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Define these words

• Chinking 

(Cause a light to make a high-pitched ringing sound, as of glasses or coins striking together)

• Upriver 

(situated or occurring at a point nearer the source of a river. they headed for the upriver side.)

• Ponga

(A tree fern found in forests throughout New Zealand)

• Sentry 

(Sentry Is like a guard who stands there)

• Pouwhenua

(A Pouwhenua is a weapon they use to guard the camp)

• Fatigues and masks

• (Fatigues and masks are suits that army people wear)

• Staffs

(A staff is a stick, pole, or rod for aid in walking or climbing, for use as a weapon)

• Bivouacs

(Bivouacs Is a tent you make by hand)

• Solar lights

• (Solar lights are lights that gets powered by the sun)

• Glow worms 

(A glow worm is an insect that glows in the dark)

• “Home in on us”

• (“Home in on us” is when someone is focus on the people)

• Searing blow 

           (Searing blow is like a powerful hit)

• Remote

        (A remote is something that is far away)

• What was mum's old job?  

        (Mum’s old job was being a Teacher)

• Why is the camp called ‘camp radicals’?  

         (Their radicals because their fighting back)

• What is the tikanga about carving pou? 

•  (You have to earn the right to use the master carvers tools)

• On page 42, why did Tre smile to himself?

(He saw the pou and relised it was his dad’s carving)

• What was the purpose of the pouwhenua?

(The purpose of the pouwhenua is to alarm them that people are there cause they put cameras on it)

• How could you describe where Tre put his bag down?

(Tre put his bag down in a long tent where everyone slept) 

• What were the people in the village doing BEFORE Tre and Muse’ arrival? And now?

(A girl was making a cup, the kids were reading, Others where carving)

• Who carved the pou?

(Phyn carved the pou)

• Why did Tre only murmur “nice one” to Phyn? (Rather than hugging him/celerbating/etc).

(Because the carving belonged to Phyn)

• Why was Muse leaving in the middle of the night? 

(She was leaving because she had a tracker in her arm and she regrets trying to make the voids capture tre and his family)

• What was on Muse’s arm? 

(Muse had a tracker on her arm)

• Who is Phyn in relation to the other characters?

(Tre’s brother phyn)

• Why did Phyn hit Tre and with what?

(Tre swung his twerlled his staff/taiha because their traitors)

• Who will now follow in dad's footsteps?

(Tre because he's leaving and he treated his family)

• Was it the Phyn was silent written in italics like that?

(Because he was angry)

• What was their plan after leaving the camp?

(To keep moving until the tracker dies out)

• If you were Tre, what would you do in this situation? 

(I would go with muse to make sure she is safe while she's in the wild)

Why kids should go camp

 

Why kids should go to school camp       

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 Kids should go to a school camp so they can learn new skills, make new friends, build confidence in themself when they are away from their families and it will give them a break from Social media/Techology

When kids get to go to school camps they learn new skills like surviving skills, Social skills, Independence skills and navigation skills. These skills can help kids when they are in a group or by themselves.

When at a school camp you can build positive relationships with others and become their friend. When building positive relationships with others you can make new memories with them and share how fun your experience is going so far.

When there are shy kids at school camps others can help them build confidence by encouraging them, helping them and building a friendship with them no matter what they look like or what their cultures are.

What I Did On The Holiday

 

Holiday 2020

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Last term the senior classes went to camp raglan and I stayed home because my dad was worried about me catching coronavirus.

While I was at home I would help my family look after my nana who had just gotten out of the hospital after having her operation.

Ever since our nana had gotten back from her operation at the hospital she started to feel very sick. So every night before we all went to sleep we would pray for her in the samoan laguage.

Sometimes when my nana had a nap me and my cousin would go for a ride with our papa to pick our uncle up from his job accord precision cnc machining. 

Accorwd precision cnc machining is a job where you make supplies/equiptment for hospitals. 

When I finish doing all my chours and there is nothing to do, me and my cousin would sometimes go on my uncle's PS4 to play C.O.D or we would go to Glen Innes school to play on their park, swim in their pool or play basketball on their courts, When it would start to get late we would walk around the block before hedding home.

During the holidays every night when everyone was asleep I would stay up till the morning on call with my friends Stanley, Josephine and Litia talking about how they were doing during the holidays and what fun things they were planning to do with their familys.

On the weekend my grandad and cousins all went on a car ride around our neighborhood and we talked about how much we missed being at school with our friends. 

The last day of school holiday my family decided to have a barbeque and my uncle had come over to visit my nana, After we all ate we chilled out, talked about our childhood memories, laughed at eachothers jokes and played on the PS4 enjoying our last moments together before everyone left to go home to sleep for school/Work.