1 - BLAST OFF

Cluck Cluck Cluck! and the wait is over.

We have now decided on our new Class member's name...... Fergie! Fergie is a hen! Our class voted on what we would call her and Fergie won.

She is named after a singer in the Black Eyed Peas.

Along with Fergie came 4 other hens.

Room 4 has decided on Coco for their hen's name and room 6 decided on Snowy.

Sydney,Samara & Travis got the duty of caring for the hens, feeding the hens and collecting the eggs. They had to put hay in their nesting box and food in their feeder.

Today we had a little bit of a mischief hen who THOUGHT it would be funny to run away

but guess what, IT WASNT !

Sydney & Samara are worried that the hen won't be caught again.

4 - 3 - 2

Look! Now this little house has a cage round it. Mr Graham and some men came and put the cage there last week.

We wonder if we're getting some rabbits? Or maybe a lamb?

Keep reading our blog to find out.

7 - 6 - 5 -- Countdown

Briarna has found a new friend.

A lady called Kay came and showed us some of her hens.  

She wrapped them up in a towel to keep them quiet and to stop them from pooping on us.  Then she let us hold them.

Sometimes the hen got out of the towel but it didn't run away.

Kay also had a bantum hen with some chickens.  They were really soft and cute.  The mother hen didn't like it when the chicks were taken away from her.

We learned heaps about hens - what they eat, that different hens lay different sized and coloured eggs, and how to look after them.

We can't wait until we get our hens.   

10, 9, 8,

What is happening here?  These men are busy building something - I wonder what it is?

Maybe it's a kennel for a dog?

Maybe it's shelter for a goat?

Maybe we'll just have to wait and see.

The Gardener

A man called the Gardener came to tell us some stories today.  

He started with the story of the Selfish Giant.  It was about a giant who wouldn't let children play in his garden and it was winter all the time.  One day some children were climbing the trees and it was spring time except in one tree wasn't spring, it was still winter.  The reason it was still winter was because a wee boy couldn't climb up the tree.  When the giant came out all the children ran away but the little boy didn't because he was crying so much that he didn't see the giant.  The giant picked him up and put him in the tree and                                                                                    then the spring came back again.

Then he told the Paper Bag Princess story and some kids were chosen to help him.

Jacob had to wear a microphone and help the gardener read another story - it was about cows that used typewriters and they wanted electric blankets because they were cold in winter.  The farmer wouldn't give th

em any electric blankets so they didn't give him any milk.  It was a funny story.

Some of the kids in our class had to dress up and help tell the Cinderella story.  The boys had to dress up as the ugly sisters and Shahil was Cinderella.  It was a bit naughty because it was the Roald Dahl Revolting Rhyme but it was very, very funny. 

Bradford's Unexpected Visitor

Thursday Bradford had a dog come on to the school grounds.  Nobody had any idea where the dog came from or what to do with it.  Before the teachers caught the dog, he was being chased by kids, trying his hardest not to get caught.  The teachers were worried that he might bite one of the kids so they rang the fire bell and everybody had to go back to class - boo-hoo, we missed out on some of our lunch time.

Mr Hamilton caught the dog and tied it up at the tennis court.  While it was there it was trying to get away by pulling on the rope and it was yelping too.  A lady came, she was a ranger.  She put a leash on the dog and she took it away.

The ranger said that she would

 check to see if it had a micro-chip in it.  We went with her down to her van to watch her. And it did.  The ranger said she would find out who the dog belonged to and take it back.  She also said she was going to tell the owners not to let it wander away again.

When she left, we got to have the rest of our play time - horray.

By Samara and Brenna

PJ DAY !!!!!

Friday 7th August 2009 we { Bradford School} had a PJ day to help raise money for the Caleb Turner trust programme. We are raising the money because Caleb needs to go to Mexico for stem cell treatment and yet he's only two. Everyone had to bring along a gold coin to help raise money - I hope we made heaps.

We were sooooooooo tired {yawn}. Mrs Tobin even got a picture of us sleeping{how embarrassing}.

We saw people wandering around the school in all kinds of PJs. Some were stripes, some were animals and other cool designs. So far we've been wearing our PJ's all day long, even at buddy reading. Here are some photo's.

Mrs Tobin got so hot in her PJ's that she had to change back into her clothes.



(I wish these girls were this quiet
all the time!)