CHRISTMAS IS...

CHRISTMAS IS…

by Kimberly C

Christmas is the rustle of wrapping paper

mountains of presents and laughter

and happiness

I can smell the sweet meet 

on the BBQ

Christmas is love and hugs

and a kiss

the taste of chips crunching

the sound of kids screaming and jumping up

Christmas is love and family

and kids and food

definitely!

CHRISTMAS IS

by Josh T

Christmas is

mouth-watering turkey

it is the rustle of soft wrapping paper

Christmas is a

time for crackers

pull the thing and see what you have won

It is time for

the toys to be unleashed

like a stampede of dinosaurs chasing a rabbit

Christmas is a cricket ball

bashing the wickets

CHRISTMAS IS…

by Fergus

Christmas is

fun, laughter,

ringing bells

Christmas is zooming

down

a steep

waterslide

like a tornado

and at the end your dad

fishes you out

CHRISTMAS IS…

by Phoenix

Christmas is pavlova on the plate

with whipped cream out of the bowl

kiwis, strawberries, M&Ms, chocolate

and oranges.

Christmas is Christmas crackers

going boom crack

yay, I won something!

Christmas is Santa saying ho, ho, ho

coming down the chimney

giving presents to all.

Christmas is mistletoe

people kissing

eww, not me!

Christmas is presents getting unwrapped

Yay! I got an ipod touch!

Christmas is songs playing

over and over

and over and over

again.

CHRISTMAS IS…

by Farren

Christmas is pav with chocolate pebbles

strawberries

with whipped cream.

Christmas is the big breath you take

when you see all the presents.

Christmas is the magical smiles on

everyone’s faces.

Christmas is Santa poking his head

through the window.

Christmas is the time your mum and dad

bring out the mistletoe… yuck!

Christmas is the time of year to bring

out your inner elf.

Christmas is Christmas carols on

your doorstep.

Christmas is when family come and have

a Christmas dinner.

CHRISTMAS IS...

by Ella S

Christmas is shelling peas

fresh from the garden.

Christmas is magical laughter,

fun and surprises.

I feel the summer sun getting brighter

in my eyes.

I smell yummy pavlova

with strawberries, bananas

and kiwifruit…

the adults feast.

CHRISTMAS IS…

by Kim S

Ripping Christmas presents open

for a surprise

It is Christmas crackers popping

winning a mini prize

It is delicious desserts getting eaten

in one bite

It is going on holiday to a place

you’ve never been before

It is spending time with your aunties, uncles,

cousins and sisters

as a family at Christmas

You see your family laughing and joking

you know it is the best

spending time with family is the best thing

you will ever have in your life.

CHRISTMAS IS...

Christmas is … waking up to the rustling noises of wrapping paper.

Christmas is … unwrapping presents with family.

Christmas is … a treat having family there 

our special Christmas dinner, roast chicken 

and for desert it is chocolate pudding.

Christmas is … playing with Christmas presents

By Amy T.

Athletics day poetry

I could feel my heart racing.

I saw people getting ready.

I could taste sweat.

I could feel the grass on my feet.

I heard people cheering.

On your marks

get set... GO! 

- by Alex C

Click here to view athletics photos

Read on for more athletics day poetry by our year 5 and 6 authors:

Athletics Poem

Shot-put bangs

shaking the ground

Discus flying 

falling

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Smiling cheering children

Go! Go! Go!

Speeding feet

Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

- by Kim S

On Your Marks!

On your marks, get set, go!!!

People screaming as loud as a tornado.

Sweat pouring down into my mouth.

Ice block soothing.

Heart pounding with butterflies.

Kids playing like daffodils in the wind.

Shot-put landing, thump, thump!

- by Emelia 

Athletics Day

Blossoms blowing

Streaming blood

Heart racing

Stomping past

Discus Flying

- by Phoenix

Athletics

shot-put vibrations

legs aching

people sprinting around me

blossom petals twirling off trees

smell victory

ice-block dripping down my mouth

sad athletics day is over

- by Farren


Athletics Day
by Ella S

Breezy wind
hot sun in my eyes
people cheering happily

Mr Ish announced the winner
for shot put 
ME!

My heart was beating
like a crazy washing machine

The delicious taste of iceblocks
Fast relay team
like a t-rex stomping

I smell sand
Achoo!
Sand blowing everywhere

People sprinting
and 
jumping

More Moon Poetry - Senior

The Big Donut

        by Thomas P (year 7)

The moon is a big donut

half eaten

It is a ginormous elephant

moving logs

It is a glowing T.V.

It is a rally car doing laps

at speedway

It is a blue sea

with crashing waves

It is a shining spotlight

glaring at me

The Moon

          by Baylee L-M (year 7)

The moon is a big M&M cookie

it is the big blue sea swaying

it is a ginormous Hummer cruising across space

it is a blinding camera flash

Yummy Tummy

        by Cameron L(year 7)

The moon is a full tummy

It is a blue Smurf

It is an illuminating smile

It has so many little sparkling friends

It is an adventurous white rat

IN SPACE

The Big Red Moon

        by Holly (year 7)

The moon is a silver doorknob

It is a blue clue stick

It is a glowing lamp flying

it is a soccer ball spinning

in space

It is changing

into a

banana

The Pie in the Sky

        by Tama T (year 7)

The moon is a half-eaten

steak and cheese pie

It is a silver wheel rim

of my Lamborghini Aventador

It is a bright camera flash

at a gaming convention

Pounamu Moon

        by Raevyn H (year 7)

The moon is a pounamu ring

worn by one of the Gallipoli men.

It is a beaming flashlight

flickering through the night.

It is a memory

dragging me back to my Loved Ones.

The Crescent

        by Avijit (year 7)

The moon is a speeding

        boomerang

        going around the planet

It is a frightened grey mouse

        hiding in the clouds

It is a middle distance runner

        racing laps around the tracks

        in the flashing stars

The Shimmering Moon

        by Ollie M (year 6)

the moon is a smile

in a dark forest

it is a golden blade

slicing through the jet black sky

it is a shrimp

in an inky sea

it is a shining spotlight

searching for a pack of howling wolves

The Moon is a Chocolate Chip Biscuit

        by Farren S (year 6)

The moon is a chocolate chip biscuit.

It is a silver necklace gleaming through the window.

The moon is a knife cutting through the glistening night sky.

It is a hailstone getting closer and closer to the icy landscape.

The moon is an LED beaming into a shimmering pond.

Kim Schonert Moon Poem

        by Kim  (year 6)

The moon is a lime banana

The moon is a silver medal

The moon is a golden trophy

The moon is a bouncy ball

It is a shining firefly and a glowing lamp

it is a gleaming bottle of colourful glitter

The Iain Sharp Poem

If you were a parcel, what sort of parcel would you be? What kind of paper would you be wrapped in? Would you be tied with string, or ribbon, or tape? Would you fit through a mail slot? Perhaps you'd be a letter? What kind and in what envelope?

Iain Sharp is a poet who lives in Auckland. He wrote a really cool poem called The Iain Sharp Poem. He gives us a picture of himself through descriptions of things and actions. 

We each had a go at writing our own 'Iain Sharp' poem, using our own name. 

Here is a selection of the best of them from Team Awa Nui (Year 5 & 6) and Team Roto (Year 3 & 4).

Team Awa Nui

The Ollie Morris poem

I am a bright blue envelope with a yellow ribbon

I am a toy monkey waiting for a friend on the sheets

I am the sand running down the beach

I am a plane being flown into the cloudy sky

I am a fish swimming through the waves

I am a blade of grass on a rugby field
When I look in the mirror I see an army sergeant.

                                                                         

The Alex Law Poem

I am a package

and I'm the colour gold 

I am a honey-badger gun

in a middle of a war zone

I am a BMX track

with people jumping my jumps

(or trying to)

I am a Suzuki MX bike

in a super cross stadium

a jump away from victory

I am a mutt in a house

with my family

with everything I've wanted

I am a WWE super star

in the middle of the ring

doing my signature

When I look the mirror

I see

a famous BMX rider.

                                                                         

The Kim Schonert Poem

I am a big birthday card and parcel
with fairy wrapping paper
waiting to be opened

I am a teddy bear on a lonely shelf
waiting and waiting to be loved
by a family who loves me very much

I am a big green forest

full of colourful birds and animals

with crocodile’s and alligators roaming the habitat

I am a submarine swimming through the big blue

I am a piwakawaka flying through the incredibly big blue sky

I am a rainbow standing like a bridge

When I look in the mirror

I see me shy and scared

being new in class

with children that I don’t know 

  

                                                                         

The Farren Stewart Poem

I am a cocoa coloured box with a golden ribbon  
I am a toy puppy with one ear and a strawberry coloured bow
I am a high snowy mountain, white like a polar bear and shaped like a triangle
I am a jet ski zooming through the high waves with the motor roaring
I am a leopard racing through bushes after a gazelle
I am porridge getting sucked up into a sick wrinkly old lady’s mouth

When I look in the mirror I see brown hair and eyes

I see Farren Stewart

                                                                         

Team Roto (Year 3 & 4).

The Takeru Oki Poem

I am a skinny envelope

with a New Zealand stamp.

I am a race car

my colour is red.

I am faster than a toy plane.

I  can fly.

I am a dolphin

I am faster than a wave.

I am a soft pancake

with butter

and yummy.

I make a sloppy noise.

When I look in the mirror

I see

my beautiful face.

                                                                         

The Sophia Tan Poem

I am a big present

with shimmery paper.

I am a fairy godmother.

I am chicken wings with sticky rice,

and I am crunchy and crackly and crispy.

When I look in the mirror

I see a violinist.

                                                                         

The Sophia McMahon Poem

I am a box

I am rainbow coloured

and glow in the dark

with a gold ribbon.

I am a toy puppy

sitting on the bed.

I am a number 78 bus

travelling to the beach

at high speed.

I am a piece of sushi

with a double layer

with chocolate icing on it.

When I look in the mirror

I see a pop star.

                                                                         

The Josh Collins Poem

I am a parcel, a fancy box

with rings on it.

I am a Captain America soft toy.

I am a monster truck in big air.

I am a chimpanzee in a fight.

I am a bubbly bowl of rice bubbles.

I am a speed machine breaking the law.

I am a cliff being climbed.

When I look in the mirror,

I see Josh Collins.

                                                                         

The Jack McKay Poem

I am gold.

I fly and I sing ‘I believe I can fly

and touch the sky.’

I am a soccer boot

that kicks balls.

I am a motor bike.

I am a big black spider that bites to poison.

                                                                         

The Flynn Poulter Poem

I am a box

with a few stamps on the top.

I am a robot,

my sound is ‘beep’.

I am a jet boat,

I skid on some water.

I am a gorilla,

I am in New Zealand and I am eating a banana.

I am a bowl of Weet-Bix with sugar.

I am a crane

and I am digging up stuff.

I am a soccer field with people on.

When I look in the mirror

I see myself.

                                                                         

The Fergus Hollis-Barnard Poem

I am a ginormous cardboard box

with stamps.

I am a ginormous rocket ship,

I can fly over 1,000,000,000 kilometres.

I am a dragon with fire.

I am a bowl of crushed Ricies.

I am an electric sewing machine.

I am a crane with a big hook.

I am a sports field,

with a competition on.

When I look in the mirror

I see me.

                                                                         

The Charlize Fowler Poem

I am a rectangular box

of ballet shoes

in blue wrapping paper with a gold bow

with a stamp to New York.

I am a soft mermaid doll

with a rainbow

that glows.

I am a pink balloon 

with a sad face.

I am a duck with orange feet

and I sprint out of the water.

When I look in the mirror

I see a princess. 

                                                                        

The Cole Sutton Poem

I am a square box

I have gold wrapping paper

and a yellow tie

with a Russian stamp in the corner.

I am a sort of cat

I have black spots

and goldish-yellow fur.

I am soft and furry and I have got

cute eyes.

I am a leopard.

I am a big piece of meat.

My noise is squish,

munch,

crunch,

and at the end there is a Big

BURP.

When I look in the mirror

I see an astronaut.

                                                                         

The Kimberly Curry Poem

I am a sparkly fat purple parcel.
I have lollies that glow inside me
and a shimmery green bow.

I am a scary sparkly Monster High doll.

I am a magic rainbow bus
and I fly with food to schools

and deliver food.

I am a white-tail spider that

hides in a cave.

I am noodles

eaten with chopsticks.

When I look in the mirror

I see a beautiful little girl

looking back at me.

                                                                        

The Ryan Yoon Poem

I am a box wrapped with yellow paper

I am an airplane, I can fly

I am a whale, I can swim

I am a gorilla, I am strong

I am a plate of chicken nuggets

I am scissors

I am the earth

When I look in the mirror

I see me

                                                                        

The Josh Thackwell Poem

I am a brown cardboard box

with a few stamps.

I am a Madagascar penguin

flying through the air.

I am a jeep from the war

sitting in a garage.

I am a giraffe from Madagascar.

I love leaves.

When I look in the mirror

I see a future accountant.

                                                                         

The Cooper McMillan Poem

I am a parcel stuck with tape.

I am a rugby ball going over a post.

I am a STR Subaru.

I am a tiger eating animals,

I leap up and get them.

I am a sink full of mud.

I am a sports field.

When I look in the mirror,

I see an All Black standing there.