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

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 

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.