Why you should post on blogs

 For one of our tasks for this week we had to make a video on why you should comment on blogs.  The reason we did this task was to encourage others to comment on blogs. I used Canva to make this video, it took me around 45 minutes to make this video. The hardest part of making the video was the elements that I put in. What other reasons do you think there are to comment on blogs? 

  

KORE Sailing

 On the 31st of march 2021 we went of a sailing trip to Lake Roto Kohatu. The sailing trip was free of charge as we used the money for the upper middle camp that was meant to happen last year. We had to be at school by 8:30am and the bus left at 9:00, the bus trip took only 15 minutes as the lake that we were going to wasn't that far away. Once we arrived we got taught how to set up the boats and the names of the different parts like the sheet  ( the rope that made the sails move ) and the tiller ( the steering handle). Also how to move from side to side when you turned the boat so that you face the boom ( a metal pole). then we got changed into our wet-suits and togs and our groups took turns on going out on a boat to prove that we could sail safely. After we ate our lunch then we took the boats down to the water and took turns in our groups to sail. While someone in our group was sailing we would support them and help them get on and of the boat. 

Our boat was hot pink so we called it barbie and our boat was number 26. After we had been in the water for a long lime we took the boats out ( which was really tiring) and learnt how to and took the apart. then we got on the bus and arrived back at school a little after 3. 

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The way-finder description

 For a warm up for storytelling/writing we had 5 minutes to write a paragraph about someone on a canoe in the way-finder before or after the storm ( I chose after.)  and write about how hungry they are.

Here's my work I hope you like it!

I sat there huddled in a corner of our broken wooden canoe. The storm had taken so many lives and on-top of that I felt as I hadn't eaten in 10 years. My sight was bury and everyone around me either morning for their loved ones or was dead. I was so cold it felt as if i was covered in ice. My clothes clung to me as if the would plummet  into a volcano if they let go, everyone around me started to look Delicious. I started to gnaw on a paddle I kind of cured my hunger I don't know. My eyes were about to close and I couldn't think.

The sea around me roared threatening to swallow me up every time in crashed onto the boat but I didn't care anymore I felt so empty that I kind of wished it would.

Tidying the garden

 On the morning of Monday the 29,3,21 we did a clean up of some of our school garden. We collected potato's, pumpkin, silver-beet and zucchini. It took around 35 minutes, we took the plants out as the school is going to upgrade the irrigation system. First we collected the vegetables, then we pulled out the rest of the plans/weeds and put them in a compost bin which is now overflowing . After that we picked up the tiny bits of leaves and trimmed the herbs. I had to go and help setting up assembly so I was away for a little bit of it. When I had finished setting up I helped make the zucchini and potato soup and the silver beet chips. On Thursday with the pumpkin and carrot we will be making pumpkin and carrot cake.                                         hope you enjoyed my post.

 

 

Hanmer springs camp activates 2021

 On the 10th of march we/the senior syndicate went to Hanmer springs for 2 nights, the bus ride took around 1 hour and 30 minutes. In my bunk room there was Ashly, Tiare,Laisa,Lola and Avryl. we stayed at Activity Hammer, here's the Activity's that we did and some pictures.    

Americas cup races

For one of the activates for reading we had to make a list of all of the races, and make a pie chart of the wins. The thing that took me the longest was the list and we had to write down the year, defender,country, challenger, country and the winner for 36 different races which took a long time. 

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storytelling Manu drawing

 For storytelling we had to write a description about how we think Manu  ( The main person from our storytelling story the way-finder) would look like and give our description to the person next to us and the would draw a picture of him from the description. In the way-finder the tribe, manu and his brother/way-finder set out to find a new island as the one that they had been living on had grown to small, but then they start to run out of food and water and a great storm kills the way-finder. So manu ( who was training to be a way-finder had to step in and help navigate his tribe to a new island.   My buddy was Lola, I thought Manu was short, girlish, tan skin, scars, cut in his eyebrow, muscular and smiling most of the time. 

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Americas cup

 15th of march 2021. For reading we have been learning about Americas cup. One of the activity's was to make a presentation with ten questions about Americas cup. 

If you would like to answer them then here's a link to a website so you can find the answers.

Zucchini Brownie

 On the 1st of march we made zucchini brownie which might not sound very nice , but it is actually really good ( you can't even taste the zucchini!)                                                                                                        We got the zucchinis from our school garden and found the recipe from this website.

It will take around 10 minutes to prep and 30 minutes to cook so in total only 40 minutes to make.                  

To make the zucchini brownie you will need...

• sugar
•  canola oil or vegetable oil 
• .all purpose flour
• cocoa
• zucchini
• vanilla extract 
• salt ( if you want to add it, we didn't)
• baking soda
• chocolate chips 

here are some photos