Maori language week

 

As you know it is Maori language week in New Zealand and Myself, Bethany, Jorja, Harry and Zariah created a video when we demonstrate the Maori hand game "PEKE" Whiu means pass it on. Patu means it will rebound off your arm. Peke means jump on person. Peke Roa means jump to people. The filming was done by Mackenna edited by Harry and Zariah and actors Bethany, Caro, Harry, Jorja and Zariah. Each classroom has to create a video and we thought " Why what do PEKE" So enjoy viewers.

The Farming Lifestyle

Untitled from Mackenna Chittenden on Vimeo.

 Over the past few days my family have been on the farm helping with the calves and I thought that I could create a video of the style of farming like:

• The tanker what collects the milk
• Calving
• Maze to feed the cows

And of course "THE PAYOUT" The pay out is important to Farmers because it is how the milk is valued and at the moment it is very low.

 

 

So far we have had over 300 cows in and still 600 more to calve. We have got 100 keepers, 24 Jersey Bulls and about 176 bobbies.

 

 

The milk tanker comes every 4 milkings to collect the milk and take it to the factory to be stored and put into milk bottles that soon go into stores.

 

 

We feed our calves Meal, Powder , Hay and of course Milk. We feed the calves Gold milk and other sorts of fresh milk that our farm produces. The most calves we have had in a day this year is 80. 50 bobbies and 30 keepers.

 

To find more about Farming click Here

 

 

Going up the mountain

Today my family travelled up the mountain known as Taranaki since it had recently had been snowing. When we first arrived we had to find out where the 4 wheel drive is because you either needed that or a chain so   

you don't skid on the ice on the road. As we were at the top we found a place where we can play. Georgie and Dad had a snowball fight and it got a bit out of hand. I gathered some snow and began building a    
snow man. Then we made some snow angles and some snow got up my back and it was only 1 centigrade but it felt a lot warmer. We done races and there was a hole that I fell in and it was deep. We saw some people skiing down the mountain and there were frozen things everywhere and the best bit would of been the snowball fight and I hit Mum and Dad laughed and then I got some in Georgie's in the mouth. We soon travelled down the mountain because it started to get to cold and when we got to the gate there was a lady telling people that it was full and they had to come back soon. I hope we come back sometime soon!

Monarch butterfly

Yesterday before Georgie and i walked out to the bus we found a monarch butterfly. If you touch the butterfly's wing it won't be able to fly again. It might be the most common North American butterfly. The difference between the male and female is that the female is bigger and has darker colours. Here is a website with more information 

http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/

Taranaki champions

It was a great pleasure to take our school runners to the annual Taranaki X-Country in Hawera yesterday. All our runners performed really well with special mentions to Emily Forsyth who was our schools top finisher with a 6th placing in the 10year old girls race. A big congratulations to Kyah, Caro, Tiani, and Bethany who won the 9 year girls relay race.

Bowler Brooke lands

 

In New Plymouth we went to bowler brook lands. We saw ducks and ducklings we went to the playground. We got an ice cream after.