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 :)

       

Beauty disaster

I have this friend Lydia. There is one bad thing about her. She is totally obsessed with being beautiful. I feel sorry for her because she’s got brown hair. I've got brown hair too. For me it’s hard to be beautiful when you've got brown hair. I’m getting worried about her because she’s been doing this nearly over a year now. Also if there’s another thing about her it’s that she LOVES taking selfies on her phone. But if I asked her if her house burnt down and she could only save one thing then it would be her camera.

By Gemma

Swimming sports  - 1 March 2017

On the first of March Year 5-8 went to swimming sports at Wharenui pool. We were very thankful for this help of doing this, as they have let us use Wharenui pool many, many times before for swimming sports. At swimming sports we had to wait and wait for our race, and that took forever! (unless you were the first race!) When the girls were lining up, we were shivering with fear and coldness. We were very nerve-cited. We were staring at the blank starting blocks and suddenly we were on them ready to dive! Every race we got on the top block but we didn’t go on the blocks for backstroke (of course!). We had to push off the wall really hard. Some of the girls were so strong that they made waves! We had a good time when we swam and we all tried very hard. There was a lot of false starts and splashing when the other people dived in to get started. All the girls tried to see who was winning so they could cheer their house on.

We loved all of the events we did, they were fun. The events were:

Freestyle

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Butterfly

A mix of all the strokes

We had to wait a little for to start in line to go for the race. There were a lot of people that had the same cap, and it was hard to identify all of the girls in the race. Good job, and good luck to the girls who are representing Selwyn House in the Zones. We hope to get good results!

By Mollie and Charlotte C

Glentui camp!

On Wednesday of Week 2, Year 4 and 5 went to Glentui Meadows camp. This was the first time for Year 4 to go on camp and they did really well for their first time! Year 5 were the leaders on camp, which we loved!

When we arrived, we walked the Glentui Loop Track. On the walk we saw an impressive waterfall. We also did a camp concert on the first night. It was very funny because some girls did comedy and there were fantastic singing voices from some girls too!

On Thursday we had three activities over the day. We took part in Nature Diary drawing with Mrs Dann, Photography with Jo and Creative Writing with Kerrin. After the activities we had free time and we got to go in the freezing pool, play table tennis, do colouring in, try military manoeuvres or kung fu.

On the last night we had a silent dinner. It was so much fun but hard for some people but we made it happen. We had to communicate by writing on pieces of paper with colouring pens, doing sign language or miming.

We all had an excellent time on camp.

By Annabel & Gemma

Juliet's 100wc Week #26

 The tale of Timothy Two-Fingers

I was walking down the street when I saw a tiny person busking. He was the size of two fingers. But how can someone be so tiny? Someone was about to stand on him! I rushed towards the little person and scooped him up in my hands. ‘‘Thank you!’’ he squeaked. He had an enormous grin on his face. ‘‘My name is Timothy Two-Fingers’’. Timothy saw my puzzled expression. ‘‘ I am Timothy Two-Fingers because I am so tiny!’’

"Oh,’ I answered. I put him back down a few minutes later and went home. When I got home Mum asked where I had been, so I answered . . .  

By Juliet!

Izzie 100wc Week #26

Disappointment

“I cannot wait till tonight, it is going to be epic!’’I exclaimed while I was  applying my sparkly new makeup on. Suddenly some ugly creature came. I tried and tried to get rid of it but… “Owww!” I yelled as the rude thing bit me right on the nose. My nose was killing me in pain.“Mum my nose! Come fast!”.

“Why?” Mum ran like a cheetah to see me.

“Mum, I can’t go to the party now. It is HORRIBLE!’’ I was so gutted. I thought that the party was going to be epic. I tried to put heaps of makeup on to hide it. “But how can something so tiny do that to me?” I wondered unfairly.

By Izzie

Annabel 100wc Week#26

The worst ever scratch...

It was a bright blue sunny day. I was racing down the footpath to my friend’s house with the warm sun tinkling on my back when I fell over. It did not hurt so I just got up and started to race back down the footpath. Then it really started to hurt so I looked down and I gazed at the scratch. But how can something so tiny like a scratch keep on growing? It was weird but blood was dropping out of my skin so I quickly walked home. When I opened the door Mum asked me in surprise, “What happened?” I alerted her that I  had fallen over and then my mum saw what had happened. She said to go outside. Mum gave me a towel and I put it on my scratch that kept on growing.             

By Annabel

Spider bites - Amy's 100wc Week #26

But how can something so tiny be so dangerous? Yesterday I was playing with my dog when a spider as black as the night sky and a tail as white and sparkly as the stars bit me. It crawled up my leg. Suddenly it sunk its fangs deeply into my leg. It was only about three centimetres but it hurt. I was astounded. I was expecting it to walk away but no .It was a white tailed spider. I didn't like it. It was poisonous and I was so creeped out. Finally it scattered slowly out of sight.

Annabel - Week #25

Every week I dread for two days - Tuesday and Thursday. Do you know why? It is Jump Jam. I dawdle over like a snail.  So that is why I am always last. I try to be late for school, but I am never because my brother has to go school as well. I get dropped last and always ask for traffic to be bad on those days. But it is never! Sometimes I stroll into school just to be last but then I have to finish school work so I am never late.

By Annabel :)

Charlotte L's Week #25

I ran really slowly and quite gloomily. It was Cross Country. The worst school event ever in the past and that will ever come.I finally reach the end.As I walk down the path to the judges table, feeling blue, I stop just in front. They put a little mark on my hand and they don’t say well done. My enemy Sally who came 1st got a ‘Well done!’ from everyone and even my best friend Ali trudged over to Sally and glumly said ‘Well done.’Ali came 2nd. The only person who did say well done to me was Ali. A week later during a break I heard Sally talking to her friends. I managed to overhear a sentence.”My mum works at the cafeteria and every day before Cross Country she puts a little bit of a slowness potion in Charlotte’s water.”So that is why I am always last. I run and tell Ali. She is so super surprised.

To be continued…

By Charlotte L  

Izzie's Week #25

This time of year again

I hate this time of year. I am all blue that day. The disappointment I feel when we go to the A&P show. I dread having to walk past every place that my Mum, Dad and all the other people in my family want to go to. At last I go for food but I am always last in line of my family. I feel my tummy wasting away to get the food. I try to get to first but it never works one bit. “Mum! Izzie is trying to get there first.” Ameila groans.

“She should not be.’’ Mum replied like she was not happy. At last I get food and feel annoyed all the way home.

‘‘At last the day is over,”’ I say in relief.  So that is why I am always last.

By Izzie.

Sarah Week #25

It was one bright steaming hot morning. “NO!” I shouted, “ why does it have to be today!”

“Sarah time to get up!” Mum shouted.

“Umm Mum, I feel sick.” I moaned.

“Haha I’m not letting you off this time.” Mum growled.

“I don’t want to go to athletics.” I mumbled.

“I've got powerade for you.” Mum bribed.

“Ooooh I’m coming powerade!” I yelled.

“Now what! You’re dressed already.” Mum said surprised.

“Yes I am. I feel proud about it.” I replied.

“I've got some toast for you.” Mum said.

“Cool, let's go I’ll eat in the car.” I said in a stoked voice.

It was time for the running race. I ran and ran but for four years I have always come last. All thanks to my sister for putting super super super glue on the heel of my sneakers  to slow me down in my races. I still hate her for doing that. So that is why I’m always last.

Charlotte C's 100wc Week #25

                                     Cooking class  

Today was cooking class, I dreaded this day all week. Guess what? We had to make cookies to get into the top team of the class. I tried and I tried but I was far from the best cook in the class. I wanted to give up but I kept trying all day and night to practice but I did not get any better than I was. The time had come and It was time to get cooking. A little bit of sugar, eggs, butter and chocolate but there was something else… I did not know what it was. I still put it in and then in the oven it went. “I know I will win.” I thought to myself. When the timer went off  I took it out of the oven slowly, it was that heavy. Before my eyes there was an atrocious mess of gloop! It was scattered along the plate and I felt like bursting into tears. So that is why I am always last. I was washing away in my heart.   

By Charlotte C:)