The big dig

1. A slip in the the Manawatu Gorge buried the highway and spilled into the Manawatu river. It was the biggest slip in New Zealand history.

2.In October Torrential rain sent even more debris crashing down 20,000 cubic metres of it.

    3. Diggers were used to dump rocks in big trucks but as they worked  

        more rock and earth slid down.                                      

       

   4. The road couldn’t be reopened until the hillside was hard enough.

     

   5. The team cut down the trees and bushes at the top of the hill.

   

   6. It was time to bring in a bandit the bandit  was a grunty bulldozer

   

7.  It was days before Christmas and everyone was still at work they used a 20 tonne digger to scoop up great masses of rock and earth.

8. In early 2012  public was told the highway would remain closed until the middle of the year.

9.The Manawatu Gorge road was reopened to traffic in August 2012.

This is my Google slide on the Huia.

This person loves sport and having fun.

She's got blond hair like the sun. When she laughs it’s like everyone in the world can hear it. Her eyes are big and bright like a star. Her hair sticks up like a horse tail every day of the week. She seems to be as short as a dwarf. Oh she is my…..   

He can either live on a farm or in a house. He has a big stubby nose. He has two pointy ears that stick out the side of his head. He has a very course hair on the top half of his body. He has long sturdy legs and two very smelly feet that take him everywhere. What is it?