Charlie's lizard

This is Charlie's lizard he brought for oral language!

Motocross Success

I went to the New Zealand Motorcross Championships in the holidays. I had great results in my races as I got a lot of points. I had to go as fast as I could to finish to get my points. Overall, I had to race five times over two days. The points I received gave me second place in the 7-8 year old, 65cc category.
My brother, who was also racing, and I had friends and family there to watch and cheer us on. There was a big crowd of people watching all the racing. We had to wear a pass code around our necks to get in and race so it was very strict security.
The championships were in Wellington and we stayed at a hotel. We mostly had fine weather while we were there, except a little bit of rain on the first day.

It was such an exciting time. My prizes were a trophy, a t-shirt, and oil for my motorbike. It was awesome!

Luca

Brightwater Bridge Builders

The fabulous maths extention group made bridges for the great taste cycle trail.
We have looked at maps of the local area. First we drew a model of the bridge, then we designed the real bridge made of craft materials. The main material was cardboard and duck-tape. We constructed it and then made trees and signs and painted all the details.  We added sand and rocks for attention. We finished our bridge with a touch of sparkly red colour.
This is a picture of Danielle Aitken,Aleisha Quinney and Chloe Dunn.

BY DANIELLE AND ALEISHA!!!

Cool Cricket

On Thursday the whole Middle Syndicate went to the back field to do some awesome Cricket skills.  The coaches name was Daris. First we did batting. There were two cones and the first person lined up on the first cone and the others lined up on the other cone and they all got one hit.
Then we did some overarm bowling. Our arms had to make a rainbow shape and we had to run and and get the ball for the next person.

Finally we were put into teams and each team had a turn at batting and bowling. You could get 1, 2 3 or 4 points depending on how far you hit the ball. At the end of the lesson we were all given a bag with a poster. cardboard bat and other stuff about cricket. It was great to learn about cricket.
Corey

Tennis at School

Room 5 have all learnt how to play tennis this term. Ngaire was our tennis coach and she taught us lots of different games such as playing Volleyball Tennis and Bob Sleigh. You need to stand back from the net when you are hitting the ball and you use both hands to do the backhand shot.
Our class learnt lots of skills and had a lot of fun.
Luca

Kane's Puppy.

On Thursday I got a puppy from the SPCA.  We have named her Patch because she has a patch of white under her and she is black.  She is a mix of three dogs. My other dog Angus will teach her not to bite and not to take my p-jammas!  I brought her into the classroom and they thought she was cute and she bit Talia's sleeve. Ben thought she loved him because she kept licking him on his face. She was very excited and her tail wagged crazy.  She sleeps out side in a kennel to teach her not to yap.  Sometimes she wakes me up and I have to come out and tell her "be quiet and go to sleep" - sometimes I snuggle up to her in the kennel and she goes to sleep then I go back to bed. Sometimes she comes in and has breakfast . She has doggy biscuits and it is yuck for people.I love patch more than anything in the world because shes so cute and soft.

Kane Elvy

PROBLEMS!!

We are very pleased to have Room 5's Blog up and running again after a month of difficulties where we have had problems  publishing our blog entries.