Technology problems

We have been having computer problems and haven't been able to get on-line for OVER A WEEK!!! It has been very frustrating and we haven't been able to write any blogs. We are really busy trying to complete work that we are doing for Show Day on Wednesday when we bring our pets to school. We have been doing pet posters, art, poetry and digital photos!! Hopefully we will be finished tomorrow.

jewelery making

Today we have had the BEST day, because Marg came at 9.30 and taught us how to make paua shell jewelery. We even put silver on it. First we designed on paper, then we chose our design and traced it on to sticky paper and put on the paua. We drove up to Margs house and she cut the shapes out. This part was really tricky. Then Marg used the diamon cutter to cut the shapes out in more detail. We weren't allowed to use this because it was VERY dangerous. It had water going onto it and poor Marg got her hands FREEZING! Then we used the sander inside and made it smooth. This took ages. We came back to school and traced our silver. We transfered this to sticky paper, and put it on the silver. Marg had to cut it out with a very sharp blade. We had to scratch the under side of the silver so it would stick and sand the edges. Then we got the glue and stuck our silver on. Marg took the pauas home with clamps on them so the silver sticks. Next week we are going to finish them.

Think fast run fast

On the last Thursday of term three it was cross country day . I was so excited in the car. When I got there I was shaking with nervousness. When it was Stephanies turn we kept on cheering for her. Then next was the 5 year old's turn. I cheered for Jessica Rose. Next it was Hannah's turn. I said "Wow look how fast Hannah can run". Then it was the 9 year olds race. I was shivering. "Boom!" went the bricks. I zoomed around the track and I passed ten people.

I came 10th. I was so proud of myself after my race.

Amelia

Hannah

Yesterday we did the back ground of our bird. We made it with lots and lots of sticks. We are drawing a Moa for Show Day.

In The Holiday

We went snorkling and we saw lots of fish and they were colurful and it was golden sand. All the days were sunny.

Zoe

Holidays

In the hoildays my cousins came. When my cousins were here we did this plan. Our plan was CAN WE PLEASE GOING TO THE BEACH! by Stephanie

Holiday fun

On the last week of the school I was so excited because my cousins were coming. As soon as they left our bedroom was a pigsty and there were toys all over the floor we couldn't even see the floor! While our cousins were here my dad cleaned the pool!
by Melissa

Happy Birthday Ms Nimmo

Today we gave Ms Nimmo a surprise party. We had lots of scrumptious food and two birthday cakes! We had lots of ballons and we get to take one home. We all gave Ms Nimmo some flowers,chocolates and wine. We wrote Ms Nimmo a really good rhyming poem. We are lerning about extinct NZ birds and have started some amazing moa paintings. We all had a great first day.

Ms Nimmo's last day!

Today it is Mrs Nimmo's last day of the term. She is going to Australia to see her sisters and party! All the girls wanted some holiday homework - how good is that! We also had a special end of term lunch today - we made yummy pizza and we gobbled it all up. (Just like Greedy Cat).
We had our LAST practise of Cross Country. It was postponed on Tuesday and hopefully it will be tomorrow. Mrs King is taking us.

See you next term!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

Assembly

On Friday last week we had our end of term assembly. It was really fun. We did some gymnastics , two songs , readers theater and a poem. We all did very well in the assembly.

Pottery

Today we went to Piers Throssell's house. We made all sorts of bowls, vases and lolly holders with clay. It felt so gooiey and slimy. We didn't want to stop when we had finished because it was so fun.

Tomorrow we have cross country at Suburban School. We have been training hard and all want to come in the first half of our groups. We will try our hardest.

Fun Wednesday

Today Mrs Nimmo and Mrs King had a meeting and Becky Murray took for Cross Country and games. We played duck duck goose and played with the balls. It is such a beautiful day here. We are learning a space dance with Mrs King and it was a problem when we first did it but it is much better now.

Baking

Today we did baking. We baked DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS yum yum!


Last night we went to The Festival of Song. When it came to our item I had a sore stomach. When we walked on stage children were laughing at us! They laughed at us because they could see the hats that we were behind our backs and the adults couldn't. When it was the end of the show I was very nervous because I had to go up in front of everyone to give Miss Carpinter some flowers. Then Miss Carpinter have me a hug. When I went back to my seat a girl behind me said that when I went up I looked cute!

By Melissa

On Thursday we went to the Festival of Song. It was fun and I was a bit scared. When we went up on stage I felt a bit scared and we did a song and it was called The Silly Hat Store and I felt so proud of myself.

By Zoe

At the festival of Songs for our item we sang the silly hat store. I'm going to write a poem? ...

I was so proud
and a bit scarred too
BUT I had great fun.
There were heaps of songs that we had to sing.

By Stephanie

Last night we went to the music festival. As the car got closer and closer to the gymnasium the nervouser I got. On the way there I was excited. We performed a song called the Silly Hat Store. I got stage fright but I still sang the song. I was really thirsty and it felt like I was going to dehydrate. Whe n it was our turn to perform I said in my head oh no I can't do this but I did. I was proud of myself. On the way home I was tired but excited.

By Amelia

Chocolate day

Last night we went to the Festival of Song and it was fun. Mrs Nimmo thought that we were all wonderful and was SO proud of us. After the songs Melissa gave Miss Carpinter a hug and some flowers and everyone thought it looked really cute. Because they did so well singing in front of ALL of those people, today we are baking double chocolate chip muffins - YUM YUM!

We had a late night last night and we are very tired today.

Hannah's brithday

Something happened to our computer network during the week and we couldn't load onto our blog or receive any e.mails! Then suddenly it came right again. Tuesday Hannah turned 6 and she had a lovely party. Poor Jessica is still sick so she missed out.
Today we have been down to practice the songs for our Festival of Song. We are going to have our performance tonight which will be so much fun.

Fast Day Monday

We had Nicky Halligan visiting our classroom until lunchtime today. She said we were so lucky to have a lovely wee school. Mr Judge came in and took us for piano practise. We all learn the piano. Aren't we lucky? On Thursday we are going to the Festival of Song in Kaikoura, at 7 p.m. We are singing a cool song called The Silly Hat Store. Tomorrow it is Hannah's birthday and she is 6 years old. We are all going to her party after school. Jessica is sick today so we hope that she will be better for tomorrow.

Lynton Downs - Fun but fast

Today we had visitors from Lynton Downs School and Miss Carpinter came to listen to our Festival of Songs. She thought that Lynton Downs and us were the BEST singers in the world. We had so much fun that we didn't have enough time to do all the activities that we had planned. Never mind, we will go and visit them next term and they will come back here. We had sausages for lunch YUM!! We collected gold coins for daffodil day. We raised $11. It was quite good having 17 children for a change but quite noisy. Mr Percy kindly gave us some daffodil day tattos

gymnastics is fun

This afternoon we have been doing gym with Mrs King. We were doing rotations.In this picture we are rocking backwards and forwards like rolling apples! We think it's great fun.

Technology Challenge

Last night Melissa and Amelia went to Kaikoura to the Technology Challenge. They had to make amazing creations with newspaper, string and sellotape. Amelia got 1st place in her last challenge and Melissa got 3rd place in the same challenge. They had to make a flag pole with a flag on the top and the highest pole that stood by itself won first place. Amelia won a small radio. Melissa won lip gloss.

Today we have been VERY busy making our fathers day presents which is a secret. They are cool.

We did our mihi to practise and made this interesting book so we can memorise them. We are going to take them home tonight for our parents to check the name of our mountain and river.

We collected pine needles to place around our strawberry plants.

We achieved our goals in cross country - except Mrs Nimmo!! who has a cold!

It is only 6 days until Hannahs birthday and we ALL have invitations and we ALL are very excited.

Spring!

Soon it will be spring and already we have daffodils growing in the garden. They look very beautiful. We even have some growing by the swing.

Tonight Melissa and Amelia are going to participate in the BP Technology Challenge. Go Girls. Have fun!

FUN DAY

On Friday we had a biking day with olden day bikes from Heritage Education. Cynthia and Mr Orchard brought us lots of old bikes. One even had a flat tyre so we couldn't ride it. There was this scooter that had brakes and the brakes fell off.

Yesterday we got a package at Mrs Nimmo's house. We opened it today and there was a soft toy dolphin and Melissa is the winner! Melissa has named it Noodles. Kind Melissa is going to share Noodles with the rest of the class. What an exciting parcel it was.

We will have to write to Jodie to thank her.

Wednesday's news

We have a new worm house. We found heaps of worms on the tennis court.
Stephanie thinks it is going to be like a worm farm.
We want it to be the best worm farm in Clarence. Worms are very great for gardens.

ERO visitors

Today we had visitors to our school. There names are Jeanette and Wilson. They are from ERO and they asked us questions about our learning.

Exciting Monday

Last thing on Friday we had assembly. Jan and Monique get the prize for being the only people that attended our assembly. The three Cole girls performed an excilent play, we sang some songs and did some poetry.

Today we did a cross country training for one more minute than usual and most of us (except Ms Nimmo!!) went further. Melissa is special person this week for having respect for others.

Yesterday Stephanie had her birthday and she is a BIG 7 year old.

SCONE DAY

Today we made some chesse scones it was delicious! We are the best cooks,today we are having our mid term assembly we are going to do a play about stone soup Melissa is the old woman , Stephanie is the reader and Amelia is the young man we are singing three songs and reading our cinquain poems.

Where the Wild Things Are

No they are not at Woodbank School. We are doing a unit on the book called Where the Wild Things Are. We looked at some interesting words from the story which we wrote on a monster word and laminated it. We also found some letters that make up the words to make a display in our classroom. We will show you later on.

We were supposed to do this unit last term BUT ... we ran out of time. We are just too busy and having too much FUN everyday!

Arthur is coming back to teach us this afternoon about religious instruction,

Tuesday's news

Yesterday we went skiing at Mt Lyford. Poor Zoe and Jessica were sick. Jan set up a little course on the learners slope - we had to turn on the side and go under the tunnel and a hoop. Stephanie went on the t bar by herself. Clever Stephanie.

Whales, Skiing and more ...

Well have we got lots of news today. Today Melissa and Amelia went to Whale Watch with Ms Nimmo and Evan. We saw 2 whales, 300 dusky dolphins, some seals and 1 albatross. Our favourites were the gorgous dusky dolphins. Gosh they can show off. They jumped and jumped right in front of us, high up in the air.

While the 2 big girls were whale watching, Tanya Jenkins came to speak to the 3 little girls at school about Conservation Week. She bought us 3 new books for our library, some stickers, some leaflets and a colouring in to do. The books are really cool.

Yesterday we went to Mt Lyford skiing. The weather was sometimes a bit snowy and windy. Sometimes snow was falling down. Everyone is very good at skiing now. We had a lot of fun.

garden day

We baked some scones and they were SO delicious that we gobbled them all up for morning tea.
After lunch we did some gardening. We were cutting back some plants and putting them in the wheelbarrow to take to the heap. It makes our garden look a lot tidyier.

Thhursday fun

This afternoon Jacqui Clayton came to work with Mrs King and Ms Nimmo. We worked quietly drawing pictures about the sun and what it is like having no sun!
This morning we learnt some things about the sun: Zoe learnt the sun is our closest star. Hannah learnt that we must not look at the sun because we might get blind. Jessica-Rose learnt that the sun makes us warm and we can't live without the sun.

Religious Instruction with Arthur Barnfather

Today we played an awesome game with Arthur called '' its in the envelope''. We had to answer questions correctly to win an envelope. I won a bottle of diet coke. Jessica won a photo of Jesus. Hannah won three lollies.Stephanie won a banana. Zoe won a kiwifruit. Mrs King got a note saying'' have a nice day." And she said she had a great day.
By Amelia

First Aid at Woodbank

Today Bronwyn from St Johns came and taught us how to keep safe and help people in an emergency. Jessica learnt how to call for an ambulance on the telephone - we dial 1 1 1 slowly and ask for the service we need. Stephanie learnt how to keep safe by putting a bandage on someones hand. Hannah learnt to put a burn under cold water for 20 minutes. If the burn is bigger than your hand you need medical help now! Amelia learnt it is important to keep the patient calm and reassure them.
Zoe learnt how to manage her bleeding noses by holding the bottom of her nose and putting her head forward.
Amelia has fake blood on her hand. She needed to put some pressure on her hand to stop the bleeding. Then Bronwyn bandaged it with the big pressure pad still there.

Monday's news

We didn't write on Friday because we went to Lynton Downs School for the whole day. We had a great day there - thank you Lynton Downs.
Stephanie liked playing t ball and doing skipping.
Hannah liked playing in the sanpit.
Amelia liked playing t ball and skipping, we showed them double dutch.
Zoe liked skipping and t ball.
We hope that Lynton Downs will come and see us one day soon.

Today poor Melissa is away with the chicken pox!! We hope she gets better soon. At school today we did a colourful poster on kidspix with our learning style. You will see it up near the teacher's desk just by the door. Boy it is colourful. The day has going so quickly.

thursdays news

Today we wrote cinquain poems.They have only 5 lines in them we wrote them about space.Here is Hannahs.
The Sun

Yellow
Red orange
very far away
the sun makes the light
fire!

Healthy Lunches

Today Linda (the Public Health Nurse), came and made a healthy lunch with us. We had tomatoes and lettuce and ham sandwiches, and some oranges and bananas. We mixed apricot with cream cheese and put it in fruit bread - yum.

We changed our day around a wee bit so we got our reading done before Linda came. We had lunch a wee bit earlier and came back for cross country training a wee bit earlier too. We all went further than yesterday.

It was an even lovelier day than yesterday.

Sarah B

This morning Sarah Beardmore taught us while Mrs King and Mrs Nimmo did some planning together. We learnt how to skip doing double dutch with 2 ropes. Man we are good. We did some winter poems too. Jessica read "We Go Out" with Sarah.

Tuesday's news

Thank goodness Stephanie is back. Here she is. We said yesterday that we would put her photo on, and here she is!

Thank you for all the comments. We have a mystery comment person called "JUMP". Do you know who it is? We cannot possible share our strawberries with a mystery person.

We did our 2nd day of cross country training - puff, puff! We all managed to get a bit further today.

Monday

Today Stephanie has returned from having the chicken pox. Welcome back Stephanie. This week Zoe is the special person because she has been kind to the other class members. Today we did writing and handwriting for our portfolio. We also wrote new goals for Term 3. It is a lovely, sunny warm day at last! Yahoo!.

About Friday

We really enjoy reading people's comments on our blog. Keep writing great comments for us to read. Today we had a finishing off day and finished our Dr Suess pictures. Amelia is painting her life size picture of herself because she was away when we did ours. We finished off our learning style questionnaire so we know how best we learn AND we made museli and honey muffins. This afteroon, in the not very nice weather, we tidyed up our garden and planted some new polyanthus and something else and now we have forgotten it's name. But there is a pretty blue one and a white one. Our garden looks heaps better now. We split up all our strawberry plants as well so hopefully in the summer we will have strawberries every day. Yum yum!
Poor Stepahnie still has the chicken pox so we hope she gets better over the weekend and is back to school on Monday. Please DON'T let anyone else get the chicken pox.

About Mrs King

Mrs King is a lovely teacher and we have done some fantastic gymnastics - doing springs and landings. We wrote a story about what we knew about the sun. For maths we read the calenders.

Wednesday's fun

Today Val came to teach us some things about the environment and we played a game and we had to ask everyone else questions to work out who we were. It was about the food chain. We are going to do an environmental plan for our school.

Jessica

This is Jessica Rose who was not at school yesterday. Stephanie is also away with the chicken pox. Poor Stephanie. We will introduce Stephanie to you all when she comes back to school.

swing time

Today we had Jocelyn to visit us and we learnt how to make a blog. We are going to try and write something every day and look at other schools blogs. Our parents can look to see what we have done at school.

During the holidays we were really lucky because Zoe's Dad made us a swing at school. Unfortunately Hannah got hit in the knee today and she will have a bruise! Poor Hannah. It was too low so Zoe's Dad will come back and put it up. Thanks Zoe's Dad and Ash (that's Zoe's big brother).

All about Melissa

My name is Melissa. I am 10 years old .I have brown hair ,blue eyes .I go to woodbank school my teachers names are Mrs Nimmo and Mrs King.

Zoe and my teacher

Mrs Nimmo is my favourtist teacher. We are learning to write blogs together. I am the luckiest teacher because I teach 6 lovely little girls.

about Hannah and Amelia

Hannah and Amelia are friends at Woodbank School. We met once when Hannahs mum took me and my sisters for a swim, in the school pool. Here is a picture of us working together.

Learn about us

Welcome to our blog page. Here are the 6 learners at Woodbank School. We are a very small school of girls. NO boys at all at this school!!!

Welcome

Welcome to the Woodbank School blog. We would value your comments on our blog as we tell you about our learning.