Firefighter visit last week.

We were very fortunate to have Fire Safety Officer Ross Bailey visit Room 1 last week.

Ross was very impressed with our Firewise knowledge.

Matches and lighters are tools, not toys.  If you find them, give them to an adult to put in a safe place.

If the smoke alarm goes- get out, stay out, well done. 

We practiced what to do if there is smoke. Get down, get low, get out.  We practiced

going to our safe place at school.

Then Ross presented us with our Firewise certificates.

Well done Room 1. You are Firewise.

Hot Air Balloon Flight

Mrs Roberts and her daughter Amelia experienced a most exciting air balloon flight over Beaudesert  near the Tambourine Mountains, inland from Brisbane. They watched the sparkly sun, rise above the distant hills as they floated over the tall trees. All of a sudden the wind became quite strong so the pilot had to make  a rapid decent which resulted in a roll-over landing!
Room 1 questions and comment:-
We thought the landing was very funny - Jaymee and Oli
Were you happy when the hot air balloon toppled over? Was it fun? - Maia and Joanna

Hi Room 1

I hope you all had a good holiday break and you are ready to do your best work for Mrs Cairns.
I am enjoying working at different schools in Brisbane, meeting lots of children who have come from many different countries and their class teachers.
It is quite a lot warmer here as most days it feels like a good summers day in Nelson although it is a bit cooler in the evenings.
I will send you a photo by email of my air balloon flight on Wednesday and it should be great fun.
Bye for now.
From, Mrs Roberts

Cool Sports

Today we did cool sports. My favourite was rugby. We had to get to half way then we had to throw the dull coloured ball in the air. When we came into the person we had to throw the rugby ball to them.    Harrison
Room 1 also had a turn at tip-toeing over the rope ladder and jumping over the low hurdles. We had to throw a tennis ball underarm and  a buddy had to try and catch the ball in a net. Cricket was an another activity and it involved throwing a ball at the wicket and the final one was bouncing a basketball to a cone and back again. We all had a really fun time with Kelly Sports.

Visit To Natureland

Room 1 went to Natureland Zoo, we saw lots of different animals. I went with Eli, in my own car that was red. I saw some Rainbow lorikeet and they had diffrent colours like the rainbow. I've seen one of those in Western Australia. Marmite the pukeko kept on chasing Mrs Roberts black gumboots.
I saw monkeys and they pee on their hands and wipe it on their bodies. My favourite animal was the Rainbow Lori

keet. I liked the capucin monkeys when they kept bashing their walnuts and checking them a lot. We ate lunch there and had a play there. Marmite kept following us around Natureland. I wish I could see the meerkats again.     by Toby

Hangi at School

On Monday at school there was a Hangi and guess what, Brightwater School got to see it! There was meat, potatoes, cabbage, kumera, pumpkin, chicken, lamb, pork and the last one, carrots.
Four men woke up at four o'clock and one of them was Mr Hikuroa. It took four hours to cook all the food for the whole school and the whole Kindergarten.
The steam was rising up in the sky from the sacks and they were covered in dirt. The men lit up some metal and then put it in the fire and let it burn. Mr H put the food in the baskets and then put it in  a big hole called a pit. Then he covered it all up again but Mr H and his friends didn't dig out the big pit, Nico and Luca's Dad has a digger and he dug the pit out.

Finally it was time to eat. I got my plate from Mr Dobbie and I moved up the line because it was my turn to get the food. When I had my food I went to sit down on the concrete. I tasted the food immediately. I thought it tasted delicious. I loved it!                                                 by Jaymee

School Cross Country Race

Jaymee won the girls race and Tessa was second. Everyone in Room 1 ran as fast as they could! The Brightwater School Cross Country was held at The Lord Rutherford Park and lots of parents came to watch their children compete in the races. At finish of the races we were all given a small carton of milk to drink and it was yummy.

Making our own Butter!

The first thing I had to do was sit at a desk. Then Mr B came and gave us a container. Next he put some cream in our containers.

Room 1 had to shake the containers for 20 minutes. My arms got tired. My cream turned into butter, but not all of it!

by Maia

Yesterday Mr B came to Room One. We made butter. First we needed three things, one of them was a cup, the next thing was a bottle and also a sieve.
You put some cream in the cup, shut the lid and shook it for twenty minutes. Then we tipped it out of the cup onto the sieve and onto a plate. There was butter!
by Jack

Swimming Lessons

Our class has just completed two weeks of exciting swimming lessons at the Richmond Aquatic Centre. All the children have made great progress in their kicking and stroking so we are all super Freestyle  Swimmers! At the end of the last swimming lesson the children in our class was put into two groups  and we had a race to see which team could paddle the big float board the quickest and it was a ... draw! We travelled by bus and it was a good chance to chat with each other.
After our lesson each day we spent the next half hour in the wave and warm pools. The waves were rolling down the pool on Friday and we all had a fantastic time jumping and crashing through them.
The Lazy River was a cool place to hung out as we raced around the narrow track.

The best activity of all was when we were wearing lifejackets and we were allowed to jump off the concrete wall into the deep end of the Wave Pool. It was a bit scary but awesome fun!             by Room 1

Wish Poems

I wish I were                                               I wish I were
An artist                                                      A giraffe
In a museum gallery                                    In a dark jungle
Making an amazing sculpture                      Eating juicy leaves
Carefully.                                                   By stretching.
         by Maia                                                                                               by Ashton


I wish I were                                              I wish I were
A pilot                                                       A lioness
Taking off at the airport                              In the searing jungle
Going fast on the runway                            Hunting for my prey...
Quickly.                                                     Quietly.
      by Charlie                                                                                             by Ashlee

Lightning

Lightning

Lightning is rain pouring.

A shadowy sky glaring down at me.

Bang, crash!

I feel the ground barely shake.

It flashes like fireworks deep to the dull sky.

It scares me!

It thrills me!

          by Lily

A Trip to a Dairy Farm

The cows make milk and we drink the milk. We have it for breakfast.
The cows go into the milking shed and Nic milks them. He puts the cups on the cow's tits.
The milk goes into the pipe and into the vat. It gets stirred around so it doesn't freeze.
The milk tanker takes it away from the farm.                  By Ashton

I saw the cows in the big paddock and then we watched them get milked. The machine goes on the udder and then we tasted the milk but I did not taste it.
When I saw the milk it looked so bubbly. It goes in the pipes and then it goes in the vats. Next it is mixed by the paddle and then farmers get paid for their milk. The milk tanker takes it to have it put into containers.                                                                By Shayla

Autumn Poem

Autumn

I see leaves when they look pink, 

falling off the trees.

I hear crispy leaves on the ground.

I feel rain, plop! onto the ground

nearby.

You can splash in it.

by Kali

My Birthday Party

 I invited James, Charlie, Eli, Bradley, Toby, Jack, Connor, Luca and Ethan to my Birthday Party. They gave me lego chemaer and I got two of the same set. So I am going to exchange it at the shop. I got the animal truck from Eli. James gave me a  new glow scooter.
We had two treasure hunts, and Ethan and Jack won the prizes. My cake had black icing and it was a pirate ship cake made from sponge. It had sticky, round lollies around the sides.
The best thing out of my presents was the Lego.
I got to keep one of the games from my party because there was one left and it was called Sea  Battle.

Oliver

Acrostic Poem - Brightwater School

Being kind
Rugby people get muddy
Ideas
Gardens
Hand-writing
Teachers help you to do your work
Water wheel is amazing
Art with teachers
Topic is very cool
Enjoy school
Rewards

Sandpit is very sandy
Classrooms are beautiful inside
Hard working children
Octopus the game
Office to get Newsletters from Mrs Stewart
Lunch -time to eat all your food.


by Madeline, Ashlee, James and Maia