At morning tea, me and the rest of the class walked to the Ashburton River and we met a lady named Debbie Eddinton from ECAN. She helped us to find bugs in the water and measure the temperature and the clarity. But there was a suprise, a stick insect came out of nowhere! Then we saw room 15 coming. It was time to go. When we were walking back, me and Charlie made the big trucks hoot. After that we had lunch and went to play.
Archie

Click here to access the interactive river game we saw in class today. Enter the PIN number you were given.

This is the link to your studyladder homepage, you can use it to login and see your maths homework tasks for this week:
http://www.studyladder.co.nz/myschool/18460/myclass/441924

Penny has written a recount about our trip to Ashburton Museum to learn about Mahika Kai (Food Gathering Journeys) and what Europeans brought with them toNew Zealand. Click here to read about it.

Day one over at camp. We decided to do our tramp today to the top of Pudding Hill while the weather was on our side.. What a tough climb but the view was well worth the effort. Well done everybody for making it to the top!
We had a great singsong around our massive camp fire tonight and some tired heads are off to bed for a good nights sleep...
Ms Grimes

On Tuesday 26th March, room
fourteen and Laghmor Seniors went on a trip. We were going to Hakatere, it’s a
historical place. We had to be there at ten o’clock. We had to be at school by nine o’clock. It was a real rush.


Firstly we had to get on the bus. One hour later we were there. Then we had a break, it was morning tea. After morning tea two people talked to us, their names were Hillary and George. They split us up into three groups.
After that our group went to the Manager’s House. We went inside first. We looked around, there was nothing there that looks like our homes today. There was no garage or toilet.
Finally we moved on and started weaving. We weaved a square then platted a rope. Next we rotated and built rafts, they were made out of reeds, sticks, string and
paper.
After that George took us to the south branch of the Ashburton River and we identified insects in the water, and it was quite hard. After we left to Lake Heron to sail our boats. It was really cool and just about every boat floated, it was awesome. 
Everyone enjoyed the fabulous trip. But just about everyone liked floating their boats the most.  

Harry,
Riley & Savannah

We were writing some fictional recounts and we picked Paige’s to put on our website  because it was a good example. It had a great introduction and a middle and a conclusion. Our favourite thing about Paige’s story was it kept us reading. 
Click here to read it.
 The website committee