A Day in the Trenches.

Talofa lava bloggers, On Wednesday on the 14th of April. We had a pretty unusual day considering what a normal day its like. Our teachers surprised us with strings everywhere around Te Waka Ako around Waitemata and Hauraki. This was based on our reading topic: ANZAC Day! The strings used as the trenches and if your head stuck over the wire you would be looking at No mans land and got shot. We all had 10 lives. Our first "Mission" was we had to do was crawl under the strings with our Art book and get our boxes and grab a pen, a pencil and a rubber. 

The next thing we had to do was do a basic facts test. We had 6 and a half minutes as usual. But on the way they put sounds on to distract us. So it made it difficult to answer questions under all that noise. I did VERY VERY terrible with 99/100. Next we did some exercises and had some fruit later. All I can tell you is that it was a pain. After that we did writing. We had to write a letter from the "trenches" to someone from our family. I chose my parents. We described how we felt, what we could hear, what we could see and eat. After that we finally had FREEDOM!... Until it rained, but we got to play a game with our duty teacher. Basically the way you play is he will do actions and say things. But you have to listen to his voice because sometimes he does the wrong action and if you copy him your out. 

 

A photo of me and Brayden writing our letter from the "trenches" Click on this link

Ms Sands put us into two groups for swimming. If we didn't we came back to "war" and we Ms Sands told us to rule a 12 square picture in our art books. Then she would tell us a statement a few times and we had to draw whatever we could remember. I managed to draw 8 pictures before we went to swimming. In swimming we got into a circle and tried to float together or a much time as we can. The other group could do that for 3 minutes, but I'm pretty sure she was lying considering we only did it for 8 seconds. Then we had free time. After that there was more FREEDOM! And this time it didn't rain. 

For our last block we started to untie the strings of. We had to partner up with somebody. Then we had to find a Popsicle stick with string on it. Then one of our buddies was blind folded. We had to use the Popsicle stick to roll up all the string. Then halfway through we switched, but it was taking way too long so we just took the blindfolds off and rolled it up normally. It was such a relief to not feel pain every time we move. After that we packed up and went home.

Thank you for reading this blog post, if you want you can comment if you do fun things like this or what you thought of this. Anyway have a great day or night and blog ya later!

Sea Week Infographic!

 Talofa Lava Bloggers. For a few weeks for reading we have been working on a Sea Week slideshow and for one of our work we had to blog one of our piece of work we have been doing. Which is what your looking at right now... Anyway I would like to share with you my info-graphic about Marine Reserves. If you don't know what an info-graphic is. It's basically when you go on a google drawing. (Or any other kind of thing that works for that matter) and give the reader some information about your topic. Add your photo for some proof and back up. We used the facts we gathered during all those articles and work we had done. 

If you want here is a photo of the finished product.

(Scroll in to see the facts more clearly) 

Things I have learned during this: A lot of things about Marine Reserves, that Snapper fish and Crayfish are actually endangered species. How to pronounce Kina and also what it does to the sea animals. That Marine Reserves aren't fully perfect for sea life (Nothing is Perfect)