Stu Duval

On the 30th of may Stu Duval came to Oratia school. he draws, tells storys and writes books. All of the senior school went to see him in the middle block. he told us a story about Piha the story was based on a real story but he made up the names of the characters. The main people were Angus,Gary,Barry and Isabella. Gary and Bary were based on his great uncles James and John and Isabella was based on his wife. He also drew some cartoons for us and he drew a picture of piha and at the end he had a quiz on his story and gave it away to the class who answered two questions first, wich was room 24.On the 31st of may  we are having him again and he is going to give us ideas for writing. 


By Sophie  ;)  

Oratia stream trip

On the 29th of May room22 and room18 went to the oratia stream to plant.We had to buddy up with someone. I went with Riley. We had 1 spade between 2. After me and Riley planted 5 flax we went to find some more plants.And we found a ton. So I gues thats the end.

Stu Duval

On the 30th of May all the senior school got to see Stu Duval.He draw some of his cartoons for us and they were funny and excellent and he also drew a picture of Piha!!!After that he told us a "very" cool story.He got a true setting which was Piha and then the charaters were made-up.Apart from Gary and Barry, they were based on his Great-Uncles, James and John and they were both brothers like Gary and Barry and Isabella was based on Stu's wife!!!!Today the senior school is going to watch him  do "HEAPS" more cartoons and drawing!!!!




(P.S, I think its going to be "GREAT")
Written by Harrison Thank for reading.

:P

The oratia stream

On the 29th r22 and room 18 went to the oratia stream.First we walked to the hall then mrs lay cock said EVEY ONE BE QUIET because we were really loud. Then we got in our groups and walked to the Oratia sream.When we got there the lady talked. Then we started to plant we planted rimu puriri kowhai flax and ferns.Then mrs laycock said EVEY ONE GET OUT OF THE BUSHES NOW.because we have to walk back to school before the buses artrive. So we walked all the way back. I t was a fun day but it was also tiring.

oratia stram trip

on the 29th of may rm 22 and 18 went on a trip to oratia stream we meet in the hall and got into our groups then we walked to the steam.

we meet the men and ladies there we got in our groups of 2 i was with Alicia and we planted rimu puriri kowhai flax furns in the end we planted round 14 plants 

                                    wow!!!

next we had something to eat then we said thank you to the people   who helped us an we went on another long walk back to oratia school!. i had fun that day!!

by Georgia 

Oratia Stream Trip

On the 29 of May room 22 and room 18 went on a trip to the Oratia stream.First we planted flax bushes pine trees Kowhai trees puriri trees and ferns.We dug the hole with spades and put the plants in with our hands for some people it was boring for some people it was fun and they enjoyed it. The planting session took up the whole day except for the morning we went after morning tea we had to walk there  the day was  fun for most people including me
Posted by Danielle

saturdsy soccer

saturday soccer
in the weekend my team waitamata versed ranui it was a top of the table clash in striker was connor o in centre mid was mario left mid was pj right mid was luke left defence was ben w right defence was ben m.we started  in a couple minutes they scored . about fifteen minutes in it was 2 -0  to them my coach blain put me on for luke.in a couple of minutes we scored connor o scored it was 2-1 ranui started again and in a couple of pases i scored then i scored again in another 10 minutes i scored AGAIN and again. then some other people from my team scored at half time it was 7-2
at full time it was 11-3.

What am I

I have a short stuby tail. My chops are very flopy. I hate jumping over mud. I also hate small dogs and love big dogs. I am a tipe of dog. What am I?

netball on the weekend

On saturdy the 26th the devils had a netball game and we won.we got 19 and waitakere got 4 so we won 15 more goals than  waitakere! Alyssa from room 17 got player of the day i played WD on both queters then i playwd one queter and i was GK.we played at 11.50 on cort 17. Victoria was so cool she played GK for two quarters then WD for the third one then for the last quater of all she was GK again becauase Zaskira was away.and then the bell thing rangso we went home we got loolies and alyssa took a trophy home and a citificit on the citificit you geta free pass for west wave.On our first game that we did on saturday i got player of the day.

Animals should not be kept in zoos

I wholeheartedly  believe animals should not be Kept in zoos because they should be free and they wont be bored.

Firstly it would help them when they are free because they can find food for themselves. They would not be cooped up in cages and will be able to experience the wild life.

Did you know they are bored because their enclosures are too small? There is no room for them to play around.

They get scared of too many people. They are not used to having people looking at them all day. They should be in the wild.

I beg you to agree with me. They should not be cooped up in cages they should be free.

Animals should be kept in zoos

Animals should be kept in zoos

I strongly believe that animals should be kept in zoos because when they are in zoos you can learn about them and see them for real, it will also help them breed.

Firstly, zoos help endangered animals breed and that is a good thing, so what will become of those animals if zoos got shut down. They would become enstinked, of course. Do we want animals to become enstinked, no, so keep zoos open.

Secondly, we should keep zoos open to learn about the animals, kids find it fun to learn about animals and to know how they live and what they eat.

Thirdly, it is a chance to see animals you might never see in your whole life. It is also a great source of entertainment as they all find it fun, who doesn’t.

Zoos are great they help endangered animals breed, they teach people about animals and everyone enjoys a trip to the zoo!

zoos

I believe that animals should be kept in zoos so you can learn about them

In my opinion I believe that animals should be kept in zoos because if the go to the wild how will they stay alive they would not be alive.

Next you would not know what they eat. So how well you feed them. Little baby’s would not be able to hunt for their own food ‘again why I think animals should be kept in zoos.

Last you can learn what they do like do play do they dance or fight.

In concolsone that is why I think that animals should be kept in zoos.

Animals Shouldn't be kept in zoos

Animals shouldn’t be in zoos because they arnt free and here are the three resins why.

First no animals have enough space to play or hardly move around any animals even bird can’t fly in a cage if animals had enough room I would have said yes.

Next compeer animals in the wild and animals in the zoo when animals are unhappy they walk backwards and forwards that’s how you know they are angry, upset, unhappy or just sad.

Last of all zoos are selfish putting animals in wood boxes and shipping them off to zoos and taking them away from there own habitat  and  at  zoos  they don’t make the habitat look like the habitat  in the wild.

Animals should be kept in zoos

I wholeheartedly believe animals should be kept in zoos. so you can see them learn about them and they will be safe.

Animals should stay in zoos.

So people can see the animals from around the world. If you have never in your life seen them before you can see how big they are when you visit the zoo.

You can learn about animals. You can learn where they live what habitat they live in and if they are a mammal or a reptile.

Zoos keep them safe.

If you let them out they could get killed by catching diseases and getting endangered then they could extinct.

In conclusion, I believe that animals should stay in zoos, so you can learn about them and to keep them safe.

The Lorax

Dear Oncler

I whole heartedly believe that you oncler should stop being mean to us and stop cutting our trees down. Stop cutting our trees down IV said it once and I will say it again STOP CUTTING OUR TREES DOWN.

We’ll die if you keep cutting our trees down. The barbaloots won’t have shade if you keep cutting the tree down. 

What do you do with the leftover gloop?  I’ll show you what you do with the gloop.  You pollute my pet humming fishes water so they have to leave. 

Last of all you pollute the air cough so now I cough have to cough leave. 

Do you really think you’ll get away with this; no you won’t so take your axe somewhere else. 

Lorax

Dear Once-ler,

I AM THE LORAX, speaker for the trees and I say this and you should listen.

Do not cut down the trees, don’t pollute the water, do not pollute the air “no” you say. you cut down trees for money, your just a greedy, selfish slob.

Firstly, stop cutting down trees, I think you should stop cutting trees because I am the speaker for the trees because they have no tongues and if they did they would scream. Also the babaloots need the trees for food now there is not enough so they will have to go somewhere else. STOP CUTTING DOWN TREES!

Secondly, you are polluting the water with all that slimy gloop. The gloop is clogging up the fishes gill’s, so they will have to move too, to where I do not know. Think about wild life ONCE-LER

Last but not least, you are polluting the air so the singing swans can’t sing because they have nasty cough. Because of all that smoke your machines are making so the singing swans will have to go too . And you will do all of this because of some dumb thneed.

Once-ler if you still want to cut down trees want to make dumb thneeds you are the most power-hungry, selfish, greedy human I have ever met. Is this really what you want, are you happy now, does it make you feel good. TAKE YOUR AXE SOMEWHERE ELSE

From the Lorax

The Lorax

DEAR ONCLER

I whole heartedly believe that you should stop cutting down the trees I repeat that you should stop cutting down the trees and I have three reasons why.

Now I am going to tell you my first reason. You are killing the bar bar loots and then the Bar bar loots won’t have any shade. So, you should stop cutting down the trees.

My second reason is you are polluting the water. This means the Humming Fish won’t have any fresh water.

My third reason is stop polluting the air because the Somee swans can’t breathe the polluted air. I repeat, stop what you are doing because you are destroying all the nature.

In conclusion, I demand that you stop right now

 

The Lorax

Dear once-ler

You should stop cutting down the truffla trees and polluting the stream and air.

I think you should defiantly stop cutting down the truffla trees because the birds can’t lay their eggs and the barbaloots can’t live or play in the shade. Also the bear’s can’t eat their apple’s.  

Secondly your gloety glop is polluting the stream just to make your stuped thned .When you pollute the stream you are also killing the humming fish!!!!

Thirdly your factory smoke is making every single animal super sick and no one can breathe.

  That’s  why I think you should stop destroying this emviroment.

WOLF ARGUMENT WRITING

DEAR JUDGE
I STRONGLY  BELIEVE THAT THE WOLF IS GUILTY OF MURDER  OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS. FIRST HE DID BLOW DOWN THERE HOUSES  AND DID TRY TO  EAT THEM UP. I REPEAT HE DID TRY TO EAT THEM UP!  WHAT MADE ME THINK  HE WANTED TO EAT THE PIG'S WAS BECAUSE WHEN HE BLEW DOWN THE 1ST HOUSE HE SAID  I WANT TO EAT YOU!!!!! BANG BANG SO I STRONGLY BELIEVE THE WOLF IS GUILTY.

netball

                                                               netball                                            
                     today we are doing netball it awesome;-)

Cross Country

                    CROSS COUNTRY                         

YESTERDAY ON THE 1ST OF  MAY THE WHOLE SCHOOL PARTICIPATED IN CROSS COUNTRY IT TOOK UP THE WHOLE middle block.

We had to run 3 laps around the school. That was 2 Km !!!! WoW!

For the girls, Sofia came 1st and Ngakita came 2nd, Emma came 4th Neve came 9th.

For the boys, Ben came 3rd, Cameron Hughes came 4th, Jack Dormer came 8th.

Our class have some awesome runners!!

maori learning!!!

                   Maori Learning,

 On Monday 1st May we did some Maori learning with Mrs Harron,    

 We learnt to count in Maori. 
Tahi, rua, toru wha, rima, ono, whitu, waru, iwa, tekau,
Then you start with saying ten  and then the next number.
So 15 is tekau ma rima       
20 is 2 lots of 10 so rua tekau
27 is rua tekau ma whitu
53 is rima tekau ma toru.
We learned that maori numbers were easy as long as you know the numbers 1 to 10!