About camp

Last week the year 5 and 6's went to Camp Kaitawa. Every day we did fun activities, I will write and tell you what we did.

Monday

On Monday we got ready to go to camp - we left at 9.00 am, we took vans. I was in van number 1. 10 people can fit in each van - I'm going to show you who was in my van: Sky, Leo, Jack F, Jerome, Vaughn, Sage, Riley CT, Ashle, Jasmine and me.


Tuesday
On Tuesday we went kayaking at Lake Wherowhero. To get there from Kaitawa you need to just go down the hill opposite the way you come up to camp.  When we go into a kayak Miss Hill told us to line up in a row so we can run across the kayaks and jump into the water.  

Wednesday
On Wednesday we did the confidence course. First we had to jump over two logs with your hands on the x, this is a wooden triangle with half logs to slide down, then a wall to climb over and a wall that had little holes to help you, monkey bars, a log to walk across to get to the cargo net then the wire bridge. 

Thursday
On Thursday we went to Onepoto caves, we had to split up in to two groups. One group went kayaking and the other group went caving.

Diamante pome

WALT entertain the reader - Diamante are diamond-shaped poems ‘that contrast’ two nouns.

Success Criteria:

Step 1:  Think of two nouns that are complete opposite of each other.  Write one on Line 1 and the other on Line 7.

Step 2:  On Line 2, write two adjectives that describe the noun on Line 1.

Step 3:  On Line 3, write three “-ing” words (verbs) that relate to Line 1.

Step 4:  On Line 4, write a short phrase about line 1 and line 7.

Step 5:  On Line 5, write three “-ing” words (verbs) that relate to Line 7

Step 6:  On Line 6, write two adjectives that describe the noun on Line 7.

Step 7:  On Line 7 you will have your noun that you thought of in Step 1.

Winter

Frosty, bright

Skiing, snowball fighting, sledding

Icicles and snowflakes, family holidays

Swimming, suntanning, sweltering

Hot, sunny

Summer

Now have a go at writing your own diamante poem.  

Truck

Big, scary

Crushing, crashing, flipping

Bumping cars...driving slow

Turning, skidding, driving

Small, fast

Car

Dog

Small, fast

Barking, sniffing, growling

Fast at running...sleeps all day

Purring, scratching, meowing

Fluffy, cute

Kitten

Car

Slow, tiny

Crashing, turning, driving

Using petrol...good for racing

Jumping, flipping, stunting

Fast, powerful

Motorbike

Snail

Slimy, harmless

Sticking, eating, hiding

Moves slow all day...slithering about

striking, killing, searching

Deadly, praying

Snake

Cinquain Poem

Purpose: to entertain

Success Criteria

1. Subject
2. 2 adjectives (describing words) to tell about the subject
3. 3 verbs (interesting doing words) ending in ‘ing’ that also tell about the subject
4. A phrase to tell about how the subject feels or what it does
5. A word describing the first line or choose another adjective

Dog

Hungry, thirsty  

Running,sleeping,falling

It loves getting hugs

Puppy

The learning powers I used were perseverance and imagining.

Project Based Learning

Step One Selecting a context	Lost in the Bush Save the Bush Fun in the Bush
Step Two & Three Create questions and identify one broad question	What was your broad question? How can we protect ourselves?
Step Four What did I already know about my question	What did I already know about my question? Make a bow and arrow so we can protect ourselves Make a spear to protect ourselves Make a bear trap                                  Make a trap so we can protect ourselves Make a barricade Make a quick escape
Step Five Design your creation	A F๐x traр. I designed a fox trap because it would help the native plants and animals that are in the forest and yourself from bad animals like foxes and possums and some other bad animals too.
Step Six Build your creation
Step Seven Reflection	How did it go? Good because we finally got the net on the poles. What went well? Pretty much just the net because that was the only thing. What was a challenge? Putting the net on the 4  poles with the rope.
Step Eight Evaluate	What would you change next time? I would change the idea. What would you improve next time? I would  improve the rope tying that I did on to the pole.
Feedback - ask some other children what they thought?	Hunta=It was cool how you sitid up the net. Logan T= You and Leo worked well together and tried to tie the net to the pole with rope. Nathan= It's good if you’re caching pests. Blake=It was pretty good, a pretty good trap. Jayden=I think that your project was quite cool.

Camp Omatua

We took a nice photo at camp on the stairs.	When I went down the river on a kayak I shut my eyes because I was going really quickly.
This is Hunter,Nathan and me at the river.	This is me in my cardboard car in  the drive in movie.
This is on the top of my cardboard car.   The reason that we made a cardboard car is to watch a movie so we can sit in them while watching the movie and it was called Paddington.	This is the front of my cardboard car.

Maths Train

Marshall Report