The Korfball session

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This week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we had korfball sessions with a man calld Youri and on the last day a man called Torston. They taught us how to play korfball. The game is basiclly netball combined with basketball. You can shoot from anywhere and once you caught the ball you can only move one foot. And you can pivet out of being defended by stepping one step away from the defender then it is easier to pass or shoot. If someone is marking you within arms length you can not shoot you either have to pass or pivet out. Here is a picture.

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Charlie

R.E slide South Sudan Famine

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This week we did R.E on the South Sudan Famine and we learnt all about how droughts, famines and how they are so simaler. That one can cause another and that they can destroy a whole country. Here is my slide.

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Facts from Don, the Eel Man

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Today after morning tea the Batten team gatherd in room 4 to have a meeting with Don the eel man from N.I.W.A here are the facts that he gave us

• The eels like shade
• There are three species of eels in New Zealand 
• But there are 19 species world wide 
• They can see very well but they rely on their sense of smell
• They eat eachother
• But when they are glass eels they only eat small bugs like water fleas
• Their bones have rings like a tree stump to show how mamy years it has been alive
• When they are going to breed the males leave before the females
• The larvae are called lepto celephis eel
• The larvae become glass through a  metamorphisis

Here are some pictures

Here is Don holding one of the worlds largest eels

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Charlie

Facts from people working in South Sudan

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Today in the Batten team after we had community time we had two people Phil and Janet Buhlar came in and told us about ife and facs about South Sudan here are some of them.

• That they speak 65 languages including english
• They have pounds instead of dollars
•  Their 100 pound note is worth 30 cents in New Zealand
• It gets up to 42 degrees celcius in South Sudan
• They have to shave their haeads before they go to school
• Their houses are made out of bamboo walls, rocks, mud and reed thatch
• The capital city of South Sudan is Juba 

Here is a photo of the 1 pound coin

And here is a picture of the 2 pound coin

Week 8 learn NZ webinar

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This morning the batten team learnt about the enviroment from a bunch of people in a webinar. I learnt that...

• There is water very, very, very, very, very, very deep under ground it's called fossil water and  NZ doesn't have any
• I also learnt that you can turn saltwater into freshwater 
• And that they use special sorts of plants to take care of rivers by keeping the soil out of the water and removing excess nutrients in the water. 

Here's a photo of us watching the video.

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Charlie

The second R.E slide of South Sudan

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We have been learning about South Sudan and this is the second slide.

Our learning of South Sudan in R.E

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In R.E we have been learning about South Sudan, about how they are suffering and just surviving and this is the slide that we have done it on.






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Swimming Sports

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On Friday a couple of weeks ago we went to swimming sports at wharenui. I came third in every race I did except for breaststroke, and I sadly didn't get into zones. here's a picture of me waiting for one of my final.

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Charlie B

Thursday Urban-Eel Trip

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On Thursday we had to walk all the way to the heathcote river for the Urban-Eel project. Matt, Bridget and Toni were the organisers of this and were the ones teaching us. My favourite part was when we could touch the eels. The way to tell long fin from short fin is by when the bend if the have wrinkles they are long fin if not short fin. You can also tell the gender because the females are fatter then the males becausen they need to lay eggs. Heres a picture

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