Easter round-up

Thank you to Isla, Zoe and Ruby for organising a scavenger hunt today.  Chani and Olive worked hard as sports leaders, helping Helen.   The new trees have been watered by Nathan and Wesley and we have had our end of term assembly and shared our blog with everyone.  Blog confidence is growing and next term the responsibility can be shared amongst the class.  I have changed the comments setting so I hope it is easier for you to leave comments.

The blog is a lovely way of connecting with our families past and present and for those further away who can not visit us in person. To be at Hira School,  for a short time or longer, means you are always part of the Hira School family. Have a happy and safe holiday.

Latest stories - by Nathan and Dhillon

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“Toot, toot.” Nana and Grandad are here.

“Come on Cam, get your pack”.

“Bye Mum”.

We set off.  We were going to Kaiteriteri for three nights.

Zzzzzzzz…… after a while, I drifted to sleep.

Then I heard Nana say “We’re here.”

 “Nathan, can you help me get the dinghy off the back” Grandad asked.

“Yeah, coming.” Whoa that was hard work.

“Lunch time, everybody.”

 “Yum, let’s go to the beach after lunch and take the dinghy.”

The water was cold. “Grandad and I go first” I said. This is fun. Hey what’s that? A bait fish?  I leant over and tried to catch it but I leant too far.

Too late.  The boat capsized.  I don’t think my Grandad was very happy. Saturated, we trudged back to our camp site and got changed.

 When we got home the next day, Mum asked, “How did it go?”

I said, “Ho hum.”

By Nathan

 

A Bad Day

My brother Logan had a friend called Doc well he used be a friend of Logan’s.  We were biking down to the old house where my grandma now lives.

Oh no, he slipped. Doc saw some of the fall. Poor Logan, he was crying. Doc had to ride up to my parents at the house. They came down with the van. We took him to the hospital and they took an x-ray of his collarbone.  He needed a sling because it was broken.

I love my brother. He is the best brother in my life.

By Dhillon

Cicada posters

The cicada summer chorus is on its last legs and, if we were cicadas, our cicada science work would be the cicada eggs now deposited in the stems of plants for the winter and waiting for a new cycle to begin!  We hope our study has planted a seed in our minds, another layer of understanding insects.

During our study we have been looking at how diagrams are pictures that show information.  We have used the wonderful book by Betty Brownlie called "The Life Cycle of the Cicada".  It is packed full of information and diagrams.  The children have worked on posters to practise organising information.

Inaugural Car Wash

Thanks to everyone for supporting our first Room 4 Camp car wash on Interview Day.  We hope your cars are still sparkling clean.   The children had a lot of fun and are keen to do it all again so keep an eye out for the next car wash event.  Thanks to our amazing Sam who supplied some of the gear, trained them up and set some quality standards.  She even made them re-wash a few cars at practice time. Guess whose? Clue – they’re both blue and Toyota Caribs! We have added about $100 to our Wellington camp funds.