Lots of learning

                                                                        Swimming Skills

Using measuring skills to design & plan a bedroom

A shared language experience with Room 12. Samuel S. Squirrel Goes on Holiday

Language Experience - Bubbles

Planting at Gleeson Park

                       River Rafting

“Now you go over to Jo Jo and pick out your helmet then you're all set to go river rafting. When you're ready start heading over to the bus and make sure you fill up the back seats first’’.

Finally after a scary bumpy 5 minute bus drive up and down the dusty hills to the Mohaka River We scrambled off the bus in a big group, and selected a raft. The instructors explained what to do in dangerous situations. For example, if the raft tips over, how to paddle, and all this other boring stuff (I just wanted to paddle off). After that boring talk we picked up our raft put in the water, and guess what we did next…?  .EXPLAINED WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY YET AGAIN!!!!

After about 15 minutes of starring at the cool water while they went chat chat chat (for a minute I didn't think they would ever stop TALKING!!) we were off, down the river and into the rapids (Finally). Our raft group name was The Rocket Paddlers!!! Created by Jaimee Hunter. Alice was up the front first on the seat called the the bull ride. She held on very well down the rapids and through the curves. There was this one time that our raft slid up a rock and do you think she fell off? Nup the did not.  When it was my turn I fell backwards with my legs sticking up in the air on the first rapid. I was on one of the biggest rapids (I think it was one of the biggest rapids). In the end I was the only one in the WHOLE group to fall backwards!!!

After that we made a sudden stop for morning tea (I thought that we finished) but there was way more ahead of us than we knew (YAY and I am really really not being sarcastic). It's true!! Before I knew it lunch was over and we were back on river. As well as just river rafting we also slid down rocks, jumped off rocks, and got stuck in rocks! And we swam into rapids and floated down rapids! When we had finished we did not enjoy the squishy wet freezing cold ride back to camps.

I loved river rafting at Mountain Valley Adventure Lodge.

By Grace Pritchard

My Camp Highlight

Day 2 at camp:

We were all packed in and squashed like sardines in the bus with our rafting gear on, trying to block out the sound of all the other kids singing the “wheels on the bus”. We had to suck it up all the way to the Mohaka River! But it was worth it in the end.

When we finally got there we got into our groups and went with our instructor. Me and my group (the Cross Eyed Campers) had Curtis as our instructor, the best one of all because he let us crash into everything! He told us what to do and in no time at all we were the first group rafting down the Mohaka River!

We started to raft at rocket speed towards the first fast rocky rapid! Not to lie, I was a bit scared at first, but we made it! One hour later further down the river….

Oh man! We were stuck... just stuck…. very much stuck... and the other groups were overtaking us! Jump up and down instructed Curtis if you ever want to get off this rock! So we did what he said. Then it happened……  

I slipped and went flying out of the boat…. splosh! I was so scared the current was pushing me to an extremely rocky rapid. I was terrified. Down I slid, bouncing and crashing into all of the hard stone rocks! But just my luck I went heading straight for another group’s raft. They threw me a rope. I held on and got pulled in, but my feet got stuck under their raft and the rock that they were stuck on. Finally I got pulled on! We rafted towards my group’s raft and we were back on track sailing down the river!

I’m sure we all had a great, exciting, and awesome time!

by Bea

Cooperative Actvities

Creating 3D shapes