Hamanatua Stream Walk

 This week we ventured up Hamanatua stream,It was one of our things in our pepeha. We wanted to know were it originated, so we walked up Scarlys way to get to the gate where we go up. We saw Hamanatua but it was tiny we had to jump over. I walked through the stream because I luckily had gumboots.

I saw other people go in with shoes, it looked so uncomfortable. One person tried to jump but he slipped and he got soaked. It was so funny but I felt bad. A lot of people fell in and were so wet. We started our journey. I was excited.

We pasted a bunch of cows and calves. We stopped and had lunch and we carried on for about 20 more mins. I stepped in a mud patch and my gumboot fell off, and my foot came out of my boot and my foot got so wet so I took of my sock and carried on. When we came back to the stream. we had to jump over again. I stepped into the stream but the water go t into my boot it was so wet so I just took it off, then another kid slipped and fell in this time it was a different kid it was probably worse. Overall it was quite fun.

Beach Clean up

This week, we did a beach clean up. Our teacher said there was a prize for who ever got the most trash. She said the prize was from Japan. We had to do it in groups of three. I was with Max and Momo.

The teacher gave everyone a bucket. Once we had our groups together and buckets sorted we went to the beach. We found a plastic bag and a plastic tube sort of thing. We walked all the way to the Wainui Surf Club. Our bucket was pretty much full by the time we got there. One of my friends found a towel and somebody else found a balloon with stuff in it. We had a play there for a while then we had to go back to school.

We walked back on the pathway and we found two beer bottles. A lot of people found beer bottles. Also, on the way back, I found a nerf dart and some kind of sweater.

 When we got back to school we had to count all of the rubbish that we found. We didn't get too much but that is a good thing.