Swim Safety With Whaea Tracy

Kia ora bloggers last Thursday Whaea Tracy came to Te Ngahere to talk about swim safe. She came and talk to use about being safe on the water and being in the water. First she talked to us about the five rules being safe on the water. There are five rules to be safe on the water the first rule is You need a suitable life jacket for yourself and others. Rule number two is to tell who your going with how many people your taking and tell them what time you would be back. The third rule is to take a flare one that is safe there are two safe options the flare gun and a parachute flare it is a really safe one though . The fourth rule is to check the weather before going out on the water just to be safe. The fifth rule on the water is to buy a boat beacon for your boat and you can buy a little one for yourself small one is really handy. These are really handy rules so you can be safe on the water. 

Next time I could work faster to get a DLO done. 

Free Standing Tower

In Te Ngahere we have been doing STEAM challenges. Our challenge was to make the tallest newspaper tower. The rule was we had to use limited equipment to create our tower. The limited equipment was 30 cm of tape and two sheets of newspaper. The tricky part was we had to use 30 cm of tape, but if we wanted the tape in smaller pieces we had to bite the tape to make it smaller, because the limited equipment didn’t include scissors. We had to use two sheets of newspaper. we were able to split it in half but it had to be done by hand  as we could not use any other equipment. 

What I could do better next time is to think of a better idea to create our tower. When it was time to go up and measure our tower my group and I had not completed our tower. We were very nervous because we had not finished. We had a Great time Ka Kite