Daffodil day!

Mapua school gathered round on the old court, waiting and waiting, for our time. Finally, The teachers asked for us to put our coins on the Daffodil. Daffodil day is to give money, and remember the people who have and had cancer. On our courts, every year on Daffodil day, one of our best drawers in the school draws a Daffodil for our whole school to place a coin on. Every single coin is taken to the Cancer Society.

Amazing Ski trip!

The children were zooming down the icy slope, Parents were drinking coffee also cheering for their children that made an achievement. Everyone had loads of fun at the Rainbow Ski field. Once we got to Rainbow, we headed up towards Mt. Robert hut where we were put into our ski lesson groups, then we tramped to a building to get our skis on, finally we plodded off to go skiing. We had fun sliding down the icy slopes, and about everyone made an achievement almost all the beginners made it to the intermediate slope, so over all we had millions of fun.

Takaka sports exchange

Go go go!! soccer balls flying everywhere, and maybe even the children! Takaka sports was so awesome!! We went zooming! First netball match was 9-1 TO US!! in the second game of netball 14-1 TO US!!!!! and hockey 6-0 and of course to US!!!! And the soccer, rugby and mini ball all won by US!!! Although, they had much stronger people than us and won the tug-of-war. look at some amazing photos done by Lily and Saskia.

I'm home!

Hi! on friday I just arrived home in the evening but... it was supposed to be the afternoon, what happend was... well, I was leaving australia to Auckland but once we were hovering over top of the airport there was too much fog there so we had to fly down to Wellington get some fuel and wait for the fog to go away, we went back up to Auckland and our flight to Nelson had been delayed so, we had to wait a long time to hop on the plane but once we got on the plane... we spent about 50mins waiting for us to take off. So we are sitting inside our house dad and Owen watching rugby, mum doing.. whatever mum does. I'll be back to school on monday, so I'll see you soon! bye!

Hi Room 8 and Catherine!

Hey Guys,
Catherine - what an amazing time you must be having. What fun to be able to catch up with all your family. The photos look amazing - I like the lizard! Room 8, I hope you are enjoying your term with Mrs Stephens so far. I am still waiting for our baby - it's due this Saturday - so we'll see.

Gotta go - Oscar "needs help"

Mrs P

Hello, once again!

Hi, room 8! sorry again! I forgot to say I was in Wales last time and saw a mole! It was about 8cm long! It was making scratch marks on the drive way to my grandmas house! It was trying to dig in the drive way but it couldn't so Owen put it on sme dirt and the next few days we didn't see it because it made a home or it fell in the river because when it walked it kept on rollling over and getting up again.
Now i'm in auntie Ann's house again and most of my cousons are here! There is: Jack and Andy (Ann's Adults), and Toby and Katie and Sam (some of autie Jennys children),
my mum's mum AKA Nana AKA Grandma AKA Betty, and Uncle David (AKA Uncle David pinchy crabs) here are some photos.... (up the top)

Hi, room 8!

Hello everyone! sorry I havn't been posting (no internet acsess here!)but in france I sent a post card to you. But that was before I went to... DISNEYLAND!!! now, you should check room 7's blog for the photos Owen sent heres some I sending...

Hi Catherine

Hey,
It sounds like you had a huge trip there. We are glad you arrived safely and are enjoying catching up with your family. School holidays have started now. We had a great last day with popcorn and lollies.
Keep up the posts and I will check this when I can.

Mrs P

Hi guys!

Well,so far on my journey i've been to Wellington,Sydney,Bankok and now we are in Billingshurst and boy am I tired! Now i'm sitting inside my Aunties house,(my Aunties name is Ann).
Sydney was the best so far because we got to go to Taronga zoo, and guess what, they had a Komodo Dragon there!!! and seven Elephants (I think so) four red pandas, (I think so) and my favourite, the Reptile house!! And the penguins,they were so cute! and so many other anamals. Well any way I better be going now. Bye!
P.S how is it over there?
P.S.S It is so hot over here!

From Catherine.

The Mapua School Cross Country 2010

On your marks, get set, go! Everyone started running their guts out, in the year five races! The boys went first then the girls. It was wet, muddy and slippery. People were slipping over, kicking mud on other people's faces, and kicking mud up their own back!
It was a very exciting race. Some people almost slipped into the ditch by slipping on
the mud! It was a great race. Mac won the boys race and Brooke won the girls.
By: Zane Room 8

How to make a leaf print!

First to make our leaf prints we had to find a leaf. Next we drew a picture of the leaf on a piece of card. After that we got some p.v.a glue and glued over all of the lines. The next day the glue had dried so we got a piece of newspaper and we chose a colour,then we rolled over our print with a roller for a minute or two. Then we went back to our desks and folded the newspaper in half then got a piece of paper and put it on top of the print. Then we got a clean roller and rolled over our print. Finally we took off the piece of paper and we had a leaf print! By Latai and Sophie

It's all about clay!

Clay here, clay there, clay everywhere! Room 8 have been sculpting with clay because art is our topic. We have made coil pots, thumb pots and clay tiles. The coil pots were made by making long snake bits of clay and then wrapping it round and round in circles. The thumb pot was made by rolling a ball of clay and pinch the inside of it.

Easter egg hunt

The Mapua School Easter egg hunt is held every year. It is when the four house teams of Mapua School race each other to find clues and complete the puzzle with the clues. House points are given to the first house to complete the puzzle. You get two chocolate Easter eggs when your house completes the puzzle. It is REALLY yummy! We thought Green house was dressed the best!

The Great Swimming Races

The water was as warm and inviting as a spa pool. Ellie
The lovely water was as warm as the sun. Jamie M
The water slide was as fast as a penguin on ice. Benjamin T
The pool was as clear as a rock pool. Daniel T
The pool was as warm as a alpine spa. Ben
The water was as clear as a crystal. Isabel
The croud was as loud as a roaring lion. Kate.
The voice's were lowed like a gun shot. Latai.
The water was as transparent as a crystal. Zane.
It was as deep as five desks stacked on top of each other. Sophie
The water was as warm as steam. Taylor-May
I went as fast as a dolpin's flipper down the water slide. Shayla