Eye on Nature Fashion Show

8/4/16

Last night, Timothy, Mele, Salarina and I went to the Botanical Gardens for the Eye on Nature fashion show. There were a lot of costumes! I went as a sparkly mermaid with scales on my tail

, Timothy went as Tangaroa the God of the sea, Salariana went as a beautiful jelly fish and Mele went as a plastic island, it had lots of rubbish on it. 

When we got there, we all got numbers. As we were getting dressed we saw amazing costumes and we all got very nervous. After a while, Salarina was first to go down the isle first out of us, my nan said that she was the coolest jelly fish out of all of them. 

After that, Timothy the fierce Tangaroa was going down the isle and when his parents saw him they were laughing as hard as they could. It took for ever for me and Mele to go on but then I got to finally go on and my heart was beating like a thunder storm. I felt like a princess when I went down the isle, Mele was up and she was nervous as well, but we all pulled it off and we were all stunning!!

By Sativa

Rongomai Stream Visit - Water Testing

Rongomai Stream Visit

31/03/16

Today Room 15 walked down to the Rongomai Stream to test the water.

Firstly we had Kate from Waicare who was showing Room 15 two posters, one said New Zealand’s Freshwater Fish and the other Freshwater  invertebrates.

As we were near the stream Kate asked Dontay if he could use the  thermometer to check the air temperature and it was 21.6 degrees.

Afterwards Kate Asked Altezza to check the water temperature and it was 18.8 degrees.

The next person Kate called was Israr, he was testing out Nitrite and Nitrate, both of them were 0% so that means the water is just right for the fish.

Then there was Reana who tested the dissolved oxygen and it was right level for the fish to breathe in.

It was my turn next, I had to check the phosphorous. First I had to get the exact amount of stream water in two containers. Once both of the containers were filled up me and Kate put one of the lids on one of the containers and the other one we put chemicals in. After that was finished we waited for 5 minutes and the one with the chemicals changed colour. As it changed colour I had to solve which colour matched the one with chemicals and it was 0.05.

At the end me and Fusi had to pour water into a tube. Before we screwed the lid on we put in a magnet. Me and Fusi got had to show everyone what to do, they had to look in one end and tell us when the magnet disappears, We measured the distance in centimeters and shows us the water clarity.

We thanked Kate for showing us some of the equipment they use for checking the stream. After that we came back to school. We will visit the stream again early next term.

By Salarina       

The Courier

This morning the newspaper people came to talk to me about my cancer. They asked me lots of questions like how did my mum feel when she found out I had cancer and who was my bone marrow donor. Then they asked my sister how did it feel when she was my donor and what did it feel like when all the needles went in when it was time for my bone marrow transplant. They also took a photo of me and my sister and then they told us that my story will be on the newspaper next week.

By Arsenah

Cricket Tournamnet

On Wednesday our sports teams went off to represent Dawson School at their cricket tournament with Miss Burton.

When the taxis arrived the boys went in that taxi, some of us didn’t care about girls first, so we hopped in and straight away and opened the windows.

Once we got there we hopped out of the taxi with all our packed bags. As we walked down the path we saw two people that used to come to our school, Denarius and Viliami.

There were heaps of schools there,

then we had to put up our sun shelter,

it was very easy. Then we had to verse 4 schools they were all very hard. Everyone that was watching was proud of us. When they tallied the points after our games the boys and girls both came 10th.

By Dontay

15/3/16

Wednesday the 9th of March, Miss Burton and Miss Sabrina took two teams to the cricket tournament, there was a girls team and a boys team.

When we got to the the cricket tournament in Papatoetoe, we set up the tent and played a few games of bat and ball.

But then it was 10.00am that’s when us  Dawson’s girls had our first cricket match against Yendarra school. Then, Bailey (the team captain)had to do rock papers scissors with Yendarra, lucky because we won and we were fielding first. I had to bowl first I was so nervous but after a while I felt really better we had 6 wides.

Once we all finished bowling,then we had to bat it was fun but sadly it was over and we lost by 4 points

As the time went past we lost all the games but it was really funny and we had a great time!


By Sativa

Nurses Visit

Recently we had a visit from Arsenah's nurses. The nurses names were Tim and Grace. They spoke to us about children with leukaemia. We learned about blood cells. The blood cells give us oxygen, white blood cells get rid of infections, platelets help blood clot. If there are not enough red blood cells you can get very tired, if your platelets load then if you get a cut or a blood nose it is hard for the blood to stop. 




We look out for her by checking that she is not sick or tired. We now have a toy monkey, that we haven't named yet in class. The monkey is to take Arsenah's place when she is not here, it keeps us company. The monkey goes everywhere with us including cooking and gardening and swimming.  



Arsenah has her own mini monkey that matches ours. We had lots of questions we asked and the nurses were able to answer them all. 

Thanks Grace and Tim for all your help and the information you shared about Arsenah's leukaemia.
By Leon

Rocket Lab Visit

The Rocket Lab Visit

The most amazing thing I saw at Rongomai school was when when Shaun pulled out one of the rocket engines it was very fragile. It was really cool because we got to touch it.

Shaun said that him and company rocket lab were building a rocket that was as big as a 4 story house. Shaun said that he works near the airport and they were going to launch the rocket in July. When I asked Shaun if 2 rocket engines could be used as a jet pack and he said No!! but he said once you join rocket lab you try using 2 rocket engines as a jet pack and I said yes!! 

People use rockets to go into space and to send satellites there. In space there is no gravity so they need to figure out how to use oxygen with the engine. Thank you Mr Pattison for inviting my class to your school.

Orlando