It was a Windy Twirly Tuesday Morning Room 12 was getting ready to go to the Estuary walk
Pat Hoffmann, Whaea Rangimaria, Mrs Rolton, Mrs McCambridge, Jenna (Ella's Mum), Kerrie (Gabrielle's Mum), Cheryl (Lanes Mum), Ron (Kathryn's Dad), and the Mysteryouis man Chris helped Room 12 students on our trip to the Estuary.
First we got into our groups and talked about storm water drains and where they lead to. We spray painted the New River Primary storm water drains and then walked to the Estuary. On the way we spray painted all the storm water drains on Elizabeth Street.
The Southland times people came with us. I had a turn at spray painting and the Southland times lady took a photo of Pat and I. We continued walking to the Estuary, I was in group Rua with Simba, Kathyryn, Mason, Bailey, Ron and Mrs McCambridge .
The first station we went to was with Whaea Rangimaria. We talked about Ranginui, Papatuanuku which is all about Mother Nature we also talked about wai which is water and keeping the Estuary clean. The second station we went to was was with Spring. With spring we had to get with a buddy and draw each others hand and write something in the middle that might need help or caught your eye.
My buddy was Bailey, Bailey drew my hand and Spring drew her hand because of her broken arm. In my hand I wrote swans because they made the water look beautiful and it caught my eye even though the water was yuck. Ron lifted up this big rock and there was a big crab underneath it. Bailey, Mason and Simba grabbed crabs and put them in their hands for a great photo. Kathryn and I were to scared to grab a crab because it might nip us. It was time to go because our time was up we met up with everyone. Mrs Mc Cambridge told us that my group was with Pat. We followed pat and started our rotation with Pat. Pat led us down to the water. She was trying to do was inspire us to take care of the estuary because it was Te Awa Hou's estuary, our estuary.
By Gabrielle Davy-Turner
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| View of Estuary Across the Railway lines |
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| Mystery Guest - Chris |
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| Whaea Rangimaria - sharing stories of Papatuanuku |
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| Motu Pohue sits in the distance of the Estuary |
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| Crabs living in the estuary |
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| Rain ONLY in the storm water drain |
