Another Construction Challenge

Yesterday we did Construction Thinker’s Key. Mrs Bryant gave us another challenge. Our challenge was to make a mouse mask. It was as much fun as a mouse eating cheese. We had to have big ears, whiskers, a roundish pointy nose, buck-teeth and eye holes to see out of. Jono was my buddy. I didn’t get it finished because it was a bit too hard. I was still on my draft when it was time to stop.
Logan R
I had to finish the mouse mask in one day. Ceanna was helping me. I was helping Ceanna make her mask.
Jonty

Richmond Street Parade

 

Boom! Boom! Boom! We could hear motorbikes driving past. Clickety clack, clickety clack, we could hear feet walking past. Oh no, it struck us. We were RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARADE!!! Suddenly I heard my feet walking for some reason and then boom. I felt a flag in my hand and then I started yelling “USA, all the way”. Then it actually struck us. I was really really in a parade. I felt a smile on my face. Yay, I was in a parade. We walked down Queen St, Richmond, New Zealand and then into Sundial Square. After that my class finished and we all went back to school.

Ruby

On Monday we did a parade and we saw a brass tuba and a leader in the front of the band. We saw two army trucks and lots of motorbikes. We saw lots of USA flags and we chanted “USA, all the way”. We had fun in the Queen St parade.

Lily 

 

Yay, yay, hooray. That’s the sound that I heard on Monday. Here I was at Sundial Sq in my blue shirt just about to go on Queen St for the parade. When we got there lots of people were on the side of the road cheering.  We shouted out “USA all the way”. Once we got to the end there was a band playing. We got our pictures taken with our flags in the air.

John

The Queen St audience cheered for us at the Support USA Parade. At school my class made colourful red, blue and white USA flags. While the parade was happening my class said “USA, all the way”. There were other schools too. There were vehicles behind the schools. Logan R had his face painted. My whole school walked down the middle of Queen St. When the parade was finished there was a brass band.

Zach

Kea Assembly

 

Last Friday Kea class presented assembly. Dylan did all the electronic things. First Tim introduced the assembly. I read for Ceanna because she was a little bit late. The Orcas shared some Reading work with the school. After that the Panthers shared their posters. Kea sang a song called Where Did You Get That Hat. For that we made hats out of recycled things.

Ruby stood up and announced “Now we are going to sing Two Legged Mice”. After that Mr Dorman said some words. Everybody listened as carefully as a robber. I loved it. Well I reckon everyone liked it.

Margeaux

Last Friday Kea class had the best assembly ever. People had to be on time because if they weren’t on time they would miss out. We did cool songs but some of us were scared and stood like sausages. Dylan helped by playing the music for Where Did You Get That Hat. All of us made hats out of recycled materials like boxes, paper and cardboard. Orcas and Panthers talked about what they had been learning. Panthers were talking about an earthquake and showing posters.

I think Kea class assembly was the coolest, best, most wonderful fun assembly ever in the whole school.

Logan S

Kea class had an assembly and the whole class had hats. My hat had chocolate wrappers on the top. I had string to keep the hat on my head.

Blake

Most Valuable Player

On Saturday I won a trophy at prize giving at our Waimea Old Boy’s Rugby Club. I felt proud of myself. My trophy looks like me playing rugby. It says Waimea White Under 8 MVP Finlay Waters. I get to keep this trophy for my life. I got this trophy because I was working hard in rugby.

After prize giving we went to Blake’s house. Marshall and I gave a gift to my Dad and Blake’s Dad. They got a pocket knife and some fudge. Our whole rugby team went to Blake’s house to celebrate the end of our rugby.

Finlay

Construction Thinker's Key

Yesterday the 21st of September guess what our class did for Construction Thinker’s Key … We were challenged to make lunchboxes in pairs with only one A3 piece of card and 1 metre of sellotape that would fit an apple and a sandwich in it. First we found out who our buddies were then drew the design on our jotter pads. My buddy was Finn. Next we made a draft lunchbox and tried to fit the apple and sandwich in it. After that we showed Mrs Bryant our draft and worked out if we could get it out of the A3 card. If it met the challenge we took a piece of card to get started on our good copy. Then we drew our shape on the card we cut it out and taped it together. Once our lunchboxes had been constructed we decorated them with things like pictures, scraps of paper and even stickers if we owned some. When we had finished decorating our lunchboxes they looked as beautiful as princesses so Mrs Bryant took some photos of the finished good copies with the draft together with the apple and sandwich inside the good box to put the photos on the class blog and here they are!
    -Megan

Our Rubbish Free School

We are trying to have rubbish free lunches. Last Friday we had 15 rubbish free lunches. Now we have 20 rubbish free lunches. Before we were trying to have rubbish free lunches the school looked bad but now it looks better. We are aiming to get all of the school to have rubbish free lunches. Lots of us have no glad wrap. We use plastic containers.
  

We are doing this because Mr Dorman told us that animals like giant whales and little fish are dying. Our country will look really crowded with rubbish if we don’t stop using glad wrap and dropping fizzy bottles all over the land. 

Jono

Muffin made locally

Yummy food

Lunch is good

Using containers

No Nana, no rubbish

Containers instead of gladwrap

Homemade cake

Bees love lunch

Old rubbish doesn’t disappear quickly

eXcited Kea class, no rubbish

Sapphire

Our Book Fair

This week at Saint Paul’s School we have a Book Fair in the Junior Roost. It is on for a week. We can see it with our class or in the morning or the afternoon. There are lots of good books in the fair and there are some toys like a wand with a hand rubber on it. Today I might buy a book from it. My favourite books there are Diary of the Wimpy Kid and Stars of the All Blacks. We have a class Wish List there. Did you know anyone like our Mum, Dad, grandmas, granddads, aunties, brothers and sisters can come. It is sad because on Friday this week it ends.
     -Finn

The Book Fair has galaxies of books like an elephant having lunch. It’s got every book that you like. For example Club Penguin, Toy Story, Beast Quest and more. We’ve got Wish Lists of books we want. If you come you can be blasted to bits like a rocket launcher blowing up a car. The Book Fair is awesome. Once you buy a book you get a free bookmark. If you buy one for the library you will be helpful and also you will get a bookmark. You might even buy two or three or four. If you buy books we can get more books. Simple. There’s a lot more so come to the Book Fair and get new and awesome books. It’s in the Junior Roost.
    -Matthew

Thinker's Key

Every Wednesday Kea class does Thinker’s Key. The one we are doing is the Disadvantages Thinker’s Key. What we do is Mrs Bryant chooses a subject then we think of some problems and solutions to the problems. I try hard at getting lots of problems and solutions. I always participate.
We all try to participate in the Thinker’s Key. It helps me a lot in reading, writing and maths. The last subject we did was about a factory close to your home. We thought up 18 problems and got lots of solutions. Mrs Bryant said “It unlocks your thinking and makes you think faster”. I think she’s right about it all.
It is very interesting. I always look forward to Wednesdays.
Imogen