Hello, Today I am going to be talking abut what I did for passion projects, Me, Cody, Saia and jacob went into the go karting group, we got some wood and started to denail the wood, when it was finished we didnt have enough so we went to bunnings and bought more so we coult get on with making the go kart, out finished project looked pretty good but it would be better if we had handle bars for turning but we had a rope connecting them instead. Here isa photo of what it looked like
Kia ora,
Last week on Tuesday we were sent on camp, just the year 10's . It was all of Tieke and half of Riroriro. We went to a place called Boyle River Outdoor Education Center, also known as BROEC. When we finally got to Boyle River, after the 3 hour bus ride we went to the cabins and dropped our bags off, and while we were in there we chose where we wanted to sleep,.2 of the bunks were 3 high, that doesn't sound tall but trust me, it is. When we were finished we got to see what the groups were in and who our camp instructor will be. I got an awesome instructor who was called Devin. He grew up in America and moved to New Zealand 6 years ago. We did a couple of group activities and they were pretty fun.
But when it came around 6 oclock at night, we had dinner. The dinner was mac n cheese. then we did a group activity called nightline. We were in the woods with a rope we had to hold, and we had to be blindfolded and in a pair with another person. I was with Aryan. The activity was kind of hard but we did it, then when we went to sleep and woke up in the morning. We had weetbix, milo, and other cereals, then we got on out with our group (group 5) and went with Devan. We did a couple of activities and they were pretty fun where we had to put planks on wood and walk across it without the wood breaking. Then dinner that night we had fried rice and also a milo.
After dinner we went out again with a group of people. Some people (15 of them) did a thing where they sit in the woods for an hour by yourself and wait for people to come back, . didn't do it though, everyone that came back said they went to sleep or were seeing scary things. When we finished all of that we got back to the lodge and went to sleep again.
In the morning it was the same stuff, weetbix and other cereals, plus a milo on the side. That day we went to the swamp and did the same thing, the planks on the wood, but this time it was scarier because it was over water. It took around 20 minutes to get everyone across with only 3 planks of wood. and at the end of the day we went on a long walk, it was like 2 hours, and did a thing where we had to cross 2 wires harnessed onto it so you don't fall into the river, one wire under your feet and wire above you so you can hold on when going across.
Then when we got to our destination we had a huge fire, like 2 square meters wide. we made rice on some cookers and boiled water, they also brought nachos and vegeterian sauce, we also has marshmallows and went to go find some sticks. When we found our sticks we put them above the fire to heat them up a little bit and make it so they weren't completely wet, for the next 20 minutes we were putting the marshmallows on the fire. When we were finally done we went all the way back to the lodge and had a massive sleep.
In the morning when we woke up we did a thing called the amazing race. It consisted of everything we did in the 3 days, we did a thing where we needed to have someone in a harness and people pulling on them from the other side, there was a pole above them and the rope went over it. The person in the harness needed to stack the crates and stand on them for the points to count,we got 537 and some of the other groups only just got up to 200-300.
At the very end when we were just about to leave the people came up and said we won the challenge, we got the most points out of every group, and there were 5 groups. we thanked all of the people and got back on the bus, then we were back at school and went home.
Social Studies
Hello, in social studies today we had to pick up rubbish, our teacher gave us a bucket and tongs, I was in a group with cody and saia. We found alot of rubbish and put all of it in the bucket, there is so much ribbish in the school that we filled up the bucket in 5 minutes, and still saw more. We also found someones scooter in the bush I was suprised to see how much rubbish there was in it and that there was still ALOT more on the ground, every group had a full bucket of rubbish by the end. I want people to know thats its bad to litter and that they sould stop, it will help the environment and other people.
Hello, the past 2 weeks we have been reading in wananga, I read Gangsta Granny by David Walliams. It's about a little boy and his grandma, he doesnt like going to her house on friday because she smells like cabbage and only likes playing scrabble, one day over the phone to his parents he said she is boring and smells like cabbage.
Granny heard him say that and so she changed, she bought fake jewels to make Ben think she was a gangsta, then she was going to pretend to steal the Queen's crown jewels, but Ben insisted he wanted to go, to the point that she couldn't say no, then Ben made a good plan to steal the crown jewels, by going through a sewage pipe into the Queens house. When they went through with that plan, they went into the sewage pipes and when in there, they had successfully got to the crown jewels then the Queen showed up, they wouldve got in alot of trouble, but luckily the Queen pardoned them and let them go.
Environment Issues
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the earth and environments. Lately around the world there have been a lot of environment and ocean issues, including water pollution, litter, the extinction of animals, or even just endangered animals being killed. Or even Just volcanic eruptions going into the ocean killing turtles and fish.
Over the few weeks we have been learning about this, I have learned that if we do not stop littering and actually start cleaning the ocean, in 30 years the ocean will be 50% fish and 50% plastic. i have also learned that at a beach. also about Phytoplankton, Phytoplankton is a micro organism that consumed carbon dioxide and makes 4 times more oxygen than the amazon rain forest. in a movie called Seaspiracy there are a lot of dead whales found on a beach, and most of the whales had plastic bags inside them, but one of them had 30 inside it.
