Hinaki

David's writing:  1 Hinaki

1.  It's the first day of the school holidays.  The sun's eeling.

2  Picking watercress

3 and I poke around in the creek looking for eels

We put bait in the hinaki and face it downstream in the river.  The eels will smell the bait and swim through the small hole to the hinaki.. They can't get out

5 Show how a hinaki works

Hooray for Bees

A bit about bees

Bees live in a hive. They are a large group called colonies. The bees eat, make honey, store extra food and look after the young bees.

There are three types of bees in a colony: Queen bee, Drones and Worker bees. These three types of bees have different jobs.

Queen Bee

A Queen Bee is a female. She is the only one to lay eggs. She is the mother to all the bees in the colony. SHE IS THE LEADER.

Worker Bees

Worker Bees: Are female bees that cannot lay eggs.

House Bees: They are young bees that clean the hive, feed the young and make honey.

Forager Bees: These are older bees that gather food and defend the hive.

Drones

Drones are male bees that make babies to the Queen Bee so she can lay eggs. 

Grulla Horses

Grulla (grew-ya) horses are from America. There isn’t many of these types of horses. These nice looking horses are from the dun family. They usually have a sandy/yellow to reddish/brown coat. Their legs are usually darker than their body and sometimes have faint stripes kind of like a zebra on them.I think these types of horses are work horses. If I could find this horse I would ride it and take good care of it. I think this horse looks like a workhorse. If I had him I would love to see it work.

Dawn Service

These are some of the things I know about my grand-dad.

He never liked the word “um”

He wore a brown leather jersey

His hair was like white feathers

He always waited for the mail cart

He always used to sit in the paddock with his friends and read the mail from home

He sat on the wings of his plane and would wave

What I wanted to know.

If he got scared to fly his plane

Who he thought about in his dreams

If he would look down at his polished boots or look at us standing waiting for his name to be called all warm out bed

How he felt when he lost his friends

If I was in war I would fight for abit then run away if I could. I would be kind of scared but I would want to fight to help my team. I would miss my family heaps. If there was to be a big killing spree at school I would grab some of my friends and try make a plan to fight back, but if half of our school was already dead I would tell my bro’s “thats us boys, we out!”. 

Wonder what would have happened if my ancestors didn’t fight for us to live? I am very proud of that they did fight for us.

Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga

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