Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Welcome to our New Friends from Rotorua

This is a picture of Beavertail, one of our state parks located on Jamestown. People hike, saltwater fish, boat, picnic - even get married (one of our teachers did, last summer). It's a nice place to picnic, rollerblade, play frisbee, all kinds of fun things.

This is a picture of our school:

Our school is located next to an ancient Narragansett burial area. We walk, skateboard, bike to school as well a being driven by bus or car. We are so excited to hear from you!! We have tech ed on Thursdays, so that is the time we definitely will get a chance to send you some photos, videos or slide shows. I don't know if we can skype - I think NZ is 18 hours ahead of us but maybe we can figure something out! Peace out, your friends in the 4th grade in Rhode Island, USA.

37 comments:

  1. Hi I dont have any pets.and thanks for the comment and in rotorua I like it when we go to the lake and skyline at sky line you go up the gondals and ride the luge.And we went to see the lion cubs and it was cool.by Kuljyot

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  2. Hi Aren, there my name is Ashley and I am at Lynmore school and I am nine years old. I like your blog and your pictures. I like to play miniball and I go swimming. Rotorua is pretty and lovely where I live. Rotorua has heaps of mud pools where we live. There are heaps of beautiful blue lakes. It is also really stinky in Rotorua. It is nice and sunny over here in Rotorua. It has heaps of flowers.

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  3. Hi Lisa,
    Eshini doesn't have a comment but she has written a comment......

    hi I'am Eshini and In Rotorua it is lovely, there a beautiful lakes and here it is lovely weather for going outside. Rotorua has beautiful beaches around our laks and we have a meausem and if you go into the meausem you can see things that were in the past. some exsamples are a movie, sharp objects, painted pictures and flax pattens on the wall.

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  4. Hi kendra my name is estelle i play tennis and like pepporoni pizza. i love pineapple and apple.Rotorua is a wonderfull place.But it is very famous for its mud pools.but one thing i hate the smell.there are lots of torist in the museum we have a big thing named the big slide it is so fun and i love history.I live at Lake Tarawera. i have lots of friends in lake okaraka were do you live.

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  5. Hi Abby

    It's Samantha,I don't know the time of day light saving,yes we do have day light saving here.I have never heard of those authors before,in Rotorua there is lots of nature and steamy hot pools,it is always sunny over here.I like reading Wendy Harmer books ,Have you heard of that author before? We do celebrate halloween here.Thank you so much for commenting on my blog.From Samantha

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  6. Hi Nick
    thanks Nick,Do u play sport? I do I play rugby leagea,rugby,tinis,crickit,bacit ball,touch and a little bit ov socer.Have u ever played amiricen football? if u do it amazing.In Rotoroa there are mud pools, geysers, redwood forest and big parks.From Jorge

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  7. Hi Connor,
    I am good. In Rotorua we don't get snow. We have travel to the mountains to see the snow - Mount Ruapehu. We are in Spring and it is soon going to be Summer. I like to go down the coast to Te Kaha. I go snorkling, fishing and diving.My best friends are Bradley and Daniel, they are in a different class.
    Bryce

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  8. Hi Reagan,

    thanks for commenting on my blog, here are some things i like to do - going for bike rides and going up skyline gondolas and then down the luge. I like flying my kite. It is a big one that looks like a bird. so se ya . Michael

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  9. Hi Abby
    school is cool because we play ruby and soccor. we do sport at school and it is fun and today we are having weels day at school,my best friends are Dylan, Tom and Tiree.Who are your friends?

    by Aaron

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  10. Hi Ela
    Have u ever played sport? I do I play touch,rugby,soccer and athalites.Rotorua is cool we have mud pools,geysers,skyline, no beaches and lots of lakes.

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  11. Hi Julia,

    Tayla here and no I do not celebrate hallowen but I give out lollies, in NZ we do not celebrate hallowen but some people do.How old are you?I am nine(9)
    Thanks for commenting on my blog.

    From Tayla.(=
    P.S:if you look on the side it is a smiley face.
    =)








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  12. hi my name is phinehas and yes we do celebrate
    cristmas in NZ. I like soker and rugby. how old are you I am 8 years old and turning 9 next year
    there are 12 months in a year

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  13. hi ani my name is anais. I play soccer do you play a sport?.your blog is so cool. In rotorua we have mud pools luge gondala.The gondala is a round thing that goes up and down and the luge is like a go cart that goes down a track and you go down whizzing down i love it what do you like to do ?.My best mates are sacha,maya,jessica,tayla,estelleand reggae.

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  14. Hi Josh,
    I like to ride my rip-stick which a sort of moveable skateboard. THe books that I like are the Zac Power series - they are about spies. Today we had wheels Day at school, we were able to bring bikes, skateboards, rollerblades etc to school. It was fun.
    Dyaln

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  15. Hello everybody,
    I just read my class a book today that is new in our library called 'It's A Book'. My class then told me how they had already read it on your blog! What a cool book - very funny! I am 43 years old and I told my class how when I was at school, computers had only just started coming in, and none of that computer lingo had been invented - they found that hard to imagine.
    Ms Howie-Hale

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  16. Hi Ani,

    What is your school like? What is your favirout sport my favirout sport is waterpoolo.In Rotorua we have lots of tourists, do you get lots of tourists? Tourists go to the muesem and lots of our swimming places Jade

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  17. Hi maddie it is maya here thanks for he comment?rotorua has lots of tourist in the museum,polly pools and the auqatic centre what your favirite pool?mine is the blue baths.do u like carrots i do.I own the duck boat

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  18. hi ani what do you like do when you arent at school. I like to ly on my bed bed and read a book.

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  19. Hi Josh
    My name is Sacha i love to surf I live in new zealand rotorua.We are famous for the hot pools but people call it the mud pools.In the old days we had a bath house but now it is the museum a lot of tourst come from all over the world.
    I love sport.
    Sacha

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  20. hi connor its bryce im the best skateboardr in my
    cass i love video games do you like mechquest i do. am a daredevil me and my mate mada a grop kowd DEAD DEVIL I Haf To Go

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  21. Hi Reagan,

    my favirout game is socer,and no we do not have skateboards at school but we have them in rotorua. what is your favirout game and what is your favirout game.
    kyle =)

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  22. Hi
    Aili and Josh, yes I do play sport. I play touch for the school and Rugby for a rugby club. In touch I got 6 tries altogether. How big is your town? We have 70 000 in our town.

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  23. hi ani i had 2 dogs but they both died. But our next door nieghbour has a cat and it sits on our fence.We call it fluffy bum because it is all flufy.

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  24. Hi kendra,
    It's Stella
    hallowens goon by lately did you do anything because america is into hallowen I didn't.
    I've got a best friend called Claudia we do everything together probly like you and your friend me and Claudia walk to school together cook together sing,dance and play together.
    rotoru is famose for the terreible smell (but if you live here you get used to it.)
    these are somethings round the school
    4 playgrounds 1tennis court and 1 swimming pool aswell as31 class rooms missing out room13
    P.S please ask me any questions
    Yours truely...
    STELLA!!!!!

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  25. Hi Julia,
    My favoroute sport is water-polo,rugby,basket-ball.How old are you?
    Blog you later!
    :}

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  26. Hi Ani,

    Jade here again what is your favirout sport, my favirout sport is waterpolo. What do you like to do in your lunchtimes, I like to do handstands and cartwheels.

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  27. Hi it's Jessica again,
    In Rm 10 we are making catoplotes and draw-bridges for castles.
    Lots of SMILES!:}:]:):>
    P.S:if you look on the side those things things are smiley faces!
    Blog you later!

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  28. hi west I like going fishing to I also like
    playing foot ball and rugby.

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  29. west what do you for the thankesgiveing
    do you celabrate it from phinehas.

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  30. hay west 3 days ago we went to camp it was so fun
    we went on a flYing fox with no seat it was
    scary. and we needed to jump of a long rock it was so awseme. because we got all you could eat.
    from phinehas

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  31. hey west 4 days ago I went to camp I went on A flying fox with no seat - it was scary. And I went down a long rock abseiling. Camp is so awesome because we got all we could eat. We got to sleep in dormitories.
    Phinehas

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  32. hi mary,

    thank you for being my buddy,I do not like dancing and my favirout coulur is green and I like to play waterpolo we have heaps of tourists and we have lots of things to see and do like the muesum. last week we went on camp, and my favirout activity was the archry because when ever you pop a baloon you get a lolipop and if you hit the red and in you also get a lolipop the max of lolipops is two when we went on the night walk all the adults would hide and jump out at you and heaps of people were screaming.

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  33. were are you going on vaction? And I sort of like school, last week ago we went to camp and my favirout activity was the flying fox because it was the fastest activity my 2nd favirout was archry because if we hit a bloon or a red tagert or a yellow tagert we would get a lolly pop bye see ya again next time

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  34. hi max what did you do in the weekends I went for a bike ride

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  35. hi max what is your favourite sport?

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  36. Hi Abby,
    no,I haven't heard of american girl.Do you celebrate Christmas?We give presents to friends,family and other relations,we also spend time with our family.Then santa comes!
    See Ya!

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