Quail Island/Otamahua

On Wednesday the 25th of October all the year 8s went to Quail Island/Otamahua instead of going to Picton where we were supposed to go for a camp but we couldn't go because of the earthquakes. Quail Island/Otamahua is about a 10 minute ferry ride from Lyttleton/Ōhinehou harbour.

What Quail Island/Otamahua used to look like

Quail Island/Otamahua was used for many different things such as a leprosy colony, a leprosy colony is where people used to have to live if they had leprosy.This is because back then in the old days people used to think if you touch or come in contact with someone with leprosy you would get it. This island also has a place called The Ships Grave Yard. The Ships Grave Yard is where everyone would just dump their boats when they didn't want them anymore because they were broken or other things.

This trip links to our learning because our kete is Kaitiakitanga which is about guardianship so by visiting Quail Island/Otamahua we get to see how some volunteers are trying to help save and regrow native plants and animals. 

Some successes that the volunteers have been able to do are make some native birds be able and come and live on this island. They have also made this island pest free and rubbish free.  They have also started planting native trees and plants to provide the right habitat for native animals and birds.

Some problems about Quail Island/Otamahua is that its going to be hard to keep this pest free and rubbish free as the more people visit the more likely chance that their is going to be rubbish and with low tides the pest can easily run across the mud flats.

I thought the trip to Quail Island/Otamahua was pretty good and I probably would go there again if I didn't have to stop every 2 minutes and talk in a group.

Here are some photos from the trip:

This has no effect just a normal photo that I don't know what happened :)

The Culture of Theater

Mime:
Mime is creating illusion with use of the body

1. Isolation of body parts

2. pulling faces

3. eye-hand-co-ordination

4. showing weight & quality

5. showing length

6. maintaining the illusion 

Kaitiakitanga

Meaning: Guardian and protection.this is a way people protect and manage the environment.


 Ways I can contribute to it are: Picking up rubbish and not littering as well as not wasting water  because are land is important to us so we have to protect it and with people littering and wasting stuff it is going to get worse especially since we are starting to go through climate change.

Kete Breakfast

Last Thursday 8Gb held a breakfast club to raise awareness for those who go without breakfast. Reflect on your Individual and group successes and room for improvement

Questions:
What was my role: Head chef
What did I learn for the experience? How to make waffles
How did I contribute to the success? I made breakfast for the people
What else could I have done? Helped more with everything else
What else could I have done to improve the breakfast? Tried harder
Did my personality suit my role? I guess so as I like cooking and I am a good leader.
Where were there weaknesses? When people didn't turn up to cook so we didn't have enough time to make everything before the people got there

Gymnastic

I like gymnastics because we don't get to do it often and when we do we have proper equipment.
Today in gymnastics I jumped over a cone backwards. I thought that this was quite scary to start off with because i thought that i might fall off. The thing I enjoyed most was the floor because I liked the springs in it as this was a proper mat.

Sentces

Touch: I guessed everything first try
Smell: I guessed everything in under a minute
Taste: I ended up getting some foods mixed together like Vegemite and cheezels but i still got them all correct
Feel: I guessed everything I got in less than 2 seconds

P.E Circuit

Today in P.E we did a new thing called a fitness circuit where you go all out o each activity and then take the number down 15% so you end up with 75% of the total that you did.After we had done that we had to add run but not to do yet. When everyone had writ down what we had gotten we went outside to time ourselfs doing it three times to see what we get because next time we will do it again to try beat our time. Here is what I got
1. Stride Jumps 30
2. Push Ups 11
3. Curl Ups 17
4. Burpees 17
5. Track Jumps 32
6. Run

Total time: 5.25