Rail trail

I was cooking like a sunday roast it was super hot, sweat trickled down my forehead. When we got to lake Forthsythe I was amazed and could not stop looking at the amazing view, it was like a painting, the sun was glittering of the lake  like a disco ball (but… the lake was extremely toxic) and the mountains looked like a patchwork quilt from far away. I chose to be in one of the back groups, if I had chosen to be in one of the front groups, ohh boy, my legs would be on FIRE! .

As the cars went roaring past i could just hear the faint voices of the people ahead “i will catch up to them”,  i thought. We crossed over cattle stop bridges, smooth ones that went across lakes, and just… all sorts of bridges. It was also a bit of a bumpy ride that’s because we were riding on a gravel path. Bikes were speeding past, we could hear the drink bottle holders rattling around.

After lunch we had our final stretch which was 8kms. I was nearly giving up but then the positive part of my brain kicked in and then i got this big boost of energy and then i said to myself “don’t give up Lilly you can do it, you are almost there”, and somehow that managed to get me to the end.

Overall it was a tiring day but i pushed myself to the end , crossed the final bridge “Yay, i am so proud of myself for completing the rail trail!”, i cheered i was overjoyed i had just done 23km, that was from little river to motukarara. maybe … just maybe i will do it again.

Vivid memories - Mums & Dads

My sister and I loved playing mums and dads. It all started 6 years ago when Ruby - (my sister) was finally old enough to play with me. The sun was shining birds were chirping it was a beautiful day, me and Ruby decided to go for a picnic in our front yard. We ran to our rooms grabbed our supplies such as baby dolls, clothes and picnic stuff.

We would charge outside and lay down on the soft grass that lay beneath us. We then laid out a picnic blanket and playdough cakes and cookies. After our meal we would lay down on the grass and giggle and giggle.

It was always fun until someone would shout

“Hey!, you are always the mum!”

“Am not,”

“Are too!,”

“Am not,”

“Are too!!!”

This would go on until Ruby or I , (usually it was me who said this) would say, “fine you can be the mum next time, ok”

“Yes”. That would then make us quietly get back to the game. Most of all we absolutely loved throwing surprise parties for mum, it was a very difficult process but when we finished it looked great!, we would have plastic cups and plates, balloons (although we always seemed to blow them up but then they went flying across the room), it took me a while to realize that we were supposed to tie them up, but i just couldn’t quite get there, we would also put ribbon on the chairs and playdough cakes and cookies, most of the “food” we would make was made out of ether lego or playdough.

I adored playing mums and dads with my little sister Ruby.

Hexagon activity

For inquiry this term we have been focusing on the A+ characteristics. For this activity Lily and I worked together using the adapting strategy. We had to plan and connect to create a hexagon  chart to shows how we grow and this is what we came up with.