Holiday Happenings
September 20th, 2007
Hi Room29. I hope that you all have the greatest holiday! This is a place for you to talk over the holidays and tell us what you have been doing. We would all love to know. You can send me some pictures here and I will post them up when I check my e-mails at school.
Take care and remember that you are the best class. See you soon.
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Hope your presentations went well everybody. Hi from Oliver RD in Malaysia!
Seeya!
hi guys,
I’m not sure why I’m typing here when it’s NOT the holidays for me. I still need to go to chinese school.
Oh and I haven’t done my presentation yet. Because my sound clips don’t work.
-Jennifer
p.s I didn’t know Oliver RD went to Malaysia!
Hi Room 29,
Well on the 23rd me and Eden are going to a bay called French bay where you can go and buy French food.( BUT NOT SNAILS AND THAT STUFF)
also there is a really cool man that makes ice-cream that he makes there and then with his own portable frezzer that keeps his ingredeints cold.
- Ella
p.s. HI OLIVER HOW IS MILASIA GOING!!!!!!
Hi again,
I am still working on my Harry Snotter series but still not finished.
well I have only actually written two sentences so not much at all, but still i will do some more when i am at Mount mongunui. Since i am leaving on Friday night since mum is working.
So I’ll get thoose done theese hollidays.
- Bye bye again Ella
:):):)
Hi Room 29
The French Bay day sounds good Ella – as does the Harry Snotter idea. We would love to hear you share it. Nice to hear from Oliver RD from another place in the world too.
Our site can now be found in Google by searching room29space – it does have to be joined like that for the moment.
I have found a cool photo site where you can make videos from your own pictures, you can add music also, as well as effects – although I haven’t had time to figure that part out just yet. Go here for a look http://animoto.com/. You have to sign up for free, check with your parents before you do that.
I made a short one that you can watch on the writing page. Unfortunately I didn’t have all the pictures I took that day so had to use the ones already on the site. It looks cool though – See you for now.
Hi
My holiday sucks, becuase I’ve to go to a holiday skids program. I think it’s for little kids. Nothing to do I gusse.
Well still I had fun today I MEAN ONLY TODAY!!!!!!!!!
Leonie is sleeping over tonight she’s from room 30 here she is to talk about her holiday.
hi i’m leonie from room 30
I like your website it’s totaly cool to me. My holiday is so boring – guess what, I was supposed to go to USA TO GO TO DISNEYLAND. BUT IT’S THE END OF NEXT YEAR! But my mum said she will take me to Rotorua.
Hope you all have a geat holiday!!
PS – I hurt my foot so badly I had to use a old, wobbly walking stick for old ladies – I’m not an old lady!
Hi,
I’m not doing anything special this holidays because my family and I have done enough touring around this year. So I’m just hanging around my house reading books. My Mum also signed my sister and I up for catch up swimming classes for the whole of the first week.
Hope everyone else is having fun!
Happy holidays room 29!!
Yours sincerely,
Hannah
hey everyone
I’ve also had a not-so-good holidays these holidays because I haven’y being doing much except watching the Rugga (GO THE ALL BLACKS). see ya and to all a graet holidays. ho ho ho. (woops i’m not santa ain’ I)
bye Erik
Hi guys I am having a great time in malaysia, I went to a theme park which is the biggest indoor one in malaysia! I also went to a place called sunway lagoon and its got a water park, it was really fun. I have just been in the car after weve been searching all day for a hotel and we have had a difficult time. it is hard to find internet here but I am now in a hotel with wireless internet and its really cool.
I thought that everybody knew that I was in malaysia, scince people were coming up to me asking to buy a computer.
I feel sorry for erin having a not so good holiday but at least you can still talk on this website!
I have even bought heaps of dvds scince their really cheap here.
From Oliver RD in Malaysia!
Hi room 29,
I am not going away this holiday but I am doing lots of things. I have just had Tessa over. My cousins are comming up from Christchurch soon. I hope you all are having a great holiday!
Louisa
Hi guys! This is the REAl 2nd day of holiday for me. But I don’t get to do much. boo hoo. My parents are busy, my sisters are being silly. Plus my computer is getting really SLOW!!!!! It’s sometimes normal and sometimes slow. It’s normally fast in the morning, early in the morning. So I need to get up at 7.45 just to go on the computer.
It’s so slow, more slow than the left hand side computer at our class! It takes 30 minutes just to get to 1 web page!
-Jennifer
Hi Room 29,
It looks like some of you are overseas and some are staying in Auckland and maybe others are going away for a few days in NZ. Tessa sent me the link to your site while I as at work today and it looks awesome!
There is some great writing on the site – keep it up and post a few comments about your holidays. I know I am looking forward to having a few days away from work with Tessa and Joshua and their cousins (and my sister too). With a bit of luck Tessa might be able to post a comment or two while we are away.
Go Room 29!
Tony
Hi Tony,
Thanks for your positive comments. I am glad that Tessa has shared the site with you, as this is one of the reasons that the learning and thinking that has and will continue to occur here, is so powerful. Make sure to have a check of the links on the information page.
I look forward to reading the additional comments from your family.
Andrew.
Hi its bianca here,today on the 25th I went to wiawera hot pools,with one of my best friend hannah. i don’t realy get to see hannah because she lives in invacargill.But she comes up to visit in the holidays, so it is specil for me to go some were with her.and on satarday i am going to go to a place called tree tops with tabitha in room 30, that will be fun because youdo activertes in trees. KOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so hope your holidays are being fun see you at school after the holiday.
Hi Room 29 & Tessa,
I am Tessa’s Nana.
You kids are way ahead of me!! I hardly know what a blog is let alone how to “do it”.
Basil (Tessa’s Papa) and I will go to the beach with Tessa and her cousins who are also our grandchildren. We are only going for the day as there is not much space in the place they are staying in. We hope that it will be lovely and sunny so that those of us with wetsuits can have a swim.
This goes to show that you children can teach us older people as well as the other way around!
Happy holidays.
Hi guys!
Today is a traditional chinese day. We eat all sorts of traditional food today so me and my mum took hours to get the food ready! It’s kind of unfiar for me to do it with mum. My sisters get to play games, but they don’t don’t anything abouthard work and they’ll just mess up if they had a go at making it. All this food talk makes me hungry, I’ll just grab a snack.
-Jennifer
hi everyone
just earlier today we went to Colin McCahon’s home in the bush. Colin is a famous New Zealand artist, he’s also my favourite artist. anyway at this house it was all old and it had NO TECNOLOGY AT ALL (must’ve been pretty hard) Colin and his wife Anne McCahon had four children two boys and two girls and they had a VERY small house; around half the size as they are in the modern times. the children slept in bunk beds in a three sided shelter facing the forest (that must have been cold). it showed us a timeline of all of his paintings that he did in the house. I would’ve thought that he had spent most of the time painting all of his paintings, but, he didn’t he actually spent alot of his time painting but doing up the house
We got to see an old copper tub that they used to wash there clothes in and they were all busted and bent. they were about half the size as our desks at school.
thay had a long drop and the basins were concrete and about twice as big as our desks over in school.
later today, after we visited Colin McCahon’s house in the woods, we went to Lopdell House Gallery and in that gallery we went into this room that had a bit of wonderful photgraphy by Chris Hoult. mine and Mum’s favourite was one called ‘Kereru
feeding’. it was of a Kereru (Wood Pigeon) with a berry in it’s mouth.
Hi guys,
Last night a lot of people went out onto the beach and dug holes then put candles in them and it looked really cool with all these candles in the sand. Also some people got lanterns and took a branch and put the lanterns onto it then stuck it into the sand next to their candles. Most people made a mountain of sand then stuck the branch in. on the same night was the mooncake festival and outside our hotel they were setting up tables for it but then the rain came and they stopped. Everywhere else there was mooncakes and people eating them and my parents and me even tried some! On that night there was a full moon so I think its all linked.
Also I saw some teenagers throwing these packets on the ground and they poppped and blew up. My dad told me that they were illegal in New Zealand. for some reason they are not illegal there so I bought some, they are really cheap only 30 malaysian cents which is about 5 cents here. You press the packet and it swells up and then you throw it on the ground and it will explode.
From Oliver RD in Malaysia!
Great post Erik – very informative and I think I will be going for a visit to Colin’s house. I have actually been reading about it in the Western Leader, which is my local newspaper. I found a link for other people to have a look – hopefully more of Room 29 can go there. It sounds great.
It sounds like Oliver RD is having some great fun. Careful with those bombs Oliver
Have fun Room 29 – it’s great to hear from you.
Hi guys, it’s Ella here,
Did you now that I have just been over to school to do some bike riding and guess what, there were four teenagers in the pool that were being naughty by climbing over the swimming pool gate. We then met up with Keaton Stevens mum because she lives next door to the school and she bought her camera with her and she took photos. But they started swearing at us and so she rang the police on her home phone because she bought that over as well and the police did not do anything about it, so they will probably came back and do more damage!!!!
Another thing that has happened to me is me and dad went over to pukekoe to get our car serviced and they said that it would be one to two hours so we went and did some things and we came back but to our surprise they hadn’t even started so we went back and did other things for another one and a half hours. So we came back to the shop and asked if it was done and they said yes. So we took the car back but they didn’t even say sorry. Which we found very rude.
-Ella
Hi Room 29!!!
I am having a cool holiday!
We went to have a swim today and boggie boarding with my coussins! It was fun but I did a couple of nose dives on my boggie board(that wasnt fun!!!)
Also we went to go biking to the flying fox. (I got to ride my new bike!!!) That was fun!!!
Oh and nanna thank you for posting on the blog site!!!
Please keep posting comments I realy liked reading what you had to say.
Tessa
hi guys its Georgia here (tessa’s cousin) we are at Pauanui. so far this has been really fun. one of my favourite things was playing on the hamock. the girls would sit on the hamock and the boys would push, then we would swap. the worst thing could happen is falling off, which all of us did. it really hurt!! we fell flat on our noses. wonder what tomorrow will bring!!
Georgia
I have had quite a good hoilday but I nearly feel off the roof and killed myself but my best friends harison,francesco and alessandro came to the rescue as I was going to fall into a sqeekey guter and fall onto rocks as sharp as razers. but i was caught by harisons legs. and when I came into the house I hit my head on a table.
Ouch Jock!
I had a very interresting day today! My sisters made these paper DVDS from paper and told my 3 year old sister that they’re real. Then they made all these carboared puppets of the sponge bob square pants characters and made a puppet show for my little sister. It was really funny and they told her it was the DVDs!
Also my sisters also had another plan, they made 4 beds from boxes! they are really stable and even my dad can have a rest on it. I can’t wait to sleep on them tonight! It would be alittle werid, but it’s creative.
Plus today me and my mum watched a horror programme. SCARY!
-Jennifer
Hi everybody,
Jock that sounds horrible. Did you hurt yourself?
I went to Monto Cecilia house. It was huge and there were six bedrooms on the second story. At the top there was this tiny room which would of been boiling in the summer. The grounds were very big and I climbed this tree which had branches very low. I also had a picnic in the grounds. Tommorow my cousins are arriving here from Christchurch.
I hope you are all having fun,
Louisa
Hi guys!
The box sleep was fun! But in the morning when I took all the pillow mattresses away, the boxes were all broken!!!!! oh well. My dad threw them all away, next time we’re getting more! or can we??
-Jennifer
Hi
I was wrong about the skids programe. It was cool as, well I was there I almost Forgot our website.
So that’s why I came to our website today!!!!!!!
ELMR
hi guys!
My dad brought us a new trampoline! (the old one broke!)
-Jennifer
Hi everyone
right now i am at gold coast australia i am having a great time. in 10 minutes i am going down to the pool, the pool is sooooooooo nice. hope you all are having a great holiday.i will tell you the details when i come back.ta ta for now.
brittany
Wow Brittany. Sounds like you are having a great time. At the moment it’s really cold and wintery here in Auckland – it was even hailing just a little while ago. The sound of that pool makes me think that it must be lovely and warm where you are. You are so lucky!
Take care everyone.
See you soon,
Andrew.
Hi
On wednesday I went to clip’n climb with my cousins. I climbed up all of the walls. In the glow in the dark one I got black stuff all over me. It was wobbly on the top post on one of the challenges. I top a big jump and it felt like I was flying.
bye louisa
I’m actually bored, I haven’t been to anywhere for a while!
-Jennifer
Hi Louisa!
You are so lucky going to clipn climb!
Also Oliver RD,
I went nowhere as far as you letalone down to the south island!
My dad went to Malaysia once for work. He said it was really nice. It sure sounds like it!!
A while ago,(more like a few days ago) I had to leave Pauanui and come back to Auckland becuase there was going to be lots of storms there!
I so miss going sea biscuiting behind our boat it was so fun and scary! I got tipped off heaps!
You could hear my cousin Georgia screaming from the beach. (I could tell dad was trying to get Georgia off!)
A Few days later I had to go to hospital to get an operation done!
Poor me!
Oh and between my op and leaving from my holiday I went to Olivias house to play.
From Tessa
Hi,
Today I went to spookers with Hanna, Ben, my cousins and my family. We went on the day tour of the haunted house.
There was this man who had white eyes and lo frightening who took us aroung. He gave me a big fright because he was in a jail cell and said that we had to find a kkey to let him out. While we were looking for it he suddenly got out and scared us.
We also heard about the night tours for adults. It looked very scary.
There was also a maze there where you had to put on 3d glasses. Everything was popping out. There was a cage in the maze and I banged into the side of it since it was dark.
My cousins have just gone home now.
See you at school,
louisa
Hi andrew:
for that animoto web, how do I confirm that I’m NOT a robot?
-Jennifer
Hi Jennifer – You have probably done it by now, but you just have to type in the words as the appear in the box. I think it may ask for two words, type them as the appear.
Jennifer it would also be great if you could give some of the New York people some feedback here and also make sure you visit their site (its on the Blogroll you can see to the right) and leave a message – make sure to include our site address when you leave one
See you tomorrow.
Hi Andrew
I just found out how to make free forums. Should I make one for our class??? But it may be best for you to make it, I think I’m too young to make one.
-Jennifer
Happy hoiladays from new york. What hoilday are you still doing.We are about to celabrate a hoiladay. Our hoiladay is holloween. I hope your hoiladay is exellent. from david rindone
In New York we celebrate a holiday called Halloween. We put on scary costumes and collect candy with our friends. To get candy we say the magic words which are “Trick or Treat”.
What kind of special holiday do you celebrate?
Hi,
In New Zealand we do Halloween as well. We also have Easter and we have school holidays too. In easter we have easter eggs.
From louisa
Hiya room29!
This year is about to end and it’s going to be tough to leave this wonderful year. This section is for holiday happenings so I think we should continue this till you know the start of next year, or maybe even better, we can keep in touch for the rest of our lives.
-Jennifer
Hi Louisa,
Have you asked your brother about the intermediate houses yet?
I’m still not too sure if ‘Te Hau’ is really yellow
-Jennifer
hiya all
It’s been a great year in Balmoral primary school.
I’m going to be year 6 next year (yeppy)
how are you guys doing? I’m doing great except that I’m all stucked home!(poor me)(SOB SOB)
Back to the main point! So how are you guys doing? Great? Excellent? Or poor.
I have to go to the S.k.I.D.S program
Hi Erin
Again?
Today is Christmas, so it’s pretty good!
I really want to know what I’ve got.
It’s soft-but NOT a teddy bear!
-Jennifer
Hi room29!
Ive been having soooooooo much fun!
The day arfter school ended I had Heather over- a friend who left to Singapore over and all my other friends too! We had lots of fun!
Last Friday I went to my Nana& Granddads house in Kitia. (up north) and came back on xmas eve.
Then yesterday, (christmas! yipee!) I went to my other Nana & Popas house where I got heaps of presants and played with my cosoins! We had lots of pavalova, icecream and apple pie for pudding.
Today (soon) we are going to our friends house for a BBQ.
Hope you all got cool presents! And had a (or are having) fun time! Becuase I know I am!\
I would love to hear what you are doing<
Tessa
Hi Tessa,
My family don’t celebrate Christmas much, they just take us to some place and have a small party at night. But me and my sisters do want to Celebrate it like everyone else. So this month, we’ve been buying each other presents. After Chinese school..or just some spare time.
My sisters got a pink outfit, I’m not a fan or pink, but I don’t mind.
My sister Jessica got a pokemon and a toy moterbike, I brought it for her
My sister Jamila got a mermaid skipping rope
I got this kitty cat notebook from you and Olivia on market day and a card with a cat from Brooke’s store and I gave them to my little sister Emily
-Jennifer
Hey guys I have been to a lot of partys/BBQ’s this month and my cousins are getting into alot of trouble(lol). I’m having alot of fun but it is really sad that I’m going to China and I might not come back to Balmoral to see you guys.
Hello,
I have been to heaps of places such as the Auckland Luge and the beach with my cousins.
The luge was exciting and my favorite tracks were the intermediate and advanced. The only thing was that it took for ever to get to the top.
The sea was very warm and I stayed in it for ages. There were quite alot of people there because it was a good day.
I hope you are all having a great holiday,
Louisa
hey guys today im had a BBQ again
we played water fights,food fights and we played playstaytoin 2 (GAME:need for speed and teckon 5) and we r going to have the best new year in city! i hope u all have the best day ever today!!!!!
from jack
Hey Louisa,
Seems that you’re having a good time, I wish I can go to China…(Linking back to the post before yours) I hope I can stay for longer so i don’t have to come back for school! :p I was only kidding, but I haven’t been there for 8 years! Almost 9!
My dad is making me and my sisters do maths! He got us this white board and gives us equations everyday! I’m not a maths fan,which is why I hate it!
-Jennifer
Hello Jennifer,
I would love to do some extra maths! You seem to work very hard all the time.
The holidays seem to be going so fast, we are already in 2008!
My cousins have just left.
Louisa
Hi guys!
I am having so much fun! By the time I go back to school I will have had 5 holidays! Hope I see some of you next term!
Also check out my site! I put some anemoto videos on!
Please post a comment and tell me what you think of them!
tessah.learnerblogs.org
My friend Caitlyn has also now got a blog! Im sure she would love it if you posted a comment on her site!
caitlynj.larnerblogs.org
Tessa
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Hey Louisa,
Do some more maths? Hey should I ask you for the answers?
Nah, I’ll work them out myself.
You should ask your dad to make one for you
-Jennifer
hi jennifer
What are you doing for your holiday – I only heard you talking about christmas.
what are you really doing?
Also every time i type your name, can i type jen insted of jennifer? Every time I need to type your name, it kind of takes a long time.
-Erin
Hi,
I have just had my holiday.
First of all I went to the Bay Of Islands where I went on a boat trip and saw 2 whales and heaps of dolphins. Usually people don’t get to swim with the dolphins because the babys get frightened but when I went there were no babys.
I also went to the top of New Zealand and I went down the sand dunes. I went very fast but it was tiering trying to get up again.
I went to long beach in Russel. It had big waves to ride on and the water was so warm.
After that I went to Kai iwi Lakes and I stayed at a camping site near by with friends. The lake was very warm and at the camp site there is a river which was fun to play in. I went Kayaking but standing up at the lakes too. It was fun and once I got the hang of it it was just like normal kayaking.
I hope to see you all soon,
Louisa
Hi
Wow so any way this is the 3rd day of term 4 in 2008 in the holidays I watched Wall.E and I was palnning on down loading the jouney to the center of the Earth, any way apart from that I stayed at home and watched TV the movies on 12:30 is cool I liked some of them.