7/8 Otaki Gorge Trip.

Yesterday, on the Thursday 26th. My class SWL and half of MNL went down to the gorge to do some fun activities with the year elevens.

To get there, I went in Lucy's car with Keira and Tyson. When we got there, we were separated into some groups. I was with, Taison, Eliot, Jayaiah, Antonio and Dragon. We were paired up with two year 11 girls.

Our first activity was shelter building. We found a spot and used to blue tarps to tie to the trees. Once we hung to the top one to the tree, we placed the other one on the ground. Then we got some ferns and placed them at the edges of the shelter. 

Once we had packed up, we headed down to the river and were planning to make a fire and roast some marshmallow's. We eventually got the fire to light and had a fun time trying to roast the best looking marshmallow.

The next activity we did was raft making. I gathered some dry sticks and tied them together with some cutty grass. Mrs Smith helped me some knots are the sticks to help keep them together and also assisted me to find a good looking mast.

When the time came to race it against the other rafts. I was in the lead before my raft hit the shore, and people started to throw rocks at it.

After lunch, we all had a game of capture the flag, Juniors against Seniors. We, the juniors, managed to win against the seniors and were given bragging rights.

Going to the gorge was a lot of fun and I hope that I can go there again.

Statistics Investigation

Week 9 Term Reflection

Week 9 Term Reflection

One thing I have enjoyed this week was cooking in Ms Haggin's class. Another thing I enjoyed this week was that my Swimming Club are sending out new uniforms. One thing I learned this week was how to count to ten in Chinese. One thing I want to work on is extending my Chinese numbers to 20. One thing I'm looking forward to next week is that is  the last week of school.

Adejah's Statistics Investigation.

ALWTW Part 6 Discussions Questions

When Nya's father said, "Cant you guess?" I think he's inferring that they will be building a water fountain in that area.

Some of the differences from Rochester and Salva's home town Lone Ark is that the temperature is much colder in Rochester. Another difference is that all the roads in  Rochester were made where as in Salva home, the roads were all made of dirt.

I think that Salva should take into consideration that this might be his only chance to see his family again, so yes. I think that Salva should ignore his fathers request and go see his family.

Water has the water to do both. It can unite people and give them hope but people can fight over water because of jealousy and greed. I think it all comes down to how the people in control use it.

Week 8 Term 3 reflection

Week 8 Term 3 Reflection.

One thing I enjoyed this week was when we made pancakes in cooking.

This week I learned how to say false in Chinese.

Next week I am looking forward to doing another lesson on cooking.

I am grateful for that opportunity to go to El Rancho with an amazing group and an awesome teacher.

Next week, I would like to work on learning how to calculate pie charts.

Year 7/8 Trip To El Rancho

Year 7/8 Trip To El Rancho


Yesterday on the 10th of September, SWL, (My class) MNL, SOL, went to El Rancho for a day to check out all the fun activities. I went with Bree, Leah, Nikaia and Tapari in Bree's mum, Justine's, car. When we got there, we were assigned our groups.

I was paired up with, Lucas, Jayaiah, Annalise, Eloudie, Alexandra, Zara, Nova, and two other boys I do not know the name of. The parent of my group was Megan. 

The first activity we did was Go Carting, We were told how the go carts worked and were given the hair nets to put on our heads. Unfortunately, the yellow go cart had broken so we could only do one at a time. I really enjoyed going around the track and I would definitely do it again.

Our next activity was Rifles. We were told how the gun works, and all the safety precautions we had to follow before we could get our hands on the air soft riffle.

I was on the left side of the small shed, and went first. We all got three shots each and we had different targets that we could fire at, after a few tries I started to get the hang of it and manged to hit most of my targets. I had a lot of fun and I would certainly do it again.



After we finished with out lunch, our last activity was Kayaking. We put these life jackets on and learned how to use the pedal and what the different whistles meant. We didn't have a lot of time but we manged to play a fun game of Frisbee. 

I had a really good time hanging out and doing the different activities with my friends and would really enjoy doing it again.

Week 7 Term 3 reflection

Week 7 Term 3 Reflection.

This week I enjoyed playing games at the canteen with my friends.

I learned about how a leaf graph works,

And I am looking forward to using more NZGrapher next week.

I am grateful that I didn't get into trouble this week

Next week I want to work on calculating statistics.

How To Make A Bar Graph Using NZGrapher