Bird killer

 Reading       Parapara tree:

This week my reading group has been learning about the Parapara tree. It is a tree witch produces sticky sap. Birds sit on it and get stuck and die because they can not get free. 

Sustainability site

In team 2 we had been learning about sustainability. We had to work in groups and make a website and everyone has a different page and I had to do recycling.
 Click here to see our site    

Term 2 school holidays!

The first week of the holidays was really rainy and windy. My brother and I spent most of the time doing and sorting Lego. We had visits from a few friends and we went on a trip to the Auckland Museum because my brother wanted to look at the new dinosaur exhibit. There has been a recent discovery of dinosaurs footprints in New Zealand. The second week of the holidays the weather was much nicer with only a little bit of rain. On Tuesday we met a few friends at the Stardome Observatory in the city where we watched dinosaurs and meteorites. Afterwards we went outside on a big playground to eat our sandwich. On Thursday we took the bus at Torbay and it took us all the way to the city. We walked a little way and then climbed up a flight of stairs to Cornwall Park and had a picnic. Then we visited the Art Gallery and we got to make masks shaped like kangaroo faces. Next we walked to the bus and it drove us home! On Friday we went to the Bruce Mason theatre to watch Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It was a show for little kids, but I still enjoyed it and Nicolo loved it! I had a great holiday!

This is me and my brother with the sponge cake I made in the holidays.

Facts about the earth

For home work we had to write ten facts about the earth.
Here are mine:

Earth

1. Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun & it is the largest .*terrestrial planets

2. The earth was formed 4.54 billion years ago.

3. Earth is the only planet with living creatures.

4. 70% of the earth surface is covered in water!

5. A day on Earth is not 24 hours it is really 23min, 56min & 4sec. That is how long it takes to spin on the axis.

6. Only 3% of the Earth’s water is pure & 97% salted.

7. Out of the 3% of fresh water 2% is glaciers, that means that less than 1% is good for us, so use it well.

8.Earth is gradually slowing down. Every few years, an extra second is added to make up for lost time.

9. Millions of years ago a day on earth must have been 20 hours long. People think that in a million years, a day on earth might be 27 hours.

10. There is more carbon dioxide in the air today than there has been in the last million years. This means that the air we breath is slowly getting polluted.

* Rocky planets/Rocky midgets are the only planets without gas they are called Venus, Earth, Mars & Mercury.

Squash reflection

Squash with Tessa
In Squash my learning was about how to play Squash.
I found out that you have to have good hand hand and eye coordinator to be good at playing Squash.
I wondered if it would be hard to play Squash.
The most difficult part part was trying to hit the ball in bet tween the two red lines.
Now I know how o play Squash properly.
My next step is to be able to play the squash game longer with out missing the ball.
The fun part was getting to play against other people.  

Music with Mrs Mc Hugh

Art with Mrs Mc Hugh
In Music we were learning how to use Te rako sticks.
I found out that music can tell a story by using different instruments and going louder and softer.
I wondered if we could actually make the music sound the same as the music in mountain king.
The most difficult part was trying to make the Te rako sticks tight enough to make a nice sound.
Now I know that you can make Te rako sticks out of old magazine.
My next step is to make my Te rako sticks the same size.
The most fun part was working in a team to make our own rhythm with our hands.

  

PMI about term 2

Today we did a PMI about this term we had to write all about the minus, positive & interesting things we did 
Click here if you would like to see it.
   

Lactic turkey

Lactic turkey

This is us eating lunch

This is our class after we did the lactic turkey

This is the map we used 

On Tuesday room 2, 4 & 1 went to lactic turkey which is a sustainability challenge at long bay for year 5's- intermediate students. You have two hours to do as much activities as you can. At the start you are given a paper bag with 4 sour lollies 4 maps 4 sheets of paper with what you had to do and an score sheet.
You get more points the more activities you do EXP: If next to the activity on the map it says 37 you get 30 points & if it says 101 you get 100 points. When ever you do a sustainability activity you get 100 points and sometimes you get bonus points!  
Every minute you came back back late you lose 20 points 
Key:

Numbers= Navigation checkpoint location

Letters=Sustainability activity location

Circle with triangle inside=Start/finish

Red lines close to each other=Out of bounds area