Week 7 Camp Kitawa

 This slide is a recount of my time at Camp Kaitawa at which I climbed up mountains, went through dark caves, went kayaking and most importantly had a yummy dinner every night.

Purakau day

It was five minutes after the bell rang when Koka Rozie said to go into our class, which happened to be moana two. Once we got there Koka Rozie told us all to get into a circle so we could make a list of advantages of growing your own food. The first few things that got on the list were obviously things like low expense and you feel proud when they are finished growing, but once all those were gone we had to start thinking and towards the end, we got good ones like no packaging and better for health. 

After we had finished making the list we moved into action. What we were going to do was we were going to clean out all the class gardens so we could harvest all the plants and make a plan for them. But first we went to the enviro shed to get rakes, shovels and gardening supplies.

After we had finally gotten all the supplies we moved onto the gardening. It was hard work but finally by brain break I think we had made progress.

Now that it was past brain break a person named Kauri was going to come in to talk to us. At first she talked to us about boats and teamwork and stuff but finally we moved onto some fun. What we did was she gave out some kind of map which we had to find a whole bunch of things on it, but before I knew it, it was morning tea.                                                                                                                                                            Once morning tea was over we continued to do gardening and same with after lunch and once the bell rung at the end of the day we could feel like we had accomplished something because a woce gint garden was empty.  

Cooks cove walk

 Bang! That was the sound of me and all the other people in the car opening the door. After a forty five minute drive we had finally arrived at Cooks Cove. After I gotten out of the car, my driver, which happened to be my mum, asked me to put on sunscreen. After I had finished putting on my sunscreen me and all my fellow students got called in front of our teachers were we would be organized into groups  

Once we were organised into lines we started heading up the mountain but after less then two minutes of trudging, we had to stop because other people were coming down from the walk. We continued heading up the mountain, then Louie asked me if he could go in front but I said no.  Eventually, after a little more truging, we got to the Beacon of light; a cool statue. Then once the five minute break was over we carried on going up a pasture, that happened to be full of bristles and hollow trees. That was also when I let Louie in front of me!!! Finally after what must of been an hour, we made it to the look out where, as I remember, we had a two minute break and a picture then we carried on walking. By then our group's little rotation was in full swing. The rotation worked that every ten minutes or on the next stop, we had the next person in the group  go to the front to lead. After we left the look out we had to walk down what felt like one thousand stairs. Then, all of sudden  we all  a bird;  in fact it was a native owl, what I wanted to see was it turning it's head in a circle and guess what? I saw it! After that the walk was pretty dull, well, except for when we went to the hole in the wall. After that we headed back to the car ready to go back to school. Wouldn't you know it,  when we finally got to the car our fuel tank was sitting on empty!!

Back to School: Maungaroa

 Stomp, stomp, stomp.  That's the noise of Moana and Nui syndicates walking up to the base Maungaroa. As we reach the bottom of the mountain we all stop to get reorganized into lines. Then about five minutes later the two syndicates which included me and my buddy, Tallulah, started climbing up Maungaroa.

As we headed up the steep and rocky incline I hear panting all around me, then I looked up and saw we weren't even close to the paddock that would lead to the main walk. At that moment I realized It is alot harder to walk in a group then it is on your own. 

While we trudged up the hill's road the pasture came closer and closer. Soon we were there and I realized that we couldn't of taken any longer than Two minutes for us to get there. Now that we were in the paddock we began to start climbing again, the problem was we had started at the bottom of the year six line and my buddy was a little more slow of a walker then I would of liked. So we slowly fell behind two I think the year fore and five line. Well as I was explaining that we had passed not only a house but also a slaughtered cow. Next we passed an electric fence that many people touched.

Finally we were back in the year six line we were nearly at the cell phone tower but when we got there we kept walking and about 30 seconds later we passed a spring that had lots of green stuff growing on it. After that we passed another electric fence that seemed to be on because of the look on the peoples faces that touched it. Since we had passed the cell phone tower I had just assumed that we were going to head for the lighthouse but after we passed the turn off for it I realised that was not the case. Avanchy we reached we reached a little cliff, that couldn't do more than sprain a ankle. From that location we got told some interesting stories.

After we had morning tea we started heading back before we passed the spring we turned up and started going up the path to the lighthouse. Once we got there we drank some water and took a photo. I am going to put the photos below.

On the way back down the mountain Koka Leah got separated from the rest of the group and so did a small part of MLH, Moana Learning Hub.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Once we got to the bottom of Maungaroa we got reorganized into our lines and we headed back to school.

                                  

The Fibonacci Sequence

 The fibonacci sequence is not only in architecture it is also in mother nacher. Mother nacher seems to like the fibonacci sequence because if you start looking it will be in more things then you realise.

Let me start with the basics. The fibonacci sequence use numbers.It gos like this. You have two one by one squares right. then you have one two by two square then one three by three square then won five by five square. To get throws you add two numbers together let's use three and five. Three plus five equals eight right. Now we have so now that we have an eight we will plus the bigger number in the three plus five and plus it to the eight. Now that we have thirteen we will use the bigger number in the five plus eight and plus it against thirteen. Then you will keep doing that using the same pattern.                                                            Now if you put thoughts numbers together wright ad make them squared you will get a spiral.

You can also the fibonacci sequence in architecture. There are many different kinds of spirals so things that might not look like spirals are. That makes it easy to make without even knowing it. Do you have a spiral staircase in your house, well that is a spiral that makes it the fibonacci sequence.

Now as I said at the beginning mother nacher loves the fibonacci sequence so it is so comin almost everywhere. it is in seed pods and in butterfly chrysalis. It is in pine cones and it is even in storms and in tornadoes and cyclones.

Kapa Haka Festival

Yesterday my school, Wainui Beach school, performed at the Kapa Haka festival. It was a festival that happens only once year. It was exciting to get on stage but what I wanted most was to just get Kapa Haka out of the way.

We were waiting outside just off the stage while the announcer introduced us to the crowd. There was a big long clap and we started to walk onto the stage nervously. Now that we were on stage we waited for the Kia to do her command. We had two Kia, one was a boy named Bay and the other was a girl named Matiria. Once the clapping stopped Matiria gave her command and we all walked in close in the middle of the stage. Then Matiria sang the first word to the song and we were of joining in on the next word. 

After we finished the first song, Matiria did the separate command and we departed back into our usual lines. We started singing Utina and did our Haka transition. Then we did our Haka, the male Kia named Bay led it. After our speedy Haka we sang the poi song. We sang it again but this time we moved to the back where we were originally. Then we sang it one more time with the girls just doing the poi and with the boys just singing. Then we sang Wainui A and we all walked off stage.

Chess Tournament

 This week on wednesday I went to a  chess tournament at Centrul school. At to touriniment I won three games and lost three games.

After I stepped out of the car all the people in the Centrul chess club came to meet us. Once they showed us into the hall where the tournament was being held we divided our self into our row teems. Our two teams were then given name tags and and were told how the tournament worked. Finally the first game started. We played with a clock. The clock was there because It meant that the game could go no longer then ten minutes.

After I won, a very exciting, first game of chess we had a five minute break. Deering the five minute break we were allowed to eat go tolet and more.  After I won my next game we had a neuter brack of five minutes.  Sadly on the next one I lost, Then the next and the next. Finally we were on the last game of the day and I was very determined to win it. Our game was eventful. The person I was going against only had pans left and she kept hiding behind then. finally I just killed the pawns and won the game.

In the end my team lost by one game but the other team our other wainui team lost by like five games.

it was a fun game. We also got ice cream that was really good.