From the point of view of a new student

Our class is a very lucky class. The class has an art table and 3 GIANT TABLES. Library corner, a couch and the last of all can you guess… They are as fat as a sumo wrestler, they have the name Swiss in them, they remind me of Swiss cheese, they also have the rubber taste, (not that I’ve tasted one of them) blah, disgusting!! Now back to my story what is it? If you want to know here it is SWISS BALLS! I know its glorious isn’t it. But we don’t use them for getting abs or for a gym, we sit on them. Then back, back to the story now moving on we’re moving we’re moving.

 So here we go, chick, chicks come here chicks can you guess what I’m on about?  Those fluttery thing that go bock, bock, book, those things yes I’m talking about chickens, food scrap eating, feather pecking chickens. They live in a small luxurious cave like coop (except without a roof). Names are so far are, Sugar, Caramel, Honey, Sapphire and Brave but I don’t have not a clue what the black chickens are named, we will find out soon enough. Egg 1 egg 2 egg 3 egg 4, eggs every day, before you know it…………it’s raining eggs (not literally).

 We grow plants like sugar cane (beware its sharp!), I’m not sure what the other plants are, but they must be beautiful or nice enough to get in the garden.

 Anja runs a program called enviro thinkers. They run all sorts of things. Here are all of the things they do: ICT (information computer technology), shop/market, art, music and engineering.

 Every day we write in our journals we write for ten boring minutes but it turns out to be a good ten minutes. There’s a very small number of children that come up to speak and share their story, maybe some people’s writing is too precious to share. I share as much as I can so do a few people. Gradually the numbers will get bigger and bigger (I hope).

There is a Rongoa garden it’s known as the outdoor classroom, there is a big thick chalk board (it’s so horrid if you think about nails scraping down a blackboard). Out at the classroom it’s really nice, nice fresh air up my nostrils it’s a nice smell of native plants and fresh air mixed, don’t forget about the air through your hair!

 I should stop talking about my feelings this is all about you reader.

 Next subject we are studying short silent movies this term we are making a short silent movie about the chickens in their new coop (they were moved to their new coop this year).

We have a few people doing choir, only practises happen every two to three weeks. As well as that a crazy (as she calls herself) teacher comes with it.

 We send runners with big bulky watering cans (HEAVY) to run along a line of fruit trees on the other side of our massive field. Talking about our field there are two goal posts they are pretty big in my opinion. So where were we oh yes…they pour water on each fruit tree, there are: peach, apple, feijoa, pear, grapes, banana and passion fruit.

 We started doing a wacky roll at the start of the year.  When my name is called I call the next person on the list, but if that person is not there the teacher crosses out that person and calls the next (just a SHORT example).

We also have a picture of a waka and everyone has a photo taken in a rowing pose to put up on the waka. We made a coat of arms for our paddle ends and rolled up paper really hard for the stick you hold onto.

 Up above that there is a treaty (class treaty), this treaty has different things on it such as KIA KAHA! (Be Strong), listen when other people are talking, keep your hands to yourself and that’s all I remember of it.

There’s an extremely fun game we play it’s called the Name Game, you call out someone’s name and run at them, they must react fast and call another person’s name and run at them before you get to them.  If you do get to them first they must sit down, it just goes on and on till the games stops or everyone is sitting on the ground, except the one winner. We have sports on Tuesdays every two weeks. The guy who takes us is called Simon.

When we do enviro thinkers, a lady called Hayley comes in to do art with the rest of the class. I don’t know anything about what they are doing so I can’t say anything about it because I’m always at enviro thinkers the day she comes in. When we come out of enviro thinkers I have a look what they have been doing I always think the same thing “absolutely beautiful”.

A few of the children in our class have P.E gear (shirt, shorts) they are dark green very dark, quite shiny too. I’ve got to say I forgot to mention that we have the luckiest and best also talented teacher in the school, she is AWESOME!

She also teaches us swimming in the pool, she is really good at it because she studied swimming for a whole year in Germany. It’s quite unusual that you have German accented teacher in your class.

 On Thursday 6^th March we had a junior triathlon with our buddy class our class is room 19 (they are so cute).

Our topic this term is how can we build something of value. It’s interesting what Anja comes up with.

We all have done well in maths, everyone has got good marks in all areas of maths. Everyone in the class has a duty. Mine is opening windows and other jobs are eg. Runner, handing out books, cloak bay monitor and landfill to the rubbish bin, to name a few.

We have a little veggie patch just next to the chickens, there are little scarecrows that people have made in past years.  There is also a worm bin next to the chickens in an old bath. Worms hate citrus fruit meat and bread but chickens will only eat the meat and bread they also hate citrus fruit.

Tune in next term folks for an update

By Alexander