raining

It was raining so strong. A  lot rivers were flooding and the lake was rising. It was dark and cloudy.
A week had past and it was still raining like crazy. There was a weather warning on the news and
it was forecast for more raining. One year later the world was underwater and nothing was alive.
The end.  

Possum Traps

              Possum Traps.

Last week our school went on a bush walk. Thomas and I collected the traps and brought them to school and gave them a clean. We found two more rats in the traps which leads up to 9 rats in the traps all up. We are thinking of putting some traps down at the yacht club and some at the garden.       

The history of Waiuta

The history of Waiuta

By Tyler Davey

Where it is and why

If you follow the Snowy Road on the West Coast you will arrive at an old ghost
town called Waiuta. A large gold vain was found in 1905 by Jimmy Martin at
the location where Waiuta was to be founded. The gold vain was named the
Birthday Reef because it was discovered on King Edwards the VII’s birthday.

How they got the gold out

By the 1930’s Waiuta had a population of around 600 people. The miners
drilled and blasted the gold and quartz out of the rock. The timber around
Waiuta provide the people with housing and helped stabilised the mines from
collapsing. Mercury, cyanide and other toxic chemicals were used to separate
the gold from the quartz ore. In 2017 EnviroWaste cleared the chemicals from
the Prohibition Shaft site at a cost of $3.6 million.

Places where the gold goes

There were two means of crashing the quartz to extract the gold.

1. The battery process. Gold was pounded out of the ore using a water
2. powered battery of iron stamps. This occurred at the Snowy Battery.
3. The ball mill. Iron balls in revolving steel drums crushing the quartz rock.
4. This occurred at the Prohibition Mill site.

Dates of what happened

On King Edward the VII birthday a reef of gold had been found. By the 1930s over 600 people had been staying at a gold mine called Waiuta. Between 1939 and 1946 the number of men employed by the company fell from 240 to 113 because of the first World War as there was no one to mine and make money. On July 9th 1951 the Blackwater Shaft collapsed, and the mine began to flood. Many people became jobless and were forced to leave Waiuta and settle somewhere else. Many of the buildings eventually got dismantled, and within a couple months, Waiuta became a ghost town, with nothing to offer.

personal project

Week 5 - 12-16 Nov. set traps around the places that we have planned out.

Learn about how and what the traps will do and catch.

Week 6 - 19-23 Nov. every second day check the traps and do more research.

Week 7 - 26-30 Nov. check the traps and skin/pluck the animals that we may have got. Make up a poster of what we have done.

Week 8 - 3-7 Dec - Monday is West Coast Anniversary Day. Thursday finish.

Week 9 - 10-14 Dec. if we are behind finish

weekly reflection

i think that my time table for my inquire is  going good and i am getting throw it.
i think that my first week is going good because i have got throw it well and with pet day i think it went good.
my project is going good and i am being challenged.
i think that my time table is helping me a lot other wise i will be of track and sidetracked.
i think that i will be adding stuff on to my time table because i don't know the future.   

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KKN

1. Why do you think integrity is important?

Because  it is important to be honest and have people that rely on you.

2. How has your integrity or character been tested to the limit? What did you do in response?

By doing stuff that i don’t get told to do.

3. Do you think that integrity is a part of your nature? Do your instincts warn you when you are doing
something that doesn’t show integrity?

I think that when you are young you don’t really understand but when you are elder you know what is going
on.

Practical Thinking Questions:

1. Do you think the whole world could one day show integrity? If not, why might this be impossible.

I don’t think that you could get the whole world to do it.

2. Do you think our national and international world leaders display integrity? How and how not? Be specific.

I think that we sometimes do and don’t.

weekly reflection

i think that it is good how it is in the class right now because i get on with my work and i am used to it. i get on with being told what to do but i would prefer being asked what i want to do. i keep focus by doing the one thing and deal with the thing that i am doing. i will focus with my projects i will just do it and get it done with.