We Survived Awesome Camp Makahika!

Over the past week the Tararua Team went to Camp Makahika. It was a real challenge but we survived!

Everyone who went to Makahika in Room 8 did the amazing flying fox. It was 170meters long over the river and half of the camp!
We all were able to get wrist bands for the activities that were really challenging.

The High ropes were quite scary because they were twice the size of a 2 story house. You had to climb up and jump off.

When it was Kiriana's turn to go abseiling she found it really scary. About half way up Doug the monster in the abseiling wall caught her shoe and she had to work real hard to get it free. When it was the All-Stars turn we solved this problem by getting Jordan B. to kick the wall.

On the first night Mr Sloan was silly enough to go for a walk in the dark with bare feet. He ended up standing on and kicking a hedgehog.

One of the coolest things of camp was the bush walk and a sleep over in the bush. We went on a really long walk where we learnt how to light fires and make bivouacs. It was really long with heaps of river crossings and MUD! At the end we had to stay at a camp where there was a long drop that really, really, really, STANK!

The Camp was totally awesome!

4000 Hits!

Wow. We did it! 4000 people have wanted to read about what we have done this year!

Our Cool 5-Steps!

Today during reading we were learning to ask questions to help us understand the text better. We were looking at a 'cool' text from CSI (Comprehension Strategy Instruction) about the 5steps scientists use.

Once we read the text we followed the steps they were:

1)Make Observations
We asked a the question what will happen if we sprinkle salt on ice?

2) Form a Hypothesis
We made the prediction that we thought the ice would melt quicker with the salt.

3) Preform the Task
Take 2 saucers of frozen water. Sprinkle table salt on 1 saucer of frozen water.

4) Record the results
We saw the ice melted quicker without salt
we saw the ice with salt stick together
The ice with salt was spikey and lumpy. Like frost on an ice-block or in the morning in winter.

Salt

No Salt

Salt

No Salt

5) Draw a conclusion
The salt helps keep the ice cold and take longer to melt. Our hypothesis was wrong.


The Activity was really enjoyable. As we read we had some questions and they were:

• Do these steps apply to all scientists?
• Why do they use these 5?
• What would happen if we didn't use one?

Another question we have after our experiment was why did the salt do this to the ice?


Maybe you can help us answer these.

The Brick Wall

Today we used the brick wall key to break down the idea that you can't buy anything without money.

Here were our solutions:

• Steal or rob
  
• Inherit through a will
• Barter and Trade
  
• Share
• Give stuff away and receive stuff
  
• Win in competitions
• Christmas, Birthdays, weddings, celebrations
  
• Invent, create, make, grow and build stuff
  
• Beg
• Work for goods
• Find
• Hunting

What can you think of?