Marae and manamagaroa reserve walk

Yesterday, me, Clayton and my mum were sitting in the bus . First we went to Edgewater college to go in the Marae. We waited  about five minutes.  I thought  they were putting on makeup but I was wrong,  they were setting up, or something like that. The Maori  name for Edgewater is Te taha wai,  I think. 
After the prayers we went into the kitchen. We had orange juice and biscuits.  Clayton finished first then the lady said these four tables go back into the marae to draw the patterns that inspired us. After that our group went into the kitchen to draw our own Koru patterns . I have a,lot of family and whanau, TRUST ME! 
After that we went back on the bus. We still sat in the same places. We went to  the Mangamangaroa  reserve walk  to get inspired by all the leaves and fauna and forestry. When we got to the top we had to run almost a mile back to the bus, but I made it. After that we went back to school. I had a really great time  with my mum and my friends.     

Edgewater Marae trip and Bushwalk S.W.

On 27th of August room 12 and room 14 went to Edgewater Marae, when we got there Mrs.Foot gave us instruction so we could behave inside the marae. The marae lady told us about the marae, what they told us is that the marae is actually our marae. After, we were told to go to the  toilet then we went to the  dining room and have morning tea, we had orange juice and biscuits. After morning tea we started our first activity, we started by learning what Maori people needs to know. After that we started drawing maori patterns on black paper. Later, group 2 came in, at that time we went back to the main room. The marae lady told us about the carvings of the ancestors of maori people. We were allowed to sketch the ancestors. After group 2 came in and sat with us. We sang our school song to the marae ladies and went back to our school bus.

A few minuets later we arrived at the reserve, we had lunch over there. After lunch we started our bushwalk. We saw some cow poop at the start, we had to dodge them on our way to the bush, finally we dodged them, phew! We started our bushwalk. We saw some Somerville students doing cross country in the bush, Suddenly Mrs Foot heard birds singing and told us to be silent. We heard the birds sing, ( to me ) it was pretty good. Later on we carried on walking and again Somerville students were running through us as fast as dogs chasing cats. We saw some plants with funny shapes. When we got out of the bush, we had to dodge cow poop again. Finally we made it to our bus.

The Bush Walk and the Marea ALB

On Tuesday the 27 of August Room12 and Room14 visited Edgewater Marae. In maori they call it Te Taha Wai. When we got there there was a lady welcoming us in. We were in groups, my group was with Miss Rahdu and 15 kids from room 14 and room12. My group did drawing of our ancestors, then we went and did sketching, that was fun. I liked the Marae. After that we had to go on the bus to Mangemangeroa.

Later we went on a bush walk at Mangemangeroa Reserve for a bush walk. We went for inspiration. The Mangemangeroa reserve was near Sommerville  Intermediate . We had our lunch on a really big hill on a blue tarp. Our journey through the trees was awesome. The birds sung a charming song, they were entertaining us with there songs while we were clicking our cameras. My favourite thing was seeing all the wonderful trees and the waterfall, that was fun. When we finished the walk through the bush we went for a run and my friend stept in cow poo, yuck!  It was so muddy I got mud on my legs and my shoes. It was so much fun. Then we had to come back to school and do boring school work.

Mangemangeora bush walk by KJ

On Tuesday the 27 of  August room 12 and 14 went Edgewater college marae. The people at the marae greeted us in to the wonderful marae. We had some morning tea and then started our activities. We started by copying the ancestors on the wall, they were from different places like Tauranga and Chistchurch. The next activity was, we had to draw our family in koru's which was sort of weirdishly hard.

After the visit  room 12 and 14 went to Mangemangaroa bush walk. We went for inspiration for our wearable art. When we first got out all we could smell was cow poo every where. Mangemangeora bush walk  is near Somerville intermediate. We had our lunch on a steep hill  on a tarpaulin. We started our journey into the wonderful bush walk. There was silver fern, mini water falls and green trees which looked like hulk. There were birds chirping away to the other birds, singing songs while we  were clicking with our cameras. My favourite bit was when I took a picture of myself holding my house in my fingers, it was awesome! My least favourite thing was when I dropped my mum;s expensive camera in cow poo. When she saw it in cow poo she wasn't happy! We went back to the bus and left the smell of cow poo behind and went back to school.

Marae visit C.C.

On Tuesday 27th my classroom and room 14 went to Edgewater college marae and in maori they call it Te Taha Wai. We did some fun activities, one of them we made our own kowhaiwhai designs. On the other activity the people at the marae gave us a piece of sheet and we added the patterns from the ancestors and made our own patterns. When I started having fun they said we had to stop. They said a male usally calls us onto the marae but there were no males available so the ladies did. After that we went to the bus and were on another journey to Mangemangaora reserve. When we got there we put out our tarpaulin and had lunch. After 10 minutes we started walking. We started hearing the birds sing, we also saw some tiny waterfalls. We saw some amazing houses next to an estuary that came from Raglan. When we got to the top we could clearly see the gigantic estuary. We  had to climb the fence and then lots of people sprinted up the hill. Then people started stepping in cow poo. My friend dropped his camera in poo. When we got back to the bus I saw a few cows and I really wanted to pat them. Back at school we had to do some boring work..

Book week

We had an author, illustator and editor come and talk to us about making books.
They were very interesting.
We learnt that authors are inspired by their own lives and experiences and that it is probably handy to keep a journal if you are planning to be a writer one day.

Room 12