Tyler's Cart

We had no homework this week so we had to make up our own. Tyler made this groovy cart!! He made it out of wood, wheels, and metal. Tyler made it with his Pop. He takes people for rides in it.

by Gloria and Emily

Dino and Braden

Our videos are really awesome. They are only about half a MB each so they will take a little time to download but they are well worth it. It is great to have another outlet to publish our digital learning. Remember you will have to have Quicktime on your computer. Quicktime is a free PC or Apple download from www.apple.com


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Shanac and Maddison

It's about time we posted another movie. This one belongs to Shanac and Maddison. It details their trip to the Ngarua Caves!


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Cross Country

The cross country was awesome! Everybody had a great time to run around and have some fun. We all ran our best and did well also I liked to see Emily rush for first place. It was so exciting to see the people who came round the corner first. Shanac came third and Emily came fifth. We can't wait to the Inter Schools.

By Shanac and Emily

Mrs Lee on the loose!!!

It's the last day for Mrs Lee. She gave us some new games. They are probability games. Some are really hard but some are real easy. Our favourite game is duck racing. She let us make up some probability games. It was really fun.

By Jillian and Jackson P

Dino meets a famous V8 driver

Dino had an exciting weekend racing carts at the Nelson Cart Club and came second to the South Island Champion in the Nelson Club Champs.

We also had a visit from Jason Richards. Jason started cart racing in Nelson and has moved on the racing V8 motor cars all over the place.

I felt astonished when I met him in person.

By Dino

New games for Moturoa

Our new student teacher Mrs Lee has given us some new reading games to play.One of them are you have to make new words with the pieces of paper. Alyshia is playing this game with Mrs Gray. The other game is where you have to get from start to finish by answering the questions that you land on. These are pictures of people playing it. Everyone is enjoying these games.

By Ruby and Nathan

Jordan's experiment

For homework this week we had to pick a landform and talk about it. Jordan did a talk about volcanic eruptions. Then she made a volcano out of paper mache and made it erupt. It was so cool!!! We all enjoyed the talks.

Lara also did a talk on volcanoes and she had a experiment to go with it. Lara made her volcano out of clay and made it explode as well. It was awsome hearing all of the talks.


By Raven and Jordan

Ngarua Caves Video and Sound Byte!

Here we are at the Ngarua caves. The whole school was able to experience this learning adventure. See more photos on the school website.

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Also here is an attempt to add a little storytelling to the blog!


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Miss K

Miss K's Birthday!

On the 4th of May it was Miss K's birthday!! It was my brother's birthday too.
Georgia's Mum made a massive chocolate cake for her.
I brought a dairy milk chocolate bar for Miss King.

By Alyshia and Georgia.

A new student teacher

Since Denise Lee has been with us she has been a big, big help with everything and we like her a lot. She has taught us a game called Buzzy Bee and we played a fun game of netball with her. Denise came from the U.K and came to New Zealand in 2001. She has been teacher-aide at Henley for three years. She came to our class on the last day of Term One when we went on the trip to town.

By Elliott and Jackson P

Moturoa goes to town!

To celebrate the last day of term we went to Nelson to visit the museum and study landforms. We got to look at a whole lot of different rocks. We even got to hold a lava bomb and a fossil that was 100 million years old! In this photo our new student teacher, Denise Lee, helped us learn about some different rock types.

After lunch we had a special treat. A visit to the movies to be the very first people in Nelson to see the Academy Award winning movie, 'March of the Penguins'. What an excellent movie! We would recommend it to everyone.

Moturoa goes to the library

Every week on Monday we go to the library. Here are some pictures of us reading well.




By Jamie and Brittany

Road Safety Homework

Ruby showing the safe way to wear your helmet.



Susa shows us about bike safety with her bike.



By Sam P

No Spelling Homework!

What a clever bunch of children I teach! Every Friday I give out the spelling homework for the children to learn throughout the week and test on Thursday. Because we were getting ready for assembly and it was a very busy day I forgot and not a single child thought to remind me! They ALL kept very quiet until the moment had passed and now it is too late to spend time learning words ready for tomorrow's test! I didn't know they could be so quiet!!!

Here is the text of an email attachment that I received which shows us the value of good spelling.

Go Miss King

Miss King and Jackson V showed excellent technique in golf. Chris taught us how to play golf. We had fun learning swing and putt. Alyishia was the first one with the putt to get a hole in one!

The Appleby School Tryathlon.

The whole school took part in the Appleby Tryathlon but Maungatapu didn't do it because they made it happen. But why did it happen? Because of the Commonwealth Games. We had to do swimming, running and biking on the tryathlon.

By Nathan and Dino

Fynn Arrives

Today a new student came into our class. His name is Fynn. We welcome him from England.
This morning we played Touch Rugby and here are some photos of Fynn and Tim.
By Tim

Commonwealth/Olympic athlete visits Appleby

An athlete from the Bahamas team came and visted Appleby today. Her name was Chloe Powell. She is Tyler's aunty. Here are some facts about her.

Chloe ran 100 metres in 11.4 seconds at the 1972 Munich Olympics. When she was there some terrorists came to kill some people in another team. Now she plays tennis. She has won 25-30 trophies.
By Tim and Braden

Chloe was an excellent role model for children to keep on trying to achieve their goals and to believe in themselves. Chloe was a ground breaking athlete who was the first woman from the Bahamas to attend an Olympic games. It was great for them to talk with someone who has accomplished so much.

Swimming Sports

What a great day we had today at the Waimea South Swimming Sports. There seemed like there were thousands of children all trying their very best to swim their best and show off their skills.

Jackson V's mum took these photos at the start of one of the races.