Kia ora last week the year six’s went with Project Island Song to Otehei Bay. We were learning how Project Island Song keeps pest away.
We had to be at school at around 8.20am and be down at the wharf at 8.30am. When we got down to the wharf we met some members of Project Island Song. Some of us had jobs; there were health and safety which meant they had to say everyone's name before they hopped on the boat and give everyone a squirt of hand sanitizer. Next was biosecurity and there job was to have a shoe brush to clean your shoe and to pat your bag down to make sure there were no weed seeds, ants and pests in our bag. There were also construction so they had to bring the parts of the rats traps on and off the boat because we were making rat traps later on. The last job was planting and they had to bring the plants on and off the boat and carry the gardening gloves.
When we were on the boat we had a little karkia and the captain went over the safety rules before we headed out to the islands. We got a floating classroom booklet with lots of things to do in it. Some of us got to go on the bow of the boat for a little bit and then we swapped with the other people. Our first stop was Motorua where we heard the bird song it was amazing. On the way to the island we saw lots of birds and got to tick them off in our book. When we got to the island we had some morning tea, after morning tea we got split into groups my group was called super seeds, because we were doing planting first. We walked up big hills and then got into groups of three and planted our plants, then we walked back. When we got back we had lunch and made our rat traps.
This was really fun because I learnt lots of things, it was hard planting the plants but in the future I will know how to plant plants.
Have you ever been to Urupukapuka island before?
HI Charlize, My name is Anika and I am from your class. I really liked your post about the fun day out of school because it was very interesting to read. You brought me back to when I did this activity because you described everything we did like when we went to the wharf and got our jobs and what we did on the boat.
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Kia ora Charlize. It’s Dale your cousin. I really enjoyed reading your blog post about project Island song because you explained what you learnt and what you did. I have never been to the project island song event before but I sounds like fun.
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