The rock

The small mouth is wide open. In the small beady eye is a shell. At the top of the head it has one hole and a bump. At the back it has two holes. When you put your finger at its head it looks like a long-necked dinosaur.
by John.

Rep trials

Push bump smash!My heart starts pumping when I run as fast as a cheetah.Its off to the backs.The backs dart through the weak defence. TRY! We score!There goes the final whistle that makes me relax.
Sitting there wondering if I'm going to get picked for the awesome team to represent Napier, I hear the names being called. My nerves grow bigger and bigger.
"Chase Solomon," he calls.
My heart just starts to glow in amazement,then fills with joy. I then shake my coaches hand and thank him.

By Chase Solomon

WIND

It glides through the city
tackling everything that gets in its way.
Fighting trees managing to survive.
It whistles on top of the roofs.
When it glides through the air
its like a leopard pouncing on its prey.

by John O.

WIND

Wind creeps through my hair.
His temperature grows cold every brilliant minute.
He's a monster to the children.
He's a thief for the business people.
He's a threat too for the nature.
So beware,you'll never know when the wind might turn his cold eyes on you.

By Zeel.S

Camp Kaitawa: We're back!

The Year 6s are back to school from a fabulous week at the epic Camp Kaitawa (still exhausted). Camp was so cool because of the beautiful views from Lou's Lookout and our tiring walk up Nga Moko.(Eight hours it took!!}We also saw a great sight of two water-falls cascading into a clear stream. The water sent chills rushing down our spines.
Luckily we had parents to help us. They were very kind to us and fun too, but our bus driver Cedric played tricks on us! He camouflaged himself into the bush and jumped in the front of some of us when we were walking down the Lou's Lookout track. He kept surprising us with his camera when we weren't expecting it! But other than that he was really fun, and an amazing wizard in the kitchen too.
In the dark spooky caves that we visited on Thursday we saw giant wetas about the size of your hand!(Did you know they are the heaviest insects?) On Friday was the worst day coming back, because we didn't want to come back, but we stopped in Wairoa to have fish and chips for lunch, which was delicious. When we saw our parents and families we were happy and glad to be back.
By Chase and Zeel

Inquiry week 5

On a fabulous day rooms 13 and 15 went to the awesome Boundary stream.Our guides, Pete and Mark, were from DOC, which is short for department of conservation. They showed us the traps that they set to catch worth-less pests. They are all designed to kill.
So then we set off on a bush walk to hear native birds. About five minutes into the walk we saw and heard a Kereru- a wood pigeon! He looked beautiful. Then we came to the pepperwood plant which is as spicy as chili and onions.
"WOW"I whispered to myself,"This tree is as big as any thing I've ever seen! It was over 800 years old and still going!!!
"Look what I found"someone annouced.A dead stoat.Everyone crowded it then we had to move on.Then we came across a weta house with the cave weta in it and did you know that they are native to our amazing country.
Chase

TERM 2 INQUIRY: Pest or Pests

Room 13 has been learning about pests and pets. We watched a DVD called Invaders in Paradise. New Zealand was a lovely land full of birds. The birds had no predators. There were no mammals except bats.
When the "invaders" came the forest became quiet. The first "invader" in paradise was the kiore, which was the Polynesian rat. When the European people came they brought another "invader" which was the black ship rat. We learned about what these rat pests did to native birds, and that was why the forest became quiet.
The human invaders burnt down the trees and about one third of the trees were burnt. The invaders ate the moa, the bird that was nearly the same hight as two people.
By Junelle and TeRangi