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We made it home!! Missing New Zealand already!

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4 hours down!! Now we have a 4 hour layover before our long 12 hour flight to Los Angeles!

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Friday- Jan. 6, 2017
We woke up at 3:00am (Friday), which is 9:00 am on Thursday for you to get to the airport. We are going to be traveling back in time! We are leaving at 6:00am in Friday from New Zealand and we will arrive in Canada at 4:30pm on Friday. This may only seem like 10 hours, but with all of the time change it is actually 34 hours! I hope you all had a great week back! I hope you  haven't been giving Mrs. Hargrave, Mrs. Thomas, and Mrs. Lorenz a hard time!! In the picture Kuwi & Squirt are posing with the van we named "Rex" that we have been riding around in!

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I wish you were here in school with us

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Thursday-Jan. 5, 2017
We went out to dinner and then took a walk through the city of Christchurch. In 2010 there was a major earthquake that ruined lots of the buildings in Christchurch. They are still rebuilding and now there are still ruined buildings, but people have been making some beautiful graffiti work on the sides of the buildings. There is also some cool artwork, look at the plastic sheep! There is also a picture of a theater that made it through the earthquake! It's super cool!

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Thursday-Jan. 5, 2017

On our walk down we encountered a few of the 40,000,000 sheep in New Zealand and this one struck a pose for me!

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Thursday-Jan. 5, 2017
We hiked to the top of a hill to see a view of Christchurch! It didn't seem real! It was so beautiful!

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Thursday-Jan. 5, 2017
On our walk down the beach we saw a cave and walked through it. It led to another entrance to the ocean!

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Thursday-Jan. 5, 2017
We made sure to enjoy Christchurch with all of the beautiful weather! We started off by walking along the Pacific Ocean in a small town called Sumner. Kuwi & Squirt got soaked on our walk yesterday, so they stayed back at home to dry out! Check out the view!!

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It sounds like you all learned a very valuable lesson during your workshop! Communication is not just about speaking, but about listening to others as well! It sounds like you had fun! We are just about to head out for our last day of fun in New Zealand! Look for the pictures to come!!

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You got to eat burgers in math!!!!?!?! Haha😁😁 I know all about your long division lingo! Divide Multiply Subtract Bring down Remaider or Repeat! My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Smith taught me that!! You all look very excited to be back at school! Keep up the hard work with that division!

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We were really challenged today when MGR playhouse came in and did a workshop on creativity and communication. It was great until she took our voices away. We discovered that we have many friends that want to lead but some that don't want to listen. It is really hard to communicate without our voices. Maybe we were struggling because we skipped snack. Even though the activities took a little longer than our actor wanted we still had fun

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We are trying our best with division and we are doing pretty good with it when we us place value disks on a place value chart. However, those standard algorithms are tricky. Mrs. Hargrave taught us a trick to help us remember the steps, "Does McDonald's Serve Cheese Burgers Regularly?" Do you know what this means? It really has nothing to do with McDonalds!!! We are going to try this on our own tonight for homework 🤓

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Wednesday-Jan. 4, 2017
Today we hiked along the Rakaia Gorge. We decided to travel a little because the weather was bad in Christchurch, but the rain didn't go away! The hike was beautiful, but we all got soaked with rain!

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Seeing your bright, smiling faces made me smile so much!! I miss you all!

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Mrs. Hargrave, Mrs. Thomas, and Mrs. Lorenz are driving us crazy!

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Mrs. Hargrave, Mrs. Thomas, and Mrs. Lorenz are driving us crazy!

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Miss Gerber,
We started back to school without you this morning. We miss you but enjoyed reading about your adventures. Keep updating us!

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Tuesday-Jan. 3, 2017
We all got on bikes and went down some crazy trails that came out at the Pacific Ocean!! Kuwi & Squirt had fun riding along the path through the forest! When we finally made it to the shore Mrs. Gerber wanted to stick her foot in the water. Since it was so wavy her other foot for comeplely covered in water and her shoe started to float away in the water! It was super funny!! On the way back Hannah ran into a few trees! I laughed the entire time! I hope you all have a great first day back! You can see Mrs. Gerber in the background of the photo right before her shoes got soaked and her shoe floating out in the water!

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Monday-Jan. 2, 2017
Today we all piled in the car and drove 6 hours back to Derek's house! It has been a long day! We wanted to climb a mountain on the way through, but it was so cloudy that we weren't able to. Instead Derek drove us up another mountain to get a beautiful view! The wind was blowing so hard at the top that Kuwi &I Squirt had to stay in my pocket! They were blowing away when I tried to take a picture! But check out the view we enjoyed!

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Sunday-Jan. 1, 2017
Today we took a 3 hour hike out to Bob's Cove that is on the west side of Lake Wakatipu. What a beautiful sight! Kuwi & Squirt got a bit tired of all of the stairs right at the end!

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Sunday-Jan. 1, 2017
We rang in the New Year in downtown Queenstown!

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Saturday- Dec. 31, 2016
Today we took a jetboat ride today down the river! The water was so blue! We all packed into a boat and took a tour of the area. The driver was crazy! He was swerving around all of the boulders! Out of no where he started doing 360 degree turns! Kuwi & Squirt decided to stay back! They were afraid that they would fall out! We got completely soaked! When we got off the boat it looked like we all peed our pants!

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Friday- Dec. 30, 2016
The luge course is kind of like a sled with wheels! It was super fun! I beat everyone down the hill 3 out of the 5 times!! Squirt & Kuwi had a blast!! Check out the video!!

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Friday- Dec. 30, 2016
Today was a busy day! We walked all over town by the water, saw kiwi birds, and went on a luge ride! It was quite exciting! Below you can see Kuwi & Squirt hanging out by the water and on the luge ride! I learned that kiwi birds on nocturnal, so they sleep during the day and are awake at night. At the bird conservatory where we visited them we had to go into this hut that was almost completely black! It took a moment for our eyes to adjust. Some older man whacked me in the head and sat on Hannah's lap! We all laughed really hard! I found a picture on the internet, so you can see a kiwi bird! Check out the pictures! I'll attach a video of the luge in the next post!

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Thursday- Dec. 29, 2016
Derek found us a house to stay in for the next few days! Look at the view from the house! The mountains that you see are called the Remarkable Mountains! Kuwi & Squirt begged to get a picture with them! Check it out!

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We made our way to Queenstown! 🚌👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👫🏞🐢🐥

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We made our way to Queenstown! 🚌👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👫🏞🐢🐥

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Thursday- Dec. 29, 2016
All six of us crammed into a van and drove 6 more hours from Christchurch, NZ to Queenstown, NZ! We had such a beautiful drive down! We stopped at Lake Tekapo & Lake Pukaki! Squirt met a new friend at Lake Tekapo! Squirt and Kuwi the Kiwi bird are going to be traveling around New Zealand for the rest of the trip! They are having so much fun together! Along the side of the road we have seen so many lupin flowers blooming! It is very beautiful down here!

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Wednesday- Dec. 28, 2016
Derek and his girlfriend, Kat, took us to a café where he hung out with Squirt. He ordered french fries that were delivered out of tubes! It was super cool! Check it out!

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Wednesday- Dec. 28, 2016
After 35 hours of traveling, we have made it!! It is very beautiful over here!! I'm ready for a nap already! New Zealand is 18 hours ahead of you all! You can think about it as 6 hours behind you, but I the next day! So, when you are getting out of school at 3:30pm on Tuesday it is 9:30am Wednesday here! If we get to talk while I am here, you will be talking to someone in the future :)

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Tuesday-Dec. 27, 2016
We have been waiting for 4 hours in Vancouver  get on a plane to Sydney, Australia! The flight from Vancouver to Sydney is 16 hours!! Squirt & Hannah are getting ready for the long plane ride!

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Monday-Dec. 26, 2016Traveling to New Zealand has been an exhausting trip so far!! We left on Monday, Dec 26 at 7:30 am from Rochester and drove to Toronto, Canada. We then got on a flight from Toronto to Vancouver. It is now 10:00 pm and we are only to Vancouver, Canada. Check out where that is on the map!