Bert

Bert is the school pet,  he is a boy turtle.
We like Bert because he is funny.
We have him because it is nice to have something to bite the teacher.   He bit the teacher  Mrs. P on the finger once and she said it really hurt,
It was funny.
We have to feed Bert  once a day and twice on Fridays.
He is a big turtle and he is green.

By Jess

A New Teacher

At the beginning of the the year, we got a new teacher.  She is so cool!  I also love it when she tells the juniors off.   Oh, and her name is 'the Onceler'  (dun dun dun) she sounds like Mrs.P.  I like to tease her by saying "hi Mrs.P.'' When she tells the juniors off I "say go Mrs.P.''  She  is also our art teacher.  She can be strict and she can be really funny when she wants to be. I think she is one of the best teachers we've ever had. ;)

                                                   By Luka

The Rush

The adrenalin going through my body

George counting down 5, 4, 

Woody barking at me  

3, 2, 1

JUMP!

The cold chill through my body

I swim frantically towards 

The rocks 

                               

        By Kimberley  :)                                                                                                                  

NEW STUFF!

We've got new stuff! it was a really big team effort but it was worth it. these are some of the things that we set up and how much money we got from it.

Karitane book sale

over $3'000

marae catering

about $1,000

Our fundraising team have raised LOTS of money

and these are some of the things that we bought:

ukuleles

scissors

library door

Digital projector

chalk

pencils

LOTS of books

projector screen (juniors)

colored pencils

My favorite thing is the Digital projector.

ps:(if you get the Digital projector on the whiteboard you get a poor mans interactive white board used by Mrs.P) 

By Kahlil

Some of our quilts!

Here are the quilts that we made for the blog. They are to introduce us and our families, which is what we are learning this Term. Feel free to have a look! 

be-uke-aful ukeleles

Look at our beautiful new ukeleles!  We have been busy practising and can now play between 3-6 chords.  The songs we are working on are Pa Mai, That's Aotearoa and (wait for it) .... The ukelele song!  When we get a little bit better, Miss T is going to teach us how to record ourselves for the blog and then you will be able to hear our sweet singing and playing.   The East Otago inaugural choral jam is coming up in April so we will be looking for parents/caregivers and members of our extended whanau to accompany us on the stage - it is a bit scary for such a small group of children to get up on the stage on their own so we need your help!

We're Here!

NOT to be outdone by the cunning juniors - I have forced Miss Trusler to teach me how to blog!  It's a hard job to teach an old dog new tricks but I am hoping that she will have more success with the Senior children who will take to it much more readily than I!  All I can say is...WATCH THIS SPACE!