Netball Games.

Kia ora  readers well first of all I'm going to talk about Waikawa Bay school netball games. We are actually doing pretty good especially for four five and six graders. Anyway back to the point.  Our first game was against Blenhiem Mayfield and it was sad because we lost our first game. Our coach was really disappointed, because we had also been doing really well at the practices.

This term has actually been really great. We have already  won three games in a row, our last game was against Springlands. We won that game five -two, it was so much fun because I kept stepping  and the Umpire only noticed once, that was so funny. The other Team was also doing amazingly  well.  Waikawa Bay had already won two games before that. WOW what a lot of fantastically well played games.  A few people on my team had injuries at first but they have recovered .

Cross Country Trainning

It's the beginning of school term and horror of all horrors, Cross Country in three weeks! Training started immediately, with a class fitness circuit and lots of kids found out what it meant to have sore muscles! Then in the afternoon we had to jog round the school.  We all were soooo tired by the time the bell rang that I think most of us probably fell into bed that night.                     Two years ago I used to cry my whole way around the cross country, but I have grown up and last year I set goals, I kept a smile on my face the whole way round the course and came in first equal Year 5 girl.  

Karaka Point History

A long time a  go  maori lived at Karaka  Point.  They lived in whare which were made  of harekeke, tree  branches and tree trunks.  Then when an enemy tribe attacked the Karaka Point tribe will know because they will have look outs.  Once the tribe lands on the beach the tribe on the hill throw rocks at the enemy tribe.  The injuries would have been really bad maybe even  broken  bones. 

Room 2 has been learning about the history of Waikawa Bay.   Waikawa Bay is in Picton, New Zealand and was home to Maori tribes such as the Ngatimamoe who once owned Karaka Point.

Ngatimamoe built forts and threw rocks off the cliff to defend the pa from raiding tribes. 

Karaka point was used to protect the Ngatimamoe in war time.  In 1850 the New Zealand government bought Waitohi from Ropoama, so he moved his people to Waikawa, typhoid killed most of his people.  In 1920 Waikawa Pa School was burnt to the ground by an arsinist.   During World War 2 in Waikawa Bay was well protected from the enemy by Navy, Army and Air Force because Queen Charlotte Sound had an air craft hanger and two war ships.  Today Waikawa has changed a lot.      

Kiwi

The Kiwi is a New Zealand icon aand it is a endangered species. There are eleven types of kiwi... 

there is the Little Spotted Kiwi, Brown Kiwi, Rowi, Great Spotted Kiwi, Haast Tokoeka and Southern Tokoeka.

The biggest Kiwi is the Great Spotted Kiwi at 45 cm long, the size of a Turkey and the smallest Kiwi is the Little Spotted Kiwi at 25 cm long the size of a Bantam.

There are only 78,000 Kiwis left in New Zealand. They are found in North land, Coromandel, South land,west coast and Stewart Island and they live in forest and on mainland islands.

There body features are claws, bill ,feathers, whiskers and long strong powerful legs. The Kiwi can't fly so they run from predators.  There predators are stoats, ferrets, cats and humans driving cars.

How Well Does A Kiwi Smell?

We read a book today called "How well does a kiwi smell?", it really interesting did you know that the kiwi  can smell really well according to Bernice Wenzel, a scientist who did some kiwi experiments.  The kiwi has one of the best noses in the world.  Bernice Wenzel has proven that the kiwi can smell  worms really well in the dirt.  It can smell the food without tasting it.  First they put food in the small little ice-cream cone shape, then they put soil in the little cones there are three aluminium  cones and the soil fills up to about two centimeters before the top. Then they put food, like worms and huhu grubs,  they put mesh over the three tubes to stop the kiwi tasting the soil.  It was really interesting it was the most interesting book ever.  Check it out in the New Zealand School Journal Number 1 1989 part 3 I recommend this book from Nico Van Beek.

Ashers Time At Waikawa

My time at Waikawa Bay School was awesome! I came in 2008 and joined Mrs Eastons class and we learned about Margaret Mahy, an author. One year later I was in Mrs Parsons class. It has been the best class in the world! We were learning about World War One and Two, it was really cool. We all learned the poem called In Flanders Fields. Sadly tomorrow I am leaving to go back to England. I really really like this school and could never ask for a better one.

 

Room 2 Blog

Room 2 is having a lesson on blogging and making sure that the work that they post makes sense, is spelt right, has interesting words to capture their audience and has compound and complex sentences.

ANZAC Day

25th April 1915 SPLASH ! SPLASH ! Troops trudging through the water...

 "Holy heck barbed wire! They knew we were coming."

It started then and there. In a couple of seconds all you could hear was gun fire. We  didn't know how many men died that day but it was around five - six hundred New Zealand men.    26th April 1915 by now we had Dug Trenches, but under all the gun fire it was very hard to get to sleep, we got used to it eventually, but we were all afraid of dying and not living to the end of the day. Days of terrible fighting  went past, hundreds of New Zealand soilders died and many deaths and injurys had a occurred.  Finally we started evacuating and then we were on ships back to New Zealand.

We commemorate ANZAC Day  for all the suffering and deaths.

Dear Parents,

Please note that Room 1 and Room 2 have exchanged Blogs.  As from Term 2 the year 5/6 class will now be posting our blogs on this blog site and Room 1, year 3/4 will be posting from the Room 1 blog site. 

Looking forward to an exciting Term 2.

Many Thanks

Angie P

Art

We have been learning about our self portraits on our body . First you have to know the biast faits about you . Like the head , nose , mouth and  hair . Very light you do a cross thing  to help you  know where to do your eyes. 

MATHS

At school we do maths at our desk and copy the tables off the black board.

We do times tables, addision, subtraction and multiplication.

I like to do the quick exciting maths up to number 20.

We have 5 minuits to finish our quick maths.

 We have a maths sheet that we write the awsers on it that we think what they are.

maths

 At school we do  quick  maths. We  do  times tables and  counting  on.  We have to copy off  the      board. We  do it up to 20. It is sometimes  hard. I  most  of  the time  get up  to 13, that's okay      for a  year four.  Most of the year 3  get up  to  20 now. I feel ashamed, maths is my best       subject in the class. Well I love reading  more than  maths. Well I  can't make up my mind     really.We mark it in red pen after we have all finished. Hannah my friend gets up to 12, one     more down from me. Hannah likes that too.   

Weekend Highlight

When I  woke  up  my  mum  said  we  are  going  cycling . She said we are going with a friend.I said what friend ? She said Jarman.I said yes.We went on a bike alonga dirt track.We went to a shop and bought a ice-cream.I got a lemonade and rasbery flavour ice-cream. Then we biked back home and played fora long time, then they went home.I had a great time.      

Connor      

   

                                                                                       

The Boring day

It was a boring day on Sunday . Gloria[my sister]Caspian[my brother]and I,played with the lego.We played in the living room,we didn't play with the lego-men instead we played with the crazy-bone's.I bought 3 new crazy-bones that we played with.We made lot's of cars and spaceships for them. Gloria and I didn't get out of our bed clothes the whole day! Caspian got out of his at midday . Dad said ''we should go to Whites bay ''we said''NO!''.So we carried on playing our game. Dad interfered again and said we should go on a walk NO! we said so we carried on playing our game. A little while later we went outside with the crazy-bones,we made it that the crazy-bones had gone to mars! My crazy-bone went to pick marzybams from the marzybam tree!Now I'm going to tell you what crazy-bones are . Crazy-bones are little figures made from plastic, they are not hollow . They have funny faces on them they come in all shapes. They are all different colours.

By Isis       ( Can you tell we are learning about making our writing interesting?)

The Bush Fire

I saw the bush fire in Waikawa Bay. It was scary when it went it into the air . I saw the helicopter put out the fire . Yay they put out the  fire.  

The dead bird

One  day  room 1's  teacher brought them  back  a  bird.  It  had  green  wings, a  grey  head .             It  looked  very  beautful  and   very  shiny.  I   like  it.                                                                                      

Mistery bird

Today Mrs Easton brag a white container with a small bird inside  it.She took it out a very strange bird i steered at it for a while then thought i was shore that i had seen it before then i clicked but in a very sad way cause my dog was outside in my back yard and she killed it and took it to my mums room and put it in my mums shoes then my mum went to put on her shoes and i herd a very very very very very very very very very loud scream i ran as fast as i coud then i got there then i got the bird and dag a hole then beryd it and went off  so that's when i saw it the mistery bird.                                

swimming and about school

Room 1 is learning how to swim. It's fun, really fun. Sometimes we get to have free play in the pool, that's only on fridays - cool aye.? But not really on every day.  At least we get to go swimming. After swimming we go back to class and sometimes we finish our art or something else but art is awesome.