Berlin

Hi again - it's Lena from Berlin - did you all have a nice holiday??? I miss you sometimes and Mrs Hansen too! We are having a fantastic time and so much is happening I would forget if I wasn't writing a diary.

It has been really hot 38 degrees and we spent 3 days at the Baltic Sea. Here in Berlin I watched Shrek 4 in 3D and my little brother Lucas went to Legoland. We also visited heaps of people and went shopping - it was nice and cool in the shop!

Tomorrow we go to where my great-grandmother comes from and then soon to Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary where I will meet up Keela Matthews from Mararoa School.

Hope you miss me too! Bye from Lena

Hi room 4 - I made it to Germany! It was a looong trip and I stayed up for almost 24 hrs and watched nice movies on the plane to Singapore. Then on the second flight I slept for ages! In Germany we had to catch another plane from Munich to Frankfurt but our suitcases missed the flight so we had to wait for them...then we picked up our new car which has fold down trays like in a plane! When we got to mums friends house we changed into our togs and jumped in the swimming pool because it is 30 degrees here! That was on Sunday and we also watched Germany beat England 4:1 in the soccer!!! There are 2 boys here and we made up flags of the remaining teams by drawing them on paper and hung them from the lounge room ceiling. Everybody is soccer mad here and lots of cars have German flags on them. Today I went to a theatre play with my friends school and to a castle in the afternoon. Tomorrow we will travel to mums cousins house and I will write again soon. I miss you all and hope you have a good holiday! Now I have to go catch a fish for dinner - bye from Lena

Thomas Duckshooting

On Sunday I went duckshooting with Ken, Patrick, Dad and Sam Carruthers. We left really early in the morning at twenty past five and went to a duckpond near Gore at our friend Toms house. They made us a yummy lunch with pizza and garlic bread. I shot 2 ducks and we got about 25 altogether. We took 2 dogs and they went into the pond to fetch the ducks for us. They were Baxter and Flint. It was a fun day.

Louise's Tap dancing

I went to Invercargill yesterday for my third tap competitions. I did four dances all day and I got a highly commended ribbon in each one. I started with my solo dance to 'Aint she sweet'. My song & dance was 'spoon full of sugar' out of Mary Poppins. I had good fun singing and dancing on stage. I used a pram and a doll for my props. I did an impromptu dance to a song from Camp Rock by the Jonas Brothers so that was cool. My last dance was for a Champion Trophy and sash. Because I have won a section before I could enter the championship. I was very excited when I won that one. There was lots of beautiful costumes and some really good dancers. I made a new friend called Bree. She was dressed like a bumble bee. I am at home this morning because I am very tired and had a sleep in. We got home very late last night.

Swimming Lessons

On Wednesday Courtney & Alicia went to swimming club to learn how to swim.
We learnt how to do schooling, push off from the wall (streamlining). The pool was nice and cold, the rain was coming down really hard onto the roof. We saw some friends from school. We are having a great time learning to increase our skills for swimming.

Floating and Sinking

This term we went to the Water Park to test our boats to see if they would float or sink.
We made our boats out of natural materials that were environmentally friendly. Some of the materials we used were sticks, leaves, feathers, pinecones and bark.
It was great fun because we all got to watch our boats float through pipe and most of them broke when they went down the waterfall.
We had a fantastic time spotting things were floating on Lake Te Anau on the way back to school.

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todayiplayed on my scooter it is reallyfun i can also go very fast byebye taylor

Alaska photos from Keren's Dad

Here are some photos from Alaska where we are catching Polar Bears, today we caught three (a mother bear with two very big cubs) It is very cold & the sea is just starting to freeze & all the lakes are already frozen. We have seen plenty of polar bears, grizzly bears, caribou, musk ox & arctic fox's. These three bears caught today on a little windswept island
Waves from the sea slowly freezing.
One of Keren's Arctic fox's.
Following polar bear tracks, we followed these for about 40 km until we caught up with the bear.
Another two polar bears captured on a small island, the white shelter is so the biologists can work with the bears in the cold wind.
A mother & cub captured near Deadhorse, Alaska.

hoilday

Hi Room4 i have had a great hoilday i have been at my anty's house on the farm at drummond it is fun down there because i get to feed lambs and go in the shearing shed and i have to go in the wool there is stacks and stacks of it i also get to ride on the motor bike and tractor i get to ride on the on the motor bike all the time i always have to go a long way and i also made a picture for mums birthday .from taylor

Firestation Visit

When we got to the Fire Station we say three fire engines. Two of the trucks were leaving to take Room 2 back to school. We liked the new Fire Engine the best. Then we went into the lounge and Courtney tried on a Fire Suit and Taylor tried on a mask, but not the tank because she would have fallen over! We listened to Firefighter Ian and he told us about dangerous things in fires and how to keep safe. Then Justin told us some more information and he showed us how quickly he could get into his Fireman suit. He crawled around us wearing his mask and tank so we could hear what he sounded like.It was really fun playing with the hoses because Mrs Hansen got soaked! After the visit we all got a ride back to school in the Fire Engines.

Our Garden

Today we have had fun gardening in our new tunnel house and garden.
We have planted strawberries, sugarsnap peas, baby carrots, a cherry tomato plant, cucumber and some lettuces. We are also going to plant some marigolds and parsley to keep the bugs away.
Look at us having fun in our garden!

Finished Scarecrows

Room 4 have finally finished our scarecrows and we took them to the Community Garden for its Opening Day. Buzz group 6 was judged best in Room 4 and won a prize for us that had gardening gloves and some vegetable plants for us. We have planted these in our garden.

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in the weekend i got a big art set it has glue &lots of other things i even got book it was warm on the day but then it got cold when we were going home. when we got home nana was there bye Taylor

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cool nana came to stay we mmade a pizzia it was yummy bye bye from taylor

Almost Home

Hi everyone
Really enjoyed the blog and the stories there. We are flying home tonight at 10.15pm UK time so while you are all at school and then in bed we will be flying home. It will take us 27 hours to get to Christchurch.
We have had a great holiday. We went to London for the day on Friday - it was lots of fun. We went on the London eye, went to harrods and the Natural History Museum. We saw the dinosaurs there.We were going to go to the Science Museum but we ran out of time.
We have been at my Aunty Annette's this weekend and I have seen my cousins and it has been very hot.
See you on the 31st August!
From Will x

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Louise likes Ski-ing

In the holidays I went ski-ing up at Coronet Peak. I went on the chairlift and it was cool. I had a ski lesson in the morning and my mum and dad skied with me all afternoon. I lost my pole on the chairlift but I got it back from a boy who found it. He was on the chair lift behind me and dad.

The snow was soft and cold because when I fell over sometimes it went up my back. It was a nice sunny day up there. We drove through cloud on the way up because it was cloudy in Queenstown. The top of the mountain was sunny.

We saw Fergus from room 1 and his family there.

There was lunch included in my ski lesson and lots of kids in the restaurant.
Me and mum had a hot chocolate at the end of the day. It was yum! We went back to Nan and Grumps house and I slept very well after my big day out.

From Louise Shanks

Milli and Chloe masterpiece

Chloe came to stay the night at Milli's house on saturday.
we made a Butterfly Icecream Cake out of playdoh. It has a star in the middle.
It also has candles on it.
Here are some photos of it.
See you all at school tomorrow
From Milli and Chloe

Hi from Emily

I am visiting family and friends on the North Island. We have done lots of fun things.

-On the way up on the plane we did some really tricky maths.

-One day we went to the Cirque du Soleil birthday party. There I was invited up on the stage to do some hoolahooping. We got given helium balloons.

-When we got home my friend Stella and I got our faces painted.

-We also spent some time on Kawau Island with my cousin Kane, his mum and dad, as well as my grandparents.

-Some days we spent our time doing lots of shopping for clothes and shoes.

-Me and mummy also went to the Cirque du Soleil one evening and I went to bed almost at midnight. The Circus was fantastic.

-On rainy days I spend some time doing lots of paintings. I am making a book where all the paintings are attached.

-We are also visiting many new places arround here, like caves, beaches and play grounds.

Now I better go because we are off to go back to Kawau Island. So bye bye, see you at school soon.

Emily :-)

Look who came to visit

Hi Everyone. Hope you are all having a great holiday. We have all had bugs over the holidays so far, but we seem to have improved now. Flynn came for a visit on Friday and ended up staying for the afternoon and having tea with us. He is really happy in his new house and new school and is doing really well. There are less pupils in the classes in the new school than in Te Anau School. Eden's room only has 11 children in it and 2 teachers!!

There should be two photos attached to this blog of William and Flynn together. They had lots and lots of fun and got REALLY DIRTY in the back garden where the digger had been. I hope I manage to get the pictures on all right - I haven't done this before.

Enjoy the rest of your holidays. We are not doing much until Friday and then we are going to Gore for the day to hopefully go ice skating and swimming and then we are going through to Queenstown on Saturday to go skiing. Hopefully we will get to school on Monday in one piece.

Bye for now. Sandra Soper (William's mum)