2013!!!

The new look St Vincent Room!!!

December 2012

We have had a busy month. The highlight was our special day at Haulashore Island We caught the ferry across to the island, our trip was the first one and Marlins dad taught us an old Rarotongan welcome chant to travelers coming ashore. We surprised a real pirate hiding in the bushes. He had us go on a real treasure hunt for a chest. North 10 steps....south 25 steps.... looking for clues. We found all the clues and finally found a real chest! When we opened it, it contained special items to keep in our school historical display case. (a piece of hemp rope, a Maori tool and a very old wooden block from the Sounds) We walked around the island, learning about the history of the island (and found 13 dead shags) saw Coles special camp area and the lagoon. After lunch we had time on the Haulashore Beach where the sailing ships were hauled ashore to have repairs and their hulls scraped. Before we left we had time for a treasure hunt....lots of jewels and sweets!!! We had a wonderful day!

This is the final photo taken in 2012. We are wearing our Talleys Adopt a ship black hoodies. We say farewell to Ashton and Taylor to go to new schools next year. The Year 4's move on to Nile Room in 2013. Judi retires on Dec 19,2012. Thank you for reading our blog. The St Vincent Room Kids

Susie's story

When Susie popped into see us at St Vincent Room, we were just finishing off our bees to go into the daffodils. We told her about our bees and she said" I'm going to a ball dressed as a bee on Saturday." So we pleaded with her, "Please come on Monday morning in your bee suit and lead us out into the daffodils...our own Queen Bee! Susie was soooooooo pleased to wear her special suit again, so she came along and helped us put our bees out in the park on Monday. Craig did the banging in, and Tim Cuff took photos for the Nelson City Council paper. Lots of people tooted and waved at us. We think they look good. Marlin and Jack

Susie our Queen Bee

When Susie popped into see us at St Vincent Room, we were just finishing off our bees to go into the daffodils. We told her about our bees and she said" I'm going to a ball dressed as a bee on Saturday." So we pleaded with her, "Please come on Monday morning in your bee suit and lead us out into the daffodils...our own Queen Bee! Susie was soooooooo pleased to wear her special suit again, so she came along and helped us put our bees out in the park on Monday. Craig did the banging in, and Tim Cuff took photos for the Nelson City Council paper. Lots of people tooted and waved at us. We think they look good.
Marlin and Jack

The Goat Skull

Noah's goat skull found on Grandma's farm.

Visiting Local Artists

St Vincent Room have had local artists visiting to share their passion and their art.

Thank you to all the artists who visited us.

Eclipse of the sun

Today there will be a partial eclipse of the sun. The moon will go between the sun and planet Earth. This will black out the suns rays. It is getting darker in our classroom and Judi has turned off the lights. We can't look at the sun but we can look through a pinhole in the cardboard. Nile Room showed us the sun and the shadow on cardboard. Marlin

scarecrows

St Vincent Room is making scarecrows for the Fair, Country comes to Town. What a major job!!! Lots of our parents have been popping in to help us dress, sew and decorate our scarecrows. Neil cut us a big pile of bamboo poles and Celia and Judi have been wiring them together. Tania brought us a bale of hay from her horse's hayshed to stuff the scarecrows. Celia and Georgina went op shopping and found hats, scarves, gloves and clothing. Sandie dropped off a big pile of clothes. Greta has helped us sew on the hair(we found a big bag of woolly sheepskin) Today we hot glued on the eyes and mouths. Our scarecrows will frighten off any crows that happen to fly around the school on Saturday. They will be auctioned at 2.30 on Saturday 10th November.

Rueben in Africa

Rueben has gone to South Africa for a holiday to see his family. He is having fun with his family. He has seen snakes and lots of birds. Matariki We have been emailing him our news and reading about his exciting stay in Johannesburg. On Tuesday we arranged the classroom chairs into a jumbo jet. Angel piloted the plane, Cole was co pilot and we have 2 flight attendants to serve us drinks and give out the lollies. This was Maison and Sequioa, they knew about the exit hatches and the life jackets and the toilets) We flew on the Singapore to Johannesburg route. There wasn't much to see out the windows except the Indian Ocean but we thought we saw Madagascar. It was so exciting as we taxied down the runway....a black and white zebra ran across in front of the plane. ( it was really Minty our black and white Dorper lamb, with his nappy on!!) The pilot shook our hand and wished us a happy holiday in South Africa.

Nelson Artist Kathryn Furnise Visits St Vincent Room Kids to share her art and passion. Minty Lamb goes back to the farm on Friday. We learn heaps about baby lambs and we wrote great stories about him. Minty was abandoned by his mother when she had triplets and decided 3 was too many to look after. Shay said, "His mum just ditched him!!" We will follow his progress at the farm. October.23 Minty's tail fell off yesterday. He's on 2 bottles a day now. He thinks he's a dog and his herd is the hunting dogs, Chelsea the tame deer and Princess Fuego. October 29 Minty is on 1 bottle a day and a really big lamb now. Becky put him in with the other sheep but he didn't want to stay. He knows he's a lamb of special importance and should live on the verandah with Chelsea Deer.

A fishing day

In the holidays I went fishing with Granda at the wharf. He loves fishing. We were there for half of the morning. We took fishing lines, morning tea and some meat to put on our hooks. Granda can catch fish on a string. He gets the meat and puts it on his hook then he puts it in the water and he has to wait until it goes down to the bottom of the ocean. He doesn’t do much talking while he’s waiting cause he has to be patient. During the morning we caught lots of spotties, which are small fish with spots and spikes on their back fin. We caught 5 fish that we took home to feed to my nanas cat, called Puss Puss. I love my Granda because he takes me fishing and plays board games with me. Ashley