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.