Camping at Paekakariki

Camp Duties

We made dinner on the first night of camp. I had two duties - mixing the salad and buttering the garlic bread. After dinner I took my turn washing and drying the dishes. I enjoyed making dinner it was fun, and the dishes as well!

By Holly

Camp Activities

We had free time before every meal. We were allowed to go and pat the horses, we could use the sports gear or climb the trees. The camp was a nice big green area, with a little creek and a park above it. There was a bouncy pillow and some trampolines. We were allowed to hang out in our cabins and rooms and talk with our room mates. The camp was nice, it was good to get away from home for a while.

By Natalya and Regan

Our Rooms

This is Nate, Haree, Hilal and Michael in their room in the lodge. We kept it tidy. There were two bunk-beds, Haree and Hilal were on the top. Michael said Nate and Haree snored! We all shared our lollies. We were very tired so it was easy to go to sleep. We woke up early.

By Haree, Nate

Beach Safety

On the second day of camp, we went to do a surf life saving programme at the beach right next door to our campsite. We had three lifeguards teaching us the rules of the beach, Elyse, Courtney and Tem. They gave us a day packed with fun and games at the beach! We played several games like racing, life saving and... SWIMMING!!! We had loads of fun and we TOTALLY recommend going as soon as you can!!!!

Annie and Jasmine  

The Most Important Things About Us

Ms D read us a book called The Most Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown.

Then we all had to write a page for our class book using the same kind of format. Here is what we wrote.

The Importance Of The Waka.

Today we learned more about the importance of the class waka.

A person called Ray Ahipene Mercer, who is a kaumatua and works for the Wellington City Council, came to talk to us about the wonderful waka.

We talked about the different waka.

We talked about the Maori legends and how special they are.

Then Danny, a newspaper reporter came to talk about the waka too.

After that, we went to the staffroom and we looked at the new staff waka.

We all held the waka and Danny took some photos.

We think we learned a lot about our waka and how important and special they are.

We think that it was a great learning experience about our amazing community.

By Cadence, Lauren and Dev.

Beach Art - Scorching Bay

We built a jellyfish, first we made the head and body by piling up the sand. We made the eyes with wet sand. We made the tentacles out of sand. We decorated our jelly fish  - eyebrows and a mouth.

Sreypich, Stella K

I started making a castle and it turned out to be a whole Kingdom. I found a place on the beach where I could get handfuls of shells and rocks and I used them for decoration on the houses and the road.

Martha.

We are making our sand picture, you can't see it very well. It was a leaping dolphin, schools of fish, jellyfish and seaweed. Our picture even had a hook so it could be hung on the wall!

Cadence, Lauren

Our group made a Sea Monster/Crocodile. It had four flippers, two white eyes, a long body with a fin trailing along its back, a tail circling a nest with a stone-hard egg, a huge nose with two large nostrils at the end. We tied 1st with two other groups! Our suprizing prize was... two slippery pencils, seriously though, they were really slippery. Kate and Lila were in our group and built it with us.

Annie, Jasmine

First we made a mountain shape, we dug a tunnel through the mountain and filled it with water. Ali made part of our tunnel collapse. 

Tui, Toko

We decided to make a canoe for the competition. We first made the outline of the canoe, then we fattened up the outside. then we made four seats, one for each person in the group. Then we made paddles. We all sat in it and pretended we were paddling to somewhere, anywhere really. It was FUN!

The Hannahs.

We were making a crab and a rockpool. We gathered shells and rocks to put in the bottom of the rockpool, so that hopefully the sand wouldn't soak up the water. Jessica thought it was hard work gathering sand. We didn't win but we had fun.

Jessica, Richard, Stella M, Nick, Dev, Jane.

We decided to make Spongebob because we had to base our art on the sea. First we made a big square and put heaps of sand on it to make it look 3D. Then we got some shells and rocks and sticks and decorated it. We won a prize. It fun playing in the sand.

Natalya, Regan

Jasmine T and I made a Minecraft squid. We were trying to make it like it was popping out of the water but it was too hard to do this. Instead we just made a big hole and used the slushy mud when we found water.

Amelia

Today we made a GIANT turtle! It had little brown sand fish swimming with it in the calm Pacific waters. We dug a trench around it and used the sand to make the turtle's shell. James collected HEAPS of shells including a yellow catseye.

Ash, Gabrielle, James

Today I made a big starfish. I decorated it with my team, we used shells and I made the starfish by pressing my palm into the sand and pulling it along.

Holly.

I liked drawing in the sand.  By Rizario.