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

School Disco

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

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

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

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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