eels slides beware

This is the eel dissections we did on tuesday.we got the eels at camp from our eel nets that we made.      

dissections

Into

This week in tawhirimatea we did dissections on sheep hearts we were going to do it on eels but ray farmer was not there so we did sheeps hearts instead of the eels

                                           Part 1

We all got into groups and got prepared by talking about stafy and getting gloves on and aprends and glass on to be prepared for the cutting of the sheeps hearts

    

                    Part 2

1 we got a sheep's heart and we had a look around it there was a lot of holes in the sheep's heart and blood clots and veins tissue and lots of other things.

                                          

                                           Part 3

We got to cut the heart open and looked around i was the one that cut it . As we cut it open there was this werd medy  thing with veins all throw it and we broke some strings and veins were .

                                 Conclusion

In the end we got to look under the microscope on one piece that we cut out of the heart one of the groups found a piece with a hole throw it . after we cut up the heart we buried  them in the ground and seid a karakia.

camp

whangara

On the 20th of feb Makaraka school in Gisborne has just been to whangara on there yearly leadership camp. While they were there they did many activities . the one that they most enjoyed was the kayaking and swimming in the river .

Finally it was time to kayak freezing but still willing they made there way down to the river dodging the thorns and prickles when they went . pulling On there life jacket and stared there adventure , they choses a kayak hopping in and starting to paddle out in to the open

They paddled to the big think log they touched it and then mr milne said come back  in they paddled in. And then there was a girl stranded out at the end of the river and isla staved the stranded girl and she paddled them back to shore  

Both Isla and the stranded girl keeps going without any paddles and they persevered and paddled and they swam and paddled and swam and finley when it was time to come in it was a long way back.

They all dragged the kayaking out of the water and onto the sand and up to the trailer.  They walked to the rooms and they had a hot shower and all of were sad to leave but were really tired.