Caritas Challenge

This year we took part in the Caritas challenge, and we got to choose out of doing three different things. To do the move it challenge which is doing lot's of sport for twenty-four hours and taking shifts for sleeping, the sweat it challenge which is working in shift's making things that we can sell to other people and the live it challenge which is sleeping in a cardboard box for a night. Out of these three things the Kaupeka choose the live it challenge, but we also incorporated the sweat challenge and the move it challenge into the it as well.
We did the Caritas challenge to fund raise for Timor-Leste which is a third world country in the southeast of Asia. On wristbands that we got it said 'One day of difference for a lifetime of change' , I think it means living differently for one day and fundraising for it you can make a better life for someone else. During the Caritas challenge I found it hard to get sleep because I was sleeping in a place I wasn't used to and also having to sleep without a pillow. It did mean that I learnt that elbows make good pillows! I also found it difficult to make our shelter. I think it would have been hard for people living in Timor-Leste who didn't have good building materials.

Have you ever done the Caritas challenge before, if you have what did you find difficult?

Science - Background Research and Hypothosis

This year we are doing a science experiment again and this time my question is what is the most accurate way to determine direction. I choose this question because on the website science buddies I found an experiment called Moss is Boss which is about using moss to determine direction so I decided to do my science experiment on what is the most accurate way to do this. Some of the ways I thought of using for my experiment are to use stars, the moon, the sun, moss and a homemade compass. I learnt of different ways of determining direction by reading the Mission Survival books by Bear Grylls which I enjoy.
I found most of my background research from those books but I also did some research. I learnt of many different ways to determine direction such as using the stars, moon, moss, the sun and watch method and the sun and stick method. The sun and watch method is when you use your watch to tell the direction. You would do this by pointing the 12 o'clock point at the sun and halfway between their and the hour hand is North. If you were in the Northern hemisphere it would be the other way around.

My hypothesis is that the most accurate way to determine direction would be to use the shadow tip due to the sun being a natural clock. This means the time and the position of the sun would determine direction, except during midday.

If you were doing this science experiment what would hypothesis be?

Reading Review - Outlaw

Title: Outlaw
Author: Michael Morpurgo

After a frightening storm a boy went outside to see his tree. He finds a skull with a story - Robin Hood. Robin and his father Marcus have been hunting the Kings deer since his mothers death, feeding the poor with them. When his father is captured by the Sheriff Nottingham, he will do anything to save him, but that is only the start of their problems with the Sheriff. Along with his friends Robin wages war with Nottingham, but will they succeed?

This is a great book by Michael Morpurgo author of War Horse. It is a book about love, hope, fear and Anger. It would be good for people aged 10 - 12, I rate this book 5/5. If you like this book you could try other books by Michael Morpurgo like The Elephant In The Garden, Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea, The Dancing Bear, Running Wild or Billy The Kid.



Have you read this book before?