Thursday, November 17, 2011

Honey rice bubble squares


Ingredients
.Butter 125g
.honey 1 tablespoon
.sugar 125g
.rice bubbles 5 cups
.vanilla essence

Put the butter, honey and sugar into a pot and gently boil for 4-5 minutes. Then add the rice bubbles and vanilla essence and press into a flat tin to set. Sprinkle with 1,00's and 1,000's or sprinkles if desired.



By samuel

Monday, November 14, 2011

France

Term three we started to learn about France. What we learnt was at France school starts at 8.30 and finshed at 3.00 and they have school on Saturdays.In France the eat bread,chease,frog legs and snails.
from John

Earthquake

I can see just a little bit of light the size of a cheese. Rock crushing rocks and metal. My nerves are shutting down.
I can't feel any part of my leg and arm.The pain in them feels like a lion or shark is ripping off my legs and a croc is eating my arm.
I see less light when the rocks cover up the hole I see through.
Rocks are crushing my back like a stampede of rhinos. Then the rocks get lighter and lighter. They had to cut off my legs and arms. It felt like a chainsaw was cutting it off. I had a million pains in my leg and arms.
I had to have some medicine to make them go away. Aftershocks are making more destruction. I can see out of my window aftershocks about 4.7 making rocks crush the cars.
Outside I can hear the sound of a tank firing a missile to the city.
Now I'm in a wheelchair.
I can still feel my arms and legs for now when they cut it off.
I won't feel any more pain in my arm and leg.
Now the aftershocks have stopped.
I have a metal leg and arm.
But I still feel the pain.

by Josh

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Softball

On Friday Porritt played for Hops Shield. There was a girls team and a boys team. The boys and girls actually faced the same teams so if we faced Onekawa the boys will be facing Onekawa and they were a good team. Then we faced Saint Pats girls. The girls won against them. They were pretty good and the boys lost against them. They must have a good boys!
Then we faced the best team of all which was Henry Hill. They won all of their games. Not only won all of their games, they even won the shield. They are so good that even they won against Onekawa, and Onekawa was so good but not better than Henry Hill.
TERANGI

Monday, November 7, 2011

Possums by Mora

There's a war of words going around about possums. Many New Zealanders want them to stay but others want them to go. They may be cute but they kill our native bush. Personally I believe they should leave our country.

Possums are killing and eating our native birds. They are climbng up our native trees and killing the birds inside. They are also killing our native plants. Plus they are scratching our native trees.

Possums skin is really handy for hunters. When hunters catch a possum they can sell their skin and get money for it. With the money they get they can use it to buy food for their family too. We can kill possums to keep ourselves warm in winter-times with their fur.

We don't really need possums. They just kill our native plants and they eat lots of birds and that can make them extinct.

by Mora

My Dance Recital

I'm in a dance group called Heather Brunsdon School Of Dance. We have a Recital coming up. I have some pamphlets to give out. It's on the 19th of November and there's 2 shows. Ones at 2.00pm and the other one is at 6.oopm that night. The tickets cost $17.00 for the adults and the children cost $12.00. My dance teacher said it's a really good show that you don't want to miss. It's at the Municipal theatre in town down Tennyson Street. I hope some people can make it

By Zoe.

King of the cloud forests


This is what our teacher has been reading to us. I am telling some of the story here.
Ashley's father came to China and became a priest trying to tell China to believe in God. Then the war started and Ashley's friend Lin went to try and bust down the planes. After the bombing from the planes Ashley's Father thought it was too deadly and Ashley would die. So Ashley's Uncle Sung took him to the Himalayas then Uncle Sung got lost. Then yeti's found Ashley and made him their king.

If you want to find out more go to the Libary and get the book.

By Sukhjinder and Jeremy

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Flight

Our topic is about flight and we thought of questions like how do planes fly? Who made the first plane? Also what planes are famous?
We found out that flight has to be balanced between thrust, drag, lift and weight. We have also made autogyros but some we made were floppy fast or very slow.
Dusan

"Esio trot" by Roald Dahl.


Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver,and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie.One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves,can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?
by Roald Dahl

Shontae

THE BFG


The BFG is one of the many books in our School Library.
We have a lot of Roald Dahl books. The BFG is my
favourite Roald Dahl book.It is funny and cool.I like
some of the funny names like snozcumbers and I did not
want to put it down.

By Maddi

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Possums are Pests!

There's a war of words about possums. Many New Zealanders believe possums are harmless, but others don't. I personally think possums possums should be eradicated as they harm our environment. But it's not only me who thinks this. There's the department of conservation (DOC) and other environmental agencies.
Possums harm our environment by eating lots from the forest floors. When they eat lots from the forest floors, they don't only harm the forest floors, but also affect the birds in a way called starvation as birds also eat some from the forest floors.
Possums alo harm our native birds in another way by eating their eggs. When possums do this this the native birds could become extinct. They also harm the native birds by destroying their habitat, which causes birds to move to another place which might not be a convenient place.
Possums are breeding a little too much, and they're breeding by eating our native plants which belong to the native birds, or breeding by eating the birds' eggs. It's like the more possums the less native species.
There's no actual need for possums to stay in New Zealand, but they're still here. So either we do somthing about possums or we lose our native species. I don't want them, but what about you?

By Zeel S

Athletics

Yesterday we did practising for athletics. I said to the teacher I'm turning ten soon and Mr Hemi said that I'm lucky to be in the nine year old group because they aren't as fast as the ten year old group so I'm very lucky that I'm not ten yet. The nine year old group did a run. On the first run I came 3rd or 4th and on the 2nd run I came 2nd. I made it in to athletics. YaY!!!!. I'm so excited to go to athletics but I just don't want it to be as hot as last time.
Jorja

Music

With our new interactive board and our new speakers we have been listening to music like Flight of the Bumblebee, Vocapeople and much more music every day from YouTube.

My favourite clip is Vocapeople. Why? Well this clip has no special effects or instruments. It is all made with people's voices, and there are some great snippets of music on it. You should look it up on Youtube.

Jeremy.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Possums are pests!

There is a great big fight about keeping possums and not keeping possums. The people who are involved are all the environment agencies. But I think we should get rid of possums instantly.


Possums are eating all the native birds' eggs. Possums are pests because they eat all the native birds eggs from the native bird so they can't breed and hatch into more native birds.

Possums eat trees.Possums are a really big hazard for the native bush. They can eat a bit off a tree and it might fall down and destroy a native birds nest.

Possums are eating all the native animals' food. For example berries, leaves and all that other food and that's how birds starve to death. Native birds don't have enough food to eat every single day.

As I said possums should be wiped out instantly if we want our native animals to survive.

By Sukhjinder

PORRITT BEAR


Woo hoo - we got Porritt Bear last week in room 13. It is awesome having him in the class room and everyone loves playing with him. Ka Pai room 13!
by Jericho.