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wind chimes part 2

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Define these words

• Chinking- making noise

• Upriver- it means going toward to the source of the river

• Ponga- ponga is a type of tree.

• Sentry- something like a guard

• Pouwhenua- the statue that was carved

• Fatigues and masks - a jumpsuit but a uniform

• Staffs - its a type of stick

• Bivouacs - a tnt made of sticks

• Solar lights- it a light powered by the sun

• Glow worms - it is a worm that glows

• “Home in on us”- Home in on us means focusing on something.

• Searing blow.- a painful hit

• Remote- remote is isolated from something far away.

• What was mum's old job? Mum's old job was a teacher.

• Why is the camp called ‘camp radicals’? The camp is called camp radical because the people that are out there are living in the woods.

• What is the tikanga about carving pou? Learn all about the tools so you can use It.

• On page 42, why did Tre smile to himself?  He saw his dad's carvings.  

• What was the purpose of the pouwhenua? One is a camera and one is a marking point.

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

• What were the people in the village doing BEFORE Tre and Muse’ arrival? And now? Some kids are reading. Kids are making cups and cooking/ carving.

• Who carved the pou?  Dad.

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

• Why was Muse leaving in the middle of the night? Because they were in trouble because muse had a tracker .

• What was on Muse’s arm? A tracker.

• Who is Phyn in relation to the other characters? Tre’s brother.

• Why did Phyn hit Tre and with what? Because he knew they were gonna get caught and so he hit them with a stick.

• Who will now follow in dad's footsteps? Phyn and hopefully tre.

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

• What was their plan after leaving the camp?

Wait until the tacker dies.

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

Go wih muse to put a stop in the tracker

wind chimes

  -Wind chimes

Define these words from the text

• Yielding- something not hard or rigid

• Wilderness- is the wild

• Batons- stick 

• Wood splintering 

• Hauled- forced to be pulled

• Settlement- when they set up their house or something

• Scarcely- able to breathe 

• Droned- a low humming sound

• Stifling-very hot room causing difficulties to breathe 

• Unsteady - something that's not ready to use 

• Disobedience- Disobedience means failure or refusal to obey rules or someone.

• Barely- don't really know them

• Clarity- being coherent and intelligible.

• Ridge long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.

• Porch- a covered protecting in the front entrance.

• Upstream opposite direction  

Explain what a ‘muse’ is. Inspiration is when you look at it you get inspirarion

• Where was Tre the day the voids turned up? How do you know? He was in class because you can see 

the teacher reading a book.

• What is the author implying by saying “as if they had done it a thousand times before?” (page 4)in the town it looked like that the voids have destroyed that town before.

• Where are Tre’s mum and dad? Why do you think this? At the hidden place

• What language feature is “as white as a hospital sheet”. it is white metaphor

• Who/what was the “one exception”. What does that mean?Muse

• How many regions are there? How do you know? What might be in the other regions? 7 region

• Where did the other kids at the new school come from? How long had they been there? How do you know?from the other region 

• What happens on page 8 that gives you a hint to something that might happen later in the story? The “run sign”

• Who said “Do Something, Tell me I’m not alone” on page 9. Tre said it .

• Do you think Muse spelt out RUN just for Tre, or do you think it's always there on her table? Why?spelt out RUN just for Tre because she knew that tre went to get out because he was different.

• How far away was the new school from Tre’s old house? How do you know this?very far away 2-3 days because it said the voids have been quiet for a few days.

• Does hushed mean killed? How do you know? If not, what else could it mean?no it means get hurt

• What is “the pen” (page 11)’ prison

• What was dad trying to tell Tre? Why couldn’t he just tell him where his/mum were? Because guards were listening.

• On page 14, what happens to tre when “his voice catches”? He catched a feeling 

• Why is Muse the one who rows the boat? Cause tre know where to go

• What language feature is “The harakeke closes in, swallowing them up”. A simile

camp

 3 days till camp! I can't wait till i get there to try out all the cool activities created for us. For example water slides, flying fox, games, archery, air rifles, swimming, high ropes, kayaking, orienteering and hanging out. But I'm most excited for archery and kayaking, but a little nervous because I've never been away with my family. And there are also bunk beds that I can share with my friends.

 

3 days later-Monday

It was hard to say goodbye to my siblings and my parents but I had to because I needed to learn how to live by myself and learn to be responsible to do stuff on my own. When we got to the bus all of us straight away went for our food and our snacks on the way, i ate rice with pork  which was pretty delicious on our way to camp ragland 40 minutes later we made toilet stop or a stop so the people can go have a look outside and have and take rest from sitting down after the stop we continued our our journey to camp ragland. 1h later. “We made it “ Railey said

After getting out our bags we went inside the hall, and we met this 2 nice instructor that introduced us to their beautiful camping site their names were Tony and jenny

We were talking about the rules and it was... having fun and i think that is a GREAT RULE! When that finished we went straight to our cabin we made a group of who gets to be in our cabin. In each cabin there can be 8 people per group/cabin.

And my group is Isi, Davlyn, Eh htoo, Havea, Wesley, Kordell, Michael and the last one is me. The next part of our camp was to do our beds and set up our beds and get ready for the next activity. For the next activity we went on the beach, it took about half an hour to get there and another on the way up. The worst thing I hated about it was going back up it was very , very TIRING. But I really enjoyed the view and the shells. When we came back from the beach, our teacher opened the pools  and we all jumped in. after the pool we had dinner and chilled in our cabin/playground and at the end we slept.

Tuesday

In was another tiring day we went for breakfast and went for another beach walk after the beach walk we got in 3 groups and did orienteering it was very hard because we had to keep on walking up the stairs and we had to answer some question to complete the activity, the next activity we did was kayaking it was pretty tiring because we had to paddle all the way to the other side of the beach and it was so much fun we had a race with the other group and surprisingly we won, after the kayaking we did sports.

Wednesday

On Wednesday morning we had a morning walk in the beach, then after that we went for paddle boarding. I think paddle boarding was really fun but really hard at the same time because we had to stand up which was really difficult to balance.

inference

why camp is great for kids

 School camp is a great way for kids to take a break from school and learn to discover new places, new skills/experiences, to take a break from social media/internet/games, and whanaungatanga(building positive relationships).

Learning new places is probably one of the best ways to enjoy a school camp, and a great way to learn about history about the city and people that used to live there. It is also a great way to be away with your familys and learn to be responsible for yourself and live a life of your own, it also gives you an opportunity to go on a holiday. It is a cheap vacation as it was only partially funded by parents ($70) and the rest was subsidised by the school. 

For the skills/experience that you can  learn from camp was, the difference between cow poo and sheep poo, new food to try, kayaking, paddle boarding, rock climbing, night walk,  (for the first time people saw glow worms during that night walk)orienteering, roasting marshmallows, fia fia night(performance), ping pong table, bunk beds/cabin, lookout/beach walk, pool, and for the last one a hugeeee flying fox. For the skills/experience that I learnt from my view was going kayaking for an estimation length of about 6 km and took about 25 minutes, and the next one was having a try paddle boarding which was pretty scary because there were some jelly fishes in the water but luckily I survived, for another experience I had to walk up a mountain that took about half an hour to get down and up which was pretty… tiring, but I did it. It was so calming on the beach the sand was so soft and wind was soaring through sky

School camp is also great for kids to get a break from games, social media, instead we can just talk face to face because gaming (being on a device all day) can hurt your brain and get you sick so it's very important to take a break from interacting with devices.

Whanaungatanga is the most important part of them all, building relationships. Building relationships is very important in camp because showing respect to the instructors is a really grateful thing because they cook you food, set up everything for you, and also for friendships, if you respect your friend they will respect you back.

And hear some examples how you can show whanaungatanga to others, introduce yourself, including people in games, hold doors for people, be a role model, be respectful, encourage others, help parents.

I think camp was the best thing that happened to me this year. It was pretty fun to get to know more people, get to know them well, and play with them all the time. And i also like their number one rule which was having fun. But the thing I liked about camp was kayaking, pool, gym, cabin, the activity, and some other fun things.