Our video about amazing dykes.

The amazing dyke

In Frisia, the north west of Germany storm tides appear every two to three years and can kill up to 50000 people and destroy houses and landscape. To protect themselves the Frisians build little hills and on these they build their houses. Later they build a big dyke all along the coastline. One big storm came 1362 and the flood destroyed the dyke in 21 places and 50000 people died.
(A dyke is a big dam and it is 9 meters or higher)

On the two pictures you can see a sluice. It is a special gate that only let the river out and not the sea in.

Rubbish

Today our class room went to a rubbish festival with Sarah from Nelson City Council. She told us not to litter the school. we should put our rubbish in the bin. If it's paper try to reuse it, then recycle. There were apples, sandwiches, bars, raisens, bananas and chippies thrown out. You can take it home if you don't like it or put it in the compost. Try and not use gladwrap because it's hard to unwrap and you can't recycle it. We are going to try and not use gladwrap or wrappers next Monday (but that's a holiday so we'll try on Friday.)

Too Much Rubbish

We have just been to an assembly with a day's worth of rubbish in it. You can compost paper, food and cardboard. It was so stinky. Unfourtunately, people havent found a way to recycle plastic yet. We have three or two big rubbish bins and three or two big recycle bins. We had a challenge to not have plastic in our lunchbox on Mondays.

Sea Creatures

Cushion STARFISH
Cushion starfish are fat and it’s skin is bumpy but the skin is not sooth and silky and they love water. By paris

Sea anemone.
It was green like a grassy garden.
It sucked at my finger it was really
Sticky. By Grace

The chiton is slow and small .its got a eight plated shell because it bends over rocks and it doesn’t like the sun. By SamA

Cable Bay

Crab sometimes have blue on top. They are super duper fast like a racing car. Most crabs are brown, some are blue brown and some are red. They can snip us.By Louis

I saw a star fish. It was a cushonstarfish. The colour was orange and black. Starfish stick on the rock. Star fish live in the sea. I like star fish!.By Ann

When I went to Cable Bay I saw heaps of starfish all different colours like purple blue green brown and black.There were brittle cushon and spiny.The starfish grab on to the rock like a slug.. By Brittany

At Cable Bay

Snake skin chiton
It’s oval like a stone when it’s afraid. It is a slow creature, as a slug. By Nic

Spiny Starfish are damp, dismal, spiny, star shaped fish.
Their suckers are as powerful as a sumo wrestler tugging a rope. By Lewis

Slimy Creatures

The shrimp darts across the pool.
It’s as skinny as a pencil lead. By Brady

Ooey and pinky red.
Like a mini brain.
Slimy and squishy.
A warty sea slug.
By Georgia


A CHITON IS A GREEN OR WHITE OR ORANGE LITTLE CHITON THAT MOVES ON A ROCK. You ant see their legs because that are small. They cant be in the sun because
It might out its skin dry. By Sarah

Cable Bay Trip

Spiny as ever, longer legs then a spider. Stickier then a vacuum cleaner on full power. By Kyle

The camouflage crab is slow like a snail but a bit faster. It is really big and the second biggest thing I had seen. By Jamie.

A spiny starfish is like a spider and its legs look like some gloves. By Finlay.

Rock Pool Creatures

Rose Brittle
It moves fast with its long legs to get to home. It’s like a scuttling crab. There body is round. Sarah

The sea squirt is soft like jelly and squirts water when you push it down. It’s small and round. It’s dark and peachy orange [mainly light orange]. By Stella

Cable Bay Writing

A starfish is sticky and slow. It sneaks as slow as a snail and sucks like a game of tug-of-war. By Toby

I LOVED THE GREEN SEA ANEMONES BECAUSE WHEN YOU POKED THEM THAY TRIED TO SUCK YOUR FINGER AS HARD AS A VACUUM CLEANER. By Chrystal

The Hermit Crab is covered in brown. It moved very fast. By Trevor

Cable Bay Sea Creatures

It sucks like a black hole,it grabs on to you like a giant vacuum cleaner. By Max

Camouflage crab they do not only hide they camouflage and hide. By Jak

It is as slippery as a piece of jelly. As pincy as an ant. It is as territorial as a magpie. As nosey as my cat .As scared as a mouse when we chased him. Rock Fish. By Sam

Cable bay creatures

It squirms slowly in the sand slipping around. Very small and quite long and weird. a sea worm. by Lachlan

Fast as lightening.
Small as a ant.
Scared as a rat.
Slippery as a fish.
Stinky as the compost. By Keita

Rocky Shore Trip

The race we saw was so fast it looked like it got teleported into another pool.
It was camouflaged it look like it was made out of sand.
By Hamish

I saw a black Starfish and two red dots. The starfish sticks on the rock.
By Fergus

The starfish clings to the rocks with its suckers. It’s shiny, slimy, squidgy, soft, starfish.
By Mai

More Writing

A story cline shows tension building up until it reaches the top. Then it starts falling down. The title is Finding mum in this story there is a big story cline. There is a boy who loses his mother in a supermarket he looked everywhere for his mother but he could not find her so he thought hard very hard so he walked back to were he lost his mum and there she was. Did you see how the tension built up? In the beginning he felt a little bit worried in the middle he felt lonely and finally he found MUM ( at the end) he felt very happy and relieved. You try writing a story cline one day. By Max, Lachlan and Hamish