Camp - Lunch at the Park in Mosgiel

After all that swimming and activity we are all starving, and there is no better way to finish a camp than to share 'chip butties' in the sunshine at a park - so that's exactly what we did. 

We all headed at to the park at mosgiel where we had lunch, a play, and one last ride on our scooters. It was a glorious day, and it was the perfect ending for our terrific camp. 

We all had an amazing time, and we want to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, sisters and friends who came along and helped to make our camp such a huge success!

THANK YOU!!!!!

Camp - Moana Pool

One of the highlights of our camp is always a trip to Moana Pool. It is a great opportunity for us to put our water confidence and swimming skills to the test. We play in the wave pool and the river. We go down the hyro-slide (some of us for the very first time) and we even jump off the diving boards. It is an awesome part of our camp and we all love it! Moana Pool and Hydro Slide on PhotoPeach

Camp - St Kilda skate park

We hadn't been on our scooters for a while, so it made perfectly good sense that we make our way out to the St Kilda park for a quick ride and some morning tea. It was very sunny, but only 1 degree, so a little chilly. 

We had a great time playing on the playground and scootering. Some were changing between the two so quickly that they didn't even have time to remove their helmets. (Safety first!!)

We enjoyed some delicious baking, a few chips and some fruit and then we jumped back in our cars and headed off for a swim at Moana pool. 

Camp - Museum Scavanger Hunt

 We had one final activity at the museum before we departed and that was to complete a hunt through all of the exhibits to find answers to a number of questions. We got put into small groups with parents and off we went. We had about 50 minutes to find all of the answers, so it was quite a challenge. It was terrific fun though, and some of us managed to do a spot of crocodile hunting on the way!

Camp - Tropical Butterfly House

On Friday morning, after we had packed everything up and eaten breakfast we got to go into the tropical butterfly house to visit the butterflies, the fish and the turtles. It was really cool and heaps of us managed to get a butterfly to land on us.

Tropical Butterfly House on PhotoPeach

Camp - Night walk and bed

Everyone had heard about the night walk. Older sibling have talked about it...we were nervous about it...but we wanted to do it.

The night supervisors, Elsie and Lauren, told us that we were running late for our final activity and that we would have to creep through the dark museum, because the lights would cause the alarms to go off. We had to walk in a line through the museum without making a sound. It was very creepy. We went through rooms and upstairs, no-one knew where they were going. 

Suddenly we found ourselves sitting a pitch black room. Then Lauren turned on a torch so that she could read us a story. Behind her we could see Sultan and Sonia, (the Lawrence Lions) so we knew we were up in the animal attic. 

As Lauren read the story there were many strange and scary noises coming from all around us. Children screamed, cried and clung to their friends!! Finally the lights came back on and we could breathe a sigh of relief to see that we were safe. After searching the animal attic for some of the characters from the story it was time to return to the classroom...except we would have to creep silently back through the darkened museum...

Silently we crept through the darkness, tip-toeing lightly so as not to trip alarms, when, suddenly from out of the darkness came a strange and scary MONSTER!! Children drop their arms and ran from the line, screaming and charging towards the light... what was that mysterious creature that caused such panic???

There was much bravado, laughter and many stories shared about the experience as children got ready for their beds. 

 We all slept in Discovery World. The parents and mrs May slept in there too. We got to choose where we slept, as long as we didn't try to sleep in, on or under anything.

 We all snuggled down in our beds, and after a quick bit of whispering we all got off to sleep. It had been a busy, fun-packed day, and we knew that we had another one just the same ahead of us for tomorrow. 

Camp - Death Masks

After visiting the mummy and seeing her death mask we had the chance to make one of our own. We had to think about the design of our mask, and try to make it represent us. 

 Even the parents got to make one. 

 Check out our finished products. 

Camp - Mummy Activity

After tea we took part in a cool activity about the egyptian mummy. At the Otago museum they have a mummy who is over 2,000 years old. She is a very tiny woman who died in her thirties. It was pretty interesting to see what a mummy looks like and what they were buried in. Then we had an activity where they told us all bout the mummification process. The process used to take over a month because they would dry the body out by filling it with salt. They used to put sticks up a persons nose and scrambled the brains then pull the brains out through the nose. They would remove all of the organs and preserve them in a special jar. The only organ that would be left in the body would be the heart, because that was very important if you were to make it to the after-life. Danny was our corpse for the evening and we all got to help out turn him into a mummy. Check out our photos. 

Mummy Activity on PhotoPeach

Camp - Eating

 Tea was delicious!!!!! We got pizza from Pizza Hut. Everybody was super hungry and super happy with the menu. 

Camp - Discovery World

After we had our Lotions and Potions session in the lab it was time for some investigative fun of our own. As the museum was nearly ready close we were able to go into Discovery World and check out everything on our own . It was really cool to have so much time to see all of the amazing things there were to see and do. We all love this free time!


Discovery World on PhotoPeach

Camp - Lotions & Potions

When we went to the museum we had some afternoon tea. Then we got to go into the lab to do some science experiments. We have been studying kitchen chemistry at school so it was really cool to have a session about 'Lotions and Potions'.

For one experiment we had to put acetone in a styrofoam cup to see what the reaction was. The cup melted away into a very cold goopy liquid in the bottom of the tray. 

 We made a neutral liquid using red cabbage in water. We put this water in long tubes and added a number of different ingredients to see what the reaction was. Acids turned the liquid pink and bases turned the water dark purple. It was lots of fun to see which was which. 

 Kate was our educator for the day and she showed us an experiment called elephant's toothpaste. She added warm water, food colouring, dish liquid and hydrogen peroxide to a bottle. Then she mixed dissolved yeast into warm water and combined the two mixtures. The reaction was a green frothy mixture bubbled up out of the bottle and down the sides. 

 We made gas in a jar by adding some ingredients to baking soda and water. We sealed them in a plastic bag. When the mixture got shaken up it began to react. The reactions was a gas that filled the plastic bag. It became very tight and eventually it popped. 

 We filled a beaker with water and a few drops of food colouring. Then we added some vegetable oil. The oil and water did not combine no matter how much we mixed them. Then we added dome detergent and mixed it in. The oil disappeared!!!