School Sleepover

We had a school sleepover for the children in the middle syndicate who are not in Year 5 yet. Breeze and Hannah have just finished their burgers and are looking forward to pudding (jelly, icecream and instant pud.yum!)
There were a few people in Rm 7 who couldn't come to the sleepover unfortunately but there were plenty of children in Rm 5 and 6 who could. We had approx 47 children and a few brave parents who slept in the school hall on gym mats and airbeds. There were a few snorers and a few talkers so not everyone had a good nights sleep. Lucky we had the long weekend to recover!

Miss Schneider and Mrs Latimer organised lots of cool party games for us to take part in after tea. Here Taylor is taking part in Charades. It was a great way to end the night. For supper, we had some milo and biscuits and we watched a DVD while snuggled up in our PJ's and beds.

We had a giant game of "Pass the Parcel". Corban was the lucky winner and won this Chinese Checkers game which we are sure he will put to good use on these rainy days we are having at the moment.

Aiming high

Here is Jonty and Kyle having their very first try at shotput. They were surprised at how heavy they were to lift, let alone to try and throw!
They had to work out how to keep it under their ear and "push" it rather than throw it. (Miss Robinson had to watch out for her toes as some shots went a bit wayward!!)
A great effort boys...you might give Valerie Vili a run for her money one day!

And the winner is....

Our raffle winner for Week 2 was......Robbie! His name was drawn out and he won this cool water bomb which will be useful during the summer (that's if the weather improves?)
Congratulations Robbie, have fun.

High Jump

It is athletics season at Motueka South. Twice a week we practise our skills with the other senior and middle school classes out on the back field. Here you can see Jade doing the high jump. She is very agile and managed to clear the pole by miles! We are learning to do the "scissors technique" and to work out which side suits us best for our run up. Some people are finding it a bit tricky and others are real naturals at high jump.

Here you can see Luken doing the high jump as well. He looks very relaxed doesn't he!! Great skills Luken. Maybe next week we can put the pole up even higher for you to attempt?

Motueka River in Flood

We have had a LOT of rain in the past few weeks. Here is an aerial photo taken by a helicopter pilot yesterday. You can see how high and wide the river is at the moment The Birdhurst packsouse is to the left of the picture. They must be hoping they don't get flooded out!

Some pupils have driven over the bridge while the river has been this high, it was quite scary!

We hope the sun will shine again soon and that the forecast is for no more rain for a long time.

Tree Walkers

Today the tree walkers came to our school with Mikaela's brother Julian. He is in a wheel chair.Mikaelas brother gave Mikaela a peace ribbon ,he was happy to see her! He is a conservation person, Mikaela gave him a big hug which was very nice.The next school they went to was Parklands .

By Breeze & Jessica

Today the tree walkers came to our school. They were meant to come yesterday but they are a bit behind schedule. My brother was with them. We didn't get to see them. But my brother insisted he was to come to our classroom. When they got inside Julian (my brother) gave me a big hug and a peace ribbon. We hadn't seen each other in almost a week!

By Mikaela

Bad Jelly the Witch!

It is library week this week and to recognise it, Mrs Nicholls and Miss Robinson read a story to each others class. Miss Robinson dressed up as Bad Jelly the Witch.(she was missing her broomstick though!) The Room 2 children didn't know who it was coming to visit them!

Athletics practise

This is Mac. He is practising his long jump,how far do think he will jump??

Mac can leap quite high can't he!

Mr Latimer brought along his little digger and dug out a hole for our new long jump pit.

Jake then filled it up with fresh sawdust so it was nice and soft for us to land in!!

Here is Kaitlyn about to throw her dodgeball at the target, Go Kaitlyn!

Robbie is aiming carefully for the target.

Do you think he will hit the bullseye in the middle?

Everyone who scored a bullseye won 1000 points for their house.

By Kaitlyn and Madeleine

Tropical Fruits

Here is the pineapple that Miss Robinson is cutting up for us to taste. Yummy!!
On Tuesday the 16th Miss Robinson brought along a pineapple for us try! She cut it up into small pieces for us to snack on. IT WAS DELICIOUS! The reason Miss Robinson brought a pineapple was because we are studying Samoa, and pineapples grow in Samoa. They grow on plants, but they can't grow New Zealand because it is too cold!

By Madeleine

This is a coconut that Miss Robinson also brought along to show us on Tuesday 16th!!Miss Robinson smashed the coconut on the concrete outside our classroom. (room7) .There wasn't much coconut juice but we ate all the coconut meat!!! Miss Robinson also brought along some grated coconut for us to try!

We watched a video last week that showed us how the Samoan people climb coconut trees. They tie a lavalava around their ankles to help them climb up and get grip against the tree trunk.

The coconuts were REALLY REALLY YUMMY!!!!

Do you like coconuts??

BY Kaitlyn

Term 4 Goals

It is hard to believe that we are into Term 4 already this year!

Here you can see the goals that we set for ourselves this term. Make sure you check our wall often and try really hard to achieve the goal that you set. We will be checking over the next few weeks to see how you think you are going..don't forget to tell your family what your goal is too so they can help you!

Mr Siaki

YUM! Here is a pineapple before it had been picked and shipped overseas.

Pineapples love hot climates and grow easily in Samoa.

Here is photo of a typical bus in Samoa. They don't have glass windows and they don't have bus stops. You just stand on the side of the road and wave them down!!

Here is a photo of Faiga with her baby sister



This is Faiga's dad who came along to speak to us

Mr Siaki came to our school to teach us more about Samoa . Mr Siaki told us that when he was little and he didn't wake up he got a smacked bottom!!! Mr Siaki use to go to school at 7am until 1:30 pm . With a spear he caught and stabbed fish and he cooked them up with an outside kitchen . Mr Siaki told us what food he liked. He liked pork, fish, coconut and taro.


He told us that there are only between 100, 000 and 200, 000 people who live in Samoa. Their favourite sport is rugby, just like us!


He has got tattoo's that took 4 days to get. His tattoo's start at his waist and end at his about his knees. The buses are really small there, they have plastic over the windows instead of glass and when it gets hot they roll up the plastic to let some air inside.


The buses are painted in bright colours.





By Josh and Cameron

Lucky Jade

This term we are having a "Lucky Raffle Draw" each Friday. When Miss Robinson spots someone in the class working quietly during the day or making great choices at school, she writes their names on a piece of paper and they go in the draw to win a prize. Week 1 was this cool drink bottle and Jade was the lucky winner. I wonder who will win the prize next week?
Good Luck everyone!

New PE shed

At school we have a new sport shed . Our class is now in charge of it. Me and Shani are going to be giving out the equipment today. Shani is going to be writing the things down while I go and grab the equipment and then give it to the people who wants its. On Friday some people from our class got all the equipment from the old sports shed and moved it to the new sports shed. We all hope that everyone respects the gear and don't leave gear lying around in the playground.

We have these cool new flying discs. they are like frisbees but much BIGGER!

(Someone threw one up on the roof this morning already)

From Jadine and Shana Tova

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Mr Wright in Bouganville

This is my dad, Mr Wright. In these photos he is training his troops in Bouganville. He is the only white skinned person there!! In the last photo my dad is checking if the people are wearing their uniforms properly. In the first photo my Dad is looking over Arawa where he is staying. In the second photo his troops are in a transport truck. Bouganville is in Papua New Guinea. He is gone for six months and that means he will come back in April. Dad keeps in contact with my family by email and phone calls. One day my dad rang and he said that it was 8 oclock in the morning over in Bouganville, but it was already 30 degrees celsius!!! My mum misses him heaps!!

By Kaitlyn

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Hi Room 7 - I just want to wish you all a safe and happy holiday. I'm hoping some of you might get a chance to check out our blog over the holidays. Thankyou to Zoe for all your wonderful comments recently!

Also a special thankyou to Chloe T and Kyle for the lovely surprise at my door at the weekend. The flowers were gorgeous! (I am very spoilt)

Make sure you relax and enjoy your break from school - you deserve it. Everyone worked extremely hard this term and I am very proud of you all.

See you next term...

Miss Rxx

PS: Term 4 is going to be very busy too so watch out!

Talley's Trip

Making 3-D shapes

Iron Brion

MASSIVE

Colgate Smiles

The dental nurse is at our school at the moment. Quite a few pupils in our class have had to visit her recently and some children have even had to have FILLINGS!

Luken, Kyle and Russell are trying hard to prevent plaque from forming on their teeth.

Hannah, Zoe and Jessica are hoping they don't have any cavities in their teeth this term.

After morning tea each day for 2 weeks we are taking time to clean our teeth together and go over ways to brush properly. It is so important to look after our teeth and get into good habits such as:

*cutting down on sugary foods

*brusing at least twice a day

*using dental floss

*brushing our tongues

Jonty, Hunter and Josh are making sure they brush the back teeth as carefully as the front teeth.

It is important to brush our gums as well to prevent gum disease. You should brush your teeth for at least 2 minutes each time.

We found a great website called www.colgate.com which has lots of games and tips on dental hygiene. Check it out...

Makos Mishap!

Mac and Jonty got free tickets to the Makos game against Bay of Plenty but Macs dad forgot it was in Blenheim so he ended up in Trafalgar park with no-one thereWell Jonty was enjoying a good game of rugby.He got lots of free stuff like a makos cap, poster and stickers.Jonty was Motueka United's representative. His coach took him over with some other players from his team.

by Mac and Jonty

Mr Loder visits

On Thursday 6 of September Mr Loder came to our class to talk about Talleys and how the system works .We asked some questions that we didn't know like how many boats are there?

..and after working there 21 years are you used to the smell?. But no, he was not used to the smell of Talleys!

Then he gave us some pamphlets about there ice cream, seafood and where it goes and comes from. Some of their fishing boats go all the way to Antarctica for 5 weeks away from their families .

If you want more infomation go to www.talleys.co.nz

By Luken

Cross Country

On Friday the 31st of August our school went down to the Goodman Reserve to do some cross country .The 10yr and ups had to run 2 whole laps and around the pond .They were so tired after they finished their race.Some people only ran around the pond and straight to the finish.It was a big day for us when we ran. Miss Dowell was the person that said '' On your marks, Get set ,Go".

Everybody tried their best to go to Rabbit Island to race all the different schools .The people that came 1st to 5th are going to race all different schools later on in the term.Some people ran like the wind to come first and go to Rabbit Island to race schools like Lower Moutere and schools like that!

After some peoples games they were so hot that they got their drink bottle and put it all over their faces so they were not hot !But everyone tried their best at running !

Here is Mac receiving his prize for 1st= place in the 8 and 9 yr old boys section. he came first with Hunter.

By Jessica

Speeches

On Thursday 30th of August,Chloe T and Robbie took part in the M.S.S speech competition.They represented our class. Unfortunately they didn't make it to the inter-school speech competition , which is being held at the Upper Moutere school hall on Thursday the 6th of September.The people from our school that are going are Haylee and Sophie.Their speech topics are ...The future is and Discover Tasman.

We wish them luck and hope they do well.

By Chloe and Robbie

Daffodil Day

On Friday the 31 it was Daffodil Day in New Zealand. At our school we have wacky hair day and on the same day we had cross country so you can tell that our school was busy! Our class had really wacky hair CHLOE T had a 11 pig tails in her hair . Even our Teacher tock part in wacky hair day. Miss Robinson had 5 pig tails in her hair and she dressed in yellow even though she is in Rata .Later we played music and gave a donation for the cancer society and we decided if we gave a donation we would get a daffodil tattoo.We all went around in our classes . But the main thing is that we all had loads of fun.

By Jadine