Buzzy Bees

Hi Chels,
Just to let you know we all think about you often. I hope you are enjoying your new school.
Lots of love MB2 and Mrs Bee

We made fruit kebabs for our morning tea and they were yummy. We had orange,apple, kiwifruit, banana, strawberries and pineapple. Here is a photo of us making our kebabs.

Hi there. My name is Daniel and I did some independent research about Jupiter and I’m going to tell you some facts I found out on the internet and in some space books. One fact is that Jupiter is heaviest planet in the solar system. It’s even heavier than Saturn. I found some fast facts as well. They were…It is planet number five in the solar system, the biggest planet out of the eight planets and we don’t know what year it was discovered – it never said! I thought that was unfair. The hardest facts I found were about Jupiter’s moons. It took 5 pages to print them out. I thought it was only going to be 2 pages and I had to put some on to the back of my POSTER!!!  So that’s my story.

By Daniel.

Monty was a small meerkat.  He wanted to explore the Kalahari Desert around him but he was too young to leave the burrow. He was tired of waiting for his birthday in 2 days. On the morning of his birthday he woke up with a jolt of excitement going through him. He clambered into the kitchen and his jaw dropped. There, in the middle of the room was a small pile of presents surrounded by his friends Padsy, Rocky and Ellabella. Above them was a banner that said: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONTY!  Hoorah!  Monty went to party. After a morning of worm pie, scorpion cake and grasshopper spring rolls, Monty went to explore the desert with his friends. They made a hut under a rock. Monty, Ellabella and Rocky left Padsy to mind the hut while they went to get more stuff for the hut but when they came back he was gone! All three meerkats looked around, worried. They started calling. No answer. “Oh dear!” Cried Ellabella “He’d never go if he promised to stay. Someone nipped him, or even worse…” She trailed off ” It ate him.” Monty gulped. Rocky said “STUPID JACKAL!” Ellabella and Monty glared at him. He was right, as the jackal is a highly dangerous predator to meerkats, but he was pretty loud! Rocky kept going, like he didn’t see them (which he did) and said:”IF ONLY JACKALS DIDN”T EXIST, THEN WE WOULDN”T  HAVE TO LOSE A FRIEND EVERY DAY. I THINK THE JACKALS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSI-”"ROCKY!” Cut in Ellabella and Monty. “Ok, ok, just expressing my feelings!” said Rocky.”Someone’s had too much worm fizzy juice!” said Ellabella.”I didn’t even touch that stuff! I hate it!” “Well, whatever crazyman!” Trying to ignore his friend’s shouts, which was rather impossible, Monty thought: Maybe a jackal wasn’t responsible for Padsy’s disappearance (Once again, I HATE THAT WORM JUNK!), maybe, it was MORTON! Morton was a REALLY big enemy of the meerkats, he was suprisingly a bunny who lived in a hole with many entrances and many passwords. No one could get in except Morton and his servant, Noralla the dormouse. Monty decided that, he would go and find Padsy, but first: ” OK GUYS, TIME OUT! I’m going to go and find Padsy, come if you want to!” That hit them. Ellabella and Rocky stopped fighting and went to either side of Monty, still a bit angry with each other for one dumb reason: Rocky shouted. They made their way across the desert and came to Morton’s hole. Morton suddenly came rushing out complaining to Noralla about something. The three friends hid behind a rock, Morton still in earshot. ” Stop complaining Morton!’ came Noralla’s voice. ” I captured that silly meerkat Padsy for you.” Rocky clenched his fist. ” Just what you wanted” Noralla turned around and she went inside. Morton followed. “  Smelly Jelly” When all was clear, the meerkats went forwards. “Really? Smelly Jelly? Weird password!” said Ellabella.  “Who cares, as long as we get Padsy back!” said Monty, strangely just realising that his name started with the same two letters as Morton’s. “Come on then!” said Monty shaking off the crazy thought and pacing towards the door. ” Really Monty- “said Ellabella not finishing her sentence as Monty already said ‘Smelly Jelly’ into the speaker. “Password accepted” said a rather spooky lady’s voice and the doors opened. Ellabella and Rocky gave up thinking of things to say and they went in. “Help oh help!” cried a voice. “PADSY!” cried Monty. ” I can not believe you are alive!” Ellabella said. ” How are ya buddy wherever. You. Are. Where are you?” “Look to your left, all of you.” They all looked left. There, in a rope tied around a chair was P-A-D-S-Y. Padsy! Monty found scissors and cut the rope. “Thanks” said Padsy. After, they all scampered as fast as they could home (The doors opened automatically once you were inside.). Lying on Padsy’s bed they sighed. “What a day! Wait ’till everyone hears about this!” said Ellabella ” We were all worried about you!” added on Rocky. “Well, yeah. I actually sort of  knew that was gonna happen. You know Morton.” Everyone giggled. That night at dinner (all of them were staying at Padsy’s) they told Padsy’s parents all about their day. When they finished Ellabella said:” You know what, next time, I’m pushing Rocky off a cliff and Monty and Padsy have to wait below to catch him.” It was Ellabella’s turn to be glared at.

THIS IS THE END OF THIS STORY BY SIMONE! THATS MEEEE!

Fluffy is a black and white Ruffed Lemur leaping across the canopy. She gets to a comfortable tree top and decides to rest. When she’s deeply relaxed, a great shudder snaps her out of  her rest She looks down through the branches and twigs and gasps. There was a big machine cutting the tree down! She squealed to the other black and white Ruffed Lemurs to get out of the trees, then she herself leapt to the ground “There’s one!” a man yelled. A bullet whizzed passed her and nearly hit her, then more came, and  they also barely missed.  Suddenly another man rushed in and stood in front of her, arms stretched wide… Fluffy woke up. Her family were standing over her, “What happened?” she asked “I saw a man standing in front of me but that’s all” . “The man standing in front of you shot you with a sleep gun,” replied her mother. “Then he spotted us huddled in a corner and carried you over, and he went away. The other men gave up and disappeared into the bushes”, She added, as she noticed Fluffy look down from the tree which her family had dragged her up into, with a scared look on her face. That night they each had a whole half  coconut bowl of fruits, vegetables, flowers, seeds, nectar and lots of different grasses, all except Fluffy, “I’m not hungry,” she repeated for about the twentyseventh time, “I’d much rather go to bed!” And she climbed up into the canopy. That morning, her father came to wake her up. “Come on!” He said, “We’re going to visit Ant!” Ant got his name by being the biggest black and white Ruffed Lemur in the Rain Forest. That made Fluffy jump. Last time Fluffy visited him she nearly got squashed, but come to think of it, she was only one when that happened. “Well, come on, we haven’t got all day!” Everyone hurtled towards the five new stumps that had been chopped down yesterday. THE END by Monique.

The yr 4 Students spent three days at El Rancho Camp Waikanae. Here are a couple of photos from camp.

This term we have been looking at Ancient Egypt. The class really enjoyed learning how the Egyptians lived a very long time ago. Here are a couple of pictures you may like to see. We had an Egyptian morning tea.  Here we are with apricots, figs, grapes, dates, hummas, and coarse flat bread.  Do you know …the flour the Egyptians made their bread with was so coarse, it  actually wore down their teeth by the time they reached adulthood. Here is Todd with the pyramid he made. Everyone made a good job of constructing  their pyramids. They decorated them so they looked like they would in the days of the Pharoahs.

Last week we had an artist who came and showed us how to draw landscapes. Here are a sample of MB2’s art. We think they are pretty good drawings. What do you think?