Meila, Tiarne and Pip's Video Progress

For Genius Hour we have been making a video about horses so we can educate people around them! Check it OUT!

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Unique Prezi

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Here is our Prezi on being Unique.
Hope you enjoy.

By Pip, Meila and Theo.

Animals deserve to be free

Zoos are really more a people thing than an animal thing. People love going to zoos but do think animals like living there?

Animals should not be kept in cages!
They were born to be wild so why don't we let them. People have plucked them from their homes and their freedom to live in cages. How would you like it if you were locked in a cage being stared at pointed at and laughed at all day.

Animals should be able to express normal animal behavior. They should be able to choose their meals and their mates. We have made them tame so if we were to return them to the wild they wouldn't survive. Because they can't hunt and they don't know how behave in certain situations such as when they need to fight off a predator.

It cost's a lot to keep the animals happy, healthy and clean. If the animals were in the wild we wouldn't have to worry about that. We could use the money to build a safari park where animals can roam wild and free but people can still visit them and get close to them.

Animals deserve to stay wild and free so why don't we let them? 

Mum

Her skin is tanned from a life outdoors and her green eyes are full of kindness. Blonde curly hair springs from her scalp like spaghetti. Ripped blue jeans cling to her legs like a monkey to a tree, although she is tall and skinny she is strong and powerful. Her feet are covered by muddy worn working boots, clearly loved. When she walks her arms swing by her sides and her steps are long and springy.

Five Star Horse Recipes

Hi, I have made a blog called Five Star Horse Recipes.
You can find it here.

The River

The stream cascades down the rocks
The sunlight plummets from the sky leaving a golden rash across the water
Rocks smeared in alge dance underneath your feet
The water shimmers, winking at you.

By Meila

The Feel Of Riding Horses

The Feel Of Riding Horses

The feel of the wind whipping through your hair as you gallop over a cross country course, sailing over jumps the size of skyscrapers.
The feeling of joy as your four legged friend performs the perfect dressage move.
Feeling like you are on top of the world as you ride under a blanket of clouds, all thoughts sailing away in a chilly winters breeze.
When you are riding nothing else matters just the partnership between horse and rider.
But sometimes its not all fun. Like the feeling of the ground rushing up to meet you, and then the pain washing over every inch of your body.
Those are the feelings that sweep over my body when i'm riding horses.
By Meila

Pipes Ahoy!

It was a splendid sunny day in the tiny town of Kawhia, the sky was a brilliant blue.
Me and my cousins were jumping off a brown crumbly bank covered in long grass waving in the wind.
Leah was doing bombs off the bank making splashes of water as high as Pluto.
We swam down the channel and discovered a Willow tree with scratchy branches reaching down in to the water.
We climbed aboard it and it sank down even lower like a sinking ship.
We came up with a game where three of us linked into the chain, and the other floated down the channel with a stomach full of butterflies. But if you weren't careful you would be sucked through the pipes and get popped out at the other end, to be taken out to sea.
One time Jacob jumped in and went gliding down the channel, while I held Leah's legs and Locke held mine. Suddenly Locke's grip loosened from my ankles and he went rocketing down the channel after Jacob, then I slipped and went down after the others.
That left only Leah to rescue us, the current was really strong and before long we were dangerously close to the pipes.
As we got closer to the pipes the water started sucking us under like an angry monster.
Jacob and I, who weren't the worlds best swimmers were ducking under and popping back up with mouth fulls of salty sea.
We realised that we could hold Locke, so with a bit of effort we reached him and clambered onto him drowning him.
As we were about a metre from the pipes our hero Leah grasped us and started fighting against the current up to the tree. After about 2 minutes of hard swimming we reached the willow and clambered aboard it, the finger like branches biting into our skin.

By Meila

Where would I like to go...

If I could go anywhere in the world where would I go?
I would love to go to either Madagascar or Antarctica.
I would love to go to Madagascar because... It would be awesome to see all those animals you see in zoos roaming free in there natural habitat and also all the amazing trees and plants. I would love to see a Red Panda, but I am not sure they live there.

I would love to go to Antarctica because...
It would be so cool to travel on a dog sled, and see all the amazing animals and sea creatures that live there.
To travel there I would love to go on a big ship.
It would be awesome if you could snorkel there, and see all of the seals and other amazing creatures that live in the coldest place on earth.
By Meila.
 

Camping at Bark Bay

In the holidays we went to Bark Bay in the boat. We left on Saturday and stayed 1 night. We did lots of Swimming and a walk around the back of the bay.
There is a little Island off the main Beach, and Me, Mum, Dad and Zeta swam across to it.
We left late Sunday night.
By Meila

Kotuku Kids Mihi

Kotuku Paku Mihi

Ka pai kōutou. Here are our mihi.

 

 

up,up and away

In kotuku we are making hot air balloons. Our group's balloon is a bit behind in progress but it's good. Today we're launching the balloons and doing last minute maintenance to them. There are 5 groups. My group is Orion, Jed, Meila and me.

My Jeans

My Jeans sit neatly folded in my wardrobe waiting to be worn, crying out.
With holes punched in the knees like someone has shot a hole in them.
They have faded from dark blue to a greyish white.
I have had them for what seems like centuries.
When i wear them i feel free like a lion just set loose
into the wild.

Rafting

On Thursday Kotuku class went to Grossis Point and built rafts.
We used inner tyre tubes, rope, wooden poles and paddles. We tied the tubes together and then added the wooden poles. We had to use a special knot to tie the tubes together. Then we carried the rafts down to the beach, and hopped in.We started paddling until we got in the current and then we were off. We had to doge some boats. Some people were tacking pictures off us from the wharf as we were floating down. some off us were jumping of the raft and getting back on.
It was really fun.