Choices of Life Production

Sniffing the muddy boots and getting kicked off the stage,
Waiting to pounce at the doc works,
Bouncing up and down behind them.

Sneaking off the stage
Behind the scenes waiting for my next dance.
Crawling through the lanes
Then crawling onto the stage and
Rolling on my back... like a possum.

That was so awesome!
You need to do a production... it's so much fun!
  

Cross country by Marcus

Crosscountry By Marcus

The splattering of the mud spatters all over my sparkly face my face gets turned into a cow patch just tasty.The carnet of the river thrashes against the rock.The wailing of the wind cries past my ear making my ear grums explode.Running through the creaky grass making my shoes grese so my feet slip out like a slippery eel.I wonder why I even ran maybe next year it won’t be so mucky.

Scary story By Marcus

As I fall backwards I say to myself why did this happen

To me.I fell to my death I hear my last sound.Goodbye

Everything. Smash I now see darkness.

Gymfest by marcus

Gymfest By Marcus

We walk in all I hear is people cheering. I wait for my turn and we finally get called us down to do our gym.I get down there and the first roten was the volt it was so fun doing the volt. And then we go to the floor roten. I thought I was pretty go at the floor roten.

Then the price giving came a few minutes later and since we were the last group to do our rotens we were the last wons to get our price and unfortunately I did get a price but it was still fun.  

Speech By Marcus

We should be doing more to look after our native birds.

By Marcus

Many years ago visitors to New Zealand said that the bird song was beautiful, but now with many of our native birds getting close to extinction - this is not the same.

I am here to talk about how to save our native birds from extinction. Our native birds are declining in numbers, firstly because many of our native birds are land dwellers so the many pests eat the eggs and the defenceless nestling. Another issue is the loss of the birds natural habitat. Can we change these problems.The predators which include  so that we might again have the beautiful bird song.

rats,stoats,possums and wild cats were introduced to our country many years ago by the early settlers. New Zealand native birds many of which are flightless such as the Kiwi, Takahe, Kakapo and the Yellow Eyed Penguin became easy prey. As the years went on and the pest numbers increased and with our native bird numbers dropping the Department of Conservation and other groups are working hard to get rid of these pests.  They use poison, traps and hunting.  Getting rid of these pests gives them more of a chance to live safely. Humans still help though with breeding programmes where the eggs are incubated and the nestlings cared for until they can safely be released into the wild on sanctuaries which have become predator free. These sanctuaries and breeding programs are vital to New Zealand as they not only help our native species but provide education.

Protecting our country's natural habitat is also very important and the sanctuaries are a great start. Did you know that our country has allowed 30% of our land to be set aside in natural parks and reserves to preserve the country's natural environment? That’s great! So let's look after these areas. Don’t litter,  to prevent pollution and stop destroying anymore habitats. We can also make more of these habitats by planting native trees around as this is what they live in and feed on and  it might attract the native birds back.

Pest eradication, which our country is aiming for by 2050 and preservation of the country's natural environment are the things we need to work on.  

I hope I have educated you a little bit on how we can help preserve our native bird species so that they are around in the future.

Treaty of Waitangi by Marcus

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oLdyUSiEZSOXm3NKCDMui1rUeZP7rawRanpqlVtou9g/edit#slide=id.p
We had a great time making the treaty and learning all about the
treaty of waitangi. The history and how it was made.

Dissection by Marcus

Can you smell that? It smells like terror and that's what it was like. Blood splattering everywhere. The walls were covered in red blood. It made me jump everywhere. But when we got into the dissection, it was ok. We got a scalpel and cut open the heart. Me, Fynn and Flynn got to find the holes in the heart.

learning conference By Marcus

We had our learning conference in week 10 term one. I stod up to say my mihi and it went good.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VF85rSJkHY_JgpD-DYW391VIZOny3whjKe1V6KHDHo4/edit#slide=id.p

Koru Art By Marcus

Koru Art By Marcus

I choose the color blue because it’s my house color and the red so the koru stand’s out.

Blue By Marcus

Blue By Marcus Blue is the colour of the calm ocean. Blue is the morning sky. Blue is the colour of the sparkling sea. Blue is the colour of the shiny whales. Blue is the colour of the shiny chrome. By Marcus (March 2017)