Wednesday 31 October 2012

Paint a Visual Picture with Words

Broken window by Josh

On one hot summer day Jarvis was kicking his black and white rugby ball around his backyard. "Yaa," he said.
Jarvis wanted to have one last gigantic kick. Up went the ball, up, up UP! and the ball went so high that Jarvis said, "that ball will have snow on it when it comes down."
Down came the ball. Down, down, down... SMASH!!! just as Mum was peeking out the door beside the window. Mum came stomping out the door and yelled, "Jarvis, you naughty little boy." Jarvis had his hands on his ears because of the loud shattering noise that came from the window and because of the shock he was in.
He was crying so hard that  there was a huge puddle around his feet.
"Jarvis, you're grounded for a whole two months and you'll be paying for that window," said Mum.
"I'm so, so sorry Mum. I didn't mean to break the window."
If I was Jarvis I would be kicking the ball at the rugby park.

Athletics by Renee

I find athletics quite interesting but there's one thing I dislike, and that thing I dislike is high-jump.
Now you're probably thinking, "why doesn't she like high-jump?"
Well I'm not actually as tall as a nine year old is supposed to be, I'm only 1 metre 36 centimtetres. So, of course it's going to be hard if the pole's taller than you.
Back to the subject. The thing I dislike is high-jump but now I'm going to tell you the thing I cherish the most. It's long jump, because I'm small I have an advantage! I can run quite fast and jump quite long.
"Now you're probably thinking that, if she's fast them why doesn't she like sprints?"
...well, sprints take all your energy.


Visiting Storyteller





Term 4


Room 5
Huia Range School
23 October 2012-10-23
Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Our last homework for the year lasts for two weeks and is due in on Friday 2 November. Each child has to plan 5 school lunches, which in total cost no more than $20. Each lunch must be healthy and does not include canteen orders. It would be helpful to go to the supermarket to find actual prices for particular products. For example one loaf of bread for $2:00 would be enough bread for the whole week. Each day you would list bread as $0: 40.
Make a menu or table for your lunches and present it in an interesting way, perhaps use pictures from pamphlets or magazines. This is just budgeting practice and is not real, some children were worried they couldn’t have canteen this week!
Reminder: frequent athletics practices- bring shorts, drink and a sunhat.
Kind regards
Lee Gibbs                                                                        
Examples of healthy lunches.
There are websites that will help you plan for the week such as