WildLab Fun w/ The Year 6's

WildLab Fun w/ The Year 6's

Today we went to a place called Wildlab. We were there to study a bird called Oi. While we were there we also learned about what they do. For our first activity, we climbed uphill for me and my friend it was quite challenging because we have Asthma so climbing hills are kinda hard. We got to the top and saw the lady in an Oi costume doing calls to us in a bird-ish language, we also had a look around the area and got told some stories. as I was going down I realized everyone was down except me and 2 other people. So to get a bit faster I slid down the hill on my bottom. Did you know Oi birds leave their mother at 3 months to then leave at sea for 7 years! Imagine 3 months young and all of a sudden go somewhere else without their mother. How do they survive at sea there is no fresh water? Well, they have the ability to get the salt water and turn into fresh water, That's amazing, right? well, also they can get through storms and quite a lot of natural disasters. We tried to experience what they have to go through when they come home. We had partners and one of us would be blindfolded and we got guided with words where to go, we had to go under a large camouflage sheet which was easy to get tangled up in, the go-to 3 poles one at a time and go around them once each while getting blasted with water from people shooting water guns to act like rain/storm. Then we had to try and put our hand in a net while it was moving to grab a plushie which was a squid because oi's eat squid After you got the plushie you have to hold on to it and bring it to the next blindfolded person. Remember we had to do all of that while blindfolded (To pretend its night) and follow you, partners, instructions. That was just one of our tasks. Our other task was to build a shelter in a rain forest for an egg (Normally the Oi's will dig out a hole underground but for time perpasices we made it above ground only using resources around us) Me and my team did not finish but you could still see what we were trying to do anyway, You should see how hard it got we had to snap sticks that were on the ground to make it how we wanted, Make a roof with sticks and even try and tie things with flax! after that challenge, we had to go back on the bus for a long ride back to school.