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

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. 

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.

Gala Rhyme

 On Friday the thirteenth in November, our school had an awesome twilight gala. So I made little song about it.

enjoy:-)

If I were PRIME MINISTER

  Lately, We have been learning to write persuasive speeches. I wasn't sure what to write about at first, but our teacher gave us an idea to start off.

Today I made a screencastify of myself reading my speech out loud. I used my chrome book to video it.

please see video is bellow:

Dread

facts about skiing

I have written some facts about skiing, you may or may not think about these facts but I hope they are helpful. 

What?: skiing is a fun sport that you can do in winter. It takes place on top of mountains coated with snow. You wear two long plastic or fibreglass platforms on your feet called skis.

Where?: ski fields are all over the world and you mostly find them in cold snowy places.

Who?: If you go to a small ski resort like Mt cheeseman and stay at a ski lodge you might have to do house work like cleaning the toilets, depending who you are(the adults). 

When?: you can only go to a ski field in the winter, but some stay open in the summer so people can do hikes.

How?: you can learn how to ski by booking a group lesson/private lesson or if your parents know how to ski they could teach you 

Why?: skiing is a good hobby to have because it is fun and it gives you heaps of fresh air and good exercise.

The Native Tui

today we made slides about our native birds and turning lake brunner predator free