Callaghan's Ridge Tramp

Callaghan's Ridge Response

On April 11th 2019 the Room One and Room Eight students
 that wanted to do the William Pike Challenge participated
on the Callaghan's Ridge walk.
Firstly I was in a car with the driver as Ms Kemp
( my teacher) and the students Jack, Wairini, Summer
 and me.
When we got to the start of the walk we already had
 our scavenger hunts in our hands. The scavenger
 hunts we were given were things we had to find but
 we had to show a parent before we found the item or
 thing. I kept hearing the bird throughout the walk and
I recondised their different sounds to the birds. There
was things to find like the tomtit(miromiro) bird,
 piwakawaka(fantail), bellbird, bracket fungi, blue
 mushroom and other plants like the crown fern. In
my group I had my brother Jack and my best friend
Milan.
Our term groups also had been told we have to make
 a bivvy at lunch time about half way through the walk
to keep our team dry while having lunch. In my group
team I have had are Ethan, Aimee, David and Korban.
 I also liked the sound the rain dripping loud and clear
above my head. Our parent helper Rowan helped us
 and asked us question like where the best place will
 be to build our bivvy. We figured out that if you want
 all the water to run off the tarpoline then you need the
 bivvy roof to be on a slope. My group sat quietly under
 our bivvy and had our lunch. Soon Ms Kemp came
 around and gave everyone a jelly frog which I was
 thankful for.
On the walk our teacher told us that we were defiently
 going to be getting rain on the track. I love to walk in
 the rain but not many other people did and complained
 about their feet being wet. The feeling of the wet soggy
and moist shoes is understandable for me and others.
 The track the rain did effect us and the track alot. This
 effected the track and us this way because it made the
 parts where you thought were leaves when they were
leaves floating on top of water. The water from the rain
did not only make me step in huge puddles of unable to
 see water it also made the mud on the ground of the
walk slippery and so many people slipped over or fell
 on someone.
I part I most enjoyed/ liked was when my group team
 had worked really well together on our bivvy and made
 it a success. This was one of my favorutie because this
was my second  time learning how to make a bivvy with
 the supplies around us.
Next time we do a tramp I would suggest maybe to do the
 Point Elizabeth walk. It isn't too hard or too easy and
I think it would be perfect for a group of people we
 went with for Callaghan's. I have only done half of this
walk and I would like to walk the whole thing. This walk
 doesn't take too long just about an hour and 45 minutes
but maybe longer because we have occasional stops to
keep the group up and for eating and drinking breaks.
All together I really really enjoyed this walk with Room
 One, Room Eight, myself and the parents as well as
 teachers.I would reccomend this work to anyone because
 I think heaps of people could be capable of doing this
walk if they wanted to.

Lake Daniell Tramp Response

Lake Daniell Response

On Wednesday the 12th of June Room One and Room Eight had planned to go out on a tramp called Lake Daniell. Our classes are doing this because we entered into the William Pike Challenge again and this is one of the things we are doing for it.

In the morning we all got told our car groups and both classes headed in their car groups they got told they were in and left to go to Reefton. In my car group there | was Hannah, Nathan, Cailan, Hannah and Nathan’s dad and obviously myself.

So Wayne, Hannah’s dad drove us towards Reefton. On the car ride to Reefton Nathan and Cailan were being| really funny and made the start of my day better already.  We finally got to Reefton. We all got out of our cars and some of us went to the toilet and the other people ran around through the bush. We had to jump back into the car and headed for Springs Junction.

Now, everyone finally got to the start of the tramp. Ms Kemp went through everyone and gave them a number, mine was 22. We all did a count off and then started the tramp. I walked with my friend Milan and my brother Jack.

Walking through the tramp was really cool. There were heaps of different kinds of Beech Trees and it was interesting to see different types of plants. Everyone was very supportive to others and helped them along the way.

Ms Kemp also gave set group each a scavenger hunt to do. In my scavenger group I had Milan and Brighid. We all worked together to kind plants or animals on the tramp like different trees and birds like the South Island Kaka and the  Long Tailed Bat.

Along the tramp people like  Milan and Aimee said that I had a nice t-shirt or either a nice bag. I really enjoyed the way up to Lake Daniell it was really nice and the lake was really cool. On the way back my brother felt really sick and had been twisting his ankles a lot, so I walked with him the whole way back and helped him with anything.

Altogether I really enjoyed this tramp and I recommend this to anyone who likes to go tramping because its nice and easy and it’s good to get outside and enjoy the world around us.

Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout 

In Room One and Eight we are learning to

• Design a menu suitable for cooking on a campfire
• Keep within a $5 budget
• Share the jobs and food provision fairly between team members
• Bring along all equipment we need to cook with/on/in
• Work cooperatively to cook our meal

On April 3rd in the morning Room One and Room Eight walked
down to the Karoro Beach to do a beach cookout. There were
many parents and the teachers Ms Kemp and Mrs Maclean.
In my group I had Korban, David, Ethan and myself. Each
group had their own parent to help them. In my group we had
 Angus Taylor as our parent. At this time of the year it is
Autumn so it is an open fire season.
For our team group we figured out what we wanted to cook
 because someone said nacho's and we all agreed on cooking
 them as well as pancakes.  At our beach cookout we didn't
 have set jobs we all just took turns doing somethings.
When our two classes walked down to the Karoro Beach we
 were very close to Watson's Creek and the ocean at Tasman
Sea. To make our fire we used dry things like old mans beard
 then kindling and last thick pieces of wood in a pyramid shape.
Our two classes went because so our teaching could see how
we work as a team, to have fun, for the William Pike Challenge
 for a new experience and to build new outdoor skills.
Doing the beach cookout didn't really have any challenges
 I thought we worked well as a team, but I managed to flip
a pancake easily.

I had a really good time down at the beach with my team and
 I thought we worked very well together. If we could do this
again I would like to.

How To Find The Volume Of A Plastic Shape

How To Find The Volume Of A Plastic Shape

 

                      WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

               This is a link to a video of Milan and I explaining how to find the volume of a cardboard box.

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of An Object

                WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

This is a link to the video of Milan and I explaining how to find the volume of a cuboid.

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of A Lunch Box

How To Find The Volume Of An Object

WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

This is the link to the video of Milan and I explaning how to find the volume of a lunch box.

How To Find The Volume Of A Lunch Box

I Am Not Esther Book Review

Jennae Topliss Age 12
Room 8, Karoro School

I Am Not Esther
 Fleur Beale

Don’t you just like a book with family, mysteries and thrillers? Then this is the right book for you.

This book is set in Auckland where Esther and her Mum lived, then for most of the story the book was set in Wanganui, New Zealand in 1998.

In this book there are main characters called Esther, Aunt Naomi and Uncle Caleb. Esther is a 13 year old  teenager who lived with her mother before they both moved to Wanganui.  That was when Esther met Uncle Caleb and Aunt Naomi.

“I Am Not Esther,”has genres like family, mysteries and thrillers. Thrillers are set throughout the book especially within the family. Family is definitely a theme because  Esther has to live with a new one. There is also the mystery of discovering why her Mum left Esther.

Esther was living with her Mum in Auckland until her Mum decided to move to Wanganui.  Esther’s mum had taken her to her brother's house. The next morning Esther realised that her
Mum’s suitcase was missing and that her Mum was gone. Esther was now left alone with this family she didn’t even know.  How would she cope? What is she going to do?

Did you know that I am actually a Christian too. I know that most families don’t quite get along and mine is sometimes one of them. 

My opinion of this book is that I think it was really good and it also made me keep reading it with interesting twists.I recommend this book to anyone of the age 12+. This book contains bad words and violent actions. I  like this book because it has mysteries  and thrillers in it and those are something I look for in a book to read myself.

Maths Hexagon

Maths Hexagon

 Today in maths Sasha, Hannah and I had been given a piece of paper with some triangles on it and we had to cut them all out and put the sides correctly together to make a shape. Each triangle had had answers to some questions and some sides had the questions. We had to match them all up and complete a shape. in the end we realised we had made a hexagon. This task was based on our area and perimeter maths work. Below is a picture of our finsihed piece.

Scratch Animation

Scratch Animation

In Room Eight we have

 to learn how to use scratch. I have used scratch before and I have made several projects but I made one based on the comic strips I have been doing.  This the phrase is  " ka pai to panui" which means great reading. This is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work below as well as the video. ENJOY!

Link For Scratch Animation

This is the animation and if its doesn't work there is the link you can click onto.

Poem and Connections DLO

Analogy DLO

The Umbles

The Umbles

“I am learning to notice the symptoms of hypothermia  which is the four different umbles.”

What are the Grumbles? The grumbles are when someone can be moody or a change in behaviour  with an angry attitude.

What are the Fumbles? The fumbles  are when a person could be clumsy or not knowing what is happening and dropping objects or could have a lack of coordination.

What are the Mumbles?  The mumbles are when a person is not speaking clearly and can be muttering.

What  are the Stumbles?  The stumbles are when a person could be walking on flat ground and they could trip over without a reason.

1. The hypothermia image is from the website“ khqa.com.”

Link

   2) The angry emoji image is from the website “ emojiisland.com.”

Link

   3) The non speaking image is from the website “ emojipedia.org.”

Link

Comic Strip Animation

In Room Eight we have

 to learn how to use scratch. I have used scratch before and I have made several projects but I made one based on the comic strips I have been doing. This is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work

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Be With A Tree

#bewithatree
This week for reading and writing we have been do challenges each day for the Be With A Tree event. For this we were suppose to choose a partner to work with, but I worked by myself. I worked by myself because my goal for this year is to be more independent.  Below is my work for the 10 day challenge of  Be With A Tree. Please leave a thoughtful, helpful and positive comment on my work.

1. Meet a type of tree you haven’t met before. A tree that I never really look at or take the time to look at I just walk past it alot is the tree called the Pohutukawa Tree. We can also call this tree the New Zealand Christmas Tree.

2. Find something living in the tree. Something that I found that was living in the Pohutukawa Tree was a honey bee. I have been seeing many honey bees lately around the Pohutukawa Tree flowers. I have also seen a couple birds like the Tui and the common sparrows.

3. Play bark bingo. When I played bark bingo I had to find six different types of bark off a tree and set up a bingo board. I placed thedown on the ground and I chose three types and the other played picked tree barks as well. To play the bark bingo I had to put the names of the barks written on paper then put into a snaplock bag. One by one I pulled out a type of bark and I had to see if I had it.

4. Meet a tree of significance.  A tree of significance that I met was a Kowhai Tree. The Kowhai Tree is  native to New Zealand and this tree attracts the Tui’s which is also a native bird to New Zealand. This tree is known for blooming their bright yellow flowers  in the Winter or early Spring.

5. Find a tree that provides us with food. A tree that can provide people with food is the Cabbage Tree. When there wasn’t much food back in the day people use to scrape off the bark and cook it up. Thescientific name for the Cabbage Tree is called Cordyline Australis.

6. Vote for your hero tree.

I have voted for my hero tree and that one was a Kowhai Tree. I love Kowhai tree because they are nice and bright with their colour and they are native to New Zealand.

7. Plant a tree or a seed ball.  I actually have planted a tree in the past ten days for my mum. I was in Motueka for holiday and we went to one of my mum’s great uncles and he gave us heaps of seeds to plant a greengage tree. A greengage tree is just like a plum tree but the plums are green. I have planted two of these trees in my backyard for my mum.

8. Find a non- living tree. I have a non living tree in my backyard actually.  My mum loves photinia trees so we have heaps in our backyard. I looked out my bedroom window and seen a non living photinia tree  behind me.

9. Compare a rākau to the giant kauri Tāne Mahuta.

Tane Mahuta and The Pohutukawa Comparison

10. Why do you think these tree are important? Write your thoughts on an outline of a leaf and send it to KCC to be apart of our tree sculpture.

What I said on the outline  of the leaf was….
Trees are important to me because they are native to NZ.

I also know that trees are important because trees can actually create types of air humans inhale.

Week Six Of Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

In Room Eight we are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language. This week the teo reo maori phrase is "aroha mai." This phrase means sorry. We had to create a comic strip and create our own characters and include the te reo phrase of the week.

This is the link to my Scratch Animation for week six.

NZ Giants

Picture Book

Triangle Area

Triangle and Area

We are learning how to find the area in triangles. We had to do a work sheet,  then we had to draw some triangles in our maths book to match  what the instructions said on the sheet.  To figure out the area of something you go 1/2 of the base multiplied by the height.