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Article posted October 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM GMT •
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I was walking though the forest when I heard a noise. It was a scary noise the noise was geting near me I was to scared to look what IT was. So I ran for my life but i looked it was a sabre tooth tiger. I ran and ran but it just keep geting closer .I had some time to make a trap. The trap was a hole i put leaves on the hole i ran around the hole and he ran in the hole. I heard another but it was my friend kitty the pixie and we lived happily ever after. The end.
Article posted October 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM GMT •
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Article posted September 23, 2010 at 01:33 AM GMT •
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Dairy products are made of milk and milk comes from cows. Milk is produced in cow’s stomachs. Cows have four stomachs. The grass has to go through all four parts of the cow’s stomachs before it is fully digested. Some of the milk travels through the bloodstream then goes to the udder.
In some countries they still use hand milking but machine milking is much faster than hand milking. It takes about five minutes until all the milk is removed out of the udder. Some suction cups connect to the udder and it sucks all of the milk out of the udder.
Big tanker trucks come daily to collect the milk. In the dairy factory it cools the milk then makes it hot quick. That kills the germs. Then the milk and cream goes into bottles and the rest is processed to make cheese, butter, yoghurt and ice-cream.
Dairy products are important to New Zealand and we send a lot overseas.
Article posted September 23, 2010 at 01:33 AM GMT •
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Article posted September 14, 2010 at 10:06 PM GMT •
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Get under the table, it’s an earthquake!
There was a huge earthquake in Canterbury. It was amazing because no one died but there were two serious injuries. There was a boy and he was in bed. He rolled out of bed and the wall collapsed and he fell out of his house. An ambulance came and took him to hospital.
The Richter scale was 7.1. The Richter scale measures how strong the earthquake is. More than 100 000 buildings were damaged.
What I was talking about the boy that fell out of his house, I found out that he had tried to make himself safe by going between his bed and his wall but instead he just rolled out of the top floor. He fell on lots and lots of bricks and more bricks fell on top of him. It was amazing that he had no broken bones but he had lots of cuts.
The earthquake was 30 km from Christchurch city and 10 km underground. I was sad because they didn’t have clean water to drink because the sewage and water pipes got mixed up. The power lines are broken up.
There are over 100 aftershocks. Engineers have been checking buildings. If they put a green sticker on it it’s safe. If they put a yellow sticker on it, it means it needs fixing and a red sticker means it’s dangerous.
University students got spades and cleaned up all of the sand and mud. Lots of children have been jumping in and out of the road cracks. I think that might be a bit dangerous.
Article posted September 14, 2010 at 10:06 PM GMT •
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Article posted August 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM GMT •
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New Zealand is one of the smallest island countries.
Mount Cook is the tallest mountain in New Zealand. It is 3764 metres. New Zealand is made of many small islands and two big islands. Waikato River is the longest river in New Zealand. Lake Taupo is one of the largest volcanoes in New Zealand.
In New Zealand we sell a lot of food to other countries. Kiwifruit is the most popular fruit that we sell. We sell other crops too. We sell meat from sheep and cows. Cows also make milk to drink. Visitors give money to us.
In New Zealand our rugby team is the All Blacks. The All Blacks play very hard and fair. The name of our netball team is the Silver Ferns. Cricket is one of the popular sports in New Zealand.
In New Zealand there are not native mammals except bats. Lots of the native birds don’t fly in New Zealand. Kiwis are our national emblem. People are also called kiwis.
Four million people are in New Zealand. Most of them live in towns or cities. The capital city is Wellington. The biggest city is Auckland.
New Zealand is small but a lot of people live here.
Article posted August 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM GMT •
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Article posted July 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM GMT •
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One day a fat elephant was walking around his enclosure at Hamilton Zoo. He was a shy elephant. He was waiting for his friend the tiger but something sad happened that day. His friend Tibbs the tiger had died. Somehow someone had killed him when they broke into the zoo. So Ellie was alone. They used to be neighbours.
Ellie was quite shy so he didn’t talk much.
Ellie was so sad that he ran away. He broke out of Hamilton Zoo. Everyone in Hamilton looked for him. But it was no use. No one could find him.
He was looking for a friend. He heard a noise. It was a man. The man was trying to kill Ellie but Casey and Shaelyn saved him. Casey and Shaelyn were in the bushes. They jumped out and stopped the man by threatening to call the police.
Casey and Shaelyn built him a big house, like a giant dog kennel but for an elephant. They all lived happily ever after.
Article posted July 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM GMT •
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Article posted May 17, 2010 at 11:58 PM GMT •
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Mrs Tarasevich sent our class a book and in the book there were two Russian egg games. The two games were an egg beating game and egg stickers.
The first game was the egg beating game. We did it in pairs. You have to try to crack your partner’s egg. They are hard boiled eggs so they don’t make a mess. But the shells on the ground make a lot of mess so you might want to put a mat down if you play this game or you could play the game outside.
When you are using the egg stickers you wrap them around the egg then you put them in a pot of boiling water. The egg stickers will shrink. When you want to eat the egg you might want to cut the sticker because they are very hard to get off. You could also smack it on the table. When you are finished it would be a good idea to clean the shell up.
Our class has tried both the activities. It was really fun. You could play the egg beating game on the ground or off the ground. If you want to try this game at home it is really fun.
Article posted May 17, 2010 at 11:58 PM GMT •
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Article posted April 18, 2010 at 11:58 PM GMT •
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On Tuesday the Livewires went bush walking.
“Ha, look! Kaka! They are doing something.”
“What are they doing?”
“Watch out they are swooping over us.”
When we got there we had morning tea. We all saw a table. It had a sign on it. It said ‘Check Bags Here.’ We did not check our bags because we had our school bags. We know that there were no mice in our bags. And there was a cage. On the cage it said ‘Kiwi Zone, No Dogs Allowed.’ We had no dogs so we entered. You were only allowed to open one door at a time.
Then we went in to where all of the trees were. Then we started walking. We went straight to kaka feeding. On the way we heard a fantail. It was making a funny noise. Mrs C had a bottle and a cork. She spat on the jar and rubbed it. Then we kept on walking. The fantail followed us.
We went and checked the tracking tunnels. We followed the pink ribbons. At the end we got our jackets and went back to the kaka feeding. He was there. He was feeding the kaka birdseeds and kiwifruit and apples. Then we got really tired but we were not allowed to have a rest so we kept on walking.
Mrs Collins chose some people to lead us through. We followed pink ribbons. When I was the leader I got stuck so Sam helped me. I had to go under a giant log and I hurt my knee. In the tracking tunnels we saw 12 tracking cards. Only two cards with footprints on it. We looked for 12 tracking cards. I checked a card too. I don’t think there were footprints on it. I don’t think we got 12 tracking cards.
Then we went back to school. On the way out we heard lots of birds singing. They had pretty voices.
Article posted April 18, 2010 at 11:58 PM GMT •
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Article posted February 28, 2010 at 09:52 PM GMT •
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Name of Shaelyn
Resident of Puahue District
Friend of Anya, Kitty, Nicole
Who hates spiders
Who loves cats
Who needs a new school bag
Who gives friendliness
Who feels happy
Who wishes I was rich
Who fears monsters
Who is a Livewire at Puahue School
Article posted February 28, 2010 at 09:52 PM GMT •
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