Hot water!

WALT: Explain a scientific phenomenon

Maori were first to discover Hanmer when they were walking the Pounamu
trail taking green stone to the East Coast from the West Coast, William Jones,
a farmer discovered the pools when he was walking and noticed a strange fog
coming from near the track.

The water in the thermal pools starts as snow and rain falling on the Hanmer
Springs mountains almost 180 years ago. When it hit the ground it
seeped down through fractured rock in the Hanmer Mountains to a depth
of about two kilometres below the Hanmer plains. It makes a reservoir and the
water gets heated by the earth's core.
This can all happen because New Zealand is right in the middle of the ring of
fire. That's why there's so much earthquakes and volcanoes, the ring of fire is
where the earth stitches together. The tectonic plates rub together creating friction
and heat which makes the water hot.

DId you know that the water in Hanmer is 180 years old!

So this is my understanding of how the geothermal water is hot.

Hanmer 1880

WALT: Identify and explain important moments in history using written and visual language features.
Our task was to choose a date that was important in the development of Hanmer and research about it. Here is what the hot pools were like in 1880!

hanmer

Tomorrow morning we are going on a 2 night camp to hanmer spring here is some of the fun things we will be doing.

Getting To Hanmer

I love miss panther

I love miss panther because if I dident have a teatcher I would not be as smart as I am.I also like miss panther because she is funny and she knows how to take a joke. and she likes taking selfies on the tree top walk  

now for the things that I dont like about miss panther. one of the reasons that I dont like her is that she always sings to me

 (cry me a river)And anouther reason I dont like her is because on april fouls day she made all of the class run around the block and field in the rain 

from the teatchers pet Leah

Camp Reflection 2016

The highlights of camp

The wildlife center

In franz josef we went to the kiwi house when we got there we went into the building and learnt about kiwi and stots we learnt that the most endangered kiwi was the rowi once we had learnt a little bit about what we were looking at we went to see the kiwis it was time to go in but before we went in we had to stop and look at some things about the kiwi then we went into the kiwi room miss panther told us to be quit and we will see them there was some glass we looked through the glass we saw a little baby kiwi it was running all over its hous then we seen the other kiwi it was hiding in the corner of its house eating then we went out of the kiwi house to the glacier room in the glacier room there was fake glaciers made out of fiberglass all over the place there were lots of tunnels to take pictures in and they even added sound effects.

The tree top walk

In hokitika we went to the tree top walk when we got there we had some lunch then we walked up a big hill to the beginning it was time to go on the thirst bridge I was a little bit scared but I still went on there then I realized that all of it was a bridge then we got to the tower I didn't go on it but all my friends did some of my friends told me that it shaked a lot once everyone was back down from the tower we kept on walking to the swinging part we could only go in groups of 8 so the teacher had to put us into groups I didn't go on the swing bridge because I was to scared then we kept on walking to the big hill then we had to walk down the big hill again at the bottom a lady that works there gave us some hats and pens.

Lake Matheson

In fox glacier we went to Lake Matheson at lake Matheson there were lots of tourists then we started walking to lake Matheson we had to walk over a swing bridge then we started going up hill then we stopped at a picnic table and had a bit of a brake there was a really good view then we kept walking to a even betta viewpoint to get a class photo then we walked back over the swing bridge past all the tourist and back to the car her are me and my friends at Lake Matheson.