Pirongia skatepark

                            pirongia Skatepark

We had to do letters to the council it was really tricky but we got there in the end.We had to cardboard models of are skatepark it was really fun. I liked doing this terms inquiry It was my favorite.   

How a seed grows

How seeds grow

Seeds are a vital part to our life. If there are no trees there would be no life. So how do they grow?

A seed has a tiny plant inside of it called an embryo. This embryo needs some special conditions such as moisture, warmth, nutrient rich soil and sunlight to grow. The embryo absorbs water from the soil, the soil provides moisture and nutrients for the embryo. Plant cells in the seed start to duplicate and the enzymes get activated.

The embryo gets nourishment from from the soil. The first sign of growth is a tiny root and the embryo gets more nourishment and the embryo grows a bit more. The plant bursts through the soil in search of sunlight the seed coat has fallen off the leaves are in search of photosynthesis and carbon dioxide.

The seed roots anchor into the soil to keep the plant stable. The roots are now searching for nutrients. The shoot grows up towards the light. The shoot is now developing into a plant. The conditions it needs is sunlight and water.

Do you know a seed has amazing dna it knows when to start growing.

Book week

                                   Book Week  

Every year we have a book where we do quizzes and dress up as a book character. It was fun seeing all the people dressed up. I was Mr Stink by David Wailliams. My favorite part was booknic picnic when friends and family came and we had a picnic.       

Camp

                               Camp 
                                     

 The freezing water splashes into my face.The knee high mendacious mud slows my legs. We grip to the sky high ropes. The water dances down my led like a ballerina. The steam rises off the hot pool as we jump in



         

Manure experiment

                                            manure experiment   

How Maui slowed the sun

             How Maui slowed the sun
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I think we were pretty behind but we caught up. I think we we were a lot behind then we caught up.
It was a good experience doing all the research it was fun because we got to go youtube and watched how Maui slowed the sun.

Choices of Life Production

Two weeks before production I’m  feeling quite confident. One thing I’m feeling a bit nervous about is coming in, but I think I can learn my lines in time.

I played a Doc worker in the production. It was fun. Max and I did a crazy dance. I learnt that it was fun and after my first performance, I was confident... but my first was a bit nerve-wracking. I felt shy when I was doing my dance... like I didn’t want to do it. I enjoyed it when I said "I’ll have a bushman's pie please" because the parents laughed.

  
       

Speech

    Speech           By Mac

Tweet tweet, kek kek kek, morepork morepork! Hi my name is Mac and I’m here to tell you why New Zealand  birds are special. There are many reasons why the birds of New Zealand are special.  70% are only found in New Zealand like the Kiwi, Takahe, Kea, and Kakapo.  

One of the biggest effects on our native birds are pests like possums, stoats, ferrets, rats, feral cats and hedgehogs.  Pests have a big impact on NZ native birds because they eat their eggs which causes them not to be born, they eat the birds and they also eat their habitat, because possums eat the tree leaves and kill the trees. If too many pests eat the native birds and their eggs that means they will become more and more closer to being extinct this means there won’t be any in the future to make NZ NZ.

Here are some facts about NZ native birds.

Did you know that 95% of Kiwi chicks die before they are 6 months old and most of them are killed by stoats.  There are about 68,000 Kiwi left in the whole world.   We hear a lot about the Kiwi being endangered but there are other New Zealand native birds more endangered than Kiwi such as the Black Stilt which has 106 left in the wild, Kakapo which has fewer than 160 left in the wild, and the New Zealand Fairy Tern has only 45 left in the wild and is probably New Zealand’s rarest native bird.

Another threat to our native birds is the loss of places for them to live.  Over the years lots of our native birds bush and wetlands have been removed.  We need to make sure we look after the land that’s left for our birds.

What can we do to help our native birds in the future?

Have you thought about joining the Pirongia conservation group. They do pest control in an area on Pirongia Mountain and are re-introducing birds that were once there but are not anymore. We need to make sure we keep the pest numbers down so there is nothing to hurt our birds anymore.  

Hamilton garden trip By Mac

                                          Hamilton Garden Trip
                                                               By Mac 
              On Wednesday room 9 went to Hamilton gardens.
    We saw the sustainable garden and the kitchen garden the kitchen garden had herbs and vegetables like lettuce rosemary strawberries pineapple sage and more.  Shooner the lady who worked in the vegetables tolled as all heaps of facts.  

          I think we should do more fun trips like this.

                                                     

My diesection dream

                 My dissection dream

          By Mac

Bubble bubble, as the pongy guts spew into my face.The blood oozes out of the heart like a gigantic 1 million degree volcano. Slowly, I cut the disgusting juicy heart like it was nothing. Huh huh! I breath deeply it was all a dream.  

Treaty of Waitangi

We had to do a Treaty of Waitangi slide.  We went to our local Museum to get some research to write our Treaty of Waitangi it was interesting. Then we had to get filmed we had to say the facts we got from the museum trip we did it was challenging.


Treaty of Waitangi

Koru Art Reflection

In term one we had to make some art it was fun. It was are first piece of art for the year, we had to represent our house. I'm in Kiwi so I did a hammerhead because Kiwi is strong. Here is a picture of my art↓

My learning conference

My learning conference



I had my learning conference i was nervous i think i did well with my mihi.  I think my mum answered good questions.  I had good comments so i think my mum thought that i was going good.

Swimming sports

Swimming sports

Nervelessly, I pear into to the mottled water feeling like a shark is going to attack me. Elegantly diving , the jets dive into the sapphire water. Ferociously booming, i here my name called out nervelessly i waddle like a penguin to the waiting area a drip of sweat ran down my spine as I get in to my uncomfortable diving position Go! "Mrs Hobs screams like a high pitch bat screaming" "when I see the middle i see what i'm coming second i pick my pace up". Strongly paddling i paddle like a mad fish "i see the wall i pull my head up i came first i scream".

Mountain Biking

mountain biking
By Mac

H h h h h h h h h! I puff as I bike up the steep hill like as if i was going to black out. Are we there yet we moun like we’re starving for food. We’re here the people ahead of me say i race up finally i say now i have free style all the way down. We had to take turns going down the hill so we wouldn’t crash we had to wait ten seconds. After that we had to go down a easy as track then a not so easy track then easy as track which lide us back to where are bags were.

At the start we had to warm up with the kids track their was a couple of crashes chains off popped tires but then it was all good. “Off you go” Cam yelled he just about got run over when he opened the gate because the madman kids took off so ferociously they were like crazy bulls.

   

Integrity game

                                           Integrity games
This term for integrity we were asked to make up a game for a team of Rata children.  This was my first time looking after 5 and 6 year old children and I really enjoyed it, and think they enjoyed it too.

The game my group invented was called Dragon nest.  First we explained to the group how the game went.  We told them that we will put them into groups of two.  Then we told them to go to a nest (hula hoop).  Then they had to try and rob a ball from the other teams nest, but if you get tagged by the dragon (Aidan, Max or me) you have to put the ball back in the nest you got it from and run back to your base, and then you can keep trying to get more balls.  The team that had the most balls when the bell rings wins. 

I think we should do more of these integrity games for the Juniors they loved it and it gave us an opportunity to work with the younger children.

Kingfish

Kingfish

                                By Mac

“Surprisingly,” the line scorches my thumb as I try to stop it, ferociously the rod tugged, my spine shivered with fear from this moment I knew it was a kingfish. Ploushing, in and out of the sapphire water the kingfish swam with glee I thought he was in heaven. Pounding, with fear I knew it was time for the net “dad did you get it” there was silence “yes i did mac”

Red

  Red By Mac

Red is the colour of a freshly shot deer with blood oozing out.

Red is the colour of fire burning ferociously.

Red is the colour of red wine spilt.

Red is the first colour of the rainbow             

Red is the colour of one million degrees hot lava.

Red is the colour of the gloomiest bright ruby.

Red is the colour of a pink love heart.               

Red is the colour of red snapper.                   

Red is the colour of angry as the alarm clock beeps.

        

bike reflection

                                           Bike reflection !!!!!



On three Wednesdays last week we had some special people came and taught us some skills and teach us how to ride on the road safely. Now i am going to tell you how to ride on the road safely. now i am going to tell you what happened. stater
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I was feeling excited because I was looking forward to learning about being safer on the road. The road safety teaching went over 3 Wednesdays and it was a good way to learn how to ride on a bike safely.  I haven't really done much riding on roads so it was a new experience for me.

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On the first Wednesday the people introduced themselves. We did a bike check A for air B for brakes C for chain and we had a helmet check. They taught us how to play the box game, at first when there were lots of people in the box it was tricky but when people got out it was easy.  On the second Wednesday we were taught how to use brakes properly and other skills, like how to ride your bike super slowly.  On the third Wednesday it was all about brakes so people would ride not too fast but not too slow in a straight line into a box as big as your bike and then you would stop in the box and see how long you could stay on your bike without putting your foot down.

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I think this a really good way to learn how to ride safely. I think this would be a good thing to do at other schools because I learnt lots and I think other kids would learn a lot too.  It makes me feel more confident to ride on the road.