Freeze Frame Ice Baby

Yesterday afternoon after school I went home , and when I went inside and I said "Hi dad what are you reading?'' then he replied back ''I'm just reading about the dinosaur elephant they found''. Then I said ''can I please have a read" then he said ''sure'' so then while I was reading it, it had some interesting thing's in there. Here are some of the things in in the story

The body was 37,000 years old, that was really old. It also said the mammoth was found in the Arctic Tundra revealing new insight's about the extinct ice age beasts. They also said that the beast was also perfectly preserved. It looked like the baby mammoth was asleep only for a moment. For 37,000 years she was locked hard into a rock.

Lot's of brown hair still clung to the 1m tall body.
Paleontologists have spent two year's since the body was discovered in painstaking research. They believe the information they have gleaned will help them understand more about the wolly mammoths.

Dino- Might Assembly

Dinosaur's are ..... Really big creature's, they are like GIANTS!. They eat so much at once. The dinosaurs lived way back in the past.

On the first day of Term 2 we had....lots of fun learning and watching dinosaurs. It was amazing, especially Mr Burt. Mr Burt was incredible because he went up to Feki and then grabbed Feki and dragged him down by the stage and he started to whack him with his plastic blow up club It was funny and after he said that he said to us "That isn't enough food "so then he went to get another person and it was a boy from my class and his name was Tyler. He did the same thing to Tyler, dragged him, started to whack him and then that was enough to eat for him. Everyone was laughing but it was kind of sad too.

Mr Burt and the teachers were dressed up, acting or dancing. It was amazing and so much fun. Team 1 had signs that said WE ARE NOT EXTINCT YET it was pretty cool.Then up next was Team 2. They were awesome because they were dancing to a song about dinosaur's. I reckon everyone enjoyed it because that was the best one so far. Team 3 were investigators dressed up as scientists. They were really good because they actually looked like real investigators. They were going around looking for bones from dinosaurs and they actually found some real bones but they weren't real, they were just big bones. It was 2# BEST!

Dinosaurs are....really big interesting things to learn about, but too bad for them they are extinct. They were extinct millions and millions of years ago. They were extremely dangerous animals and we are lucky that they are gone because in about a week or two we would most probably be all dead and that would be terrifying for the whole world!

THE END !!!

Soap Box Derby TV3

TV 3 Pictures

On Monday at 6.30am in the morning the P.E.S racing team had to go to school. We had to go to school because we had to get filmed by a TV crew. It was really interesting for me and the crew. All of the driver's had a go at driving, it was really fun. I am a driver as well. There were some other school's there too. Like King's school, Sacred Heart, Bailey Road and Churchill Park School, Parrnell Primary and plus us which was Pt England School. Then at 8.00 o clock we got filmed by TV3 and I was the one who had to get in the derby and drive it, but before I did that I had to go and tell the man what my name was. So then I told him and he said to me "well then hop into the car and go and wait in there while I go and get my word's ready". Then we would get started, then they got ready and started to film and when he said "and here is the driver Shontal" I had to look back and wave at the camera. I felt nervous and when I turned my back I had the giggles and then he said "3.....2.....1.... and RACING !!!!" Then I was off. When I was going down the hill the Pit crew who was Sela and Destiny ran down with me and then they said BREAK !!! very loudly. It hurt my ear's, then I got out of the derby and I was hiding my face because I was ashamed of myself because I would be all over the news. But now some people have already said "Hey Shontal I saw you on news driving that little go kart" and I said ''Yeah it was lot's of fun."

Then I went home and when I got home my mum and Nan goes we both saw you on the TV and it was really cool to see that people saw me on TV but kind of embarrassing but it was really fun for me and the crew......

Thank You for reading

From-Shontal

Going up North

In the holidays I went to a farm up North to see my sister. She live's with our cousin because she didn't like living in Glen Innes. Every holiday I go to see my sister for a visit.

When I was up North at Waipu we went to the beach at Waipu Cove. It is a wildlife beach. There were rockpools full of crab's, starfish and spider crabs. It was cool.

When it was high tide and you are fishing, King fish would come right up to your feet and when they did my cousin Johan would use the spear, then spear them. But most escaped from him so those one's were lucky.

The Waipu Caves were scary but in a funny way because when you go in, there are heap's of cave's with spiders, glow worms, Hu Hu bugs, Hu Hu grubs and all kinds of weird and crazy stuff.

On January the 18th it was birthday. It was fun. I had a big cake and I had all unhealthy food. When I opened my present's I felt excited because I was wondering what I had. I got a body wash, a set of games, new clothes and money. They were all cool presents. After my birthday, three days later, we went back to Auckland. I reckon I had a fun holiday with my family.