Shelter Building

For our last shelter building rotation, we had to build a tarp and rope survival shelter. The hardest part was we were just getting started because we didn't really have any control over what we were doing and we were a bit over the place. The easiest part was when we had just had a talk with Mrs Kennedy about having some control and working together because that really got us to actually think and stop and actually have some control over what we were doing. A good skill to have when you're building a survival shelter is to know what the right knot to use is because it can really help with keeping your shelter stable. I would give my ]self a Resilience rating of 5/5 because we were having a lot of times where we really wanted to give up but we kept going.

Tent Building Reflection

For our third Whetu Survivor rotation, we have been learning about building survival tents. Today we had to build a tent.  The hardest thing for me was getting the tent to stand up because the poles that were meant to keep the tent up kept getting stuck in the slits that they were meant to go into. The thing that worked well was when our group actually stopped and talked about it. I learnt that when you work together especially on a tent it's way easier.

Tarp and Rope Tent Plan

The tent we are aiming to make is a tarp and rope tent. To make this we are going to need two trees so that we can tie the rope to. Then we put a tarp over the top of the rope.

To make the next tarp and rope tent we are going to tie a rope around two trees so it makes a rope line then we are going to put a rope through the holes and tie that to the trees so it makes a triangle that we can fit under. We chose these tents because we thought that they were easy to make and that they had a nice shelter.

T4 W5 CC

This week for Chapter Chat I did Pick & Mix for the task we had to make avatars of some of the characters in the book. I made avatars of Patina, Coach Brody, Ghost and Lou. This was really fun and I really liked it. The hardest part was deciding what avatars I was going to do because there were so many to choose from. The easiest part was making them because the author gave us a good detailed description of them. I give this task a 10/10.

Shelter Research

If lost in the bush the best place to build a shelter is in the driest spot you can find because nothing sucks the
warmth out of you more than wetness but if it isn't too cold try and build a shelter on high ground because
breezes help keep the bugs away and you’ll be easier to spot if a search party passes by.

In case of an emergency where you need to build a survival shelter, it will need to protect you from
Mosquitos and other insects also cold temperatures because people who don’t survive in the outdoors usually die
losing their body heat not necessarily starvation or dehydration.

When building a survival shelter
you could use dry sticks and leaves for warmth and a roof to sleep under you could also use big
sticks to make a shelter frame and then cover it with dry twigs and leaves. Also if you have a tarp you could use
rocks for keeping the tarp down.

Some pros of sleeping in a bush shelter are that you could have lots of dry leaves and sticks around you so that you
can keep yourself warm another pro is that some shelters are easy to put up and that they are pretty
sturdy and will last you the night. Some cons of sleeping in a bush shelter
is that if your shelter is to open it’s easy for bug’s and
coldness to get in another con is that it could be really damp and wet and
you shelter just gets soaked thorough and you lose lots of body temperature.

Whetu Survivor rotation 2

For my second Whetu survivor rotation, we had to research about New Zealand native trees. The tree I chose to research was Pohuwtukawa. This rotation was both fun and challenging. To find our research about our tree we used a website called  The Meaning of Trees this website helped a lot because if you tried researching on google it would give you some really complicated sentence that you had no idea what it meant. I really enjoyed this rotation and would love to do it again.

Different names for Pohuwtukawa.

Maori name	Scientific name	English name
The New Zealand Christmas tree	Metrosideros excelsa	Pohutukawa

Where might you find Pohuwtukawa?

North Island

Found throughout the North Island, particularly north of New Plymouth and Gisborne. Pohutukawa grows best in warm, drier areas close to the sea.

The Pohutukawa tree has red crimson leaves and large leaves the leaves are a dark green and The underside of a pohutukawa leave has fine white hairs. 

The nectar from the flowers was collected by Māori and used in the treatment of sore throats. Both Māori and Europeans used a decoction from the inner bark in the treatment of dysentery if you don't know what dysentery is it's bloody or infectious diarrhoea.

T4 W4 CC

This week for Chapter Chat I did Creation Station our task was to write an Acrostic poem. The hardest part was finding a full sentence for the letters. The easiest part was colouring the background because I had lots of ideas for a background so I could easily just pick from one. I really enjoyed this task I rate it a 10/10.