Day 2 - Tuesday 10 September

Today we woke up at 6:00 and got ready for the day. We had fitness for 10 minutes and had for another 20 minutes breakfast. We had to spit into our groups and clean the holiday park before we do our activities. Our activites were Kayaking, Swimming, Bush Craft, Team building and Bush walk. We learnt a lot of things on our bush walk. I learnt about new trees such as Puriri and Totara.

Puriri are the kind of tree that has a weird as shape but its a really cool tree. Totara is a type of tree that is nearly tall like a kauri tree. Its so similar to the Kauri tree, Its so strong and I heard that its pretty hard to cut down. As we were walking in the forest we saw this weird vine called Supple Jack. If you burn the vine and make it into something it stays like that for a very long time. I think you can eat it as well because it seems eatable.

In bus craft we all learnt how to make a fire and how to make shelter. we had to find dried sticks to put in the fire so it can burn easily. we also learnt about some other trees called Tea Tree, when the Tea Tree leaves are died it is called Kanuka and if the Tea Tree leaves is alive it is called Manuka. In Team building we just played games and it was basically about all of us mingling together. Some of us went Kayaking and the rest of the people got to go swimming.

After all the fun things we did we all went for a shower and go ready for dinner. Some of the class wanted to help the teachers cook the food and the rest of us watched a movie called "LORAX". The movie was so funny and interesting. We ate dinner and had to do our cleaning duty's before we go to bed. After our cleaning Maiki taught us a little Haka and a Waiata so we can perform it anywhere to show people where we are from.

Day 1 - Monday 9 September

Today we left from school at 7:45 after everybody has packed their stuff under the bus. We drove for about 2 hours and we stopped at Whangarei to have morning tea and have a toilet break. We also got to meet our bus driver Mikey, He's really fun and funny. He's like one of the best bus drivers we have had so far. After eating and having a toilet break for 30 minutes we got back into the bus and drove to out next destination

We drove for another 2 hours and arrived at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. When we got out of the bus people from the Treaty grounds did a very interesting Powhiri. It was very scary and touching to the people that were coming in the Marae After the amazing Powhiri we had two wonderful ladies giving us a little tour around the Treaty grounds. we went into James busby's house from like years ago. Both the British and the Maori peoples house were facing each other.

After that fun tour around the treaty grounds we had to say goodbye to our tour guides. After saying our goodbyes we went on a ferry to Orongo holiday park because that was where we were staying for five days. We packed all our bags in our cabins and came back to our common room (Meeting room). We meet two interesting guys named Magnus and Chris, They were our caretakers for the past few days.

After packing all our stuff we had a little activity and it helps us get to know our class more better. The activity was very fun and cool because we got to mingle with other class mates. We had fish and chips for dinner and got ready for our daily reflections. We got ready for bed and brushed all our teeths, some of us went for a shower because we were running and sweating for a long day.

Create work

Trip To Auckland Muesum ;)

Today two classes from Glenbrae school went on a very fun and interesting trip to the Auckland Museum to learn about our school topic, Creepy Crawlies and Genomics. We had two kind and welcoming workers named Tom and Elle. They were showing us different kinds of species such as Kiwis, Moa, Weta and much more. We touch different kinds of bones and even talked about how they were instinct. I really had a lot of fun learning about different living things that are instinct I hope we go back there again so we can learn more and more about species

Current events - Energy drinks

NZ supermarket Countdown has announced it will bring in an age restriction for buying 
energy drinks.From early September, people will need to be 16 or older to buy them.

Countdown said it was introducing the age restriction due to the high levels of 
sugar and caffeine in these drinks. Energy drinks are not recommended for young people and 
already carried warnings on packaging. However, the New Zealand Beverage Council, a group 
representing drink manufacturers, said it was disappointed at Countdown’s decision.
They also said that research from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand shows that energy
 drinks contribute less than three percent of the overall caffeine intake of young people aged
 between nine and 15.

Genomics Information Report

Life emerged in the oceans nearly three and a half billion years
ago. Water, Light, Air and energy - there are the elements that
made life possible. Life began 425 million years ago from land
to sea.

 Animals came way before humans, so if humans pollute the
waters and the earth, we are basically destroying their homes.
Species lower in the food chain breed more often and produce
more and more babies. The majority became food resource
for other species. Almost 300 species disappear each day. 

Somehow humans are related to apes and fishes. From tiny
microbes invisible to the eye to enormous giants of the oceans.
Octopus have 80 neurons on their skin and 800,000 neurons in
their brain. I'm so surprised that the octopus are not dead
because these animals have survived for over 530 million years. 

Did you know if sharks get instinct all the sea creatures get
instinct as well. Top predators such as tigers and lions produce
only two or three offspring every few year.

Current events

Today Our whole class did current events. I read that our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s is currently overseas, visiting Samoa and the New Zealand territory of Tokelau. The trip is part of the New Zealand Government’s Pacific Reset strategy. She had to go to Samoa to get to Tokelau because Tokelau doesn't have an airport so she had to go on a ferry to go there.Jacinda Ardern met with local leaders in Samoa and on Sunday morning she boarded the Otago patrol ship for the trip to Tokelau. Everybody knows Jacinda Adern hates going Samoa but she had to go.