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

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

Sporty Day!

Last Wednesday was a busy, sporty day at Woodend.

In the morning, all the students participated in the Cross Country. I was so impressed with how everyone joined in and gave it their best, whether they were running as part of a relay team or in the individual races.

Special congratulations to the following Room 13 students who did outstandingly in their age groups: Jenna (1st), Sammi (3rd) and Karl (1st) and Nic (3rd). They are all off to run at Kaiapoi tomorrow and Jenna will be competing in the Zones also. Awesome!

Later, in the afteroon, we all went to watch the senior soccer team play against Kaiapoi. A special TV crew were there to film it and we got to practise our awesome cheerleading skills!

Matilda

Author : Roald Dahl.

Illustrator : Quentin Blake.

Publisher : The penguin group.

The main character is Matilda.

The secondary character is Miss Honey.

The setting is Matilda`s school and house.

The main event is knocking down the trunchbull.

It was a very good book.

By Carlee

Crazy Hair Day!

We had a crazy hair day at school to raise money for child cancer research. Everyone got really into it and we had so much fun showing off our bizarre hairstyles. Here are just a few...