What Now

 What Now

At 5:45 on Sunday morning I was being woken up by my dad because I was going to be on the What Now Show at Shantytown. I was really excited to play games and get foamed on the show. My brother and I were getting picked up by Amanda Hannahs mum and we were also taking Mylah. They wouldn’t let anyone in the gates before 7:00am and after 7:15am. 

Once we were in we waited at the train station for the What Now crew. When Erin (A Presenter) and her crew Morgan (A director), Matt (A cameraman) and another Matt ( Who did props) came to the train station they introduced themselves and told us about what was going to happen that day. The first thing we did was go on the train and Erin introduced on TV that she was in Shantytown with students from Karoro school. 

We finished that and had only a few minutes to get to where we were going to live next. Everytime we finished a cut Erin would get into a different dress. Then she asked Billie W, Olive, Indi and Seth what they liked about the West Coast and we sang happy birthday to Lily because it was her birthday. The crew chose 5 students to play Say It Don’t Spray It outside the fire station. 

Say It Don’t Spray It is a tongue twister game and if you don’t say the tongue twister properly you get foamed. The people that were chosen were Emma, Jordyn, Mea, Lucy and Zade. Jordyn was out first then Lucy, then Zade and then Mea. Emma won the game and won bottles of gunge and a ball but she still got foamed. It was really funny watching people get foamed.

Next we went gold panning. I didn’t get any gold but Jack T and a few other people did and they were allowed to keep it. Morgan told us to go to the movie theater next and we had to do some acting. He told us to go in really excited and then come out disappointed and angry. We didn’t see it but they played a movie with really bad acting that they made the day before.

Now it was the part everyone was waiting for apart from Mrs Newton, it was time for her to get gunged. Erin asked her questions that were about Māori words. When she got a question correct we got foamed but when she got one wrong we got to throw a ball at a target and it hopefully hit and the gunge will fall on her. Mrs Newton got the first three questions correct and then she got one wrong and Ilish hit the target and Mrs Newton got gunged. 

The last part was the funnest Erin foamed everyone and there was foam everywhere, people were rolling on the ground in the foam making foam angles. While the kids were having fun with the foam the adults and teachers that were there were busy getting the bags out of the church so we didn’t make a mess.

I thought that being on the What Now show was super fun but I wish that there were more games so that more people could join in and be on camera more.

Whakatauki

 For te wiki o te maori we were learning about what whakatauki is. A saying and the saying we were doing was Mauria te pono/believe in yourself. Here is my work I did with Indi and Olive about our whakatauki. 

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SSR Short Novel

 Today I read a short novel, it was called Dunger. It was about a boy and girl called William and Melissa, they are siblings. My favourite part of the book was when they found out that they weren’t going to Queenstown and found out that they were going to their grandparents bach, and also when they found out at the bach they had to help their grandparents clean and repair. My favourite thing about the book was that it had some humour in it. 

Wild Things

Lake Daniell

 Lake Daniell 

On Wednesday the 9th of September Room 8, Ms Kemp and 10 parents went on a spring tramp to Lake Daniell for the William Pike Challenge.  Lake Daniell is in Lewis Pass on the Southern Alps. As preparation for the tramp we learnt about the dangers of the beech forest, hypothermia, and “Leave No Trace”. Leave No trace means plan ahead and prepare, travel and camp on durable ground, pick up your rubbish, leave what you find, minimise the effect of fires, respect the environment and animals in it, and be considerate of others. 

We first had to come to school and check we had the correct gear for tramping. Then we got into our car groups; my car group was Wairini, Summer, Rachel (Summer’s Mum) and I. When we got to the Marble Hill Camping Ground my classmates and I got together and then we started walking. At first when I was walking I was talking with Billie H and Wairini, but after the first stop I walked with Indi and Olive and talked with them. The walk is mostly flat but it has a few small hills. At the lake was the Kōhanga Atawhai-Manson Hut. 

The first thing that I did when I got to the lake was go and look inside the new hut with Indi, Olive, Summer and Wairini. The hut had a big chalkboard wall that was filed with peoples names and I found a spot to put mine. We went and looked inside the rooms with the bunks and then went and signed the hut book. I went and had some lunch and then went on the jetty to look at the lake. 

On the way back from the lake I went at the front with Indi and Hamish for 30 minutes then we stopped for people to catch up and after that stop I walked the rest of the way by myself because I was walking fast but not as fast as the people at the front. 

When I had finished there were people finished already and they had found a rope swing and I was watching but didn’t go on it because I was too tired. After everyone had finished the walk we had a talk and then we drove home.

I thought that the tramp was really fun and I really enjoyed walking and laughing with my friends and also looking at the new hut with them too.  

SSR School Journal

 Today I read three fiction articles from a school journal. My favourite one was called Sniffer Dog, it was about a dog called Isaak that works at the airport. He is a detector dog, that means he goes through the airport sniffing the bags and trying to find things like fruit and plant material. The book also said that Isaak is a beagle and beagles are good for this job because they have an excellent sense of smell and are small, friendly dogs.

SSR School Journal

 Today I had to read at least three non-fiction articles/stories in a school journal. My favourite story that I read was called The Plum Tree. It was about a group of kids that are scared of a lady that lived on the corner of their street and they called the lady a witch. She had a plum tree and the kids would have competitions on who could get the most plums before getting yelled at. It was two of the girls' turn and they were in the tree and the lady came out, the lady let them carve their names into the tree, the lady said it reminded her of her mokopuna and asked them to get some plums for her. Ever since then the girls are allowed to go up whenever but not their friends.