Trade Aid talk

Today we listened to a talk about Trade aid and how they help people around the world sell the goods and crafts they make. Trade Aid is there to help people in poverty make a better life for them and the children.

These girls created a role play about a poor family who made baskets and sold them to Trade Aid to get more money.

Basketball

Cross Country 2015

Today we had cross country. It was a successful day for some of room 7. We were lucky the rain held away for the year 4 and year 5 races. The year 6 and 7s were not so lucky.

Here are our top results:
Year 4 girls - Nina - 3rd.
Year 4 boys - Rory 7th,  Oscar 9th, Hayden 10th and Austen 11th.

Year 5 girls - Katherine 1st, Taleia 2nd, Ava 3rd,  Mila 5th, Aimee 8th and  Holly 9th.
Year 5 boys - Nicholas 1st, Charlie 6th, Tate 7th and Ryder 11th.

Well done to all of room 7 for participating in cross country and putting in a lot of effort!

Buddy Visit

On Thursday 25th June our class went to Point View School along with Room 8. We went to visit our buddy classes. While we were there we

• went on a tour of the school
• interviewed our buddy
• participated in Jump Jam with the Middle School
• performed our Sasa for the Middle School
• created a piece of artwork for Matariki
• made a slide show with our buddy 
• read with our buddies

We ended the day with group photos and a play on their senior playground. We had lots of fun and it was great to meet our buddies for the first time. We hope our buddies can come and visit us in term 3 or 4.

Here are some photos of our day.

Sasa

On Thursday we visited out buddies at Point View School. While we were there we performed our Sasa (Samoan dance) to the Middle School.

The haunted old sugar factory

The haunted old sugar factory

The haunted old sugar factory is rotting rusty and disgusting.

It's got a flickering light and smells horrible, like smoke, blood, dust and obviously sugar .

I anxiously open the door eeeeeeewwwwwwww! Blood is oozing from the wall. Yuck! What's that smell burning? The smell leads me upstairs. I heard crumbling and scratching. "You are going to die". Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I crept through the door. I wanted to leave but something was holding me back. All I could hear was the floorboards creaking each step I took. I heard the door slam. BANG! Trapped.......

The next day I found myself on the floor. There was a puddle of blood. My finger it was GONE!

I knew there was someone here and now I am going to find out just who......

By Mila

The Haunted House

WALT: use descriptive language in our work to help paint a picture in the readers head. 

 

THE HAUNTED CASTLE

Here I am at the scariest place in town, the sugar factory is the 2nd. They are both haunted. I heard there are ghosts here, so I am a bit scared but while I'm here I may just have a look inside. I anxiously open the door......

Eww ...... what's that smell? Rotten candy! I follow the smell, it takes me upstairs. Then I lose the scent. I hear this bad noise. There is blood oozing from the walls.

I run down the stairs and I can smell rotten candy again. I follow it, it takes me to a hallway. It's as creepy as a nightmare, actually it is your worst nightmare. It takes me behind stairs. I see old and creepy things. Then the smell gets stronger. I end up in the great abandoned sugar factory! The castles were back to back, wow, I never knew.

I will definitely have a look. I see lollies and they smell dreadful. Serious, oh yuck! I also see moldy ice cream.  

"I hate that smell. I think I'm going to be sick," I yell. I see a freezer with a piece of paper saying fresh L&P and ice cream so I take them both. I run back to the castle and run home.

THE END

By Lily F.