What do I Think About Halloween?

<---- This is our groups pictionary about halloween.

Halloween is nothing more than knocking on random doors and getting a bunch of lollies. I  think that halloween is about the Devils birthday and the creation of evil characters.. I don’t celebrate halloween because my parents don’t want me to. It’s time to find out what halloween is really about?

After we wrote down what we thought of halloween, our teacher gave us time to research about what halloween was really about. This is what I found out. 

The origin of dressing up on halloween day also came from people back in the day. On halloween, people would think that bodies from the dead would rise from their graves and start roaming around the earth. So children and adults would dress up in ghosts and witches as a form of camouflage to blend in with the dead.

The origin of trick or treat came from catholics. On all souls day (November 2nd) the priest would ask the church to pray for the people that are in the purgatory. That is a place that is in between heaven and hell, and if you pray for them, then that gives them a chance to go to heaven. Back then, people would go to houses and ask for soul cakes, and in return, they would pray for the people in the purgatory.

Before halloween they would celebrate a day could Lemuria. On that day, people would pour roman milk on graves to stop them from rising and roaming on the earth. It would also block them from trying to enter the earth. 

Jack-O-Lanterns were actually not lighted up in pumpkins, they were lighted up in turnips. When Jack died, he got sent to hell. But he was so bad that the devil didn't want him to stay there. So the devil sent him back to earth and with Jack was a flick of fire. Jack used that and put it in a turnip, and he uses it to roam around at night.

D.L.O Reflection!!

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Positive - In the past week, we got the task of creating a D.L.O about an event in history. The event in history that my group and I picked was the Twin Towers (9/11) terrorist attack on the USA. One of the good things in our movie was that we used more animation in this movie than in any of our other movies. Our animation in the background made the news report more interesting to watch. We also got the movie finished in time. We showed lots of different perspectives, from the perspective of Osama to the military and also news reporters. There was also a bit of humour in it. I think that our movie was quite entertaining because our audience liked it. We used some interesting angles and shots in our movie.

Minus - Something that was bad about our movie was that we didn’t finish our planning and that really was a struggle because we only had one day to finish it. We also didn’t show how it affected New York and the world and I think we could have conveyed that a whole lot better. The information that we found out could've been shown with more detail in our movie. Our animations also could’ve been more detailed as well.

Interesting - Something that was interesting to our audience was the news reporters part. People also found the Osama Bin Laden part interesting as well. We had the same two characters play the part of the terrorists and then the part of the American military.

This is our movie. Comment down below what you think of it.

Nelson Mandela!!

This is a presentation about Nelson Mandela.

WILL.I.AM Comes to Pt. England School

“Wonder who it’s going to be” Today at Pt. England school we were going to have a special guest come into our school to give us a cheque worth of one hundred thousand dollars. The day before the special guest came to our school, we didn’t know who it was and how much the money was. I couldn’t wait to see who it was.

I was personally excited because all the prefects got to greet the celebrity into our school and shake our hand. I thought it was going to Stan Walker or any celebrity from New Zealand, But I didn’t know anything. Mr. Burt said that if he told anyone the secret celebrity wouldn’t come and we wouldn’t get a cheque. We were going to find out who it was the next day, I COULDN’T WAIT!

It was finally time to meet our special guest. I was really excited to see who it was going to be. Everyone gathered into the school hall all excited to see who it was going to be. 5 of the prefects were outside waiting to greet in our special guest. There were flashes of lights everywhere and large video cameras were everywhere. “I know you guys have been excited about the celebrity that’s coming” Mr. Burt said. “Well you are going to find out right now” Goosebumps starting arriving on my arms and it was WILL.I.AM. WOW who would ever think it was going to be him, and I get to shake his hand.

He got greeted into our school with our kapa haka group and our senior hip hop crew. Both performances were amazing. Then WILL.I.AM had a turn of talking. He was talking about how he grew up in a poor neighborhood and how he had no dad. His story was very inspiring and it pushed me to push harder at my dream.

I can’t wait til
l another celebrity comes to our school.