Cricket

We played cricket yesterday. We learnt catching the ball and hitting the ball too. We heard the instructions to play cricket. When the cricket practice was over we got some prizes.
By Daniel

On Tuesday we went to cricket. There was a lady and she was throwing balls. We played very fun games.
By Imogen

Week 2 Vietnam

Hi Room 2
I have now travelled down to the bottem of Vietnam and are at a Big city called Ho chi Minh. In this city they have 4 million scooters and it is very hard to cross the road. I have been down to the Mekong Delta where I went on a river boat dinner cruise. I also went for a ride up this river to look at the floating markets where they sell vegetables from their boats. The Mekong Delta is a very big brown dirty river. People's houses are on the river and when it floods the river washes into their house. 34 people died from flooding last week.
On my way to Ho chi Minh we travelled in a sleeping bus for 23 hours and while I was sleeping someone stole my iphone :(  The toilet on the bus didnt have any water and it was very smelly.
Miss Veale

Hi from Vietnam

Hi room 2
I have been in Vietnam for 5 days now.
When I got here I found out they had lost my bags,
And it took 2 days to get them from sydneyso I didn't have
Any clothes. It is very different here and I am enjoying it.
I am in HUe now. Tomorrow I am going into the mountains
To stay in villages and also to look at things from the
Vietnam war. (Sasha il try not to step on any bombs)

Rugby Skills

On the first day of rugby skills we practiced kicking a rugby ball at the cones and hoops. It was fun by Pepa-Jay
The rugby coach told us to find a partner and kick the ball to them. We had to look at the person we were kicking it to. By Abby
We had to listen to the coach about the rugby skills we were practicing because we didn't want to hurt someone. My partner was Charlie and we got stuck on kicking it to the other person and Charlie kicked it too hard. By Daniel
When Paul taught us to kick we had a kicking competition  into the net and I got it in. Miss Veale kicked it over the posts and it nearly went over the fence. By Charlie

WORLD CUP

Today the world cup begins and we came dressed up as the country we adopted. We have been finding out information about out country and we know where it is.

ISite and the caravan

Today we went to the Isite and Lisa told us all about the places in Hokitika that tourists like to go to.
We then got to go and look in the caravan that is going to be travelling around the South Island. We were the first people to go in and have a look we even went in before the Mayor.

Room 2 Skypes

Today we skyped Room4 and Miss Veale's sister Kristy. We talked about rules for using skype.

1.  Being sensible

2.Talk to the person just like they were in front of us.

3. One person talking at a time.

We asked Kristy questions and found out about her kitten. Her cat's name was Milly and she got it from the SPCA. her cat is 10 weeks old.

High School came to St Marys

On Wednesday the Westland High School kids came to St Marys. We picked a buddy and they read us our favourite story. They then interviewed us about the book they are going to write. They asked us what our favourite thing was, where would like it set, any characters and names of people we would like in our book.

Abby

Why do you think Abby's hair is like this? What caused it?

Harold

We had Harold come to visit last week and tell us about healthy foods and variety. His friend Tam also showed us where some of our organs are. What did you learn?

Opening of the new classroom

On Fridat after Mass we let a balloon go for Sister Eulalie. After assembly Father Jolly came and blessed the new classroom. We let a balloon go for each classroom in the school. Sasha was our student of the week so she held our balloon.

Art and Recreation Week

We have been doing lots of different things for our Arts & Recreation week. On Monday some of us went to dance,Geo caching, Heritage walk, Photography, Slap dance and Art.
Leave a comment and tell us what you did and how it went.

Holidays

Hi Room 2 I hope you are enjoying your holidays.

Homework :( - mathletics and practicing forming your letters correctly.

Yesterday I went to the beach onthe four wheeler to get a load of wood and I came across these unusual things. Ask Mum and Dad if they know what they are?

What a beautiful day it was with the sun and the fresh snow on the mountains.

Disco

What a great time it was at the disco last night. I liked the bird dance, thank you for dancing with me girls.

Games from Room 6

Today Room 6 presented us with the games they made. They have been working very hard on them and they are very well made. We are so lucky.

Skate School

We had skate school today. We were allowed to have a go on roller blades, skateboards or a scooter. Some of us were very brave and tried roller blades.

Happy Birthday Sasha

Weather Balloon

Today we went up to the airport to watch the weather balloon be released. They let a weather balloon go 3 times a day.
The balloon is filled with hydrogen. Hydrogen is a very dangerous gas and it can explode. so it is filled up inside a metal hut. They put a tracker on the bottom of the balloon and that sends signals to the radar.

Helium Balloons

Today we went to the florist and Melissa filled up 6 helium balloons for us. We took them back to school and talked about them and then let them go. On Friday we are going to go and watch the weather balloon be released up at Hokitika airport. What do you know about helium gas?