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These Images Represent How The fencibles came to New Zealand

In Ireland there was a Potato Famine. The Potato Famine meant that Irish people couldn't grow there potatoes. One day they packed their belongings, food, potato seeds and their tools. They were promised a new beginning in New Zealand, they were going to be fencible colonists. They went on a boat and arrived in New Zealand. When they arrived in New Zealand they were shown to there cottages. They were angry, it was not the promised cottage. They went back to the people who sent them here and wanted money for a new cottage. They finally agreed to give them money. They built there cottages and planted all the potato seeds they had.

Fencible Cottage

It was the 25th of march 2014. Not one class, but every class in Saint Patrick’s School, visited the Stone Cottage.  

Two people named Josephine and Angela, who volunteer their time to show people around the cottage on specific days for the public, gave up their time to show  and tell us about the cottage, artifacts and clothing within the cottage that represented one that would have housed a Fencible family. Josephine wore clothes that the woman would have wore in the 1840s. When we entered we went into a room with paintings, old chairs and bibles.  When we entered we were told about their 1 pound family bible and a over 100 year old hand sewn piece of furniture. In that room there were also pictures of a soldier and other soldiers that worked with him.

The next room I went into was a girls room. It was a very old looking room. It had 18th century dolls that looked scary because they had pale faces. In the room there was a lot of old girl clothes they would have worn in there time. One of the dresses were worn by three generations of babies. What I found interesting was that the sheets and blankets were all hand sewn.

My favorite room was the upstairs room on the right. I found that room the most interesting because of the old cameras, the old books and the gold rock. The old camera was really cool because they weren't like the cameras we use today at all. They were not powered with batteries.

The Fencible cottage was a really interesting place full of history.
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Peoples Feelings

There is a huge variety of ways to express your feelings.

Anger is a feeling that can cause death or serious injury. Anger can be caused when a bully says unpleasant words or teases your family name. If someone is angry they will have eyes that are red like a bull, a face that’s as red as red paint and fists that are clenched tight like a anaconda constricting it’s prey.  Death can be caused if there really angry and have a fight to the death.

Happiness is a good feeling that can be triggered when a family member wins the lottery or if the your country is victorious in a sport. You know someones happy because they have a pleasant voice and a joyful smile. People don't always smile when they're happy sometimes they will be jumping.

Sadness is a feeling that can be caused when someone in your family passes away or when something precious (Like a item that’s been past down from generation to generation) to you is broken by bully. You can tell someone is sad because they usually have sniffles when they talk and tears streaming down from the persons eyes or they could be running away from a bully.

Scared is a feeling that can bring happiness or death. Death can be caused when someone is playing hide and seek in the forest and the person finding scares a person hiding of the cliff. Happiness can happen when people play a prank and scare someone and then laugh about it. Being scared is a good feeling and a bad feeling.

Feeling’s can be different for different people that are different shapes, sizes and culture.

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Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick’s Day is a very special day for Saint Patrick schools around the world.

Saint Patrick, our patron Saint was born in 387 A.D.in Britain. Saint . We celebrate his day and go to church to have special mass. Saint Patrick was all about faith his motto was who will separate us. In our  school we celebrate our Saint Patrick's Feast Day by going to church and playing activities that has something to do with Ireland and Saint Patrick. We are also put into groups that have Irish names, so we can play the activities. The names are Emeralds, Shamrocks, Limericks, Leprechauns, Donegals and Tipperary's.

The activities this year involved: painting a clover,  bowling, making book marks, tracing a clover and some other games. Through the activities the teachers gave us a certain score. The team with the highest score won. The Donegal's were the winners.

After the games we had a sausage sizzle. The delicious barbecued sausages were cooked by our school tuck shop boss Mrs Folden. After lunch we went to our classes to help clean up the mess left after the busy morning of activities.  It was fun cleaning up the class and talking about the fun across the day.

Today was truly a fun Saint Patrick’s  day because our teachers made fun activities and games for us to play.

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Panthera Leo The Lion

Lions

Lions are big mammals that belong to meat eating predator family called the felidae. There scientific name is Panthera Leo.

Male lions are very lazy, they stay and defend their own territory and let the female lions do the hunting. Female lions are the hunters of the pack, they look after their cubs and bring food back to the

territory.Hyenas are predators of the lion, they hunt in packs and attack lions by trying to overpower them.

Lions and lioness have big feline claws and teeth for taking down their enemies and killing animals and other lions who come to their territory. There claws can measure up to 1 1/2 inches long. There teeth can grow up to 8 centimeters long.

Lions are very dangerous animals.


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