Room 8 Mapua School

Daffodil day!

2010-09-07T15:01:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-08-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-12T17:50:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-07-30T00:36:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-07-25T16:12:00.001-07:00

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!

2010-07-24T03:25:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-07-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-04T01:49:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-06-30T11:59:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-30T19:20:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-05-17T14:42:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-05-03T19:33:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-20T14:47:00.000-07:00

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

2010-02-22T12:47:00.000-08:00

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

A BIT OF THIS ,BIT OF THAT SMOOTHIE!!

2009-11-30T14:17:00.000-08:00

On Friday the 27 of November we made scrumpish smoothies that filled up our tum tums .

They were Delicious but we did not exactly follow the recipe we just chucked in about 3 banana's, poured in some yogurt, 2 cups of juice, 1 cup of strawberries, 1 slice of chunky pineapple, 1 apple and about 3 ice cubes. Next we poured all the smoothie ingredients in the blender but we were not to sure how to work it at first but we eventually worked it out. The best thing about it was drinking the smoothies.It was very refreshing and tasty.
WE LOVED MAKING SMOOTHIES !!!
By Lauryn,Saskia and Grace.

2009-11-30T14:15:00.000-08:00

Jolly Good Smoothies.

In class we have been looking at art made of fruit and vegetables so Ms Brown had an idea to make smoothies. After Ms.Brown said we were going to make smoothies we brought in all types of fruit blenders and chopping boards in. On Friday 26th of November we mixed all the fruit. We called it "Stroyseno"(str-oz-en-no) the str stands for Strawberries, the oysen stands for Boysenberries and the o stands for mango's. We were given a recipe to follow but we just put about 2 cups of milk and 1 and 1/2 cups of strawberries 2 mango's and mango juice the rest of the mango's we just ate. When we turned on the blender it would not turn on. We thought the plug was broken, so we changed plugs but it still would not work so we put the blender on a different way and it worked. We tried it and it tasted phenomenal!

Smothie making room 8

2009-11-30T14:13:00.001-08:00

On Friday 27 November 2009 we made smoothies. We will show you how to make ours.
1 cup of Pam's cream
1 cup of Homemade apple juice
1 cup of strawberries
1/2 a cup of blueberries
1/2 a cup of Pam's mangoes
1 cup of ice cubes

First put the cream in the blender.
Then cut up the 4 strawberries and put it in a cup and put in the blender .
Then put homemade apple juice into the blender.
Then put in blueberries into the blender.
Then put in Pam's mangoes into the blender.
Then put in ice cubes into the blender then mix.

Berry Berry Nice

2009-11-30T14:13:00.000-08:00

On Friday the 28th of November we made smoothies in the staff room. Our group couldn't figure out why the blender wasn't turning on. Five minutes later we discovered that it was not plugged in after that we felt like nincompoops. We went a bit crazy with a recipe too. We put in way too many berries turning it a very dark red colour. After that Tait tasted a drop on the table and said it tasted like asparalina a drink that is made of seaweed. We added some fruit juice and Tait said it still tasted like asparalina. Then we added ice and Maia accidentally spilt some on the floor. Then we plopped on the lid and nearly had the same problem of not turning it on properly but remembered from early experience that it might not be plugged in properly. Now it is time to blend it up in the blender. Look at it all spin around and around and around. Finally it's all done! We took the smoothie over to Miss Brown and she poured some smoothie into four cups. Then we drunk it YUMMY! (Tait still said it tasted like asparalina).
by Tait, Lily, Maia and Victoria.

Scrummy Smoothies!!!

2009-11-30T14:10:00.001-08:00

In room 8 we were split up into 5 groups. In our groups we decided what we are going to bring in for our smoothies. One person in the group had to bring in a smoothie maker, a chopping board, a knife, fruit and juice.When we went down to the staff room we where all up and jumping we started chucking in lots of different fruits like kiwi fruit, pineapple, apple, mandarins, mixed Berries yogurt and pear. We didn't exactly follow the rules but it ended out the best smoothie ever it tasted tropical !!! (At least to us any way!) we played Simon says while some of us were doing the dishes. Some people in our group Georgia, Elena and Tegan put there fingers in to the berries to try and scare our teacher, Miss Brown to think that they put there fingers in the blender unfortunately Miss Brown did not fall for it, BUMMER!!! We drunk our scrummy smoothies and went back to class.

by Elena, Tegan, Eva, Georgia and Nicole

really cool smothie making.

2009-11-30T14:10:00.000-08:00

On Friday the 27 of November 2009. Room 8 all made lovely school made fruit and yogurt smoothies we all had to work in groups of 5 people. Mrs Brown all told us to get into our groups and decide who will bring what. At last the day came and we were all exited to make the delicious yummy smoothies. We all went down to the staff room and got all the equipment ready and started to make the delicious wonderful smoothies, our group (Hugo,Theo,Trvae,Kruz and Dylan) We had Boysenberry's, blackcurrant, banana, kiwifruit, peaches, yogurt and ice in our smoothies.
First we put all the berries in with the yogurt and then we put the ice in. We blended them up and had the most wonderful delicious time of our life drinking the wonderful smoothies. After that some volunteers helped Mrs Brown and Aaron to help tidy up, while the rest of us played 'Simon Said'.
Hugo Dylan Trvae Kruz and Theo

Elmer meets a man

2009-09-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

Elmer and the Acrobat

2009-09-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

Elmer and the Path

2009-09-21T19:13:00.000-07:00

Chicken

2009-09-21T17:32:00.000-07:00

The Dark Mystery

2009-09-21T17:09:00.000-07:00

Elmer and Bob by Theo, Nicholas, Dylan and Hugo

2009-09-21T16:48:00.000-07:00

Running

2009-08-06T17:24:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 4 August 2009 we did our school Cross country race. We walked over to Arahai Park. When Mr Taylor shouted GO we spirited off into the rain. The field was all wet and muddy but we thought that was fun! We had to jump over things and had to run 2 big laps and 1 small one too. The last lap seemed to go on forever! We were tired and muddy!

When we got back to school we changed into clean clothes and went back to class.

By Nicole, James and Georgia

Cross country starts

2009-08-06T16:23:00.000-07:00

In comes Mrs.Pilcher and says"Year 4s and under will not be running today" So that meant we were running now so out we went under the shelter to do some exercises. Then off we went to Arahai park in the wet wet rain. When we got to Arahai park we ran to the starting line and heard Mr.Charmers shout in a daring voice on your marks... get set... GO!!!!
We where off in a hough and ran through the track.
The grass felt squashy when we ran and were being all we could.
We got yucky mud all over our body.
And we all made it past the finish line.
YEAH!!

By Victoria,Tait and Lauryn.

Jump for victory!!!!!!

2009-08-06T16:16:00.000-07:00

The Aranui park Log is the 2nd to last obstacle.
The year 5-8's had to run in the rain.
Lucky room 8/9! We only had to run while it was spitting! It was very wet and soggy we all got sprayed on the back with mud! we tried our best and did all we can and we had a great time.

By Asriel,Astra,Daniel And Grace

cross country finish

2009-08-06T16:15:00.001-07:00

Tuesday 5 August we did our X Country at Aranai Park. It was raining so the ground was quite boggy,lots of people slipped over.
Year 5,6,7&8 ran but year 4,3,2,1&0 didn't run because it would be too muddy. We walked to the park in our year groups because if we went all together it would be very miserable and would be very wet and I mean really wet!
Everyone ran there best effort. It was so tiring but we did it. Everyone and I mean everyone had the most amusing, weirdest faces at the end it was hilarious! Muddy, spotty bums it was good that we had a peer of spare clothes. Once we have finished we found we were rather dirty! We found out who was going Rabbit Island and that was exciting for every one!

By Elena,Tegan, Eva and Michaela!

Mud Mud Mud!

2009-08-06T16:12:00.001-07:00

Tuesday 4 August 2009

The day of the X country was pouring!
It was so bleak the year 8's were shivering to death!
But soon it cleared up BUT THAT WAS WHEN WE HAD OUR RACE! Imagine how muddy it would be! All the mud flying up our backs. Jumping ditch's,logs,streams. But the MUD! It was so thick it went right up to our ankles and we had to run in it! Most people slipped because it was muddy the whole way thought the track.But the whole class still enjoyed it.

By Josh,Nic and Jayden

x-country running

2009-08-06T16:12:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday 4 August we went on our school x-country run. The whistle blew, we
sprinted off like a flock of birds fleeing from a sneaky fox. I hurtled down the track,
the wind blew in my face and rain splattered on every ones heads.I was coming first with James and Theo coming up behind me.My heart was beating really fast every now and then I could hear thumping footsteps behind me. I was coming up to my
second lap and I was still coming first, by now I was soaked to the
skin but weirdly enough I was not one bit cold. The log hurdles were
coming up and I was wondering I could make them or not. YES! Only half
a lap to go and I had not fallen over, yet. I rounded the sharp
corner, every step I took was closer to victory, and finally there it was, the finish line of my dream.
I was completely out of breath by the time I was over the finish line.
The feeling in my heart was to great to say I had come first!!!
We all walked back to get warm and dry in our classroom. When we were nice and cosy we watched night of the museum with everyone else.
The next day I came to school with a happy face,I had one the Mapua Year 5 boys 2009 X-country!

by Kruz and Hugo

miniball

2009-06-04T22:29:00.001-07:00

It was a really exciting game!
Well done team keep it up
Brownie

Rippa Rugby

2009-05-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

We were AWESOME. We played together really well as a team and everyone had a great day.

Mad Hair Day

2009-04-30T18:59:00.001-07:00

Friday 1st May

Lake Rotoiti

2009-04-27T23:23:00.001-07:00

Day1

In the morning we arrived at school. We put our heavy bags in Dave's black sheep trailer. We loaded our bikes on to Bruce's trailer and we started to go. When we arrived at Lake Rotoiti and we took our bags out of Dave's trailer. We looked around the cabins and we found our cabins. Later on we looked around Lake Rotoiti there was lots of amazing native bushes. Then we sorted ourselves into groups for our rotation. The activities were
Biking and the Honeydew walk. We had cake,fruit and some juice for morning tea. We changed activities. After we had all that fun running around,we went to see Peta(Doc) and she talked to us about the native life.Peta taught us a really fun game that is called Tui's ,Bell Birds and Wasps. This is how to play there are wasps Bellbird's and Tui's and trees that give out honeydew and the wasps steal the honey and the bird's get the honey for their chicks. When we got back to the Red Deer Lodge we had lunch, we had our packed lunch. After lunch we played some games in the lodge they were just board games and card games.We did that for a while and then had some afternoon tea. Then we carried on playing card games and board games. After that we did our duties got comfy and ready for the delicious meal made by Fiona. After dinner we had a delicious ice cream Sunday for pudding. When it was dark we went out for the big Possum Hunt.It was very scary and dark!

By Lauryn, Elena, Lily, Daisy, Georgia and Eva (helped by Tegan)

Day 2

On day two we woke up and had breakfast. It was activity day. We got into different groups.

Some of us went kayaking with Judith. She taught us how to get in and out of a Kayak. We paddled out onto the lake and made a kayak raft.

We went to Whiskey Falls on a boat. We had to walk up a track through trees which took about 10 minutes. We had to climb down wet rocks and Frankie helped us down so that we could taste the water. Kruz thinks it tasted like ice-cream but Robbie thinks it tastes of sweet water but we wished we had taken our water bottles to fill them up. Because of the rain no other groups got to go out on the boat.

We also did Orienteering. We had a map of the local area were we had to look under rocks, on signs and on the ground as well as on the trees for clues. After we found all of the clues we went back to Red Deer Lodge then we worked out the secret answer.

In the Visitor Center we found information about the Honeydrew and how it was made. We also found out how New Zealand has more earthquakes then Oz

By Robbie, James, Dylan, Daniel and Kruz.

Day 3

On day 3 we had breakfast. We had spaghetti,baked beans,cereal and toast. We sang Happy Birthday to Dylan
It was raining and we could not go for our walk so we played balloon volleyball, the dream team (boys team) won 10 to 5. Then we all went into Dave's trailer. Miss Brown climbed in and riped her pants! Miss Hough taught us a new team building game where we had to try and sit on each others lap - it was really difficult. After that we had Milo and morning tea.
It was still raining so we watched Titan AE it's about a guy that goes on a space ship with a girl,a random turtle professor,a cyborg fish guy and a girl with big legs and ears.they are running from the dredge because they blew up the earth.
In the afternoon we also went on a walk in the rain it was freezing. We went to Rotoiti Education Centre where we worked together on the block walker and climbed the fidget ladder.

When we got back we had birthday cake had tea and wrote in our camp Diaries. We then toasted Mashmellows. We put them on sticks then toasted them on the fire and put them between two chocolate biscuits and they tasted delicious. The parents were exhausted so we took them to the cabins.

By Tait, Theo, Joshua, Nicholas, Asriel and Jayden

Day 4

In the morning the mountains had white tips and the tap in the girls toilet was frozen. After we packed our bags we made our sandwiches for the Peninsula walk. We had a yummy breakfast like apple crumble, toast and cereals.

We tied up around Red Deer Lodge picking up all the rubbish then Ms Brown took us down to the lake for an easter egg hunt. Miss Hough and Al (the easter bunnies helper) were waiting for us. The hid the Easter Eggs under rocks, along the lake edge, under trees, the playground and grass. Tait dropped his egg and a duck came along and ate it up! We hope that the duck is not sick.

Once Red Deer Lodge was clean we all went for a walk around the Peninsula. We saw big waves on the lake, Daniel saw a purple mushroom, lots of fungus, we had to duck because a tree trunk was on an angle we heard Tui's and Bellbirds and lots of wasps. Seriana wanted to find out what was on the other side of the lake but we did not have enough time because we needed to head back to school where our mums and dads were waiting for us.

By Maia, Grace, Michaela, Seraina, Astra, Victoria.

Senior Sports

2009-03-19T16:24:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Thursday 19th March we went outside to play Softball.

We learnt new skills such as when to run and stay, throw and catch a ball, how to field, how to use the bat, some rules, how to pitch, where to throw the ball - underarm, where the bases are and that one person needs to be on each base, how to put and use a mitt and how to get a HOME run.

Wetlands Visit

2009-03-19T16:08:00.000-07:00

Our Topic this term is Ecological Sustainability. Earlier in the term we went to the Mapua Wetlands Recovery Project and found out lots of information.
Here are some pictures of our visit.

A brand new year, a brand new blog!

2009-02-20T10:17:00.001-08:00

Come back soon and check out the events, learning activities and fun we have throughout 2009.