The Moon Explanation

The Moon

\The moon is something that is made out of solid, the Moon is the satellite that reflects the sun to earth and that’s how we have light. It is the fifth largest in the solar system. Moon is like an alarm for us that means it is bedtime.

The Moon is something that gives us darkness by blocking the sun, to reflect to us. The Moon is made out of solid around the moon, molten liquid on the outer core. The Moon is only the earth satellite.The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth meaning the same side is always facing the Earth.

The moon is the fifth largest planet in the solar system. If the moon is full that means that the sun is reflecting. Sometime the moon shines very brightly and also could change colour of itself. When the moon changes colour that means, Earth atmosphere is like a sphere of gases that surrounds the planet.

The moon is 384,400km away from earth. The moon orbits the earth every 27.3 days. Moon is something that the giant-impact hypothesis.Also there are these dead volcanoes that are on the moon. The moon was actually called selene from the greeks and lun, by the romans.

Can you hear that

This week I have been learning about hearing.

I've been learning that animals like dogs got finer ears than human and more vibration. Also even dough any animal that have no ears can hear form some vibration that comes from the snake's mouth. Do you know bat's has very fin ears so that mean you can hear more sounds from kilometre apart.This is a hearing diagram so you will know that how do we hear sounds

The Treaty Of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi

What is a treaty?

A treaty is an agreement between different groups of people. The  treaty of Waitangi is a treaty  that was signed in Waitangi, New Zealand.

New Zealand needed a treaty for different reasons. The traders and whalers were breaking the law but maori chiefs were not in control of them. They needed a law that they would follow. The British wanted the treaty so that they could control the land.

When was the treaty signed?

The Treaty was signed  on the 6 February 1840. It was signed by Hone Heke and Maori chiefs and members of the British government.

 Was the Treaty fair?  Why/why not? The treaty wasn't fear cause their was a  Maori language and a british language.                  

Is the Treaty still important today? why/ why not?It is because the person that signed the treaty was called Hone heke he was the leader of Ngapuhi.

                  A short history of Rekohu

We are learning to extract information from the text.

Question	My Answer
What is Rekohu?	In chatham island which is part of New Zealand
Who were the first settlers of Rekohu?	Rongomaiwhenua, Rongomaitere
Who are the Moriori?	William Broughton
When did the sealers arrive? Why was this bad?	They arrived the next forty years in 1810 and this was bad because hundred people died from the flu and measles.
What happened when the Maori visited Rekohu?	The maori walk the land taking possession and killing as they go. The moriori decided against  breaking their ancients law of peace and do not fight back.
What happened to the land of Rekohu in 1870?	Moriori are given the remaining 2.7 percentage of the land. The native land court investigates land claim on rekohu
What lie was told in 1916?	Chatham isles and became known as moriori although it is untrue .
How did the Chatham islands rugby team do in 1984?	The chatham islands rugby team makes it first tour of new zealand. winning more than half of it games .
How many people identify as Moriori in New Zealand in 2001?	Almost six hundred people identify as the moriori in the NZ census.

Plastic Fantastic

Fact and Opinion

Find three examples of fact in the book and three examples of opinion, then make up one of your own.

Fact	Opinion
100,000 sea animals die from eating rubbish	You should take a cloth bag when you go shopping
The Petroleum used to make one plastic bag is enough to drive a car 115 metres	Take your own cloth bags when you go shopping - or reuse a cardboard box.
Plastic bag are difficult to recycle into other products. This is because there are so many different kind of plastic and bags are often	If you have to accept plastic bag, use as few as possible by making sure they're well packed (without breaking the bag of your arms)
The average plastic bag takes five hundred years to break down	If a shops says it’s company policy for their customers to use a suggest their rules could be more environmentally friendly.

     Your creation on your blog

It is not good for animals but good for human. It not good for animals because 100, 000 animal has died cause the plastic bags gets tangled in their mouth.

The Kahawai by Paul Mason

This week in reading we read Kahawai by Paul Mason. It was about people fishing in polluted water. I predict that the Kahawai would survive cause they found their home in Auckland city, but the Kahawai might not survive because the water is polluted water but I think they will clean the water.

Be Healthy Be Active

Today we played an interactive Game on creating a balanced meal. My plate had cucumber, Baked beans and fried rice.

Basket Boats

WALT: Identify and make connections with informationq

SC: Identify key points of information.

Basket Boats by Jill MacGregor SJ P2 N1 2009

Answer with full sentences

eg. Who is your teacher in Room 7?

Correct: Mrs Parker is my teacher in Room 7

Wrong: Mrs Parker

1. How does Thanh and his family look after the Thung Chai boat? Give as much detail as possible.

            Every six months or so, a sticky resin from a special tree is smeared over the inside and outside of     

          thung chai. This makes the boat watertight.

2. The boat is made from natural resources. What are the resources?

            bamboo stick and a fishing line.

             

3. Find pictures of all of the resources needed to make and care for this boat.

          

           

4. Would we be able to make these boats here in New Zealand?

           Yes because we have those resources.

THE PIG'S TROUGH

WALT: find the morale of the story

SC: find the hidden purpose of a story.

The Pig’s Trough a German Folk Story retold by the brothers Grimm, retold by Jack Lasenby SJ P1 N2 1992

The son and son’s wife were kind to the old man
Dissagree	Because they were ashamed of the grandfather and the grandfather son and son wife. they didn’t care about their grandfather

The old man was very healthy
Dissagree	Because the old Man couldn’t close his mouth properly and his ear couldn’t hear as well.He could not walk properly and he just sat down on his chair next to the fire.

The parents were good role models for their son
Agree	Because the grandson was looking after his own grandfather

It is important to care for our elders.
Agree	Because they might have the same thing like the old Man couldn’t close his mouth properly and his ear couldn’t hear as well.He could not walk properly and he just sat down on his chair next to the fire.

VOCABULARY - describe in your own words what these words mean:

1. trough A trough is a big massive bath top where pigs eat's out
2. complained the old man's son and son's wife were complaining about the old man spilling his soup

Why did the boy say this?: “I am making a pig’s trough for my mother and father to eat out of when I have grown up.”

A morale is a hidden meaning or purpose behind a story…. What is the morale of this story?

Create a poster to display this morale

SEASONS

AGREE /DISAGREE Decide why you agree or disagree with these statements and explain why using information from what you read. Answer in full sentences

Trees look the same all year around.
Agree	Because a trees grows by our gate and it glows at our gate.

The seasons change the world around us
Agree	Yes because in winter it’s a black skeleton.In spring it’s white bonfire.In summer it’s a green galaxy.In autumn it’s golden rain.

VOCABULARY - describe in your own words what these words mean:

1. bonfire means some is having a party or something.                                                                           
2. galaxy galaxy means that lots of stars in space
3. glows trees glows in the dark

This poem does not use rhyme. What language features does it have? See Language Features

Using the same language features write your own poem about seasons. Describing the view out the window. In spring it’s a bonfire because that means your like having a party or just making yourselfso warm in spring.In summer it’s a green galaxy so that means in space there’s like billion or million of stars and earths.A tree glows and glows mean it’s something like a light to see in the dark.

Balloon Game Recount

Balloon Game Recount

Guess what we did in room 7 fitness. We played a game that’s called keep the balloon in the air and we were so excited that we all had to move around so  that the balloon could not go on the ground . The boys played first , while the girls were running around the courts .We had three rounds of that balloon game . When we were finished then it was the girls turn, while we did the same thing as them and it was running around the courts. We were having fun playing a cool balloon game , we were so excited and it was so amazing.

When the girls were playing the balloon game , the boys ran fast arounds the courts but I had to go to Miss Parker so I could do more about the recount rubric and tell the class what we have been doing in Mrs Raj office but Miss Parker was in Mrs Raj office teaching us what to do for our recount rubric. The girls were playing and I think that the girls popped the balloon because I heard from all of the boys, it was all over so that meant it was GAME OVER!!!.

When the game was finished then  we went back to class and that was our fitness , we all were so amazing that we had a really amazing fun time. We were in class eating our morning tea and we were telling each other that the balloon game was the coolest game we ever played in our whole lives.  We were playing well in that game and no one got angry with anyone.The coolest were the boys because we did not pop the balloon. It was a lot of fun! I loved the game.

World War 1 Heroes Animal At The War

First World War: Animals at War By Philippa Werry

WALT: Summarise authors main purpose

SC: Show animals as other war heroes

I have been learning about how to take an screenshot of the story we were reading so I can put it in my poster.

I found it difficult downloading these bull dogs and taking screenshot of the horses.