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Hockey Skills with Jared

Jared, from Nelson Hockey, introduced us to some basic hockey skills.  We are playing "Rob the Nest'.

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Broadgreen House

We are learning all about toys - their history, design and changes. We visited Broadgreen House and looked at how rich people lived in the 1800's in Nelson, New Zealand. They have some toys and games which were different and some we still have today.

Autumn Leaves Descriptions

The leaves feel like prickly hands and look like dinosaur’s feet coming from the sky. Trent

 Reddy brown leaves lying in piles on the wet ground, getting stuck to children’s shoes as they dashed around them.  Ella

Leaves spinning like fish swimming in blue water as they plummet to the ground. Cherry red leaves twirling out of the tree.  Lukas

Cheerful children jumping into mountainous piles of leaves.  Thrown up leaves falling down like twirling ballerinas.  Olivia

 Bright colourful leaves are spinning around in the air like snowflakes. Leaves feel like cereal getting crushed.  Max

Vein crunchy wrinkly hands on the ground.  The pile looked like a mountain. Aaron

Wet leaves sparkling like diamonds.  Darius

Browny goldy colours. When you threw the leaves up it was like falling snowflakes and stars falling from the sky.  Grace

Fiery red leaves falling among the trees.  Bella

 Fun flickering green leaves falling from the trees like spinning tops twirling slowly from the sky.  Josh

The leaves flutter around and around until they fall on the ground.  Zaida

Crunchy, twirling crumbly leaves on the ground.  Lainee

Lazy, bronze leaves lying on the ground.  Cherry, yellow leaves bunched in a mountainous heap. Alex

 When the leaves fall down to the ground they look like dinosaur footprints.  Gabby

Autumn leaves falling like a ballerina twirling onto the railway reserve.  Katie

The leaves felt like prickles.  Arlyhm

When you throw the leaves up it looks like ballerinas dancing.  Felix

Excited, happy children jumping into the leaves like frogs leaping into the pond.  William

When the children jumped into the pile of leaves, they crunched and popped like a bag of potato chips. Zhuling

Bright fiery leaves swirling in the air like a helicopter propeller.  Hunter

Tall oak leaves pouring down like a waterfall.  Riley

Excited children jump into the colourful crackling leaves like it’s a deep diving pool.  Tom

Leaves are colourful, hard and crispy – spinning like tornadoes falling from the sky.  Jazmin

Autumn Leaves

Room 9 had lots of fun playing in the oak tree leaves on the Railway reserve.
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 Leaves on PhotoPeach

Goofy Games

After learning how to work together in our 'Partnerships' topic last term, we finally had our "Goofy Games'. We were in mixed age house groups and raced to complete fun games.

Stop Think Do

We are learning to solve our problems in 'Cool' ways and acted out what we would do in different situations.

The Ants and the Grasshopper

The Ants and the Grasshopper                                           Written By: Alexander 

Once upon a time there was a fiddle playing Grasshopper.  In the summer, he was too busy playing his fiddle that he didn’t care about storing food for the winter ahead.  Meanwhile the ants were getting grain and wheat into their storage for the winter.  The seasons were changing, it was becoming winter.  The Grasshopper was becoming blue and got hypothermia.  Luckily, he found the Ants house and knocked on the door.  The Ants carried him in and warmed him up in hot water and he became green again.

When the queen Ant saw him she said, “Only people who work may stay so take your fiddle, and play”.

The Ants and the Grasshopper                                                 Written By: Lainee 

Long long ago a cheerful grasshopper danced and played his fiddle in the hot hot sun.  He was not thinking about winter.  Meanwhile the ants were very busy collecting food for the freezing winter.

The grasshopper saw the ants and said let’s dance and sing.  One ant heard him and went over to him.  The ant danced and the grasshopper played his fiddle.

The queen was riding in her carriage and saw the ant with the grasshopper.  She was mad.  The ant didn’t see her till he had danced over to her and was touching her.  He turned around and got a shock.  He scuttled quickly back past the grasshopper. 

Then he instantly went back to work.  All the ants were scuttling around on the ground.  Autumn came and the ants still did work.  The grasshopper still played his fiddle.  While the leaves were blowing all around.  Winter came and ants went scuttling into their tree with all the food they needed.  The grasshopper did not have any food as he walked along slowly.

He changed colour as he walked.  Then he fell down and saw the ant’s tree.  The grasshopper pushed himself to the door of the tree and looked inside.  Then he knocked and fell into the snow.  Some ants came out and put him in three buckets of hot water.  The grasshopper shivered as the ants put a blanket over him.  The ants feed him soup but then the queen came over and said, “Only ants that work can stay so take your fiddle and play”.   So, then he took his fiddle from the queen and they lived happily ever after.

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was a Grasshopper.  He was prancing and dancing in summer.  He didn't even think about eating but one day he saw an ant. He said "Hello" the ant said "Hi".  The grasshopper started to play the fiddle, the ant danced along.  While they were singing and dancing the Queen of Ants saw the ant dancing with the grasshopper. She was furious.  She couldn't believe her eyes.  She came over.  The ant saw her and bowed, he ran away and collected more food.  Then autumn came, then winter.  The grasshopper got colder and colder, he dropped to the ground.  He saw the last leaf and ran to it.  He was so close but it got away.  He was too cold to survive.  He saw the ants house and knocked on the door.  The ants went to the door and they saw him on the ground, they took him inside.  They put him in boiling water and gave him some soup.  The queen said "those who stay have to work so take your fiddle and sing"  The End

by Olivia Kirk

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

One summer day a grasshopper was playing his fiddle happily then he saw the ants were collecting food for the winter so they wouldn't starve.  The grasshopper didn't even think or care about that stuff.  He called the ants to come and dance but only one ant stopped working to come and dance.  As the queen ant came riding along in her fancy carriage she saw the ant who was dancing with the grasshopper.  The ant saw the queen and he quickly set back to work in fright.

The seasons were changing from Summer to Autumn. from Autumn to Winter.  It was getting colder and the grasshopper was struggling to get through the snow and find food.  He got colder and bluer by the minute.  Then through the bushes he came to the ants house.  He looked through the window and saw... the ants.  They were not starving or cold.   So he knocked on the door. Some ants came to the door and let him in.  They helped him feel better.  The queen said he could stay if he played his fiddle so he got his fiddle and played it.

The grasshopper had learnt not to just stay but be prepared.

by Isla 

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

One day there was a cheerful singing grasshopper.  He loved his fiddle very, very much, but as he was singing he heard a noise nearby.  It was ants collecting food for winter.  The ants worked very hard they did not stop once.  But one did stop.  That was a little son.  He joined the grasshopper instead of working like the others.  Then the queen came in her glorious carriage.  As the little ant saw the queen he went straight back to work.  But the quen said winter is coming soon.  The grasshopper went away playing his fiddle happily. 

by Daniella

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once there was a grasshopper playing a fiddle and singing a song.  He did not eat.  The ants were working so hard that they were collecting food.  When it came to winter the grasshopper was searching for food because he was singing when it was summer.  When it was winter the grasshopper was still singing and then the grasshopper started to change colour to blue.  The grasshopper saw the ants house.  He went to their house but he fell down.  The ants brought him in and put him in warm water.  They fed him warm hot soup.  The queen said to the grasshopper  "Keep playing your fiddle and keep singing songs".  All of the ants did not give up because they were a family that worked really hard.

by Zhuling

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was a grasshopper dancing around in the sun.  He was not thinking about the winter when there was no food around.  Meanwhile there were little ants collecting food for the winter so they won't starve.  The grasshopper was still dancing around.  Then an ant came up to the grasshopper and said "Why are you not collecting food?"  The grasshopper said "I don't need to."  The days got colder and colder as winter was getting closer.  When winter came the grasshopper did not have any food.  Then he got bluer and bluer.  When he got to the ants tree he could not walk.  He knocked on the door and the ants carried him in to  the tree to warm him up.  The queen ant came over and said "Only people who work can stay here."  The grasshopper said "Please can I stay?"  The queen ant said "Yes".

by Bella

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was a singing grasshopper who was happy.  He was dancing and singing everywhere and the ants were collecting kai for winter.  In the winter he was turning blue and he found the ants tree house.  The ants let the grasshopper in and in the hot water to warm him up.  The Queen said  "Get your fiddle and play."  All the ants were dancing everywhere while he was playing it.  The end.

The ants were racing to collect food for winter.  In the end they lived happily ever after.

by Darius

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was one grasshopper and ants too.  The ants were going to find food.  The grasshopper had a violin and he was singing.  When the snow came he was changing colours.  Then he saw a house where the ants lived.  He pushed himself to the house and he knocked on the door.  The ants let the grasshopper in their house.  They had hot water in the bucket for the grasshopper.  The ants had some soup for grasshopper.  The grasshopper changed different colours.  The queen ants said "You have to work or you will have to go out in the snow."  So he sang for the ants and he learnt his lesson.

by Trent

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there lived a grasshopper that sang and played a fiddle in the Summer.  There also lived lots of ants that loaded food into their house in the Summer preparing for the icy Winter coming.

All the leave started falling off the trees.  Each day became colder and colder.  Then it was so cold it started snowing!  The grasshopper got skinnier and skinnier.  The grasshopper got colder and colder.  The grasshopper got slower and slower, until he almost got hyperthermia.

The grasshopper looked up and saw the ants house.  He crawled as fast as he could towards the ant's houses and knocked on the wooden door.  Then his arm and head fell back into the icy snow.  A few ants came out of the door and brought him inside their house.  They got three buckets out and put the grasshopper in them and poured hot water inside the buckets.  They left the grasshopper to warm up in the boiling water.

The Queen Ant saw the grasshopper and marched over to him!  The Queen Ant said "Only people who work can stay, so take your fiddle and play!"  The grasshopper took his fiddle immediately and played.  All of the ants started dancing happily.

Moral:  Don't spend all your time doing what you want, do more important things first!

by Tom

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

One day there was a joyful fiddle playing grasshopper, who never cared about preparing food for the winter.  Meanwhile the ants were getting all the food to put in their storage room.  Then the days grew colder.  More leaves every day where falling off the trees.  Next the grasshopper turned blued because he had hyperthermia.  He saw the ants home which was a tree.  The ants let him in and gave him a scarf and three buckets of hot water, also a bowl of yummy soup.  Then he turned green again.  The queen ant jumped out of her seat and gave the grasshopper his fiddle.  She said "Play for us."  So he did.

Moral: Instead of being lazy, get stuff done.

by Josh

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was a singing grasshopper playing in the leaves.  Suddenly the grasshopper saw lots of ants getting food on the ground.  After that he saw an ant trying to lift the food up.  Then he laughed at the ant.  He said to come here then the ant came to him.  They started singing a song.  Suddenly the raging queen ant came to the grasshopper.  The little ant ran like fire into the house.  Finally the grasshopper walked to a different place to sing.  Finally it was spring.  The grasshopper was getting colder.  At last it was winter.  He was starving like anything, sadly he almost died.  Suddenly he tried to get in the ants house.  But it was locked.  He tried knocking on the door.  Then the ants came to pick him up and put him in some hot water.  The ants also gave him soup to drink.  Suddenly the raging queen came to say "What are you doing here?" Grasshopper said "Please let me stay."  The queen said "Yes, you can stay if you sing."

by Aaron

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time there was a cheerful grasshopper that didn't care about anything except his fiddle and singing in the sun.  Meanwhile the ants were preparing food for the winer, where it gets really cold.  The grasshopper did not collect any food because he was too busy singing.

The season were changing to winter because there was snow everywhere.  All the ants rushed inside because it was a snowy blizzard.

While the grasshopper was getting skinnier and skinnier.  He got closer and closer to the tree.  Finally he got to the tree.  The grasshopper knocked "knock, knock".  He was so blue that he had hyperthermia.  The ants opened the door.  Five ants dragged him in the door and got 3 warm buckets of water, two for his legs and one for his abdomen.  The ants got a bowl of delicious soup.  He took five sips of the soup.  He turned into his normal colour.  The queen came along.  "Please let me stay", said the grasshopper.  "Sure, but you have to play your fiddle."  Then the grasshopper played his fiddle to everyone and all the ants did a weird dance.  Then the grasshopper left and next winter the grasshopper knew to collect food.

by Riley

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

There once was a grasshopper who liked singing and dancing.  There was ants who kept going to find food for the winter so they wouldn't be hungry.  We knew it was autumn because the grasshopper was getting cold.  When it was winter the grasshopper was turning blue.  When he was fully blue he saw the ants house.  When he got to the door he knocked loudly.  Some of the little ants opened the door and saw the grasshopper was in the snow.  They brought the grasshopper inside and gave him some soup.  The queen let him sing.

by William

The Ants and the Grasshopper  

Once upon a time a chirpy happy grasshopper came jumping and singing across a lovely green field.  He was playing his fiddle (a fiddle is like a violin), and a tune that I have never heard before.  Meanwhile the ants are getting ready for Winter.  The grasshopper went dancing and prancing all though the seasons.  He didn't realise that the seasons were changing.  When Winter came the grasshopper got skinnier and skinner.  His abdomen got smaller and smaller.  After a while he started to go blue, he must have gotten frost bite.  Then he found the ants house (which was a tree).  He knock on the door about 3 times.  About three seconds later the ants came out and lifted him up and brought him into their home.

Then the queen ant came in and said "Only the ones who work can stay."  Another think she exclaimed "So take your fiddle and play."  The grasshopper lived happily ever after except for sneezing away all the ants.

by Ella