Tour of new Zealand Ends Bonus

for the past week we have taken our journey throughout New Zealand and now it has come to an end so for our bonus activity is to share the highlights of your journey and the disappointments of our journey. we also have to share what we learnt and what surprised them.

Bonus Activity

Tour Of New Zealand Day Four

This past week we have been looking at different places in new Zealand. our WALT was to learn more about New Zealand and each day we would have two different tasks and a bonus task. each day is like a different part of New Zealand or a different theme .

Activity 1

Our task is to do some reading about Farewell spit and the incident with the whales, we had to describe what people did to help the whales. To describe what they did I made a story about it. First I made a list of the things that the people did then I turned the list into a story.Here is a link to the site that I got information from. Link

• Dug holes underneath the whales then filled them up with water
• Lay wet beach towels over the whale
• Filled buckets of water over the whales 

It was a Friday morning when my dad was waking me up I got up straight away after he told me what was happening. We raced in the car to farewell spit to see and help the beached whales all of my family were prepared to help. When we got  there we could see at least fifty whales beached on the soft sand. we  arrived and got straight to work we brung our buckets and shovels and lots of towels. We lay the wet towels on the beached whales and started digging a hole underneath the whales and then filed them up with water we filed the buckets with water and tipped it over the whale but we had to be careful to keep  the blow hole clear. We worked all day going back and forth from the beach gathering water it was a long day, Once night fell we went home and could only hope for the beached whales to go back out to sea during high tide.


Bonus Activity
Our task is to give a reason why fishermen should stop fishing in farewell spit or if they should because of the Hector Dolphins . For this task I made a slide show about it.

Tour of New Zealand Day Two Task Two

Today we have started a activity that we are doing for the whole week. Our topic is new Zealand and our WALT is to learn more about new Zealand so today's task 2 was about  Laura  dekkers sailing trip and the most challenging bit about this was trying to think up the questions.

Watch a short video clip about Laura Dekkers adventures here: Laura Dekker sailing trip.   Let’s imagine that you had the chance to interview Laura while in Dargaville. On your blog post five questions that you would ask her.

Activity 2

1. Did you run into any storms?
2. How did you get into sailing?
3. When did you learn to sail?
4. How long was your longest time without stopping?
5. How long did it take to go around the world?