School Assembly

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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