THANK YOU FROM RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES

Yesterday we received a letter from Ronald McDonald House Charities thanking us for raising a whopping $532.80!

Writing wizz!

Wow! This amazing piece of writing was done this morning...

Rustle! Rustle! Went the sound of the Manawatu River rustling along. On Saturday me and my Dad and plus my little sister went to the Manawatu River for a swim. The current was strange. It was also very, very deep and I saw people making fun of each other. We had to stay close to my Dad because my little sister nearly drowned but so did I! The river was shining blue and it also looked sparkly in the distance. The currents were wavy and unsafe so we couldn’t go too deep. There were lots of odd things to see. Like the big, gigantic rock that had a word that said ROCCO in all capital letters. The river was freezing cold and slippery because the stones weren’t stable so I kept on slipping over. The river was fun but after some time it was time to go home. Mum was very happy to see me.

Mia

ELF ON A SHELF - TUESDAY

SCOUT GOES ON HOLIDAY

I love Scout because Scout is cool and he hides in the classroom.  He is the best in the world.  Scout is on the tree today.  Scout is scary too and he is in the Whisper Island today.  I love Scout.

By Joel

Ahh... I love this vacation especially in Whisper Island at school.  I hope the children don't come in.  I'm so relaxed in the tree.  Maybe I should stay in the tree and stand here.  I hate to say, but it is noisy in the class but relaxing in Whisper Island.  I wish I could sleep here on the tree.

By Maarire

Today Scout hid in Whisper Island climbing a coconut tree at the beach.  It looks like he's trying to find a nice hard coconut so he can do the coconut drums.  Maybe he went to Hawaii for a vacation and then he went to the hot beach.  When he got there he had nothing to do because he's too little to swim so he just climbed a coconut tree and did the coconut drums.

By Benji R

ELF ON THE SHELF - MONDAY

Today our elf on the shelf has taken one of the teacher's candy canes and now he's trying to climb the shelf!  I can't believe that he'd take one of the teacher's things.  "How naughty is that?"  Scout is going to older and cheekier.  Oh no! I don't want him to take my stuff and tonight I'm going to look on my iPod and look on the Santa tracer app and see how Santa is going.
By Karys

Emily gave Mrs Lunn a candy cane but Scout took it and ate it but before he got a small lick, Mrs Lunn came and stopped him so he used it for a grappling hook and he climbed up as fast as he could but Mrs Lunn caught the candy cane and dragged him around.  "Finally!" said Mrs Lunn.
By Riley S

Today Scout the elf is hanging on the teacher's cupboard.  Hanging on what?  Mrs Lunn's candy cane.  Who gave it to her?  Me!  I hope Mrs Lunn can still eat it!
By Emily

"I haven't eaten in days.  I suppose Mrs Lunn won't mind if I take a few nibbles or her candy cane.  Mmmm, this is delicious!  I might take a few more bites.  I realised it was all gone!  Ohh wait.  I know what I'll do.  I will buy a new one but I realised it wasn't the same brand."
By Petra

ELF ON THE SHELF - THURSDAY

SCOUT THE TEACHER

Today Scout hid up high reading a book called Father Christmas heard a fart.  When the class heard Mrs Lunn say the name of the book, the whole class laughed!  I wonder where he will hide tomorrow.  I hope he wont be reading a very, very funny book!

ELF ON THE SHELF - WEDNESDAY

Scout's having a drink!

Welcome back to the Elf on the Shelf News...

We have some good news and funny news. 
First, we start with the good news.  Scout got his magic back!
Now, the funny news.  When I got to school, someone showed me where Scout is now and guess what... he is by his box that he came in and is drinking water from a very long straw!

By Jacob L

Rippa Finals

CONGRATULATIONS to Mikaela and Benji for winning the best Junior Rippa player awards at the Rippa finals yesterday.  

A big congratulations to all the children from Piako Rua who participated in Rippa this year.

I liked the finals because I can get a gold medal.  Then I got a sausage and I got a drink and then I got another sausage. By Benji N

Hooray!  Hooray!  I was the best girl in my team because I got a medal.  I was the best junior girl.  Benji was the best junior boy.  I felt happy because I got a medal.  Mum and Dad were excited.  By Mikaela

MARKET DAY!

Market Day was finally here!  

We were so excited to set up our stalls and for the Piako Tahi kids to come.

We have raised nearly $400!

Georgia and her Dad's amazing birdhouse made $89!!!

Ronald McDonald House is going to LOVE us!

Here are some stories we wrote about Market Day.  

Mrs Ruawai typed them up for us.

Piako Rua is going to have Market Day today. This is how you do it.  Firstly you make spiderwebs, palmy rocks, and sometimes you can do it by yourself. It can sometimes be good because peace and quiet. Poor Ryleigh, JC’s sister. I hope you’re better, Ryleigh!

Kouta

Dear Ronald McDonald House we have organised a market day for all of the sick people in Starship Hospital. We has to brainstorm our ideas also known as a fundraiser we have made a birdhouse, animal pencil holders, lady bug wind turners, monster bookmarks, fans, wands place mats pet rocks, spider webs, peg dolls, minions, stress balls, shell fish, floating ball activities, monkey brooches, sunshine magnets...wow that’s lots!

From Anoushka

JC’s sister used to be sick so you had to take her up to starship hospital and his parents had to stay at McDonald House but I did not know where JC slept...who knows.

Georgia   

Today Piako Rua is doing a market day for Ronald MacDonald House because JC’s sister Ryleigh went up to starship hospital in Auckland even a bird house raffle it is 50c per ticket and i am selling magic wands and my best friend Connor is selling spider webs.

Jacob L

Today is Market Day I am so excited but I am a little bit nervous. The reason we are having market day is because JC’s little sister, Ryleigh, was very sick. She had a special kind of sickness called Leukemia. Anyway I forgot to tell you the thing I made was an animal pencil holder. It was so fun!

Karys

Today is Market Day! Do you know what is market day? Well I’ll tell you. Market day is a day when people come and buy stuff. We’re doing this for you! We know that you have Leukemia. So we’re trying to do this for you. We are raising money for all the sick kids. We’re going to donate the money to Ronald MacDonald House. We’re glad to help the sick girls and boys. You’re doing a great job of helping.

Mia

We would like to help JC’s sister Ryleigh. She has been very sick so we decided to have a market day. There are magnet monkeys, chickens, pen can holders, wands and heaps more. We are going to send it to Ronald McDonald so they can use it for medicine.

Petra   

Athletics Day

We had a wonderful day at Athletics out at Massey University yesterday.  

The kids did us all proud!

Tired but happy friends on the way home in the bus...

CALENDAR ART!

Here are a few examples of each of the types of art we made for our calendars.  

We are really proud of how well they turned out.

  We hope you like them too.

Order information will be sent out soon.

FRIDAY FUN!

We had a great day.  Our new kids made their calendar pictures, Mrs Kenyon cooked Chocolate Cake with some of the kids and Mrs Ruawai taught a art workshop to make Emus.  We also had Jump Jam, Smart Moves AND Piako 2 Whanau.  We love Fridays!


                                     

CONGRATULATIONS BENTLEY!

 Well done to Bentley, who raised the most money from the Year Twos in the PTA's Pie Drive.  Ms Harnett and Anna from the PTA, came to class to award Bentley his prize.  Congratulations Bentley.  We are so proud of you!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR JUMP JAMMERS!

Our Junior Jump Jam team placed third at the competition today!

Congratulations kids!

LOOK WHAT WE CAUGHT LAST NIGHT!

Look what got caught in one of our traps last night!

Congratulations Karys, Emma B, Honor and Nathan on catching him!