Rabbit Island

On Tuesday 24th October our class went on a trip to the Aquatic Centre in Richmond. We travelled by car. When we got there, Lisa came and spoke to us about the safety rules for the pool. We all had such a fantastic time in the wave pool and in the heated pools. Some people tried to stand up on the surfboards. Even Miss Robinson went swimming with us!
For lunch, we drove out to Rabbit Island and had a picnic. We spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the beach. We had so many surprises along the way. We found stingrays and a shark washed up on the beach. Some people dug a hole and buried it in the sand and we even had a funeral for it!
Here is a photo of Lenny the thresher shark with some of the pupils from Room 7 - watch out Jonty, it might bite you!

Tennis Coaching

On Friday 20th October we had a tennis coach come to our school from Nelson. Her name was Vanessa and she helped us to develop our tennis skills and taught us some new games. We found out that tennis is a great game for improving our fitness as well developing our hand/eye co-ordination. We had lots of fun and learnt heaps of new things. Room 8 also had a coaching session with her. She is coming back in 2 weeks time to teach the seniors.
We are hoping some pupils might join a local tennis club now that they have seen how much fun it can be.......
Here are some photos of Vanessa and Room 7 pupils practising their skills.

Tree Walkers

On Thursday 12th October we had some visitors to our school. They have been walking school to school around the Motueka District spreading the word about the importance of trees and the need to plant as many as we can. They donated some native trees to our school which we planted next to Room 1. We sang songs and danced with them while they played musical instruments from around the world. Some of the people who spoke to us were from Belgium and one lady was from San Fransisco.

End of Term Party!

We celebrated the end of Term 3 with a class party. We took all our desks and chairs outside and set it up like a banquet table.
A friend of Miss Robinsons came to visit us, her name is Mrs H. She brought some GONK eggs along for us to eat, they were delicious!
We also played "pass the parcel" and Jadine won some gel pens. We played musical chairs and Hunter won that game.
We are hoping to have a "sleep over" at school at the end of Term 4 but we have to work hard and fill up our sticker charts first. We are going to try really hard to make good choices this term.