Going to the beach

Where the sea is blue

Big blue waves coming at you

Building sand castles munching on sand

Crunchy crunch crunch getting a tan.

By Heremaia

                      

Basketball

On November the 6th 1861 there was the birth of a great man who would invent one of my favourite sports. At the age of 30 he was given the task to create an activity or a sport for his Y.M.C.A class in Springfield Massachusetts.

In 1891 he came up with a game that started with two peach baskets on poles and a soccer ball and a ladder the ladder was to get the ball out of the basket. The team originally started with 8 people on each team. There are many famous players in basketball like LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and James Harden.

There are 13 rules but some people think their are ten rules.

Rule 1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.

Rule 2.The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands but never with the fist

Rule 3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which catches it allowance to be made for a man who catches the ball when running at a good speed if he tries to stop.

Rule 4. The ball must be held in or between the hands arms or the body.

Rule 5. No shouldering, pushing, holding, tripping or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be allowed. The first infringement of this player.

Rule 6. A foul is  striking at the ball with the fist violation of rule 2 and 4 and such as described in rule 5.

Rule 7. If either side makes the three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents.

Rule 8. A goal shall be made when it is thrown or batted from the ground into the basket and stays there providing those defending the goal do not touch or disturb the goal if the ball rests on the edges and basket it shall count as goal.

Rule 9. The time will be two 15 minute halves with five minute between rest.

Rule 10. The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner in a case of a draw the game made by an agreement of the captains the game will  be continued until one more goal is made.

Rule 11. When the ball goes out of bounds it shall be thrown into the field  played by  the first  person touching the ball.

Rule 12. The umpire shall be the judges of the men and  shall take the fouls and notify the referee when three consecutive fouls have been made he shall have all the power to disqualify men according to rule five.

Rule 13. If either side makes three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponent.   

      

Once a upon a time their was a taniwha that  lived in the bush of Taharou. He was a mean taniwha because he like to eat all the people and terrorise  all the kids of Taharou. No one would go near the bush at night because of the mean taniwha. But the mean taniwha wasn’t really mean. He just was lonely because he had no friends to  play with. One night a  boy called Jack and his sister Rose went for a walk in the bush. They heard a noise in the lake, then they saw a glimpse of light. They saw a large arm on the bank.  Jack went to go and touch the arm. They heard a voice. The voice said “Do you want to play?”

“Yes, of course,” said Jack and Rose.  “We will play with you.” But then the taniwha ate them.

How to transplant a plant

You will need:

Potting mix

Soil

Water

And your hands

Step 1: Water all the plants that you wish  to transplant using a transplanting fertilizer.

Step 2: Fill up the pot with potting mix.

Step 3: Mix the same transplanting fertilizer from step 1 with the same amount of water saturate the soil of the destination pot with the mixture.

Step 4: Pull the plant out of the pot and dig a little hole and then put the plant in the hole and then fill the hole back up.

Why I think Jonah Lomu should be in the Hall of Fame.

Jonah Tali Lomu MNZM was a New Zealand rugby union player. He was the youngest ever All Black when he played his first international in 1994 at the age of 19 years and 45 days. Lomu finished with 63 caps and scored 37 international tries. Lomu was born May the 12 of 1975 and he died in November the 18th of 2015 in Auckland. He was 1.96m tall and he went to wesley college in Auckland.   

In my own opinion Jonah Lomu was a strong confident and  a well balanced  player who had a great rugby career. He was the youngest ever All Black of his time and his try scoring had a major impact on international rugby, drawing large crowds whenever he appeared on a field.