It's Hangi Time!!!

On Wednesday 24th of November,Woodend school had a hangi!

There was lots of food,there was:chicken,pork,beef,and a lots of veges like Parsnip,carrots,potato,and kumara!

On the Tuesday 23th November,they dug the hole for the hangi,they dug two holes because we needed extra dirt.

The hangi food was cooked underground.

The hangi was delicious.

By Brooke

It's Hangi Time!!!

THE AWESOME HANGI

It was so awesome on wednesday the 24 of november week seven cause the whole school had a hangi it was so awesome and really yummy we had pumpkin,potato,kumara,carrots, parsnip, and yummy chicken we fed 400 people and still had food left over it was yummy!!!!!!!!!

Mini Olympics

This term we have been creating a country in room 13, 14 and 15. We got to make flags, banners, a haka, tunes and more. We are going to do games like at the real olympics like shot put with water balloons. It has been so fun we don't know the games we are doing this term. We do it every Friday outside it is so fun!!!

MY BIRTHDAY

On November the 18th 2000, I was born. Just recently it was my birthday. I got a watch, some new shoes, the Aqaumarine movie, chewing gum, 2 pairs of cycling leggings, a Justin Bieber magazine and a cook book. Today is my party. I'm going to areo trampolines. There is a water slide, flying fox and some grass to play on. I invited Sammi, Courtney , Lucy.C, Shiloh, Jess, Claudia, Emily, me, my sister and Bree and Alicia. I cant wait for more prezzies!

MINI OLYMPICS

Today and any other Friday we have Mini Olympics only for Matai. My country is ICELAND. Our colours are BLUE, GREEN and SILVER. We have an awesome flag. It's a sunset with snow trinkling down. Today we have our first game, ICELAND VS THE GOLD PHANTOMS VS HYPO SQUIRRELS. The game is water balloon shot put. Its 27 degrees C today, so it will be a good day for it. It'll be really awesome and fun.

Earthquake

Hello my wee popsicles,

Thinking of you all and hoping you are managing to relax in your week off school!
I am fine thank-you Jenna. :-) My house was completely undamaged and I have been spending some time with my parents as they have been removing broken chimneys from their roof.
Have been in and visited Room 13 and it is absolutely fine, as is the rest of school. We are just waiting for the water to get the all clear.

I don't know about you guys, but I do wish the aftershocks would finish soon. They are a little bit scary, but at least they never last too long and they can't be as bad as the first one.

Hope you are all getting good sleeps.
Thinking of you all,
See you next week. :-)
Miss C.

Swimming

This term we have been going to Dudley pools. There's 4 groups. There are 3 proper pools, 2 spas and I think 1 swirly pool. It has been so fun. Our swimming class is room 6. The big pool is so deep. There's like a step half way through so you can stand on it, so you don't drown. I am in a group with Sammi R., Lydia, Rutger, and Nic. We do stuff like breast stroke, free style and back stroke and dives as well.Last week we got to

dive and try to get a giant ring but it was up to us we got to chose what on we did i did a stand up dive we could do kneel or sit or stand dive we do swimming every thursday.

Haiku

Last week we have been learning about Haiku. A Haiku is a type of poem. On the first line it has 5 syllables and the second is 7 and the last is 5. Here's mine:

At the golden bay

The puppies are being born

On a Sundy night .

Australia

In 12 days I am going to Australia.

I am very excited to be going and I get 200 dollars.

Im only going with my Grandma but Im visiting my Uncle.

Im going to be there for 8 days.

It will be so much fun.

I will go on lots of rides and go lots of places.

I am really happy.

By Lucy.

IB CHALLENGE

Woodend School has just started a new home-work program, this is called the IB challenge. It is optional whether you do it or not so we call it home learning. There are 4 sections. They are: thinking, self-managing, team-players and creators. There are 24 challenges all together, that makes 6 in each group. Lots of people have decided to do it and I am one of them. It is lots of fun. Some people have already done some. When we finish all five (or more for the seniors) you get a badge that says you have done it. By Ashleigh.

Anger

Anger is red like a red evil apple.

It tastes like a bright red poisoned apple.

It smells like a burning house in the dark dark forest.

It looks like people fighting.

It sounds like people having a really bad day.

It feels like poison having a party in my body.

And it is very spooky.

Haiku

Last week we have been learning about Haiku. A Haiku is a type of poem. On the first line it has 5 syllables and the second is 7 and the last is 5. Here's mine:

At the golden bay

The puppies are being born

On a Sundy night.

Wind

Wind is white like snow.

It tastes like saltwater from the ocean.

It smells like the rotten seaweed from the sea.

Wind looks like a flash of speed.

And sounds like the ocean.

Wind feels like a large fridge on top of you and makes you cool.

Woodend Fair

At Woodend School we are having a school fair. It's going to be awesome. And we're having a Woodend Idol there. You can dance and sing, you can do anything.

LOVE

Love is red just like roses, or hearts.

Love tastes like chocolates wrapped in tin foil ready to eat.

Love smells like a boquet with a ribbons with flowers.

Love might be a dinner for two or a dance or going to the movies.

Love feels like what ever you can imagine.

Love is romantic.

From Izobella.

Crafternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are doing something called Crafternoon and we have a rotation every 3 weeks. We have 3 classes, each class is either with Miss Caygill doing finger knitting or Mr Sheklton making rakau sticks or Miss Huish making art and craft and we are now in Mr Sheklton's room making rakau sticks.

From Montana Room 13

Clip 'n Climb and Science Alive!!!

Clip 'n Climb in the morning and Science Alive in the afternoon! How is that?! Pretty cool if you ask me! It took us a long time to get in Clip 'n Climb to start with but it was worthwhile...., because the climbing walls were more improved, so that helped and I had been there two days before that too! So I was going straight to the zig-zag. I went up and down it. I was already tired after that. Karl was having a lot of luck. I could see that he was trying level two of them. (He was definitely improving, he was boiling.) I did the zig-zag. I was proud of myself when I had just about done all of the climbing walls. Then we went to Science Alive it wasn't better but at least we got to do something . We mixed iodine with powders/flours and acid. We were told a story and we recorded what happened when we start mixing the powder and acid. Then powder with iodine. And last of all the powder with the water! After we had done that we had some suspects of the story there were...., four suspects! That kind of made it harder because there was only one person from the story that wasn't a suspect! So in the story there was a powder on the door handle and a powder on the floor. We had to figure out if it was flour, baking soda, milk powder r plaster. And by using iodine, acid and water we could figure out what the powder on the door handle was and what the powder on the floor was. And with the recorded data we had with the other named powders the same effect would happen to be the same as one of the secret powders that were on the floor and on the door handle that would solve the mystery and that would solve the problem! After that we went back to school. After our adventurous day climbing, really high climbing walls at Clip 'n Climb and figuring mysteries with chemistry at Science Alive. Best day don't you think?

By Isaac

All Blacks

A wee while ago the All Blacks played their first test match this year aganst the Springbox in Dunedin Stadium. The All Blacks won. The score was 17-24 to the All Blacks. There were lots of yellow cards given out. I watched the game at home with my mum and dad.

By Jesse

Go the All Blacks!

On the seventh of August I went to the All Blacks game. It was an awesome match. Daniel Carter kicked a fantastic goal. The crowd went wild. The final score was 17-24 to the All Blacks of course.

By Jonah

Winter Sports Tournament

On Wednesday 28 July 8 people from our class room participated in the winter tournament. They were Sammi O., Jenna, me, Jonah, Luke, Brad , Nic and Izobella.

All the boys were in rugby and all the girls were in netball. All the netball girls won 1 time ,

drew 2 times and lost 1 time. The rugby people people lost all of their games. We all enjoyed it and we would definitely recommend it.

By MandM.

Crafternoon

Every Friday we do something called Crafternoon. We learn lots of stuff. Like last week we learnt how to finger knit. This week we are doing stuff using paper. Four finger knitting was the hardest but it took a wee while to get the hang of things. One finger was very easy. It was very similar to 4 finger knitting.

So that is the end of my story.

by Samantha R.

Rain

Rain is blue like the shining ocean.

It tastes like water from the river.

It smells like nothing but a dolphin in the sea.

Rain sparkles in the dark clouds.

It feels like an invisible speck in my dream.

Australasian Science Test

Alyssa here. I'm posting about the Australasian test. I was one of the ones to get Credit. I was doing the science one. The people who were doing it were Makenzie, Ashok, Ryan, Louis and me! Ashok was the other one who got Credit. I was doing year four science but we didn't have to actually do experiments. 'Cause there weren't actually science experiments. We were allowed a ruler, an eraser and a pencil. Mrs Simpson was the one who hosted it.We had to sit at different tables so we didn't copy off each other. There were 45 questions
that I had to answer and I answered all 45 of them.Some of them are really hard that I had think about some of them for 10 minutes well it might not have been 10 minutes but it sure felt like it! :).I was sweating cause I was so nervous. I had a lot of fun doing it and I hope that I can do it next year and maybe I'll do computers. It wasn't easy. I was thinking, how am I going to pass this test? but I knew most of the questions. And some of them were really easy. So I just trusted my gut instinct. And I passed it. It was so much fun but really hard at the same time.

Silver Ferns v Jamaica

Hi everyone

On the 18th of August the Silver Ferns are going to v Jamaica and it's going to be really awesome. I'm going to the game with my Mum. And we might buy some stuff. I'm also going to get Irene Van Dyk's autograph because she's a friend of my Dad's because Dad works on the plane as a host so when ever she goes on the plane they chat.

Zara xxx

Clip n Climb and Science Alive

A couple of weeks ago we went to Clip and Climb and Science Alive. First of all, we went to Clip and Climb. We spent the whole morning there, it was really fun. Only a few got to the tops of all of the climbing walls, and one of those people were me, MandM. Miss Caygill got to the top of the skyscraper. Well done Miss Caygill! Then we went to a skate park to eat lunch. After lunch we all went to Science Alive. When we got there we went into a little class room and did some chemistry. We had to use lots of different things. Then at 2.30 we all left to go home and got there at 3.15.

Holidays!

Well done everyone on getting to the end of Term 2.

You have all put in a huge effort in this very wintry term and deserve a long break.

It would be lovely to hear what you guys are getting up to in the holidays so make sure you post comments and let us know how you are.

See you all in Term 3!

Miss C.

The choir festival

Some people in our class are in choir and we got to sing at the Kaipoi choir festival with other schools including Belfast, Kaipoi North, Kaiapoi South and of course Woodend school. It was so much fun. My favourite song was Chatanooga choochoo and Proud Mary. Me and Carlee did a dance for Taku Papiwira. It's a skate song. We had so much fun wearing the skate clothes.

By Alyssa

MOSHI MONSTERS

On Moshi Monsters I have three accounts. One of them is: Jennababenna. Another one of them is Sammirockz4eva and jennandsammiroxz. On jennandsammiroxz I'm a Moshi member. You can do lots of fun things on Moshi Monsters like make new friends, buy furniture, and get differrent Moshlings! When your'e a Moshi member you can do stuff like get different moshling seeds , shake the rock trees, visit the port, visit the underground disco, send gifts to friends, visit gift island, get awesome furniture and get uncommon Moshlings. Moshlings you can get are Cali (mermaid) hansel (gingerbreadman) gingersnap (beat up cat) snookums (baby dino) pooky (hatching dino) angel (unicorn) lady meowford (kitty) sookie yaki (different version to mini ben) rocky (cute rock) jeepers ( baby tiger) squidge (spookie) shely (turtle) prof. purplex (owl) doris ( rino) and lots more!

By Jenna

Term 2

This term we did some cool stuff like planting bulbs and buddies. My favourite part was planting bulbs because I got to plant the last bulb. It was fun because now we have a secret garden. We haven't gone in it for ages. From Nic.

My favourite part of term two

My favourite part of term two was when we did our risk taking week because one of my risks was I had to hang up side down for two minutes. I knew when my two minutes was up because I was wearing my watch but Courtney was timing me too.

We're Best Friends

Brooke & Jessica are best friends! We're planning to do heaps of activities. We're planning to go horse riding & to the movies. I might have a sleepover at her house or the other way! I gave her a friendship bracelet. I have one too, but we really want to build a tree house so we can talk all alone (without family especially our siblings!) One time I invited Brooke to McDonalds. It was magnificent! There was a playground which we played on. We ran away from my sister. It was fun!

By Jessica

Mr Bean's Big Day

One day Mr Bean was going for his Saturday walk, ''Right foot up then left foot up '' he said. Then

he walked past a gate. ''Woof woof!'' said a dog ''Woof woof!'' said Mr Bean With his hilarious grin,

but then ''OWWIE!!'' shouted funny Mr Bean as the dog jumped over the gate and bit him on the

bum.

Then with the dog still hanging on, he kept on walking legs high in the air, but then he stopped to

do peace to everyone who drove past. He was still doing peace when a man drove through on a cool motorbike. He saw the peace sign and the dog (still hanging on) and pulled the finger at dumb Mr Bean. But of course Mr Bean didn't know what it meant and thought it was a good thing. So in the end Mr Bean was walking around with his funny walk, cheeky grin, the dog still hanging on like a piraña, and he was pulling the finger at anyone he saw. The End.

By David

My best part of term 2

A while ago we read The Secret Garden. It was the illustrated version. Last week and this week we have started watching the movie . We finished it today. It was 1 of my favourite movies I had watched this year.

The soccer preformance

Today Olly came to do a performance for us. He looked like a seal sometimes. It was awesome to see him doing all those tricks. And he was on What Now :)

Mrs CHEESE

Once apon a time Mr cheese and Mrs cheese lived in a house. 100,000,000,000 years later Mrs cheese DIED. DOON DOON DON. "Oh no!" Mr Cheese said. "Who is responsible for this? I know. MR PIZZA. Hahaha, I will get revenge." One day later, Mr cheese brought a machine gun and KILLED Mr Pizza. Then Mr Cheese and Mrs Pizza married and there babies were pizzas with cheese on them.

THE END

By Rutger

Lear Jets

Lear Jets are like Biz Jets. There are couches and T.Vs. You can have dinner served if you're in the plane at 5-00. You get breakfast and lunch. There are Lear Jets, Rear Jets and Biz Jets. You can watch T.V, play P.S.2, P.S.3 and other stuff. There are computers and telephones so you can ring friends and other people. You can sit on couches with out seat belts and chairs. I have been told that they're the most comfortable you can fly except a Cessna 172, (they're the same as Lear Jets). Most people borrow them, some people buy them but it is more expensive. I think Lear Jets are one of the best planes but I have a few more favourites. Bye!

By Karl

The trip in Term 3

On Tuesday Miss Caygill told us there was a trip in Term 3. She said we are going to Clip and Climb in the morning and Science Alive in the afternoon. Everybody was so excited that they were bringing their permission slips in the day after the day they got it.

By Lily

TERM 3

Term 2 has been great! Lots of kids are looking forward to Term 3. The reason is we are starting with a "POP" "WIZ" "BANG" as we are learning about science and chemistry. The fun doesn't end there, every class will be going on a trip to Clip 'n' Climb in the morning and Science Alive in the afternoon. When our class first found out, we were so excited we were screaming! Our class will be going on Thursday in week 2. Everyone can't wait and I hope we have lots of fun.

By Ashleigh

Bulbs

A bulb is a type of plant that grows over winter and comes up at spring. A bulb is a plant in a

package with every thing it needs. It's wrapped up with its food. It eats part of itself to survive.

A bulb has a plant inside itself.

Bulbs need lots of sunlight and water. Bulbs need very loose soil. A bulb has its own food to survive. To plant a bulb it takes time and work. The tunic protects the bulb. Inside a bulb is its food called scale leaves. On the bottom of the bulb is the basal plate. When the bulb is in the ground the roots come out of the basal plate. The tunic is just like tissue. In the very middle of the bulb there's this seasons leaves and flowers. When the bulb is in the ground and it has sunlight and water the leaves of the bulb will start to push itself up to the light. It comes up from the top. It takes two to three months to plant a bulb. When you plant a bulb it has to be in the ground about 5 - 10 cm.

Bulbs are a cool and interesting plant to have in your garden.

By Shannon

TERM 3

Next term we get to learn about chemistry. We get to go to SCIENCE ALIVE and CLIP 'N' CLIMB. We get to go to CLIP' N' CLIMB because in Term 2 for a week we learnt about taking risks so that's why we get to go to CLIP 'N' CLIMB and SCIENCE ALIVE. We get to learn about science and more it will be so fun!!! YAY!!! I CAN'T WAIT!

By Courtney

My Dad and Me!

Me and my dad have a lot in common. We both like cars, trucks, music and that is why he is a D.J. So we have a lot in common and we like kind of the same things. When my dad comes home we are going to Hanmer. Mum looked up on the computer and saw the house we are staying in and it looks quite big. There are stairs and they are wooden, there is a huge lounge and some lazy boys in there too. Our family is so excited. My dad is coming home on the 3rd of July.

By Carli

A Sandcastle Kingdom

Once upon a time there was a princess called Lila. She lived in a stablised sandcastle with her mum and dad [the king and queen] in Japan. One day she went to the royal pet store and bought herself an Eygptian mewo and a golden retriever. She called the cat Puke and the dog Diddy. One day she took Diddy for a walk in the royal dog park, and when she got back Puke was GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FETCH ME A BASIN, I THINK I MIGHT BE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was time for bed. Lila was so sad she had just lost her 50th cat and they were all called Puke. She cried like a baby until midnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.Then in the morning she went down to the royal pet store and bought another Eygptian mewo, and guess what? She called it Puke and then they lived happy ever after.

The end.

P.S. That cat ran away too.

Wa!!!!!!!!!!!Wa!!!!!!!!

Olly's tricks

Hi everyone

On the 2nd of June before fitness we had a guy called Ollie come to school.Everyone in Matai and Rimu classes had to get in a big rectangle all around the basketball court because Ollie peformed some soccer tricks. They were awesome! One of the teachers said, "If anyone wants to learn some soccer tricks put your hand up." So If did but sadly it was time to go to sport. But it was a really fun day.

Zara xxx

P.S. You can see a video of Olly's tricks here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaGNkJqr56M

The best thing about Term 2

This was my favourite part about Term 2:

My favourite part was when at maths we got to go on delicious and play fun math games. My favourite game is Tony's tires and this game when there's a penguin and you've got to find a door. The aim of the penguin game is that you've got to get all of the doors so the penguin can get some money. The aim of the game for Tony's tires is you've got to solve some maths problems and after you go and race.

So that was my favourite part of Term 2.

By Samantha R

Netball Win!

This afternoon the Woodend Year 5/6 A and B Teams played against Kaiapoi North School at Gladstone Park. Both teams won their games and really enjoyed the competition. There was such a lot of good team spirit from both sides. Well done girls!

Miss C.

My Perfect Pony

The author is: Gaby Goldsock.

The illustrator is: Michelle White.

And the publisher is: Parragon

The main event is: The Gymkhana is coming up.

And the main characters are: Pepper and Lucy.

I liked this book because: I have had it from when I was just little.

And my grandma gave it to me.

Biggles in the Terai

Author: Captain W.E Johns.

Publisher: Knight books.c.

Main character: Biggles.

Secondary character: Bertie.

Setting: Shara.

Main events: This man talks to Biggles and he's a smuggler of gold and he wants to do something to Biggles; Alg's missing; Finding a jungle.

My idea about the book: Great for a people who like adventures.

By Karl

The Fantastic Disco

On friday 18th of June I went to the disco. There were lots of people there and lots of my friends there. There were lots of different songs eg. Bob the Builder - Can We Fix It + Justin Bieber. My favourite part was dancing and listening to the songs and drinking fizzy.

By Brad

Rowan of Rin

Author: Emily Rodda.

Illustrator: (cover) Matt Wilson

Publisher: Omnibus Books (part of the Scholastic group).

The authors message is... However weak you are you can always be a hero.

The main character said... You're a wimp never to be scared.

The four main events were... They try to get through a webbed door; They walk through a swamp;

They get to the highest point of the mountain and face the dragon.

Disco

Last week the school had an awesome disco. There was cool light up toys. Everyone wanted them. There were laser lights and everyone loved dancing infront of them.The thing I loved was the Justin Bebier song. I loved. It was the best disco ever!!!

By Lydia

Room 13 Libranans

A few weeks ago in my class (room 13) some people got to be libranans and they are Izobella , Jesse, Lily (thats' me), Zara, Brooke and Lucy. And what do librarians do exactly? They help people find books that are good for them. And shelve books. And last of all, they return and issue books. Miss Simpson gave the libraians a sheet of paper that has the times we are going on at lunch times and when we are on for a class and also who our partners are. Mine is Lucy. I like being a librarian but it's hard work but I still like it.

BY LILY BROWNLEE

How to plant bulbs.

About 6 weeks ago we planted some bulbs. We planted all types of bulbs. We planted them in a Secret Garden!! We got the idea from our serial story The Secret Garden!! So we decided to plants some cool bulbs. We planted some daffodils, freesias and anemones. We were going to plant some sweet peas, but it is too late now. The Secret Garden, our serial story, was about a girl who came from India who's parents died of the cholera and she was sent to live with her hunch back uncle in England. While she was there she made lots of new friends and finds a Secret Garden that use to belong to her auntie before she died 10 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to find out any more go read the book because I'm not giving it away.

The Awesome Disco

The disco was awesome. Many people went! Everyone enjoyed it. Rimu and Matai syndicates were there. Drinks, chocolate bars and lighting-up toys were for sale! Most songs were Rimu songs so....I didn't know them or dance to them. But I still liked it because I could buy lots of stuff! :). I bought a chocolate bar, a light-up penguin, a bag of salt and vinegar chips (not the ones that you get at fish and chips) and a drink of cola. It was a great DISCO!!!

By Isaac

Ben and Mark: Boys of the High Country.

Author: John Bougen.

Illustrator: Christine Fernyhough.

Publisher: Random House

The author's message is: That you can take a person from the high country but you can't take the high country from a person.

The main character said.... That the high country is the best place.

The two main events were... The tractor race and the mustering.

By Luke

Portraits in the Northen Outlook

On Wednesday 16th June, David and I had our photo taken for the Northern Outlook. Two people from room fourteen and two from room fifteen had their photo taken with us. It hasn't been in the paper yet. I can't wait for it to come out! The artist we learned about was Chuck Close. He did photo realism. He became paralised and used his paint brush by strapping it on to his wrist. He had a little bit of movement left in his arm and he then did abstract by doing blobs. His paintings were big. When you walked into an art gallery with one of his paintings in it, it would look real. But when you walked closer you could see that he used blobs in his paintings all the time.

By Tessa

Enchanted World: Bizzy and the bedtime bear.

Author:Enid Blyton

Publisher: 2heads

The main character is Bizzy

The secondary character is Talon the evil troll

The setting is Sleepover Land

The main events are that Bizzy has to retrieve the Bedtime bear from a sleepie named Selena and the teddy bear is her only friend.

My ideas about the book are that I really like Enid Blyton books.

By yours truly, Alyssa.

Woodend School

Hi my name is Nic. Let me write about this stuff that makes this school cool:

1. Woodend have road patrol on busy roads so kids and parents can cross safely.The road patrollers have big bright signs that drives can see clearly.

2. We have wonderful teachers and staff so we can have fun. There's also the P.T.A that fundraise money for the school so we can cool stuff like computers,books,sport equipment and toys for classes.

3.We have kids that make lots of friends so nobody's lonely.

If your'e looking for a school come to Woodend School and thank you for reading.

From Nic.

Kaiapoi Music Festival (Choir)

On Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd of June was the Kaiapoi Music Festival at Kaiapoi Bourough school. It was AWESOME! The Woodend instrumental group came to play some music as well. After the concert we got chocolate fish & lollies. On Monday Mr Barber (principal of Woodend School) came to do some speaking and on Tuesday the principal of Kaiapoi North School came to do some speaking too. We sang: Proud Mary, Taku Papawira, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Daisy Bell, This Train, Chatanooga Choo Choo, Row Row Row Your Boat, Yellow Submarine, Up Up and Away, Sailing, Little Deuce Coupe and the National Anthem.The other schools got to sing at least two songs of their own. Also the Kaiapoi North School instrumental group got to perform as well. It was a lot of memorizing, but it was the most funnest thing I've ever experienced in my life!!!!

By Jessica

Bulbs

A bulb is a plant wrapped up in a material tissue. A plant needs food but bulbs are all set for the winter. They always have something to eat.

When you want to plant bulbs you can get different types of flowers. There are daffodils, anemones, freesias and tulips. But you don't have to feed bulbs because they have carbohydrates and scale leaves.

When you get them from the shops they don't have any roots so when you put them in the ground water them and leave them for a bit. And then water them the next day and when they start growing the roots will shoot out from the basal plate so don't take them out of the ground. During winter, they grow and in spring you will see a big change. You will see some green coming out of the ground and it might start growing flowers!

Out the back of Room 13 we have planted some bulbs: daffodils, freesias and anemones. We can't wait until they grow!

By Carlee

Zac Power: Volcanic Panic

The author is H.I Larry

The illustrator is Andy Hook

The publisher is Hardie Grant Egmont

The author's message is: Even though you are a Secret Agent you still have to do your house chores. The main character said: "I've got to get out of this jet!"

The four main events are: Zac Power was at school. Then he was in a jet. After that he was in a volcano. Finally, he was in a robotic squid.

By Rutger

Summery Saturday Morning

Author: Margaret Mahy

Illustrator: Selina Young

Publisher: Puffin Books

Main character: The dogs

Secondary character: All the people

Main events: The two dogs are chasing every thing at the beach.

My ideas about the book:I really liked this book because it was one of my favourite books when I was little.

By Shannon

Mr and Mrs Pizza

Once upon a time Mr Pizza and Mrs Pizza lived together in Pizza huts oven and one day Mrs Pizza got killed and one day we figured out that Mr Cheese killed her and one day later Mr Pizza got a chainsaw and killed Mr Cheese. Mr Pizza married Mrs Cheese and they had a baby. The baby was a Pizza with cheese on top.

THE END

By Jonah

Coolest Ponies

Once upon a horse there lived a cool, black, awesome pony. He loved to do hip hop and one day he decided to join horse hip hop lessons. So off he went off to sign in. Then when the lady said, "right this way sir" he saw the coolest outfit he had ever seen in his life. BUT THEN the shop keeper came out and took it of the mannequin and put it in a sold bag. So the cool black pony ran after the nice bay pony and said ''Stop! Please sir, I really want that outfit so can I please have it," said the black horse. ''N.O. spells no so go away,'' said the bay horse. "I will trade you a free hip hop lesson for that outfit,'' said the black horse. ''NO spells NO, I want this outfit so much so NO,'' said the bay horse. ''I'll trade you my X box 3 60,'' said the black horse. "You've got an x box 360? Sorry, I've got an x box 3 60, so no,'' said the bay horse. ''I'll give you $100000 for the outfit,'' said the black horse." "You've got a deal!'' So the black horse went back into the studio and did the hip hop and wore the outfit everywhere. And he lived happily ever after.

The end.

By Sammi

Woodend school's new student librarians!

On Tuesday in week 3 the new librarians got trained in the "Information Centre" which we call the library.

In the library there are thousands of good books in the library!

There are chapter books, picture books, large books, non-fiction books and also early chapter books!

You get to borrow library books for 2 weeks only!!

Unless you want to return books earlier you can!

The open days of the library are: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

By Brooke

Librarians

A few weeks ago a few people in my class, Room 13 got to be librarians. Those people are me, Courtney, Izobella, Jesse, Lucy, Lily, Zara and Brooke. We got partners and assigned a class. Me and Izobella got assigned Room 4. We got a schedule from Mrs Simpson for lunch times and what time our class goes to the library and what day. We do lunch times every fortnight on Tuesday. We all get to do it next year too!!! Yay! We get to do our jobs in Term 3. We all have two or one senior to help us for the first two or three times. We will all enjoy being librarians for term 3 and 4 and next year.

By Courtney

A Special Friend

Hi I'm a librarian and my name is Izobella and I'm in Room 13. I'm going to talk to you about my librarian duty. OK then, here we go. Now my librarian partner is Miss Courtney Day. And she's WONDERFUL, just wonderful I tell you. She's 9 years old and Year 5 . She has a brother, NO sisters. A mother, a father and a cat called Stinie. I normally go to her house after school and the day I go to her house is on Thursday. And our class that we do library duty for is room 4, the teacher in room 4 I know her because, I used to be in room 2 and she taught me. I was a year 2 I think. When I first found out I was a librarian I was so so so so glad and proud and also, now I have got 2 badges.One green and one red. If I get an orange one it'll be traffic lights! So I'm now a librarian and I don't think i'll get an orange badge.

Thank you,

Izobella.

The Soccer World Cup

In the last few weeks we have bean filling in the soccer world cup poster. NZ did very well but we have now dropped out. But I reckon that Portugal will win with their high score of 7 against North Korea.

By Samantha

CANTERBURY ZONES

On Wednesday last week, me, Sammi and Johanna got through to the Canterbury ZONES!!!!! It was awesome. There was a round about one hundred and twenty people racing! OMG!!!! I came 18th, Johanna came 50th and Sammi came 84th. We all did very well! It was soo muddy we went to walk the course and when we got back my shoes were so gooey EWWW! my running was 2.2 km.

It took nine 9 minutes, twenty nine 29 WOW!!!!!!!!! I did not get through but my dad said he would sign me up for the Hanmer Springs! KOOL!!!! Can't wait!!!!!!!

Librarians

Hi everybody

It's so fun being a librarian because you get to shelve books, tidy things up and get to use the computer. I like to issue and return books for people. One day all of you should try and be a librarian because it's so amazing. Do you like books? Well if you do I love them. I always read at night from 7:oo to 8:00pm. Because I love to read!

So it's amazing to be a librarian.

Zara xxx

Mouse Island Marathon

Author: Geronimo Stilton

Illustrator: Larry Keys

Publisher: scholastic

Main character: Geronimo Stilton

Secondary character: Thea Stilton

Setting: New Mouse City

Main events: Going on a run; Geronimo gets trained

My ideas about the book:

It is a very interesting book; It's cool; It's funny

By Courtney

The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth

Author: Eoin Colfer

Illustrator: Tony Ross

Publisher: Penguin Books

Four words to describe this book are: funny, cool dancey, awesome.

Two new words I learnt from reading this book are: demented and flabbergasted

My favourite part of the story is when HP starts talking baby talk so he will get more attention. This book is special because the boy is nine.

By Samantha

Midnight for Charlie Bone

The Author is Jenny Nimmo.

The Illustrator is David Nyatt.

The publisher is Egmont Press.

The main character is Charlie Bone and the secondary character is Uncle Paton. The setting is at Bloor's Academy and Charlie's house. The main events are going to Bloor's Academy and getting Dr Tolly's case from Miss Ingledew.

I thought the book was really cool because some of the children are endowed, which mean's they have special powers and Charlie is one of the endowed children. Charlie's endowment is he can hear voices from paintings and photos.

by JESSE

Meeting the Tactix

Today four people in our classroom got to meet two very special people. There names were Maree Bowden & Ellen Halpenny, two netball players from the Tactix. Maree Bowden also plays in the Silverferns. Ellen Halpenny is also a player in the under 21s for Canterbury. The people who got to meet them were Jenna, Sammi.O , Emily and Izobella. We were very lucky to see them. The peoples names in the Tactix are Maree Bowden, Anna Galvan, Anna Tompson ,Hayley Crofts, Phillipa Finch, Ellen Halpenny, Charlotte Kight, Chelsea Pitman, Hannah Poff, Ashleigh Smith, Victoria Smith & Peta Stephens. Thank you Maree bowden & Ellen Halpenny

By Izobella and M&M

Meeting the Tactix

Ellen Halpenny

Maree Bowden

On Wednesday we went to room 17 and we talked about the Tactix daily routines like running in the morning and liffting weights and practicing there netball skills. We met Maree Bowden and Ellen Halpenny! Some other players are Anna Galvan, Anna Thompson, Hayley Crofts, Phillipa Finch, Charlotte Kight, Chelsea Pitman, Hannah Poff, Ashlieigh Smith, Victoria Smith and Peta Stevens. We had FUN meeting 2 of the Tactix.

by Jenna and Sammi

Zac Power: Mega Mission 1 - Base Camp

Author: H.L. Larry

Illustrator: Andy Hook

The main character said...

"Zac power isn't here."

The four main events were:

1. Going to a hidden base camp.

2. Attacking a B.I.G. agent.

3.Getting in the B.I.G. jet.

4. Finding out that he has an evil twin.

From Nicholas

Nancy Drew: The Whispering Statue

Author: Carolyn Keene

Publisher: Armada

The authors message is... do not go in to a haunted house.

The main character said...Am I late?

the 4 main events were...

They travelled to greece; One of the friends gets kidnapped

A man steels money; The house starts to fall into water.

By Jessica