Mission bay recount, By Sophie

Hub eight's trip to Mission Bay

Hub eight went to Mission Bay on the 7th of June. The purpose of the trip was to learn more about collaboration which was our concept focus.

At 9:40, we set off on the bus to Mission Bay. The bus was squished with all 67 students on board and the teachers and parent helpers. It was as windy as a fan blowing at Mission Bay when we arrived and we had morning tea first at Mission Bay before playing a little on the playground.

Next we had a sandcastle competition. We competed in the groups allocated by our teachers. Our group made a sea turtle with some sea scenery around it but it didn't work so well because of our lack of collaboration (Fares kept on mucking around and we kept on being bossy).

After the competition, we played three games in our guardian groups. The games were: relays with the baton, beach flags, soccer and the games were all played in the sand. I use to did not know how to play beach flags but this is how you play:

                                                                 

1. Let six people lie down in the sand. Their heads don't need touch the sand but they need to be close.                                                                  

2. When the person shouts "go!", the six players spring up. They have to get one of the five batons on the other side of the racing area.

3. As there is six people and five batons, a person will not get a baton. This person loses.

Variation: You can play it with more people, e.g., ten people and nine batons.

                                                                

Then, we had lunch. We played some more on the playground before having our race in the fountain with our wakas. We made the wakas at school out of flax, skewers and paper but unfortunately my waka blew away to the middle of the fountain because of the wind and Mr Stuart had to wade in the fountain get it.. Then, we went back on the bus and went back to school.

I really enjoyed the trip. I was tired but happy because it was extremely fun. I really want to go to Mission Bay again after the pleasant day I had there.

By Sophie

Brittany's Mission Bay Recount

It was the 7th of June, another icy cold day in winter and on that day we had went to Mission bay.

We had got off the bus, others whom had been at the back were still pouring out of the doors.

When everyone had got off, the bus driver drove off quickly- Poor busdriver! The teachers led us to a large patch of grass where we sat down, they gave us instructions on the subject of our sandcastle competition we were to do in a few minutes time.

They also announced that we would be walking to the other side of the beach, as there was more sand on that area opposed to the area of beach where we were, that was invaded with seashells that had washed up on shore.After they had finished speaking, we all stood up and walked, chatting continuously as we walked to the other end of Mission Bay.

When we had gotten there we had been sent off to start sculpting, digging and building.

There, the collaborative group I was allocated to was with Izzy, Seb, Alan, Shayan and Angela had started to dig a pit into the sand. Alan, Izzy, Shayan and I went scavenging the beach for clams, but were unsuccessful as we were only able to find lots and I mean lots of shells and not even a single clam, whilst Seb, was already done digging the Sarlacc pit.When I got back to our little area, the pit was quite large. Then, I had dumped the shells onto the ground, creating a mound of seashells.The others got back soon after and also dumped more shells and surprisingly, also sticks onto the mound. I found myself scooping out sand from inside the pit and dumping on the sand and was molding the sand into a large tentacle.

Soon enough, the others had joined and helped me create the rest of the tentacles and we were finally done with them. I dumped a mound of sand into a mile, then sculpting it into the neck of a Sarlacc and placed two shells as the head, side facing the bottom of the floor onto the sand and molded the neck onto the head.

We were finally done when we heard a whistle, time was up! We had finished just in time.

The teachers called us all to do the beach game rotations, the games including our choices of games in which were Beach Flags, Relays and Soccer. I went for Beach Flags first, as I was in Mr.Stuart's guardian group and while I was waiting I decided to collect a few shells.

When it was my turn, Mr Stuart waited for the others to decide who was going to go and I had already jumped and I lay there on the sand.

Mr Stuart shouted, "GO!", my heart raced when he shouted.

I pushed myself up, running as fast as my legs could take me but the fact that there were pieces of shell poking into my socks and jabbing my feet didn't help at all and sadly, I scrambled to grab one of the sticks but Ryan beat me to it, we both grabbed the stick but he tugged it away pulling it away from my grasp. The rest of the time at Beach flags was spent watching the others run while I sat there, staring into space out of boredom and humming a tune.

After, I went to soccer, the same jabbing sensation existed in my feet, I'm guessing that I'm just not very used to being on a beach full of pieces of chipped shells and running on it.

I had done my best, trying to ignore the pain in my feet but the sad thing was that it didn't really help that much trying to ignore it.

My team had tried the hardest but..In the end we didn't win, as I can recall I think the final score that Mrs.Parker had said was 4 to 5 or something. But that's an estimate as I am not able to remember. Lastly, I went for the relays with Whea Nin. It was surprisingly fun and I found it that I had run faster without my shoes, but as my shoes were the bulkier type and so it had actually added more weight to my shoes making it my feet heavier and harder to lift and run quicker but track shoes and running shoes on the other hand are not as heavy.

To my surprise, I was actually so much faster on this area of the beach, I'm not sure if it was because of the fact that there were less shells or that the sand was not wet or something but I was able to complete running the relay in about 1 minute, 48 seconds as I remember when I counted.When both teams finished the relay, we went back to our seating area at the large patch of grass near to a parking lot.

We all took out our lunch boxes from our bags and ate our lunch, when most of us finished we were sitting there talking.

Soon enough everyone finished eating their lunch, the winners had been announced and I wasn't surprised that it wasn't our Sarlacc, to be honest it really wasn't good.

It was so bad that someone had stepped in it and ruined it as I had seen it happen before my eyes while walking around the beach, viewing my classmates' amazing sand sculptures.

I laughed it off though, as seen as even me and my teammates had agreed it wasn't the best that we could've done.

After the announcement, we left to go back to the playground and all of us were running like dogs chasing after a ball.

All of us were running to the playground, Isaac and I had our eyes set on a prize, the swing.

Luckily he had gotten there before anyone could and we were playing on the swings and some weird seesaw thingy(I have no idea what it is though)

Soon, it was the end of Lunch and time seemed to had flown by so quickly.

Then, right then it was time.. For the great waka race!
The teachers called us to the grass patch, we sat there while they delivered the instructions for the waka race.

We all ran like a stampede of bulls to the fountain, all of us stuck our hands into the icy water and started to push the water to the left to create a current, then switched when we realised there was an already existing current going to the right.

The teachers allowed us to shove our wakas in, mine almost instantly flipped upside down.

It continued to float around the entire pool and I was watching from the sides, continuously flipping the boat over and over again when it turned upside down.

Soon enough, my boat had already went the entire way around the fountain and was already 1/8th the way through the second lap.

Unfortunately, we were called back down to the grass and everyone picked their soaking wet wakas from the fountain and hurried back.

Our bus had already arrived and we walked to the bus stop there where our bus was waiting for us and we all got on.

I sat down with Isaac and stared out the window.

To be honest this field trip was the best I'd ever had in my entire life, but not better than school that I would want to have a field trip every week and I was surely looking forward to tomorrow.

Planning:

The 5 W's:

Who:Hub 8

What:Mission Bay trip.

When:Week 6, Tuesday/ 7th of June, 2016

Where:Mission Bay

Why:For our concept subject, collaboration.

Mini Paragraph 1.5:Getting off the bus and walking to the other side of Mission Bay

Paragraph 1:Building a "Sarlacc" sand sculpture.

Paragraph 2:Playing beach flags, beach soccer and running relays.

Mini Paragraph 2.5:Lunch and announcement of winners of sandcastle race

Paragraph 3:Doing the great waka race.

Paragraph 4:Leaving Mission bay to go back to school.

Mission Bay Recount - Isaac

It was Week 6, Tuesday, me and my hub were going to Mission Bay for our concept and had set up all the aspects of what was needed in the trip. As I stepped onto the hard pavement a hard frosty gust blew across my face and I clutched my jacket tighter to my body. Following the others I stumbled across the muddy grass, the teachers called for us to sit down near the playground. Slowly I opened my lunch box and took out my morning tea, I wolfed it down food and all. I stood up and ran towards the playground, and started to play. In what felt like so little time the teachers called us back and said that we were moving further down the beach, as we walked closer towards the sea the wind whipped at our bodies, the icy cold biting our feet. When we arrived at our destination we dumped our bags on the ground and collapsed. After explaining the rules the teachers started the sandcastle competition quickly, everyone scrambled over the stone wall barring the way towards the sea and raced towards where they wanted their sculpture to be. My group chose a wet spot near the moist tide and started to build.

Thirty minutes later our spot was a sprawling world of a sand hippo, crocodile mouth, and a octopus. Suddenly I was struck with a eureka moment, why not create a gigantic snake that surrounds our creations to act as an aesthetically awesome barrier to signify that these sand sculptures were ours? Bursting with excitement I shaped the head and the hands, slowly but surely I thickened the body and twisted it around the sculptures, my teammates decided to help and before we knew it the snake was finished, I finished the feet and added a few swirling designs on its back. I found a clump of seaweed and laid it out in front of the snakes head to act like fire. When we the whistle signalling the end of the competition we were happy with our work.

It was yet to be lunch and we had three more activities to do, the first being beach relays. Annoyingly enough my ankle started aching and I had to sit out for most of the relays. Soon we rotated and we moved to Mr Stuart's activity, we had to lay down on our stomachs and wait until Mr Stuart said "Go!" then we had to race and take a small pole, there was one less than the amount of people running. But the aching in my ankle had yet to fade away, forcing me to stay out for one more activity. Finally when we moved to Mrs Parker's group the painful ache in my ankle was gone, allowing me to participate freely in the last activity, beach soccer. I enjoyed acting as goalie though failing miserably, unable to block several goals.

Fifteen minutes after the activities it was finally time for lunch, we moved back down to the playground and devoured our food, soon after lunch was finished and we were all called back from the throes of joy on the playground. Finally the most fun part of the day was coming up. The waka race! We had all created unique wakas previously to the trip, my design was a stingray like one with a minuscule tail ram at the back. We all tensed up as we arrived at the fountain where we were to race, waiting to place our wakas in the water as soon as the teachers shouted the word that would start the race, then after an incredibly tense moment it started. We practically threw our wakas into the freezing fountain water, pushing them forward. We continued to analyse the path of the wakas, following them around the fountain until they reached the end. Once everyone had gone round the fountain we moved back near the playground and talked for a while.

Then we stood up and walked towards the recently arrived bus, guided by our teachers. As we poured into the bus, I; already in a seat lolled off into a light nap. When I woke up we had completed the short drive back to school. I found that, this trip was quite the fun one today.

By Isaac.

This is the plan I used to plan my writing

Planning:

Five W's

Who: Me

What: Mission Bay Trip

When: Week 6, Tuesday 7th Of June 2016

Where Mission Bay

Why: For our concept and collaboration skills.

(Side:How: By Bus

Paragraph 1: Several brief sentences on the trip by bus, eat morning tea then play on the playground. Move on to the sandcastle, move on to second paragraph halfway through sandcastle competition and continue.

Paragraph 2: Sculpting a large 'World Serpent" around the my group's sand sculptures.

Paragraph 3: Playing the rotation games on the beach.

Paragraph 4: Eating lunch the playing on the playground.

Paragraph 5: Participating in the waka race.

Paragraph 6: On the bus back to school.

Paragraph 7: Conclusion.

(Changed, not exact to plan)

Pativai's Mission Bay Recount

This is my recount writing and it is about my trip to mission bay and what we did over there. It was very fun and the thing I loved about it was that it was very fun collaborating with each other, and the sand castle competition. The thing the I did not like was that all the sand got in some of our eyes.

Mission Bay Trip

On the 7th of June it was a Tuesday morning and it was nice and bright. Hub 8 was going onto a special trip to Mission Bay we were going to build sandcastles and play fun games. We went there because we thought it would be great to collaborate with other people.

First we went onto the bus and off we went to Mission Bay. I got off the bus and then we sat down and ate. After we ate we went to go build our sand castles, we got in our groups and my group was building a waka. We all encouraged everyone to win but my friend's Aashna's group won and I was happy for her.

Secondly we got into our guardian groups and went to our guardian teacher and then did our games. I was with Whaea Nin and we were doing relay's. Our group won but then we moved, onto the next activity and it was called beach flags.

Meanwhile Mr stuart said we had to lie on our backs then turn over get up and run, to try and get the batons. There were only five battens but six people so then we played and ran as fast as we could to get them. In my first beach flag race I managed to get one and in my second I managed to get two.

Then the last rotation was soccer but different. Mrs Parker had to call a number out and then that many people had to run around the outline, of the cones in our first race I was in it and we managed to get an goal in. In my second turn I was goalie then I switched and then they got the goal. Overall the other team won.

After we went and ate lunch and after eating we came back into pronounce the people that were being determined and I got the first award. We ran to the playground and started to play on the swings. We played tag then came back in for the boat race. It was exciting although I did not get to bring my boat we cheered on Charlotte's boat.

In the meantime we got around the whole fountain and then we watched all the other boats go around it. We got our bags. Faith, Cooper and I did a special thank you to the parents and teachers to thank them for coming and supporting us.

I had a fun time doing all these games and fun activities. I collaborated a lot with my group a although we did not win we felt happy about our sand castle. Having to work with other people was really fun and we ad a lot of encouragement from other teams parents and teachers.

Trip to Mission Bay is TODAY!

The weather is looking fine today so we are all ready to go to Mission Bay for our collaborative learning activities. 

Hub 8 have put a massive amount of work into the planning of this trip, so it's great to see it becoming a reality. 

Mr Stuart, Mrs Parker and Whaea Nin got everything ready on Friday night, beach flags, soccer balls, and of course our waka, for The Great Waka Race. 

Remember to pack warm mufti clothing as well as a healthy lunch and water bottle for the day. 

Also, if you have it, bring along some plastic shovels and buckets for the sandcastle competition! 

Remember the bus leaves at 9.15am - so do't be late!