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Room 10 Goes Planting For Trees for Survival
Jun 22nd
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Room 10 went planting on a farm in Waitoki. The owner of the farm is Phil. It took ages, like a century to get there. Our driver was Graham who is in Rotary and also helps us plant. Finally we were there.
We went up the hill to a huge barn for morning tea. There were brownies, orange juice and tea for the adults. We sat on the steps in the barn. There were 2 dogs, a Labrador and a Great Dane.
After morning tea we had a play and then we hopped back onto the bus to go where we were going to plant our plants. Gail from the ARC showed us how to use the camping toilet and how to dig a hole and plant a plant. Kate also from the ARC was with her.
We had nine very helpful parents with us, they were, Gina, Donna, Grant, Tamati, Michael, Kylie, Shane, Chris, and Brenda. What an awesome group they were.
We started planting. First you dig the hole, make sure it is deep enough, plant the plant, place a blue fertiliser tablet next to it, firm the soil around it and do the pukeko test. That is you give it a tug to make sure pesky pukekos can’t pull them out. We had to put a blue tablet in with the plant so it could grow more easily. 550 plants later we completed the task.
Then we had delicious pizza, soup and more brownies for lunch. Then all of room 10 jumped over all of the horse jumps. It was a really cool day but then unfortunately we had to leave.
We come home tired, but very satisfied with our efforts. We really enjoyed the planting and year fives can go again next year. My favourite bit was lunch and the planting.
Intermediate Visit
Jun 2nd
Today the Year 6’s visited Te Atatu Intermediate. It was an opportunity for the children to spend some time in the Technology Rooms. The children were divided into 6 groups and went to a Tech Room to either do Science, Visual Arts, Workshop, Soft Materials, Hard Materials and Food Technology. They thoroughly enjoyed their visit!
Parakai Trip
Dec 2nd
On Tuesday 1st December, all of Matipo’s Road Patrollers and Librarians went on a trip to Parakai Hot Pools. This was a special treat to say ‘Thank You’ for all their hard work and commitment throughout 2009.
The sun was shining, the water was warm and we all had a great time!
Room 10 Planting Day
Jun 23rd
On Wednesday 17 June Room 10 went to Waitoki for a planting day. We probably got there at 10 past 10. We were to plant up to 300 plants we had grown from seedlings and were now up to 30 cm high. There were 200 more plants there in addition to ours so we had a huge task ahead of us. Thank goodness it was a beautiful day. When we got on the bus the weather was terribly cold but when we got there it was so hot nearly everyone had to take off their jacket, my it was hot!
When we first arrived we all were excited about the planting so the first thing we did was get some morning tea, have a tour of the house, get told how to dig, how to hold the spade and how to plant the plants.
After everyone got a spade we all started to plant. It was a long time before we got half way down the hill but it was fun because we got to play with the dogs, get a few photos taken, slipping in the mud and nearly every girl screamed because of a worm, that was hilarious I’m still laughing about it. We worked in ever changing groups, soon we were struggling to find a plant to plant or a space to plant it in.
By now we were hungry, we cleaned up and then got told we were going up to the big barn for lunch but we were to go in the back of a horse float. It was fairly dark, we couldn’t see where we were going, the road was bumpy and we had to sit on the floor. Oh no, have the horses done stuff on this floor? The ride was a bit like being on a bucking bronco, well not quite. It was only about a 3 or 5 minute ride and was very fun.
For lunch we had pizza, brownies, juice and some hot milo, mmmm! can still taste those yummy pizzas. They made the bases for Hell’s Piza but this was heavenly, yum. Everyone got to have 3rds!
The place where we had lunch was a huge garage that was 2 or 3 times bigger than room 10. In the garage there was a race car, tractor, an old car and heaps more. After lunch we had to sit on the steps a have a little assemble about saying thank you for giving us lunch and they thanked us for our planting efforts. It was then we were told we had planted over 500 plants.
When we got on the bus it was not that noisy for some reason. After a while 5 people fell asleep one started to snore ha-ha. When we got back to school it was nearly three o’clock so we all went home slept like a log because of the long day.
Te Atatu Intermediate Vist
Jun 17th
On Tuesday the Year 6′s went for their visit to Te Atatu Intermediate. This is part of their transition process to an Intermediate School. The children visited a Technology Classroom and were assigned an activity to complete during the morning. These included Science, Visual Art, Workshop, Soft Materials, Hard Materials and Food Technology.
Parkiri Camp
Mar 6th
Daily Journal
By Kaitlin Lee – Room 12
DAY One:
I was so nervous my knees were shaking, I could actually hear them knocking together! We were about to head off on the Senior School Camp at Parkiri! We all met in the hall for a quick meeting and then we lugged our bags all the way to our big flash buses! I knew we were going to have a pretty comfy ride just by looking at the bus.
It was a pretty long bus ride but we FINALLY arrived at the beach! I was starving when we got there and was relieved to hear that we could have our morning tea – YUM! After morning tea the teachers then split us into four tribes. There were the Sharks, Dolphins, Squids and Stingrays. I was in the Stingrays – the best tribe!
Our first activity was to put up our tents. We had to listen carefully to what Sherilee was saying so we didn’t get it wrong! We were a super tent and had to put up two! What a disaster!!! The second activity we did was a huge walk all the way, way, way down the beach and then all the way, way, back again! My feet were killing me by the end of it!
DAY Two:
We had to get up at the crack of dawn this morning so we had enough time to have breakfast and get ready for our day trip to Goat Island! The bus ride to Goat Island made me feel a bit ill and some of the corners were a little bit scary. When we were at Goat Island we had 3 or 4 different activities to do. The first one for the Stingrays was a walk to the top of the hill to look at the beautiful views all around the Island. We all then trekked back to the car park so we could change and have morning tea before we went snorkelling!
I really liked the snorkelling! I saw lots of different types of fish including a baby snapper. Mrs Render said that she saw a huge snapper and had lots of people swimming out to where she saw it!
After lunch we went back down to the beach to play on the rocks, while we were there Mr Render took our group photo – we were all sitting on this really cool big old tree-. We also had a sand castle competition. My sandcastle was a shell, we didn’t win the competition but we still liked what we did!
After dinner we went up to Greenwoods farm where we went through a Burma Trail that scared me witless! After the Burma trail we went back into the other field and played a game called search light. I got spotted twice! That was a little bit gross because if we weren’t careful we crawled through cow poo!
Day Three:
We were allowed to sleep a bit later this morning but when we got up we were still all very sleepy! After breakfast we had to pack up the campsite… What a nightmare that was! It was so windy that the tents were flapping all over the place and it made it really hard! Once we had packed up the campsite and had lunch we went back to the farm… On our way to our afternoon activities we stopped to have a look at the Burma trail in day light – when we saw it we realised how silly we were to be scared the night before!
The farm was quite interesting. We got to see a cow being milked and Ethan got to drink the fresh milk. We also got to see a couple of sheep being sheared and some of the people got to have a go at shearing them. After this we went on another walk to a really pretty waterfall. I was pleased to get back to the bus to have some afternoon tea and head home!
Daily Journal
By Kaitlin Lee – Room 12
DAY One:
I was so nervous my knees were shaking, I could actually hear them knocking together! We were about to head off on the Senior School Camp at Parkiri! We all met in the hall for a quick meeting and then we lugged our bags all the way to our big flash buses! I knew we were going to have a pretty comfy ride just by looking at the bus.
It was a pretty long bus ride but we FINALLY arrived at the beach! I was starving when we got there and was relieved to hear that we could have our morning tea – YUM! After morning tea the teachers then split us into four tribes. There were the Sharks, Dolphins, Squids and Stingrays. I was in the Stingrays – the best tribe!
Our first activity was to put up our tents. We had to listen carefully to what Sherilee was saying so we didn’t get it wrong! We were a super tent and had to put up two! What a disaster!!! The second activity we did was a huge walk all the way, way, way down the beach and then all the way, way, back again! My feet were killing me by the end of it!
DAY Two:
We had to get up at the crack of dawn this morning so we had enough time to have breakfast and get ready for our day trip to Goat Island! The bus ride to Goat Island made me feel a bit ill and some of the corners were a little bit scary. When we were at Goat Island we had 3 or 4 different activities to do. The first one for the Stingrays was a walk to the top of the hill to look at the beautiful views all around the Island. We all then trekked back to the car park so we could change and have morning tea before we went snorkelling!
I really liked the snorkelling! I saw lots of different types of fish including a baby snapper. Mrs Render said that she saw a huge snapper and had lots of people swimming out to where she saw it!
After lunch we went back down to the beach to play on the rocks, while we were there Mr Render took our group photo – we were all sitting on this really cool big old tree-. We also had a sand castle competition. My sandcastle was a shell, we didn’t win the competition but we still liked what we did!
After dinner we went up to Greenwoods farm where we went through a Burma Trail that scared me witless! After the Burma trail we went back into the other field and played a game called search light. I got spotted twice! That was a little bit gross because if we weren’t careful we crawled through cow poo!
Day Three:
We were allowed to sleep a bit later this morning but when we got up we were still all very sleepy! After breakfast we had to pack up the campsite… What a nightmare that was! It was so windy that the tents were flapping all over the place and it made it really hard! Once we had packed up the campsite and had lunch we went back to the farm… On our way to our afternoon activities we stopped to have a look at the Burma trail in day light – when we saw it we realised how silly we were to be scared the night before!
The farm was quite interesting. We got to see a cow being milked and Ethan got to drink the fresh milk. We also got to see a couple of sheep being sheared and some of the people got to have a go at shearing them. After this we went on another walk to a really pretty waterfall. I was pleased to get back to the bus to have some afternoon tea and head home!
