Lewis's Lizard

Last night I found a lizard under some wood on North West Arch Twizel. I called it Lucky, it is about
15 centimetres long. He has a really cool pattern, he has lots of shades of brown. His tail is fully brown, he looks camouflaged. It was really hard to catch him. I googled it, we think it is a skink. Here is a picture showing the different lizards. We looked at TeAra, the encyclopedia of New Zealand and found this chart:

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Report by Lewis

Folk Dancing with Mrs A

Room13 did Folk Dancing with Mrs A. We did a dance called semia dergh.First we needed a boy and a girl.Then the girl had to put her hand out, then the boy had to do it, then again once more time.It was awesome!!

Reporters Arwen and Ava.

Conservation Week

Room 13 Little Theatre Company - The Santa Trap

Blue1 did a play about a Santa Trap.

A family of bad people who had not got christmas presents thought they were going to get good and cool presents by trapping santa.

 Think that they got good presents? Then think again.

They got spinach,broccoli,a thirty volume encyclopedia,a calculator,a room-tidying machine and ,cabbage,soap,clean socks and underwear.

One of the sister's called Sophie was nice and she got a dolly.

Starring

Arwen as Amy and Sophie Kyle as Dylan Joseph as Michael Ryan as Tania Tom as Santa.

Reporter: Tom

Pictures: Laelani

A Visitor just back from Canada

Jade's dad, Phil, came in and talked to us about what he did in Canada. He showed us lots of awesome pictures of the animals and landscapes of Canada where he was flying helicopters. We liked the wolf pictures and finding out how big they were. Arwen thought the glacier pictures were interesting.

William said, " I liked it because you showed us lots of pictures of Canada and the animals. I like bears and liked the pictures of them."

Thank you for sharing your Canada experience Phil.

Cross Country at Omarama

Children from the Waitaki Valley and the Mackenzie Basin met at Omarama on Friday for the annual cross country race. We were in age groups and the older kids had to run 2Km and even up a hill. We had to go around the yellow flags and down a chute to the finish.

"It was tiring but fun." said Laelani.

We had a little snack after the race then we went to Omarama School.

"The delicious sausages were yummy!" explained Sam and Caleb.

Thank you to Omarama School staff for organising this.

Snow Poems

After our visit to Ohau, Alpine Springs and some fun making a snowman on the field we thought about snow. We thought about: imagery, powerful verbs, interesting word choices, similes and metaphors, alliteration and onomatopaiea!! Can you spot examples of these in our poems?

Cross Country

We are busy training for the cross country local schools event at Omarama on the 16th Of September. We have been training on the track and trying to build our stamina. this week we're moving on to using the tracks near our beautiful Twizel River. Such an amazing place to stop for a breather.

Ice Skating and Snow tubing

Last week we managed to get a last minute skate and tube in at the awesome Alpine Springs Snow Park. Recent warm weather meant we had to book earlier than planned to catch the snow. Luckily our amazing crew of parents rallied round and we all got up there for an excellent days fun. Thanks to Alpine Springs for their Hot chocolates and fun on the tubing. We are working on putting together some mini-films to share our day with you. Check back soon.

Book week.

Mrs Nelson, our very own published author, organised several activities during our Book week celebrations. These included a bedtime story session with Milo's, teddys and PJ's and several awesome storytellers. We even got to dress up as our favorite characters on Friday. Can you guess who we are?

Skiing at Ohau

Our Class trip to Ohau skifield was a great success. We had several students try snowboarding for the first time and they were carving it up by the end of the day. The beginning skiers had pretty much mastered the pizza and managed to turn by the close of play and our more accomplished skiers had managed several runs down the Boulevard. It was great to see those with more experience helping and encouraging those who are just starting out. Zak and Mackenzie showed us some boarding skills and I managed not to injure myself despite doing the splits! Many thanks to those parents who gave up a day to help with transport, coaching and support at the lodge.
We have been working on movies using Windows MovieMaker, adding video and still pictures, transitions and some video effects. We also added our snow poems which we were very proud of.

 

Well, our class production came and went, last minute technical hitches prevented a film being made and unfortunately since we performed it we haven't had a day with every student well and in school for a repeat! Thanks to all the parents who supported with line- learning and were able to come and take part on the day.