A Hangi

This is my hangi slideshow.

Painted Crosses

This is my cross I painted for R.E. We had to draw a draft at the start of the term and then we would get a blank white cross that we can paint. mine turned up really well. my teacher helped us a bit and did four herself.

Bird Inquiry

This is my bird inquiry poster, I picked each part of my bird like the beak, the feet, the head and the tail. We also learned about the environment and animal adaptations. Here is my poster of my bird. 

The Kiwi

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

The Kiwi bird is a native icon to New Zealand. The unique adaptations of the kiwi, such as their large eggs, short and stout legs and using their nostrils at the end of their long beak to detect prey before they ever see it have helped the bird to become well-known to NZ. Kiwi are flightless birds because their Latin species name is Apteryx bird, which means wingless. There are five species of kiwi: North Island Brown Kiwi, Tokoeka, Rowi, Great Spotted Kiwi and Little Spotted Kiwi. Each species of kiwi live in different areas throughout New Zealand.

Where does the kiwi live? What is the needs of their habitat? A habitat is where animals live in order for all their needs to be met. The kiwi is very adaptable in the New Zealand climate. Kiwis don't need to live in a native forest, they can be found in scrub and rough farmland, exotic plantation forests, sand dunes and snowy tussocks, even mangroves. Kiwis build holes, borrows, dens and nests to keep away from their predators. But the kiwis favourite habitat is the the damp forest. Where they can find all sorts of different types of food.

The Kiwi is an omnivore, which means they eat plants and meat. Most of the kiwis food are invertebrates which means an animal without a backbone, like spiders, worms, cockroaches and lots more. Kiwis are also known to eat fungi, frogs and their favourite, the juicy earthworm. Luckily for the Kiwi there are a lot of worms here in New Zealand. But while the kiwi is out in search of their food, so are other animals that enjoy the kiwi as their favourite meal, the predators.

New Zealand had no warm-blooded mammal predators before the English came to New Zealand. Now the kiwi is very endangered, because of cats, stoats, possums, dogs and foxes. These are predators of the kiwi, and with the kiwi unable to fly and low to the ground, the kiwi is a target of these animals. The kiwi is nocturnal and partly blind so they rely on a lot of their other senses, they can hear about a meter away from where they are. The kiwi has very short and fast legs so it can run away from its predators. The kiwi is also able to use the physical adaptation of camouflage to hide from their predators.



To conclude the kiwi bird is a very extraordinary bird. It is exotic in every way, its long beak, its fast legs and the kiwis amazing hearing. People need to make changes and understand the requirements of the kiwi in order to protect them to ensure they live for many years to come.

Last Session of Code Club

This is the last session of code club it has been a very fun 7 weeks. I hope we get to do it next term. here are all my projects over the term

Chess

On Wednesday 19th of September we went to the Auckland Catholic Schools Chess Tournament 2018.  The Tournament was held out in Massey at St Paul's School. Our team came third in the Beginner Tournament. 

Ransom Note

Today's Code Club session we made our own ransom note on a coding program called Trinket. Here is mine. 

Factors and Multiples

Why Homework is not Necessary !!!!!!

(1.) What is stressful, time consuming, boring and taking time away from your family. I think this is all to do with the most boring subject in the world! HOMEWORK! Every child would agree that homework is bad? Homework is all the same as what you learn at school, so it’s pretty easy. 

(2.) How long do you think your homework takes in the afternoon. Would it surprise you to learn that some primary schools have worksheets comparable with adults. For most children homework pushes and pressures them. Homework does not do anything it is just a waste of time.

(3.) Children hate homework, they make up excuses like: my teacher gave me no homework or my dog ate my worksheet. Isn’t it so depressing when you get home and your mum says ”Any homework?”If you stop to think about it, the truth is that homework is not necessary. There is no evidence that homework helps your brain.

(4.) Kids already have six hours of school. We start at nine and we go home at three that is already a full days of work. But teachers still give us homework, to take home and do. Some parents come home feeling exhausted, yet they still don’t understand that we have trouble focusing after a full days of work and are tired as well.

(5.) Many families say that homework takes time away from their child's afternoon. One of my reasons is that kids need to relax and take their mind of work. Sometimes homework gets in the way of things like: sports, afternoon activities, playing outdoors and spending time with family and friends.

(6.) Being outdoors getting sun and exercise is very important for our health. Playing outdoors helps us concentrate better and improve our performance at school. Homework is a distraction from time spent outside and teachers should encourage free outdoor play after school for better results in the classroom instead of homework sheets.

(7.) If we are inside our classroom during the day, when we go home we will have to do our homework. Wouldn’t it be so much better if we just did learning in one place. It would be so much better and then you could go home and relax and take your mind of work.

(8.) While school is an important part of a our life, it’s also as important that we take a break from our education. Multiple studies have found that most students are getting too much extra assignments which are leading to sleep problems, levels of stress, as well as related health problems.

(9.) Overall homework is just an extra piece of work we have to bring home everyday. I hope that after listening to my speech there will be no more homework from today onwards.

Code Club

Slide Show on Weather

Science Bird Discovery

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something
hing in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat lollies. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realized that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.