Friday 26 May 2017

The Conquered Fear

The Conquered Fear By Libby

Putrid smells tickle my nose. I cringe as I conceal my nose from the disgusting smell. There is was. Lying on the tray waiting for it’s surgery. The large knife gave my skin a fright making goosebumps crawl up my back, as shivers creep down my spine.

The razor-sharp knife sunk slowly into the deer’s liver. Blood leisurely oozed out, the blood was a rich dark red velvet blanket covering the tray. A small deer brain caught my eye, it was fascinating looking at what I knew was inside of me!

The wind pipe extending out of the heart was a rattlesnake's rattle at the end of the squiggly line-like animal. The knife was inserted. There was a crackling type sound as the knife slits through the windpipe.

There was crusted blood sprawled across the tray even before I used it! The tray smelt absolutely fetid. It was there… a cow’s heart lying in front of me. The latex gloves were handed out, I didn’t want to dissect, but I was lucky there was a spare glove handed out with the rest of my group’s gloves. There I was conquering my one of my fears. I with a sharp scalpel cutting away at the massive heart💖!
This wasn't a heart, but it was one of the most interesting parts of the cow's body!

Tuesday 2 May 2017

The Treaty Of Waitangi

Kahikatea team have been studying the Treaty Of Waitangi with  Mrs Strathern, and we made videos of us sharing what we have learnt. We were also allowed to share about history in Pirongia, My group and I consisted of Dareeya Mickell, Lexi Holdem and me. We did a mixture of the treaty and Pirongia's history. We did a spectacular walk around Pirongia, finding lots of facts


Here's the slideshow of our information on the Treaty Of Waitangi, and a photo:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AHMd66V-3xg3OXKqk3RqD_KRsV26L-Gvq0-ExPdiCJo/edit#slide=id.p
Photo from Pirongia Heritage Museum

Swimming Recap Term 1 2017

Breaststroke, freestyle and backstroke! Room nine have been learning these three strokes for the past term. For most of our swimming time, we were practising for the most nerve racking sport for me... Swimming Sports! When we had whole Kahikatea swimming practice we would practice as if we were actually competing. BOOM! his bellyflop/dive was a big bomb exploding, it drew my attention from talking while waiting for the nine-year-old girls to go.

Mrs Strathern has taken some videos of room nine swimming.

Koru Art

Room 9 has recently created beautiful Korus. All the colours are coordinated towards our house colours. I am in Tui, so my Koru will be green.

Here are some pictures of some really awesome Korus pinned up on our classroom walls.


Isla's Koru means at the top: Family and New Beginnings, on the left and right it means Strong, at the bottom there are 2 familes.