Stage Challenge

 Yesterday morning, Monday 24th, at about 10a.m Rooms 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 from Melville intermediate went up to the high school to watch the stage challenge performance. When we were lining up it was freezing, it was like 1 degree.






The dance was about Rangi, the sky father and Papatuanuku, the land mother. It was based on their love and how they got split apart.

The high school and our school were combined together in the performance.  The students have been working hard on designing the performance since Term 1. They had to come up with the ideas, dance, music and costumes.

Their costumes were really cool I had never seen anything like it before.
The dances were amazing to watch they told us most of the story without even talking to us.

The props were creative and they almost looked like real ones.
Most of our class liked it. It was probably a new experience for most of us year 7s.

The music matched the dances in every way and they really looked like they were enjoying performing for us.

Over all it was a great performance and it was awesome to watch.

Arbor Day

17 children went to Arbor Day from Melville Intermediate with three adults to help.

We left at 9:15am to go to Arbor Day.

We all were excited when we got to Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park. Their were lots of kids and adults, thats all we could see.

We had got told that we could get off the bus.'Ohh man it was cold outside', it felt like we were turning itto an ice-block.

It was a long walk by the time we got to the place were everyone was. 20 minutes came by and every-one was waiting paciently while there was a lady showing us how to plant the trees as well as she was planting the first tree of the day (kauri tree).

It was time to get started planting. Bria was the first person out of Melville Intermedaite to plant the first tree, it was a very large baby tree. The time went so fast it was lunch time, every-one was heading up to the saugage sizzle. We all asked Miss De Ward if we could go up to get a saugage sizzle. "YES" of course. Miss De Ward walked into the tent to get a box and a bag full of Just Juice.

There was 1 hour left to plant the rest of the trees by the time we were getting on the bus to head back to school. We started to head over to the otherside of the farm to plant the plants that had not been planted.

Melville Intermediate Students planted 100 odd plants in the last hour. All the girls from Melville Intermediate were colecting the black conaners from the plants and putting them on the long black snake that the little kids made.

It was time to go back on the bus to go back to school. We all had a fantasic day, thanks to the perents.

Excitment during the Planting



 



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As we went to the beautiful lake the THE BIRDS SWOOPED DOWN AND landed on me, I took out some of my bread and fed them. They looked very happy after I fed them. It looked like they were hungry before that is why they swooped down and landed on me, I kept feeding them until they flew away, then I went to the other birds and feed them. After a while my Mum called me and asked me if I wanted to walk. “Yes” I replied. Once we were half way my Mum stopped because she was really tired.