Monday Touch

On Monday we do touch after school. The Colts have not lost a game neather had the Hawks. For the Colts, Jacob and Lachie got named player of the day last week. Ben is playing for Outram. Ben lost most games but won 2 games. Taylah and Charlotte got selected for the Taieri representative touch teams. Kat and Mel come in to coach us and run training on Thursday lunchtime - almost the whole school gets involved!

Meeting Ella West

Yesterday we went to the Mosgiel Library for a writer’s workshop. We met Ella West. Her real name is Karen Trebilcock but she changed it because there were a lot of Karen’s. She is an award winning local author and she writes books for young adults. She taught us how to plan really cool stories. She said a good story starts sad and has a happy ending, she also told us that when you plan a story stick with it!

cavalcade

On Friday the 27th of February we held up the Cavalcade at Lee Flat and the Tisdall's woodshed. We collected $384.40, 4 pears and a lolly.
There were a lot of cowboys, cowgirls and a few Indians. We were grateful for the amount of money we got and thank you to the lovely Cavalcaders. We will use the money for equipment for our school.

Some of the money we got.

made by Charlotte and Ben

Cowboy Jack

Ben's Birdhouse

Here is a movie that I made about making a birdhouse in discovery.

Ben and Shannon's Hand Challenge

During writing and science we did a challenge that was called "give me a hand". We had to make a poster that explained what are hands and how do they work. Our question was "why are our hands some of the most important tools we have?". We used QR codes to help us find our answers. We learnt that we need thumbs to help us do things like picking up things, if we have no thumbs it is hard to do stuff. 

Minibeast Inquiry

The June Snow of 2013 at Ben's House

Hi

 

This is what the snow is like around my place on day 3.

 

Thanks

 

Ben

What is a snow day?

A typical snow day at our house is like a normal school day but we have snow on the ground. When this happens we wait for a phone call to see if our school is open or closed. If closed we stay at home and do snow work. Our teachers assign us work on our Wiki page. When we finish our snow work we get to play in the snow and do our normal daily chores like bringing in wood.   

By Ben

A Little About Me

                                             

Hi I’m Ben I’m nine years old. I go to Lee Stream School. I live on a farm with my dad, my mum and my two brothers.  My granddad and grandma live just around the road.  I have a dirt bike at home that I ride. It is a TTR 125.  Dad bought a Yamaha Rhino.  We use it a lot for farm work.  My dad and my granddad run Perendale sheep and beef on our farm. I play rugby for West taieri.  I play in a rugby team. Sometimes dad takes me hunting in our quarry.  I like driving the tractor and 4 wheel drive in the quarry because it is rough.  I like farming because you always have something to do. My dad has driven trucks from when he was younger.  He has driven stock trucks for Cooks and also Tuapeka.  So once he retired from driving he came to help on the farm.  So that is how we live on a farm now. I want to play rugby for tons of rugby teams when I am older.