Mrs Snuggles

Grace C brought her pet rabbit to school last week. Her name is Mrs Snuggles. She is about 7 months old and she is a Netherland Dwarf. She is fully grown already. Mrs Snuggles is a grey colour and her fur is very soft. She likes to eat carrot and parsnip tops. She wakes up at 6am every morning and she likes to rip up the newspaper in her bed! Mrs Snuggles also likes to do 360's in the air which is pretty cool. Grace takes her for short walks down the street with her harness on sometimes.

Our Furry Visitors

On Wednesday James brought his bunnies to school to show us. The one that he is holding in the photo is called Buddy and the one in the box is called Buffy. Buffy belongs to his sister Olivia. The bunnies are about 2 months old now. They like to eat hay and carrots and they even eat Weetbix sometimes!
As you can see they are very cute and fluffy, their fur was very soft. One of them did a little poo on the carpet! When the bunnies were getting ready to go back into their boxes to go home, Buddy jumped out of his box and leapt on top of Sam!

High School Band

Last week the High School choir and band came to visit us at school. Mrs Bolt is the music teacher and was the conductor up the front. There were lots of different instruments being played. They played some Green Day songs as well as some Beatles music. They must practise a lot as they all knew the music off by heart and could play the songs really nicely together. It was great to see some of our ex-pupils in the High School Choir. Sophie, Rebecca and Shannon look different in their school uniforms, we hardly recognised them!

Wasp Nest

Here is Tane holding a paper wasp nest that he found in a bush on his deck at home. It was attached to a small branch. When we looked at it closely we could see the holes where the wasps lay their eggs. It looks a bit like a honeycomb.

Bokashi

This week our class has been using the bokashi kit. We have been putting our food scraps inside and sprinkling a tiny bit of EM sawdust over the top to stop the odour from waffling around our room. We put our hand inside a plastic bag and then squashed the food scraps down into the bucket. When we lifted up the top bucket we could see the liquid fertiliser at the bottom. It smells just like vinegar. We can put almost anything into the boksahi compost except for oil, liquids and bones.

The Best Nest

Here is Aaliyah holding a birds nest that her grandma found in her garden. It didn't have any eggs in it. It must have belonged to a small bird as the nest is tiny. We are amazed at how a bird can make a nest like this using just its beak and feet.

The Mintie Challenge

On Fridays we focus on developing our problem solving skills in maths. Miss R set us this cool challenge where we were each given a MINTIE. We had to unwrap it and make the warpper as l-o-n-g as we possibly could without using scissors or cellotape. The idea was to tear or rip the wrapper around and around (a bit like peeling an orange) until we oculdn't go any further. The person with the longest wrapper was the winner. Miss R had a go first and hers measured 88cm. Everyone was then determinded to try to beat her record. The only person who was able to do it was Susie- she managed to get hers 92cm!

Some people found this challenge really tricky as you couldn't rip it too thinly or it would break ...but if you did it too thick, then it wouldn't end up very long at all. Susie concnetrated really hard and took her time - that was the key to her success!!

Life Education

Today we went into the life education caravan with Helen and Harold. Here is Cameron putting the heart into the right spot .This is carpet kid. Helen showed us a video about a boy called Billy who moved to a new school. The other children were not very friendly towards him and he felt left out. We talked about ways the children could have included him better.

By Shaquille and Brooklyn

Go Giants GO!

On Saturday night 43 people from our school travelled over to the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson to watch the GIANTS play the Auckland Stars. Nelson ended up winning the game in the very last second by 2 points. The score was 77-75. Phil Jones scored the winning goal but it was nervewracking as the ball bounced on the goal ring a few times before it actually went in! The crowd went crazy and everyone jumped up out of their seats. Nelson is leading the whole competition at the moment which is great.

Gracie B-E really got into the spirit of the game and wore blue and white facepaint to support the GIANTS. Go GIANTS Go!

Hockey Heroes

On Wednesday 13th May we went to Saxtons Field in Nelson to play in a hockey tournament. There were 12 of us who competed. We won 3 games and lost only 1 game. We were one point off from making the finals! We were all so excited. We played extremely well and were proud of our efforts. Thankyou to Eva's dad and James' mum who came with us and managed our team for the day. It was fun driving over in the minivan. Macey, Grace B and Shaquille all won Player of the Game certificates which was great. Well done guys!
We can't wait to compete again next year. With a bit more practise we might even win the finals next time!

Bokashi

This is Kate and she works for the Tasman District Council. She came to talk to our class about composting. She showed us this composting system called BOKASHI. This idea was created in Japan because most houses in Japan do not have big gardens or places to put compost bins. This system just uses 2 large buckets. One bucket sits inside the other one. The one in the middle has small holes in the bottom for drainage. You use special sawdust that has micro organisms in it. You sprinkle a small bit of sawdust over the food scraps inside the bucket and it stops the food from smelling awful and the food doesn't rot. We are going to trial this at school over the next few weeks and see if it works.

Brooklyn's Birthday

On the 13th of May it was my Birthday. I turned 9. I got a stereo,a book,a helmet,a cd,a dvd,chocolate and an oufit. My mum made this vanilla cake that was a 9 shape with green icing pink smokers pink flowers and pink and green balls.

Soccer coaching

On Monday Darren the soccer coach came over from Nelson to teach us some skills . We had to dribble the ball around some cones in a square shape. We had to dribble backwards which was really hard.

After that Darren taught us how to pass the ball with one foot and showed us how to use the other one for aiming. Then we went to play a game of soccer. One team was bibs and the other team was non bibs. The first goal went to the bibs team and the second goal also went to them too so they were the winners and the non bibs lost. After that we had to say thankyou to Darren and go home.

By Stevie and Aaliyah

Composting

Here is Charlies compost it has veges,manure,sawdust and grass
in it and is healthy for fruit and veges.

if you want a healthy garden worms are what you need

If you want a good garden a good compost will really help.

By Charlie

Golden Tickets

We designed some golden tickets because we have been reading CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY we also designed some chocolate bar wrappers and chocolate recipes.Willy Wonka had done them so we did as well. We put them on display in the window of our classroom and they look cool :].

by Brooklyn and Dayna

"A" Day

On "A" Day each class had to dress up in different colours. We had to dress in purple. A day was about autism that means we spent the afternoon playing with the ORRS students. We also were "appreciating" everyone as part of "A" day and celebrating how special and unique we all are. Some of the games were musical chairs then we did a obstacle corse then we did basketball skills .But just before we thought it was over we had to find ice cream sticks- there were 3 to find. Graces mum made Grace a t shirt out of a pillowcase and a skirt made out of wrapping paper.A day was the best day ever!!!
by Aaliyah and Gracie B-E

Bike Safety

Bike Safety

Today Mr Tonkin came to talk to us about bike safety. We watched a video about a boy who really wante a bike but he had to find a helmet first. At the start of the movie we saw a boy who had fallen off his bike and became unconscious. He is now brain damaged and cannot walk or talk. if he had been wearing a helmet he might be still OK. After we had watched the movie we went outside and did a safety checklist with our bikes. Mr Tonkin told us we had to get into pairs and get a bike.

Here is a photo of Sam and Susie checking each others helmet straps to make sure they are correctly fitted. If your helmet is too loose, it will not protect you in an accident. The best helmets are the ones that are brightly coloured so that they can be easily seen by drivers on the road. Helmets should also have a special safety approved sticker on them.

By Ellen and Room 7

Spiders at school

We went spider web hunting and we found lots of spider webs around our school. There were heaps in the bikesheds, hidden up in the corners. There were also some in the tree hut down in the backfield.


we found this spider web
it is very interesting it has a twisty bit and the rest is around it is awesome .We also found a pretty web down by the bike shed, it had drops of water in it.

by Grace C and Grace B

Alana the athlete!

I went to prize giving for Athletics and I won a medal and a ribbon for going to athletics all year. On the 22nd of march I went to Christchurch to compete for Tasman.

By Alana