Tree hut

We have been learning how to use adjectives to describe a mood and atmosphere. Here is a picture of our tree house that my group made and the adjectives to describe the mood.

Can you guess the atmosphere?

Science Plate Tectonics

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For Science we did a experiment about Plate Tectonics. We had a plastic plate with some tomato sauce inside it to act as the magma in the Mantle. Then we had two wafers to put on top of the mantle to act as plate tectonics. We put one wafer on the sauce because tectonic plates sit on top of the mantle. With the other plate we put a punch hole in it and pushed it into the sauce. This created a form of sauce that looked like a mountain. Then we were told to move the plates together, apart, and rub them together. Here is a photo of it. Bye Bye!!      

Maths head blog

Hello fellow bloggers For maths this week we have been measuring our heads and feet in our maths groups. We made a graph to show how big our head size were and our groups. I liked measurng my head. I found it hard estamating my head size. The learning behind this task was to help me learn how to measure better. My head size was 54 cm. Here is my slide.

Lahars

Kia ora

Today we built Mt Ruapehu in the sandpit. We also made the Whangaehu River valley, the plain below the mountain and the railway bridge at Tangiwai. We wanted to learn how the lahar destroyed the bridge in 1953 causing the Tangiwai Disaster. Kora and Ariana poured lots of water into the crater we had made on top of our mountain. It whoosed down the side of the mountain and into the river valley. The bridge collapsed and bits of our train fell into the river. After that, we watched a short video about what do do if you are on Mt Ruapehu when the lahar siren sounds.  Now I know how to keep safe from a lahar if one happens when I am on a mountain.  Here is my Hazard Notice with the most important information.

Bird Inquiry

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For science last term we were given an extinct New Zealand bird to research and study. We where put in a group to research our bird. Our groups bird was the Dieffenbach Rail. Our group made a slide with all the information on it and also links to our personal slide. In the slide we had some questions to answer that the teachers set up for us. All together we had six questions to answer. Here is my work.

7 STARS MYTH

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We have been reading different Countrys Myths for the 7 stars. In New Zealand we call the 7 stars Matariki. We have been writing our own myths about Matariki. I enjoyed writing my story. I did not enjoy trying to think of how they turned into stars. Here is my work.

Alien Story!

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We where writing a story based on Aliens and underpants. We wrote about Aliens because we watched a video on YouTube where there was this girl reading a story called Aliens love underpants. We had to write our own one about the time we saw an Alien in our back yard. The main part was that we had to describe what our Alien looked like. I enjoyed everything about it. Here is my writing.