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.