Photosynthesis - by Paige

The thing I liked about photosynthesis was learning that plants make the carbon-dioxide into oxygen for us!

Independent Writing - Paige

Room 4 have been practicing their writing goals. We would love it if you could help us by commenting on our writing. Please tell us if you think we have achieved our goal, and what else you think we can work on!

Thank you for listening to all of our stories.

Helping Bob in the garden 16.10.12

On Tuesday Jacob, Fa'amanu and Paige enjoyed helping Bob in the garden at school. They planted broccoli, lettuce and cauliflower. They watered plants and pulled up weeds. They got weeds from under the rocks and put it in the compost pile. Their favourite part was the planting!

Thank you to our media team (Patience and Mairangi) for taking the photos.

Getting ready to do some planting!

Jacob getting the weeds from the ground.

Paige putting the weeds into the bucket.

Jacob digging the rocks and weeds out of the path.

Fa'amanu and Jacob getting the weeds from the sand.

Shaking the soil from the weeds!

Fa'amanu pulling up the weeds.

"The door hates me!" says Jacob!

The three gardeners

VICTORIA By Paige

Once upon a time, a long time ago there lived a man called Charlie-Ray and his wife Paris. Charlie-Ray wore a black t-shirt and a black pants. Paris wore a white t-shirt and white pants. They lived in an old house. The house was black and it was very, very old. They were very, very poor. They had no food and they wanted a baby.

One day Paris was very hungry and she asked Charlie-Ray to get some fruit from the witch’s garden. Charlie-Ray said “No because she might catch me!” Paris said, “Just go!” And so he did and the witch did catch him! The witch said, “What are you doing here?” “I need to get some fruit for my wife,” said Charlie-Ray. “You can have some fruit,” said the witch, “as long as you give me your baby when she is born.”

The next day Paris had a baby. They named her Victoria. But Charlie-Ray and Paris forgot to pay the hospital and so the doctors cursed her to have long arms. Charlie-Ray remembered his promise and gave his daughter to the witch. The witch made Victoria use her long arms to steal stuff. She would say - “Victoria, Victoria! Use your long arms to steal that!”

One day a policeman saw Victoria stealing stuff with the witch and he followed them to the witch’s castle. When the witch went out to find something for Victoria to steal, the policeman went to talk to the Victoria. The policeman told Victoria to stop stealing stuff but Victoria said, “I can’t because my arms are too long.” The policeman said, “I can take you to a generous witch who will take your curse away.”

Victoria agreed and the generous witch took the curse away. Victoria moved into her own house and became a policewoman with the policeman. They lived happily ever after.