Spuds in a Bucket

The school council came up with this really cool idea to give every child in the school a 'spud in a bucket'. They ran a disco earlier in the year and with the money that they raised from that and the selling of Jaffa tickets, they bought buckets and spuds.

Mr Graham and Fabian's mum were busily helping everyone plant their spud.

First we had to use a black vivid to put our name on our bucket. Some of us drew pictures on our buckets as well. Then we went out to the garden to get our spud and some dirt.

We covered the potatoes with dirt and put them outside our classroom. They look really cool all lined up together.

We are responsible for looking after them; watering them and making sure that the potato grows.

At the end of the year, we are allowed to take our 'spud in a bucket' home. One day in the holidays we can have potatoes with our tea.

Next year, if we bring the bucket back, we get another potato to plant in it.

5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - How Much Can You Do

Have you ever tried to hula hoop?  Some of us have but lots of us haven't so when Milly from Queenstown came to visit us we were keen to give it a go.

Milly showed us some of her moves.  She can 'hula a hoop' around her neck,her legs, her waist and even around her shoulders.

When she performs in a parade she uses a hula hoop that is on fire - pretty awesome.

When it was our turn, Milly suggested that we choose the biggest hoops as they are easier to learn on than the smaller ones.

Some of us were awfully hopeless at the start but once Milly told us what to do, we managed to 'get it'.  The trick is to get a good stance and rock in a rhythmic way.

 

Then we got really good and some of us tried hula hooping with more than one hoop.

We were challenged to walk while spinning the hoop, turn around, and take it from our neck down to our waist.

At the end we were allowed to show off our best moves - Caitlin and Deanna spun the hoops while grabbing each others hands.  Jordan was pretty spectacular as she spun the hoop from her neck down to her waist.  

Hayden H could walk around while spinning his hoop.  And Fabian managed to go down on to his knees and still keep his hoop spinning.

Deanna thought it was really tiring which means it would be good exercise.

Cameron thought it was great fun to see how long you could keep the hoop up.

Sydney enjoyed it but she got the stitch.

                                         And Nicole wished that Mrs Divers was here to                                             see us.

Mrs Tobin suspects that hula hoops are going to be very popular at school for a while.

Song Bong

A group with a funny name - Song Bong - visited our school last week.


There were four people in the group, a Dad and his wife and their two sons, Jonas who is 15, and 10 year old Lui.  

Once we were all seated in the hall, we noticed there was a big cardboard wall set up.  From out behind that came David, who is the dad, with a puppet called Bargu.  Then Kate (mum) and Jonas came out with raku sticks and tapped them together.  

Lui came out 

with his raku sticks and they all tapped them together while David used the puppet to tell a story.

The next thing we saw was a big hairy volcano.  David, Kate and Jonas danced around the volcano.

They set up some drums and they played them - it was really loud.  Some teachers came up and played the drums while the school sang a song.  It went like this:

     I go to school

     I go to school

     I go to school

     And my teacher is cool!

Lui walked out with a big shell and he blew it.

At the end of the show all the children were allowed to come up and have a little play on each drum.

It was really cool.

By Jasmine and Khail