Cleaning our house

Today is the day when we are cleaning our house. It is a bit messy but we still clean. We clean down stairs and up the stairs, it is my sisters and I cleaning!

My sisters and I have already finish cleaning down, but all we need to do now is just to clean our rooms. I love cleaning especially our house. Our last things we need to clean is one more room and our steps. Going to finish cleaning!

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Fiafia Samoan group

On April 18th is our school's 60th anniversary which we are celebrating with a fiafia night. It will be so awesome because we get to do our own dance, which I am nervous about, and watch others dance.

For each cultural group there is at least one item, some cultures have two e.g Samoan Junior and Samoan Senior Group. The group I am in is senior Samoan and I feel really nervous because there will be thousands of people. Our tutors are Timmy and Mrs Tele’a, they worked real hard. 

Our costume is a dress for the girls and a ie for the boys. They were made by our tutor Timmy and her mum, they must have taken a long time to make. It look really good but as soon as I wear it will be great.

We are doing a siva with a Samoan music called “Tausagi mai manu e” added with another song named “Sina oe." These 2 songs are old but we still use it. Samoan love it and I always listen to it because I'm a Samoan.

The night starts at 5 O’clock and at 5:30 our school sells dinner and our fiafia dances start at 7 O’clock. The Samoan dinner that they are selling is luau, taro, chicken but otherwise bring your own dinner to eat while watching. If you want dinner then come early at 5 O’clock.

There will be a lot of dances and you will probably get tired so have a long rest during the day. It will be a lovely night with food, music and dances to enjoy so please come along.

Omaru Creek animation

This is a animation of me walking around Omaru Creek. Enjoy!

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Testing Omaru Creek for - Smell

Testing Omaru Creek for - Smell

I am going to find out: What the water smells like in Omaru Creek

I am going to test this by: Smelling the water

Resources and equipment: String, bucket, jars and four types of water samples

I predict that: The culvert water is musty and foul and the bridge water is funky and smelly.

I think this because: People chuck rubbish and it is different compared to the sea.

Results of my tests

Seawater	Fresh and clean
Tap water	clear and odourless
Omaru Creek water by culvert	Putrid and foul
Omaru Creek water by bridge	water plants

My conclusion (what I found out): I found out that the bridge water is stronger than the culvert water. And the sea and tap water is odourless.

Why I think this is: Because we had a good sniff, we can tell which one is stronger.

Teachers disappearing

One day everyone came to school and all our teachers were gone. We were wondering where they went so we waited and waited until someone could come so we went outside of the door. Pt England starting to searched for them.

While we were finding the teachers some of us came back to class and messed it up by playing around. A lot of them were dancing while some of us were on the computer finding a song to play. The rest that were outside came and knocked on the door angrily and shouted “Come out and help us find the teachers.” So we stopped partying/playing, cleaned up the class and went back outside.

“This is a nasty day coming to school without any teachers” I said while scratching my arm. We looked in every classes and we also tried spreading out but we still never found anyone. “Wonder where they have gone? Just cross your fingers that we will find them.”

“These teachers must be hiding from us” said the year 6’s. So we also searched in cupboards because some of the teachers are skinny and they can fit in there, Then we began to in every classroom cupboard but no one was there not even a single person was around the school except the kid.

There was one thing that we did not do, email them to see where they are so we did and we wrote, “Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?” And 15 minutes later no one replied. It was so boring but we kept on going, going and going.

I shouted “I got a mail, I got a mail” and everyone came to see who it was so I checked it and it was only my mum emailing me that I forgot my lunch. So I replied to her “ok thanks for telling me but can you just wait please.” Then she did and just got back to what she was doing.

“Hey everyone there is only one place that we haven't checked, the staffroom” I said. A second later we stood frozen then rushed to the staff. As soon as we got there we shouted “there you guys are.” But then Mr Burt (our principal) said “it is teachers only day.” Then the teachers mumbled “oh sorry you guys we forgot to tell you kids it was teachers only day.” A moment after we grabbed our bags and went home happily.