Super Market Trip/ Food for Thought

Aloha bloggers, this term we've been learning about our foods with this lady named Isabelle. She came in to teach us for an hour. For the first lesson she showed us a food pyramid, teaching us what foods go in each column. The second session was about knowing what the nutritional information was. We also had to do a challenge where we had to put the drinks in order. We had to put it in order of the least amount of sugar to the most.  It was surprising when we got the answers. Fizzy drinks have a lot of  sugar, I mean a lot. As a fact, if a drink has a label that says no added sugar, it doesn't mean it has no sugar. They just put things in the drink that have sugar in it.

These lessons led up to a supermarket trip. We had a supermarket trip at New World. We went there to look at the nutritional information on the packages. We looked in each isle and had to write down the foods we looked at. At the very end we had to write down as many veges and fruits we can think of. After that, some parents came to help out with the transport. When we got back to school we came back with green lunchboxes. Isabelle gave everyone a lunchbox for free. The supermarket and the sessions were fun and I wish I could do it again. Take a look at these photos before you leave. Bye!

Beach Clean

Fakalofa lahi atu bloggers. In term 3, the senior block went down to Waikowhai Bay to do a beach clean. We bought signs on the walk too. Once we got the beach we got into a group then, we got a part to clean up at the beach. We found all sorts of things like: glass, cans, cigars, bottle caps, fish bait. We even found little crabs under the rocks. We put all the rubbish in a big plastic bag. We all wore gloves so our hands won't get dirty and stink. The other thing we wore were orange beanies. They were so bright and stood out a lot. 

We did this beach clean as part of trying to stop climate change. We also did it because we couldn't come to the climate change march. In my group, there were 7 people in it, including me. We had some parents there to help out with the beach clean. We put all our signs in the car when we came to the beach because we couldn't hold them while picking up rubbish. After that we had to walk back to school. Even on our way back we found cans and bottles. The thing that I didn't like about it was that some of them still had stuff in it so we tipped it out. Check out the photos below. Bye!

Pillow Day

G'day bloggers. I'm going to be be blogging about Pillow day. 

The whole of the senior block brought a pillow or cushion from home. We brought the pillows for two events. The first one was writing pillow designs. In our art book we decided the pillow shape than we chose the colours for it. On the pillow we had to right a mental health quote. The quote could be any language but it had to have the translation underneath. One of my quotes was 'Wake up with a smile on your face.'

 The other event was reading to some juniors. We used up one of the courts and the whole front deck. We did it right after the Duffy assembly, that's where we got our books to read from. We used our pillows to lie on. During the Duffy assembly, we got a choice if we were going to sit on our pillows or leave it in class. 

I enjoyed this a lot because it was something different and we'd never done it before.

That is all for this blog post, I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next posts. But first take a look at these photos:

Reading to the Juniors

At the Duffy assembly

Cross Country

Hello bloggers! On the llth of September, Wednesday we had a really cool event. We had Cross Country. Everyone in the school participated in it. There were 4 courses. They were: Skipping, soccer goals, obstacle course and running. There was also a little stall where you go and get an ice block and cake. The first one I did was the soccer goals. You had to make at least 25 goals. I got 18 goals. The second item I did was the skipping. We had to skip for 15 mins. While I skipped I watched the others run. It looked so tiring. After that I went to the obstacle course at the playground. It went across the playground and part of the field. When it came to the running I was so nervous. Before we did the running we cheered on the others that were on it first. We also did some stretching. When they were finished it was our turn. We had to do 2 laps.

It goes along the field then across the hill which was so tiring. Then into the bush. Around the pool, up the hill then through the trees. It doesn't sound that long but it was so exhausting. After all of that, we had lunch. At lunch time there was a bake sale on. There was also the sausage sizzle. Nearly the whole school was muddy. Overall it was a fun day and I enjoyed it lots. Here are some photos:

Camp Trip

Talofa bloggers! Right now you are going to read about an amazing trip. It was our Senior, School camp. During it we went to a lot of incredible places.

First of all, I have to start off with all the struggle finding gear. We went to many different places, getting all the bits and pieces for camp. Somehow I stuck with the colour purple. There was a lot of things to get, I couldn't believe I got so much things for only 3-4 days. I was feeling so excited, but nervous. I really missed my family when I went. The bus ride was fun and took really long. For me it did. 

It was so exciting getting on the bus rides because I didn't know where our school was going. It was quite calming and tiring when we were packing. We did a lot of things before coming to the Lodge. Tuesday was a big day, meaning the other days ,might be as tiring as that one. It was real fun getting to have a night with school friends. The different places we went to was INCREDIBLE. One of my favourite places was the Hamilton Gardens. It was so beautiful. Another was Huka Falls. The water was a lovely blue but it flowing wildly. There were many other places such as: Mt Ruapehu, AC Baths, The Crossing Backpackers/Lodge and the Edmund Hillary walkway. Anyways, the lodge was big, and had a lot of hallways. When you first come in there would be a hallway to your left, then after a couple of more step there be a hallway to your right. If you are wondering, your walking in a hallway. The one on the left was the one where most of the teachers and parents slept. The one on your right is where all the girls slept. A few rooms after you'd find the hallway with all the boys cabins. My room number was No. 29. 

The best place out of all was Mt Ruapehu. There was snow everywhere you looked. The boots were really heavy and it was hard to walk around in them. Inside the cafes it was warm but it felt to warm because I was in so much layers on. During our time at the slopes, we went sledding. After we went all the way down there was like a escalator that leads back up. They call it the Magic Carpet. It was really fun on the slopes and I enjoyed it lots. 

Check out 2 of the slideshows that I did.

I hope you enjoyed reading and got all the information about camp. 

See you later bloggers.

Camp Emotions

Mt Ruapehu Emotions

Hi bloggers! Today my blog post is gonna be all about my camp feelings. So, on Tuesday the 20th of August is the day we are going to camp! We come back on Friday the 24th of August. 

Right now I feel so excited because I'm going to be skiing at Mt Ruapehu. I've never skied before but I've touched snow. I also feel really nervous. It's because I'm gonna be away from my family for 3 nights and 4 days. That would be the longest time I've been away. Worries are also added to that list. I'm worried that I will keep slipping on the mountain or get hurt. We are going to many places too. One place that would really push me to my limits are the mountains. I've always wanted to ski before. My brother has. But I'm too scared to ski because I always think I'd let go of the pole or I don't have enough layers on so I would get really cold. I have a few things that I would gain from going on camp. I might gain confidence in going places without people from my family. I usually go with at least 1 or 2 family members. I'm pretty sure I'd gain trust. I'd trust my friends to keep up with me or my leaders to help me understand what we have to do. I'd also trust the teachers or members from the Crossing Backpackers.  I really think I'd feel exhausted after camp. I'd feel relieved too and happy. Happy to see my family. And that's all my feelings gone, into this blog post. 

I hope you enjoyed reading. Bye

Student Led Tool kits

Talofa lava bloggers! Today, I'm going to talk about something I did on Tuesday, the 28th of May. I got chosen to go with a bunch of other students to the Student Led Tool kits. Well, if you're wanting to know what Student Led Tool kits is, I'll tell you. First of all, the Student Led Tool Kits I went to was only for students from an Ako Hiko School (but not the whole entire school went). Student Led Tool kits is a lot of fun! The activities they prepared for us were amazing. There were heaps of activities such as: how to make your own Kahoot's, droning, making movies and animations, doing art on Google drawings and some more.

There were 3 sessions. Each session had 4-6 activities. In the first session, I finally got to know how to make my own Kahoot. My Kahoot was about animals because I know a few facts about animals. For my second session, I did the same activity! But I really liked it because I got to do another one. For my last activity in session 3, I got to make an animation or movie. We had to make a video and a slide show. We had to link the video onto the slideshow. I had an awesome day. Take a look at the photos down at the bottom. 

Some people on their chrome books

Zoe and Chimay working together

Bye bye bloggers!!!