On Tuesday, Me and the rest of the OPEN DOORZ band had a 3rd practice because
BandQuest was 20 days away. We were slowly getting it right and we had a full long
practice that was from 1.30 to 3.30pm.
The two songs that we were playing are: Happen to me (by Benee) and So True (by the Black Seeds).
And I am on guitar solo for both songs. Band quest is very fun and I think you should try it out
if you know an instrument. Maybe next blog I will send a recording of our songs.
This might be a bit offensive because it's about stuff like tsunamis and tornadoes. For our priorities I did this story starter: Suddenly, his phone rang.
Suddenly his phone rang. Jason, who was walking down an ally to the beach, picked up the phone. “Get outta there! Now!” Screamed a panicked voice “What?” Questioned Jason “tsunami! but I gotta go and warn the others. Get out of there now !” Jason looked up. Tsunami. It was too late for Jason to get up a hill so he climbed up a nearby tree which led him to the roof of a 6 story building. From there, Jason filmed.
The tsunami swept all of the cars aside carrying them away. A massive fishing boat got dragged into the water filled car parking lot and got completely crushed underneath the low lying iron bridge. Jason cringed, turning away and tugging at his fringe.
Suddenly, Jason saw something horrifying. A strong tornado set a straight course towards him and the others on top of the building. As it got closer, it gained speed sucking in people and then spitting them out like backfiring bullets at top speed. People scattered flinging themselves out of the building to get swallowed up into the tsunami. A young toddler, on the other side of the building, got swept away leaving a trail of pee forming a puddle.
Just as the tornado grabbed Jason's arm, he fell into the opening trap door beneath him. The tsunami grew stronger. The whole building next door collapsed. The people inside tumbled out like ants. But, before he could jump off the building, the evil tornado whisked him away .
Jason's top wirled off. So did his pants, and, well, also the underwear. “EEK” He shrieked before he got dumped next to the king on a very tall hill. The crowd gasped in horror as Jason turned and ran off a cliff by accident.
‘Into the tsunami’ thought Jason as it whisked him away. Luckily a branch curled above his head. Jason climbed on. Then, his eyes got hooked on a familiar family: The Eggs. They jumped on the fishing boat and headed towards the tsunami hoping they would go over it. But it didn't. “Well, this will never end,” said Jason rolling his eyes as the upside down boat smashed into a tall glass building.
BandQuest Practice
After lunch, on Tuesday, me, Josie, Ella, Nathan, Stavis, Bill and Louie practiced our 2 songs to enter into the amazing BANDQUEST. I had already done it mabey 4 times but every time I get a different band. It’s only 26 days before the real competition and our band was pretty good seeing that it was our first time practicing together.
Our band sounded really good! We played two songs: Happen to me (By BENEE) and So True (By the Black Seeds).I was on an epic guitar solo for Happen to me and Bass for So True. Josie was on guitar with Louie, and Harry. (Who was away) Nathan was on drums and Me and Ella were on vocals. We need serious practice.
After packing up our gear we sat outside and my dad (the coach thingy) helped us come up with a name. He said that if we didn’t agree to a cool name he would call us waiariti like he called Campion, Campon. We wanted our band name to be called BACK DOOR but dad said that it was another name for your BUT. So finally we settled on OPEN DOORZ. Since we were climbing over the blue double doors at the rear end of the hall.
In my reading workshop L3, we have been working on "SKIMMING" & "SCANNING". We have been "SKIMMING" & "SCANNING" on an important article called: "To Waste Our Life". First we had to answer the reflections questions, then, we had to retell a small Paragraph on "To Waste Our Life". Here is my RETELL, and, after that, click on the picture to take you to the LOOONG but GREAT persuasive text.
You might think online shopping is "BETTER" for our planet. You might think it doesn't waste petrol and tags,but, online shopping is WORSE. It gets tagged in plastic,wrapped in plastic, put in a plastic box and then gets sent off in a red plastic case. Your online clothes, ect, is also made in a big factory, then it travels in Vans, Trucks, cars, boats, planes and trains. Online shoppers, do you really need it? Or, do you really want it? Do you know where your packaging and plastic goes? Out to the sea. You might put it in the bin, but, it still gets dumped in the sea. Most Online Shopping happened in lockdown and still continued out to this present day. Its not just you that's Online Shopping, its everyone around the Globe. 18 million pieces of plastic gets wasted every year! Now, there are more pieces of plastic in our ocean, then stars in our galaxy. Over 6.1 K or billion get spent every year on unnecessary stuff/junk! Aria Hunt has recently posted an article on Kiwi kids news about this in further detail.
Minimize your shopping online!
This week I have figured out all my goals and I am trying to get them all done so I can go to the next goals. Once I have done all my goals I can mark them off on my check in so I can move up to a higher level in Reading, Writing, and Maths.
I have been so focused on my writing I am forgetting to come to my Maths workshops and do Maths Whizz, so I had to do it all this morning.
Me, Charlotte and Tallulah have been making a picture book about a Little Blue Penguin. Hopefully it will be released next Friday. Sadly, it's just me and Charlotte because Tallulah is moving to Newic in England. Our picture book is supposed to be short but we turned it into the worlds longest novel. It has at least 4-3 paragraphs on each topic so we a trying to shorten it down. It will probably be the first picture book I have ever completed.
Blog - Art day
On monday It was the queen's birthday so NZ got Monday off. And on Tuesday my class had a reliever. She had a year's leave and now she is a relever! Her name is Kokā Katie.
Kokā Katie said that today we were going to do everything a bit different. No priorities, it was a great day! We did Sandra Silberzweig art and Ltp.
Ltp stands for Learning Through Play. We had 3 different options to choose from. We had loose parts, Sewing and fabrics and wood burning/hot gluing weaving flax and glueing glass and wood together.
