fair trade poem

this term in class we have been working on fair trade. here are The things we did for it:

• we made fair trade poems on fair trade coffee bean sacks with Indian ink and stencils.
• we ate fair trade chocolate (it was delicious).
• we looked at other people's fair trade poems on the fair trade website.
• some people bought fair trade food packages from home.

here are some pictures from it:

this is fair trade chocolate

this is the fair trade symbol

this is my group's fair trade poem

New world trip

on Thursday last week, Te kinga went into town to go on a grocery shopping expedition. first a nutritionist came and talked us though about foods and nutrition. then we went in to town and did an expedition to find every day foods and occasional  food. after we finished that, Jessica (the nutritionist) gave us a sixty dollar voucher to get some healthy things for smoothies. before we went to the super market we went to the Greymouth recreation centre and after we went to the super market we went to the library and Dickson park.

here are some photos we took while we were there!

Jacob checking the nutrition list

Jimi doing street interviews at the library 

Eden and Jacob picking some food

our class having fun in the pool

me doing a cannonball in the pool (in the rec centre too)

Jimi, Jacob and Levi doing some basketball at the rec centre

grace thumbs up

Rain

today we were writing about rain because there was a big storm in lake Brunner (our village)

The box

here is a slide about how me and a few of my classmates turned a school library returns box into a colourful gardening tools box.  

Shirley's car

in our class, we each made up a story about how our principal, Shirley crashed her car
please note: it is true that Shirley's car crashed but it was not her fault. it was just a case of slippery gravel and steep hills. 

master chef ice cream inventions

our class tekinga decided to do a master chef ice cream competition

here is a google slide in how we did it.

waiuta gold mine

Waiuta Gold Mine

By Tui

The beginning

In 1905 as prospectors rummaged through the Blackwater Stream they found a reef of gold which was found on King Edward VII birthday, which is why they called it Birthday Reef. Ghost town, Waiuta, was once a productive gold town but was abandoned and left for the ghost to haunt it.

About Waiuta

In 1905, the gold was discovered and after a while in 1908, the Blackwater Shaft was open so in 1930 the population of the gold town grew to the maximum of 600 people. After a few years the Blackwater mine collapsed due to poor construction of the mine.

How they get the gold

Miners had to dig out the quartz that beheld gold. They drilled shot holes into the reef of quartz and filled the holes with explosives so the quartz was small enough to be put into wagons. Because the quartz reef was so thin, miners were working in a confined place.

The end

Waiuta is now an overgrown place with remains of chimneys and rusty old bits of metal. You can still go there and enjoy the amazing Big River Hut tramp.