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Thursday, 27 April 2017

Feel with Michelle and Noa who wrote about their family holidays in their ESOL lesson

It was a beautiful summer’s day, I was sitting in the back of my Auntie’s car on my way to a charming villa in Israel.

Next I excitedly got out of the car and launched to see where our villa was and what kind of house we had.

The first thing we did was to plunge into the cold water of the pool. It didn’t take very long and we were freezing in the water. We were as cold as in Antarctica so we sprang out of the pool and got changed.

Then an idea popped into my head, “Wouldn’t it be nice to go to the hot tub?” I questioned dad. “Of course that would be a great idea”, my dad responded.

At the end of the day my dad and me were sitting in the blistering hot tube.

That was the best holiday of my life in Israel because I met all my family and could finally feel the heat of love cuddling around me.

By Noa Kroupkin




Two years ago, during the school holiday my grandparents took me, and my family to a holiday resort in the greenly covered mountains called Drakens Berge.  There were 2 pools, 1hot and 1cold, a trampoline, a restaurant, horse riding, a shop, houses (for the resort), a beautifull waterfall, a pingpong table and much more!

First we drove around looking for our house, it felt like ages, but we finally found it. “ It’s rather small”, I thought. There were 3 bedrooms the first one had 2 single sized beds. My, aunt and uncle slept there and my cousin in his crib. The second one had a queen sized bed, my grandparents slept there. Then the last bedroom had 1 single sized bed which my sister slept in so I had to sleep on the couch. Next we unpacked our bags. Shortly after we decided to go for a dip.

It didn’t take very long and we were in the hottub getting our steam on. The water was “BOILING.” Then I discovered a massive rock at the end of the pool I swam to it and found it was like a big cave, it was very gloomy!!!


At the end of the day when I went to bed (which was a narrow couch) I lied down looking back at the amazing day wondering what the other 6 days were going to be like!

By Michelle Ackerman

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Shami, Deon, Nikolai and Ethan recount a great game they played at ESOL

On Monday we played with water bombs and it was lots of fun. Ethan, Deon, Nikolai, Shami, Dillon and Mrs Goodall threw water bombs in the shady hard tech area.

First we threw one balloon. SPLASH! Next we threw two balloons. SPLASH! SPLASH!  In the end we threw three balloons. SPLASH SPLASH! SPLASH!

After that we went back to the ESOL classroom. I felt happy and awesome at the same time as my friends.

Shami



On Monday we played with water bombs and it was lots of fun. Ethan, Deon, Nikolai, Shami, Dillon and Mrs Goodall threw water bombs in the shady hard tech area.

First we threw one bomb to the closest friend. Next we were throwing two bombs and last we threw three bombs.

I shouted, “What a great game!” I very much enjoyed the game.

Deon


On Monday we played with water bombs and it was lots of fun. Ethan, Nikolai, Shami, Deon, Dillon and Mrs Goodall threw water bombs in the shady hard tech area.

First we threw one balloon. SPLASH! Then we threw two balloons. SPLASH SPLASH! Next we threw three balloons. SPLASH SPLASH SPLOSH!

I was excited because it was lots of fun.

Nikolai


On Monday we played with water bombs and it was lots of fun. Ethan, Nikolai, Shami, Deon, Dillon and Mrs Goodall threw water bombs in the shady hard tech area.

First we threw one balloon. SPLASH! Next we threw two balloons. SPLASH SPLASH!  I was afraid that Shami threw the balloon at me, but luckily that didn’t happen.

I wish I could play it at home.

Ethan



Room 25 have also been learning about procedural writing. Check out Teia Viljoen's treasure map and her set of instructions about how to find the buried treasure.

How to find treasure on Powerlost Island

This will help you to find the buried treasure that has been there fore 1,000 years.

What you need:
  • map
  • ropes
  • monkey costumes
  • key
  • swords
  • spade
  1.  Walk through the beach.
  2. Sneak through the huge city.
  3. Use the ropes to climb the 2 mountains and ice volcano.
  4. Put on your monkey costume and sneak through Robber Monkey Jungle.
  5. Unlock the Chamber of the Goddess Emma.
  6. Seek love and power from Emma.
  7. Get directions by the wise/dead skeletons.
  8. Enter the dark cave.
  9. With your sword, fight the snake monster.
  10. Dig up your treasure.
  11. Well done, you have finished your mission.


Room 25 were learning about the environment and how we could celebrate Earth Hour on the 25th March. Zoe Pickerill celebrated with her family at home, and wrote about how they celebrated it.

For Earth Hour I suggested to my family that we play board games and that we use no power by not using the oven, turn all the lights off and use no devices. By using no power we cooked on the bbq and the chimney and even ate outside on our table for natural light at the back of our house. So after dinner we had smores. What is a smore is, is a biscuit and a marshmallow and yummy melted chocolate all squashed together. After Dad came on the tramp with me, Zeb, Lilah and Caleb so that was amazing Earth Hour.