WHAT’S THE STORY?

I slowly climbed up the stairs to the attic.  I walked to the box and opened it.  There it was, tears hit my eyes and rolled down my cheeks.  My Great Nan’s treasure chest.

The purple and blue polka dotted chest stood faded, chipped and broken.  One drawer was missing.  It was still beautiful.

I suddenly remembered her giving it to me just before she died.  I looked in one of the drawers and saw Great Nan’s ring that Great Poppa had given her just before he went to war.  Great Nan and Poppa died that same year.

Grace O’Sullivan

My holiday

I didn’t really like my holiday, because of the first week from boring Monday morning to Thursday night.  I was at my mother’s parent’s house. On the Thursday night Nicola, Petra and I went to wAIhi together in the boring, old car.

We had to go to my father’s parents house from Tuesday morning to Saturday morning, and it was boring!

Good rhyme right?

On the Saturday night I had a sleep-over with Cassie CarRuthers.

By Violet 

Term 4!  We are back!                 Post by Matthew 

For our goals we made parachutes.

First we took pictures of us hanging off the monkey bars.

Then we coloured in parachutes and laminated them. 

Next we made the strings to attach the people to the parachutes.  For this, we needed some teamwork!

Term 3 highlights - By Holly

This term, Room17 have been doing creative, fun and learning things. We have enjoyed it all. Lets see some.


Not long ago we went on a trip to roller skating and  we bowling. First we went to roller skating, then tenpin bowling. BEST TRIP EVER!!!


A time before that some of beachlands school went to the kids for kids show. We performed at vodafone events centre,   with Jackie Clack and Nathen King.


We had a party on a Friday beacuse we had three birthdays in one week!  We watched a movie called G - Force.  We also had a shared lunch, we brought food or drink.

We had an assembly with heaps of cool stuff, even wii dance at the end.  We wore a tie and mufti.

Another day we had speech finals.  Our representatives were Danielle and Holly.  Danielle had hers on her sister.  I had mine on Frozen.  Danielle came first place.

Now you know whats been going on in Room 17.  If you want more, come to Room 17 in the morning and look around.

Last Friday we celebrated August birthdays with a shared lunch and
Onsie party.  Look at the food we shared.

Describing a moment in time - By Brooke

My heart was thumping as I jumped onto the flying fox.
BANG!  
I want to do it again!
I run and jump, I hear the wind whistling through my hair.  When I land, my feet hurt but I have a big smile on my face. 

Today, in writing, we learnt about onomatopoeia.  This is a poem by Grace.

Party Time
Sizzle, sizzle, pop!
The saveloys sing,
Poppy, pop, pop!
The popcorn hums,
Crunch, crunch, crunch
The chip bag rattles
Splash, splash
The lemonade cries
Yum, yum, yum
We say in surprise
Guess what?
Parties started.

Interview with Nana and Poppa  - By Holly 

 I love school! But I wonder how it went for my Nana and poppa. I wrote down my ten favourite things about school and made them into questions. We drove over to their house and interviewed them.

They went to different schools. Nanas went to Northcote primary and only had to walk straight down the road to get there, it took her only a few minutes and she would wave to her Grandma on the way. Poppa went to two primary schools: Ohura district school,

then Tokoroa central primary. On his first day as a 5 year old he had to go on a school bus for 20 kilometers!!

I'm so happy I live close to my school!

My Poppa wore a uniform at one school. But my Nana didnt. They both showed me their class photos and I noticed Nana was wearing something like a uniform. She had brownies after school so wore her brownies uniform all day.

I love playing animal games with Jessica and Brooke.

Nana loved playing fingerpuppets and the ball game four-square with her friends Ruth and Lianne,

Poppa played marbles, bullrush and rugby with his mates Robert and Frank.

I wanted to know what maths games and maths sheets they did.

Poppa dosent remember any games, he loved doing spelling, but his favourite teacher, Mrs Davidson made learning fun!

Nana loved maths! Her maths teacher Mr Sefton made it really challenging for her.

They did not have maths sheets. Instead they had sums written on the chalk board and they had to go out in front of the class and answer it infront of everyone. To me that sounds like a good way to do maths but i wouldnt want to make a mistake.

We all love lunchtime and some of us (not me) like to order sushi.

Poppa ate marmite and cheese sandwiches...but.. every second Friday he got to buy his lunch. He either got a pie for 6pence, or sausage and chips for 1shilling+ 3pennys.

What?? Whats a pence, shilling and penny I asked him. Thats olden day money before it changed into cents and dollars.

I liked listening to their stories they shared with me from school.

              

Card houses

Most of all though we love making card houses . On winter nights when the weather is crackling and howling, we snuggle under a blanket and build card houses. When one of our card houses fall to the ground like a person collapsing we laugh, but no one minds, we just start again. 

By Matthew Irvine

Today some students from Room 11 went tree planting.  Here are some photos.

Today we made Marshmellow Shooters for learning pathways!  We are learning about force, stretch and gravity.  We had a lot of fun.

OK Krew  

    Today, Beachlands school saw a dance group called OK Krew. They were so cool!!! There was even a little girl on stage. There was a man who did lots of flips, he was definitely my favourite. The most common man, 'mana' was so funny, he made my friend Logan say “my precious” in a loud, funky voice. That was my favourite bit, big time!!!!!!  

By Louis      

Learning Pathways
For homework this week we had to learn a game that our parents and grandparents played when they were little.  Some games that we learnt were making card houses, master mind, stop the bus, marbles, slap hand, pick up sticks, coon can, conkers, blind mans bluff, elastics, naughts and crosses, 4 square, charades and knuckle bones.
We had to teach each other what we learnt.