Goals of the week Term 4 2021

Hi everyone 

Today is the first day back at school since to holidays and next year I will be a year seven THAT'S MIND-BLOWING. Anyway, these are my goals of the week if you keep looking you will see that every week there is a new quote and I do another video. I also write down a goal that I want to improve on. My first video states that we can and will get through Covid together ( well actually at a two-meter distance )if we follow the rules. 

Bye 

I can't believe I'm almost at intermediate.

Trash reading

Hi everyone,

this is my post about trash whats trash got to do with this you may ask? Well since the start of this year we have been reading a book called... Trash every time we read a chapter we would fill out the comprehension questions these are mine.

By Cass 

P.S you should read trash it's a really adventurous book and is fun it tells you a lot about the dumps. But I won't tell you any more.

Cass's awesome speech

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this is my SPEEEEECH I have done it on the Kaimanawas witch are the horses that live in the Kaimanawa ranges I love these horses and I really admire their beauty so I hope you can see why.

By Cass

1.  Hi, everyone I would like to talk to you about the Wilson sisters, and their plight to save the kaimanawas. The kaimanawas are the horses that live in the kaimanawa ranges. These horses are really wild, beautiful, and dirty. There are farm escapees like Thoroughbred, Station Hacks, welsh ponies, quarter horses, and many more breeds. They can be small but tough and have a little thing about them that you just can’t find in other horses.	2. They come in a size range of 13.2 hands to 15.3 hands. Today, there are about 300 horses in the ranges but 30 years ago there were about 1,700 horses.DOC began a population management program in 1993 to keep the horse herds at a number that does not affect the habitat they live in or themselves. Now DOC has a muster every 2 years to keep the number of wild horses down.  When there is a muster DOC tries to find good homes for some of the horses, but all others go to slaughter.
3. They are shipped away on big transporter trucks to be dog-tuckered. Imagine that! They have just been mustered and have no idea what’s going on. they’re scared out of their mind. Luckily for some,  Vicki, Kelly, and Amanda, three fantastic sisters are on a mission to adopt as many as they can!. When the Wilson sisters pick their horses they start their 2nd life by becoming showjumpers, liberty horses, and showtym camp ponies.	4.  It sounds simple, but it’s not! These horses are wild and have never been touched by humans. But the Wilson sisters are always up for the challenge. They did similar stuff most of their childhood. When the horses are shipped to their new homes they are stressed out so once they arrive they get put into yards with water and hay to calm down. Then the conditioning starts.
5. Every day the Wilson sisters go to the yards to give them hay and water and feed them grass through the rails.  At first, the horses don’t take it but after a while they do and slowly but surely they start allowing the Wilson sisters to touch them.  It makes sense!  Who wouldn’t look forward to extra grass and a brush! They then start the next part of their training which is being led. Leading is very important because horses need to be led to be ridden and to get caught and lots more.	6. In the ranges, it was the lead mare and stallion that were driving the herd. But now it's the Wilson sisters who have to be boss, in a kind way. So once the lead rein is clipped on, there are pats, yes lots and lots of pats until the horse associates only goodness and fun with the lead rein! And then on to the next stage of getting used to a rider saddle and bridle. First, they get the horses used to the saddle blanket so it gets used to things on its back.
7. After that, they stand next to the horse’s back and start talking to them and then they lie over their back till all their weight is on the horse. If the horse behaves, they slowly sit upright and don’t move. They then get off and let them go because If they do too much it’s overwhelming for the horse.  So the next day they do it again, lie over their back, and sit upright but this time they give the horse a squeeze. 2 weeks down the track they can walk, trot, canter halt, and then they teach them this under saddle.	8. So you see,  taming these wild horses is not an easy feat. It is a really long process and can be a bit scary, but how amazing it is to know that a 2nd chance has been given. The horses will always have that little thing about them… Free spirit.  Even though I'm not able to train them, yet, I am doing my bit by raising awareness. You can do your bit too! You can spread the word and get your whānau to make a donation or even sponsor a horse.  Hope you enjoyed my speech

Other maori language slide show

This is me and mays other Maori language slide show and it's better

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Our Slide show

Hi everyone this is Mays and my slide show about morai words

Beach fun with ponies

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this is my post about the beach with the ponies. Yesterday I when to the beach with my riding teacher Ashleigh. I was looking forwards to this all day we had left the A&P show grounds at 12:40 AM and got to the beach at about 1:00ish. My Nana and Poppa were coming to watch me ride and take some photos. Ashleigh had brought her a very good camera so my nana was on camera duty. We got all the horses tacked up and led them down to the sand. I was going to ride  Ashleighs horse P.J aka pajamas and his show name is Bananas in pajamas he 

is 14.3 hh and is 8 I am riding in the Amanda Wilson clinic. 

Ashleigh was riding Whiskey his show name is  -AJE on the rocks-  he is 15hh and is 3 turning 4 in November. I led P.J up to a log and hoped on. We got a feel for the horses on sand (because whiskey didn't like sinking in it) and then we went for a walk down the beach. We walked and trotted down the beach and then trotted back but P.J broke into a canter so we went for a fast canter back to my nana and poppa. It was awesome we then walked the other way but didn't trot back because the sand was too dry and the horses could sink and break their legs so we 

walked back. Well, we walked back whiskey kept trying to roll we got back to nana and poppa again and Ashleigh let him roll while P.J  stood staring at him. I then when back down the beach and cantered back. I trotted him around a bit and then we went and looked at the photos. Then whiskey tried to get away and since Ashleigh was sitting down when he pulled away she let go and he tried to get back to the float while Ashleigh walked after him P.J kept trying to follow him so I made him turn in circles. We then made our way back up to the float I rode up and everyone else walked. We unsaddled them and let them eat after 

a while we loaded them into the float and drove back to the paddocks. It was soooooo fun. Thanks, Ashleigh

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Jump for joy

Hi everyone it's now level 2 yay. yesterday I went to Ashleigh's (my riding teacher) and we were tidying up the horses after they had been on the hill so they were really dirty. The only thing that wasn't that good was they would not want to come off the hill but maybe we were lucky. The day before Ashleigh had put up an electric tape so if they came down to the bottom it would be harder to get back to the hill. When we got there all the horses were in the bottom paddock Yesss. The only problem was that one of the horses blue had somehow gotten over the electric tape. Ashleigh thought that maybe she touched it with her nose and then when she got an electric shock and jumped over. So we had to get her out and then let the brushing begin. first, we got Shyla and blue and we brush them as well as we could and then put a fly rug on. we then go Shyane and PJ and whiskey and gave them a brush over and lunged Shyane and whiskey. After that, it was time for me to ride P.J. First I walked and trotted him around then I went for a little canter then Ashleigh set up a crossbar at 20cm and he jumped it really well. Then she raised it up to an upright at 30cms and he jumped it lazily well Then we raised it to an upright at 55 or 60cms and it tock three hundred times before he actually jumped it and then I rode him around bareback and up the hills.

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Silly video

I saw this thing online where someone would upload a funny picture of an animal or something like that to make people smile in lockdown so I made a video and put a picture of our dog Nes as a puppy hope it makes you feel better if you are sad from Cass 😄 Stay happy stay safe it's level 2 soon👌

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farm fun

Hi everyone this is my post about fun on my nana and poppa's farm my nana and poppa own a lifestyle block in valley road or you might know it as valley road cattery witch is a business for boarding cats that my nana runs. So back to the farm if you remember how I did a blog post called horse poo for sale. Well, we also put a post on Facebook about the horse poo and 2 people brought it off us. Now we only have 6 bags of it and don't have much more in the paddocks so hopefully, we don't have too many more orders. I founded it really cool that we could do contactless pick-ups. We would leave how many bags they want by the letterbox and they would collect it and put the money in the letterbox🐎. The other really cool thing is that I have been riding indy (and I think I have done so many blog posts about indy you will now know she's my pony). So I have been riding indy and she has behaved really well. Indy hates moving any faster than a walk when she's going in circles and lately, we have been trotting her in circles and she was really good.😎 hope you enjoyed my blog post about what I've been up to in lockdown.

By Cass

Day in the life of spocky

Hi everyone this is my blog post I'm not going to write too much as I have a video you can listen to.

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