Mothers' Day

  Mothers’ day is a special day where all mothers’ are recognised on this one day each year. People across the globe usually make breakfast, lunch and dinner or go out somewhere to eat or buy gifts for their mums. We celebrate mothers’ day and giving them cards, flowers and even chocolate. Mothers’ day is good for mothers’ around the world because these hard working mothers’ need a good rest because they do a lot of things for us and it's time to owe them back.

On mothers’ day I made stuffing for dinner and roast chicken beside with some yummy veggies, I also did the dishes for her too. Before mothers’ day we all went to Sylvia Park and bought my mum a purse. Mothers’ day is special like fathers’ day too, I suggest helping family members and your parents. Even if it's not Mothers’ day or Fathers day it doesn't matter, always help.

All that glitter isn't gold

  

     This is my one of my proverb book. This is the one we did today   

Where are the animals?

  

Our sailing experience

  

This is us when we first put on our sailing suit and the first time meeting them.

Then this is us when we went into the water our gear on and sailing on the little boats.

This is some of the kids playing a game where you have to throw the tennis balls and the boat that gets the most wins.

This is the paper we got to learn how to tie ropes on the boat.

This is some girls learning how to tie ropes.

Sailing

 

 Sailing

On March the 15th 2021, rooms 11 and 10 went sailing at Royal Akarana Yacht Club. We took a bus there and got full of excitement. When we got there we saw 2 ladies that greeted us and led us into the room. The 2 ladies' names were Kim and Shelly. Shelly was the person who had let us come and try to sail. 

They told us how it was going to work and that if any of us needed help or directions of where to go just ask them. We then got to eat and couldn’t wait to start sailing. We were all numbered into our group and we needed to wear some duck shoes because there were some really sharp oysters on the rocks, and we needed to be careful. 

When we finished eating our lunch we got into a life jacket and wore a thin jumper underneath it. We then went outside and there were 4 adults waiting outside for us, their names were Lewis, Rebecca, Jamie, and Nick. 2 of them taught us how the boat works and that we will rotate every 30 minutes. The groups were up to 3, we each got into our group anxious if we would flip over the boat and do a great job at sailing.

Group 1 got to go into the small boats, group 2 got to go into the big boats, and group 3 got to go and stay inside and learn how to tie ropes. Going onto the boat made everyone worry if it would be easy for it to flip over. After 30 minutes had passed we rotated, group 1 would go into the big boats, group 2 would go inside to learn how to tie ropes, and group 3 would go into the small boats. 

After another 30 minutes would pass we would go inside to grab our lunch and eat for about 15 to 20 minutes. The last rotation was that group 1 would stay inside to learn to tie ropes, group 2 would go into the small boats, and group 3 would go into the big boats. 

Rebecca was teaching group 1 how to tie ropes and gave them some challenges like tying to ropes behind your back or tying it with your feet. After the last 30 minutes passed we got to have a warm shower in the bathrooms.

Having an experience of sailing was fun and at the same time scary. But rooms 11 and 10 proved that you can always put your best foot down, and try something new.

The life cycle of Inanga

  Life Cycle Of Inanga

This is the inanga life cycle. First, the adult inanga lays whitebait eggs, next the whitebait eggs grow into larvae. They become whitebait. Finally, they are Inanga and they do the same. Whitebait only lives for about 1 or 2 years but they can’t pass 3 years.

Leadership

 

 Leadership 

On the 22 of March, I and a couple of more people from Glen Innes School and Glen Taylor School got selected to be a part of a program called Leadership. I was so excited I couldn't wait to start the first program. On that day at 11.00pm, we got to go and see the kids from Glen Taylor School. We couldn't all fit into the van so the 2 boys had to go in our principal car. 

When we got there we all umped with excitement and jumped out of the car. We meet all 10 students and had to do a challenge before we started cooking. We had to see who was the oldest out of all of us and who was the youngest out of all of us. 

We had to make contact with each other, and all of us were scared until my legs started walking.  I made contact then I just got good at using my hands and talking to them. 

We started to get into 3 groups and go and wash our hands. We made sushi with the help of 1 of the teachers at Glen Taylor.

That was so fun there I couldn't wait o go back. I can't wait! I love Glen Taylor School!