How do bees make honey?

When you see a bee crawl into a flower that’s when you know that they are collecting the nectar. They then return back to the hive and pass it onto the working bees. 

These bees’ suck the nectar from the honey bees and chew the nectar for half an hour.  After a long time of chewing; they finally spit it out and into the honeycomb. 

The nectar has now been created into thick syrup.  When the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the honeycomb with a plug of wax. 

In one year the bees will eat up to120 – 200 pounds of nectar.

WOW that’s a lot of chewing!! 

 

The Avengers writing group

Going for a walk

I hear the chirping sound of a cricket as I walk through the forest.

 I feel the breeze pinching at my cheeks.

 I taste the lemon from the leaves; it leaves a bitter feeling in my mouth.

I smell autumn coming from the moisture escaping from the dead leaves.

I see the sun rising up, flashing through the forest.

By Lose

Autumn Leaves

I can hear the leaves crunching and screaming as I stomp on them.

My body is covered in goose bumps until the sun glares down on me.

I can taste the smell of fresh moss that’s growing on the trees.

I can see the ground covered in old brown leaves, it reminds me of my warm fuzzy blanket I just want to pull it over me.

By Losana

5 senses

The suns blanket of heat covers the forest and all that’s in it.

I hear the sweet sounds of the colourful birds in the slightly damp tree.

I taste the fresh water from the stream as the breeze brushes against my face.

I look to my left and I see a person, I get a fright as I think I am alone… it was just a shadow of a tree. Phewww!!!!

By Rhea

Autumn had just arrived

I see the leaves falling like raindrops on a stormy day.

I smell the most beautiful scent that no one could ever describe fresh plants…fresh everything.

I taste the mud as if it is in my mouth running down my throat.

I hear the wind rushing past my ear, it sounds like a tornado ripping past me.

I feel the sun as it beams down on me, breaking through the trees.

It makes me think that its summer again.

By Dorothy

This is one of the pictures we used for inspiration.

Animal Art

The following pictures are some of our fantastic animal print art. 

SOCCER TRAINING

Today we were privileged to be trained by two fantastic Counties Manukau coaches. Here are some action shots from our soccer session.

Pink Shirt Day 2014

PINK SHIRT DAY 2014
Yesterday we all wore something pink to show our support of anti-bullying.
Our school had King Homeboy perform at our assembly, he was awesome. His speech at bullying was really powerful and it made us aware of how our silly actions can really hurt people even if we don't mean it.
As you will see in some of the photos, Luiz won the poster competition for the year 7/8 section; we are all really proud of him.

Room 10 rocking the pink!!!!!!

Luiz
Winner of the Y7/8 poster competition 

All the winners with King Homeboy

What a character!

Wednesday 30^th April 2014, the second week of our holidays and we had both been selected to attend a writing workshop, at Birkenhead Library. We were really excited because we were going to meet and work with well-known authors. 

The two stunning ladies were Maria Gill and Victoria Azaro, we have many of their books in our class and in our school library.

The day was split in to two sessions. The first half of the day we got to work with Maria. She taught us how to introduce our writing to the reader and how to use good word selection to develop a characters personality, without needing illustrations.

We then had a break to have afternoon tea. After we were refreshed we quickly moved into our second session.

For the rest of the day we worked with Victoria. She taught us how to illustrate our writing. The main thing we worked on was expression. By changing a characters facial expression the reader can get a clear idea of how they are feeling.  This was Paris’ favourite part.

At the end of the workshop we were all presented with a certificate of participation, which we will keep and put in our High School applications.

The whole day was fantastic; we learnt so much that we were exhausted; on the drive home we both couldn’t resist closing our eyes.

We hope we get the opportunity to attend something like that again, as it has made our passion for writing even stronger.

Crafted by Paris & Grace

Maria, VIctoria, Grace and Paris 

I remember…

·    I remember my fifth birthday when my finger got burnt by my own candles

·    I remember when I was three I rang the police and I got in to trouble

·    I remember in 2007 I got my ears pierced in Tonga and I cried

·    I remember jumping up and down on the Buggy Tramp … and I ended up crying because I was afraid of Heights!

·    I remember doing a hula with my half Maori sister when I was five and I got more money than her.

·    I remember my dad chasing after me in the flea market because I was being cheeky and I couldn’t stay put.

·    I remember when I was 3 I would always wear my mums heels, dresses, and put makeup on and my dad will always say “The Brown version of Fiona.” I always get angry

·    I remember seeing my grandpa and his sister die together, I cried every day because I was their closest grand daughter

·    I remember going to an All Blacks game during the world cup, and me and my cousins would always be embarrassed because my dad and my uncle will stand up and dance and singing Tongan songs.

·    I remember when I was six I drove a fake car and crashed my dad’s bottom

·    I remember when I was four I was lost in the flea market and I stole $1 lolly packets .

·    I remember playing with the cooking flour and our kitchen ended up covered in flour. I got in trouble but I got out of it by chucking flour at my mum.

~Milika Vite

 I remember

#1: I remember when I was four years old my little sister was born, I was sad because I had chicken pox.

#2: I remember my first time going on an aeroplane to Tonga. My ears were sore when we were landing.

#3: I remember when I was small I used to sleep with my dad because I was afraid of the dark.

#4: I remember having races with my dad he was always faster than me.

#5: I remember going to cool places in Auckland and Up North with my 2 aunties, and my cousin.

#6: I remember waking up one Friday morning and telling my mum we’re moving.

#7: I remember dreaming that I was a half vampire and hunting in the woods.

#8: I remember discovering that I had an older sister living in Australia.

#9: I remember beating my cousin on a Kinect racing game on his Xbox

#10: I remember my mum cutting my hair when I had chicken pox, my dad was angry at my mum.

#11: I remember when my grandpa died the same day I went to a softball tournament and the same day when my cousin was born.

#12: I remember watching TV to keep myself awake to watch my favourite TV show, but then I fell asleep.

 By Kalolaini

 I remember. . .

·     I remember when I was in kindegarden and I was baking cookies with my friends.

·     I remember when it was my 6^th birthday and I stared primary school.

·     I remember the first time I got bitten from a dog, my dad drove me to the hospital as fast as he could.

·     I remember when in a rugby team and I got tackled by heaps of tall girls.

·     I remember when I first came to Clendon Park School, I was so nervous to go to my new class.

·     I remember when my class and I were doing a Maori performance for culture night in 2012. I felt happy to be performing.

·     I remember when I and my nana went to Christchurch to visit my uncle, aunty and my two cousins.

·     I remember when I came late to cross country. My class was angry at me and said to me”why did you come late.” I just ignored them and carried on.

·     I remember when it was culture night in 2013 it was so embarrassing doing the jaho dance.

·     I remember when my class and I move to the ICT room so builders can rebuild our old classroom and make the room bigger and better than before.

·     I remember when I got chosen to be in the netball team I was so proud of myself.

·     I remember when it was Fiafia night. I was so proud of my class because we had an awesome dance.

By Elizabeth

                    I remember

1)            I remember the time I started at clendon park school.

2)            I remember seeing dad for the first time, it felt pretty cool.

3)            I remember on my 5^th birthday I got lots of birthday presents.

4)            I remember  when I was 6   saying lellow instead of yellow

5)            I remember going to rainbows end

6)            I remember making a new bag in tech

7)            I remember going to mr dawson class and making an ad….

8)            I remember starting at my first school, it was scary

9)            I remember who my first teacher was at clendon park school, it was matua dereck

10)     I remember I found $50  on the grass and I said is this any ones? It wasn’t, so I kept it.

11)     I remember watching grace paint her part of the school mural

12)     I remember dOING MY BEST AT PLAYING SOFTBALL.

by manaaki