Orana Wildlife Park

On Monday year Bh & Tz went on a school trip to Orana Wildlife Park. We all met at the learning commons, and all of us got a name tag and a number 1 or 2. While waiting for the bus to come, we had morning tea. When the bus finally came, we all went walked out and dropped our bags into the white van, then walked to the bus. On our way to Orana Park, we went down a hill, and we were screaming loud because we got so scared. When we finally got to Orana Park I felt excited to see all the animals, especially feeding the giraffes. At Orana Park we split into 2 big groups. Our group first saw the Meerkats. The Meerkats  were so adorable, unfortunately they cannot be kept as pets. We went into the reptiles room, and saw the frogs, geckos and lizards.   

We also went and looked at the lions, my favorite part was hearing the lions roar at each other. The lions roared so loud that Shanarnia, Paige and I got scared. I also liked going into the bird aviary, and also learning about birds.

Finally we had lunch, and after lunch we took a big group photo.
My two favorite animals we saw was the Kiwi because you had to spot where the Kiwi was.  I really enjoyed looking at the gorillas.
Finally my favorite part of the day was feeding the giraffes.
I got a little scared and nervous, so i just gave my branch to Paige, and i watched her.
But at the end of the day i had lots of fun, and got to see lots of animals and learn some things about different animals. 

                                                 

PE Hurumanu

Hello there!

Last week on Monday and Thursday we had PE Hurumanu, and In PE we done some maths, In maths we got into our groups and we done some maths things, It was kinda hard working some things out, but we helped each other out and worked as a team. On Monday we played bench ball which was been taught by French fries, ( Which is a team name). I was really excited that we were going to play bench ball, because bench ball was one of my favorite games to play, especially when classes were going to verse each other. But before we got into playing the game, we had to do some warm ups, our warm ups was 40 star jumps, 20 high knees, sprints, and our drill was sneak up on granny. After playing a few rounds of sneak up on granny, we then started playing bench ball. Our teams were year Tz vs year 7 Bh, and year 8 Tz verse year 8 Bh. I really enjoyed playing the game, and everyone in each group worked as a team, and gave it a try, and everyone was just having fun. After lunch we had one more game of bench ball with our same teams. Finally, my favorite part was when the year 7 vs the year 8. I found it very competitive and also fun, because some year 7 had skills, and also other year 8. I am very happy to say that the year 8 won, but the year 7 tried their best, and did very well, but overall everyone had fun.

In PE I worked successfully with my  them and so did they, by helping each other out and saying positive things to each other. 

Recycling stationery

In our CIP class, we have been organizing a recycling programme, where year 7 and 8 classes will be collecting stationery. We are going to be spreading our message to the community by sharing it with people, so they can help us collect some stationery. The whole school will be involved in this programme. I think that by everyone helping, I really think we will be able to collect 20 kg. When we get some money back from Terracycle, I think we should give some to charity.

Reading Theater

At the start of this term we have been doing Reading Theater which is when we create a play. This term Paige, Narnia , Haylee, Shalizeh, Meleana And I wrote a play together which was called The Kidnapping Witch. Our play is about 4 girls who had a sleepover and one of the girls house, and there were no adults, suddenly a witch comes and kidnaps them, and how they get away from the witch. Even tho our play didn't have a proper solution about our problem, it still was a cool play.

Rugby

In Cip i have watched a video which is about a girl named Zara Barrett. Zara Barrett is 16 years old, she has a great personality, a very fun and kind girl. Zara has down syndrome, down syndrome is a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, with down syndrome, the extra chromosome causes delays in the way a child develops, mentally and physically. Although Zara suffers from down syndrome, she feels she is no different from others, because she loves life and she loves her brothers. Speaking of brothers, Zara Barrett has 3 brothers who are in the All Blacks rugby team, and they are Beauden, Jordie and Scott Barrett. While watching this, I learnt that Zara Barrett, like most people with Down Syndrome, faces challenges with her speech, but being part of a big and loving family has really helped Zara improve. Her brothers are very kind and happy towards Zara, they treat her normal, Zara's brothers really believe that inclusiveness is a massive thing for any Down Syndrome person in New Zealand. I think this is helping spread kindness because i feel like everyone needs to feel loved and included, no matter what their appearance are or what they have, it is important to include them and spread kindness around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=0v5UE2cIarY

Digital Tech Hurumanu

For the last 3 weeks we have been doing Digital Tech Hurumanu, with 7/8 Bh. Mr carter, Miss Tozer & Mr Richardson are our teachers for this hurumanu. We watched some clips as a class, and then on our drive we had to complete our individual learning log, which is where we had to write down our thought for each category. There were 3 categories,  Social, Environmental & Ethical. After watching clips about those three things we had to just write down some things about what we knew or learnt about them. After doing that, we then had to brainstorm an issue we are interested about.
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eDnhJW2zqFRizODOsfEST0-wyc60bntcHpnxx--Q3AI/edit

The issue i am interested in was Air pollution because Air pollution has been discovered in a few years earlier in 1948, and there is lots of pollution in the air, and i think we should do something about that because some people can get long-term health effects from air pollution, including lung cancer, heart disease. Not only that but air pollution can also cause long-term damage to peoples nerves, brain, kidneys, liver and other organs.

After that, moving onto our Research / Inquiry Template, where we had to complete the template about the issue we were interested in and add links to videos or websites explaining some things about your issue.