100 word challenge!

We used this 100 word challenge prompt to writing a story about Moby and his friend (who we later found out was called Tim). Please read what 4 children in our class wrote, in 100 words or less. Aren't they clever?

Moby in the Jungle
Once upon a time there were two men but actually one was a robot. But lets get on the the story. Moby and Darryl slept in the jungle for 100 days and 99 nights. On the last day in the jungle, they went looking for something. Can you guess? It was gold. But guess what they found? P.S they found rubbish. The end.
~by Ruby

Moby and his friend Sam were walking along in the creepy jungle. Just then a cheeky monkey came along and stole Moby's hat, then behind some trees they saw what they've been looking for, for ages... They tried to open the treasure chest, but it wouldn't budge, so they looked around for a while, and found a key. They opened the treasure chest and were amazed what they saw. There was gold, diamonds, gemstones, and rubies. It was incredible. They ran as fast as they could and stuffed it all into their pockets. "At last Moby we found it all."
~by Harriet

Once upon a time there were two young men searching the jungle and a monkey stole Moby's hat. The two young men opened the bush and found a lion on gold. They were happy but Moby wasn't because the monkey stole his hat. He was kind of happy but they were more happy that they found it. They ate the chocolate up that they got from the lion. The end. P.S it was fun, yum chocolate. Yum, yum, yum.
~by Lily

Moby and Harry are walking through the jungle. They heard a Tui, parrot, chirping, a monkey and a cricket. Then suddenly a monkey came and took Moby's hat. He was annoyed. Then Harry said, "At last Moby we found it." An old brick, viney, slippery, big, slimy, rickety house with heaps and heaps of really shiny gold. "Moby, aren't we lucky?" "Yeah we are," said Moby. The end.
~by Eli

The North Pole in Christchurch

Snow, snow, and more snow! On Wednesday and Thursday, school was cancelled because of the big snow dump that happened early on Wednesday morning. It was too dangerous for us to come to school because of the ice, so we got to have 2 days off!

Back at school today, we had a challenge where we had to make snowmen in 2 teams. We had 3 minutes to make the first part of the snowman, and then 2 minutes to make the rest of the snowman. We tried as hard as we could to make a big snowman, and we put decorations on.

Our groups both worked really well, and as you can see, the Year 4's all tried really hard to lift the giant middle section they had rolled. They had some success in the end, but the Year 3's won the challenge because they made their snowman in the time that we had.

Check out our photos - Room 20, if you have any snow photos you want to put on the blog, please send them to emma.woolford@halswell.school.nz.

What did you get up to today?

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SNOW DAY!!

Most of us predicted it would snow overnight! It didn't start settling until around 7am, so school wasn't closed until 8.30am. I hope you're all rugged up and warm. How many of you have been outside to make a snowman or other cool snow structure?

Does it look like this at your place? My family and I have been watching big clumps of snow fall of the trees this afternoon. Tell us all about your snow day experiences by adding an answer to our Answer Garden question below

The Kakapo group presents a film about plagues...

The Kakapo reading group have read all about Plagues throughout history. Each group member found key facts and summarised them in their own words. We then talked about how we can share our learning with others. After writing the script based on our summaries, we had to use our self-management skills to practise, learn our lines, perform and film! Here is the finished product:

Note from Mrs W: Well done Kakapo group. You are all stars! You have done so well to self-manage this project and produce such a great film for a first attempt (without a tripod to steady the camera!). The knowledge you have gained shows how well you have skimmed the text for important information, found key facts about your selected area of interest, and summarised in your own words. I am very proud of you all :)