Trip to Rewa's Village

On Wednesday 23 August 2017 the year, 7&8 Students from Glenbrae School had the opportunity to visit the historical place up on a small hill in Kerikeri called Rewa’s Village. Rewa’s Village is set up to be like a Maori Village before the Europeans came to New Zealand

As we approached the front a man with a Taiaha came walking down the hill coming to greet us, he was our tour guide for the day. After he introduced himself we all walked up the hill together.

After walking up the hill we entered the visitor center we went into a small room full of chiefs from the past, one of the chiefs from the past was our tour guides great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather which was one of the chiefs of their village a long time ago.

Afterwards, we made our way to a view outside where we could see the river and then the tour guide explained to us the story of the river. He told us that one of the chiefs from another part of NZ came all the way to Kerikeri with his warriors to battle their tribe and they were not successful because their tribe's leader got drowned by   Ngāti Rēhia's chief at the time.

Shortly after that story, we went took a short walk down a path to a place you will see in the picture above. So that's where we went and that's where he shared another historical story about his tribe and he was talking about the small house that was there in the right corner of the small land.

Then he explained to us what the small red house was on top of the pole was, he said it was a place to hide food or what they used it for was to hide jewelry and they put it on the long pole because it was out of from land animals and humans.

After that he allowed us to go three places, one was down a hill which leads to a place where a waka was, the next lead to the beach and the last lead to some houses.

Soon after our groups visited all the three places we came back to the same place and we sang a song to the tour guide then he said back to us as a thank you. Then we left the place back up to our vans and drove off.

On our way back to the campsite we stopped at McDonald's to buy some frozen coca - cola then we drove back to the campsite.

Tennis Lesson

Today in the morning my class and I went to the hall for our next Tennis Lesson, for our tennis lesson like last we week we had to have a team, the first step that we had to do was practice our volley up close to the net.

So as we were practicing we moved on to a competition with our team, and what we had to do was that there was a champ and there was an opponent how to get points was by using the skill of volley to get 2 points, and by getting one point is by getting a normal hit.

After that we had to come in and pack-up because the other class was coming in for there lesson. What I learnt better was how to hit a volley to score more points.

Light session with Miss Kay

Today we had a session with our teacher Miss Kay. Our lesson was based on light and what we did first was that there were three stations. The first station was lasers and mirrors, the second one was with  4 papers stuck to the wall and i tiny silver ball that we had to shine on the paper with a flashlight, the last one was the we had a magnifying glass with a paper to shine the light on.

Next we moved on to reading a booklet about light, then we watch a movie about rainbows. After that we watch a movie call the magic school bus. After watching some of it, it was lunchtime so we packed up everything and went back to class.

After a fun break we went back to Miss K’s class to finish the off the day, what we did for the last block was to write a blog post or an information report about what we learnt throughout the day, after the clock struck 2:30 it was time to pack up and head back to class.

It was really awesome today and I learnt lots of cool and new info from today.

Here is a link of to one of the things that we did today and a video that we watched.

:How a rainbow is made

The Magic school Bus

Pictures of light

Financial literacy #3

Today we had our third Financial literacy lesson and the lesson was about being safer with your ids and our things such as Birth Certificate, Passport and your drivers license. Next we had a work sheet to fill out, after we marked it and I got all of them right so as lots if my other classmates.

After that we had three people to act a skit out about identity theft, my partners were Angelica and Mateaki, our skit was set in the NZ Airport. Later on after most of the groups acted there skit we moved on to the last activity which was writing down information about your self like your Name, DOB, Height, Wight, Hair color, Eye color and much more.

After we filled it in our session finished for the day, it was very fun and I learnt a lot about identity thief. I hope the last one will be great to.