Pine Valley Memories

Wow awesome reading!

Well done Pieta and Ayla for reading 280 nights this year so far!

St John Visit

Today Room 18 learnt some important skills like the correct way to phone for an ambulance, how to wrap a wound and how to put someone into the recovery position.

Pine Valley Slideshow

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What a fantastic camp!

What a fantastic 3 days spent at Pine Valley with 27 wonderfully energetic, enthusiastic and kind children and 7 amazingly hardworking and supportive parent helpers! No doubt everyone will be very tired this weekend but I hope the kids will have some great stories to share about their many cool experiences. More photos to follow.

Pop Art!

Nearly finished and looking fabulous!

Measuring unit- weight

Only 2 days to get our measuring unit done this week!

Pop Art

It was great to see how sensibly the children could choose themselves places to work today, on their Pop Art task. It shows that their self management is progressing really well.  :-)

Local River Study

On Tuesday Anna Crowe took us to do a practise river study at the Mackenzie Road Creek. We'll be doing this for real next Thursday in the beautiful Pine Valley Stream. Fingers crossed the weather is the same as it was on Tuesday!

Mackenzie Stream

 Measuring the water temperature

 Testing the clarity of the water- it wasn't very good!

 Timing the water flow

Getting the "Bug Boxes" ready for collecting!

Paws and Claws!

More Native Fish....

These boys set themselves the challenge of researching some native fish that Anna did not have the time to cover in her visit on Tuesday. They have done a great job!

Native Fish Lesson

Anna Crowe visited us today to teach us more about some of the Native Fish that live in our rivers- some of which we might even see in Pine Valley Stream if we are really lucky. We learnt that whitebait are actually 5 different species of fish and about how to tell the difference between Longfin and Shortfin Eels. Then the children recreated the lifecycle of the Longfin Eel, which was a lot of very energetic and noisy fun!

The Longfin Eels are preparing for their huge 5 month journey from a New Zealand river to the Tongan Trench to lay their eggs.

The Eels lay their eggs and then die

The baby eels return journey to New Zealand takes 18 months! They will live in the lakes and rivers until they decide to make the journey to reproduce themselves. This may be when they are 100 years old!

After Anna's visit the children chose something about the lesson that they found most interesting and produced a page about it for their Camp Books.