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CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONS - NICKY

Room four was the best room in the whole school six children won places in the inter school cross country.

Rosa got 1st ,Lily ,Sam & Ethan got 2nd and Nicky & James got third.

It was very hard, we were competing with five other schools.

The schools were Tauhoa, Tapora, Pakiri, Living Way and the best school Tomarata!

Walks around Martins Bay - By Max

On Monday and Tuesday we went for a long walk all around Scandretts Bay. It was tiring it took about an hour and a half on total of both of those days so it was about three hours of walking. It was a very big journey. We walked all around Scandretts Bay I was mostly at the front and some people were pushy.

We were not aloud in front of Mrs Dunn and the other adults were the sweepers so we were not aloud behind them.On the first walk we went on the nature walk behing the camp. We went past a big puriri tree, it was so big but not as big as a kauri tree. We went past little paths so we tried not to overtake people but some people did. Then we walked along the Scandretts Bay road and dropped down onto Martins Bay beach.

On the second walk we went up the Martins Bay beach, then we walked around the steep cliffs and went down to the Scandretts old farm, then we went up a really, really steep hill, we were climbing up to the road. Then we went back down the beach to camp. We were all puffed after that.

By Max

ARCHERY AT MARTINS BAY CAMP - NYAH

On Tuesday 23 we were doing archery - it was awesome! I've never done anything like that in my life. You had to set up the bow and put the arrow on the fletch holder. Rob showed us how to do it, he said you had to make a T-form with your body and stand up really straight. Then you had to stand sideways with your feet and think about where your head is.

It looks easy when Rob does it but it is not!

I got the arrows in the bushes three times .The third time it went in the thorns so I got the other side of the arrow where it wasn't pointy. After seven times I got the red part of the target and I felt pretty good to finally hit the target.

Rob was really funny.

by Nyah

Martins Bay Sailing - By Joseph

Sailing is really fun .I did it with Max. I learnt that the ropes on the sail are called the sheet. When I went sailing I was in charge of the rudder and Max was in charge of the sheet.

The sail boat was kind of slow. Then me and Max swopped places. Max was the rudder and I was the sheet. I went out really far out away from the beach. It was bumpy and the bout started taking in water but it didn't sink. I almost hit my head on the boom .When we went up to land we started hearing scratching noises and when I got out of the boat I was soaking wet. Sailing was really fun and I wanted to do it again.

Cricket tournament Rafe.

On December the 2nd ten people were selected by the teachers (Mrs Dunn & Mrs Salt) to go to the cricket tournament at Warkworth, luckily I was chosen. Five schools were competing they were Ahuroa, Warkworth, Matakana, Mahurangi Christian and Tomarata.

Doing cricket was great fun we played three heats and one final in the final we came seventh and we won some Milo kiwi cricket prizes.

In our heats we versed Matakana, then Ahuroha and then Warkworth then in the final it was Ahuroha again.

It was a great day and I had an awesome time.

Camping out - sleeping - Lily

At camp we did a lot of things but I know after a long day all we wanted to do was have a shower, get in pyjamies & snuggle in the tent. But it was always a lot less simple than that! We all had hectic showers! Squabbling over who got in first, who to trade coins with. Then finally sorting ourselves out and getting into our sleeping bags.

In my tent I shared with two other girls. Called Rosa and Nicky. At night time we wrote in our camp diaries, talked about the day, told spooky stories that were meant to be scary but turned out always to involve a monkey man and in that case causing us to laugh.

Later on we did puppet plays, perhaps at 10 o'clock. We made our hands and fingers look like chickens and bunnies let alone wonkey tractors! And don't even get started with my completely over the moon type farmer! Anyway at 10:30pm we usually drifted off. But Nicky fell off her lilo and onto my inch high sleeping mat! So then I slept on the floor leaving only Rosa on her own comfy bed!

By morning we were almost every morning the last or first tent to wake up. It was a great camp and I'll never forget just how much fun we had!

By Lily

Water Safety and Swimming - Kiarnan

The water safety lady talked about what to do if you are in trouble in the water. You put one arm up straight and you don't wave it or they will think you are happy. She showed us how you could use an empty large bottle as a float tied to a rope. We practised throwing the rope to our partner and dragging them in.
Then the man talked to us about hypothermia, that's when you get very cold after your boat has sunk. You should huddle together as a big group to keep warm. We practised huddling and I was in the middle when our whole class huddled because the smaller people go in the middle.
He also showed us how to put your life jacket on properly so it is tight and you won't slip out of it.
Then we went for a swim in our life jackets and we huddled in groups. It was fun and a good technique to keep warm in the water.

The Talent Show at Matins Bay Camp By Matthew

I liked the talent show my favourite talent was Hugos diablo. The bubblegum skit was really funny. Shane and Lukes one was cool because they both played one guitar at the same time, Luke strummed and Shane did the chords. Remo and Hugos duck food skit was funny when Remo kept asking for duck food and Hugo didn't have any. Then Hugo said he would staple his feet to the floor if he asked for duck food again. Then Remo said "Do have any staples?" and Hugo said "We're out of stock and Remo said "That's ok, do you have any duck food?"

The talents were very good and we laughed a lot.

Kayaking at Martins Bay. - Claire

When I first found out we were doing kayaking. I was kind of scared. I had never been kayaking before. My friends started jumping up and down. But when we started kayaking I realised how fun it is.
Larissa Davies and I paddled out deeper.Then out of the blue Scott came whizzing along towing Piripi from the rubber dinghy.It looked like Piripi was zooming along! He unrapped the loop that was holding Piripi's kayak to the dingy. Very quickly the rest of us caught up.
When it was time to swap kayaks we grabbed each others kayaks. Piripi was the first to move . He slowly crawled across. Finally we all had swopped and started heading out deeper. We grabbed each others boats. Darcie,Ethan,Kaleb and Piripi jumped in. Darcie flipped her kayak and Scott helped her get back on. Piripi flipped his to and Darcie had to help him. Finally we went back. That was a great day to remember.
By Claire.

MOUNTIAN BOARDING - Abbey

On Wednesday the 24 of November Room 4 did mountain boarding in our activity groups and it was really fun!I fell off the mountain board and got a wobbly tooth!!
First we had pushes on the flat ground and it was cool.
Then we did it on a small hill and that was OK.
Then did it from the top of a big hill and that was really scary!!! The mountain board was going faster and faster and it flipped and I fell off - then I went back to practising on the little hill.
We had to wear knee pads, elbow pads and wrist pads as well.
It was starting to spit but we didn't care,we carried on with mountain boarding because it was awesome.
Then it was afternoon tea. We had fun doing mountain boarding

By Abbey.

Martins Bay Camp

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Making instruments

We made instruments. I made a guitar. Matthew made a drum kit set and James made pan-pipes. It was cool seeing everyone elses instruments and trying to play them.

Then we made band groups and we learned how to play four beat music, then we learned how to play three beat music. We wrote our own music and then we practised and me and James and Matthew were playing our instuments.

We sounded so good that we got to play at senior syndicate singing.

By Daniel

Ukulele with Mrs Coop

At school we have been doing ukulele with Mrs Coop - we love Mrs Coop!

We are learning how to hold the ukulele and have been learning hard chords like

C,F,G7,D7,Am,A7 and G.

She has also showed us different strums.

We play lots of different songs like

"Hush Little Baby", "Shortlin Bread", "Quarter Masters Store",

"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" and "You Are My SunShine" .

But my favourite song is "Quarter Masters Store" cause it rocks.

Today we learnt how to pluck on the ukulele which is sort of hard but fun.

By Nicky

Albert Park

After we have been to the Art gallery we went to Albert Park to have lunch before we went to the Orchestra.
I had my sandwichs for lunch and lots of other stuff to eat for my yummy lunch.
Then later on I climbed into a big hollow treewhich had lots of ways out of it. It was big...really big that you could sleep in the hollow cause it was like a cave.It was so much fun climbing into the biggest tree I have ever climbed in.
Then I walked all the way to the big cannons to have a look at them.
It was so cool, looking at the big cannons and climbing the enormous tree.
By Kaleb

Auckland Art Gallery

After the library we went to the Art Gallery. First we saw Goldies paintings - they were so realistic they looked like photos but they weren't.

Then we saw the modern art and the sculptures. There was one that had two pitch forks, rope and the back window of a land drover ,it was my favourite piece of art.

One piece of art was wiered because it was a red and yellow half circle .

There was also a piece of art that had hills and a bird, it was by Don Binney - I really liked that one too. The art gallery was really cool.

By Joseph

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

On the 10 of September rooms 4, 5 and 6 went to the symphony Orchestra in Auckland. The Orchestra was really cool with all those instruments such as the great Bassoon, the Flute, the Violin, the Violas and the cellos and my favourite was the great Doublebass - but there were many more.
The Conducter was so cool aswell. There was a really funny part when everybody was starting to clap but it wasn't finished! So the conductor put his hand up to say stop clapping.
After that it was time to go back to school. I really liked the Orchrestra it sounded awesome.
By Abbey

By Abbey

Musical instuments

Book character day

ABBEY WON 3rd PRIZE!

ABBEY WON 3rd PRIZE!

In the Rodney District Libraries reading challenge "Half an hour a day in the month of May" Abbey won 3rd prize and recieved a voucher for $50.00!!!

Well done Abbey

Soccer and hockey day.

On Friday it was soccer, hockey day.

Technology challenge - Make a board game.

Yesterday Holly googled facts about kiwis and Leah,Norton and Rhys put them on pieces of card board then when we had enough. Holly drew a kiwi then I coloured it and its feet in. We coloured the beak yellow. Holly put SAVE THE KIWI over top and they drew squares. Then Rhys cut the title out so we stuck the rules and the title on the back. It looked awesome. We drew, coloured and cut out people and stuck them on stands. Every one put them on. We went to Mr McNaughten's room and went home The next morning we played other people games then voted. It was awesome!

Crazy hairday

On Friday we had crazy hairday it was so crazy.

I dressed up as crazy girl and I had ponytails with

toys in them like petshops. Rosa my best friend

dressed up with bubble wrap in her hair.

Sam had an umbrella in her hair and windmills it

was crazy.Rafe just had a crazy wig.

Me and Rosa put some stuff in Nyah's hair and she ended up winning! The prize was a flashy light.

But it was so much fun and I loved it.

We raise over $100 for the St John's ambulance.

BY NICKY

Des Hunt Author

On Friday Des Hunt came to Tomarata school and told us about his writing. He is a famous new Zealand author and has written 10 books - such as Cry Of The Taniwha,Crocodile Nest,Shadows In The Ice,Codys Unexpected Catch etc. He also did an experiment and made something that looks like water turn blue and then back again it was realy cool. He was talking about writing when he was showing us the science experiments because he was showing us that you need suspense in your writing.

I think I will read some of his books in future years.

Rosa

Testing the stength of flax

For Science we had to test the strength of flax using the scientific method.

First we had to ask a research question. My question was "What is stronger flax, wool or string?"

Then we made a prediction. I prediction was that the flax was going to be the strongest.

Then we designed the experiment. We put the flax, wool and string on the wheels of the playground. Then we swung from them until they broke.

We found that the flax was the strongest.

The string was the second strongest and the wool broke straight away.

Our conclusion was that flax is a very strong fibre.

I liked testing and swinging our experiment.

Nyah

The Three Little Pigs and Their Mama

Corey's memorial service.

It came as a shock to all of us to hear that Corey had died in a car accident.

I cried in sorrow and felt the loss we all felt of Corey's death,

It's OK to cry.

We cry for our friend

who laughed, played and grew up with us.

We cry for a boy we taught, who wanted to learn.

He showed us that everyone can learn - if they try.

We cry for our buddy that we used to help in class.

He showed us that we can help and support others.

We cry as parents who know how precious our children are

and how they are all special.

After the crying comes the remembering,

the talking of things Corey had done,

The laughing about funny little things -

like his enthusiastic singing,

or wanting to hug everyone.

I like to believe that no one is truely dead

while they are still alive in our memories.

So let's keep Corey alive by remembering him.

Mrs Robyn Dunn.