First Aid 101

 On Tuesday this week our class went on a walk around the lake, but it wasn't an ordinary walk, it was a first aid training challenge! At the start of the day Nic split us into groups. We then walked up to the Velinski track where the first challenge took place. Kaelyn had to act as though she had hypothermia and her group had to remember the first aid training we had the day before to save her in time. We continued this througout the day where specific people would have medical accidents at random points in our trip. We walked down to the beach by the Arnold river and made shelters with tarps. Alice tested how waterproof they were by tipping buckets of water on them. Mackenzie was the only one our group that got wet. At the end of the day we made fires and had smores.

Making fires to roast marshmellows

Jimi's group fixing a brocken arm

First aid training at school

Our group's shelter

Captions For Our Camp Photos

Today we learnt about captions. we looked at some exsamples of Gary Larson's cartoons and made our own out of our camp photos!

Here are the ones I made:

Bye! Don't come back!

Are you sure this is safe?

 

Our Hokitika camp

 Last week on Wednesday, Te Kinga went on camp Hokitika. We did lots of fun acivities and had lots of fun, here are some photos from our trip:

The awesome playground at camp!

The tiny steam train at the industrial museum

One of the old fire engines at the indutrial museum

A very messy game of simpsons at lake kaneire

Fishing at lake kaniere

Hokitika Gorge

Part of the treetop walk

High up on the treetop walk

Lunch at the treetop walk cafe

Finding out we're going in a helicopter

Fletcher showing us how the engines work

getting ready for take off!

Water topic

Today, we had a visit from a worker at niwa, Mike. He showed us how he measures the level and temperature of the lake and sends the results to labs to be tested. afterwords, we went to a more swampy part of the lake to find critters that live in those environments.

Here are some photos of our discoveries:

Mike showing us how he measures the water

fishing for critters in the swamp

a selection of the bugs we found

Book Character Week

In the first week of term, our school had book-week. throughout the week, teachers from the other classes came and read us books after lunch. on Friday we got to dress up as our favourite book characters. I dressed up as Tintin and my sister dressed up as Snowy, his dog.

Here are some pictures of our costumes:

Here are all of the book characters

Here's my sister and I and a very cool Paddington 

What I am looking forward to this year

 This year I am looking forward to leading the school kapa haka group and leading in my position as head girl. we are going to upgrade a lot for the school and look into new activities for the house groups.

Story trailer

 This term we have been learning about earthquakes, Tsunamis and Rocks. We live very near to the alpine fault in NZ and there has been a large earthquake overdue for years. Our class has been going on a tsunami walk every week in case of the threat. I have bundled up all of this information and put it in my narrative I have been writing, called Don't count your students. here is a sneak-peak of the story;  It was an ordinary, boring day at school. Our teacher Nic was droning on about sentence work as my friends and I sat, slumped into our seats, around our orange, star shaped table. Kaelyn was trying to put her hat in her pencil case. Zoe was eating her shoe. Krystal was... well just Krystal. Mackenzie was picking her nose with her pencil and - RUMMBLEE! A giant, deep, roar echoed through the school, waking us out of our boredom.

Top Team

 Today we did Top Team. We split our house groups in half and had to do, 9 different fun activities. I learned a lot about Teamwork and working with classmates. It was a sporty activity which was great for our well being and fitness. We got wet in some of them and puffed in others but overall it was a great way to start the week.

This activities was a rob the nest but with cups of water and tied legs.

Here we had to connect pipes to get a ball into a bucket.

Who can make the tallest tower.

Giant sack race.

 The overall chaos. 

Rita Angus art

 At the start of term, we learnt about Rita Angus's art and her type of beautiful styles. we learnt how to paint with special techniques with Bob Ross's help. We painted our own landscape of Lake Brunner on a large piece of paper.

Why mistakes are important for learning

 Mistakes are important for learning as the saying goes "we learn from our mistakes".

When we make a mistake we learn from it and try not to make that mistake again. If you don't try to learn new things because you're worried you will make a mistake, then you will miss out in so much in life. But if you try and make a mistake you can just keep on trying and trying until you don't make a mistake. And if you do, it's not going to end the world.