Tuesday 9 August 2016

Haiku writing

Haiku

Peace, respect freedom
Every country needs peace
                     Be happy live free.


平和、尊敬の自由
すべての国が平和を必要とします
                     無料ライブ幸せになりま

Monday 1 August 2016

My recount

        WALT write within the structure of a recount.                                 Callaghan’s Ridge Tramp
On Friday the first of July I woke up bright and early to pack my bag for a exciting William Pike challenge.This William Pike challenge was a walk called Callaghan’s Ridge Tramp and my whole class and nine adults were gonna do this tramp up and over Callaghan’s Ridge.

Once I arrived at school I sat at my desk while l I listened to Ms Kemp give us the instructions of where to go and what we were going to do when we got there. Eventually it was time to go, I was so excited like it was Christmas. When I hopped in my adults car it was about 8:50am. On the way to Kumara which was where the walk was to start Guy put on awesome music that Sam and Reuben and I listened to.

It took about 20 minutes to get to the start of Callaghan’s Ridge Track.  Once we arrived at the track the student’s waited with Ms Kemp while some adults drove their cars to the end of the track so that when we got to the end of the track we didn't have to turn round and go back other wise it would've been a 8 hour walk and 16 km long.

Finally we started the walk. Ms Kemp said that there was an extra challenge to do, there were markers along the track which  were triangles and if you counted how many there were and it was the right amount you would get a cookie.  Jayden and I were definitely up for the challenge for a cookie! There were a lot of people who wanted the cookie so much but not as much as Jayden and I. It was really hard to see some triangles, some were behind trees so you had to look behind you a lot. Jayden and I both found one where the tree had fallen over and the triangle was under dirt, so they were special ones.

After a while I slipped over! That was no surprise, I knew I was going to but after a while Jayden was next! Then it was Tara, then it was Fern. We were all walking by each other and we all had turns at falling. But wait, I'm forgetting someone else too, Tara’s Mum also fell over. Luckily we were all okay and no one was hurt. Jayden and I were laughing most of the time when we fell over In the end I think I fell over like six times.

Finally it was lunch time .For lunch I had a tasty banana and chips but before our group could eat we had to make an emergency shelter. My group was finished first so while  we were eating we watched everyone else try their best but they didn't succeed until after a while.

After lunch I continued counting the triangles.  At lunch Jayden and I were up to a lot of triangles so we had to remember our number. At the end Jayden and I counted 384 triangles. We were happy that we took up the extra challenge for the cookie. It was worth it though because we won the cookie so it was definitely worth it. I could definitely do that walk, again it is one of my favourite walks.

By Kieran