Draw the Same Taskmaster Game

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to communicate to each other and contribute together. 

The teacher made a game for us called task masters we had a drawing that was outside on the window and there were little pictures on the paper, the runners had to go and look at the drawing while the drawers stayed inside. The runners had to tell the drawers what the drawing was so the drawers could draw the pictures. The runners were the only one that could see the drawing so they had to tell the drawer what to draw.

 I don’t think that we worked well in my team the first time.  The thing that didn’t work well was that I kept forgetting the drawing that the teacher had drawn on the paper so I had to keep going outside.    

It was hard to communicate and we were not allowed to point at the piece of paper to tell where they had to draw on the piece of paper so we had to say the direction for example top right corner. 

We changed places so now I was the drawer and the runners were yelling at me to draw the right thing. The thing that worked well was that we had two runners so it was faster so when one came inside to tell me what the drawing was the other one went outside and looked at the drawing. The thing that didn’t work well was that they were rushing me. It was challenging to draw the right thing in the right place. 

Have you ever played a activity like this before?

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A Terrifying Tsunami Evacuation

 On Friday there was a tsunami warning and we had to walk up the hill at the back of our school. 

When we got up on the hill I became scared about my sister because she was working on the water and I thought that the tsunami would happen but it didn't. I was worried at school because I thought the tsunami would come to our school when we were there, and I was trying to stay positive and help my friends to stay positive because they were sad and scared. 

After a while we noticed that there was a really dark bit in the water and there  was a long line across the water. 

My class played a quiz game on our teacher’s phone. We had to answer all the questions that the teacher asked us, and most of them were easy but some were hard.

We stayed up there for about four hours and I was bored and hungry, I also didn't really enjoy it when I was up on the hill.

When we were up on the hill there were very kind people that gave us food and water. 

After we were told that we were safe I felt safe and when I was up the hill I felt safe because we were up high.

Have you ever been in a tsunami or had a tsunami warning before?