Hey did you know that the bikes are coming on Tuesday - exciting eh. I can just about hear the noise already. I hope the riders have all of the safety gear on. I wonder if they will be wearing the same sort of clothing as Scotts gear! I wonder what type of bikes they will be.

I have been looking at your stories on Our Stories page. Some of them are becoming really cool stories and you are really making some good changes to make them more interesting.
I like the way I can go and read them anytime and I can comment on them if I want to. I also like the way the settings have changed from your first drafts which means you are listening to the people giving you ideas.
I heard about one story but I can't find it yet. It was about a strange creature called the mukawhy (I think thats how you spell it cos thats what it sounded like). I can't wait to read more about it.

We've been having a very inquisitive time in Room 5. I am really enjoying watching my clever classmates planning, designing and making cars. They are beginning to take shape. I wonder what materials you will use for the real one.
It is very exciting to know that I am going to be sitting in the cars when we test them. That must mean I am a test driver - very cool.
I have been looking at lots of inventions lately. We know that inventions are things that are made for a purpose.I went to a farm the other day and went on a tractor, a huge trailer that carries food for the cows, and saw lots of machinery which I now know were originally inventions to help make farming easier. Man they get up early when they go milking.
I have also been to the rugby - did you know things like the big screen tv and the scoreboard all had to be invented. In the olden days the scoreboard had to have the numbers changed by a person - now its done by a computer or something electronic. I wonder if the rugby ball has changed over time? Same with the uniforms are they different I wonder?

Your car

Hi Tia, Haley here. Thanks for helping us work out how big, and how you would keep safe and fit in our cars that we are working on. I hope that when we are finished the cars you will find them very comfortable. When you try the cars out I hope they feel as comfy as your bed. I will make you some special mirrors, I have an idea how I am going to make them but I am not going to tell you yet. Have a look at these cool cars Tia.

go speed racer go

balloon powered car

rubber band car race

I watched these with Mum and decided they were pretty cool, maybe it might give some of the clever kea kids some ideas to make your car Tia.
But if you used Matt's mousetrap car Tia, I wonder how long it would take you to get to the other side of the school? Take a look.

Matt's mousetrap car

Wow your writing work is really starting to become a lot of amazing stories. i like the way most of you are really thinking about the setting. I know I can picture the places now and I haven't even been to the places you are describing.
I keep wondering what your evil characters are going to do to make the stories really exciting, scary and interesting.

Keep writing them and uploading them

Hi there Room 5
I have been really excited to see all of the amazing inventions around the school, in your homes, and from the really cool visitors that have brought along different types of transport.
I liked looking at the different ways you could make a self-propelled car for me. I am getting really excited watching you make some models for me. It is fun hopping in them to make sure I fit. Thank you for thinking about the best way for me to be safe in the cars.

I really liked going in the ministock. I think it would be fun but hard work to be a racing car driver. I guess I would have to get lots of practise.

Kaleb-Lee

A man came to school and brought Ella's stockcar. Cairo, Aidan and Abbey went inside the stock car and got to sit in it. Some of room 6 and Brandon came into the stockcar too. We are learning about inventions and the stockcar was an invention. Do you want to be a stockcar racer Tia?