Stanly's Learning journey

Don the Eel man On Friday 22nd of March, Jack delacas grandad Don came to school to talk to the Batten team and Hillary hub about Eels. First Don told us about the longest Eel he has ever caught.  It was two meters long and  about 45 cm wide. Next, he told us some facts. So here are some facts. Eels are slimy. Eels eat ducklings and little birds. Long fins are very easy to catch. Eel lay their eggs in Tonga. Eels can swim 4,000 meters in 5 months. The oldest eel is 112 years old. Don tells how old the eel is by taking out its ear bone and seeing how many lines there. Short fins can eat crabs. Eels can swim back and forwards. After an eel eats a crab it gets a red butox. I hope you learned a lot Thanks, Stanly

On Thursday 21 of March 2 people called Janet and Phil came to see the batten team. They told us all about south Sudan because the batten team is learning all about south Sudan for lent. First they old us about water, they get there drinking water from the Nile river which runs straight through Sudan and South Sudan. They have to filter it because it is a little bit dirty. Then they started to tell us about money. $100 in south Sudan is 30¢ in NZ. Then they told us about their job. Janet converts Bibles into different languages and in her spare time she watches doctor who on her laptop. Phil MAF which means Mission Aviation Fellowship. I hope you learned a bit about south Sudan. Thanks, Stanly

On the Friday the 1st of march, the year 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s and 8s went to swimming sports. The year 5 boys raced first then the girls and it went on to year 8. Then it was backstroke in the same order and the same with breaststroke. I came 5th in freestyle, 3rd in backstroke ended up going to the finals and 3 in breaststroke. I was very happy with myself. The relay ended up getting cancelled. Then we went back to school. Thanks, Stanly

Water will never run out On  the 19 of march, the Batten team did a video chat about water. Water will never run out because we have aquifers underground which has lots of water. The water gets there because water from go's rivers down through the rocks, through the dirt and into the aquifers. During that process the water gets filtered and cleaned. The two sorts of aquifers are unconfined aquifer and a confined aquifer. Unconfined aquifer means water can get out in two streams, rivers and lakes and a confined aquifer means water can't get out in two streams, rivers and lakes.

Eel trip On the Thursday the 7th of march, the year 5, 6, 7 and 8 went to the Heathcote river at centennial park. The 2 people already there where Matt, Tony and Bridget. Me, Manu, Cam and Jay where a group. First we did nature art, my group made an Eel out of rocks, sticks, and sand. After that we had morning tea. Next we went with Tony. We went down along next to the river talking about Eels habitats, plants and overhangs. Next we went to Mrs welsh. We had to go and find little tubes with blue on it and 2 other bits. After that we had lunch. Next we had then we went and touched Eels, catch whitebait and play a big board game with Bridget. Last but not lest we got to catch water buds. The one we got the most were stick insects. Then we went back to school. Thanks for reading, Stanly 😀😃