Employee by Shaye

Employee by Shaye: http://youtu.be/LxVaGYDO94o

Landforms

For our ski camp we drove from Collingwood to Hanmer Springs.  We had an Amazing Race quest to complete on the way so it took us from 8:30 to 5:30 to get there.  We discovered that there were many different landforms formed by a variety of processes on the way.

Here are some of the things we learnt.  There are more on individual blogs.

In the process of creating these presentations we have discovered that it is a problem to publish from book creator and explain everything to individual blogs when you are sharing tablets.

Landforms by Hashani

Politics

We have been studying political systems and political leaders.  Here are some of the new words we have learnt.

There are explanations of more words on individual blogs.

Landforms by Luca

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Landforms by Rory

Landforms by Rhys

Kee Kee Kiwi goes to the fairy tree.

Today Abbie, Courtney, Bonnie, Maia and Natalie took me to the fairy tree. They took photos of me in the school bushes and trees. I liked when I was in the fairy tree. When I was in the fairy tee. I liked when people where taking turns holding me. I had a lot of fun. I love being a brown kiwi.

Kee Kee Kiwi at the Skate Bowl

Show him around the class outside. Show him how to play cheat. Show him how to play around the playground. Show him around the rugby post. By Colin, Alex and Ben.

Kee Kee Kiwi goes to the library.

I like reading books I am good at it. I like panda books. I don't like doggy books. Kiwi and penguin books are the best. The funniest books are the chapter books. I like cow books. I was very quiet in the library. All my friends were in the forest books. I was reading the books and I loved the books. I was sitting on the bookshelf looking for books. I had fun in the library. I read a kiwi book. It had my enemies in it. But it had a happy ending.

Long Jump Sandpit

I can jump the hole long jump. That's how fast I can run. I did a front flip in the sandpit front flip in the sand pit. I can jump two long jumps.

Hanmer Camp

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Bushcraft Skills

Today we went to the Cobb valley to learn bushcraft skills from some instructors who work at outward bound.  We did location awareness, fire starting, navigation off track, and safety in the bush. The bush safety came in handy when a wasp nest was disturbed and children and instructors got stung.  Everyone did the right thing to sort the problem out. Carrying on the students learnt how to build shelter that would keep the weather out if they got lost. 1 of the other highlights was falling over on the grassland that was very uneven. We finished off with a quick 1 in the river all students but one had to swim in their clothes.  Well done to Shaye for being super organised.   Caleb astonished the teacher by identifying 10 different species of native birds. It was a a fantastic day thanks to wonderful instructors and excellent students.

Cricket at Riwaka

On the weekend we went to Riwaka to play cricket.  We played against Nelson girls.  They batted first.  I got a maiden over.  They meant they got no runs off the over that I did/  In the end they got 190.

Me and  started the batting.  Daniel faced a few then he got out.  Then I faced a few then I got out for a duck.  Then Pax came in and hit a four.  Then he got out.  They had a person more than us so I got too come back in and I started to hit it.  Then I realized that there were two balls left so on the second to last ball I hit it for a four then on the last ball I hit for a six.  Then we had to go find it in the bush.  It took a while to find it but we did.  We lost by 84 runs but we got 106 so that's pretty good for us.

By Daniel

First Post for 2014!

Wow!  This year has been busy.  We have had many school events and I have not blogged about any of them.  It is time to turn the task of managing this blog to the students.  The students have been writing on their individual blogs so check out what has been happening.  Hopefully we will get some new posts on this class blog soon.

Careers Education through sailing

We got to go sailing and kayaking for two whole days this week.   We discovered capsizing is fun.  Salt water stings the eyes and bruises appear from nowhere.  Great fun was had and the instructor told us we should keep learning.   It was rather windy but our tacking, gybing, reaching, and downwind sailing got very good for beginners very quickly.  We are all great at capsizing and righting the boat.  Some of us can do this 5 times in 10 minutes in an opitimist which is hard to capsize.  Students showed their ability to take risks, persevere, and be courageous.   Mrs Feron also turned it into a lesson on working together even when we are tired, hungry and cold.  The carreers education bit: Working to help others out so the whole group can get into and out of the water quickly.  Group goals take priority over individual wishes.

Structure building.

An interesting time overcoming challanges with  creative solutions while we were building structures today.  They had to hold our group up 1 metre off the ground with only the materials provided.  Everyone thought there wasn't enough string!  Mrs Feron thought this was all about cooperation and contributing ideas.  We thought it was about avoiding any more work and having fun.

Fathers Day

We are learning to PEE when we write paragraphs.  Each paragraph has to have a point, an explanation, and examples.  I asked the lads and lasses in my class to write 5 peeing paragraphs about a parent. At this point Sheree reminded me it was Fathers Day on Sunday and asked if they could make cards.  I surprised them by bringing in my cardmaking stuff.   This resulted in a Friday morning and lunchtime of creativity and messes.  Halfway through the morning I had the bright idea of making this part of our upcoming unit on friendships.   I made the students write a complimentary description about a class member that I chose.   It was a much harder task thinking of ideas. We suddenly found a learning reason to use Google chat so Ihad to lift the class wide ban.  In The past Google chat has proved a major distraction.   Today, however, it was extremely helpful as it allowed students to discreetly queriethe friends odd the person they had been assigned to. A very successful way to get students collaborating with people they don't usually seem out.   They then made another card to  contain the published writing.

Chemistry Experiments

One of the lads in my class asked if we could blow things up.   I dutifully looked up the recipes and talked to our science teacher.   On Wednesday we spent 2 periods in the science lab discovering what chemicals change the flame color and making some bombs.  We soaked some pinecones in the chemicals in preparation for our Friday adventure.
Friday afternoon we gathered the pinecones and smoke bombs and rushed to the beach.   We learnt about fire safety,  the needs of a fire and how to safely extinguish fires.   The smoke bombs were a success but the pinecones didn't work.   We will discuss why on Monday.

Why students need an education.

Digging Holes

A consensus was reached quickly today that our Friday adventure would be digging holes at the beach.  The challenge was laid down.  Which team would be able to bury a team member.  The learning goal....work together in a group of Mrs Feron's choosing to complete a task.  The problem.  Lyp Sync is tonight and some of us couldn't go home and clean up before performing.  Oh well too bad.  Lets live in the now.