Camp Roil

Sleeping in bivouac at camp

It was night time at Camp Roil on Thursday 3rd of April.

When we were making our bivouac. I went over and got 2 tarpaulins 5 pegs and 1 piece of rope. Emma, Nikita and I decided to made our bivvy in the far corner pretty much away for the other bivvies.  So we got out one tarpaulin and put it on the ground and peg it in with 2 pegs and Louise (Nikita S. mum) help us hammer the metal pole into the ground to help our bivouac stand up. After digging the metal pole in the ground we tied a piece of rope from the fence to the pole for the top tarpaulin to lie on so it is like a triangle and we will peg that into the ground too.

We went over to the shed to get our big bags YAH!! Now we can put our mattress, sleeping bag, blanket, teddy, touch, lollies and powerade in our bivvy. Shhh don’t tell Mrs Roil we brought lollies and powerade.

After putting the henke out eating dinner having free time eating our pudding all those kind of things we had a game of spotlight while some people went over to the stream to check the Henke out it was a quick game of spotlight I was one of the people who got found first.  When the came back with smiles on their faces we sat around the campfire roasting marshmallows and once I had roast it my marshmallow it was sticky and black but I still ate it.  After like my 8th marshmallow Mrs Roil said “Go and brush our teeth and hope in our bivvy”

So we did that and talked. When we heard Mrs Roil come over we were silent and Mrs Roil opened the flap and she said “ You guys can have a mabble each” And when she walked away we said “YES”. During the night we had a feast with our lollies and Emma’s powerade. It started to rain Emma and I said ”Really?” We all got scared because we heard a noise I got really scared my heart started pounding and Emma was clinging onto my arm  but it was trucks having a wash it was really noisy. When it was morning at 7.00am Emma rolled on her back and woke me up but I did not mine.  We hopped out of our bivvy and had breakfast I had scrambled eggs on toast my eggs were looked a bit rubbery.

He is us on the Waka under the Clive bridge.

Eels

EELS

There are two main types of eels - the shortfin and longfin.

Eels do not have scales.   Many people find eels revolting, probably because of their slippery skin because of the mucus.

When eels begin their life they are a tiny one millimeter long. During their life, they can grow up to two meters long.  Compared with many other fish, eels are slow growing.  A longfin may grow only between 1525 mm a year.  They can also live for many years. Large longfins have been estimated to be at least 60 years old.  The biggest eels are usually old females.  The biggest longfin eels weighed about 40 kg.

Eels eat live food. Small longfin eels living amongst the river will feed on insect, worms and water snails. When they get bigger, they begin to eat  fish. They will also eat fresh-water crayfish and even small birds like ducklings.  Eels hunt by smelling not much using their sight.  They have tube nostrils from their head to their upper lip. They also have  a very large mouth with rows of small, sharp, white teeth.   

Longfin eels breed only once at the end of their life. When they are ready to breed, they leave New Zealand and swim 5000 kilometres up into the tropical Pacific probably in deep ocean somewhere near Tonga.  When they reach their destination, the females lay millions of eggs that are fertilised by the male. The adults never return as they die after breeding.

Extra fact

They say if you are really lucky you could see a golden longfin

Marvin Redpost

            

In five years time Marvin will be

at college, with his rich family           

in a big house on top a hill.  They

will have a puppy named patch

following by fish.  He will have his

DREAM room that he has wanted

for years with a tv, xbox, bunk bed

with a couch underneath, gumball

machine,rock climbing wall, punch bag

and things like that.  He will still be a

dog sitter but  he has opened a little

shop on the main road so the business

is running well.

               

                                                                        

                                                                                      

                                                                    

                                                        

                                                      

Casey Kopua

Casey Kopua

Casey Kopua is a New Zealand netball player she plays for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic and the Silver Ferns New Zealand.

Casey Kopua is a netball player she is 28 years old. She was born June the 19th in Hamilton New Zealand and has not died yet. Her height is 1.88m tall.  She got married to Terry Kopua.  They love doing the same things going to the movies,food,chilling out and watching rugby.  Terry plays rugby league for the Hamilton City Tigers.  

When Casey is on court she plays GK and GD she is really good at defending.  She was the first selected in the netball squad in 2004 making her test one year later against Barbados.  Casey Kopua was part of the NZU21 team which won the 2005 World Youth Netball Championships and won gold with the Silver Ferns at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Casey plays for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magics and she got good mates in her team.  The Magics  coach is Julie Fitzgerald their Assistant coach is Margaret Forsyth and their manager is Belinda Muller.  The Silver Ferns are an awesome team they have lots of good people.   They have won lots of games.

Casey Kopua is a awesome netball player.  She is in the Silver Ferns and the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magics.

My Famous Explorer

Movie from fiona roil on Vimeo.

Area and perimeter

WALT do area and perimeter.
I counted all the the squares around the outside because I wanted to find the perimeter.
e.g along the top is 6 units square.  So after that I was up to the area.   With the area I divided them up into rectangles so it would be easier to work it out.  On the corner the square is 2 times 2 and that is 4 then on the next square 4 times 4 and that is 16, on the next square 3 times 1 and that is 3 and the last square is 1 times 1 is 1.  So I added  4 pulse 16 pulse 3 pulse 1 and that equals 24 units square and that is the area that is covered.

Annie Londonderry

   Annie Londonderry   

Annie Londonderry was a famous explorer. She was the first women to bike around the whole world.

Annie Londonderry is an American.  She was born in 1870 in Lavita. She died in 1947 in New York city the age of 77 years old.  She got married to Max in 1888 and she had three children.  Her 2 older siblings  are Sarah and Bennett.  Her parents are Levi and Basha.  She was a professional road racing cyclist.

Annie Londonderry biked around the world.  The distance around the world is 40,075.0km.  She was admired by the tourists and locals as she achieved her goal of the first woman to cycle around the world.  She got across the water on a ship, it took her 15 months to get around the world.  

When Annie Londonderry was biking around the world she was wearing a dress, coat, hat and brown shoes.  Her bike was a old fashioned bike with skinny ties and on the tie the it had a sign saying LONDONDERRY.

Annie Londonderry cycled around the world during 15 months of her spare time by herself.  

By Sophia Langford