Tane Mahuta - Outdoor Classroom Project Update! + Gym Sports!

For today's update on our project of creating an outdoor classroom. We are still continuing on it, and we have managed to progressed a bit further. We have started to separate furniture and any other objects. When the other people were separating the furniture, we were moving the furniture inside the greenhouse so it is much tidier. Some of the furniture inside was; tables, cabinets, and we also separated the object out of the greenhouse into groups. What I mean is, like any metal would be grouped up somewhere, any wood that could be burned will be grouped somewhere, etc.

After that, some of us had to leave because we had gym sports. Which meant that the people who had gym sports, wouldn't be able to help out in the classroom part. Although, gym sports was really fun too. When we got there the teachers in charge made us run laps around the gym. Then we did some stretching, and after that, we played multi-sports! There were six sports in total; football, dodgeball, hockey, basketball, touch, and netball. It was a pretty fun experience and I can't wait to do it again.

Outdoor Classroom: CIP - Tane Mahuta

Last week, term 2 on CIP we are focusing on cleaning the backyard of our school. Our teachers who are in charge of the Tane Mahuta group thought of an idea of cleaning one of the barn/greenhouse, into a space where we can learn at. An outdoor classroom! So we visited the space, it was a pretty big space and it was really messy and dirty. It would take quite a long time to be cleaned and be transformed into an outdoor classroom. Although I found it really cool to have an outdoor classroom where we can relax and learn. I think it is also a little bit better to be outside, rather being trapped in a room. But the downside was it was rather far, and if the weather isn't good we can't go there yet. We also had a choice to either help with the outdoor classroom, or help cleaning up the gardens of the community.

My friend and I chose to help with the outdoor classroom, we started to clean the space. While cleaning there was a lot of things needed to be done, such as; lifting heavy pieces of furniture, taking out junk, taking out some plants that are not wanted, etc. When we have managed to clean one side of the barn we ended it and next week we were going to start to clean the other side. But when we finish the other side we still have to sweep the dust of the ground, and we still had the outside to take care off. Anyways that's where we are up to still and I hope that we succeed in cleaning this area so we can have an outdoor classroom.