Olaf

My decoration is a snowman. He is white with a big blue hat and a star on him. He also wears a red  scarf and some black buttons.  His name is Olaf

Rudolph

We made Christmas decorations and I made a brown reindeer.  It has a collar  with two bells and a red nose with reins and his name is Rudolph.     

My Bird

I made a bird it has two yellow feathers and one blue feather

Beautiful Decorations

I made a Christmas tree with sparkly white and green fabric.  I used six bells and tinsel and a star.  

Christmas Decorations

On Monday I made the green penguin.  I put jewels on my penguin.  

Purple Christmas Tree

My decoration is a purple Christmas tree.  It has candy canes on it.  I thought is was really fun.

My Decoration

Hello, my name is Cora and I made a bird with stars up on the top.

I made the snowman wearing the black hat.

I made the black and white penguin.

I made the green Christmas tree.

Christmas Decoration

I made the green owl and I put to bells on its ears.

School Camp

I liked playing with the soccer ball in the net.

I liked camp because Miss Wallace brought lots of food.

I liked going on the seesaw and the swing.

Seeds grow fast

Today we checked our seeds. They were all dried up like a prune. Miss Wallace kept watering them but all the water just vanished. My seeds are water cress. There were tiny, tiny seeds that are carrots. We are just germinating them so in the future they will become a big bush of water cress.

Skiing

In Taupo I went skiing and my teacher was Emily. We went to Happy Valley and Rocky Garden. In Rocky Garden there is a lot of jumps. My lessons was for two hours.On my last day in Rocky Garden I did a jump and landed on the hard ice, I had to get looked at by a doctor.

My favourite eggs

I like my eggs boiled, poached, especially scrambled and my mums super fried eggs. I like my boiled eggs because we can dip toast in the egg. Poached eggs are fat the colour is skin colour. Scrambled eggs looked like mince but it was yellow.

How I Like My Eggs

I like my eggs boiled because they don't make a mess and they don't make my toast soggy. I like them just on the plate with no egg-cup. They are not sticky.

Seeds that Germinate

It’s two o’clock in the afternoon and we finished looking at our germinated seed. Not all seeds germinated, one of mine did. Next week we will repeat this experiment, but water them every day.

Seeds

Today we checked our seeds. They were all dried up like a prune. Miss Wallace kept watering them but all the water just vanished. My seeds were water cress. There were tiny tiny seeds that were carrots. We are just germinating them so in the future they will become a bush of water cress

Germinating Carrot Seeds

My seeds have started to germinate after four days because there are little spikes poking out.

Germinating Seeds

Over the weekend we left the seeds to germinate. The seeds were very dry so during the weekend Miss Wallace came and watered them. I am growing carrot seeds. Only two of my seeds germinated and have grown little roots. There are probably more seeds with roots but my eyes aren’t good enough to see them. In the future (next week) we will get new seeds and water them every day for 4 days and hope they have bigger roots.

The Blossom Tree

On the Blossom Tree there are lots of pink flowers. There are honey bees too. I think the Blossom Tree is beautiful.

My Favourite Cherry Tree!

When I wake up, I look out my window and see my favourite cherry tree. Yesterday I saw that there was one flower on my favourite tree. I opened my curtains today and I could not believe my eyes. There was more than one flower, now I’ve lost count. Where my Nanny and Poppa used to live there was a cherry tree just like the one I’m taking about.

Docking

In the holidays I helped Dad, Jacob, Warwick, Matthew, Jessica and Courtenay dock. I picked up lambs as well. Dad had to take the drys out of the mob so the drys don’t take the other lambs from their mothers.

Card Castles

This morning before class I built a card castle out of the jumbo cards. It took me ages because the kids were moving around so I built it over and over, but eventually I built it!

Blossom Tree

On the blossom tree we have lots of bees that suck the pollen.

Blossom Trees

At our school, we have lots of blossom trees. They are beautiful. We take pictures by them to put on our blog. One of them has light pink flowers and the other one has dark pink flowers, they only blossom in spring. They have lots of bees on them.

I am playing with my lambs.

Frankie

Me and Dad at Australia

Me and Dad went to Australia and we saw tigers, giraffes and the crocodile, so dad put me
In the crocodile’s mouth.  On the way back we fed the giraffes and the tigers. We went back to the aeroplane.

Hayley   

Shianne the Shamazing.

My name is Shianne and I am 10 years old. My favourite colour is blue and I love candy floss and chocolate.  I also love Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger.  I have 3 siblings, Aroha, Marlin and Cyrus. My parents are Ray and Mel.  I have a dog her name is Gurl and I also have 3 chickens.

In the weekends I like to go farming with Dad or watch TV.

Shianne

Lambs, our Lambs                                                                                                                           

Tippy and Zippy are Milly’s lambs.  I have Pippy my lamb.  My lamb is smart, after one sip Pippy was hammering it down.  That’s the milk I’m talking about.  This  I was making the milk …and I lift the lid of milk powder container. Then my dog Mac started to EAT the milk powder.  Oh No!      

                            Harriet’s Birthday

For my sister’s birthday we went bowling and I won.  Then we went to the pools and went down the slide.

Kate

My name is Cora and my birthday is in October in docking time.  Dad said he might get me a pet calf to have.  I want to  have a new pencil case and a cooking hat.

Cora

Our Dot Day

Putorino

Putorino is a small village between Napier and Wairoa. There is a school with only 10 children in it. Putorino is a very hilly part of the country.

98 years ago this school was built and in 2016 we will be celebrating our 100 year anniversary.  All the children that go there are amazing including the teacher. We have a swimming pool that is on the field.

Putorino is the Maori name for flute.

On the side of the school there areMaori patterns.  The school is green and blue all over.  We have kereru and tui out in our trees. In the corner of the grounds there is a white turkey.

Playground

We have an adventure playground and a tennis court. We have 10 students.

 

We have milk and story time.

 We have 2 iPads.

The school has a garden with corn, pumpkin, cabbage and silver beet.

In the classroom we sit on the 4 beanbags, blue, green, brown and orange. There are 10 pillows as well, for us to sit on.

Cabbage Trees

We have   lots of trees. They keep the sun off you. Cabbage trees are native to New Zealand. 

About Putorino School

Putorino is a small village between Napier and Wairoa. There are 10 children in our school and 2 teachers. There are only 2 boys at our school. Our school is very small it only has a pool, an adventure playground and a garden. There is lots of farmland and hills. There is a fire station, a complex and a pub where buses stop in. Every year the community has competitions like the Waikare Challenge where we run, bike, swim and kayak.

This is the Sports Complex.

The Fishing Competition at the beach and the Speech Competition for local schools also happens at the Complex.

Chickens

  

The chickens live next door and they come to school to visit us lots and our teacher gets me to chase them back to her place.