NZ artists

Over the past few weeks I have been working on NZ Artists which is part of our time table in Class. We had to pick 3 NZ artists and write A bio about them and have to make a digital replica of our favourite Painting/sculpture/Photo and that is really hard and I haven't finished my digital replica yet but part of that is because it takes a long time. I hope you like my presentation!!

My Camp

Amazing! Wow!
Last week yr 4,5,6 had a camp at Living Springs in Governors bay, Port hills.
We all had to walk 2and a half hours and it was so tiring  but the bus drove us to governors bay and someone called Cindy from living springs was our helper for the next 2 days.
Learning new things along the way we had to walk up a super steep hill and it was really tricky and I was over the top when we got to camp. Then we put tents up and got settled in the we did something called REC, it's where there are lot's of activities you can choose from these were the activities...
Monorail(mini rollercoaster), Mini golf, Trampolines, soccer, and then after wards we all went swimming looking forwards to the waterslide afterwards( I got really muddy) and that was AWESOME!!!
Then dinner and dessert Then The coolest game ever. THE COLOUR GAME. Then bed.

The next day we went to Archery and Air rifle, and also played a game called animal survival. I was really good at air rifle, but not as good at Archery.
Then I did bouldering and it was really fun. bouldering is indoor rock climbing and you don't wear a harness
but it was really fun because we played a game called shark attack there are two sharks and people running around cones and when the instructor says shark attack 1234 then we have to go to the wall and be on the wall and on 4 the sharks touch anybody who is not on the wall. afterwards was yummy lunch which was Nachos mmm delicious. then we went back to camp and had dinner dessert then at 7 we all went to the pool and that was fun. Then people with hair longer than their ears had to get their hair dried and then we went to bed.

Wake up time. In the morning we had to pack and then have breakfast and unpack our tents and have Max a living springs person that talk to us about his country and then we went to the the farm where we got to feed animals, See a cow be hand milked and see how the machine works, eat delicious lunch and ice cream, then we got to see baaabara the sheep be shawn and their fluff is so soft. 
We also got to meet king the dog and ride Horses. Then we said our goodbyes and left on the bus home!!

Jamie Duff

Surprise, surprise! Today we had a surprise by Jamie Duff and got to see his race car. The race cars they use are made out of the lightest metals and the strongest metals e.g. titanium, aluminium. we got to feel the bolts that would go into the car, they felt as if they were plastic. different parts of the race car felt different, for instance some bit of the car felt really slimy. I was excited about this 'MYSTERY PERSON' because I didn't really know who he was but I had heard of him before. I found out that Jamie had grown up around race cars and his dad inspired him and as he grew older at around 16 he was tiny but he as just tall enough to reach the pedals and at his first race people were like ' who is that driving '  and ' no way he's driving that '.I have enjoyed this experience that I had today and it was amazing that people from our school organised this. Here are some photos from Rimu meeting Jamie Duff and his dad!!
We also made it into the newspaper YAHOOO!

P.A.L.

This week I did P.A.L. ( Physical Activity Leaders) training at Lincoln Community Centre. Eight people from my school came. We were taught that if the sun is facing towards the pupils then you have to turn them so you are facing the sun. It was all really learning how to adapt games and things like that. we had to think about the vision we wanted for our own P.A.L. leaders at our school. we got frozen treats on the way back to school which was nice of our principal. there were rotations and group names that have several schools in them. our group was called Mccallum.
here are some photos!!


 

Next week is camp for our yr 4-6. Camp has already been postponed from the fire on the Port Hills but we are thankful it hadn't been canceled. We are having it in Living Springs. I am very excited about it. we are sleeping in TENTS!!!and not cabins :( oh well it will be just as fun as last years camp. We will be bouldering and doing Archery and a couple other things. We will all get to go swimming in a HEATED pool WOW!!
We are there for 3 days wed- fri. we will get photos you will be able to see n next week's blog.