Sunday, 16 March 2014

Camping Trip From Hell

Excerpts from Holly Grundy's fantastic poem.

So Miss Dargan decided we should go to camp
And our wild sides try to revamp
We packed up our gear and left for 3 days
That would be hell every step of the way.

We drove to Kaikoura to set up a spot
But when we got it was miserably hot
Se we decided to go and swim til we cooled
But that was stupid, ourselves we fooled.

"Enough!" Miss Dargan cried, "let's go on a hike."

"Lead the way Mrs Lawson."
Off she led us into the woods
But if only the map she'd understood.

Then somehow Keely was attacked
By angry Keas she'd earlier tracked
All we heard was "Key-ah" and funny screams
Of two angry birds and a member of our team.

Poor Carenza was ambushed by a tree
She swore was alive but we couldn't see
Then Blake and George ran through a blackberry bush
As Maddi screamed and fell on her tush.

A few minutes later and we're back on the road
Racing to St Patrick's where we'd all unload
As soon as we get there we'll sink to the floor
And take cat naps as some of us snore.

Later we get up to get some good food
Which really brightened our soggy mood
Mrs Coleman laughed, from our faces she could tell
That this adventure we'd had was the camping trip from hell!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Little leprechauns hard at work.






Thursday, 13 March 2014

Kaikoura Camp, 5-7 March 2014.

Despite getting a little bit wet last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were bright and sunny for our Year 5 and 6 class camp to Kaikoura.

We had a great time exploring the rocky shore and managed to feel what whale blubber and skin was like at Fyffe House.







Koru designs

The Maori symbol for "Growth" is the koru and Mrs Keats has been working on designing some beautiful koru pastel pictures with the Pohutukawa children to represent their whanau.





2014's Topic is "Growth"

We thought we would start off the year looking at how much we had grown since we were babies.  Can you spot who's who?  The class competition was a close race and most people managed to find their current matches although some of the mums and dads had a few problems.