Baby Bunnies!

My well planned day suddenly unravelled when four children clambered aboard our little school bus this morning carrying boxes and a basket. Goodies for Middlehurst I thought, until...

Upon arriving at school, four baby bunnies were produced - complete with milk and syringes for feeding. What could I do but turn it into a creative day of poetry writing! Juliet

Alice, Lucy, Ben, Skye, and Annah with four bunnies

I found my bunny when we were at Old Middlehurst, when Lucy and I went out looking for some bunnies. We found a hole with bunny fluff outside it and had turns at feeling down it. Lucy touched it first and said she felt something. Next I put my hand down and felt a bunny. I pulled out all four of them and we took them back to the hut. We gave one to Skye and one to Ben. Alice.

This is my cinquain poem about my bunny, Cheddar...

Bunny
Soft, cuddly
Clawing, bouncing, sniffing
Hopping around the room
Inquisitive

Lucy's cinquain poem, Rolly Poly...

Bunny
Sweet, soft
Sleeping, eating, hopping
Irresistable to be touched
Silky

Skye's anacrostic poem, Fidget

Friendly is my bunny
Isn't he so soft?
Doesn't he look so delicious to a cat?
Getting fatter as I feed him milk!
Eating grass when he is bigger!
Tail is so little.

Ben with his bunny

Ben's anacrostic poem, Henry

His head is like a soft pillow
Easily he climbs my arm
Naturally his wiggling nostril is so cute
Rests on my lap, snuggling and warm
Yesterday he was safe in his burrow

Sometimes I have to close my eyes!

"Come quickly and see Simon and me on the bike," was Ben's urgent request at lunch time. In my day we weren't allowed to ride bikes in the school ground, but up the Awatere Valley things are a little different with only six children...

........ Ben and I, (Simon) thought we would cowboy up and invent something that is injury friendly, so here it is! Ben got on my shoulders and off we went. Amazingly, there were no big smashes. Note the bike is a bit small.

Simon and Ben

Art

We are currently doing some paintings for art. Mine is a circle with a smiley face in it and other geometric shapes. I like to paint; it beats working in your maths book!!!!! Mine is called Anything. Alice :) ^_^

Simon and Ben: Simon and I, (Ben) are painting our pictures of mandala type things. Simon's painting is called "Something" mine is called "By Ben" We like our weird names.

Skye

Lucy and Annah painting on canvases in the afternoon. Annah was doing a VERY light water paint to see what colours she wanted and Lucy was doing her background, which, the next time we did painting she got rid of.

Playing with Patterns

Skye: I drew a picture of a house that repeated itself as a pattern.

Simon: This is my drawing, I didn't really know what I was doing, I just wipped it up. A heap of triangles.

Lucy

Annah

Ben: I got my idea from a pattern in a book and I drew lots of lines.

Snow Men

On Monday the 13th we got some snow up the Awatere Valley. At lunch some of us decided to make a big snow ball each, but then decided to make snow men. Mine wore my gloves, had rocks for eyes and some tussock for eye brows and hair. I had lots of fun.

Lucy ^_^

And Alice stayed warm inside with the cat, reading a Michael Morpurgo book...

Cross Country Run

Simon's sprint to the line

On Friday the tenth of August, we all participated in the loacal cross country in Seddon. Everyone ran against their own year group, separated in girls and boys. For some people it was the last year of cross country they will do - such as Simon, Lucy and Alice who will be off to boarding school next year. All the people that are going away to boarding school placed!!! I got 2nd place in the year six girls and ran 2.5 km. I was really pleased with myself, because this is the first ever time I placed in a cross country run. I am sure everyone enjoyed the run and did better than last year.


Alice ^_^

Iroquois Helicopter Visit - August 9th

On Thursday an Iroquois Helicopter visted us. We were allowed to climb all over the helicopter and even sit in the pilot's seat!!!! Five Airforce men came in the helicopter: a pilot, co-pilot, a person that fixed the chopper, and two others. We asked them lots of questions, e.g. Where did it come from originally? US. I found out that the name comes from an American Indian tribe.

Alice :)

While the Iroquois was here we kids started a game which wasn't so good, so one of the guys named Mouse, showed some word commands that they used to get out of the helicopter while under gun fire. I had so much fun; it was so interesting. We had to ask open ended questions to test them out. While they were leaving they left one of the men behind. The pilots flew away then turned back to pick him up. But they just winched him instead.

Annah ^_^