Writing Test - Music is More Important than Sport

I strongly believe that music is more important than sport. The music and song world is limitless, you can be yourself and go anywhere. Music is not only good for your mental health and state of mind, it is also good for your physical health. While listening to music you like, you relax and your mind becomes calm. You can also dance to music, whether it is in front of your friends or just in the privacy of your own room. Music has many benefits for your health, you just need to embrace them.

Firstly, by listening or making music you are expressing yourself. In sport you are following the coach's instructions, doing it the way everyone else has been doing it. The way you currently feel alters the type of music you feel like listening to. If you are sad you might want to listen to slow, gloomy music, whereas if you are happy, you might feel like listening to more chirpy and bouncy music, or if your angry you could want to listen to some heavy metal music. It's really up to you what music you want to hear. When you are listening to music, the world is in your hands.

You might play a musical instrument or do dancing, or you might just want to listen and make music for fun. You don't have to think that you're no good because you're not a professional or take lessons, just know that you do it for fun, and you do it for you. You might be listening to your favorite song one day, your friend comes up to you and tells you that the song sucks and it's old. Who cares if it old! Who cares what they think! You are listening to that song because you want to, because it make you happy. Don't let other people’s words make you wander off your path to happiness. Stay on that track and stay happy.

Also, in the world of music there are more opportunities. You can sing, dance, play an instrument, be in a band, just because you don't become a famous singer/dancer doesn't mean you have to stop. And just because you're not invited to be Taylor Swift's backup dancer doesn't mean to stop you from pursuing your own dreams. Make your own band or audition for America’s Got Talent or join a choir. Like I said, when you've joined the musical world, life is limitless.

In conclusion, I believe that Music is more important than sport. You can express yourself more and it's good for your mental as well as physical health. You can take yourself anywhere you could ever imagine. What you do with this information could influence other people and inspire them to pursue their dreams as well. Never give up or let go of what makes you happy.

By Faith

Living Springs Camp

Matiriki

Duffy Visitor

We are learning to:

• Use correct punctuation at the beginning and end of sentences.
• Write using surface features and using a mix of simple, compound and complex sentences.
• Use correct tense: past, present or future.

Duffy Visitor

On the Wednesday 5th of April, Diana Queenin came to Blaketown School to present our Duffy Books and tell us some interesting experiences she has had in her life.

First she told us about dinosaurs and how they hunted. She also showed us a stingray barb and how they were designed to slide in easily and rip out painfully. The barbs have little spikes diagonally sticking out so when it sticks into something it slides in, and because of the way the spikes are positioned the barb gets stuck and rips out.

Next she showed us a geode. Geodes are crystals that grow inside of hollow rocks over a long period of time in the right conditions and minerals the crystals keep growing. The most common geode crystal is quartz, Diana had purple crystals in her geode. A lot of people would mistake it for amethyst from the purple color, but it is just plain quartz. People dye quartz geodes different colors so they appear as valuable crystals, then they will be able to be sold for more than usual.

Finally when Diana had finished showing us her possessions and telling us about them, she handed out the Duffy Books. It was very interesting having Diana come in I learned many new things, and I hope to learn more in the future.

Faith's Word Cloud Mihi

How To Blow Your Nose

The Cyclone

Faith’s Memoir

 The Cyclone

On the 17th April 2014 the was the cyclone Ita hit Greymouth, the South Island of New Zealand.

It was a cold and windy morning, I got ready and Dad dropped me off at school.

Later on at school it was getting windier by the minute, we had morning tea inside because it was so windy. About 20 minutes later Dad came to pick me up because he got the rest of the day off work because the wind was too strong to work.

When we got home we just went on the computer and watched a movie.

Me and dad were inside our house in the lounge, when WHOOSSSSSSHHHHHHH the wind just got windier than ever. It was so strong we could here houses creaking and groaning. The clear light from our neighbour's house was ripping off and hitting our house and landing in our back and front yard.

Later while we were watching T.V we heard sirens. Dad went outside to see what the sirens were and I followed him to the front porch because the wind was so strong it kept pushing me over. Dad kept going and walked down to where a fire truck was parked, he talked to a fireman and came back. When he came back he told me that  we had to stay inside, so we did.

P.S. I didn't mind one bit staying inside. There was NO WAY I was going back out there

Later on we were watching the News on T.V, and it said that there was a cyclone in Greymouth. A few minutes later the T.V started going static and we turned it off.  Then all of the lights went off and wouldn't turn back on. We were getting hungry so we got out our gas stove and made toasted toast and boiled saveloys.

After tea we went into the spare room to look out the window. When we looked out we saw friend Alyssa's house roof was ripping off and flying down the street. Luckily Alyssa and her family were staying at someone else's house because their house wasn't stable, and they didn't have a roof so they couldn't really stay at theirs.

That night I got to stay on the couch in the lounge because Dad didn't think it was safe to stay in my room because it's at the front of the house and with all of the houses having thing breaking off and flying down the streets. I slept on the couch and Dad slept in his room witch it right next to the lounge. We watched a movie together and then went to sleep.

The next day there was still no power so after toast for breakfast we went in the car to see the damage that had been done around the town. There was a power pole that had been knocked down and in Cobden there were whole houses that had fallen down from the wind. There was so much damage in Cobden that it took years to fix all of it.

I learnt that in a cyclone you should stay inside away from windows incase they smash or something comes in through them.