Sunday, August 29, 2010

Tamar Talks To Us About Life In A Kibbutz

Claire and her family lived in a Kibbutz in Israel. Her Great Grandfather helped establish the kibbutz when he left Russia. Their family has lived there ever since. It was one of the biggest in Israel with about 2000 people living in it.  Life is very different on a kibbutz. Everything is shared and everyone works for the community. They grow all of their vegetables in the kibbutz, especially bananas. They have a supermarket the size of New World on the kibbutz. The school was there. You went from when you were 6 until you are 19. The school had bomb shelters where you had to go when the siren on the kibbutz went. Claire enjoyed going to the pool when she lived there.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Trip with Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust

We had a fantastic trip to view Yellow Eyed Penguins today!

Farewell to Katie and Charlotte

We were sad to farewell Katie and Charlotte who are returning to England. They have been at Macandrew Bay School since they were 6. We had a shared lunch and a movie as a farewell treat. We hope they keep in touch and keep looking on our blog to see what Room 1 is up to.

Water Tank for our School Garden

We have been excited to see our old Room1 designed water tanks replaced by a huge new tank. The plumber explained how the rainwater will be collected from the roof of the school pool and will fill the new tank. We can then use the water to water our school gardens. We felt proud that the idea was originally a Room 1 technology design and the school has decided it was a good way to recycle water and put in a new tank while the pool was having an upgrade. Now we just need some dry weather to try it out.

Drama

Every Friday we have been doing drama with Lyn Aldridge. We were looking at the story  The Three Billy Goats Gruff. First we made a bridge which rattled and shook. Then the goats had to walk over the bridge and convince the trolls not to eat them. There was an argument and the goats and trolls ' attacked ' each other. Mother Goat wrote a letter to the judge. The jury needed to decide who was guilty - the trolls or the goats. Both groups put up strong arguments in court helped by their lawyers! In the end the judge gave the trolls community service.
It was a lot of fun .

Spelling Quiz

Three Macandrew Bay teams competed in the spelling quiz at Tahuna. There were about 90 teams there. The questions were quite hard and included current events spelling. We really enjoyed ourselves, especially eating the chocolate!  Barney