As a part of our games unit, Ms Finikin told us a story about a time she had a woopsy playing a game. It was in 2001 while she was working at the Massey University English language centre, so her students were adults. She had been doing medieval sword fighting for over a year and was wearing a helmet…..to protect her head and nose.

Ching Ching, Poke Poke

Ms Finikin was sword fighting with her friend. The sword wasn’t sharp. When they played, her friend went so fast the the sword hit Ms Finikin’s eye. She had to go to the hospital. The doctor said, “Don’t do sword fighting without a mask.” Her students kept asking what happened.
Three groups:
1st group said, “You were fighting with an old lady. Then you got hit in the eye.”
2nd group said, “You were praying for a drink and then beer fell on your eye.”
3rd group said, “I think you were sword fighting then it hit your eye.”
In 2001. – By Jack

Ms Finikin went to sword fighting. The teacher decided to teach them something new. They had to cross swords and push. Her friend pushed so hard that Ms Finikin got hit in the eye. -By Alexey

In 2001, Ms Finikin did sword fighting. Ms Finikin’s eye was hurt. She went to the hospital. And Ms Finikin went to Massey University.Her friends were surprised. -By Darshan

In 2001, Ms FInikin was doing a sword fight and she got poked in the eye and she drove herself to the hospital. When she got to school, her students were so much questionish. Then she told them to get in a group of three and one group thought that she got into a fight with an old lady and the second group thought that your were in a sword fight and the third group thought that you were begging for water and a bear (sic) dropped on you.
-By Tamira

When Ms Finikin did sword fighting in 2001, an old lady hit Ms Finikin’s eye and did an accident and all of the people said, “What happened to your eye?” And she said, “Work out what happened.” Then she had to drive to the doctor with one eye, and the doctor said, “Don’t do sword fighting without a mask.”
-By Daniel S

One day, when Ms Finikin went with her friend to try sword fighting, they had curved swords for safety. Ms Finikin’s friend was really excited so they started. Her friend went “Haya!” and poked Ms Finikin’s eye.
-By Sebastian

On day Ms FInikin went to try sword fighting and got poked in the eye and drove to the doctor and the doctor said, “Don’t go sword fighting without a mask.” The next day she went to work and her students asked what happened. She said, “Get in to groups and guess.” The first group said, “You got hit in the eye by an old lady.” The second group said, “Your prayed for water and a cup of water fell on your eye.” The last group said, “You got hit in the eye with a sword.” -By Jack

Rosemary came to school.
She was Ms Finikin’s mum’s doll. One of us asked whether that made her Ms Finikin’s sister.
We discussed whether a 70-year-old ‘Pedigree’ doll is freaky or not. Probably the blonde wig doesn’t help.

We listened to the story about how Ms Finikin’s mum got the doll and retold it.

Rosemary is pretty. The grandparents bought her for Ms Finikin’s mum. She liked it. She was beautiful. Once she made Milly scared. – Darshan

Ms Finikin’s mum had to eat all of her dinner to play with Rosemary for thirty minutes. Rosemary is a doll. When she didn’t eat, her dad got to play with Rosemary. Her dad acted happy. – Jack

Rosemary is a doll. Ms Finikin’s grandparents bought a doll called Rosemary. They named her. Ms Finikin’s mom had to eat her dinner to have her for 30 minutes. – Daniel S

Rosemary is a doll. Ms Finikin’s mum always guessed when she ate her dinner, she could play with Rosemary. – Sebastian

Ms Finikin’s grandparents decided to get Ms Finikin’s mum a doll because she didn’t eat her dinner very well and was very skinny. They had this ticking sheet and, if she ate her dinner every day for a week, she got to play with Rosemary. But, if she didn’t eat all of her dinner, Ms Finikin’s grandpa had to play with Rosemary, and she had to watch. When Ms Finikin’s mum passed away, Ms Finikin got Rosemary. That is my retell story of Rosemary.
– Emily

Rosemary is a toy. Ms Finikin’s mam never ate her food so then they (her parents) bought her a doll. If she didn’t eat her dinner, she didn’t play with Rosemary. If she did eat her dinner, she played with Rosemary. – Alexey

70 years ago, Ms Finikin’s grandparents bought her mum a toy doll and Ms Finikin’s mum could play with the doll every Sunday night if she ate all her food for every night until Sunday night. She could play with the doll for 30 minutes. If she didn’t eat it, Grampa would play with the doll. – Kian

70 years ago, Ms Finikin’s mom didn’t eat a lot of her food. Ms Finikin’s grandpa or grandma thought if they buy a doll for her, if she ate all her food, she will be able to play with Rosemary for half an hour. If Ms FInikin’s mom didn’t eat it, she had to watch her father play with the doll for 30 minutes. – Tanu

Very funny, Peyton and Louis.

We are learning about games.

Here are some of us practising rhymes and reading, taking turns, remembering positions, and following rules.

During Diwali we found out about rangoli art. We created pictures in the style of it, and researched and justified our opinions about whether we could say we had created actual rangoli art works, or just something beautiful.