Bridge Valley Camp

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We all had a great time. Look at our movie to see some of the activities we did.

Flugs- Fluffy Ugly Things

For about three weeks Room 10 have been working on their Flugs. You have to draw a design then cut out the material as same as the design, then sew it up.
We have all made our own Flug for camp.
By Jake

Myles is Second.

Today I have sore legs, because yesterday I ran in a race. I came second.

Mission Impossible

On the first day of term. The whole school we to Assembly. Someone went zooming past on a motorbike.He read out a mission about a volcano erupting. Then we got split up into are houses Brunner, Spooner, Cotteral and Heaphy.
Spponer:
This morning we were turning into ninjis. We had really hard tasks like bike tracks, stilts, ballancing a ball on a tennis racket and putting bikes together. We were in teams of twelve. When we were fixing the bikes I fixed two parts of the bike the handal bars and the light .Then the stilts I only made three steps because i'm not that good.
By Josh

Our leaders got us to do some training. In my group, Brunner we budded up with a junior and did an obstacle course. In Sponner we rode a bike when you turn left it turns right . In Cotterall we went in the sandpit. We had to put bricks down then rocks then wood to get across because we weren't allowed to touch the ground.

Mosaics

This is a Voicethread of our mosaics. Listen to what we have to say.

Scandinavian Students

They came from different countries in Scandinvia. They played different games but some games were the sam as ours like handball and soccer.
They have small spiders where they come from. In part of Scandinavia it is dark for most of the day in the middle of winter and light for most of the day in summer.
Their houses were built to be much warmer than ours because their winters were colder.
By Room 10

Our Calendar Art

For our calendar and gift card we had to draw native plants. First we had a book with native plants to look at. When we knew which one we wanted to do we did our calendar art. You could do kaka beak or nikau palm. Not many people did the kaka beak but lots of people did nikau palms. We had lots of time, about 4 days to do it. We used pastels. When they were done we put them up on the wall so our mums and dads could see them. They were easy to make- we had no practice to do them.

By Eli

Flax Weaving

Nina showed us how to make flax flowers. they were easy for some people and some people thought they were tricky to make. To make them you had to strip the flax and which is when you split the flax through the middle of the flax. The first one we made we had to give it away to Nina or Janice.When we did it Jenny (Ashley's mum) come in and helped us.

By Lily & Shania


Later Chantelle's mum came to school. She helped some of us do some harder ones they had four or six strips some of us found it easy some found it hard.
by Hannah

Our Wearable Art

Our class went to visit the Wearable Arts Museum. By cars we saw lots of weird costumes from 1 to 25. We sat on the seats. On the seats there where pieces of paper that had infermation that told us about the costumes. Some costumes where made of wood my favourite costume was the Ring Mistress (Cadey). My favourite was the Cartoon Guy (Tia) . After that we went into a glow room to watch a movie about the costumes.

By Tia and By Cadey

Next we went to Nikau Gardens and looked at the native plants. Mrs Cowley gave us some cameras so we could take photos of the plants.( josh) My favourite was the pohutakawa . My favourite tree was the kowhai tree (Taine).

When we came back we started to think of ideas to dress up Susie. We drew flax, manaka flowers, pohutakwa and tree ferns in groups of three and then we dressed Susie up with them.

Now Susie is a Wearable Art model who just missed out going to the WOW awards!

By Taine and Josh

Assembly Mayhem

Today we had an assembly in the freezing rain. It was to be a special assembly for the presentation of the citizenship cup for Term 2.

The whole school assembled together sitting on carpet squares and newspaper because the ground was wet. The clouds were getting darker and darker over the horizon and big spots of rain began to fall on us. We had to move onto the deck class by class. By the time we got to move up it was very squishy and the teachers had to open the back doors so we could move slightly into the classrooms.

The teachers were out the front sheltering from the rain under umbrellas. A wind gust pulled Mrs Gulbransen's umbrella causing it to break. The winners of the citizenship cup were announced and they were whisked away to the foyer to be presented with their cups.

Tom from Room 2 did a really cool experiment using dry ice and boiling water. Instantly steam exploded out of the bucket- while the gusts of wind made it fly in all directions. It was very exciting and all the children were screaming. Next Mr Power added dishwashing liquid. The steam changed consistency and became more solid like snow. The wind gusts kept blowing it everywhere. The snow storms from the South briefly visited Nayland Primary.

Tom's experiment was awesome to watch. The School Spirit award was quickly presented and we went back to our classrooms to warm up.

A combined story from Room 10.

Thumper My Rabbit

Thumper cost 0 dollars because she was a gift from my mums friend. We lost 3 rabbits from the calicivirus in the ground.
Now we live in Nelson we don't need to worry about it. My mum says that there is no calicivirus in Nelson. We let thumper run
around inside. She turns 8 months on 11th we will breed her when we get a male rabbit.

By Kaileb

Body Mission

On Thursday Cody wrote this amazing story:

Yesterday I went on a mission to save a persons life . I went in a submarine because I had to go inside him . I shrunk the submarine because I had to fit in . Yay I got in now I had to find his heart because he had asthma at his heart . I got to his heart before he died . Yay I saved his life mission accomplished .

Eureka

On Thursday we did science experiments .
Bradley and Connor did a volcano experiment . How did they do it? First they got what they needed to get for the volcano experiment and they used baking powder and vinegar for the volcano eruption.
Tayla and Ilaria did a ballon experiment . They put confetti in the balloon. Then Tayla popped the ballon and the confetti went everywhere. Imagine if this was you sneezing!
Cadey and Brittney did the magnet rubber and they had to play diffrent DVDs and CDs and video tapes.
Brandon and Jacob blew up a ballon by making a yeast mixture and the carbon dioxide that came off it blew up the balloon.
Taine and Daniel made a bed of spikes for a balloon to lie on.
Tia and Cody sucked an egg nearly into a bottle!
Maya and Shania are investigating finger prints.
Kaileb and Eli played tuneful bottle sounds using different water levels.
Jackie and Hannah created lots of electricity.
Jake and Josh played with bubbles.
jasmin and Chantelle created their very own stethoscope.
Adam and Kalum created a hydraulic jack and lifted a book.
Ashley is testing our memories.
Myles and Clay propelled a car with balloon air.
Lily and Alexis made a coin wobble from expansion of air.

Imagine what it was like in our classroom last week!

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Taniwha Prints and Instructions on How To Make Them

Room 10 made taniwha prints with Matt Witty. It was fun to see what they ended up looking like. There were lots of different colours and very interesting prints. They came out super colourful . We wrote out the instructions and publish in to our personal folders.
By Bradley and Hannah

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Cross Country

On Tuesday we went to Cross Country. We were n the competitive so we had to go longer than the rest of our class. We had to run up the hill and then down, making it a full lap of the field.
Jake came third and Brittney came third also so both of us are going to the Interschool's cross country.
By Jake and Brittney

Nayland College Students Take Sport

Today some of the Nayland College students came over and did some cool sport with us . Today I was good at basketball & joggling & passing & I had a good time . By Ilaria & Caroline

Stopping Demonstration

When Nayland Primary went to the stopping demonstration just up the road there were dummys on the road.
The people in the car went at different speeds. The first one was 20 kilometers, then 50, and last was 60. Then they crashed into 1 of the dummys and they did a big skid.
Inside the dummys was a little plastic bag of food colouring and when the car hit the dummy the bag of food coloring went all over the window screen and the teachers in the car were scared.

We learnt that children have to not run out onto the road because it can be hard for cars to stop!

by Chantelle and Hannah

Matt , the Teacher

We had a teacher called Matt and he taught us new games and activities.
Also he taught us new things that we had never done before.
He taught us:
* how to play midnight.
* how to make a pop up card.
* how to make a print.
* how to make fairy bread.
* how to make a fishing net.
* how to play four corner's.
But then he had to leave and the class was so sad.
When he had one more day left we had a party.

The Party!
We made Matt masks.On Friday we had to go outside and put our masks on then we came inside facing the wall ,jumped around and yelled SURPRISE !!! Then we ate delicious food that we had brought to share as a shared lunch.

By Daniel, Taine, Brittney and Maya

Ukulele

On Thursday we sang to the song and played the ukulele's:

"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry/merry/king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra! Laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be."

By Brittney

Aren't we clever for our first time playing the ukuleles.

Making Fairy Bread

For our writing we made fairybread. It tasted really YUM! We were doing it to help us learn with reading and following instructions. First, you have to get what you need. This is bread, margarine or butter, and a plate or napkin, sprinkles, and a knife. Then butter the bread, then put some sprinkles on. Sprinkle them everywhere. At the end you could cut it into a shape, maybe using a cookie cutter. Then eat it and it tastes delicious. This was a fun activity.

By Ilaria and Bradley

Board Games

Me and Jackie made a board game. Our focus was the 50th Celebrations. For homework a few days before the 50th Celebrations we had to find out things that had happened over the years at school. Then we made a timeline with all our ideas, we made cards using the info from the timeline. At the end of the term we played our board games with some other classrooms. It was very fun

By Hannah

Michael Jackson Moves

In music on Thursday we listened to 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson. We danced like Michael Jackson, and we made up our own moves. Our moves were awesome. It looked like a party while we were dancing. There were heaps of zombies. Matt danced funny.

By Clay and Lily

School On Saturday

On Saturday we had to come to school because there was a celebration for the people who were at this school over the last 50 years. They could see what we are doing and what the classrooms look like now. And we did a Powhiri and we did choir and kapahaka. In the class before morning tea, Room ten went on the computers and Room six made some silverbeet fritters. The silverbeet stalk was yucky. It was a great day at school last Saturday!
By Ashley Reneti

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The Radio Station Comes To Room 10

Blair from the radio station come to room 10 to ask five questions and these are the questions:
How do fish breath under water ? A: Their gill. What"s a seismograph? A: To tell how tall you are. What did your mum need to know about dad before she married him? A: If he was a gang member or if he had guns. What's a didgeridoo? A: It's a long pipe from Australia. What's a serenade ? A: It's a bomb.
It was amazing to have Blair.
We will be on the radio next week at 3.20 pm and 6.20 pm each day giving our answers.

By Lily and Shania

Beach Day

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On the last day of February the Middle Syndicate went to Tahunanui Beach. Everyone got put into teams and the teams played games. Like treasure hunt, football, we built sand castles with motes around them. Then we just built normal sandcastles. It was really fun. Then we had lunch. After lunch we did two more activities then we went back to school. Before we could go the teacher had to make sure that everyone got back to school.


by Tia Nelson and Joshua Book

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Pets

We had lots of pets visiting us on Monday. Jake had his pet rabbits and Cody had his new puppy.