Josh's trip to Dunedin

In the big holiday's I went to Dunedin. It was 1 hour to fly from Nelson to Christchurch. Then we had to wait because the flight was delayed and then we had to wait for a person. Then we finally took off. Then we got in the sky. It looked like we were in the middle of nowhere. We finally made it. My cousins were there to pick me up. We got to their  house. Me and Kelly went to play.  By Josh

On Friday I went fishing with my awesome Dad Giles. We left at half past one. We were going to Kenepuru sounds trying to catch a snapper. When we got there we launched our big silver boat in the water and took off into the Sounds. When we got there we had dinner because it was getting late. For dinner me and Dad had bacon and eggs. They were Chloe's eggs. Then Dad set up the tent with my nice warm sleeping bag. I watched a movie for a while then went to bed. When I woke up I went straight to the boat to go fishing. When I went fishing Dad baited my rod and I threw it hard in the water. Then a few minutes later I got a bite. I wound it in furiously. I was hoping it would be a snapper. I was crossing my fingers but but... it wasn't a snapper- it was a silly old skate. I didn't like that, nether did Dad. I chucked my rod back in the flat water and was hoping when I wound it in I would get a snapper. Then I got a tug on the end of my rod so I wound it in but it was a ... stinking old shark. That was the second time we didn't get a snapper. Dad said he was getting sick of this because it kept on happening. It was so bad that Dad had to move but it kept on happening there too, so we went back to our camp and packed up and went back to Havelock and had a small hot chocolate and some cake at a cafe. At the cafe I said to dad can I take a shark to school? He said since you have been a good girl, yes, you can take a shark to school. I said, yes, yes, yes, thank you Dad so much I love you.  Dad said I love you too. In the end we did not get a snapper we only got a skate and stinking old sharks.

By Ellie

Chloe's new room

On Sunday I got a new room. The room was Amy's the day before! Now I have got a place to put all my art work. It is very cool having a new room all to myself. It is very nice to get some sleep. Do you think I am going to have the new room forever?

Mums Skydive by Xavier and Josh

On Thursday it was my Mums 40th birthday. She went to the Motueka Air Port to go skydiving. My mum jumped out of a plane ''how dumb is that!'' She dived down like a Eagle to catch it's prey. Woosh the parachute shot out like a bullet. She floated down as peacefully as a butterfly. It took 5 minutes to get down to the ground. She finally got down to the ground running across the ground. We went to see if she enjoyed it. Naughty! she swore. Then they made the DVD. She was shaking at the end for about half an hour.

The great big walk. By Phoebe

Sit and eat your morning Tea on the bony rocks . Mrs D said what we are going to do
? Come on old class! So we racketed over to the spikey boat making. Jade and Maddi were in my funny group. Least we were just in time to put ours in green flowing pond . Then all of the noisy class flipped flopped all the way next door. THE BUG HUTING POND!

Hanmer Springs and Wellington By Amelia and Jazmine

Jazmine's family are going to Hanmer Springs Easter There are lots of nice warm pools and kids water parks. We are staying for 3 night's. Amelia's family is going to Wellington for Easter we are staying for 3 night's we are going on a ferry to get there. I have never been on a ferry before. We are going to stay in a BIG cool hotel.

Hunting

Yesterday my dad Giles went hunting. He went hunting at the Murchison Gowan for a deer. That night he drove to our friends Roger and Dennis and asked them if he could try to catch a deer on their farm. They said yes it didn't mind them. So dad took off and went hunting. Dad took our cute dog Chester with him because Chester is the one who shows dad where the big stags are so he can shot them.The week before dad got the stag he got a huge black hungry pig. I forgot that dad could not carry the whole deer out of the bush because it was far too heavy. Dad and Chester stayed in our small hut. Our cool hut has a sandpit and rugby and scocer posts. It has a big back yard too. We have a secret track that leads down to a swaying blue river that me and my sister swim and splash in the hot summer. Dad went on Friday the 30th.