I jumped on the bus on the 25^th of August.  I looked around.

 “Some new faces,” I thought. But I looked again. It was some old faces- my old friends Turanga and Martin were on the bus .

 “But why?” I thought to myself. We got to school.

“I remember,” I said loudly, “They are here to plant their plants.”  The plants were a Karamu and a Kowhai. Martin planted the Karamu and Turanga planted the Kowhai. They are both now year nines at college. We have a tradition at Oueroa School, every year 8 gets a plant from the shadehouse, which we have grown from seed with help from DOC educators. So Martin and Turanga planted their plants and jumped back onto the bus because they had college work to do.   

THE ALL BLACKS BY ANDREW

 






Waiting, waiting, boring waiting.





Go the All Blacks - Yay!



On Friday the 2nd September at Russell Park there was just a sea of people. Do you know why? BECAUSE THE ALL BLACKS CAME TO TOWN! Oueroa School went to see them. There were three All Blacks. They were Kevin Mealamu, John Afoa and Zac Guilford.  We saw lots of people we knew like children who been to our school.  Two people were chosen to go up and get a poster signed by the All Blacks.  Can you believe who went up? ME AND ABI !  Going to see them was like a plane going through heaps of hard clouds.  Finally after a what seemed like a million years we got there.  A man was yelling out the schools and then he said “Any other schools that haven’t got their poster?. “Excuse Me, but we haven’t," I said.  The All Blacks signed the poster and then we had to go all the way back through the waves of people to where the rest of the school was.  Then it was time to leave.  I had a fantastic day seeing the All Blacks.  I hope they do well in the Rugby World Cup.      

by Andrew

Snow

Feathery dots gently touching the ground. It was exciting! We made snowmen and played snow fights. Everyone else was excited as well. We had lots of fun. When snow came it was my first time seeing snow. This was at school.

 We started school late. Mrs Middleton rang us up saying that we can stay at home until 10 o’clock just in case we slipped and crashed. There was lots of snow in the garden box. It was so beautiful when I saw it.

Snow was all over the hills. It was like baking soda.







 

The beautiful garden box



Snow (again)

Sliding on my sled
No one to annoy me
Our farm is in a blanket of baking soda
We are all wearing two pairs of socks each.

I jumped for joy as the fairy like pillows floated down from the dark sky above. Mum and Dad were making a lot of commotion and I clambered out of bed to tell them to be a little more quiet. As I opened my mouth to speak Mum beast me to it and announced that it was snowing.
I was astounded. It had never snowed at our house and settled. I was sent back to bed but for ages after I was awake. I was way to excited to go to sleep.
I strained my ears to hear the sound of the snow pat patting on the roof but as we all know, it is nearly impossible to hear snow falling. But it is possible to see it.
I must have drifted off to sleep because the next thing I knew it was morning and as I peered out of my curtains, I almost squealed for joy. The whole lawn had got a good dusting of snow. I could not wait to run out there and play in the icy snow.
by Isy

The sight that greeted us when we arrived at school.

Snow



Wow.That is amazing.



                      Snow is great

           Never before in Waipukurau 

           On the way to school                               

           Where will we go?                    

            Icy and fluffy

           Such a beautiful sight

            Cold like ice from the freezer

             Over the hills

             Over the icy puddles

             Love it in the snow

Our vegetable garden has been snowed on.

Have you ever felt snow in Waipukurau?

It has not snowed in Waipukurau for 11` years now.   True fact.

"Look at me Johnny The Snowman"

We arrived at school and our school was covered in snow like white baking powder all over the hills. The snow was fluffy like the clouds had fallen from the sky and heavily drops dropped gently onto the ground

We had a huge snowball fight and some of us made snowmen.

I was helping and then R annoyed my and we started another snowball fight. The bell then rang.

“Oh no” everybody kept saying “can we go to lunch.”

We got to lunch and all the snow had melted.

We got onto the bus and it started to snow again. ”Oh no” everybody yelled.

  We went to school the next day and the school was covered in snow. 


Fluffy snow.