Mrs Kings Day off hunt

 Mrs King gave the whole school a day off on the 31st of August as we had all been working so well over the first week of lockdown. Did you know that this is the last day of winter and we go into spring on the 1st of September. I like September as it's my birthday month. I know lots of people born in September my karate teacher Zephyr my mum and it's also the start of whitebait fishing

This whole scavenger hunt made me think 

Mrs King's scavenger hunt has 30 different things we had to find. The sunny day made it nice to go outside and look for things. Mum decided it would be nice to go for a walk so we jumped in the car and we got very surprised when the police officer stopped her for speeding. He didn't give her a ticket but told her we shouldn't be driving to go for a walk in level 4 we could do it tomorrow in level 3 thou. We were right beside the Mananui walkway so we went there instead of the Mahinapua one that Mum wanted to go to.  

Found something unexpected when Mum got pulled over                      this is the same type of police car as we didn't get a photo

I never noticed the Manannui Walkway before. we travel pass this everyday and I thought it was just some bush. It's a walk that goes down to the beach only takes 20 minutes to do the walk. 

These are some of the things we found along the walk we did

This is what I seen up very high 

it was fun walking through the bush 

      

This weka was hiding in the bush                 this is something round a fishing buoy on a round fence post

This is the beach at Mananui looking down towards our place. Mum said the mountain in the distance is Mt Cook or Aoraki. This is something that makes me happy and helps me relax. I can not see anything in the sky and that makes a big change to the clouds we have had for the last couple of days. 

I wonder where the dog came from that made these prints in the sand? I wonder what type of dog it is? 

                 

These two stones have spots on them. I'm going to paint the other side of these and then put back along the track for someone to find.

  

These next photos were a really cool find.

 

Walking along the track to the beach you couldn't see this hollow tree with stones in them you could only see it when walking back to the carpark 

This next find was very hard to get a good photo this is a white striped mushroom we found on the side of the track 

these tiny pebbles i found on the beach I thought the green one may have been a piece of greenstone

I couldn't find all the things on our walk so I started to look around home as well and these are what I found

When we got home it was time for lunch and mum made me a snack of tatties they smell good

Mum has a plant in her garden that has a beautiful flower this is the tree 

this is a magnolia tree the leaves come after it has flowered

 

This has been very intricate to make. there are lots and lots of pieces to make it this far. I'm over half way through it. i hope I can get it finished by the end of lockdown. it has taken me a few months doing it while it rains with the help of my dad

This is the motor for the forklift. I have a remote to be able to move it when it is finished

This is something colourful in my home. These are my karate belts that I have got. 

When we were at the beach we found the sea and that is wet and cold but that was to easy mum said so I had to think a little more and after chatting to mum about different things my dogs nose is wet and cold 

Something soft

Both my cats are soft and make a sound when they purr

This is Naharla

This is Fluffy

these photo's were hard to get and I had to do some research to make sure they were unique to new zealand in the bowl there are wax eyes eating the bread mum put in it. The wax eye was first recorded  in new zealand in 1832 and since there is no evidence that it was artificially introduced it is classified as a native bird

this is marley sitting at the bottom trying to catch a bird that might drop down Mum says she is naughty

This is my last one and it is the best one of all 

Something that moves 

something that makes me happy 

something that smells good 

something that makes a sound 

something i appreciate 

something special 

something symmetriccal or the closet I could find in my search outside

something I could give away but I am not going to 

something that makes me think

All these things are my motorbike 

Mrs Kings Kite Challenge

😎  Kite Challenge 😎

Mrs King set the whole school and kite making challenge and i wanted to do this one.

Mum said I had to search on the internet how to make a kite I looked at lots of pictures and videos searching for how to make one

Mum had a search in Dads shed for some stuff to make a kite with she found some thin wood an old curtain and had to get some string from the supermarket the rope she found in the shed for the garden was all rotten and could not use it. We also needed a hot glue gun.  

 This is me cutting the old curtain to make the kite with scissors.

                                            We tied the string around the frame so we could hot glue the old curtain to it and make it look like a kite 

                 this is the kite that me and mum made 

There was no wind down the beach this morning so we did not see if it would fly. I wanted to tie it to my motorbike and see if it would fly if I went riding down the beach but it was high tide when we went there and not very much beach to ride down. Mum said that if the wind picks up we could go back down and try to fly it again later.