Our Brook Sanctuary visit

We had a trip to the Brook Sanctuary it was fun and interesting.        
                                                

First tables 3,4 went on a long walk in the trees and did some stuff (e.g saw how some traps work) while tables 1,2 went with Jeff and did some other stuff inside. Rick told us about some of the plants as well  showing us some amazing tree weta we saw on the walk.

When we came back Jeff showed us four frozen pests:  ferrets, weasels, rats and stoats - freaky. After that he showed  us some geckos that the for the pests go for. Next we talked about other things like moreporks and how they would be beaten by a rat in a race to catch a gecko because the rat could smell it.  Even though a morepork has such good eye sight the gecko can camouflage so it can't see it but a rat can still smell it so that helps a lot.

We also talked about helping them to build a pest proof  fence by buying them a pole for $100.  On Friday we are having a mufti day to fund raise  for  money to buy a pole to put in the fence.

Then it was time to leave.  Everyone was sad, we all had a really good time.

by Isabel and Madison

Brook Sanctuary on PhotoPeach

Pirate Lavender at Hannah`s house.

Pirate Lavender had a ton of fun when she came to my house! First we made some cup cakes and Pirate Lavender was VERY greedy. When the cupcakes were baking I made her something to wear.e.g pirate hat and apron. After the cakes had finished cooking she obviously wanted to eat the lot. The next day we went to the Big adventure playground and played for a while. 
By Hannah.

Room 6's Tree Planting.

On Thursday the 6th of June room 6 did some tree planting for Arbor Day which means we planted a mandarin tree. Unfortunately we didn't get to eat the few mandarins that were on the tree because they got picked and the last one rotted , but it WAS fun planting them.
There were 5 steps to planting the tree:

1. We chose which tree we were going to plant 
2. We dug a hole 
3. We put the plant in the hole 
4. We put soil down around the plant
5. We patted the soil around the plant

By Zeeta and Hannah.

CROSS COUNTRY

Last Friday the whole senior school went to Tahunanui Beach to do our cross country.  The 9, 10 and 11 year olds had to do 2 laps but the 8 year olds had to do 1 lap. Corbin came 11th and  Noah came 4th.  a The track was quite hard, especially along the beach because the sand was harder to get a grip.  Crossing the finishing great because its over and you feel proud of yourself.  It was awesome because everyone did their best - it was the best one yet!        

By Noah and Corbin

The disco is a great time.  You can dance till your hearts content. It's a time when you can dress up and have fun with friends and others. We had lots of games such as: spin the bottle and an air guitar competition.  We had cool hairdos and yummy food! There was a GIANT disco ball and lots of lights each a different colour like a rainbow. The disco ball shone like  million diamonds. We know everyone had a wonderful time.

 

By Lucy and Victoria.

Lava in a Cup and Blobs in a Bottle

Last week was science week. On Tuesday we did an experiment. We put three quarters of water in a cup then we put one quarter of oil. Then we had to sprinkle salt or sugar over the oil. It was called Lava in a Cup.

On Friday we did another experiment. We put one quarters of water in the glass. Then we put three quarters of oil in the glass.Then we put on some gloves because the Panadol was for adults.  Then we put it in the glass. It fizzed and fizzed and fizzed it . It  is called Blobs in a Bottle.

By Charlotte

Pirate Lavender's Adventure with Bradey

Pirate Lavender and my family went on holiday to Lake Rotoiti.  We were staying at my neighbours batch. We went and had a look at the eels under the jetty. We also had a look at the church and then we found some traps. After that we went and looked at some other places and then we went to the school and had a play on the playground. Later on we went back to the batch and watched the Amazing Spiderman and Pirate Lavender enjoyed that.  I got steak and chocolate milk and in the morning we looked at the bulldozer. It was really fun.

Bradey and Pirate Lavender.