History of Moana

 On Tuesday last week Kevin Klempel came into our class and taught us about the history of Moana and I got lots of facts. Here is some of them: 

• It took 30 days to get to Christchurch from Moana because they didn't have cars.
• There were lots of swamps in Moana back then.
• People from Christchurch started coming in the 1940's and most of them were fishermen.
• The Arnold Dam was built because power was getting used more.
• At the bottom of Lake Brunner there were lots of sawdust from the sawmill.
• The Arnold dam was built by the Greymouth power board. 

Did you learn something about the facts that I have here?

Topic Task.

 For Topic last week we did three activities and I'm going to talk about the ones I enjoyed. First we did people smart. In people smart we had to complete a challenge and in that challenge we had to get cups that were filled with water onto a tray only using one leg and one hand. It took our group a while to figure it out but we ended up getting the hang of it. The next challenge we did was get as much water as we could into the bucket. We had a shovel and a bucket. So we went to the bottom of a hill and dug holes, and then stomped on the edges of the holes so that the water would flow through. Then we got heaps of water in the holes and used cups to get the water and fill the bucket. This challenge was very fun.

What did you do for your Topic?

Topic

 In our topic we are learning about water. We had to do three topic activities spread throughout the week but i'm only going to talk about the ones I enjoyed doing. My group did the body smart and in the body smart we had to make up a dance to the song 6 months in a leaky boat. The song was about the early settlers coming to New Zealand. We had to share our dance to the other groups and it went well. The next activity was the book smart. When you do the book smart you read out of the journal and I learnt that water vapour is gas and when it gets cooler it turns back into water, that is called condensation. Then we did an experiment and in the experiment we tipped water onto the concrete and we saw how it started disappearing because of the sun. 

What did you learn reading my blog?

What I'm looking forward to in Term 2

This term I'm looking forward to the sports that we are going to do. This term we're doing handball for our sport. I really like it because its a new sport and its a mixture of Basketball and Netball, and I'm good at Basketball but I'm not very good at playing Netball. So I get to learn a new sport and new rules. We had to learn the passing skills which was fun. That's what I'm looking forward to in Term 2.

What are you looking forward to this term?