CAMP!!!

Last week was one of the greatest experiences of my LIFE! We spent five days up in Tongariro on camp. Although it was a long and hard four hour drive to get up there it was worth it. Some of my favourite activities we did was caving and the flying fox. I enjoyed caving because there were lots of challenges like having to squeeze through tight gaps and not getting to scared of being in such a small area. The flying fox was also AMAZING! It went over a massive river  and trees and had an amazing view. I think it was also really good because there were some people in my group who were scared of heights but everyone encouraged them to do it and when they got back up to the top they said it was the best activity. Something that I found easy was high ropes. I first thought that it was going to be kind of difficult but it turned out to be super easy. My proudest moment was probably when I jumped off the super high bridge into the freezing water, and when I canoed to the camp site in the back of the canoe the whole way there. My favourite moments were in the evenings where we just got to hang around the house and do gymnastics on the lawn. I actually did a lot of gym skills outside that I was proud of.

Group work skills

Over the past 3 weeks we have been doing projects in groups. Mr Cunningham put us into groups of 2 or 3 and gave us a country in the cricket world cup to gather information about and put into a poster and a PowerPoint. I was in a group with James and we were studying West Indies. I think we did really well working together because we had the best PowerPoint presentation in the class and our poster looked really well. I prefer working in a group because people have different things they are good at so the quality of work is higher.

Things I have learned this week

The country I am Studying

The country I am studying is West Indies with James. I have learned that they have won the Cricket World Cup twice - once in 1975 and the other in 1979

Something I have learned about Someone else in the Class

I have learned that Lottie has an allergy to nuts and eggs and we found out how to use an epipen (don't know how to spell it) in case she eats one.

One other thing

I have learned what a box and whisker graph is in math. Only the India math group knows this though because we were the only ones who got taught it.