I Think I Should Get A Dog. By Abby

Some people say that a dog is a pest, mucky and dirty but I'm so not like that.
In my opinion I think I should get a dog.
I can take care of the dog, I can take my dog for walks, I bath my dog and feed the dog.
If I'm allowed to I will name my dog, if it's a boy I'll call it Rex and if it's a girl I'll call it Gracy or Hayley.
If my friend has a dog I would make a puppy play day and I will talk to my friend while they play.
I'll play with them too.

So that's why I think I should get a dog.

My Dancy Disco and Snowy Sunday By Alexandra

On Saturday night my dad drove the family to the disco, he stayed!
When I walked in I saw Mikala and Macey, we danced and Macey got a chance to see Courtney my baby sister who is 3 years old.
I bought two packets of lollies to share with my friends Macey and Mikala
Then we had a dance competition, after the dance competition a friend of Milly's won.
I went over to my dad sitting on a chair, I gave him a hug and he whispered I think you were better.
Macey and I ran to get a tattoo, I got two colourful lips that says kiss inside it and a yellow and orange rose.
I  also got two hearts and a bright love tattoo saying LOVE  with a heart beside it.
We danced and danced, when the disco finished Troy, Jessica, Courtney and I raced to sit in the front of the car, Jessica won!
Just before we left my dad asked if he could have three bright, colourful glow sticks so I gave him some to him and he hung them up on the mirror so people knew that we had been to the disco.

On Sunday at 3:00pm my sister was grading, she was grading to her yellow belt .

Before her grading I asked my dad if I could watch her,  My dad said "yes" I gave him a big hug .

Before we drove there I packed some food so I wouldn't starve to death.

When we arrived Jessica got her yellow belt but she wasn't allowed to wear it because she had to do the grading first and get a certificate.

After Jessica's grading it was snowing .

Then people came for Tournament Training I was one of them.

Before the class started we played snowball fights, we keeped on running in and out, in and out until the class started .
After our warm up our sensei ( our teacher ) told us it was to dangerous with all the snow on the Road so we left early but next week we have to do 5:00pm till 8:00pm instead of 5:30pm till 7:30pm.
When we were driving we saw a blue flame and my dad said "Wow that was a Transformer explosion " We drove slowly to our house but the whole neighbourhood had no electricty.
My dad went up our steep drive way to cheek but we didn't have any.
We drove down to my mum's work and told her what had happened .
We had dinner there, we had chips, fish, rice, chicken, vegetables and some soy sauce"yum".

Boneyard snow fun!!!

With a early wake and a long drive I loved yesterday because we got to go to the MOUNTAIN to ski on the slopes!

At 4:00 in the morning we started to drive to Turoa (Mount Ruapheu) an hour later I was asleep like a owl in the day,I was so tiredbut so exicting at the same time.  

After falling asleep we got to Taihapi Mc Donalds I got a B,L,T and a orange juice it was yum but we couldn`t go inside because it was closed but we still went to the drivethrough. 

About three hours later we were at the mountain.  We got our gear and hurried of to the Boneyard "I`m not looking forard to this" I said to my mum...

....but at the end I ended up wanting to do it again but my mum wasto scared to do it.

It was an AWESOME day at the slopes!

By Bethany

   

Mr James Is On a Cloud Risking His Life!!!

Once upon a time there was a man called Mr James and he was a principal.  

One day when he was watering his plants the wind came up and took him up to a beautiful,  fluffy,  white cloud, he could hardly believe his eyes! When he got to the cloud he jumped onto it, it didn`t break but somehow it rained it`s water out underneath him. "It was amazing up here",  he said to himself.

There were walls,beds,windows and even dolls in dolls houses. There was just one problem- he was risking his life in the air!!! "How will I get down?", he thought, "How will I get back to earth and watering my new garden?"

Then suddenly the cloud broke! "AHH!" Mr James screamed ....but nothing got hurt! He landed in his garden holding the hose again. But he wasn`t watering his flowers, instead he was getting himself wet ! So he went inside, got his togs,cap and goggles, and put all of them in his swimming bag because he was going to the swimming pool for a swim with the waves and the bumpy hydroslide. Then he saw a blow up boat floating by so he got onto it.

"This is an incredible holiday!!!" he said in an excited voice to the lifeguard..

By Bethany 

   

Toys, Games and Puppets

This term for inquiry learning we've been learning all about toys. We've looked a what a toy is and what sorts of toys there are, We've graphed our favourite toys and found that the most popular sorts of favourite toy in room 10 are soft toys. We photographed our special toys and wrote stories about them.

Last week we made sets of mancala, a very ancient board game, out of egg cartons, yoghurt pots, paint and glitter. Next week we are going to gift 10 games to the junior classes and teach them how to play.

Last week we also started learning about puppets, a sort of toy that can be used to act out stories. So far we've made rod puppets, finger puppets and 'tickle' puppets, puppets that use our fingers as their legs. Next we'll make string puppets, balloon puppets and have a go at making marionettes.

Today we made up stories and used our puppets to present them to the class. We had to think up a beginning, a middle and an ending for our stories. We had to remember to face the audience, to make our voices clear, to know our parts really well and to try to keep ourselves hidden while the puppets were on stage.

We used this PotterPuppetPals puppet show as inspiration for a quality puppet presentation.

School Snow Day At Paremata School

It's Monday the 14th.

It is snowing really hard and room10 and room11 went out to play in the snow.  Room10 and room11 all got lots of  snow on their heads and now they are going to wirte a story about the snow.

The snow was like a snow monster and it is as cold as a ice block and I want it to keep snowing so we can play snow games like a snowball fight and play in the snow at lunch.

                                                       BY BENJI

My Favourite Toy. By Abby

My favourite toy is called Froggy he's a soft toy and i've had  him for 8 years.
It's made of cotten, fluff and wool.

My aunty gace him to me.

He's cuddly, cute, soft, lovely, loveble and precious.

He feels fluffy, soft and light.

He's as light green as grass and as dark green as a leaf and a stiched up mouth.

A toy is something you play with he can be in any game a family game, a pet game, any game.

He's my favourite toy because he jingles and he's perfect for me.