Inquiry

"A living thing consumes, grows, breathes, adapts to its environment and perishes"

                                                                                     A quote from room 8, 2015

•  I did my project on turtles because I have 2 pet turtles called Trevor and myrtle.

• I got all of my information from books because I wanted to have a challenge not just copying and pasting. 

• A book called 'Turtles and their Lifecycle' helped me the most because I got so many answers for my questions from it.

• I learned that some Turtles aren't born on a beach because the live 24-7 in water

• My favorite fact is that some Turtles aren't born on a beach because I never knew that.

Next time I would get more information to go on my project.

Outdoor Education

WALT Sail an Optimist Yacht

On Thursday 19th of November room 8 went to Pandora pond to do optimist yachting.

Here is me on my optimist yacht

Writing workshop with Mr. B

A good report may include: Tile that is big and bright so you can see it, sub headings, a photo that is relevant to the report, introduction, quotes.

My next learning step is to get the information from a more difficult sorse

WALT write a report for the win of the RWC or a all blacks player profile. I chose the player profile and I chose Jounah Lomu, here it is|

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Full name	Jonah Tali Lomu
Date of birth	12 May 1975 (age 40)
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	119 kg (262 lb; 18.7 st)
School	Wesley College, Auckland
Notable relative(s)	Andrew Lomu, John Tamanika, Seti Kiole

Reading workshop with Mr W. My notes about a Great White at Waimarama

WALT: Take effective notes about some news.

WILF: Words that give a information and my own words.

My next learning step: to take notes from a news article on T.V.

Daniel McDonald.

 In Waimarama Two Hawke's Bay fishermen sad to catch no crayfish.

They caught a Great White shark inested. 

When pot lifted up boat leans to side. 

Mr McDonald thinks it's 3 meters. 

Shark tangled up. 

Hat to release shark. 

Shark swam away happily when released. 

Mr McDonald says it was a bit dopey it had been upside down for a while. 

They thought that they were on adrenaline they were lafing. The department Of Conservation says it is definitely a Great White. He thinks it weighs about 180-200 kgs.

Here is the original one. |

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Two Hawke's Bay fishermen were disappointed to haul up an empty craypot - but awed by the great white shark they accidentally caught instead.

Daniel McDonald and his brother-in-law George Eivers were shocked at their unintended catch yesterday afternoon between Bare Island and Waimarama, a beach 21km southeast of Havelock North, where the two men live.

Mr McDonald estimates the shark was about 2m long.

When they winched the craypot to the surface and their 6m-long boat began leaning to one side, they soon realised the cause was the large fish emerging, tail first, from the 12m-deep water.

"It was a bit docile; I think it had been there a while," says Mr McDonald.Two Hawke's Bay fishermen were disappointed to haul up an empty craypot - but awed by the great white shark they accidentally caught instead.

Daniel McDonald and his brother-in-law George Eivers were shocked at their unintended catch yesterday afternoon between Bare Island and Waimarama, a beach 21km southeast of Havelock North, where the two men live.

Mr McDonald estimates the shark was about 2m long.

When they winched the craypot to the surface and their 6m-long boat began leaning to one side, they soon realised the cause was the large fish emerging, tail first, from the 12m-deep water.

"It was a bit docile; I think it had been there a while," says Mr McDonald.

Photo / Daniel McDonald

Photo / Daniel McDonald

They braked the winch and leaned over the side of the boat to untangle the shark's tail.

"It kicked a couple of times and threw us towards the boat as we were hanging over the side, but because it was hanging upside down it took a bit of the sting out of it."

"I think we were running on adrenalin - we were laughing our heads off because we couldn't believe what happened."

After the pair untangled the shark, it "swam away quite happily".

Department of Conservation shark expert Clinton Duffy, who has seen the pictures of the shark, says it is "definitely a great white".

He estimates it weighs 180-200kg and is two to three years old.

Reading Term 4 with Mr W.

WALT: Take notes when listening to a reader.

WILF: short sentences, keywords and information.

 I  wrote down some facts about taking notes, here they are.

My next step will be to take accurate notes when a speaker is talking at a normal speed.

Maths

WATLT use our maths thinking to solve and create number and picture squares

I made my own picture square see if you can work it out.

Value for term 3

We made a pride movie for our values

Fitness + nutrition with Karen

WALT: Keeping ourselves fit and healthy.

For term 3 on a Wednesday morning  year five and sixs went to the hall to learn how to keep fit and healthy with a lady called Karen we played games. My favorite game was the first game capture the nest. We had different coloured ball the color of the ball was the exercise we had to do for example if the color was purple we had to do press ups. The talks were about hygiene and keeping ourselves fit. For our exercise we had things like squats, star jumps, punches, push ups, mountain climbers, sprinting on the spot and press ups. In the talks we were told not to eat junk food and drink lots of water.

Writing

WALA Spring

We celebrate spring in Hastings for the blossom parade.

China celebrates spring for the Chinese New Year.

Australia celebrates spring by doing the annual spring racing competition hold in Melbourne.

I got the information from this website https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring

This is my spring poem

We also made butterflies with symmetries for our class display. Here is my butterfly

WALT find the average

WALT find the average of the temperatures for the 5 day forecast

To find the average you must gather the information for the information we are using the day temperatures, you add them all up to make 51 then you divide it by how many days there are. EX if ther are 2 days you would divide it by 2. Get it? Then the average is the awner is what you divide it by.

The average for day is 12.2

The average for night is 1.4

The hottest temperature for the 5 day forecast is 17*C day and 4*C night.

The coldest temperature for the 5 day forecast is 10*C day and 0*C night.

Reading

We researched facts about the Moa. I used google docs to present my facts. What I found interesting was the biggest species were 3.6. Meters high.

The moa were nine species of flightless birds native to New Zealand.The two largest species were Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, they were about 3.6. meters.

In 1840, Richard Owen, the man who first used the name dinosaur, announced to the world that a bird nearly the size of an ostrich had once lived in New Zealand. He based this on the discovery and examination of a 15 cm long bone found in Poverty Bay. He was proved right as more and more fragments of moa skeleton were found.
Some moa bones have been dated and found to be 2 million years old.
One of the moa species, Dinornis giganteus, was, at 3 metres, the tallest bird ever to have lived, but only measured its full height when it stretched up to feed off high branches - its normal posture gave its height at 1.8 metres. It would have weighed about the same as a cow.
It is now thought that there were eleven species of moa, ranging in size from the tallest (1.8 metres to the highest point on its back, and 240 kg) to the smallest (0.8 m to the highest point on its back, and 20 kg).
Moa belonged to the family of Ratites, or flightless birds which have no wings, not even small stubs of wings like the kiwi. Moa are unique in that they have no traces of wings or other bones which are necessary for flight. Instead moa had large, powerful legs, with four toes on each foot.
Large amounts of moa remains have been found on the East Coast of the South Island, but moa would have lived when these areas were still covered with forest. Preserved stomach contents have shown that the moa ate a diet of twigs, seeds, leaves, fruit and leaves, and browsed on shrubs, rather than grazed on grass. Some of the specimens of moa which have been found include pieces of skin and mummified body tissue which have been preserved. Others include feathers up to 18 cm long, with colours white, reddish brown, purplish brown, and black.
With more research on the moa, ideas about the way they stood and moved have changed. Early specimens of moa in museums were constructed so that the neck was at full stretch. In the 1980s this posture was changed so that the neck was held in a lower position. It is now believed that moa walked with the head level with or slightly above the level of the back.
Research suggests that different moa preferred different habitat. Some lived in tall, wet bush, while the other species lived on drier grasslands and less dense forest or in sub-alpine areas up to 1800 metres above sea level. Moa probably produced clutches of only one or two eggs. The size of the egg, compared to the body size of the moa laying it, was larger than other birds in the ratite family. Kiwi eggs are also large for their body size, and their chicks are well-developed when they hatch, and able to feed themselves almost straight away. Moa chicks were probably also well-developed and able to feed on their own soon after hatching.
Before the Māori arrived in New Zealand, the moa's main enemy was Haast's eagle, which preyed on adult moa, while chicks and eggs were predated by the now extinct large harrier. The moa was hunted by the Māori using snares, spears, and nooses, or by driving them into pits. Dogs and kiore (Polynesian rat) would also have hunted the moa.
Māori ate the meat, made jewellery from the bones, used the skins for clothing, and made water containers out of the eggs. The extinction of the moa was indirectly hastened by the actions of Māori who robbed the nests of eggs and burnt the forest in which the moa lived. Moa are believed to have died out between 300 and 400 years ago.

The link to the website:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/moa/

Hopscotch

WALT code a game that involves making a character move by tilting the IPad. I made a remix of The Escapists!

Maths term 2 week 11

In Maths workshop we have been on an app called matific here are some photos.

Reading term 2 week 11

We have some words every week to put in to sentences and synonyms

Unison-Unison, unity, league concord. You are a great, unison sporter.

Rejoice-be glad, be happy, revel and joy. To make the whole world rejoice I give you a rubber band.

Essence-I love the essence of cat bones. Being, core, Crux and aspect

Billows-tide, wave, breaker and crest. Go out and swim in the billows

Shedding-snakes are always shedding their skin.
desquamation,dropping  and molting

Soothing-calming, sweet, nice and relaxing. You have a soothing voce

Writing Term 2 Week 10

In our writing workshops we were told to find the clause sentence, the list sentence, the direct speech sentence and the dialog sentence. I along with many other students finished.

List Sentence

Clause Sentence

Direct Speech Sentence

Dialogue Sentence

It is the year, 1996. Long, oversized coats as snug as a bug are the fashion right now and if you’re into your music, Bon Jovi is your medicine. Down at the swamp, where the locusts swarm through the overwhelming drying summer’s day, gathered the contestants for the annual swamp meet. Competing this year are Shrek and Ronald McDonald, Calvin and Mr Mouse and Batman and Robin.”Competitors……….get ready.” The announcement rang, echoing throughout swampland.”First partners to take the floor……...Calvin and Mr Mouse.”

“Right, you take my lead,” ordered Calvin.

“Ummm….don’t think so,” replied Mr Mouse.

“So think so!”

“I have Mr in my name so you are the female.”

“No way!”

“So way!”

“We’re through!”

“Typical female….?”

Calvin stormed off leaving a Mr Mouse feeling stunned and isolated.

Our value this term

Please click this link to see my responsibility video.

https://voice.adobe.com/a/XR4MA

Asian food quiz

Please click this link to see my video.

https://voice.adobe.com/a/6XDkr

Poetry workshop

WALT find me hints or hidden messages written by authors in poems.

WHY authors don't always tell us.

EG: what does it mean by friends are feathers.

The friends are very quiet.

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EG: in what way does it say in the poem that gives a clue to the finder to see we're the friends are hiding.

Giggles and a cough.

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Someone's foot outside a corner.

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Wriggling a blanket.

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WALT the 6 thinking hats.

We have gon on to PIC Collage and Adobe Voice to show you what the 6 thinking hats mean.

I chose PIC Collage:

The Black Hat:Is all of the negative things. When you use it you might ask yourself; what might go wrong?

The white hat: is all of the facts. When you use it you might ask yourself;What things will we need?

The red hat: the emotional things: When you use it you might ask yourself;How do I feel about this right now.

The green hat:The ideas: When you use it you might ask yourself;What is possible?

The blue hat:agenda: When you use it you might ask yourself; what do we do next?

The yellow hat: optimism; When you use it you might ask yourself;why will it work

Fractions

WALA equivalent fractions.

I learned that 1/2 is the same as 2/4, that also mean that 5,000,000/10,000,000 is the same and 1/2!

Writing

WALT Write a formal letter.

We wrote to the Hastings District Council to tell them our opinion about the changing speed limit form Hastings to clive.

I thought they should change it back to 80ks because lots of kids like me bike on that street.

Swimming refelctions

In swimming I have been part of the Seals group.

I think I should be a shark so I am working on:

• Swimming fitness

• Tumble turns

• Swimming confidence

I am most proud of:

Going to the coastal cluster.

I now need to work on doing:  

Butterfly 

Treaty of Wiatangi research

WALT: summarise our research into our own words and list all of our sources.

My next step is to include all of the information on the success criteria and include my sources showing were I got the information from.

My Mihimihi