Holiday Recount
WALT: create a recount with a beginning, middle and end.
Year 5 Practice: reflect personal experiences and knowledge.
Planning and writing with an audience and purpose in mind
When people read this recount they should feel interested and excited. This week you are going to create a recount about your holiday, this can be real or made up! Use the class brainstorm to help you get started:

Introduction
Who, what, where, when, how and why?
Family westport 10:30 we Drive to find fossils

Beginning
What happened first?
We drive to Westport
Bech look fossil

Middle
What happened in the middle?
Go to museum (closed)
Postie
Go to new beach
End
What happened at the end?
Seal colanie
Seal pups aw!
Conclusion
How did you feel about your experience?
Sentence about how you enjoyed this.
5 review a little smelly

Now that you have finished your plan, start writing your recount. Don’t forget:
Who, what, when, where, why to introduce the event.
Write it in an order of events.
Be descriptive, share as many details as you can.
Use correct sentence punctuation, and try experimenting with others.
Group your ideas into paragraphs.

Start your writing here
→ My expedition to Westport
At about 10:30 me and my family went on an expedition to Westport to go on a fossil hunt. So we went in the car and it was a very boring drive. I just wanted to get there.
When we got there the first stop was Cape Falewind beach. Where we saw lipids and periwinkles but my little sister Ciara called them paddywinkles. We also saw a huge rock with shells inside. We had an amazing time.

Then we tried to go to the museum but it was closed so we took pictures with the minecart outside the gift shop. (that was also closed) So we went to Postie instead. I got a jumper and Erin got one too. After that we went to another beach. We played beach volleyball for 20 minutes. Then we wriggled our feet around and they sunk into the sand.

Then we meet cam and moi then we went on a walk to the seal colonel. My favourite seal was the one sleeping on its back in the flax Erin spotted one in a crevice in the rocks. It looked like a rock! There were some in the waves. They looked like they were doing handstands. There were also seal pups awwww.

I was so happy with my experience I would do it again. It was a little bit smelly though.

Holiday Recount

WALT: create a recount with a beginning, middle and end. 

Year 5 Practice: reflect personal experiences and knowledge. 

Planning and writing with an audience and purpose in mind
When people read this recount they should feel interested and excited. This week you are going to create a recount about your holiday, this can be real or made up! Use the class brainstorm to help you get started:

Now that you have finished your plan, start writing your recount. Don’t forget:

• Who, what, when, where, why to introduce the event.
• Write it in an order of events.
• Be descriptive, share as many details as you can.
• Use correct sentence punctuation, and try experimenting with others.
• Group your ideas into paragraphs.

Start your writing here 

→ Introduction  In the holidays me and Riley’ my brother Mason we went to Westfleet wer are lost of fish there i dropt my 

Beginning       In the holidays I went fishing with my best friend Riley and my brother  Mason. We scooted to Westfleets. Then Kimberly and Kayla arrived at Westfleets because the staff from Westfleet do not let  fish there without a parent because it is a working area.  and to keep us safe from falling in the water.I was looking for crabs then a big rock fell on my fishing rod and broke it! I put stinky  old trout bait on my medium sized hook and I cast it in the water.

Holiday Recount

WALT: create a recount with a beginning, middle and end. 

Year 5 Practice: reflect personal experiences and knowledge. 

Planning and writing with an audience and purpose in mind
When people read this recount they should feel interested and excited. This week you are going to create a recount about your holiday, this can be real or made up! Use the class brainstorm to help you get started:

Now that you have finished your plan, start writing your recount. Don’t forget:

• Who, what, when, where, why to introduce the event.
• Write it in an order of events.
• Be descriptive, share as many details as you can.
• Use correct sentence punctuation, and try experimenting with others.
• Group your ideas into paragraphs.

Start your writing here 

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Introduction

 In the holidays  I went  fishing  with my  friend  Taylor  and Taylor’s brother Mason. We scooted  to westfleets. We parked scooters up and pot some bait on the hook .

Then we cast a line out there. We had a  few nibbles. There was  a certain fish  that kept taking the bait of the hook. We caught 2 herring at the start   so we used them for bait. So we capped  fishing and we did  not   catch anything  else.

The Wilderness Trail

On 26th of May 2026 at 8:45 me and the rest of Room Kea did the Wilderness Trail for our
William Pike Challenge.

We started from our school and ended at the end of the trail in Kumara. We had a slightly rainy morning. It was chilly and cold. My bike was a bit small so I was hunched over it just a bit making my back feel stuck in place. My buddy was Dusty but I couldn’t even keep up with her because I usually don’t ride my bike, But she was helpful when encouraging me to keep going. This was mainly when we were by the beach and then the road.

After the first part of the trail I was mainly with Shalom and Julian at the back until I got moved to the front with Brylee and Maddie. When we got out of the forest onto the very flat gravel paths by the paddocks, we were actually quite fast. Eventually we were back in the forest again and riding to the swing bridge it was very trippey looking, then instead of it being cloudy the autumn sun peaked out a bright beautiful light making it a relaxing bike ride in the sun. We even crossed a swing bridge on our bikes coming close to the end of the trail. Our bodies ached as we rode our bikes to the end of the trail.

When the trail ended everyone was relieved but exhausted having sore legs, backs and arms meaning they used mussels they don’t really use, but mostly everyone found it to be an awesome experience but a very tiring one. Finally we got a real break and placed our bikes down,had some kai, and could hangout with friends. Then the worst part is when everyone came to the realisation that they had to do it again to come back. But since Me, Brylee and Maddie couldn’t keep up well we got sent back to school into room kōtare until our class came back.

The best thing was everyone gave it a go. My classmates, especially the ones who helped out others and I, all did their best and had sore backs and legs for mainly the rest of the week.

Emme

Wilderness Trail Ride

On 26th of May 2026, Kea biked from Karoro School to Kumara Central Park. It went from a drizzly morning to a sunny afternoon. 

I really enjoyed all the amazing views that I have seen so many times before. I saw farm paddocks, big drops and so many other things

It was slow going on the way up but after a few of the less adapted to long bike rides dropped out, it started to get a little faster. I really think that everyone gave it their all. Especially the ones who gave it their all, even the ones who couldn’t bike all of the 40km. 

I found it uncomfortable near the end as the muscles in my thighs started to burn. One of the hardest parts was being there for the person I was supposed to peer support, Brylee. She struggled a bit but managed to make it to Kumara.

During that ride I learned that I am good at supporting a buddy.

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Kia ora koutou and welcome to my blog post about Canada. I was learning about the commonwealth games and Canada. I really enjoyed finding out new information about both the commonwealth games and Canada. It was challenging to make them into slides that look good. Some of the things that I learned were Canada is one of the 6 nations that have participated in all 96 games from 1930. 

Do you like Canada or learning about different countries, I do?

What have you been learning this week?

I really love to hear from people who read my blog… maybe you could comment below for me answering my questions?

We have been learning about the commonwealth  games we got to pick  a sport I chose netball in fact I also play netball this is my example.

Kia ora we have been learning about the Commonwealth games, about the country’s the athletes and lastly the sports, I picked Country’s because I think it would be very interesting to learn about a country that I’m not from so then I know info about Ghana.

We are learning about the Commonwealth games. I did my home country Malaysia.

If you like it please leave  a comment.

We are learning about the commonwealth games and I picked judo.