Term 4, Week 2 news!

Hello from 5E!

This week we had the Christchurch Schools Music Festival on Wednesday. It was held at the Horncastle arena. This year their topic was on Whatever the Weather. Here is what Horncastle arena looks like:

Google Maps

Here’s a link to the Christchurch Schools music festival 2017 website:

Website

Each year the Christchurch Schools Music Festival choose a charity to fundraise for  and this year they chose the Cancer Society.

This Saturday it is our teacher Mrs Evers’ birthday. It will be the 28th of October. Mrs Evers is really excited about it.

Bye bye we hope you had a wonderful weekend.

We are excited to share with you next week.

From 5E

Alice's 100wc Week #36

The disaster!

It was Easter morning and before the children waddled down the stairs there were little human beings creating a MESS!

The were chocolate eggs everywhere!

BUT…

There was only one egg that the little human beings were fascinated in.

It was the creamy egg,

It was gooey sticky…

And it tasted pretty good.

But the little human beings were so fascinated that they put cones, around it!

Then they heard the children thumping down the stairs.

They just stood still with the chocolate egg.

The children saw the little human beings and that was NOT pretty!

Then the little human beings never messed with human beings that were bigger than them.

Laura's Week #36 100wc

The tiny people

The day after easter I was starving and found a cream egg. I took a bite of the creamy goodness and I was about to bring it into my room to eat but just then remembered that I wasn’t allowed to eat in my room! I went into my room to grab my computer to relax in the kitchen but when I came back I found tiny people! There was an entire town of them! Right next to the cream egg there were two tiny men that looked like construction workers. There was also one on top of the cream egg inspecting the cream. Suddenly, they took the cream egg away! I asked one of the tiny people where they were carrying it to? She said ”We are bringing it to all of the poor people of our land and thank you for the giant cream egg giant." I felt like a hero. “It’s hard to imagine that all of this happened because of one cream egg.” I said to myself. Do you agree?   

Juliet's 100wc Week #36

The miniature land

  

The people stood at the pool of cream egg that was landing on the ground. Children were yanked back from the confectionery trying to eat it. The workers placed cones around the egg, but even so, people were using it as a slide and landing in the sticky mess. The chocolate started to melt and plopped everywhere. The worker had to bring in a car repair truck to take the mess away! ‘‘Where did it come from?’’ ‘‘Why is it here?’’ Were the puzzled cries coming from the gathering crowd.               

‘‘ Mummy what is it?’’Asked a small boy standing with his mother.  The crowd laughed.

‘‘Its an easter egg you stink brain!’’said his older sister Katie. ‘‘ It’s a Cadbury Cream egg!!’’

‘‘That's enough Laura.’’ said her mother, in her sternest voice. ‘‘Lets leave.’’

‘‘ Great!’’ yelled Laura. ‘‘Let's get out of here!’’

And away they scrambled back to their home.

Mia's double 100wc Week #35

To Andrew,

You must be really proud of yourself helping people in the dark and staying up all night so people can contact you when they need help! People must love you for what you do. Do you have help? I would be really proud of you if you helped my mum and me. I would say thank you and I would give you a big hug. I wish I could help you too. Do you like doing that job and do you actually stay up all night? Don’t you miss your family because I would. And how do people contact you without phones?

From Mia  

In the dark silence you wake up hearing people on the stretcher crying for help saying Andrew Andrew quick the babies here. You get up to grab the door but you stumble down. You get up thinking I will not give up. You get up again and look for the door handle in the dark room. You open the door and see them and say I can’t see what I'm doing. You look for the light switch you turn the solar power light on and you look what’s wrong. You say there were all good and you help the lady and then you give the baby to the mum.

Alice's 100wc Week #35

Dear Andrew,

Wow, how amazing. Are you scared when there is a matter of life and death? You are such a life saver! Where did you study? Do you ever miss your family? What country did you grow up in? I bet if my older sister saw this she would be so inspired because she wants to be a doctor. Even though I don’t want to be a doctor it still inspires me!  How are you able to work without a light or some of the vital equipment? I love watching your video.

From Alice

Kate's double 100wc Week #35

Dear Andrew,

Are you sometimes scared when you are in the dark?  Do you like it when you're rushed? Do you like what you're doing? How old were you when you got started doing your job that you are doing now? Do you like the dark? How did you get inspired to be a lifesaver? Do you like being a lifesaver? I am pleased that you are here to help us that are in need. You are a confident and a humongous risk- taker of a person and we are lucky to have you in our world no matter what you do.

From Kate.

Imagine you can’t see, but you need light now you say it's going to be all right but it's not, you keep on saying you're going to be all right... You rush to the hospital, you go in and share something's wrong. You try as hard as you can without any tools. You try and try but you realise that they only have 2 seconds to live with their baby and then it turned to be 1 second to live. And by the time you know it you have saved both of their lives and they name the baby Andrew.

Juliet's 100wc Week #35

Dear Andrew,

Do you find it hard to get up out of bed in the middle of the night? I would!  Do you like helping people and saving lives? Does your family ever see you? Do they mind that you do not live at home? How do you get to where the problem is? By bike? By car? By walking? Do many people help support you with the work you do? Do they donate things like solar lights and equipment? Why have you decided to do this with your life? Because you wanted to help? 😀 How often do you have to help people?

Juliet

Mollie's 100wc Week #35

Dear Andrew,

What is it like having to get up in the middle of the night and having to operate in the dark when you don’t even have enough tools to help the mother? Is it stressful having a mother and a baby that lives are in danger counting on you to save their lives? What is it like working in the dark? What do you tell the mother? How bad would you feel if a mother and baby dies while you’re trying to operate? Has anyone ever died while you are trying to help them? What is the average amount of sleep you get every night?

Mollie

100wc Week #34

                                …the water just kept gushing out…

I was five. I was with my friend Audrey at her house in her outdoor blow up pool and we were playing Marco Polo when suddenly"Pop!". A big hole appeared in the side of the pool and the water just kept gushing out it like a volcano erupting with hot steaming lava. Suddenly a big wave of water somehow blocked up the hole and melted the plastic back into its shape like magic. We were too scared to get back into the pool so we ran inside the house to tell Audrey's mum but she wasn't there and... neither was the house… What happened?…

To be continued..

By Lily

Year 4 and 5’s trip to the Antarctic Centre!

Our trip to the Antarctic Centre was so fun because we learnt so much stuff about Antarctica and global warming. We also got to go into the storm room where we got to experience a summer storm in Antarctica. We also learnt lots of facts about Antarctica. For example we learnt that there are no polar bears in Antarctica! When we went to the Antarctic Centre we also went on the Hagglunds. Did you know that the New Zealand Hagglunds are green with white stripes? When we were there we saw the penguins getting fed. It was so cute! The penguins are only there if they're hurt or sick. They are the small penguins because they are the little blue penguins and the white flippered penguins.

By Coco and Izzie :)

THE SECRET OF LIFE

A girl in our class called Gemma, got published in Rattle. Her poem is called THE SECRET OF LIFE and here’s the poem:

The sleeping lion

The living bones

The paper world

The matchstick bag

The book of secrets

Life and death.

A big well done to Gemma!

By Alice.

Get New Zealand Writing

This year Mrs Evers signed up to the “Get New Zealand Writing” challenge ran by Warehouse Stationery. We have been paired with a school in Auckland called Henderson Valley School to exchange writing. We received our poster from them on Monday the 13th of March.

We can only open theirs when we send off ours. We have to make a postcard each with our favourite line from our I am poem and decorate the back and front. The I am poems is a poem that represents us. We can’t use similes so we have to use metaphors. We had The Iain Sharp poem to guide us. Here’s the poem:

Iain Sharp is a fat parcel of mixed groceries tied with a clumsy knot.

Iain Sharp is a black kite adrift on changeable winds.

Iain Sharp is a pile of scoria tricking softly to the sea.

Whenever I peep in mirrors Iain Sharp frowns back at me.

It’s terrifying.

Iain Sharp is a runaway tramcar.

Iain Sharp is a chunk of moonrock.

Iain Sharp is nine letters wrenched from the Roman Alphabet.

Look there and there!

Bits of bright confetti blow from chapel to chapel.

I chase them with outstretched hands.

They might be Iain Sharp.

The line I put on my poem is: Alice is pink, brightening up everywhere she goes.

Here are six words Year 5 like the sound of:

1. Nerve-cited
2. Caring
3. Laptops
4. Risk takers
5. Mechatronics
6. Kia Kaha

Here are three things that make us smile:

1. Random acts of kindness
2. Bridie bloopers
3. Teachers, friends & Suzie the cat

The longest word we know:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (which means  a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.)

By Alice :)

100WC week #27 😊

It was a beautiful morning and I was on set at my first movie, starring me. The day before I was very worried because I was scared that I would mess up my lines or do something stupid. Full of excitement getting ready, I went to go look at myself in the mirror and screamed. I was completely brown because I put too much tanning on! “This is going to be a hard day.” I worried in my head. I arrived and I was late! “I guess that I was right this morning.” I exclaimed in my head. “Lights, camera, action!” The camera man exclaimed. I just realised that I was on first! Right at that very moment I got fired!

By Alice :)