the life of the sea

The life of the sea

Day

Sunlight sparkles anonymously across the vast sea of blue while sending waves crashing in a Mexican wave against the looming cliffs

Night

Turtles dance across coral reefs searching for empty beaches to nest on

Day

Hector's dolphins chatter and bark in a continuous melody while hermit crabs scuttle through endless sand dunes

Night

Schools of fish search hopelessly for a night's shelter away from   famished tiger sharks

All forming the life of the sea

the day the earth shook

 

the day the earth shook

liquid flows down my face dripping off my chin

              pitch blackness surrounds me. last thing I remember is               diving under my desk...but that feels like hours ago.

rubble tumbles around me...

Suddenly, a muffled dogs bark rings in my ears my hope starts to bloom.               try to yell out but my voice jams itself in my throat                                                  Would I just have to wait?

light flows through rubble suddenly I go blind.I'm saved  My city lies in ruins my heart tears in two,Is this really our city.I suddenly realize what the liquid is,It stains my dress crimson red.

I can't feel my legs I'm unable to stand. Paramedics run over to me.the look on their face says it all. My world blurs  

I'm thrown back into consciousness with a jolting shake I'm awake. My city is gone and in its place is chaos 

My Writing

                     The Christchurch Earthquake

With a thundering shake it all happened in an instant.

I open my eyes and I am lying on the cold,rough ground.

My ears are ringing and the fresh air gone replaced by the strong stench of dust and smoke.

I look around,people are crying and some are badly hurt.

Most buildings now lay flat half way out across the road.

A police car is up in front of me and I realise my ears aren't ringing but it's the ear piercing screams of the never ending sirens.

I stand up causioly taking in everything in around me.

An aftershock hits hard making it impossible to stand.

The only thing going through my head is I hope my friends and family are ok.

I count to ten another aftershock shakes me.This is the worst nightmare I've ever had.

My Earthquake Writing

What's happening? I hear people crying in pain and loss. The ground starts shaking under my feet as I scamper down the battered footpath. I see rubble from buildings covering every street. Siren start to wail like a baby crying for their mother. I start to choke on all of the dust in my mouth. I wonder, when will this end...

By Lockie

Christchurch Earthquake

What it was like : the Christchurch earthquake

Sitting at the table alone I feel it rattle , I carelessly ignore this sign but I know I shouldn’t have.As bricks start to fall in the distance I take a glimpse out the window. Everyone was running and sirens were wailing. I turn around and thought to run through the open door but as I am running towards the door bricks and dust fall and block my only exit.

I’m trapped , I know I can’t get out. All of a sudden a light bulb falls from the ceiling and crashes next to me. I think if I will ever be found. I freeze. Then I can’t see anything. It is as black as the nights sky.

My eyes flutter open and I see that I’m in a room. The floor is covered with kids junk including clothing,teddies, and books. I notice that I am in my room. My parents are on the side of my bed wiping the sweat off my face and reassuring me that everything is okay.

I realise it was just a nightmare and it is all over.

My Earthquake Story

What It Was Like

Eating our lunch, chatting away,

Suddenly the table starts to sway,

The windows start to shatter,

I ask Dad "What's the matter,"

As he looks for somewhere to go...

Dad shouts at me "MOVE!" 

But I don' know what to do,

Should I do what my dad says,

My mind says I should, but my body just betrayes,

Quickly my Dad grabs my arm...

We run outside as I slowly start to cry, 

Why is this happening? Why?

People are screaming, the city starts to crumble,

Injured workers are escaping from the rubble,

Suddenly it all starts to stop...

The ground stops shaking,

The buildings stop quaking,

Was it just a dream?

I start to cry and scream,

As my Dad comes and says "It's OK"

By Molly

It is book week and monster day.  I am a wolf with three eyes

friday 3rd june 2016

We had a early morning tea for Rutherford 1,2

10R Doing art.

This is 10R doing art. We do art every Friday with miss Gardyne. 10R are doing zentangle art. I enjoy doing art. Some art we did is we had a buddy and we drawed each other not looking at the paper! We also are doing zentangle. 

The New Teacher 10P

This Term At Rakaia School we have a new Teacher named Miss Gardyne . She is the new teacher for 10p in Mahi Tahi . She is teaching year 5 and 6's. This is a picture of her on house  coloured day dressed in blue.

house colour day

House colour day 

Today we are having house colour day where everyone dresses up their house colours .  

This is me and my friends in our house colours  My house colour is yellow witch is shepard .

awesome book week

this week is book week!

 This week's book week activities. Every afternoon a teacher has read us a book, In the library. We have had fun activities running like monster making, mask designing and colouring in today we had a  monster dress up day. The whole school is involved there were  Zombies, Vampires and Sesame street Monsters, I can't wait until next year's book week!

Fun-day Friday in 10R

Fun-day Friday

In 10R on Fridays we have multiple types of rotations such as mandarin,ICT,music and art
In mandarin we have Mrs zhong  today we did some ink painting.

This is my try at making an ink cherry blossoms we used red and black ink to make our master pieces :-)

Monster dress up day!

Today is Friday the 3rd of June and that only means one thing? MONSTER DRESS UP DAY! :P
Everyone has dressed up so freaky and cool!
There are vampires, wear wolfs, zombies and some other cool monsters, even the teachers dressed up!
This is our school and i hope you enjoy reading our blog! :P

funny monster day

this is a ninja and he is going to kill me  run

this is my friend dressed up as a wearwolf

MONSTER FRIDAY

This Friday Rakaia School had dress up day. This years theme was MONSTERS (so scary) everyone looks like they are real monsters and all of the costumes are really amazing and realistic.

                                          This is me dressed up as a zombie.

By latham 10P