Zentangle Doodling

We have spent the rainy day Zentangling!! It takes a lot of concentration to get the patterns right but we have found it relaxing. The key is don't over think, just doodle!

Best Camp Ever.

On Thursday the Middle class went on camp to Dunedin. We slept at the Otago Museum in Discovery World. At the museum we went into the butterfly room. I got about 8 of them on me. The butterflies all liked my big shiny and sparkly bow.You pick them up by putting your finger underneath its front legs,and it should slowly climb onto your finger. Lots of the butterflies where lying on the ground. In the butterfly room there was a water fall. Surrounding the waterfall was a big butterfly. I think it was the only one that big. There was a big furry looking caterpillar. When it was dark and quiet, and all the alarms were on, we went out on a night walk in the museum. I heard lots of shuffling from feet. We were at the place with all the animals. It was really quiet until the girl who was looking after us told us a story. She said if you listen you can hear the sounds of these creatures. It made me worry about the noises that would be heard. The first noise that we heard was the lions waking. They sounded like real animals. Lots of people said they could see Mrs Glover, Mr Copland and Mr Dassen making the noises. After we got to have a look around at all the animals in the room.This was the best camp ever.  

 

Camp Fun

Camp Fun  William

On Thursday the Middle class went to Dunedin. When we got to Dunedin we went inside the ice skating rink.  

I got to go on the ice because of the trolley. Mrs Glover nearly pushed me into the wall then they put the disco ball on.  

After ice skating we went to the to the dinosaur park and we had lunch,  after lunch we played and we got a go on the dinosaur.

Next we went in a camp groups to do the town challenge my group was Zoe and Henry and I.We had to answer the things on our list and I bought a mermaid, a tiara and ice cream rubber.

The Mackenzies

Scottish Family

This is our Scottish family, the Mackenzies.

Little Keith is three

Alice is six

Dougal is eleven

Douglas is fourteen

Ma is thirty two

I am eighty nine

We are travelling to NZ because

Dad died in the mines and we want to earn more money while doing folk dancing.

That’s why we are travelling to NZ.   

A Rippa Day!!!

RIPPA

YAY we made it to the FINALS.

We won all our games and the we played another Warepa team in the Semis and won it 8-4, and we made it to the finals and lost 9-8 SO CLOSE!

Warepa Purple we lost to Rosebank Chiefs.

Liam T and Tyler

Rippa Rugby

A Rippa it was really fun and addicting. I liked playing against the other kids. It was really fun ripping the tags off and getting tries, I even got my first try.

Some teams were really good at playing, I really liked it we came to the semi finals.  It was Warepa vs Warepa in the semi final my team lost to the other team but it was still really fun and addicting.  

I loved it!  

By Blake

Warepa Aqua!!

Rippa - Will

On Thursday we went to the Rippa Tournament.

My team name was Warepa Purple, in our first game we played Saint Marys we won  5-0. We made it to the quarter finals and won 9-0 so we were off to the semi finals it was funny because we played another Warepa team, it was Warepa Aqua we bet them 8-5. We made it to the finals but lost by one point to Rosebank Chiefs. I had a great day.Will

Rippa - Liam

Rippa

”Rip” I yelled when I had just saved a try. 

It was their sixth rip so they had to pass to us. Marshall passed it to me and I raced down the line and scored!  

   

Scottish Settlers - by Shaun

On the 22nd of May we went to the Toitu Museum and pretended that we were Scottish settlers.

We made different families with different clothes, hats, and different and weird names. Then we went to a boat and tried to think what it was like travelling from Scotland all the way to New Zealand.

It was so hard to live in a boat people spewing, drunk, tired and wishing to be home and that they never should of came over to New Zealand.

We had to clean all the spuke off the floor which was hard.

We had to freeze and make a pose and say what we were feeling.

Our family was the Mcdonald's Ma, Da, Alice, Douglas, Keith and Dougal and we were  Scottish dancers.

We meet other people on our journey to New Zealand and they weren't happy either.

We went back upstairs and get out of the clothes but some of us did not want to.              

 

Middle Class Camp 2015

On the 21st of May 2015 the Middle Class went to Dunedin for their Camp. 
My favourite activity was Ice Skating because it was so funny watching people fall over, but trust me it really hurts. 
The cool thing was they put the lights on because we were the only ones there,the lights shine all over the Ice Skating rink and make it light up. At first I was really scared because it felt really slippery, but I got used to it quite easily. 
When the Class had just got onto the Ice the bright lights were on, when everyone had got the hang of it, the bright lights went off. Even though William was not allowed to ice skate he went on the trolley and I think he had a nice time. 
When we had to get off I was sad to leave but I can always go there with my family again. 
 By Zoe Hyslop

Ice Skating

On Thursday the Middles went on camp, we went ice skating first and everyone was nervous.
 When we got in it took us a while to get our skates on, a while after we got going every one went straight for the sides. We were slowly going into the middle then there were some bad crashes and sore falls. For most of us it was our second time ice skating but it was some of our first time ice skating. We started racing, that was when there were the worst falls, Marshall fell over lots. Evie was the best ice skater not adding the adults and they were pushing the carts really fast William got pushed as well he couldn't ice skate because he has a broken finger. Mrs Bissett told us that there was five minutes to when we will have to go so we made the most of the rest of the time, we all went out for the last five minutes, so that was when we had some of the worst falls. There were lots of crashes and bangs then we had to leave. It took us a long time getting the ice skates off we put a big line up of ice skates on the counter, then we went to the Dinosaur Park where we had lunch and we played for a while.
It was super fun and energetic.
 Adam

Hockey with Rory.

Today we practiced our hockey skills with Rory.  We had to be really careful to keep our heads up and sticks down.

 It was hard to control the ball while dribbling.

Dribble King was lots of fun!

Trapping and passing.