The Day My Favourite Toy Came Alive! - By Jouan

I love toy's and I got lots of them when I was a child. Some would be small some would be big but one particular toy was my favourite... it was my crawling baby Minnie Mouse. I used to take her every where I went. She even had her very own stroller! I made a video about her not so long ago. If you want to watch it its called My Toy Story... Movie . 

I still remember when I was young I took baby Minnie Mouse to the mall in her stroller. I treated her like a real live person or mouse! To me she was always alive. I feed her, I walked her and I played with her. All I can say is she was living a babies dream!!!

But then something tragic happened... "It's lost!" I screamed.  My mother ran up the stairs to see what I was so upset about. It's like it just crawled away!? I cried and cried and cried. You know what else I did? I cried! That night I didn't sleep, not one bit. I saw my Dad and Mum eating breakfast. When they saw me they both smiled. "Good morning," my Dad greeted. "Look what we found..." Mum said. It was Minnie Mouse! I leaped with happiness!

At that day I promised I would never let go of it ever again! But sadly that promise was never kept. I gave her to my baby cousin because I was too old to have her any more. And I have never seen her again!

The World’s Biggest Sneeze - By Jouan

Achooo!!! And there goes another window! Oh, excuse me. I have a really bad case of the sneezes! You might want to stand back a bit. You might not know so I’ll tell you I have the world’s biggest sneeze ... Achoo!!! Well at least the doctor thinks so... oh no, I made another hole in the roof!

I really don’t know how I got my sneeze, neither does my doctor! All we know is that one morning I got up from bed aaa... Achooo!!! Ohh man not again! Now we need a new wall! Anyway, my mum always says that in my Dad’s side of the family they have always sneezed and sneezed and sneezed! She says I got my horrible case of sneezes from them. But I really don’t know!

Achoo!!! That was an astronomical one! Not the new plasma TV!!! Ohh Mann!!! Every time I sneeze something breaks! As you can see(The window, hole in the roof , the wall and the plasma TV) Even at school. No one wants to sit next to me because they're worried I would sneeze and break something or even someone!

My doctor says the only way I can stop destroying things is to cover my mouth when I sneeze. And you know what... he’s right! Everytime I cover my mouth surprisingly nothing gets broken! It is also good because my sneeze won’t spread! I mean the last thing you would want is a bunch of kids spreading a case of the world’s biggest sneeze!!! Right?!

Sweet Tooth - By Jouan

Mid afternoon sugar craving? Really need a pick me up? I know the feeling, that only chocolate could ease! Hey in case you didn't now I am a chocoholic!



My mum always says I've got her genes. We never miss a day without having our sweet food. We also love to bake desserts. It's amazing how we satisfy ourselves with all our sugar cravings!

One great athlete! - By Jouan

Have you ever heard about a great olympic athlete called Mariana Avitia? Her full name is Mariana Avitia Martínez. She was born in September 18, 1993 in Monterrey, Mexico. She is in the Archery Women's Mexican team.

The sport that Mariana competes in is Archery. As you may have heard she is really good at it. She won bronze for the individual women's Archery in the london 2012 summer olympics. At the 2008 Beijing summer olympics she finished her ranking round with a total of 641 points. The women's Mexican team (Mariana Avitia’s team) finished with a gold in the 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games!!!

The reason I picked Mariana Avitia as my favorite athlete is because when I saw her play Archery in the olympics on television... I was amazed of what she can do. I was very inspired by her determination. Just by watching on television she taught me to never give up whatever happens!!!

I hope you have learnt something from this story. And also enjoyed it. Whatever your goal is don’t stop untill you reach it. Even if it takes a while, keep going!!!

Our Great Valerie Adams - By Jouan

Did you hear about our awesome Valerie Adams? She just won GOLD!!! This is because her rival Nadzeya Ostapchuk was taking steroids and when the judges heard about it she got disqualified. Adams went from silver to gold!

At first Valerie was very disappointed with her silver and also because she lost her record for the three times she won gold in a row. Now we all know that Valerie is truly the best shot put player ever!

I just found out this morning that Nadzeya Ostapchuk accused Valerie Adams for using steroids in 2005! But we all know Valerie would never cheat and would never disappoint her country. Valerie Adams is a true champion!!!

We look forward to the Rio De Janeiro 2016 olympics. I can’t wait to see Valerie in action once again!!!

Google Translate - By Jouan

Isara is a friend of mine, told me about this awesome website called Google Translate. Have you heard of it? If you haven't I can tell you all about it.

Google Translate is a website where you can learn how to speak in Spanish, German, Japanese and hypes more. I learnt how too speak French with this website. I f you are going to another country and don't know how to speak there language Google Translate is going to be very helpful.

Did I mention that Google Translate can also beat box? Well it can. You can find out how at Isara's blog. I hope you like the website because I do!!!

The Awesome Life Education Caravan!!! - By Jouan

Last week on Thursday and Friday Room 16 went to the life education caravan or life ed for short. The life education caravan is a fun place to learn about all sorts of topics! This year we learnt about our tenana (our body.)

Lynn is the one who introduces us to Harold the giraffe. She is also the one who teaches us everything we need to keep our tenana healthy. I learnt some facts about what our tenana needs every 24 hours. Did you know that energy drinks have caffeine in them?

I learnt that I have to feed my tenana every day to keep it in tip top shape. We learnt heaps from harold and Lynn. And we got some new friends out of the experience too.

My favorite part in the experience was when the whole class sang karaoke! The song we sang was “Supercomputer”, it is a really catchy song. It was a funnny song but even the boys sang along. In fact the boys in my class sang louder than our teacher and all the girls combined!!!

We all love going to the life ed caravan. I hope you will get the opportunity to meet harold as well. I think you’ll like him.

My Great Teacher!!! - By Jouan

Hi I’m Jouan, and my teacher is Mr. S well at least I think he’s the BEST!!! He gives us really fun and cool stuff to do. He puts on music when we're working well. But what I like best about my teacher is that when he’s generous he gives us lots of green cards.

And that's just the beginning!!! I mean what more can you ask for in a teacher. But sometimes he tells really dry jokes but we still laugh. If we don’t finish our work by friday we get detention. Thats a good thing that I’ve never had detention!!! But for all we know “Mr. S is the best!!!”

ART ALIVE!!! - By Jouan

This term our fantastic school is learning about art and not just any art but Art Alive. Art is one of my favorite things in the world. I was so happy when I heard that we were learning about art! I’d be happy to tell you about some of the things we are learning about so listen carefully.

“Finally,” I shouted. It’s school time again, I said Hi to all my friends then hung up my bag. I was wondering what the topic was for this term? I was talking to my friends when something caught my eye. It was the topic board, I found myself gazing up on the beautiful art on the wall and the words “ART ALIVE”! Wow I thought to myself this is going to be a great term.

Walking to assembly I wonder what kind of hilarious costumes and performances we will see. As I sat down I saw the small Mr. J dressed as a paint set. I thought that was the best costume at assembly but then I saw Miss. Garden dressed as a painting! I saw a lot more funny costumes I just didn’t know which one to pick.

A lot of laughs went on as the performances started. They were all funny but I think that team 3’s performance won me over. Their performance was about Mrs Barks going to Paris to visit the biggest art museum in the world! It’s was so awesome! I just know this term is going to be the best!!!

Swimming - it's going to be great! - By Jouan

New Zealand is surrounded by water, so people that live in New Zealand should know or learn how to swim. We are so lucky because our school has swimming lessons and everyone loves it. If you want to find out about the fantastic two weeks of swimming lessons than this is the perfect story for you!!

“YAY” our class said, it’s finally time for our swimming lessons at the Glen Innes aquatic centre. Everyone is so excited, I mean who doesn't love swimming? Anxiously walking to the pools, I thought of all the new things I'm going to learn. As I walked through the doors of the pool, I got greeted by the strong smell of chlorine.

Trying to get changed as quick as I can, my friend told me to hurry up! We had time for a little bit of a gossip in the changing room but then we really had to hurry up! Finally I’m done. Once I got out Mr. S gave me 10 green cards! Almost time to get into the pool. Exited!

Jumping in the warm pool I I took a test to see how good I was in swimming. There was a team one (learning), two (good) and three (great). It turns out I’m really good at swimming! For the first day I swam in the really deep pool, my confidence slowly swam out of my reach. The water was a lot colder but I can handle it. Our instructor gave us a board and told us to swim one length of the pool kicking. At first I thought it was going to be easy but as I got to the middle of the pool my leg muscles got tired... then more tired, untill I just had to STOP! My instructor told me to keep going as I’m almost at the end, and I had no choice but to listen to her. “Ok,” the teacher told me, “You will be in group two from now on.” There is no doubt that for the next two weeks it will be great. I love Swimming!!!

I Presented to Len Brown - By Jouan

Last Friday the mayor of Auckland, Mr Len Brown came to our school. I am one of the ambassadors (ambassadors means people who welcome visitors.) First of all we each took turns to introduced ourselves to the mayor.

It was finally my turn. Proudly speaking in front of the mayor and other people I said my lines and then said “I would like to take your photo and add it to our visitors book, so don't forget to smile.” I took the photos and left the room so I could print them.

Slowly waiting for the photo to come out of the printer, I thought I was late and the mayor was leaving but it turned out that I was just in time. I asked all the visitors to sign their photos then left to get on with the rest of the day.

It was very exciting to meet someone important!