End of Year Activities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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