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