Yr 9 Camp

On Monday the 24 of May Year 9 went on camp at Camp Adair. We all woke up packed our bags and went to school before 8:00am. Then we all got onto the bus around 8:30 the bus ride was about 1hr long.Once we got to camp we packed our bags into our cabins and made our beds.Once we did that we had some morning tea and went to our first activity.

 Our first activity was rock climbing , rock climbing was one of my favourite activity.I enjoyed rock climbing because we got to challenge our self and chose a point to get to and I enjoyed it because I went past the point that I challenged myself to get to.

Then we went to our next activity which was chariots.At chariots we would get given some peaces of wood and then we would have to create a chariot where we could pull someone across a little obstacle course.

One of the most challenging activity was the confidence course. The confidence course was challenging because most of the activity that we did at the confidence course contained mud and it was also cold so that is why I found the confidence course the most challenging. One advice I would give for the year 9s going camp next is to bring clothes and shoes that you don't care about for the confidence course.

Ecosystem

 In science our new topic is ecosystems.In this blog post I will be telling you guys about the different things we learnt in our science class.

Producers , consumers and decomposers.

Producers are living organisms that can produce its own food.Consumers are food that eat other living organisms to get energy. Decomposers are insects or fungi that eat non-living organisms to put the nutrients from the non-living organism into the soil.

Carnivores , Omnivores and herbivores

Carnivores are organisms that eat other meat to have nutrients.Omnivores are organisms that eat meat and plants.Herbivores are organisms that only eat plants.

Food chain and Food web.

Food chain is a chain that continues a example of a food chain.Food chains always start with a plant.First the grasshopper eats the grass and then the frog eats the grass hopper then a snake eats the frog then a hawk eats the snake and that's the end of the food chain.A food web is like a food chain BUT a food web starts with one organism and more that one organism can eat the first organism.It also when more than one organism hunts another organism.

Social studies

  Today in social studies we played a game that contained team work , communication and creativity/imagination.For this game you would need to get into teams of 3-5.Once you are in your group you would need a piece of paper and you will need to divide that piece of paper into 4.On the top left corner you would have to draw what the island you are stranded on will look like.You can add anything into your paper.Then you would have to have everyone in your team chose what job they would do on the island in order to survive.Example someone can hunt for food someone can pick fruits and someone can make shelter.Then after that you would need to go to another group and see what they have and try and trade some things from off your paper.Then after that we answered some verbal questions and then the game was finished.I enjoyed this game because you got a chance to communicate with your class mates and you got use your creativity/imagination.