Autumn Leaves

Autumn the smell of crisp.

Autumn makes leaves sleep on the ground.

The piles of leaves, for jumping in.

The colours of them are orange and brown.

Autumn is here for  you and me!  

By Sam

Interesting Wind Vanes

Last Tuesday Room 5 buddied up and created awesome wind vanes.

We started by getting: one plastic cup, a pencil with a rubber on the end, a square orange piece of card, one straw, a blue piece of card, a pin, one tiny nail, one plate and some clay. First put your plastic cup upside down. Then get some scissors and make it to one blade.  Make a hole on the top of your cup and put the pencil with the rubber on in the hole.

With the orange piece of card put N for North, E for East, S for South and finally W for West. Put the pencil through the hole you made with the scissors. You have also got to put a hole in the orange piece of card and slide the orange piece of card down the pencil. With the little nail poke the sharp bit into the middle of the rubber on the top of the pencil. When the nail is standing there measure the straw to see where the middle is. Mark where the middle is and make a hole with the pin where the middle is. With the blue piece of card draw two slightly big arrows and cut them out. Cellotape the arrows on the straw and put the little nail in the hole you made in the straw. Get the plate and put the hole thing in the middle of the plate. Last of all get the clay and roll it in your hands so it is like a wiggly worm and sticks to the plate. Then you have a interesting wind vane! 

 On Friday my puppy came to Brightwater School. Her name is KC and she is a Boarder-Collie Cross Hunterway. KC is a very playful pup, and so adorable .
Mum walked  through the tunnel to our classroom. Room 5 children looked at  KC, she caught their eye. Room 5 sat in a good circle and patted her as KC walked around. They also asked me lots of questions about her.

by Talia

The pilot visit

My dad is a pilot and he came in today to tell us how weather affects his job.
He told us that if there is a rain cloud he either descends or climbs or go around it for a smoother flight. If the runway is icy the pilot must go to a different airport (if Nelson airport is icy he might fly to Blenheim).

On a plane at the cockpit there is a radar and that sends waves to rain clouds and bounces straight back to the plane. When the plane gets ready to land, if there is crosswind (wind going across the runway) the pilot will fly on an angle and then turn back the right way. If the crosswind gets too fast on the runway the pilot will have to also go to a different airport. The normal cruising altitude is around 20,000  to 25,000 feet which is around as high as the clouds are but they are usually lower than that. He tries to avoid wind that can make turbulence.
By Matt

Making delicious ANZAC biscuits

On Tuesday  we made ANZAC biscuits with Karen,  Danielle's  mum. The ingredients were butter, golden syrup, flour, rolled oats, sugar, coconut, baking soda and hot water.

First the dry ingredients were put into a bowl and then the wet ingredients were put in as well. Then Ella and Charlie greased the two trays. Room 5 children stood in two straight lines.We got  two small spoons and gathered a spoon full of mixture, rolled it into a ball, flattened it and put it on the tray. Karen cooked them and Room 5  gobbled them up. They tasted delicious!
by Talia

Football!

Yesterday we went to football and George showed us how to dribble the ball. Then we played Earthquake and you had to dribble to a house before anyone else. Next, we played a game of football and my team was orange. It was lots of fun.

by Jacob

The poppy  in the battlefield, never forget them.

Amazing people who fought in the Great War.


New Zealand helped out Britain.

Zipping up our sweat-shirts for the parade.

Australia helped New Zealand which made the ANZACs.

Cannons firing at parades.

Deep in our hearts, we thank them.

ANZACs are our heroes.

Yawning people at  Dawn parades.

By Matthew

Great Grandad's medals

These are my great grandads medals. He got them for fighting in  World War 2. The silver one is for being brave.  I'm not sure what the gold one is for. He got gassed in the war. But he did not die. His name is Gordan Kelly. He won three medals 2 gold 1 silver. He died of old age before I was born. He went to the war when he was 18 and there is a photo of him when he was 21 in his soldier uniform.
                                                        By Maddy