All from Daynah M.

By Rachel

Room One

Some people do think we came from monkeys because we look like them and they have some of the same abilities that we have. Like standing on their legs,holding things in their hands, climbing trees, peeling bananas, run walk move and making noises.

But some people don’t think we came from monkeys because we don’t have tails and because we still have monkeys and we don’t see them evolving into people nowadays.

Another thing that I found out is that someone said the earth has only been around for 7,000 years or so and it takes 1,000s of millions years for things to evolve.

I’m not disagreeing from any of them but what I learnt is that if you get a picture of you and then put a picture of your dad on top and keep on adding ancestors on to the pile until it’s so tall that you need to climb the eiffel tower to get to it, you might see it’s a monkey. If not well you need to wait another 1,000 million years to see if a monkey turns into a human.

Daynah M.

A tree banding kit from the Smithsonian in the USA.

We picked some possible trees for banding around school.

[more to come...]

Months gone by, the sun has risen
People feeling like they’ve won a prize.
Buildings being fixed,
Money being donated,
Happy fills the air.

BY CASEY

My Dogs by Daynah

Mr F.

We all had a great time, the weather was perfect and everybody had a swim. The winners of the races are going to the Interschool Swimming competition on Monday to race against other schools.

I had to wake up at 6:00am and only started at 10:30am.Me and josh from room 5 were having a race. I won too.

We started swimming. We had to swim 100 meters. It’s hard because people kick and push you. I was coming last until I ran past heaps of people. I got all my stuff on then biked away. Again passing heaps of people. Then I was on a hill, I biked all the way up it then came another hill. It was the steepest hill there. I biked about seven meters up the hill. Then walked up. Then there was down hill. I went so fast down it I nearly ran in to a lady. But I slowed down finally.

Me and Josh found where to put our bikes. Then took off our helmets then ran off to do our 2 and a half  km run/2500 meters. I was close to the finish and Josh said see you later, but I passed him. It was like last year but no Josh. Also last year I was in the Hamilton city news with Alison Shanks.

By Zachary

It is big for a trophy. We won it in 2011, but when I was looking at the people who won it a few years ago in 1984 The Ants won it. It’s a weird name for a team name. Man was I laughing. Darragh’s brother gave it to me and in two weeks I have to give it to Jacob. We won it because we got the most goals.

By Kate

12/03/2012

When everyone had a picture we went onto the AstroTurf. We imagined that the centre of the turf was Glenview School and that the end with the gate was North. Then we moved around and sat where we thought our houses were in relation to the school and each other. Lots of people lived close to school. A few people lived close to each other in the North. Darragh and Kate are nearly neighbours to the South East of school.

Next we have to check if we were sitting in the correct spot. We’re going to do this the old fashioned way, with a wall map and some map pins.

This will probably be the last thing I put up for Room 11, you’re all going to new rooms and new teachers next year. Do me a favour; after a few weeks, when you’ve settled into your new class, ask your new teacher, “Do we have a class blog?” or “Can we have a class blog please?”. You know how kids say,

“Are we there yet?”
“Are we there yet?”
“Are we there yet?”

in that really annoying way? That’s how you should ask. You may find that you have a class blog, but if you don’t… asking, “Do we have a class blog yet?” once a day/a few times a week should be just annoying enough to get you one.

Enjoy the rest of your holidays and I’ll see you in February.

Mr F.

P.S. Don’t annoy your new teacher too much