E.O.T.C On Wednesday Night

E.O.T.C Wednesday Night

Sleepover

On wednesday we went to Nga Taonga and Te Papa but on wednesday night we had our year 5 and 6 sleepover at school in the hall. We had to go home and have dinner and then bring our gear to school and choose a spot in the hall to sleep. When nearly everyone had arrived we played games outside and everyone got split into 2 groups to either play non stop cricket or another game. Once we played those games we stayed inside for a bit and had a snack. My spot was at the front of the hall on the side and my cousin Tanika and my friend Warda put their mattresses next to mine because I was in between them. After that we played quiet games like jenga and cards and also cluedo for a bit. Then we watched a movie called Flubber. Then we had another snack and watched more of the movie.

Half way through the movie we stopped to play spotlight outside in the dark. The spotlight we played wasn’t normal spotlight because Miss Smith said that it was Rangikura style. Not all of us played spotlight because some people thought that it wasn’t dark enough and some others just didn’t want to. Then the teacher blew her whistle to call everyone back. After everyone came inside some people got ready for bed. My friend Rhiannon was the first one asleep.

Now it was lights out .People didn’t go to sleep straight away because people were talking. I had to stay awake because of my cousin and friend, they were talking all night and they were listening to me in my sleep. Apparently I sleep talk. I thought that was very weird of them to do that.

After we had our sleep we had boot camp outside on the field. We had to run back and forwards from cones and do zig zags around cones.

By Wanita

E.O.T.C On Wednesday

E.O.T.C Wednesday

Te papa & Nga taonga

On wednesday we had are hui and got assigned to are team, then we got on the bus and our first stop was Te Papa. Like Tuesday we got split into groups and did activities around Te Papa. My team leader's name was Jasmine but she said we could call her jazz. Before we even did any activites and left we had to put our bags in a metal container.

Now we could get started. When we got up the stairs, this man said “ are you foxton primary school” and we replied with a “no” then he wished a good day to us and left the reception desk he was at. Jazz led us into the gallipoli exhibition to look at the artwork that was done. When we were in there we saw all types of war dates and a small hut with a bed stand with letters on it. When we got out of the exhibition we started our activities and we went to draw a tattoo on this man and to draw a tapa cloth from samoa, then our next step was to find out words in pacific cultures and they were Hawaii, Cook island, Samoan and Māori. After that we had a look for more clues on are sheet and then we got called back to get our bags.

On the way back we went on the bus again to head to our next destination.

Nga Taonga

Nga Taonga was our next destination. We were there  to learn about the history of wellington and porirua back in the olden days. While we were there we learnt about films and how they made them. We also got to see slide shows and short films. Nga Taonga showed a video of people giving their opinion of wellington and most of them said that they didn’t like it when they first came to wellington but now they think it is awesome. Me and my friends sat in the very first row at the front. Most of the films were in black and white but we did get to see som coloured films as well.

After Nga Taonga and Te Papa we went back on our bus to go back to school and do a reflection of our day.

By Wanita

E.O.T.C On Tuesday

E.O.T.C Tuesday

Survival Day

The next day after the Aotea Lagoon on Tuesday we had our pohutukawa survival day. The survival day was made up of 5 events and was spread into classes and the hall. Before we went into our first activities we had to separate into our groups.

There were 5 events. The 5 events were games in the hall, cards and dices in room 8, first aid kit learning in room 17, survival needs in room 10 and making posters of what we need during an emergency in room 11.

We got told where to go and went there. The group I was in got to go in the hall first and others got sent to the classrooms.

The games in the hall were communication and teamwork games and the others were just talking about what we needed in an emergency and if someone got hurt.

The second one we went to was the activity I thought was the most important  because we got taught how to elevate an injury and how to put on a bandage if you have sprained a foot or arm.

The third  activity my group went to was in room 8. In room 8 we had a choice to make a fitness dice or a thank you card to someone special.

I choose to make a card to my uncle who I  just met.

The fourth one I went to was fun because we had to make a poster on what we needed and we could design our big heading in the middle and it had to stand out so that people could understand what our poster was about.

The very last activity for us was in room 10. The focus in room 10 was to really know what was important and wasn’t. We got split into groups and got given 15 cards to sort out. We had to sort out the cards into the most needed and the not necessary items on the cards.

By Wanita

  

E.O.T.C On Monday

E.O.T.C Monday

Aotea Lagoon

On Monday we walked to Aotea lagoon. We had to walk beside a construction site so that meant that we had to keep crossing roads.

We walked in pairs and buddies but some people had very large groups. I walked with my friends. When we got there we found a spot a couple of steps away from the big lake in the middle of the lagoon.We sat down and we waited for instructions. The first instruction was to sit down and listen to the teachers, the second instruction was to eat and drink and the last instruction was to listen to the teachers a bit more and then everyone could run off into the playground.

The first game I played was with my friends and we played busted on the big spider web that was red and blue. The first one to be in was my friend cousin Tanika, we were climbing as fast as we could but my other friend named Warda got tagged because she was too slow. Warda was trying so hard to climb it but before she tagged anyone I quit the game because I was tired.

I started walking around the lagoon park doing nothing but then my friend yells out to me “ WANITA!!!!!!” I quickly turned around as if I thought someone was following me but in fact there was someone following me. RONITA!!! She asked me if I wanted to play this game how you had to go down these ropes with black round seats spread out on them. I said “ ok” then we went up to the deck where we were starting and then my other friends came. Warda, Tanika and Rhiannon. It was a competition that who could get to the bottom the fastest and who had the fastest time. Ronita went first and she took 10 seconds, then Warda went down and had a time of 20 seconds, then Tanika went down and took 3 minutes and 45 seconds, then I went down and it took me 1 minute and 30 seconds because I am scared of heights and last of all Rhiannon and she had a time of 10 seconds exactly like Ronita. We kept doing it because it was fun but after awhile we stopped because it got boring. Warda’s parents came down to see her so  we went with her to say hi.

After that we played normal tag around the park. We were running up to the bridge and we went down the slide to run away from warda. I quickly ran out of breath and stopped playing the game.

I went back to the spot we were at and played tug of war and jump rope. We randomly split into groups and tried as much as we could to get it half way but our team lost. Then we played jump rope and Rhiannon won because she was the last one standing.

Then we walked back to school and Warda taught me Urdu and I taught her Māori. It was so hard because we had to walk up a massive hill and a short one.

At the end of the day we were lying on our class floor and moaning about the big walk back to school, but not all of us were on the floor because some of us were at are desks.

By Wanita

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Early Maori

Early Māori

On the 2nd of November Whaea Toni came into our class and she taught us about the early Māori. We learnt about the resources that they used in those days and some of them are bone , shells , harakeke (flax), raupo, toi toi, leaves, branches, leather and sticks. The resources that were used were used wisely because they couldn’t afford to waste the resources. We also learnt about the bigger things they used to survive and they are called waka’s, fire, weapons, tools and food also they gathered, fished and harvested.

In the lesson are main focus was:

What Was Technology About

-meets a need / problem

- invention by design

- practical resources/material

- innovation and adaption

-great ideas and change.

Other things we learnt was about something called a wahakura that she made for her mokopuna. We also learnt how the Māori people used to travel back and forwards. They used to walk from Wellington to Auckland on bare feet but some had sandals made of cabbage tree and used them to walk through the bushes and that made them part bush Māori.

This is a moa but unfortunately they are extinct.

What I found interesting is that their were many more uses for harakeke then just tying things and also I liked the part how she told us about the process of how to make a wahakura and that if you want to make one you will need 60 pieces of harakeke to tie and weave around the wahakura.

 This is a Māori house from the olden days and as you see they are different to are different to our in these days because they don’t have houses like us in our days.

These are Māori weapons also known as patu’s. They are used to hit enemies and to battle other people.

After she taught us about the technology of the early Māori and about the wahakura she had to leave. I think that it gave me a bit on what they actually needed to survive and that you don’t need internet to have

Technology. Overall I enjoyed it and was very interested in it because it could be very help full to me in my other learning.

By Wanita.