Camp recount

thankyou lettter

Parkvale school.

Howard st,

Parkvale,

Hastings.

10.4.14

Dear  Bridgit,      

Thank you for coming on camp and helping us with  preparation for dinner and pudding.  Thank you for being kind and cheerful, it put me in to a good mood.  It was great that  you cheered us on in the paddling race.  It really help because it made us win.  

My favorite thing about camp was the rock climbing, it was hard to climb because you had to get your footing right.  I only got up to halfway on the rock wall.  I only got to have three turns of the rock walls.

I really like to thank you for helping cheeters on the amazing race and the human pyramid and kayaking.  Once again thankyou for coming on room 10s camp.

Kind regards,

Ethan Miller.

Freshwater Eels

Freshwater Eels

There are 2 different types of Eels.   They are the shortfin  and longfin Eels.They were born in Pacific Ocean.  They have swum up our rivers and lakes in nz for millions of years.  When they get bigger and older, they go to breed in the sea.  

One Eel  breeds 1-20 millions of eggs. The longfin eel breeds when only  at their end of their life. When they breed they  travel  5000 kilometers away  from Nz.

Freshwater Eels are scavengers. It will eat up dead  creatures and clean up the rivers.They eat living fish and bugs and weeds and meat.

The longfin can grow up to 25 mm a year.  So  if you have caught a meter long eel that eel might be quite old. Probably older than you.  They can live up to a hundred years.  

My Explorer

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my explorer

Sir Francis Drake was a famous explorer.  He sailed around the world and defeated the Spanish armada.

Francis Drake was born around  1540-1544 in England and he died  January 28 1596 . He travelled in a ship  around the world. He found his home living and working on ships.

The king of Spain, king Philip  invaded  France Germany and The Netherlands.In 1588 he wanted to invade England.  Spain had 120 ships full of Spanish and European soldiers (forced to fight by the Spanish). Their strategy was to shoot all the canons at the English ships then board them and fight on the decks.

Sir Francis Drake, who was now 44 and worked for Queen Elizabeth the     first, commandeered l80 slow ships. He also built 25 extra sleeker faster ships with different guns.These only had sailors on board,no fighters. Their strategy was to shoot lots of times below the waterline,they never got close enough to be boarded.They chased the Spanish and they battled around England and Scotland,Ireland and won the Spanish armada.

Sir Francis drake died age of 55 of infected diarrhoea he was buried at sea in a lead coffin of the cost of Puerto Bella, Panama.    

soccer

Every Saturday i go to my game when I get to the places that we had to be.The whole team was

there we had to run to the end of the field then do press ups  then the other team got there then the game stated.We had the ball I pass the ball to my mate he kicked the ball straight past the keeper goal! he scored it is 1-0 to us then the had the ball I got the ball then I kicked it and got a goal it was full time I got the player of the day the we went home.

Sir Francis Drake timeline