Tag: FUN

Set and Props

Hello,

For the past term Ruma Kereru has been making set and props for our production, at the end of the year. Our production is about, Alice in Westland. We are making lots of set and props, some of the props include, hand decapitation machine, bushes, gumboot sign and lots more. I was on making the narrarators books because I am one of the narrarators, I was doing this with Meia and Peyton. We decided to do a light bule backround, with a dark blue and gold border. Then we wrote Alice in Westland on the front in black paint. After that we did another one for Peyton because she was the other narrarator.

I also am doing a pair of gumboots, for decoration because the play is about a Gumboot contest and a evil queen. I decided to do the pair of gumboots on different characters, in the actual Alice in Westland. I am doing the white rabbit and the caterpillar, so far I really like them.

I also helped to paint one of the bushes, I painted it normal green on one side and a bright pink on the back. I painted it bright pink on the back, because it is in a crazy land.

Thank you.

Do you like my gumboot?

Bridge Valley Camp 2025

Hello,

On Tuesday 9th of September the year 5s and 6s from my school when to at Bridge valley. Some of the year 6s parent came with a car so that we could ride with them. My mum came and took me and Indi in her car. We left at 8:10am and stopped at Reefton for about 20minutes before countineuing to Bridge Valley Adventure Camp. We arrived there at about 12:30 so the entire journey in the car was about 4hours long. After we got to the camp we had a little while to explore our cabin and the camp before we had morning tea. After that we did a top team activity where we had to do multible activity’s and we got points on if we finished it in 5 minutes. My team didn’t do to well but we still got to do the tug of war at the end and we won against another team. The last tug of war was Kids vs Parents and we won 2 of the 3 times! Then it was free time until dinner and cabin checks. I explored with my friends before going to dinner. That night we played a game of spotlight and I lost. Finally it was lights out!

I woke up early and at 7:30 we were allowed out of our cabins. We had breakfast and then we got into our first activity’s. My first one was Burmer trail/ confidence course which was fun. Our second activity was Low ropes which was my least favourite one. Finally we had Zipline over the lake which was fun! Finally it was dinner, and lights out.

On Thursday I woke up and talked for a bit and went for a bit of a free time before breakfast. After breakfast we had our first activity for the day. My activity was Kayaking which  was fun because we got to paddle around the lake. At the end of the first activity we did a raft bridge where we would line up with our boats touching and the end kayak person would stand up and run across the rest of the kayaks and back again. Me and two other people ran and none of us fell off. Then we got out and went to the dining hall to eat Morning tea which was baking and fruit. After that we went to our next Activity which was Abseiling. We when over to this massive tower that had rock climbing walls of three sides and put on a helmet and harness to wait for the instructure. When the instructure arrive he told us to lean back when we where going down the abseil. We got attached to a rope that was really strong and got to climb one at a time up either 2 different rockwalls or a ladder. When we got to the top the Instructure attached us to a different rope and we had to wait while the person in front of us went down the wall. I went twice and it was my favourite activity of the camp. It was scary because when you went down the wall you had to lean back and the harness would pull on you. I was one of two people that went down twice. When we were all done we went to the dining hall for Lunch. After that we had our last activity for the camp which was Slippery pole. Slippery pole is were you had to sit on a pole hang from the roof and try and hit the other person off with a pillow. You would land on a mat on the floor. I hit off a lot of people. We finished a little early and when and watched the group doing abseiling. Miss Lang and Mrs Scott went down as well. When they were fully done we had afternoon tea. Finally we did a team activity where we had to make a raft in 15 minute and race it around the lake. I was the only girl in my group that went on the raft. We started to sink about a quarter of the way around the small course, our raft flipped and every one fell off. I was the only one that got back on and Max and Jasper Abandoned Ship. Max came back on a few meters later. We were in second but then the other team lost part of their boat so we won! Finally we did our Camp concert at Night. It was really fun and we went to bed soon after. The next morning we woke up and packed to leave we had a little bit of free time before we Left and went back to school which was a 4 hour drive. We stopped at Reefton and saw the Prime Minister! We got a bit of food and then finished the drive back to school!

 

Camp was really fun, Have you ever been on school camp?

Snow Ball writing

Last week we did a new type of writing, its called Snow ball writing! First we looked at our WALT (We are learning to) then we started to brainstorm. We wrote some of our ideas onto the whiteboard following the theme of “The school trip gone wrong”. There was lots of different ones like, Camp, The museum, Concert and Zoo.  The different thing about snow ball writing is that you write the start of your story then you scrunch it up and throw it to the front of the room, where someone else would pick it up and write the middle before repeating that procces where someone else would pick it up and write the end. I started my story about the zoo, I was really happy with my beginning but when I got it back after people had wrote the middle and end I was surprised. My story now included Shrek!  After that we read each others story’s and laught when funny bits came up. In the end we all all had lots of fun!

Here is the finished story:

Trip to the Zoo

“How long is this going to take?” Mia complained. We were in the school bus on our way to the zoo. “Its right there!” I reply pointing. The bus pulled up outside the entrance and we all streamed out. “Line up,” our teacher shouted. As we signed in excited chatter erupted from the crowd. The first exhibit we past had a tiger in it. I whisper to Mia, “The tiger might escape!” She stared at me before replieing “No it won’t.” The we past another exhibit that had a mysterious creature in it. It was a…

 

Baby Shrek! He was young but cute. He was eating bugs from the ground his lunch!  Mia said to me, “Um what is that monstrosity and why is it in a zoo? Um, I think thats a baby Shrek, an ugly one too. Baby Shrek looked at Mia then…BOOM he dissappeared. The girls heard a strange weird noise behind them. It was like babys laughing! The girls spun around and saw the baby Shrek sitting on the ground behind them!

THE END

Do you like it?

Top Team!

Today from 9:30 – 11:0o o-clock We did Top Team. Top Team is where there is 12 activates and 12 groups that go around each activity .  Some of the activitys inclde water so we wore our rōpu tops with a spare change of cloths and a towel.  We were sorted in to our groups yesterday so we all knew what group we were in.  I was in group G with Maddie, Josh, Joel, Everln, Darly and Me. First we did Activatys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 then after that we did Activatys 7,8,9,10,11 and 12, My group went in order from 1 to 12. The last three activatys were the water ones so we got very wet at the end.  Number 3 was really hard and my group scored Zero points in it. The activaty was hard because it was a mine shaft game were we stepped on a square in the mat and the person running it would say “Yes” or “no” and if it was a No we had to go to the back of the line.   The water Activeatys were fun and I got water tipped on my head.  At the end I sat in a big bucket of water because I wasen’t that wet. In the end we scored about 305 Points and the Winner scored 377 points.

It was a really fun day!`

 

Have you ever done a Top Team Activaty?