Have you found the new puzzle at the bottom of the page? There will be a new one each time you go back to the blog. Some are easy and some are hard. Have a try and tell me what you think.
See you on Thursday. Have a nice day tomorrow. I hope you enjoy Room 1's assembly tomorrow.
Mrs P

Did you see the great photo of Jack and his mum in the Marlborough Express tonight?What a great photo.

If you go to http://www.driftwoodecotours.com/wordpress/index.php you will find a report all about yesterday with lots of photos. You are all really famous now. It is great to see that other people are interested in what we are doing for the environment. Won't it be great to go back to the Reserve again over the next few years and see how our trees have grown.

World tree Planting Day

On Friday Room 8 came to share some tree poems and to talk about our tree planting trip. After we had talked about all the things we would need to bring, Mrs Hepburn gave us all something to hang around our necks.Each tag had a word on it. We sat in a circle and we had to make a web of all the related things in nature. If you had water around your neck you might choose to link to swimming , fun or fish. We had to hold on very tightly to the wool so the web wasn't broken. We were amazed at what we could link things up to.
Then we did an activity when we had to link arms in a special way then link in different ways without letting go. Mrs Hepburn was very impressed with us.

Today was a sad day for Room 2 as it was Lily's last day at Riverlands School. She is off to Westport with her Mum and brother Flynn. Lily's dad will be excited to have the whole family with him in Westport. We hope he is really enjoying his new job.
We made patterns with korus for maths today and made them into headbands to celebrate Lily's last day. We have a lovely new book for our class library from Lily and her family so we will always remember her.
Don't forget to keep in touch. We will look for some comments from you on our blog and hopefully a letter or email or two..

On Monday we are joining Room 8 in planting trees at Simonsen Reserve as part of the ENO Tree Planting Day that is happening worldwide. We are hoping that some of the trees we plant will eventually encourage native birds back to our area.
Remember to wear old clothes on Monday and bring your gumboots in a plastic bag. Depending on the weather on the day come prepared with raincoats, sunhats,warm top, sunscreen. Let's hope it is the sunscreen and sunhats we need to bring. Gumboots are needed whatever the weather as there has been so much rain!!

Omaka Marae

Our wonderful visit to Omaka Marae

I liked touching the carvings and the tukutuku panels. Shannara
I liked touching the tukutuku because they all felt different. Emma
We had to take our shoes off just like at school. Fergus
The tukutuku were telling us stories. Micahla
I liked the waiata that we sang. Jone
I enjoyed duck, duck goose.We called it rakiraki, rakiraki, kuihi . Jessica
I thought it was very clever how the carvings were carved. Josh
I liked doing the poi when we did the helicopter. Blake
We sang our waiata really nicely. Michael
I liked sitting down in the Wharenui and hearing the stories. Aramac
I did a hongi with Kiley. Hadley
I liked sitting in the Marae and I listened to the stories. Lily
I liked hitting Jacks rakau. Daryan
I liked how the carvings were carved. Jack
I liked listening to the stories that were on the wall. Emily
I liked touching the statues. Ruby

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Thank you to everyone that has made a comment on our blog. It is great to know what you think of our blog.
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Making masks with sculpt-it

Yesterday Chris Cairns walked past our school. He is walking all the way from Pukekohe to Christchurch to help make people aware of being careful at Rail crossings. Mrs Craig's husband has been walking with him and he gave us flags to wave. It was pouring with rain when they walked past so they weren't able to stop and talk. We had a look at his website to see how far he had walked and we saw a video that showed what can happen if you play on railway tracks.

We will never play on train tracks and if our ball went on the tracks we would just have to leave it there.

He is also raising money for the "Chris Cairns Foundation" and Daryan and Fergus put money into the collection bucket. THANK YOU BOYS.

Junior House Soccer

Today we had the finals of our House soccer. Yesterday Rata and Totora lost their games so they played each other today.

Both of our teams won today because we got 1 goal each. It was fun. Shannara
It was great because both of our teams won.When we got a goal we said "Yah Rata!". Lily

I was trying to kick the ball and I nearly got it. Fergus

Kowhai played Kauri in the final

Daryan's team got zero goals and we got three so we were the winners. I had a good game. Joshua
I was chasing the ball very fast and Josh's team scored one goal. Then they scored another one and another one. I liked it when our team almost got a goal. Daryan
We had a practise before the game with our house leaders. Emily

Thank you to Mr Paterson and all of the House leaders for running the soccer competition.

It was: Fun, exciting, cool, wicked,yahoo!,exhausting, funny,scary,
Let's do it again soon!

We put on our" thinking hats" to talk about our Flax work with Mr McCloy. 

Black: What was wrong with this?

Yellow: What are the good things?

Red: What do I feel?

Green: What new ideas are possible?

It was a little bit hard folding the flax over the middle. Daryan

It was hard on my hands scraping it. Fergus

It was very hard and it hurt my hand. Micahla

It was hard to get the flax off. Blake

I found it quite hard to scrape the flax off but mum showed me what to do. Jack

It was hard to scrape the shell on the flax. Lily

It was quite hard to scrape the stuff off. Ruby

 

It was good having mum there to help. Harry

It was easy to scrape the flax off. Hadley

It was good that Hadley's mum helped me. Michael
I felt good when I scraped the flax. Aramac
It was hard plaiting so I made up my own way. Shannara

Working with Flax

Dear Room 2,

I have sent you an e-card. It is an electronic way to send a letter. You might like to send an e-card to a friend.

From Mrs Paterson

http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/arthur/ecard_read.pl?card_id=6264862

On every second Friday, we have time with our big buddies from Room 9. They are the oldest children in our school. Today they were teaching us some soccer skills because there is going to be a House soccer competition starting next week. Some of us danced and played in the playground when we were finished.

I liked doing the dancing with my buddy. Harry.
I liked playing soccer with my buddy. Jessica
I scored two goals in soccer. Hadley
I liked playing in the playground after we played soccer. My buddy gave me a piggy back on the flying fox. Emma
I liked dancing with Shannara. Lily
I liked playing soccer with Josh. We won. Daryan
I liked playing in the playground. We did the flying fox. Micahla
I liked running with my buddy to the playground. I won the race. Fergus.
I liked playing soccer. I kicked the ball to my buddy. Ruby
I liked playing soccer with my buddy. We practiced kicking. I got the ball past him but he couldn't get it past me. Blake
I liked playing in the playground with my buddy. I got a piggy back on the flying fox. Emily
I got stuck up in the tunnel. Mrs Robinson helped me go backwards to get unstuck. Aramac
I liked dancing with Lily. We danced to hi 5 music. Shannara
I played soccer with my buddy. I got it past my buddy because the cones were too wide. Jack