Room 5 Brightwater School

Cricket and Water Saftey

2012-02-10T13:40:00.011+13:00

Today on the 10.2.12, Room 5 and 6 went in the the cool school pool. We did something exiting, we did experiments. We used milk bottles, buckets, balls, cones etc to see if they could help us to float. It was cold but most of us stayed in. I think the whole school is doing it. So I hope they like it too. Matt

Also, today R 5 and 6 went to play cricket with Mark on the back field. We practiced our bowling and batting and then we played a game of cricket. I loved it and I hope you do to. Nicole

Room 5 2012

2012-01-22T16:56:00.002+13:00

Welcome to the new school year.
I am looking forward to meeting my new class for 2012 and having a super fun year of learning with them. See you all in two weeks time.
Regards Mrs Roberts

End of Year Activities

2011-12-13T12:33:00.004+13:00

Clay Animals
Room 5 had some clay left from Mix and Make Day, so we made clay animals. First we had to make them very carefully, Flynn and some other people made dragons. Then we had to paint them white. Once they were dry we painted them the colour we wanted them.

Christmas activites
We had lots to choose from on the 13 of December and we had three wordfind to do. They were simple. We made masks, there was a Santa and Ruldoph. My mask doesn't fit.

lollies
We had to make boxes and do a back ground, then tape the sides. Then Mrs Roberts put 6 lollies in. We were really lucky because they were yummy.

Movies
First we watched a robot movie, it was funny and was in Room 8. Then we watched Marmaduke.

Dancing
Some children learned ballroom dancing this term.

By Ella

More FM Pack The Bus

2011-12-07T12:21:00.006+13:00

Today the More FM bus came to Brightwater School for Pack The Bus. Pack the bus is a purpose to give kids and adults gifts that they don't get for Christmas. We had to bring food or toys. Kath Bee was there and she sung us two songs, 'Dad I want to be a camel and Individually.' We were put live on radio. We sung, 'Christmas on the Beach' to them and then they left in the bus.

by Sophie

Crocodilians

2011-11-21T11:42:00.012+13:00

Crocodilians are protected by people in crocodile farms to save them from danger.
Flynn

Gharials have very long narrow snouts.
Phoebe

The smooth shape of a fish makes it easy for alligators to eat them.
Jorja

Lots of people are dropping litter in the Crocodilian's habitat which is polluting it.
Piper

Crocodilians are found mainly in the warmer parts of the world where the temperature stays the same all the time.
Ellie T

Ella's Aunties coming to school

2011-11-15T12:45:00.007+13:00

It was exciting for everyone including me and them. Their names are Audre, Nola and Mare. Auntie Audre is from Canada, Auntie Nola is from where the oil spill happened and Auntie Mare is from up in the top of the North Island. Auntie Audre left that Friday after she came. They went to Aimee's and Cade's, as well as Ella's class.
Everyone was amazed how big our family is. Nola does not like Dogs but she would like a horse. Audre is great at cooking and makes it yummy. Nola loves shopping and is good at it. Mare loves playing games with us and she lets us choose. They came with Anna my Grandma. At the end every one asked an age question. After they went to all the classes they went shopping and out for lunch.

Bye Ella

The Amazing Cute Rabbits

2011-11-14T12:47:00.007+13:00

Ellie-rose and Piper brought a rabbit each to school on Friday. We had the rabbits for the day. The mother rabbit scared Jumpy who zoomed around the class room and I had to catch Piper's rabbit and put it in its cage. Clover went under Mrs Roberts desk.
We fed them lettuce, silver beet, strawberries from Tessa and cucumber from Ellie T. It was funny when Jumpy peed on Sophie.
It was lovely to have Jumpy and Clover at school for the day.

Piper and Ellie-Rose

The Difficult Maze

2011-11-12T20:28:00.004+13:00

The Maze of Glory.
The maze is in a deep ditch. It is made out of long wooden planks. The maze is as big as four classrooms. There two gaps on the bottom of the maze. I couldn't go under the planks because it hurt my back.
Me and my friend got out as fast as a rocket as well as trying to beat my friend.
The puddles were muddy. Once I fell in the mud and my bottom was dirty. Me and Kyle laughed. I almost wet my pants because I was laughing so hard. I still went on going but I didn't go far because I was still laughing very hard. I still went on-going through it. I beat Kyle. I didn't need help.
The weather on the first day was pouring down. The rest of the times it was sunny and warm.
The first time I went in I rammed into the wooden wall.
It was the best time ever.

Zane

Missy's Visit to School

2011-11-08T07:48:00.006+13:00

Missy is fluffy and cute. She came to Room 5 at Brightwater School on Friday and she was real jumpy. Missy ran over Zane, it was real funny.
Missy jumped off the deck and strangled herself. Nico, Bailey and Luca helped put her back up. Then I put a rubbish bin there so she did not jump off again.She is black and white like an All Black and is a Border Collie.
We shared ideas about how to treat your dog. It was really cool having Missy around at school.

By nico

Baking Teddy Bear Biscuits

2011-10-07T13:03:00.006+13:00

Yesterday Lucy is leaving so we had a party and we baked biscuits - not ordinary ones but Teddy Bears!
We had a great time at the party but even more fun baking the biscuits.
Lucy is going to Mahana School. I hope she had a good time at the party.

Zane

Staff room opening

2011-10-03T14:12:00.011+13:00

Last Friday Brightwater School had a powhiri to open the new staff room. Rahania and Alisha welcomed the guests to the powhiri. We sung three songs in Maori to the Board of Trustees and the parents. All the classes lined up outside Room 3 and the parents sat on some chairs facing us . One of the board of trusties did a speech and cut the long lime green ribbon. After the powhiri all the class rooms got to wander through the stylish new staff room . There were long pitch black sleek couches . Out the back of the staff room there was some small bushes and a small step , the new staff room was great.

By Lucy.

Sleeping Bags

2011-10-03T14:09:00.017+13:00

Design a sleeping bag for your Ted .

1. Draw a pattern onto a piece of news print .
2. Choose material for your sleeping bag and pin the pattern on and cut it out.
3.Sew the sleeping bag with a sewing machine .
4.Put on some decorations.

Fluffy lambs

2011-10-03T14:08:00.015+13:00

The four fluffy white lambs came to school on Friday. At morning tea I went to see the lambs. The smallest one that was born last, is a boy. They are Mrs Roberts. The mum had four lambs.They were in the corner by our class and by the garden . I got to pat it lots of times and when Lucy was feeding it milk out of a bottle.

By Jorja.

School Disco

2011-09-15T09:14:00.006+12:00

Recently we had a school disco at the school hall. We had the disco so the St John's could buy a new ambulance , with a Bright water puzzle on it. We had lots of cool songs like party rocking and last Friday night, and lots more. Some people got spot prizes.
There was juice and sweet treats. We had to go as a fun movie star, most of the school went. We raised 300 and something dollars.
I had a great time at the school disco.
by Ellie t

Sports Day

2011-09-14T09:07:00.005+12:00

Yesterday on the 13.9.11 of August it was the Middle Syndicate from 5 schools participating in a Sports Day. The activities were indoor bowls ,bocha, soccer skills, hockey, rippa rugby, treasure hunt, t-ball, NON-stop cricket, netball, tennis, Toptown games. Each group of 24 children had seven activities to do. There was also athletics.
Parents were coming as-well to watch and help. We also stayed till 2. 30 in the afternoon and then walked back from the Domain. Everyone was tired besides Keegan.W and William.J. Rippa Rugby was Keegan's favourite activity and William's favourite activity was the treasure -hunt.
A lot of people enjoyed the fantasy of Sports Day .

By William and Keegan.

School Assembly

2011-09-12T11:54:00.006+12:00

On Friday afternoon Room 5 took our Brightwater School assembly. It was about the 2011 Rugby World Cup. We all had to research a country who is competing in it.
Milly and Ollie took it for our class. Zach, Jorja, Harrison and Ella shared a poem each. When we did our parade we showed our country flag we made. After that our class went in our pool groups and shared our information we found out.
Fenixs told some things about how we made our puppets and then we went in our Inquiry Groups to show our puppets. Next the Inquiry Group leader told what fairy tale our puppets were from and finally we introduced our puppets. At the end we said ''we know the All Blacks will win." When we said it Ellie T shook her head.
When we were up the front, some of us felt nervous and the rest felt fine. The ordinance loved it. Mr Baldwin said that was the best assembly ever. After it, we felt proud of our selves.

Ella

Ella

Amazing Rock da House Concert

2011-09-08T09:44:00.006+12:00

Oh yah! tonight is the Rock da House concert.
On the 6th of September the Brightwater Choir went to the Trafalgar Center for a concert. There were great singers including a boy called Kerin and a band. We had heaps of fun and th
ere were heaps of people there to watch us. We wore wigs for one song and had on bright t-shirt. There were was lots of kids singing and our teachers for Brightwater were John Philips and Mrs Anderson. Our wigs were funky colours.
Then next day we were pretty tired. Now that was that and we had an amazing time.
By Charlie and Fenixs

Making Pizza

2011-09-04T21:39:00.002+12:00

Ange got us out of class. We are Mitchell, Ben and Nico. First we got a base then we got some food to put on top.
Nico put lots of ham on his pizza because he loves ham. Ben put lots of cheese on his. We made our pizza a double decker pizza like a bus.
We had tomato, ham, cheese and pineapple but Ben didn't put pineapple on his.
When the pizzas came out of the oven, Nico had the first try. It was yummy and he let Ange have a piece.
"I thought it was a game of pizza," said Nico, "not real pizzas!"
"The smell made us very hungry," said Ben and Nico.
"I liked making the pizza and especially eating it!"
Nico and Ben

Domain Picnic

2011-08-24T12:46:00.006+12:00

That was cool! Yesterday Room 5 tickie toured to the empty Domain Park. I saw my step Nan's work and I saw her.
Our class sat down on the hard bark under the shady trees in the corner of the park. We shared our yummy food but we ate our own lunch first. The shared food was popcorn, biscuits and chips. Room 5 got to do this because we got a class treat. It was like we got to go home early but we had buddies to walk with. Everyone got to play around on the park. Me, Charlie, Phoebe, Ella and Georgia did Cheer Leading dances. Some of the boys played rugby.
When we were going back to our school we had to line up when we heard the whistle blown by Mrs Roberts. We got different buddies on the trip back but some people didn't. It was really fun at the picnic.

Paris

Japanese students

2011-08-22T12:13:00.005+12:00

On Friday Japanese students came to our school . I got to talk to them about our life and their life. We played two games. One was basketball the second game was paper, scissors, rock . I had fun playing with them. They also did a special dance in our school assembly.
I wish they could come again.
Flynn

Cheeky Gnome

2011-08-10T08:41:00.004+12:00

Guess who Bill is?
He is a Gnome made out of plasticene and his last name is Moyer. Bill is colourful with red, green and white over him. My Gnome is so happy every day.
Phoebe

The Enchanted Forest

2011-08-05T12:03:00.005+12:00

WOW!!! I wonder what this native bush setting is about ???
"Ah Mya, hey, the show is starting to look cool and that Tuatara is giving us the message about the show. Nice, it's about New Zealand's native bush and about birds, sneaky possums, grey rats, blue eels and all native creatures.
Hey Mya, those singing, long leg pukekos are so funny string puppets and the blue eels are telling us about keeping our rivers clean and safe. Those frogs have a funny singing sound, here comes the big frog. I got to pat it and it was fluffy and soft like clouds in your bed. That moas good at telling us about endangered species.
I had a great time, I hope the people and their puppets come back again one day to our school.

BY MILLY

Delicous baking

2011-07-14T09:07:00.005+12:00

In the last week of Term 2 Room 5 did some baking.
There was group 1, group , group 3, group 4 and we got put into groups of 6. We had at least 45 minutes each. I went in the last group and baked a cupcake and a dinosaur biscuit.
Room 5 decorated them with chocolate and lots of lollies, in the afternoon. Two groups had 6 and one group had 7 and the other one had 5 people. We couldn't have more than two pieces of food. In maths we have been learning about geometry and we had to design our own net and then assemble it into a container to put our baking in.
Our baking was the best baking ever!

By Harrison

Our Amazing Balloon Cars

2011-07-13T09:04:00.007+12:00

On the 12 of July Room 5 built balloon cars. We had to decorate a piece of cardboard and sand paper milk bottle tops. Second we had to thread a long squewer through the bottle tops and the we put them through a straw and then we hot glued the straws onto the card board. Next we got a long straw and a balloon and stuck them together then onto the cardboard and we tested to see if the balloon would blow up ... and it worked!
Then the next day we had races in the hall . Lots of people got a lolly pop for a treat for winning all three races.
I think it was pretty cool and so did the WHOLE class.

By Sophie Aldridge

Dark Shadows

2011-07-08T12:44:00.009+12:00

Room five went outside in the morning to trace around our long shadows. Our shadows where all different sizes. In the afternoon we traced around our shadows again in coloured chalk. Our shadows had moved.
Mrs Roberts said to find out what our shadows did at night. We all found out different things like they are the same. That next day we wrote a poem about our shadows. Our poems were all so different. We ran around the court to see what our shadows did and we all tried to make them bigger then smaller.
Sophie measured her one she did in the afternoon and it was bigger than the other one from the morning because the sun was higher in the sky.
By Ella

A Furball comes to School

2011-07-08T11:51:00.008+12:00

"Mun can you please carry Clydes cage?" "Yes," replied Mum . A few days ago I brought my pet rabbit to school.His name is Clyde and is a Jersywolly. He is a fur ball and is very friendly. When I put him out onto the mat he scampered around and started sniffing people . I had fur all over my jeans which I had to scrape off, it took ages . Clyde snuggled up to me and lay down. I tickled his feet and he shot up. Everybody in Room 5 liked Clyde. I hope I can take Clyde to school again.

By Lucy.

No Bullying

2011-07-05T13:34:00.010+12:00

Today Room 5 went to watch a show all about bullying. Most of the things that Elgregoe and Sue did was magic. It looked so awesome because there were 2 Parrots and there was a pot that had water in it and when every time Elgregoe tips the water in a bucket we had to say, "caring and helping others."
There was also people that got prizes and 3 people in Room 5 got prizes such as frizbees and bookmarks as well. There was also 6 boxes that had words on each box. They said Respect, Acceptance, Fairness, Trustworthy, Encourage, Caring and that's what we want at Brightwater School. Then at the end all of the people that got prizes had to stand up. It was a real cool show and it taught us to think of the word WITS when we are being bullied. The letters stand for, Walk away, Ignore, Talk to a teacher, and Say Stop!.
by fenixs

Blowing Bulging Bubbles

2011-06-30T08:50:00.007+12:00

Would you like to make big bubbles?
Recipe - tip water into a bowl, put two spoons of sugar in it and one cup of dishwashing liquid.
To make a tool bend a piece of wire and put string around it. Then put a handle on it.
It worked well when we had a test Lucy's group won the biggest competition and Charlie's group came second. Lucy used bamboo and a weight and string to make a loop. I hope you have a good time making bubbles like we did.

Bursting Bubbles

2011-06-29T09:03:00.008+12:00

Here's a way to make mixture for the best big bubbles. The recipe is half a cup of dishwashing soap then get 2 cups of water. After that get 2 teaspoons of sugar then you stir the bubble mixture. When you have made the mixture you can make some tools so you can blow big bubbles. To make the tools, you get some string and straws. Then you thread the straws through the string and then tie it.
Next put the string and straws in the mixture and blow softly . When I did it, it worked really good but Lucy's group won with the biggest bubbles. Thanks for reading my report and enjoy making big bubbles.
by Fenixs

Exhausting Rippa Rugby

2011-06-24T08:26:00.004+12:00

The Rippa rugby Room 5 did, was to get us into it. Some people didn't like it because it's not a girlish sport. We did it on the back field. Most boys would like to go in tacklerugby. Andrew from the Makos Nelson rugby team lead us. Andrew showed us some awesome skills. One of the skills was to aim for the chest when passing the ball.
by Zane and Harrison

by Zane

Delicous Party Food

2011-06-21T08:20:00.007+12:00

Room 5 and 2 once had a huge party!
We had to get a napkin and one piece of two different foods but could have a little handful of popcorn. I couldn't stop getting the popcorn and donuts.
There was about 45 children and also a few adults there. The party was like dream world. Nearly every teacher showed up that had taught Micheala or Max.
That was the best party ever! Thanks Max and all the best for your move to Wakefield School.
by Harrison

By Harrison

Baby Rabbits

2011-06-17T11:12:00.005+12:00

I bought my baby rabbits to school for news.
Brooke got a big bit of hair and she got it by the ear. I passed them around to the children in my class. I got them out of the cardboard box so they could see them and hold them.
The children wanted to keep my baby rabbits! because they are so cute.
Then I got them back and Mum took them home.
by Ellie Rose

Talented Dancing/Disco

2011-06-15T09:02:00.010+12:00

On Tuesday 14 June Room 5 had a disco.
Some people brought popcorn and some brought chips and some people even got some CD's. Room 5's disco went from after lunch to 3:00. We got to wear our pj's and we could bring remote control cars if it was okay with our parents.
There was a matching pj's which was Charlie H and Paris M.
At half time we got to have the food. We munched like munchkins and danced like chickens.
Then we did a lot of dancing.We played with the balls outside and had so much fun.
by Charlie

Red and Orange Leaves

2011-06-14T08:30:00.007+12:00

I see red leaves and orange leaves tumbling down off the bare trees.
I feel the chilly wind blowing the trees.
The leaves feel like paper.
I hear the wind whistling through the trees.
I hear the leaves crunching when the children run though them.
by Nico

School Cross Country

2011-06-10T13:22:00.003+12:00

Ready, set , go! and off . The cross country is on. I am competing in the cross country. Oh my god here they come. I am in 4th place at the start. Noah, Ollie and Flynn G are ahead of me. Oh no you won't Taine. I have passed the four in front. I won the muddy Cross Country Race for Year 3 and 4 boys at Lord Rutherford Park by 6 meters and felt really excited.
It was a real cool day that I will remember for ever.
by Flynn

Floating Leaves

2011-06-09T08:51:00.003+12:00

I could see leaves floating down from the trees.
I could feel the leaves scuffing with my dirty feet.
I hear birds tweeting in the trees.
I can hear leaves tumbling down.
I can feel dirt between my toes.
I hear birds singing in the big leafy trees.
by Max

Real Arts Roadshow

2011-06-03T13:40:00.007+12:00

Wow lots of cool stuff to look at. I wonder who made all this? I can't believe all this is in the trailer of a truck.
"Whoa, look at that perfect piece of Art. Its really sparkly and fascinating. I mean the island is. I mean really! It's my favorite piece of ART. Hey! Mitchell! look at these awesome skully pops." "SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH"
"Sorry. "
"Oopps a daisys. Hey Keegan come look at this spiral thingy 2000 antenna ray."
Mitchell.
"Sorry Keegan . Hey, look at that green and black light."
"I know. Hey, look at that city painting."
We had such a cool time looking at all the different art works.
by Keegan

Stopping Distance Demonstration

2011-05-27T08:51:00.010+12:00

Yesterday we went to the stopping distance demonstration. There was three card board cutouts . The diver who was in the car went at three different speeds, 20km, 50km and 60km. Mr H and Mr Dobbie went in the car. When they went at 20km the diver went 1m after he had stopped the car. I learned that you can't estimate how far the car will go once the diver has put the brake on.

We had a competition between girls and boys, we had a draw. Did you know that if a car brakes while it is going 100km it goes around 120m after you have brake? It was very scary when the driver ran over one of the cardboard cutouts . I learned lots of cool things and I had lots of fun.
By Lucy

Autumn Time

2011-05-26T08:58:00.002+12:00

Autumn is here.
In autumn I can see beautiful leaves tumbling down to the grassy ground.
Some are brown, yellow and red.I can feel the breeze swooping through my hair.
I know everyone can hear the swishy loud trees in Autumn.
I think autumn is the best time of the year.
by Mya

Crunching Autumn

2011-05-25T08:49:00.005+12:00

I feel like I'm flying through piles of crunching leaves trailing and bouncing around the muddy grass.
I hear trashed leaves getting kicked around in the air.
I look at kids tearing and squiggling the leaves around the slushy ground.
AUTUMN.

By Milly

Melting Candle Wax

2011-05-23T22:04:00.010+12:00

Heat keeps us warm or we will die. We had to pour 3 lots of candle wax on a metal ruler and dunked it in hot water. The wax lowest to the water started to melt. The heat was being conducted through the metal.
By Mitchell

Heat Conduction

2011-05-23T09:16:00.003+12:00

We need heat from the sun because if we didn't all the water will be frozen.
We got a pot of hot water. Then we put a wooden spoon, plastic spoon and metal spoon in the hot water. After that we felt what one was the hottest. We had a handle in case we burnt ourselves.The hottest was the metal one because the metal conducted the heat.
by Ella

Heat

2011-05-19T09:05:00.004+12:00

The earth needs heat because the environment would die without it.
We did an experiment and got a big aquariam of freezing cold water.
Then a jar of warm water and put food colouring in it.
We had to put a string around the jar and put it in the aquariam.
The warm water went to the top.
The warm water floated to the top because it was lighter.

by Sophie

Paperfan Heat Conduction

2011-05-17T22:13:00.008+12:00

Earth needs heat rays because it keeps everything alive.
First we cut a circle on a piece of paper then bent the sides and made a little hole in the centre. Next we put some string through the middle. They are meant to spin and twirl. The biggest ones twirled the best and the smallest twirled the worst. When we held them above a lit candle they twirled by heat. The type of movement was convection.

by Zach

Candle Heat

2011-05-17T08:05:00.005+12:00

We need heat because life on earth could not live.
Did you know that if you lit a candle and then you shine a very strong torch at it with white cardboard behind it, you can see the heat coming up in wiggly lines.
Those wiggly lines have a little bit of gas in them and the heat is moving by convection.
by Ollie

The Best Mum

2011-05-16T08:43:00.005+12:00

5 May 2011

Dear Mum

I like your hugs and kisses. They feel like a fluffy blanket.
Thank you looking after me. I love you.

Love from Ben

Mother's Day

2011-05-12T09:02:00.001+12:00

Mum is sweet and kind.
Only you are my mum.
The name of my mum is Jenny.
Hey, you have nice clothes Mum.
Ellie loves you.
Reading cool books is fun.
She loves me.
Does yummy baking with me.
Always cooks meals for me.
You are special to me because you love me.
by Ellie T

My Mum

2011-05-11T09:07:00.008+12:00

Mum is the prettiest Mum in the school.
Mum smells like a red rose. Mum is friendly like a pretty swan.
Mum reads stories to me . Mum does cooking with me and Mum lets me
have any ice cream.
Mum is a good cook.
Mum is a lovely Mum because she lets me play with the dogs.
She takes us biking. We go together to the supermarket to get some food.
Mum and Dad love each other and Mum loves me.
Mum is the best Mum, I love you Mum!
by Kayla

Royal Wedding

2011-05-10T09:29:00.005+12:00

On Friday Prince William and Catherine got married at Westminster Abbey in London.
They went in a Royal Carriage with lots of horses beside it when they went back to Buckingham Palace after their wedding.
They had two huge wedding cakes.
By Georgia.

Auckland Tornado Horror

2011-05-09T09:01:00.007+12:00

On May 3rd a powerful tornado hit Auckland. One man was killed and 14 people were injured. 27 properties were damaged. Special clouds formed for the tornado to happen.
Some of the Placemakers Building got wiped out by flying cars.Tornadoes rip up things like buildings. It was horrible.
by William.

"What is Respect?"

2011-04-04T08:25:00.003+12:00

Respect is ...
Respect is like a golden waterfall blowing the manners out. It feels like polite, kind, caring and considerate.
It sounds like pretty flowing voices in my ears. I use my manners everywhere like please and thank you, pardon me and good words too.
Phoebe

Respect means to me is when I show very good manners, by saying thank you and please or by being a good friend.
I can share my manners here and there, and probably everywhere. They flash out of my mouth as calm as the bright blue sea.
Ollie

Our Great School Auction and Gala

2011-04-03T21:35:00.005+12:00

Wow! On Sunday 27th of March 2011 it was the great Brightwater School Auction and Gala. There were so many tings to do!
Up the back there was a bouncy slide, Mechanical bull and this bungy rope thing that was made out of black tyre tubes that were tied together. I saw some of my friends there. Lucy and Milly where watching me when I went on the terrifying Mechanical Bull. When I first went on it I was literally shaking, BOOM, then it started moving up and down, up and down. It was like a real bull but much slower.
Then I went on the black bungy rope! It was much easier than the Mechanical bull. What you had to do is, you had to get inside the hoop on the bungy rope. Second you had to get a run up from the goal post and at the end there was a cone with a fizzy drink on the top. You had to knock down the fizzy drink three times. I got them down three times and I won an ami drink bottle.
After I went to the candyfloss and lucky dip stand and I bought one bag of candyfloss and two lucky dips. The candyfloss was as puffy as a cloud. In the lucky dip there was a lolly pop, lolly bracelet , one silly band and tattoos.
It was the best day ever.

Sophie

The Gigantic Pool

2011-03-09T09:26:00.007+13:00

On Monday 7th of March Brightwater Middle Syndicate went to the big, deep, Wakefield School pool. People could race or have a teriffic fun time. The pool was gigantic and enormous. We did cool backstroke and fast freestyle.
Mostly everyone did three great things. Seniors and good swimmers went at 9.00 sharp and the Middles went straight after morning tea. It was tiring and breathtaking. Some people struggled and were nervous. We did starfish and had fantastic free time. It was a great time. Charlie

Class Pool Party

2011-03-04T10:36:00.004+13:00

On Friday Room 5 had a pool party for our class treat at the school pool. We could bring along blow up toys, lilos, water guns and balls. Ellie T brought along a huge air bed to play on. It was a bit cold but we got used to it after a while. Some people got out early to get dressed. The pool was stuffed with toys! We had 30 minutes for our pool party. I played with my friends.
Everyone had a great time when we had our pool party!
Lucy

National Red and Black Day

2011-03-04T09:52:00.003+13:00

Today the whole country is dressing up in red and black because of the deadly quake that hit Christchurch last Tuesday. People are giving a coin donation at supermarkets and schools, and all of the money is going to the Red Cross and to the Christchurch residents for food and water. Civil defense base grounds are all around the Christchurch district helping people.
Room 5 are all dressed up in red and black for Canterbury and we donated $68.60.
Zach

IPads and Computers

2011-02-13T20:45:00.004+13:00

We had a really fun day on Friday at School as we had to put comments on our KnowledgeNet pages. After finally remembering our pesty ID and passwords some of us got to use the new IPads which was real cool. Please have a look at our KnowledgeNet pages to see what we have been up to.

2011

2011-02-01T21:23:00.003+13:00

Welcome to all the new children in Room 5 and their families. I look forward to an exciting year with you all. Mrs Roberts

VERY BUSY!

2010-12-12T15:54:00.004+13:00

It has been very busy recently with a visit from Jaimy's Boxer dog, a trip to the Aquatic Centre in Richmond on Monday and then Mix and Make Day was Thursday.
Our whole Middle Syndicate swam together at the Aquatic Centre, mainly in the Wave Pool and Lazy River. Some parents and Mr Hikuroa swam with us and it was such cool fun. Before swimming, we had lunch on the grounds outside. We all had a super time.
The best things at Mix and Make were making snowmen, working on computers, pine cone decorations, Figgy Puddings, lego and making all sorts of different things out of clay.

Bye from Room 5 for this year and have a great Christmas. See you in 2011.

Pets Day

2010-11-22T12:06:00.015+13:00

On Friday it was Pets Day at Brightwater School. Any size and shaped animal could come to school, furry or even woolly. There were three ladies in a marquee showing us how to spin sheep's wool. Almost a hundred animals came to our school. They were in a cage or on a lead.
In the morning we could make up to nine different floral activities and they were judged, first, second, third and fourth. In the pikelet making Room 5 won all the prizes. They are the BEST!
Everyone enjoyed seeing the many different pets. Cameron and Bailey

Museum Visit and Making Pikelets

2010-11-18T22:25:00.007+13:00

Room 5 has just experienced an amazingly busy day at school. During Roll time we peer tested spelling and as as soon as we finished it was time for maths exchange.
Next we had a quick morning tea before heading off to the Nelson Museum. Everyone put on these cool funny clothes from the very olden days. Nicky told us what it was like for immigrants traveling from the British Isles to New Zealand by ship, in the 1840s. Pretty awful really!
We all learnt heaps of new and interesting stuff like how to tie special knots and what happens when the ship leans 30 degrees.
Once back at school we ate our lunch speedily, had a short play and then made pikelets for Pet's Day. Everyone helped make and cook them and we even had enough to try some too. They were really yummy. We will have to wait until tomorrow to see if any of our delicious pikelets win any prizes.
So that was our really fun day at school. Cool ah!

Secondary School' Brass Band

2010-10-12T22:08:00.004+13:00

What an Unusual start to Term 4. Some of the pupils from the New Zealand Secondary School's Brass Band visited us first thing in the morning. They played several cool songs and a girl also told us about the players and then they showed us their different instruments. It was agreat way to begin the new term.

Natureland Zoo

2010-10-06T17:18:00.004+13:00

We had a very, very wet trip to Natureland Zoo but it was still a lot of fun. These acrostic poems demonstrate some of the information that we learned.

Now, where are we going?
Animals! they're so cute, Phoebe.
The tuatara has lived for over 10,000 yeras.
Up in the trees go the monkeys.
'Ready to go guys.'
Evil monkeys! because they bite.
Look at all those animals!
At the start of the blue penguin game I was out.
Nature is good for animals.
Do you want to feel some tuatara skin?
Zoom! look at those guinea pigs go.
Over at Natureland Zoo some animals were not in pens.
Oh, no! look at all the mud at the zoo. Rebecca

Kiwi Sports Day

2010-09-11T23:32:00.004+12:00

Positives

Warm sunny day.
Didn't have to do school work.
Meet new and old friends from the other schools.
Learned to play new games.
Everyone got a chance to be good at something.
Mums and Dads cheering for us.
Having an extra big lunch.
Great group leaders.

Negatives

Walking back to school at the end of the day.
Not doing all the sports.
Not having longer at the sports and to play.

Interesting

We liked some sports more than others.

Te Awhina Marae Visit

2010-09-11T22:39:00.005+12:00

"Boy that gate is crowded. I meant the gate to the Te Awhina Marae. This place tells stories."
The hall was crowded with Brightwater and Parkland School children, as well as parents. "Hey look, Parkland School is by those cool windows."
It took a long time to get to the Marae, traveling by car. The Meeting House was filled with Maori patterns and carvings. It's flash too. Mr Hikuroa and the Matau each did a speech. Brightwater School gave a gift (koha) to the Marae.
We had a shared lunch and we were allowed two pieces of food at the start. It took a while. Then we went on a tour around the Marae. It turned out, the man who made the carvings in the Meeting House was still working on the Marae. I loved seeing the man carving because I didn't know he would be there. It was a fun day. Matt

"Wow! that's a wonderful place, we had just got to the Marae. What? Why was Parkland School there?" They sung some waiatas to us and they were pretty cool.
"Now food, Yum!" First we had two things to eat and we had turns getting food with Parklands School. People saw the maori patterns on the walls of the Meeting House. Parkland School did a scary haka. The ladies who showed us around were Fire Sue and Fire Sarah.
The Meeting House has a spine, head and ribs.We saw the guy who did all the carvings in the Meeting House (Wharenui). That was pretty awesome! There was weaving and it was about being a life long learner. We learned heaps about the Marae. Brynn

Rally Cars

2010-08-30T21:43:00.003+12:00

The exciting and very loud Rally Cars visited our school recently.

Mrs Robert's amazing Carrot.

2010-08-30T21:11:00.004+12:00

100 Pound!

Big fat carrot,
Looks like a cow.
Yum, yum, juicy,
I'm gonna eat it now.
Crunchy and delicious,
Chewing away like mad,
Oh, no, yucky worm,
That tastes really bad!
Zak

Scrumptious Carrot

Strange, dull, orange carrot.
Bumpy, lumpy, a treat to eat.
Wonky, crooked, bendy, split.
Overweight carrot,
Like fat fingers.
Dirty!
Ethan

Little Visitors

2010-08-06T22:05:00.004+12:00

What's those woolly things outside? Could it be .....
It is, it's two lambs! What a surprise for Room 5. We got to feed the lambs with little glass bottles. Our class fed the lambs warm milk. Their names were Cherry and Buddy.
It was hard to hold the bottle because they tugged on it. I had to hold the bottle with my two hands.
I liked patting the lambs because they were so soft to touch. Georgia

Brightwater has Talent

2010-07-30T13:35:00.003+12:00

Look at our fantastic Kapa Haka Group.

Strike!!

2010-07-25T19:11:00.005+12:00

Fantastic, a really cool band called strike came to Brightwater school last Friday. The interesting people that do strike are Sam, Steph, Takumi and Adam. Strike played songs with different items like huge drums, a big xylophone and a normal drum and long log drums from the cook islands.

It was a good show because Strike have a exciting beat and rythm , but there was one thing that was a bit bad, and that was when Adam only played one song. Strike is a very intelligent band, and very entertaining. Tynan

School Cross Country

2010-06-12T17:04:00.005+12:00

It has been a really busy week at school.
On Thursday afternoon we walked all the way down to Snowden's Bush and it was a loooong way. The Middle syndicate was running first so we didn't have long to wait before our girls took off at a great rate. They ran round the park beside the road and through the beautiful native bush on the muddy track before heading back to the cheering crowd. Our boys went next and they sped ran the track too. Jack, Peita and Aria were the best performers from our class and have been chosen to represent Brightwater school at the inter school cross country next Tuesday.
We all ran our best race and it was cool doing a real cross country race.

Visit from Nelson Museum

2010-06-12T16:28:00.006+12:00

What an amazing morning we had at school on Wednesday. Our Syndicate welcomed Cindy Batt and Nicky Green from the Nelson Museum with a waiata before they took us through the history of several maori instruments. They showed us how to play them and one flute was even blown with your nose. Shells, rocks, and wood were used to make the various instruments which were all very precious.
Next we each made our own koauau out of bamboo. Our first job was to remove the membrane from inside by sanding and then smooth the ends as well. Finally we decorated the outside with black markers and attempted to blow them to make a musical sound. It was really hard work but some of us were successful!
Cindy and Nicky also told us some maori legends - Case-moth cocoon and Maui, Legend of Fire as well as Matariki (Maori New Year).
At the end of the day the Syndicate met together again and performed the haka and poi as thank you to Cindy and Nicky. They thought we were really good and we had an awesome time.

Visit by Robyn Belton - famous illustrator

2010-05-30T17:49:00.005+12:00

Yah! Robyn Belton was at school on Wednesday, it was cool. Robyn is a famous illustrator.
She drew a picture and it was super fast. Shall I tell you what I think about her. She's a really good artist. Robyn started drawing when she was three years old. Now that's a long time ago.
She drew a picture of Herbert the Brave Sea Dog with a dolphin in the deep, cold sea by a rock. Robyn is amazing because she draws very, very fast. I thought it was cool and nice for her to have a visit. by Rebecca

Wow, Robyn Belton has already been to our school today. She has long curly, blondish hair.
Robyn told us about the story, 'The Duck and the Gun' and she read it to us which was only two pages, which is okay. The bad thing was that they ran out of copies of 'The Duck and the Gun' and the good news was that they made a different copy and it was the same story.
Robyn and her friend read the whole story about 'Herbert the Brave Sea Dog. After that when Robyn was drawing a picture of Herbert her Secretary was showing us about the real dog of Herbert and the real person of Tim, on the whiteboard.
When she finished the picture we all looked, it was incredibly awesome.
We were rushing to get our bags and to go home after a great afternoon. by Reggie

Awesome! yesterday Robyn Belton came to Brightwater School. She was in Room 12.
When I was sitting down I was thinking, wow look at that picture of Herbert. Robyn must be learning a lot if she is that good. After that she showed us the pictures in a story.
It was cool, like more than cool, it was amazing!
We toddled back to class. Robyn was amazing at drawing. by Holly

Bad Hair Day

2010-05-17T13:45:00.005+12:00

On Wednesday 28 of April it was BAD HAIR DAY at Brightwater School. Everyone could have bad hair and we had to bring a gold coin for the Rescue Helicopter. Brightwater School gave the Rescue Helicopter $375.20. We went to the front field court to do a parade. Mr Dobbie lead the parade and Mr Baldwin gave out free tattoos.
It was a great day. I want it to come again. by Brooke Searle

Cool Autumn

2010-05-17T09:09:00.003+12:00

Autumn feels quite chilly in the morning and at night. You can hear leaves rustling under your feet. The coolish dew on the wet grass goes on your feet. The deciduous trees are loosing their colourful leaves and the leaves look like snow flakes falling from the sky. Shawn Beer

ANZAC Day

2010-05-05T09:17:00.004+12:00

Early one morning on Sunday 25 April at 9 clock the Berkett family went down to Brightwater to remember the soldiers who fought in the wars to keep our wonderful county. All people in Australia and New Zealand celebrate ANZAC Day, and put wreaths on the war memorials. Aimee

Sand Timers

2010-04-08T20:47:00.004+12:00

We had really cool fun in Maths because we got to make our own sand timers. The bottom was cut off a small plastic bottle and Pete drilled a small hole in the lid. Next we put some dry, fine sand into our containers and we timed the sand running out for one minute. A mark was put on the container catching the sand so we knew how much to put back into our timers. A minute actually takes a long time when you are watching the clock!

Making Clay Faces

2010-04-08T20:17:00.005+12:00

One of our reading Groups read an article about how to make clay faces to hang on a wall. During Term 1 we learnt about drawing portraits so we were able to use this information to make our clay faces. First we rolled the clay into a ball and then flattened it out so it looked like a plate. It was hard work! Finally we pinched and poked the clay to make the hair, eyes, mouth, nose, eyebrows and lashes.
During the holidays our clay faces are being fired in a kiln and we can't wait to see what they will look like when we go back to school.

Room 5 Museum Visit

2010-04-08T19:28:00.006+12:00

Yesterday morning Room 5 went to learn about Appo Hocton. When we got upstairs at the Museum we sat down in a big circle. Imo said that these information blocks are we are going to retell about Appo Hocton's life. Appo Hocton was born in about 1820 and died in 1920. Appo Hocton jumped ship when he was 22 years old, because he didn't have any soap or water to clean his clothes. His family were peasant farmers and grew peanuts, sugar-cane, chinese cabbage, rice, sweet potatoes and tea in China.
Appo had built houses for his three children but Albert got shot by Louis, he also had one girl as well. His mother had written a note to him and it said, "please come home," but he never went home. He kept the note for ages and ages till he died. Appo was naturalized in 1853 and he became a citizen so he could then own land in Nelson. He became a house keeper for a doctor, next he became a carter and then a builder. Finally he was back to being a farmer.
He married Jennifer Rowling then she died of T.B. Then he married Ellen. Appo came from China then to England. He was a farmer in Dovedale and and had cattle. His mother's name was Pee-See-Ting. He came from the Province of Canton.
The best part out of everything was making things out of koros to see what's special about NEW ZEALAND. We had 5 people in a group and Imo gave our group a name of a child who had come from another country. My group had Ricky. We made a football because it is apart of New Zealand. It was a fun trip. Aleisha

Variety Bash

2010-03-22T12:14:00.008+13:00

On Wednesday the Variety Bash came to school. They had old cars but they were so awesome. Winnie the Pooh and Piglet came to Brightwater School, they handed out lollies. They also handed out chips, book marks, mouth watering chocolates, stickers and magnets. The friendly Variety Bash people also handed out rings, pens, honey popcorn and balloons. There was a derby car and at the end we got sprayed by orange and pink coloured water from the fire trucks. This stupid magician called Super Herbert showed us some silly magic tricks about M T. He showed us a bunny magic trick and Jessica Kelly said "You turned it around." Super Herbert turned it around and it was the bunny's bottom. I think she was embarressed. When he held up a sign that said M T
we all had to shout M T!!! It was fun because we were given free treats. Jodie and Olly

Life Education -Happy and Healthy

2010-03-15T09:07:00.006+13:00

It felt weird when I was lying on the mat. I was at the Life Education caravan learning about feelings like happy, sad, angry and scared. We also learned about our body language.Room 5 was there with Victoria. Harold came out of his room and blew kisses and gave us presents of books and posters.
I felt nervous when I started Brightwater school at the end of last year. Oren

Swimming in our Clothes

2010-03-09T21:43:00.005+13:00

Hi, my name is Ben. Four days ago the Middle Syndicate went swimming in our clothes, but we had togs underneath. You try it with sandals on! It's almost impossible to kick. We had to fall in so it was like we fell out of a motor or normal boat. There was a huge splash! when people held their noses and jumped in. We tried to swim but a quarter of us totally could not, would not swim. When we got out we were dripping from head to toe. (literally) Ben

Man! Was I never nervous. Last Friday the whole Middle Syndicate (70 something kids) had to bring some old clothes to school because we were going to swim in our old clothes. We were pretending to fall out of a boat out at sea.
I walked into the changing shed. It was chocka-full. I managed to find a gap but it was quite squeezy. I got dressed as fast as possible and walked out not feeling confident. Room 5 were last to hop in. "Room 5 go to the side of the pool." So I did. I stood up to jump in. Splash, I jumped in. Boy, it was hard to swim. I kept on practicing to swimming. My clothes were all soggy and heavy. Yeah! free-time. Zak

Swimming at Wakefield Pool

2010-03-09T21:05:00.005+13:00

Super. We went to Wakefield School Pool and the whole Middle syndicate did. We raced to get changed. When we where walking our feet went slip slop. Then we sat on the seats and the teacher told us what to do. I went to the long blue noodles first and it was really awesome. When we got on the flash colourful boogie boards, I tried to surf on them. It was mint. Next we got to the life-jackets and I jumped off the sides a couple of times. Then I got sooooo bored of it that I walked to the changing rooms and got dressed. It was a fun day. Reggie

Wow, this is out of this world because I was floating with a noodle and other things at the Wakefield School Pool. I put the noodle under my feet and it looked like a tank. The best part was, I put my legs on top of the noodle and I hung upside down like a monkey. I Like playing with a noodle because you can swim and float with it. Tynan

2010-02-19T13:39:00.003+13:00

Myia my puppy came to school today. My puppy is very greedy. She jumps up on the table. She is a Hunterway Cross Beardy.

Shrek my bunny

2010-02-12T08:33:00.005+13:00

Oh,no! Shrek poohed on Room 5's carpet. On Thursday the eleventh February I brought my bunny to school. His name is Shrek and I really want him to do tricks. I feed him rolled oats , cabbage , carrots and a lot of other food.
He is a very fluffy bunny and has a brown line on the middle of his back. Shrek has a cute little twitching nose.
I love it when he snuggles me on the chin. I will be bringing him another day.
Guess what he is in the class again now. Amelia

Welcome to Room 5 - 2010

2010-01-24T11:05:00.002+13:00

Hi to Everyone
I am looking forward to seeing my new class on 3 February 2010 and hope you have all had a great break.
We will have a super year of cool learning and fun. Mrs Roberts

End of year and Picnic

2010-01-24T10:46:00.005+13:00

We finished our wonderful year in Room 5 with a Syndicate Picnic at Twin Bridges. Here are a few photos of some of the things that we got up to.

Sports Day

2009-12-07T11:35:00.006+13:00

"Wow! what a day this is going to be". It's Wednesday again so it's Sports day today. Oh, I'm with Harriet...again! Finally we're at Wakefield School. This is kind of boring sitting here surrounded by strangers. Now I'm off with Group Number 2. First we were at long jump and then we were at relay and so and so... My favourite activity was hurdles. Everyone beat me with the hurdles but I did the net the right way by pulling it over me. "Calista wins!"yelled Ms Read. I was proud... ...very proud. It's time to have lunch at Faulkners Bush. I sat with Luke. We trotted back to the school. "Yay," I called, it's swim time. We had a great time on Sports Day!!

School Assembly

2009-11-30T08:57:00.009+13:00

On Friday The 6th of November I took assembly with Rahania. First we waited till all twelve classrooms came to the school hall. The first classroom to come (apart from Room 5) was Room 6. Once all the class rooms were quiet we started. First Rahania said ''Good afternoon my name is Rahania, Tena koutou katua''. The first thing we said was ''Joe-Teapot Valley Camp'' Then Joe came up and talked to the school what we did at camp. Then Rahania called Isabella to talk about making our teddies. After that I called Liam + Thomas to show us the slideshow. Finally we got Taylor to tell us about the skits we did at camp. Then we said ''Teachers notices Mr Baldwin'' and a few minutes later we sang to two songs from Mr Phillips. Two minutes later the teachers handed out the certificates. Finally I said ''Teachers may take you back to your classes." The 12 classes went home. When I got home I told Mum and Dad all about taking Assembly.
Written by Luke Hassan.

2009-11-20T14:04:00.005+13:00

On Friday Rooms 5 and 6 went to the Nelson Museum to look at the new exhibition on Sound. There was a step on piano, harps and lots of other things, like old and new things that make sound plus the big air cannon . Imo showed us all about loud and soft sound and what happens when you listen to loud sounds like mp3 players , building tools too loud or without earmuffs . It was so interesting. We had morning tea on the Church Steps, it was hot but we had a cool view of the city. Wow , Rooms 5 and 6 had a great time .

Pets Day

2009-11-20T12:05:00.005+13:00

Wow, look at all of those animals, they are amazing. Thursday was Pets Day. There was all sorts of cats,heaps of dogs,bunnies and mice. At the start came one little horse and then the big horse. That horse can dance to music and isn't that hilarious. Now lets carry on with the rest of the animals. All of the bunnies were cute and they were all nice and fluffy too. Oh, I almost forgot, there was a dog race and when two of them won their races they got to race each other. Before all of the animals came there was hobbies and collections in the Hall and there were heaps of them.
It was a great day to be at school.
by Harriet

SPLASH!

2009-11-03T09:03:00.006+13:00

I was as excited as kids on christmas morning as I raced up the path in my togs. Finally, I was going on the crazy waterslide. When I got to the top of the crumbly concrete path, the water on the slide was warm. As Steve pushed me down I tried steering like he said but I spun out backwards and burnt my pinky then stopped. I grabbed my mat and ran back up. Afterwards I had another go and I spun out and went sideways and then backwards but I didn't stop. I made it down going backwards and splashed into the deep, deep puddle. My togs were soaked. But even though I was going backwards I managed to keep the sides up and my feet on the mat like Steve said at the start.
It took me nine turns to go forwards and when I first went forwards Codey and Anthony were standing too close to the slide and got soaked as I hit the big puddle. When I got back to the top I was freezing and I tried getting a bit warmer but my towel was still wet from swimming in the freezing cold pool. I was s s s s s so cold. I felt like an Antartic penguin. After about two goes nobody else wanted to go again so I got heaps of goes and kept going SPLASH! into the puddle. I was an ice cube. After the nine goes it took me to go forwards, when I went forwards I burnt my elbow on the side but I still went SPLASH! and had so much FUN! Sarah

Baby Thrushes

2009-10-23T09:00:00.005+13:00

In the awesome Term Three holidays we found some little baby Thrushes in a wooden pellet beside my tree hut.
They looked like they were only a few days old. There were four baby Thrushes in the little nest. We looked after the Thrushes for nearly two weeks and the Mother Bird helped too, by feeding them when the cage was open. Matthew and I feed them worms. In the middle of the Term Three holidays my dog Jack killed two of the birds because of the lazy mum who made the nest in the pellet beside the tree hut. The two dead birds were buried beside the tree hut. In the second week of the Term Three holidays the two birds that were left started to fly around the place. Me and Matthew always got pooped on quite a lot. On Saturday both birds had escaped from the cage and they were in the big shed , but we only caught one of them as the other one flew away. The brother kept coming back for his brother though.
After school on Monday we let him go. Me and Matthew were very sad to let him go because we had enjoyed having him as a pet. By Thomas Anderson

2009-10-19T12:04:00.003+13:00

On the second day in Wellington we were at the pet shop. I said to mum, ''can I get a mouse please?''
Mum replied, ''maybe tomorrow.''
"But I want one today and I will take good care of it and I can look after it when your in the shop," I said. ''
"Ok'' said Mum. I was happy because I got to pick what mouse I wanted. It was black and white. I named it Evie. On the way back we bought two more at Natureland in Nelson. I gave one to Tyrone, my brother. Tyrone named his Woolly and I named mine k\Kia. They are all girls and I brought them to school on Friday to show my class. They enjoyed being in Room 5 for the day. Shania

Author's Visit

2009-10-18T15:34:00.003+13:00

Wow! Dawn McMillan came to our library today. She came to tell us about writing stories. Dawn leaves her story if it is not right and then comes back to it if she thinks she's got the next idea. It takes up to two years to publish her stories. She lives in the Coromandel and she can see Auckland and the beach from her house. Dawn started writing when she was nine years old.
She taught me heaps of things about writing story books. Jessica

School Disco

2009-09-29T21:53:00.005+13:00

The children at our school were dressed up as their favourite character and couldn't wait for the Disco to start after lunch. It was last Thursday and it was nearly the end of the term. Room 11 organised the Disco as a fundraiser to help children who aren't as fortunate as us.
Everyone, including the teachers did lots of mad dancing to really loud music. You could even buy food like popcorn but most of us were too full from the American Hotdogs that we had for lunch. It was a great way to finish up the term because we all had lots of fun.

Rally Cars

2009-09-18T11:22:00.004+12:00

Oh! I couldn't wait. It was Tuesday, the rally cars came to school because it was the last round of the N.Z. Champs. The three Rally Car drivers came into our school hall then they talked about themselves. They talked about where they went to school, also when they got into Rallying. Finally it was questions. I had my hand up to have a question. Mr Baldwin had the microphone in his hand. He came round to Taylor but he picked someone else. I had my hand up really straight but I still didn't get picked.
We watched a cool movie about some of the Rally Car drivers but we only watched it for 15 minutes with half of the school who stayed in the hall. Room 5 went outside to see the perfect Rally Cars. We got a map and also a picture of the Rally Cars drivers. I got one autogragh. We got to see the Rally Cars as they zoomed off with smoke coming out the exhausts.
By Shaun

2009-09-14T12:04:00.005+12:00

It was on Friday. I brought my cat to school at 9:00. It's a she and she is 9 months old. I got her in December. Her name is Gabby and she is a tabby. I got her from Ashlee and she got Gabby from Fiona and she got Gabby from her cat Fiona. She has two pets, a cat and a dog. I got Gabby when she was 3 months old. Gabby was happy at school and Room 5 loved her because she was soft, cute and beautiful. Mrs Roberts really liked Gabby too. Then mum took Gabby home. Dawn

kiwi sport day

2009-09-10T11:48:00.004+12:00

I hit the ball, I was playing soft ball . I had made it to the last mound. When the bell went we moved to the next activity. We were playing soccer and I had the ball but some one tackled me so I lost the ball. He got a goal so the score was three to two. Next we went to the dancing room where there were only five boys in the room. I was really nervous because we were doing a side dance with lots of jumping. Then we did a roll dance and it was really fun. The bell went again and it was morning tea time. I only had time to eat my sandwich. The bell went and we got to have a bit of free time on the Skate Park. We had to go and do hockey next. I got a goal for my team and some one called Jack got a goal too. It was really fun because we didn't have to do any home work. Next we did botcia where you have got to get the closest to the white ball. I went first with a red ball and I got really close to the white ball. Oh no, the bell went and it was lunch. We got to have another play in the Skate Park. Then we had to do a bean bag game where you're got to balance it somewhere on your body and weave in and out of the cones.
I was really sweaty at the end of the day because I did lots of running around. The day was really fun. Joe.

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Lambs

2009-09-03T08:28:00.003+12:00

On Tuesday Mr Dobbie brought three lambs to school. Two Lambs were twins and they are only two days old. He brought the lambs in a wheel bin with a bit of hay. By Thomas

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Show

2009-08-30T19:22:00.006+12:00

Finally it's the night. On Wednesday night the Middle Syndicate went to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Show. The show was at the Wakefield Hall. At the show there were Oompaloompas. They had blue hair, and there were little dolls I think, and they had blue with white poka-dots and red with white poka-dots on their clothes. Whenever Willy Wonka wanted to explain something, they would do it for him. The actors were kids, teenagers and some were adults.
The show was on the 26 August, Wednesday at 7:30. In the story Charlie finds the last Golden Ticket and Charlie gets to go to the Wonka Factory. In the end Charlie and his family get to keep and run the chocolate factory. The actors were really good and I liked the show a lot. Isabella