Orana Park

This Monday 7/8 Bh and 7/8 Tz went on a trip to Orana Park witch is Christchurchs main zoo they have over 400 animals there to see but we weren't just going there to see the animals we went there to talk about climate change with our Orana park instructor when we got there we got into 2 groups with our instructors, then we head of in different directions I was in group two the first animal we saw were the Spider Monkeys they weren't out at the time  so we went pass there cages and saw them threw the window. Then we headed over to the Tigers we only ended up seeing one Tiger but it was still cool to see knowing that there is not many  many Tigers left in the world. Then we went to see the Springbok Springboks, It was cool to see the springboks because I didn't think they where as skinny as they where and it was also cool to see how high they can jump. After that we headed over to the Lions there was 9 Lions in total and they where all family they where all massive we got to see them close up because they where all in a cage together instead of being spread out. After that we went over to the Gorillas and the Orangutans I was most excited to see the Gorillas because I wanted to see how big and strong they were.

Bench Ball

Last week during Hurumanu PE we played Bench Ball but before we started to play Bench Ball we got in to some drills, our drills where 40 star jumps, 20 high knees and 20 laps of the basketball court  then  we got into a quick game of "Sneak up on Granny" to get  ready to play Bench Ball. We played a couple of Sneak up on Granny games and then we got into playing Bench Ball to start of we had two games running at the same time a year 8 game 8Tz verse 8Bh and a year 7 game 7Tz verse 7Bh we each had two games each before we got into the big game which was the year 8's verse the year 7's in the end the game the year 8's ended up winning the game went for nearly half an hour it was really fun  playing Bench Ball because It was my first time playing and I got to learn a new sport. I think I worked successfully with others because I was communicating with them and giving them good passes.
Overall playing Bench Ball was really fun and I would enjoy playing it again.

Cip Stationery Recycling

This week the year 7&8’s are starting a new money fundraiser which is recycling.  We want you to recycle all of our old stationery, every kilo we have of old stationery we send it to a company named Terra-cycle. And every kilo that we send them they give us a dollar back. To support us with this fundraiser instead of throwing your old stationery out bring it to the office and help us raise some money for our school. I recon if we keep putting hard work into this fundraiser we will collect around 15 to 20 KG's. I think with the money that we collect from recycling our old stationery we should put it towards new stationery for our classes. I reckon a lot of the year 7's and 8's will get involved to help the school raise money.

We had make DLO's to get our fundraiser out so we will start to stack up on old stationery. This is my DLO that I made.

Ella West visit

Today in period one we got a surprise the whole of the year 7's & 8's got to sit down and meet Ella West, she came into our school to talk about her books because some of the classes in the year 7 & 8 block have been reading some of her books especially "Night Vision" which is her most popular book. She talked about how she came up with the idea for night vision and how  she set out the setting and how to use sites to create a good setting. She read out us a couple sentences from the book to give us some ideas about the book to get us interested so we would want to read it. She gave us some good tips to use if we where ever wanting to write a book and the process of writing and creating a book. She also showed us her new up and coming book that she has been creating for almost a year the books name is "The sound of my heart" But overall i really enjoyed listening to Ella West.