Whareroa Farm

On Friday the 17th June room 6 and room 18 travelled by bus to Whareroa Farm to learn more about the water cycle.

The bell rang at 9 0’clock to call us back to class.Me and my friends ran back to class to call the roll.Mr Corlett called the roll and we scrambled onto the bus.It was very crowded so me and my friends couldn’t sit together.It was a loud trip but we got there in the end.We some how got off the bus without tripping over to get into our groups.I was in group A with my bffpb’s Georgia and Cara.The lady who runs the farm told us about the farm and the boundrys.When she finished talking we went off to our first activity.

First my group went up a hill but we stopped before we got to the top.We stopped because we saw a midden.We talked about what a midden is and why it was there.Then we got to the top of the hill and we talked about catchments.Mr Corlett and Mike asked us quetions about catchments like, “what is the biggest catchment in the world?”We looked around at the beautiful view.I got to take a couple of pictures.We started walking down and we saw group B doing our next activity.

We got to the bottom of the hill and we went back to the shed to talk to Sancia about the water testing.We filled in our sheets and headed outside.I paired up with Georgia.We headed to the river and I filled up the container with water and Georgia caught the bugs.We scooped up bugs and looked at them through magnifying glasses.I think me and Georgia caught a mayfly, dobsonfly and an uncased caddis.Once we had a look at the bugs we went back to the river to put them back.We walked back to the shed to eat morning tea.We ate and then went outside to play.

Our next activity we thought was orienteering but that was our last activity.Instead we went to bush and beetles.We went through the bush to a river.You could either go through the river or along the path.I chose to go through the river but I got wet shoes and socks for the rest of the day.We got out of the river and started walking through the bush again.We stopped to look at fungi.It looked pretty.We talked about fungi and why we need it.We moved on and came across some wetas.They crept me out.We talked about wetas and then moved on.Jan showed us a dead cat.I couldn’t bare to look at it but I did.It was so sad.We started heading out of the bushes.

Our last but definitely not least activity ORIENTEERING!My favourite activity of the day.Mr Corlett explained the maps, then off we went.Georgia was in charge of the map so we followed her.She wouldn’t listen to me when I said “Stop so we can figure out where we are,” but nooo she decided to keep going.By the time she relized that there was nothing there, we had gone about 2K out.We came back and Mr Corlett told us where we went wrong.In the end we had taken a wrong turn at the beginning so this time we went on the right track and got the numbers 7,8,9,10,11 and 12.We got back and since we were the last group we had to bring all the equipment back.

We got back to the bus and it was very crowded again because we were the last ones back.There was one seat spare so I sat on Georgia’s knee and it was so annoying because she kept bouncing me.We got back to school, the bell had already rung so I walked to mums work and off we went.I told mum how amazing my day was.