Year 6 camp

The Year sixes went to camp.....and we came back too, exhausted and exhilarated! We went with the year sixes from Room 15. Camp Kaitawa was a wonderful camp, and the year fives are looking forward to going there in May next year. Special memories include heaps of tramping and bush walks, and the cook-out too. The weather was stunning and we had a great crew with us.

Our Drama inquiry week 6

In our drama inquiry we are trying to work out what the basic elements of drama are. We have been looking at different sorts of drama, and watching mime movies on the Internet.
We watched the Balloon mime. It had facial expression, acting and the actor was experienced.
We also watched Jonny Depps hat.We reckoned it had good acting and it was
funny.
We've also had 2 more movies that we watched on the video player. They
were Pheobes story (from Keeping ourselves safe) that had brilliant facial expression, and this was a story that was giving information.
The best movie was Peter and the Wolf. It was a ballet, with good settings and costumes. That's as much so far as we know about drama.

By Aiden F and Jackson D

Boundary Stream slideshow

INQUIRY

Our inquiry for the rest of this term is about drama.
At the moment we are asking ourselves, "What is drama?" and we are trying to come up with a definition.
Here is a Wordle of our first ideas.

Self Portraits

Term 3

In Keeping Ourselves Safe this term we learned some strategies for dealing with difficult situations, and we also talked about how to take care of others. Some of the class looked after eggs for a week, and we decided that most of us must be good caregivers because there were only a few casualties! There were some excellent egg-diaries written.

we have learned....

At Boundary Stream we were shown three mustelids (a ferret, a stoat and a weasel) and Mark from DOC showed us a stuffed feral cat with a bellbird in its mouth, and then we went for a long walk. There were 600 traps set around in the bush to catch mustelids, rats and feral cats. JD.
I learned about what has been done to minimise the impact of introduced species on our environment. DOC and the council have been trapping and poisoning these pests in lots of rural areas. DOC does the pest eradication to protect our native species, and the council does it to protect cattle from TB so farmers can export their meat.
AF.

We visited Boundary Stream yesterday to find out what happens at this Mainland Island. We found out about the pest control that DOC does there, and we found out why.

Welcome!

Kia ora and welcome to Room 13's blog.
Our current Inquiry is called "Pets or Pests?" and we are looking at introduced mammals in New Zealand. We hope you will enjoy sharing our wonderings and our discoveries.