Amazing+Race

__ Wednesday 23 March 2011 __

LI: Design a survey using google doc's. Plan your questions carefully, collate the data and develop a definition of who a New Zealander is. Survey:

What sports are we into?

• Basketball/Volleyball • Rugby/Cricket • Muay Thai/Karate •Swimming/Soccer

Where do we come from?

• America • India • New Zealand • Australia

What language do we speak?

• Spanish/Italian • Chinese/Japanese • Dutch/Polish • Te Reo/English

Name one of the pictures on the New Zealand coins? (Money)

• Island • Dog • Kiwi • Motorbike

What animal originated in New Zealand but know is extinct?

• Kiwi • Platypus • Cow • Moa

__Wednesday 23 March 2011__

L.I. We are learning to develop effective questions and draw conclusions from our findings.



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__Tuesday 22 March 2011__

 Amazing Race getting to know my team.

Yesterday was when we got to meet our team for the amazing race we are going on tomorrow.

We all meet when we were sorted into transport groups. In our team of four, we have two year seven boys known as Dylan and Toby, Curtis in room 41 as a year eight and myself. We started as a group of five with a year seven girl named chantelle but the teachers made a mistake with the groups so she had to move into a different group.

Before we go on this Amazing Race we have to make a cardboard car for one of the activities we will be doing but we wont know what activities until we get to the destination.

I noticed our team gets on quite well and can communicate with each other with no problem. Toby had an idea for the shape of the car so we decided to go with that. We collect our crafts and stuff we need and have a conversation of what the shape should look like.

We make a decision to go with the spray paint colour gold and dylan disagrees and wants to go green. We say no and we want gold not green. So he takes it into the tech room and comes out with a green cardboard car...

Overall I think we wont do to bad in the race. Being the only girl in the team is a bit disappointing but Im sure that it wont be a problem.

Parent Comment: Well put together Grace, gives us an overall view of what you will be doing over the next few days of the Amazing Race, and your team in the end did very very well. Well Done! Plus you all had fun :-)

__Monday 28 March 2011__

 Amazing Race Reflection

Fish to Blo-karting to even murals! Where do i start?

My first thoughts about my team and the Amazing Race were:

 “We all met when we were sorted into transport groups. In our team of four, we have two year seven boys known as Dylan and Toby, Curtis in room 41 as a year eight boy (Curtis) and myself. We started as a group of five with a year seven girl named chantelle but the teachers made a mistake with the groups so she had to move into a different group.  Before we go on this Amazing Race we have to make a cardboard car for one of the activities we will be doing but we wont know what activities until we get to the destination. I noticed our team gets on quite well and can communicate with each other with no problem. Toby had an idea for the shape of the car so we decided to go with that. We collect our crafts and stuff we need and have a conversation of what the shape should look like. We make a decision to go with the spray paint colour gold and dylan disagrees and wants to go green. We say no and we want gold not green. So he takes it into the tech room and comes out with a green cardboard car...  Overall I think we wont do to bad in the race.  Being the only girl in the team is a bit disappointing but Im sure that it wont be a problem.”

Taylah and myself rolled up in our PE gear and hung out for a bit until the teacher told us to sit down and line up in our groups. From then we got told all of the rules/instructions etc. We got handed our first envelope and sprinted to Toby’s dads car and were first out the school gate we opened the envelope to find that our first destination is the Te Puna Quarry. In the quest we got sent on, we had pictures of the sculptures pined to a board that you had to look at first and you had to walk/run along the track of the quarry, locate the photos that are hanging next to them, find at least five different photos and bring them back to the teacher to check. We arrived first in that event and left first so we had a great start for the day. Kati Kati to Wahi to the finishing event in the old train rail tunnel in the Karangahake Gorge. When we arrived to the Karangahake Gorge we arrived first again and didn’t read the the clue right so we got told to go back and do it again, which was a run through the tunnel and through the bush track to get there. We had got told that we were group number one and that we had only just won because the clue instructions weren't very clear.

The second day was very challenging because the last event was hard and very frustrating. We had to ask directions for paradise valley or something which is known as “aMAZEme.” We enter the maze as the forth team and finish being sixth.

The last day of the amazing race was really sad because we were having so much fun and we didn’t want it to end even if it meant to have to fundraise or pay more then $30.00. The last day being the best day out of the three is because not only was it fun learning about art and authors, you can learn some handy skills like how to fillet a fish. Of course it was a bit disturbing chopping up fish, but no one in my team wanted to do it so I decided to step up and do it myself. We had to get right in to it and have a apron on, hair net thingy, a rubber glove and a chain glove to go on top. It was pretty intense with a sharp knife in your hand and a slippery fish. We accomplished the last day with pride in second place. Overall, I would definatly do it again and what a great experience.

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