T1+Inquiry

**Tauranga Intermediate**
 * Room 30**

Wendy Duggan 43 Tuihana Drive Papamoa Monday, 28 March 2011 Dear Mum, Thank you for transporting me on the Amazing Race. I enjoyed the Redwoods orienteering course because I loved all of the running around the woods and looking under things and writing them down and telling the other teams we didn’t have any but we had a lot of answers. The thing I didn’t enjoy was getting sent the wrong way by Marty and T.J’s Team and then finding there was nothing. In the maze I was getting frustrated finding dead ends and missing the alley ways. We were stuck with Dylan’s team and Dylan is very competitive and Scott (Dylan’s dad) put Dylan on his shoulders and tried to see a way and in the end we found it. Thanks for putting up with us and pushing the others along when they were falling back a bit. Yours sincerely

Britney

**Room 30** **Tauranga Intermediate**

Earth2Ocean 50 Cross Road Sulphur Point Monday, 28 March 2011 Dear Earth2Ocean, Thank-you for letting Rimu House Tauranga Intermediate use your dive equipment and teaching us to use all the equipment and be safe, not sorry. I enjoyed everything, the diving through hoops and the whole experience was awesome and I would love to do it again. The answering of the questions was hard. I’m not sure if I got them right or wrong, it was hard to write under water. My favourite part of the Amazing Race was the diving by far. I had never had the opportunity before to do that so it was a privilege to get to do this. Thanks again.

Yours Sincerely

Britney Duggan

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Monday 28th March

Amazing Race Reflection

__W.A.L.T: Reflect on our learning experience on the Amazing Race.__

__Day One: Te Puna Quarry Park- Katikati- Waihi- Karangahake George__

On day one my team was Kimberly, Cameron, Zac and I. I think we all worked as a team but Kimberly and Cameron were slow and we had to wait for them to catch up a lot. I enjoyed the Waihi Gold Mine questions were hard because it came with a lot of other information that wasn’t needed. The funny thing was Taylah and her team were up at the mine for nearly an hour trying to find the answers to the questions when they finally hooked on that the questions were at the information and visitor center. We didn’t have the advantage of fast people in my team it felt like half of us were doing the work and the others dragged along but other than that we worked well we just needed a little spark and some energy to get us going for the day ahead for running. At the start of the tunnel it looked so short the team in front of us were running and we could see the reflections from there shoes as they ran while Zac and I waited for Kimberly, Cameron and Kimberly’s grandfather. When we were running through the tunnel there looked like there were massive wholes in the ground but they were little puddles. There was a school group coming through at the same time so they were pushing us out to the sides. Kimberly’s grandfather was great but I think we needed a parent for the amount of running we did.

__Day Two: Blokart's- Kiwi 360- Redwoods- Te Puia- Amaze me__

My team was one member short on thursday, Zac was away. We worked well on day two except for the Redwoods where I did all of the running and finding while Kimberly and Cameron just walked behind while I was trying to get us up a few places. The places we made up were probably at Te Puia and lost places on the way to the maze. The maze was frustrating because it was dead end after dead end. We ended up joining teams kind of with Dylan's team because Scott (Dylan's Dad) put Dylan on his shoulders and se if he could see away in to the middle of the maze. It took for ever to finish the maze. Our Parent was my Mum she was great she could keep up with us and push the others along when they needed it. We finished in 7th.

__Day Three: Marina- Filleting Fish- Diving- Master Chicken- Park- Library- Art Gallery- Elms__

Third and final day everyone was tired. Th marina was hard we went down the same one three times and missed the final picture and didn’t do so well and the marina set us back heaps. The Filleting the fish was a long wait. The diving was my favourite one of all and I did it. It was a amazing experience and I would love to do it again. The Parent was My Dad and he did the same as my mum pushing them along and giving us confidence. We finished 23rd.

**Excellent reflection Britney. Great honesty. I am glad you had a such an awesome time on the Amazing Race. Nice voice recording too!**  **Miss Crone :)**

__Thursday 14 April 2011__

Amazing Race Brochures

** L__.I. We are learning to use detailed language and a writing style that is appropriate and directed to audience to produce a brochure advertising a place we visited on the Amazing Race__ ** ** S.C. We can use formal language (no slang) use persuasive language/emotive language e.g. you would love ...use objective and/or powerful language e.g. certainly, must, absolutely **



I liked the text you had and I think that all your spelling is right and i liked how you labeled all the pages it made finding the pages easy and think that you should put your text a bit bigger and i liked your pervasive langue and i liked that you listed all the ways how to get to the art gallery.

Nathaniel

Thursday 14 April 2011

**L.I. We are learning to develop effective questions and draw conclusions from our findings.** __S.C. We will have__
 * used a variety of questions from the 7 servants
 * used a variety of open and closed questions to extract relevant information



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