled us out of the hole. I found this little black box sitting next to rocks lisa picked it up and opened it it was the stone.

Getting the stone and getting back :

Stop girl said the witch I will give you gold for that lisa don't  Like I was even thinking about it please  give it said the old lady no let's go wait what?  Stay.Why? Because you don't have the stone I  do that  is fake this is the real one

“ she is  joking “ Annie says but what if she's right we can't take chances BOOM!💥 the witch was gone but the stone wasn't and neither was the dragon (still eating)what there's jake no guys he's dead  then who's that by the hair I think its the black temple keeper why would he help us he's not says lisa he wants the stone.

“Run!”

“ no stay I have the stone”

“ok what's the plan ? “

“I give it to him!” says lisa

“no that’s the worst plan ever , trust me ok” “Leave the stone down on the ground then run, or I’ll kill you all!”

“ oh ok?” lisa dropped the stone run we ran as fast as we could💦🏃 until we are up a high tree. Why did you give him the stone I didn't what we have the real stone when you guys were busy looking at the dust I know what was coming so I switched the stones. Wow nice thanks. Ok we need to get back let's start walking stop what? This stone can help us on 3 say and think of where you want to go so say home

1, 2, 3, HOME we landed on a hill close to our home town as soon as my feet♥ land I smash the stone.  THE END

         

Nga Puawaitanga Team

Term Four Newsletter 2017

Years 5/6

Tena koutou katoa Parents and Caregivers,

A very warm welcome to Term Four. It will be a busy action packed nine week term with lots of opportunities to challenge and stimulate your children as they continue their learning journey.

Not only is it the last term of the year but it is the last term for our Year 6 Students who will be moving off to High School.  Their time at Kerikeri Primary School is coming to an end however there will still be an expectation that students will continue to stay focused, persevere with their learning and work to the best of their abilities.  We consider their final term at Primary School is an important one, to make sure they are well prepared for High School.

Below is a brief overview of our learning programme for Term Four:

Our Inquiry - Our main inquiry this term is ‘Enterprise’.  The key questions that will drive this inquiry will be ‘What is enterprise?’ And ‘How can I be a successful entrepreneur?’  This inquiry lends itself well to  the Social Studies and Technology strand  of the curriculum.  Students will explore values like Community and Participation, Ecological Sustainability, Curiosity, Integrity and Innovation.  During the term the students will work through a process where they develop a product(s) that will be sold at their shop on our Market Day.

Literacy - Listening, Viewing, Reading and Writing - We will continue to focus on all the core skills that the students need to understand and utilise at Year 5 & 6.  For example in Reading they will be given opportunities to identify the main idea in a text, locate and summarise information, infer ideas and information from a text, ask relevant questions and other skills all with the intention of further developing their Reading omprehension strategies.  All this will be catered for using a range of reading material.

In Writing students will continue to experience writing in different genres.  They will be given opportunities to further develop their knowledge and skills about the deeper features of writing like ideas, structure, sentences, vocabulary and language features.  They will also continue to develop the important skills of accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Te Reo Maori is a key feature of our Curriculum.  We will endeavour to use Te Reo more frequently in the classroom and aim to have the  students able to: respond physically to classroom instructions (for example, “Haere mai”); use the question “He aha te kupu Māori mō …?” (“What is the Māori word for …?”) to find out new vocabulary from their environment; and to continue to master the correct pronunciation of Maori language.

Mathematics this term will focus on Multiplication, Division, and Measurement - Volume and Capacity.  We will continue to help and encourage students to develop speed and accuracy with all their basic facts knowledge.  Now is the time to learn them.  High School will be expecting them to know them when they arrive next year.  We will also be aiming to get as many students as possible to Stage 6 and beyond, of the Numeracy stages.

Physical Education this term the students will be  involved in  developing their Athletics skills like sprinting, long jump, high jump, discus and shot put.  This will culminate with an Athletics Day at the end of the year. We will also be running fitness sessions for 15 minutes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  We are fortunate to have some outside facilitators coming to school to run sessions with classes.  These include Cricket, Golf and the instructors from Top Energy who will be taking classes through a ‘dry land’ water safety programme.  In mid November we will start swimming sessions in the school pool, providing it is warm enough.

Health  This Term our Health Programme will be supported by the Life Education Caravan and Community Police Constable Rob Drummond.  The Life Education Programme will focus on  Relationships and Communities and will also consider the question of ‘what does digital citizenship mean to me?’  Constable Rob will be delivering the ‘Choices Programme.  The content focus for this is to:

• identify positive things about themselves

• gain knowledge of what constitutes a drug and the consequences of drug use
• learn to make responsible decisions for themselves related to drug use
• develop a range of strategies to manage situations in which they may be pressured to use drugs
• identify how to have fun without the use of drugs

Our Art focus this term will be the Visual Arts.  This will link in with our Enterprise Inquiry and will be applied when students consider how they will market their product(s).

Below is a list of events and dates for this term:

Week Beginning	Event
Week 1  16/10/17	Hats - All students must wear a blue school hat at break times. Life Education and Choices Programme commence. PAT Tests begin - Mathematics, Reading Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
Week 2  23/10/17 (22/10/17 is Labour Day)	Learner Led Conferences - Tuesday/Wednesday.  Writing assessment PAT tests continue.  Lucky Book orders close Friday 27th October
Week 3  30/10/17	Tuesday 31st Monster Mash.  Cricket coaching begins.  1st November Year 6 students have orientation visit to KKHS
Week 4 6/11/17
Week 5  13/11/17	Golf coaching begins
Week 6  20/11/17
Week 7  27/11/17	Year 6 Graduation Assembly on Wednesday the 29th at 6pm
Week 8  4/12/17
Week 9  11/12/17	Tuesday 12th  Year 5&6 Athletics Day.  Last week of school.

We look forward to seeing you during the term.

Kind regards,

Michael Baty   Nga Puawaitanga Team Leader