Kiwi Reflection

After a 40 minute car trip into the heart of Paparoa Range; our class Ruma C emerged through the car door to reveal a two metre high predator free fence, with a Kiwi Sanctuary logo dead centre.

Leading us through the gate, our expert Joe gestured us into a miniature compartment decorated with pictures, signs and short descriptions of her volunteer job. Handling the precious Kiwi feathers and a rough, but smooth egg shell; Joe spoke with genuine love and integrity of the beautiful Kiwi; telling many facts about habitat loss, egg laying and territorial calls.

After our quick chat, we walked with purpose downhill across a creek while Joe scuttled threw the immense gorse to give a health check on one of her Great Spotted Kiwi.

as we waited for Joe to come back with the kiwi, we began exploring their habitat inside the sanctuary. After a few hopeful moments later, we saw Joe walking calmly towards us with something squirming inside a blue bag. As she reached the bottom of the hill she sat down on the damp, mossy grass, rummaging her hands gently inside the bag and out revealed a gorgeous kiwi. Cradling the soft, beautiful creature in her arms, the kiwi squirmed but Joe held him gently as she weighed the bird to check it’s health.

Personal Comment:
Overall our trip to see the Kiwi's was a one in a million event, and to have been standing half a meter away from such an amazing bird, I would love to do it over and over again. Also, thank you to our teacher of Ruma C: Dean, for making this happen.

My Weekly Reflection

I enjoy being told what to do when it is learning at school, but since the learning environment has changed as Dean came to LBS,  I learned to adapt to changes and got on with my SDL. In some ways I do want to go back to being told what to do and when to do it; although I enjoy learning within Dean's perspective of education. Sometimes I do get a bit confused on what to do when I don't have much to get on with, but I end up with a way of getting more work done at the end of it. With next week becoming nearly a full week of just getting on with my own work, no structure at all, I think it would be a good chance to see if I can achieve well in a Self Directed Classroom.

Weekly Reflection

This week I ended up finishing a lot of my activities I had to do and I really feel like I'm doing really well at my Self Directed Learning. Some activities I finished off include my Scratch (coding), completed my maths buddy revision, and I also finished my farm P.M.I. Even though I did have one day off I am still completing a lot of work, I am beginning to enjoy being a Self Directed Learner.

My Weekly Reflection!

My weekly reflection

So far during this whole term, I am really happy with how I am managing my time, and I feel like I am on task doing what I need to do. For the next two weeks, I am really going to work on my Little Red Riding Hood story, and my scratch about Little Red Riding Hood too. The reason my I am working on these things is because every two weeks the class reads a different fairy tale. The first time we read it, it is the modified fairy-tale that we read today, the second time we read it it is the original. I feel as if I am not doing much maths-wise, because I finish my weekly questions quite quick, so instead of that I am going to be working hard for my Khan maths.

My Weekly Reflection

Every two weeks, I am going to do a reflection about the weeks at school. Every time I do this, I am going to set a goal for me to work on, and reflect about what I could have done better.

What I did well this week:
I believe I listened to instructions
Used my time well do get on with work

By the end of next week I want to finish:
My scratch about the three little pigs,
My gruesome version of the three little wolves,
Lastly, I want to finish my Khan Academy 4th grade so I can improve on my maths.


Thank you for taking the time for reading my blog, I hope you comment!

My Weekend Journal!

On Saturday, It was also my golden retriever Shadow's third birthday so we gave him a big yummy treat. Also that day, Mum, Tara and I woke up early to go to Westport for some Cross Country training. We went there for about the whole day and it was really worth while. I have gained lots of confidence and I'm super excited to do some more eventing! On Sunday it wasn't the best of weather, so we didn't do too much that day. I had a great weekend and I can't wait for my next horse event!

My Weekend Journal!

On Saturday Mum, Tara and I woke up early to go to Christchurch for my first ODE for the season. This time, instead of doing 65cm, I decided to push myself to do 80cm. We got their the night before and we did some cross country training near the event, and got Skippy shod at the same time. Once we had finished training, we drove to the place the ODE was held, and started walking my courses and plaiting Skippy up for the dressage. The next day we had a tiny bit of a sleep-in and we got up at 7:30, my dressage was at 12:00pm. whilst we waited I went and walked my courses again, and grazed Skip. Overall, My dressage went really well, and I got a pretty good score too. Next it was showjumping, and I got clear which was really good too! Next it was the hardest part, the cross country. Unfortunately Skippy wasn't in her rhythm when we started, so we had a stop at fence number one. It went great until fence number 10, which was a corner, and she swerved out of that one too. But, we came back into it and she jumped it great. Overall I had three stops out of 21 jumps, and I think that I did really well, because it was quite a hard course compared to the little 65's I'm used to. I can't wait to go again!

My Weekend Journal!

On Saturday Mum, Tara and I went for a horse ride down at Iveagh Bay. Before we went, I begged mum for me to take Shadow, my dog for a walk with us too. She said yes and I told her my plan to take him with me. I would lead him off Skippy, and I had already practiced leading him at home. Once we were on our ride, Shadow was really good and he was really well behaved. We had a great ride and had a fun time. On Sunday Mum, Tara and I went for a bike ride and we took Shadow with us again. After that we went for a swim but it was a bit cold! I had a really fun weekend overall.

Weekend Journal!

This weekend I had another horse event at Kokatahi PC. Tara and I were both entered in pony club classes and I had also entered in the showjumping, 75cm and 85cm. The morning went really well for me, but unfortunately Cricket Tara's pony went lame in one of his front legs and my pony Skippy was the suspect of kicking him in the paddock. Since Tara had to pull Cricket out of the pony club classes I was the only one in my family who was doing the event. Once I had finished the classes, Skippy stayed in the shade while I walked my showjumping course. Once it was time for me to hop on Skippy I walked her around with my friend and her horse and then started to properly work her in. When it was my turn to go and do my showjumping, I did the course over in my head one more time then the bell rang for me to start. I had gotten into the second round but unfortunately she dropped a rail in the jump off, but I came out with 4th place! In the 85cm I lost my way twice but fixed it up just in time, and I was really happy with the round and ended up coming 1st in the 85cm. When we had finished Mum called me over while the judge in my pony club ring was holding my pony. She presented me with a reserve champion ribbon and I was very pleased. After I had finished I asked my friends if they would like to come and have an ice cream with me so I hung out with them for a while and I had heaps of fun. I am very excited to do another event this weekend coming up. Hopefully I do well there too!

First Weekend Journal Of 2018!

My weekend was full of fun, Ferris wheels and horses. On Friday, I left school early to go to Reefton racecourse A&P show.  Tara and I were both entered, Tara was in the pony club classes and I was verseing her in them too, but also was doing the 70 and 80 showjumping. Our pony club classes went really well, I was beating Tara in some (most) and she bet me in a little. I got into the champion paced and mannered, and the competition was so amazing, I was in awe as some of them did the extended trot. I didn't get placed in my champion paced and mannered, but I am still very happy that I got the opportunity to get in and give it a go. As for the champion pony club class, Tara and I both got in! We both got champion, but Tara had Champion, and I got reserve champion. That means that Tara won the whole pony club class, and I got second to her. I had heaps of fun, and there was no poor sports between me and Tara - so now that means we can verse each more often which I'd love to do since it was heaps of fun! This was a great weekend I hope to do more A&P shows in the future!

100 Words Of Summer!

Weekend Journal!

On Saturday I had a big clean up in my room because it was really untidy, but Tara's side of the room is still a complete mess. I made an oobleck mixture, and then I wrapped it up in a plastic bag-like ball but then the bag broke and the blue food coloring went everywhere. On Sunday I rode Skippy down in the arena and did a couple of angles and bounces. After that we fed them bale age and their hardfeeds, then we popped on their covers for the night. After that Tara and I decided to go down the bush track with Shadow and we ended up playing Hide and seek, and Shadows really good at it. Tara and I then had stick-wars, I was queen stickness, and Tara was stickity-ness. It ended up Tara chasing me down the hill, I screaming her to stop, because she was chasing me with a stick with two really sharp points from a gorse bush. She kept chabbing me and We decided to have a stickness and stickity-ness tournament on the concrete, because Tara wanted to rule the land of sticks and take my place of Queen. I ended up running inside because I was scared of her. That was my weekend!

Short Reflection of ShortStreetLand Ad

For The Past three weeks, we have been recording, acting out, and perfecting our ads. First off we chose our groups, I was in a group with Tylar, Lucy, Kahi, Breagh, Emily. We decided to do a premier for a TV ad Shortstreetland - we got our inspiration from Shortland Street. Here is our official ad: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR7M3mx_jxA

What went well:

• I liked how we worked well as a team
• The camera skills were great, on the perfect angle.
• We used costumes and props that make sense to the ad
• It was most definitely dramatic as we expected
• I liked how we used different areas to suit the scene. 

What we could do better next time:

• Next time I think we could speed up the ad
• Next time ad our voices into the clip
• Make the ad make sense for people who have never seen the tv show, Shortland Street
• Next time use our time wisely
• We could make decisions as a team next time, not just the leader]

Thank your Miss J for letting us use the areas of the school. 

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Rainbow Ute Investigation

Home Links Wk 6

Weekend Journal!

On one of the weekend's nights (I can't remember which!) there was a big thunderstorm and it woke me and my mum up, but my dad and sister Tara on the other hand are heavy sleepers and they kept on snoring. On Saturday I did some baking and made vanilla cupcakes for the neighbors since we were going to their house for dinner. We had steak pie and lots of veggies. Then on Sunday I went to my rep hockey training and it poored down. I couldn't do much since of my broken arm, but I helped collecting the balls and warming up the goalie.

Weekend Journal!

On Saturday Tara, Mum and I went for a big 2 hour ride around Iveagh Bay. I took Shadow ( the cutest dog), Mum took Stormy her white pony, and Tara took a dun pony called Cricket. As soon as we took Shadow out of the boot of the car, I decided to let him off his lead to chase the ducks or something. But when I let him off; The cute - no - cheeky dog sprinted the opposite direction and ran down to the cars next to the opening to the Te Kinga walk. I had to sprint after him, Trying to persuade him to come back to the float, but he kept running. When I found him, he was running round in the water, waiting for a stick to be thrown. I walked him back, attached the lead again, and then by the time we got back, mum had the horses ready to go. Although the start of the walk didn't go to plan, He was a really good boy on the lead.

Weekend Journal!

On Saturday I didn't do much. Tara and I watched a couple of movies since it was the night before her 9th birthday. On Sunday she woke up and opened her presents; Pony reins, some earrings, and one other thing I forgot! After lunch time, Mum and Tara decided they wanted to go riding. I would usually go riding with them, but I couldn't because of my broken arm so I took Shadow for a walk with them instead. It was a pretty fun weekend.

Weekend Journal

On Saturday Tara and I went to the movies Despicable Me 3 while mum went grocery shopping. Tara and I thought it was really funny. On Sunday I had under 13' hockey training and my last Music Concert since my teacher is moving away. It was quite tricky to go to my hockey training while the concert was on since my hockey training was at four, and the concert was till three to over five o clock. I made it to training, got into my sport clothes, then after it was finished I zoomed over to the concert, and played with my friend Honor. It was a really fun day. I'm looking forward to my 3 day Equestrian Clinic that I'm doing in the first week of the holidays.