Netball

On a early saturday morning the kaniere flames were at the Westland High school netball courts, warming up for some action.
their competition was st’marys magic. It was time for the cheer “you need a little more practice”(: said the coach. But the team was already evacuating the sideline to the 
treacherous court. “PING” the whistle screeched through every bodies ears.
The crowd went SILENT as Kaniere Flames shot goals in like a rocket over and over again.
The other team was overpowered by kaniere and flames hope to come back in sparks for their next game.

Author Nikita & Lydia (:

THREE MINUTE STORY

(This is a three minute story, everybody wrote one about a pic of a car doing a jump over a canyon.)

The old car rumbled along when SUDDENLY!!! I looked up down and the rough massive rocks where like ants bellow, the rusty old car wheels.

Howing wind was racing past my window, as the sun glazed the rusty bonnet.

Right now I agree with everyone else that i am exstremely crazy.

THE END

BY LYDIA :)

Library and Museum Photos

Hi guys, was a great visit to the library and museum today. It was a bonus getting a new drink bottle as well! Thanks to Maire, Jill, Maria, Kathy, Kim, Delia, Annette and Tracey who made it possible by providing transport. I have a few more photos of the day but enjoy these for now.  Let me know what you think.  Did you see we have almost made it to 2000 views of our blog. Amazing it is only 10 days since we started it!!

Mrs Phelps

hi
today we are trying out to write our own time table this is the second time and itis working really well.
Mrs.Phelps is thimking of us writing ourown timetable everday. (:

bye
lydia

  Starfish

Do you know what an Asteroid is? 

It is the scientific name for a starfish. Starfish are marine animals, which live in salty waters, they have many different names such as a sea star an asteroid a starfish and an Echinoderm.  

APPEARANCE

Starfish can be from five to forty arms they aren’t all the same because Echinoderms can be any colour of the rainbow. If sea stars get hurt or loose an arm in a few weeks it will grow back, they can do it because they are regeneration that means a formation of a new organ or a lost part. Starfish do not have any eyes, but do have an eye spot on the end of each arm, eye spots are heaps of tiny cells that have formed together and made an eye spot, star fish are able to see if it is light or dark but can’t see shapes clearly.

DIET

Echinoderms are deadly predators to sea urchins, oysters, sea snails and mussels. Starfish are scavengers. Their predators are sharks the sun and sea birds. Sea stars mouths are a little bit down from the middle of them. They also have two stomachs and sea stars aren’t are not picky eaters.

HABITAT

Echinoderms are marine animals that live in salty waters and in tide pools, were the splash zone enters. If you turn a sea star over you will sea the fifteen thousand feet also known as suction pads, attached to the bottom of them, so they can cement themselves onto to hard rocks.

FACTS

Even though starfish are called starfish they are not a fish because they do NOT have fins, scales

or gills, because they do not have gills have you ever wondered how they breath, well starfish have breathing holes at the end of each arm, and they also have breathing tubes although their bodies.

Starfish are in the Phylum Echinodermata family, so that means they are related to the sand dollars.

Author: Lydia Gordon

Monday morning

Bird’s gossip, door’s slam shut, a TV chat’s. As my eye’s sluggishly flutter open. Silence is destroyred by the thunder of footstep’s. I lethargically ignore. “ Lydia, wake up “, Mum’s command dances around the room as I charge down the hallway to my breakfast that was purched in a streak of sunlight spying through the window, I gulp down my dry’ed toast. Then my arm’s sluggishly flop into my clothes, As my toothbrush crawl’s across my teeth.

I peer across to see Caitlin still half asleep “ oh get over it Caitlin” my voice screeches, as I wander into my bedroom a carpet of crinkled clothes lies in the middle of the floor, I ignore as Caitlin and I make our way to the dusty car. Country side fly’s past on the way to school on a frosty morning.

bye lydia