Be a busy brusher!

Here are some children in Room 3 showing how to keep their teeth clean and healthy.  Thanks to Max's family we can show everyone how to brush on the big screen.  The OC Marton and Palmerston North kindly donated toothpaste, brushes, stickers and pencils to encourage the children to keep their teeth looking good.  They can all smile with confidence.

Welcome to Fordell

We welcome Max McGregor to school today.  He had his 5th birthday yesterday on 28th August and has enjoyed his first full day with us.  He has many friends already in the classroom from Pre-School days and has settled in well.

An unusual and very exciting day at Fordell!

Today it snowed in Fordell for the first time in many, many years.  Some families believe that snow has not fallen on their land for over 100 years so you can imagine the excitement when the white stuff started falling on some very startled little faces.  Here are some recounts done by the children of Room 3.



This morning, half an hour before school, my mummy was talking on the phone to my nanny.  All of a sudden my mum said, "Ben there's snow at Fordell!" and then I was dancing around like a crazy thing.
By Ben Mackintosh, year 1.


I woke up and I looked out of the door and I saw snow.  I saw ice too!
By Kyle Dickon, year 1.


I threw a snowball at Ben!
By Blake Hemopo, year 0.


This morning my dad pulled me out of bed and said, "Look outside."  I was bursting with excitement, so was my brother.  I saw snow!
By Max Tobin, year 1.


Mum said, "Wake up, wake up Ryan."  We went outside to look at the snow.
By Ryan Miller, year 2.


In the morning I was awake and Dad was awake too.  I saw dad go in the kitchen.  I went in the kitchen too.  I saw him doing our lunch for school and then he saw me  and he said, "Do you want to see something magical?"  He opened the curtains and there was snow everywhere!
By Rose Raikes, year 2.


I went in the snow.  I played snow fights.
By Stevie Benefield, year 0.


In the morning my mum was screaming loudly down the old hallway.  "Snow, snow, show!" she shouted.  I got up and out of bed.  I looked out of my mum and dad's bedroom window.  There was gleaming, sparkling snow on the ground.  Our roof was smooth with snow.  I ran outside and had a fantastic snowball fight with my dad.
By Seth Forlong, year 2.


Ka-boom!  Snow fell from the sky as fast as ever.  When I got out of my bed I pulled my curtain then I got dressed, went outside, and started throwing snowballs at my dad's truck.
By John Bryant, year 2.


This morning Mum woke me up and it was snowing.  I felt happy.  Aunty Carolyn dropped us off at school.
By Georgia Cossey, year 4.


In the morning Rebekah came running into my lovely room as fast as a bright spotted cheetah say, "Lauren there's snow, there's snow, there's snow!"  Then she grabbed my hand and pulled me out into the lounge.  I looked out of the window and there was snow and then I grabbed Chatterbox (our class mascot) and showed him and he started yelling so hard that he broke all his beautiful bones in his body!  After Rebekah and I had breakfast and did our chores, we went outside to make a snowman.  Later we went on the bus to go to school and I saw heaps of snow on the way.  When the bus got to school I threw heaps of snowballs at everyone.  It was fun!
By Lauren Phillips, year 2.


This morning my dad shouted, "Come here I have something to show you," and I had to walk to the deck.  I saw snow!  It was so cold.  My feet were so cold that I kicked my dad in the tummy.  We got to stay up the rest of our sleep time.  Then I had my breakfast and I went to play in the snow with dad.  I played a snowball fight with him and once I got him in the head and he was on the phone.  All the time I was getting him then he got me.  We were doing it for 90 minutes.  He pushed us down in a baby pool twice.  We made a mini snowman and it took us 10 minutes to do it.  We had a picture with us and the snowman.  We kicked the snowman and Dad skidded down the hill.  We saw some grass and I did sliding for 10 minutes!
By George Pearce, year 2.


An amazing day!

Jack and Jill by John Bryant

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl named Jill and a handsome boy named Jack and their old mother.  One very sunny morning their mother got ill so she asked Jack and Jill to fetch a golden bucket of cold water.

Suddenly it looked like it was going to rain a lot of boots and umbrellas so they were extra anxious.  “We could bring one of the huge umbrellas from outside,” suggested Jill. 

“I’ve got a way better idea,” said Jack opening the big garage door.  “Here’s the plan!” exclaimed Jack.  “We get our own dry umbrella...” he said, pretending to hold an umbrella.”Go up to the green, grassy hill with our rusty pail and ...”

“What’s a pail?” interrupted Jill.

“A bucket,” explained Jack.  “Now let’s get going,” said Jack opening the gigantic backdoor as fast as a racing car.

Quickly they ran up a big hill; Jack was as fast as a cheetah but Jill walked.  She was as slow as a leaf floating in the wind, a bit like a snail.   At the top there stood a deep, dark, dirty, damp well.  When they got to the top they saw a silvery rope.

“I’ve read about this well,” said Jill.  “It’s two thousand metres long,” she explained.  They started cranking.  Jack cranked and cranked and cranked.

They slowly started skipping back down when “Oh no!”  Jack tripped over a wide rabbit hole and banged his head on a wooden plank.  He ran home screaming as loud as a lion’s roar. 

Jill didn’t tie her heart-shaped shoes so she tripped over her laces and rolled down the hill as fast as lightning.

Jack went inside, jumped in his big bed, and drank his milo that Jill had kindly made him and then he went to sleep.