| What did we do at camp?
We left school to Karatina at 9:00am and got to Karatina at 10:30am. When we got there we had ate some food at 10:30 to 10:45am and when we finished eating, at 11:00am group 1 which was my group had started on the waka on the Waikouaiti River and we were also planting harakeke on the spit, it was really fun. I went with my class which had 26 students, 5 parents and 1 teacher. At the end of the lesson the students had to help pack up all the equipment. At 1:30pm we swapped turns so group 1 went to the walk and group 2 went to the waka’s. First we had a guided walk around Huriawa peninsula, pa a Te Wera, with a cultural narrative then at 3:30pm we had finished and had to leave back to OIS and approx return at 5:00pm. When we had gotten back we went into room 4 and watched a movie ( The Whale Rider ) or we could’ve played board games. After a while we had gotten dressed into our Pj’s and went to sleep well except some of us. The next day we woke up and gotten dressed in our day clothes and had to take our equipment to our classroom. Then we had a choice to play inside or play outside, a few hours later we went back to our classroom before morning tea to get a chance to eat the baking and fruit we had bought. After morning we had went back to watch the ending of The Whale Rider and then played a short game outside. When lunch finished we went outside to play a game with room 4 which was Capture the flag and of course we won. Finally it was the end of the day and we all went home and took our stuff with us. |
| What was the most challenging part of camp?
Paddling in the waka. |
| To make camp better, I think I would change or add?
I would add a game at night with everyone ( e.g. spot light or tag ) |
| What was the best activity? Describe why you thought it was the best.
The best activity was going on the waka’s it was so cool be in one especially since I never been on one before. |
| Describe one thing that you learnt while on camp
The maori culture. |
When I arrived in South Africa all I could see was brown on the grass,trees, and plants. My head started to get greasy, it felt like I just melted out of nowhere. I rushed inside seeing if there was any cold air to cool me down, I found some salt chips that had been put in a draw near my bed. I looked outside I saw something, it was huge and had a long neck I wonder what is was. I started to walk quietly around trying to figure out what the mysterious creature was. It was a huge Giraffe!
SALT BROWN MELTED GIRAFFE GREASY
My participation for my blogging so far I think is quite good. I really appreciate the people who read my blog and comment which helps a lot since some of them a tips and I start to get better from those tips. My favorite challenge was Music since from the facts I wrote down I actually learnt more also.
Mele’s blog
I am recommending Mele’s blog because it is quite instersting for me and might be for you. She does her best in her posts and she has quite awesome posts. Whenever I read her posts their quite cheerful. On one of her posts it has ‘Different about a Lion and a Tiger.’ It is really instersting and the facts are pretty accurate. If you would like to check out her blog press on her name on the first word of this post.
A guitar is a stringed instrument, with a fretted fingerprint, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with fingers or plectrum.
When playing guitar it helps your brain, when playing guitar requires hand-eye coordination, creativity, memory and other functions of the brain. Another common conclusion from one of the studies is that guitar players happen to be more intuitive then most and thus have exceptional skills.
The main purpose of the bridge on an acoustic guitar is to transfer the vibration from the strings to the soundboard, which vibrates the air inside of the guitar, thereby amplifying the sound produced by the strings. On all electric, acoustic and original guitars, the bridge holds the strings in place on the body.
#1 The piano was invented in Italy in 1709 by Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori.
#2 The piano was originally called the pianoforte because of it’s ability to play notes both (quietly) and loudly (forte).
#3 The piano has over 12,000 parts, 10,000 of which are moving. It is an enormous number of small pieces that need to work perfectly to get the sound that want out of the instrument.
#4 There are 230 strings needed for a piano to make it’s full range of sound.
#5 The strings are made out of steel and produce their sound struck by tiny hammers inside the piano.
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Last Post of the week promise! My opinion about my school first is I love the canteen, sports rotations and modules they are really fun and the canteen is really yummy like the food is bomb! The things I learn in my class are fun and creative of how we learn things. ( thanks Ms May! ) The way I get taught is really creative and some what fair cause they are not hard but not super easy because I don’t know math’s that well but Ms May teach’s me things I don’t know then next minute I knew them cause of how Ms May taught me. Teachers are the whole point of our learning like how we learn new things they give us an example then we get easy questions then we learn from the examples and have to answer the questions then boom we learn something new! My school is really fun and deserves a lot of credit and awesome things for teaching us lots of new things and always lets us do things we don’t know that well, like I don’t know my factions that well like I suck but my teacher is trying her best well I think so but anyway she always try’s to get us better at the thing we are really bad at and I give her lots of credit towards my learning.
What I think my school is like = Awesome, cool and fun!
Things they teach students? = They teach students things that they don’t know that well or at all, and it’s great for learning like I have learnt new things fast and easy | simple answer = Awesome, great work
Do they respect the students? = Yes, of course!
Before I moved to New Zealand I lived in Fiji/Tavua which is where my other family members lived like cousins, aunties, uncles etc. My older sister Tita and my Mum used to go to school there so that’s why I’m comparing my school to theirs. For homework at my school it’s simple like others schools and for Fiji its the same you, they hand it out to you on Monday and have to bring it back in on Friday like us.
How much homework? = Not much they only had homework on Fridays
How much school work? = A lot since they didn’t have devices back then.
Hardest Subject? = Writing, because devices didn’t exist when my Mum went to school.
More differences like you don’t even know! But my family didn’t stay in Fiji that long so… Bye!
Every year we get to do school events which is super fun but for some others their terrible! Some of our school events are Swimming Sports, Cross Country, Sports, Triathlon and also Athletics. All these events are really tiring but they are a good way to make us to excise and get fit. We also have tech, culture group and many more which are exciting to do. In our school we always try our best in any school events we do well at least I do. People might hate school like most of my classmates now that they joined and got to know it better & my teacher they liked it way better like a lot! I really enjoy the school events especially culture group, tech and really enjoyed triathlon and swimming sports but before that I didn’t really like swimming or running,biking etc, but now I really enjoy it!