My Haiku

 Inside my blankets
 hiding away from the cold
 snuggling keeping warm

Horse

Around The World In The Future

     Around The World In The Future

Wish Whoosh, goes the strong powerful wind. Two kids named Destiny and her older brother Tuki were playing outside in the backyard. Thump an object fell out of the sky. “Come here Tuki something just fell”, said Destiny.

Tuki goes running to Destiny, “what has happened?” he said surprisingly. “Something just fell out of the sky”, said Destiny. “It looks like a silver remote”. She pressed some buttons to see if anything happened but something weird did happen. Flash! Everything goes black for a second. “Where are we? “, said Destiny. “I think we are at home still but it doesn’t look the same”, said Tuki. They go inside the house to have a look. Everything was white and silver, the furniture, the walls and floors and even the clothes. “This cannot be It can’t this is impossible”, Trembled Tuki. “What is it”, said Destiny. “The year is 3016”. “Oh no”, said Destiny. “We just time travelled into the future”, yelled Tuki.

 “Destiny come here”, yelled Tuki. She went running to Tuki to see what it was. Could he be injured? She thought. She goes around the corner and a beautiful rainbow unicorn appears. “What are you doing here? Said the unicorn. “We don’t know we found this silver remote and my sister here pressed some buttons and a flash happened and now we are here”. “A silver remote you say really”, “yeah”, said Tuki. My name is Anastasia”, said the unicorn. “What a beautiful name”, explained Destiny. Where is this remote? Asked Anastasia. I don’t know I dropped it somewhere around the house outside”. “Then we have to go get it because it is very powerful and an evil villain named Tic Toc will find it and be the richest man in the world and we will be his slaves so we need to hurry”, explained Anastasia. Tic Toc will go back to the past and win every lotto and also he will steal everyone’s money and we will have none for us and have to do things for him to get money.

A giant black cloud appeared with someone on it. “It’s Tic Toc we have to hide or then he will capture us to steal our money”. So they went and sprinted to the spiky bush and hid. Tic Toc lands near the time machine but no one says a thing. Tic Toc finds the time machine and quickly disappears but it was too late when they looked. “You guys have to go around the world and collect an object that represents each country you visit and join them together and it will make a powerful energy and defeat Tic Toc”.

They went on Anastasia because she was able to fly. The first place they went to was New Zealand, and went through a lot to try find it but they found a beautiful statue of a taniwha. They found it in a gift shop in Wellington. “Yay we found something”, said Destiny. They had to hurry or then time is over. So they need to go to the next country”. They went to Scotland and brought back a kelp and next was Australia and they brought back a koala teddy bear but it was getting too late so they went through as many countries as fast as they could. They went to China and brought back some chopsticks then went to America and brought back their national flag. The last place they went to was France and brought back a croissant. Anastasia used her magical crown to join the objects together and it made an orb that was filled with everything that they got.  They found Tic Toc on the Eiffel tower and flew to the top where they found him with the time machine in his crinkly old hand.

They got the orb and used it to destroy the time machine and Tic Toc. “Hurry guys you only have 5 minutes left until time is up”. So they got the orb and it blasted him away. Tuki got the time machine and blasted them home. “Goodbye Anastasia”. “Bye now hurry and also when you get home destroy the time machine ok”. “Sure” said Tuki. So they went home and destroyed the time machine. “Well we have had a pretty interesting day haven’t we”, said Destiny. “We have”.

So the kids went home and lived their normal lives but they never forget that day ever. 

Capture The Flag

Yesterday my school and I went to play a game of Capture the Flag

First we got sent into our teams. The teams were St Anne and St Anthony, St Francis St Joseph. We all went to each end of the long field and waited silently for the whistle to blow. Mrs Thompson blew the whistle as loud as she could so we all could hear her. We ran into each others territory and started to play the game. Our team was losing by 7 points.

The team against us were to clever for us because we didn't believe in our selves. Their was only a few seconds till time for us to end the game. The opposite team scored another goal just in time to finish the exhausting game.

My Speech

Laekin Speech from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Chinese New Year

Week One Newsletter

Going To The Zoo

It was a warm sunny Wednesday morning. My class and I went to the zoo. We had been trying all year to fill up our marble jar for our good behaviour.

We looked at amazing animals on our way to the meerkat enclosure. There were big rocks, sandy grounds and small tunnels in their enclosure. They looked so inquisitive, cute and cuddly. We tried to pat their soft fur, but they boldly crawled away.

There was one meerkat, furiously looking over the enclosure, looking out for any attacks.

Finally, we had to go, but two little baby meerkats came crawling over to us. They used their hands to dig holes on the ground. They looked like they were looking for treasure. After a little while, we had to leave the meerkats' enclosure to go to see the next animal.

The next animal we wanted to see was the spider monkey.
Step by step, we got closer to the spider monkeys' enclosure. Finally, we made it. They had long furry tails, colourful fur and their eyes were the size of marbles.  One monkey looked like it was meditating even though it was sleeping.There long heavy ropes and wire cages surrounding them, and big wooden poles standing in their enclosure. The monkeys were leaping onto the cage wire, sleeping and using their tails to hang onto their food.

Sadly, we had to move onto the next animal.

The last animal we saw was the Red Panda. As we got close to the Red Panda enclosure, I saw a beautiful lot of nature surrounding me. I only saw one Red Panda. It was sleeping on a leafy tree branch. The Red Panda's fur had a touch of maroon on its back, with black and white around its face and tail. It looked cute and cuddly.

After that, we had to go and get ready to leave.

When we got outside the entrance of Hamilton Zoo, I said to myself, “I had a lot of fun and, hopefully, we can come back here another day.”

Hochstetter's Frog

The Lost Tigers

One sunny afternoon,  Zoey and Rex went to the zoo with their parents to see the baby tigers that had been born two weeks ago.

They had been walking around for a  period of time, when Zoey asked, “Can we go see the baby tigers now?”

Zoe's Mum replied, “Sure, that's why we came here in the first place."

They slowly walked over the wooden footpath and to the tiger cages.

When they got there, they saw a sign saying that the baby tigers had run away from their cage, so Rex suggested, “Why don’t we go and find the lost tigers?”

“I think that's a great idea,” said his dad.

The family split up and searched for the lost tigers.

Zoey went to look in the monkey enclosure. She saw something move behind the rocks. She went for a closer look. There it was - a baby tiger, but Zoey didn’t know how to get it out so she called for a zoo keeper to take it out.

Zoey went to find Rex. She found him by the giraffe enclosure. “Hey, Rex, guess what I found - one baby tiger."

Rex replied, “Well done, but I asked one of the zoo keepers how many tigers there were. She told me that there were three.”

Mum and Dad came running towards them, saying that they had found two baby tigers - one in a lady's purse, looking for something to eat, and one in the meerkat enclosure.

“Well done, guys. We have found  all the baby tigers,” said Rex.

Mum said, "That was a big day, and, now that the tigers are safe, the zoo keepers might want to keep an eye on the baby tigers. I think we should go home now.”

My Bible Reading

Laekin A Bible Reading from Pam Thomson on Vimeo.

Monster Tag

It was a warm sunny, Sunday afternoon. My cousins, friends and I went over to play Monster Tag, in a big patch of long grass
As we went over to the big patch of grass, we couldn't believe our eyes. The big patch of grass was about the size of a soccer field. One of my cousins was the monster. Slowly, we crawled through the feathery grass. We all were as quiet as a spider on its web, waiting for its prey. It felt like the grass was a never ending maze. I heard a noise behind me. It was my cousin, the monster. She rushed behind me. It was down to speed. I quickly went to find a place to hide. I said to myself, "I can do this." I found a place to hide. She put her hand out but, when I saw it, I crawled as fast as I could. I made it. I never got tagged. Yay!
I said to myself, "Next time, I think I should be the monster."

Going To A Horse Show

One rainy Saturday afternoon, my Nan, Granddad and I went to a Horse Show in Mystery Creek in Hamilton.

As we went inside, I was excited. There was a big crowd. As I watched through the show, there was only one part that was amusing. It all started with a man dressed up as a cowboy riding a wild horse.

He had to do an obstacle course while riding the wild horse. There was one part of the obstacle that made it difficult for the horse. The horse had to stand on a medium size rubber tyre with a round piece of wood on it so that the horse could stand on it.

As the rider and the horse came towards the tire, the horse stood up on the tyre and then it fell off. The second time it went on the tyre, it  wouldn't come off. Now the rider was stuck on the horse, so a lady came over and gave the rider a grey coloured whip. The guy whipped the whip on the ground but it still didn't come off, so the rider came off and went under the horse legs. Everyone laughed. The rider whipped the horse and finally it came off.

I said to myself that was so much fun and I hope we can do this again sometime.

Food For Dinner

These are some of my reasons why we should have sushi every week once a night.    

My first reason why we should have sushi is because it is healthy.

Sushi is healthy because it has fish such as salmon and tuna. It has seaweed around and rice in the middle.

My second reason is that you don’t have to cook it.   

All you have to do is get in the car and drive to the sushi shop.  It saves you time to do the dishes and clean the kitchen. All you have to do is take the sushi out of the carton, and when you're finished you can just throw the carton in the bin.

Now that you know my reasons you’ll probably agree with me why we should have sushi every week.

Commonwealth Games

Line Dancing

 

Matariki

Red Pandas

Skye and Storm

One day, on the last day of school, a girl and boy were walking  home from school and their parents brought them two dogs named Skpe and Storm. The children weren't expecting the dogs. As the parents waited for their children, they put the dogs in a box wrapped with colourful wrapping paper. When the children got home, they opened the box and saw the two dogs. The children were so surprised they cried with tears of joy. They were so grateful and happy. The children gave their mum and dad a big hug.

El Grego's Anti-Bullying Show

On Friday, my school and I went to watch the El Grego show in the hall. El Grego teaches children not to bully.

My favourite part was when El Grego tried to make a bird come out of a bucket. He invited someone from the audience up on the stage to help with his trick. He invited a girl called Hunter Rose up to help him. El Grego and his wife, Sue, got Hunter Rose a magic wand and said, “It better work,” but nothing came out of the bucket. They got her a bigger and bigger and bigger wand. The next wand they got out was so big Hunter Rose couldn’t hold the wand by herself so El Grego’s assistant, Sue, came out and helped her. Hunter Rose said,  “It better work,”  again.

They looked inside and saw a toy bird. It came out. El Grego said to everyone, “Don’t you want a real bird?”

The audience yelled out, “Yes!” so El Grego told Hunter Rose to say, “It better work,” so Hunter Rose did. A real live bird came out. Her name was Ruby. She had red and grey feathers. El Grego told everyone that Ruby would say anything she could hear. El Grego asked Hunter Rose if she wanted to pat Ruby. Hunter Rose said, “Yes.”

When the magic trick was over, El Grego asked Hunter Rose if she wanted an ipad.

Hunter Rose said, “Yes.”

Instead of getting one of those touch screen ipads Hunter Rose got an writing pad with googly eyes on it. The audience laughed with amusement.