Math Page

In math we a have been doing the m&m challenge and have been doing fractions like 2/3 of 73 or something and heres how I work my stuff out.

RE Page

This focus we have been learning about God, we learnt about how he said things to people like Abram and Sarai and like how there names changed to Abraham and Sarah this is my favorite RE page here it is.

Kiwis

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report

Do you know an endangered, flightless and fuzzy bird that is native to New Zealand? Yes, the kiwi. Many people believe that there's only one specie of this bird even though there is five species. The five species of Kiwi are the Great Spotted Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the North Island Kiwi, and the Southern Island Kiwi. Kiwis lay very large eggs, their eggs are the same size as an ostrich egg, their egg is about 120 millimetres long and 80 millimeters in diameter. The kiwi’s scientific name is apteryx, the name apteryx mean to be wingless. The kiwi belong to an ancient group of birds that are flightless like the ostrich, the emu and the moa. The kiwi has a lot of interesting qualities like how it calls out at night to mark their territory and stay in touch with their friend. They start to call out about 2 hours after dark, and will also call out before daylight and before that it has it has a meal.

Diet
The kiwi diet is made up of both plant and meat sources of food, as a kiwi is an omnivore. They eat a lot of invertebrates, animals without a backbone. Which means they are likely to be an insect or a bug. Kiwis don't need a lot of water as one of their food sources, is the earthworm, which is made up of 85% water. Kiwis eat a lot of worms because luckily New Zealand is rich in worms but when kiwis do drink from a body of water they immerse their beak, tips back it's head and gurgles the water down. Kiwis are nocturnal which helps them, this helps them to not get overly hot or dried out in the sun. So this supports their diet and also helps keep them safer as they are out at night when there is a less of a threat.

Predators

Kiwis are flightless birds so they can’t get away from their predators that easily, they are living and hunting food on the forest floor which means they are easy prey. One physical adaptation is that the kiwi is a fast runner, kiwis are just as fast as a human. Did you know that there were once 12 million kiwis in the world! But now there are only 100,000 kiwis because of dogs, ferrets, possums, birds and cats. An average of 27 Kiwis die EACH WEEK. A single roaming dog can wipe out a whole population of Kiwis. Kiwis can camouflage into their habitat to stop their prey from seeing them.

Appearance

Emus, ostrich, moa and the elephant bird are the kiwis closest relatives. However their appearance is rather different from these birds. The bird has a unusual beak, it's beak is long and on the tip of it is it's beak is where the nostrils are located. This is very unusual and the kiwi is the only bird to have their nostrils located at the end. Kiwis can't fly so there feathers have evolved a unique texture to suit a ground based lifestyle. The kiwi is warm, shaggy, and have a human like hair. The kiwi also only has 13 feathers. The Kiwis temperature is lower than most other birds it's only 39-42. The female kiwi is also usually larger than the male

In conclusion the kiwi is an interesting and unique bird that is native to New Zealand. To help the kiwi live a long life and continue to be found in New Zealand we have to understand the kiwi. It is important that the kiwi has the right food and can live in places where predators can not wipe them out. The endangered kiwi is important to New Zealand and we want the kiwi to be around for future generations.

Mandarin

Through out this tern we have been learning mandarin miss lee taught the whole school from room 1-9 some phrases are xiexie= thanks, ni hao= hi and we now know how to say our names heres how to say mine

   

Hangi

In Maori we have been learning about hangis some people made a slide about it and told information about what you need and how to make a hangi and some people like me chose to make a diorama and here it is...

Cultural Week

Last Week it was cultural week and every class got to show something of their country that they chose i chose Spanish we did something called the flaminko a flaminko is a traditional Spanish dance heres a picture...

Scratch

This past 7 weeks 18 people including me have been learning how to code we have been making codes some finished some not we have people on it and funny animations like a ballerina doing the splits and a lot more ballet posses my favorite thing to do is make my doge ball game and code club has been fun and i hope we can do it next term pretty please miss gleason

Ransom Note

this week in code club we used html and made a ransom note here is my ransom not (my beautiful creation).

Cultural Performances

Kapa haka, Pacific a, and a drum performance then straight after that there was a Chinese group of they three did 2 performances my favorite was the second because it had no high pitch scream but i liked the first ones costume because they had jingles on there feet

 

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Bird

In room 6 we have been making our own bird and labeling why we made this bird we made names then we made our birds hears mine

Social Justice Week

Last week it was social justice week we watched a video about a disability square and did a sheat about it

Crosses

                 

in room 6 we have been making our crosses we made 3 drafts with pencil o n paper then we picked our best one and we painted it then we waited for it to dry then we flat blocked it with white paint then went over it with our colors then I vivid and made my beautiful creation

Bird Expirement

different types of bird beaks we picked up different food like lollies peppermints, and rice, we like the flat beak, pointed beak, and the pelican beak it was very fun and we got to share the lollies between about 3-6 people and where lucky we had the opportunity to do this fun activity