The Monarch Show

This week was the first week of the term and it has already been busy! For three days in a row we had athletics practice and I wasn't very good at it. Also every morning straight after the bell, we have Kapa Haka practice.
My favorite thing this week was when the whole school walked to Wainui Surf Club to see a show about Monarch butterflies. I love walking and that was how I was brought up, so walking there was super fun! 

Anyway the play was about a girl who went to stay at her grandmas to write her speech about Monarchs. Her grandma was a monarch butterfly scientist and she got into a fight with a counselor about the butterflies home being crushed to build a highway.The girl had to say her speech in front of heaps of people at a jury to win back the butterfly home and they won!! 

I loved going to this show and I hope we do something like this again soon!

Pihitia Station

On Tuesday, Moana Syndicate had a trip to Pihitia Station. At the farm there were 6 places to go: types of dairy and how they are made, drones and gadgets, shearing the sheep, meat and how it is made, sheep dogs and the machines they use on the farm.

My favourite place to go I think was they dairy because so many yummy products are made from cows, goats, sheep and deer too!  Also, it was so much fun to make butter with a fresh jar of milk. My least favourite was the meat because, I like meat but it is just horrible how it is made so I didn't watch.

An interesting thing was the drone because Norm ( the farmer) could use it to see if the water troughs were full or not and it would save him so much time walking down to each one, then if they weren't full he could go and fill them.

 I loved going to the farm and I would like to do something like that again.