Yay! The All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup 2015!

We are learning to develop understanding of the text that we read.

Success criteria: I know this when I use information from the article to answer comprehension questions correctly.

Isaac, want to play kicks like Dan Carter?

In the weekend I went to my teammate’s house from rugby team Marist. His name is Isaac. Isaac is second five for our rugby team. When I got to his house I saw him with his dog. His dog’s name is Jacks. Jacks is a big dog, but he is very nice. Isaac also has a cat named Molly. Molly is a nice cat too. Isaac has a backyard with rugby posts and a little playground for his little brother Noah. He has a laptop which is very old because he had it ever since he was little.

After he showed me around we went into his room to put my bag away. Then we went into his little brother’s room.(Noah) Noah has drums. How cool is that!!  Isaac taught me how to play drums. Now I knew how to play drums. I couldn’t wait to show my family the drumming skills I had learnt from my friend. I was bouncing off the walls!  I finally knew how to play an instrument.  Some moments later, we decided to go outside and kick the balls and we were going to make a Youtube video afterwards. We were going to perform a crossbar challenge. Noah ran into the video, but we forgave him because he’s only five years old.

Then we  saw a trampoline so we went on it and I showed Isaac how to backflip and he showed me how to sideflip. I taught him something and he taught me something in return too. We were flipping for a long time. He even had a basketball hoop on the top of the net of the trampoline. We dunked the ball a lot but mostly flipped.  

Eventually, we got bored so we went back inside and played on Isaac’s tablet. I played Geometry Dash. I kept restarting the level because I hit the sharp triangles. Isaac was skyping his friends and introduced me to them. He told them my name and I said, “Hi.” They responded with “Hi “ back and then we went back to Noah's awesome room and played Wii. Wii is a console and has some really cool games. Isaac went first on the Wii and decided to play Mario Kart. He was Waluigi and rode in a car on map called Mushroom Gorge. He came seventh. While Isaac played Wii I played on the drums again. I was rocking the drums. I played a lot of cool beats. I was having a blast!

After that the All blacks were on television for their match against Australia for the Bledisloe Cup. It was Richie McCaw (Captain) and Daniel Carter’s (Kicker) last game in New Zealand. Richie is retiring after the World Cup this year and Daniel is going to France and is playing rugby for Racing Metro, a team in a competition called Top 14. It was kick off and the All blacks kicked Australia caught it and ran. It was an even match because the last time the All blacks played Australia, Australia beat them. But in most years, New Zealand has stood victorious against Australia. Anything good or bad could have happened throughout the whole game and something did. The All Blacks were all over Australia like a tidal wave. It was amazing! The All Blacks won 41 to 13 and we were so happy because that was the last game for New Zealand and Australia before the world cup.

I feel happy because I got to have fun with Isaac and got to see the All Blacks win their last game before the world cup. Next time I will try to do something we will both remember. I really liked having fun with Isaac.

We are learning to use descriptive language.

I know this when I use adjectives to make my writing more interesting.

All Blacks VS Samoa in Apia!

WALT retell an event.

I know this when I summarise the article in my own words. 

The Maori Warriors of rugby!

All Blacks VS North Harbour and Northland

After a good Friday at school, my dad and I went to the fish and chip shop. The fish and chip shop was in Botany next to the sushi go round. We ate the chips in the car and we had the fish when we got home. My dad and I needed to get ready to go the All Blacks friendly game against North Harbour and Northland. The game had three halves with 40 minutes in each of them. In the first half, the All Blacks  versed North Harbour. In the second half, they versed Northland and in the third half North Harbour versed Northland.

My dad and I had to go to my uncle’s house. We left at 4 o'clock. The traffic was busy, so busy that we were going as slow as a turtle because we were only travelling at 20 kilometres an hour. We would have been able to get there in 20 minutes if it wasn't for the traffic. We got there at 5:10pm which meant that  my dad and I were in the car for an hour and ten minutes.

No one was home so we waited and waited until my uncle finally came because he got stuck in traffic as well. My cousin Devon gave me a whole block of white chocolate. We had to pick up Mark, my uncle’s cousin as well. After we picked up Mark, we left like Flash from Marvel superheroes.

When we got to North Harbour Stadium, we got our tickets and went in. I ate the chocolate and gave some to my dad and my uncle. It was raining really hard at the game. Luckily I brought two jumpers and my dad brought his umbrella. The final score in the North Harbour game was 41 to nil to the All Blacks.

The final score against Northland was 19 to 7 to the All Blacks. I hope the All Blacks play like that against Australia in the Bledisloe Cup next Saturday because the Australian team plays very well and trains really hard.

WALT write a recount using appropriate language features.

I know this when I use similes correctly in my weekend recount.