The Zulu war

We had a Zulu war against the British (seniors). We had to make our spears and shields out of newspaper and cardboard and sellotape.
People came and they were dressed in weird costumes. They showed us some ways to fight by not hurting each other, that were ok and not ok.
We did it about 8 or 9 times but we didn't win. But I think most of us had heaps of fun.

Suzie, Our Astronaut

We have a mannequin called Suzie . We had to dress her up in our own version of a space suit. We all had fun and now I'm starting to think we can send it into space, but that's probably not going to happen. It even has a Morse code, a jet pack a micro wave and a diaper/nappy.
By Connor

Five Weeks with Jenny

We had a new teacher called Jenny. At the start she felt nervous but she got over it. She helped people out when we were stuck on things. Then she would count down from 543210. Her favourite colour is red. On Friday we got her to dess up in red because it was her favourite colour.We had a great time with her. She was the best teacher in the world.



by Brittney and Shanti

Nayland Primary Variety Show!!!

On Monday, the 9th of August, we had our Variety show.
We were singing in the choir while everyone was playing really fun games.
We were playing this picture game that we did with letters. Jenny taught it to us. Dania read a story to Jenny and so did Jade. After all the games were finished we had to all get dressed to go on stage. Tom kept trying to watch us when we were getting dressed. It was funny. When we got up on stage, gorgeous and sweet and beautiful Dania was the narrator for the whole syndicate. Keayla was as pretty as Dania.
When it all started Room 7 did their act about Mrs Sun and Mrs Wind fighting to see who was the strongest. Mrs Sun won. It said Mrs Strong on Mrs Sun's back.
After that Room 10 did their act about the Creation of the Sun. Keayla did her narrator part and said something she wasn't supposed to in the microphone.
When Room 10 had finished Room 8 came up and did theirs about how the sea never came up to see the sun and when it did Mr Sun jumped up into the sky and never came down again because now he had too much family.
We were all waiting to see what Room 6 would do. They crawled out, went into a line and then they shook their bottoms. There were lions, monkeys, tigers and zebras. They did an awesome dance.
When it had finished we all walked off stage and ran back to our waiting rooms, waiting for our mum and dad to come and pick us up. Keayla and Dania accidentally went into the Junior room.
Keayla went to see her aunty outside. She said it was great and that she wanted to say "Go Keayla!" in the audence.
It was great fun! We wish we could do it again.
By Keayla and Dania

Harakeke

We planted Harakeke (flax) in the old sandpit on the backfield at Nayland Primary. The harakeke will grow big and strong in a few years and we will be able to do weaving with it.
This flax comes from a collection of weaving flaxes from all over New Zealand that traditional Maori weavers use.
Our flax will be very colourful in the leaves and its called Wharanui, meaning many colours.
Every other class planted a flax too along the same fenceline. Their flaxes were part of the same collection but are called different names.
We hope tuis will come and feed off our plants.
By Emma and Jade

Poppy the Puppy

This is me and Poppy. She 9 weeks old she is not use to being alone so we are looking after her. We mode lots of toys for her.

Museum Visit

Yesterday we went to the museum in town and it was very exciting. First we were greeted by a kind Maori lady that played a musical instrument made out of a shell . Room 10 listened to some Maori Legends. Then we acted out some legends and we acted them to the class.
One of the legends was about a giant octopus shaking some canoes. They killed the octopus by hitting the octopus right in between its eyes.
Another legend was about Maui slowing down the sun. He got his brothers to help him and they held onto the sun until it was exhausted and could only limp across the sky.
The visit was very interesting and we all learnt a lot about the Maori Legends.