earthquake slideshow

We took photos in a group for this slideshow to tell you some instructions about how to be safe in an earthquake.

Layers of the Earth

WALT- make a model of the layers of the earth out of play-dough.

So... that when we learn about natural disasters we can use our knowledge of the layers to understand them better.

To... help us in topic and science and learn about the earth around us.

The crust contains continents and seas. The thickness of the crust is 15-75km.

The upper mantle is 400km thick. Its made out of iron, magnesium and silicates.

The lower mantle is more dense than the upper. It is 2300km thick.
Did you know that the outer core is liquid. It contains iron, nickel and sulphur. The outer core is 2300km deep. On earth sulphur is a soft yellow rock that comes from a star, when it’s fuel is out.

The inner core is solid, which means its hard. It contains iron, nickel and sulphur. Nickel is a silvery-white metal and an element number. Are you aware that the inner core temperature is 6650 degrees Celsius?

Whanaungatanga Description

Whanaungatanga Description.

I opened the door to the time machine and what lay before is what I could smell, see and hear.

The muddy village was the first thing I saw. Fresh plants grew around. I could hear the children laughing as they were playing. I saw a Marae, I could see the poi swinging round. I heard the elders talking as they kept warm in there cloaks.  I saw their houses were made out of wood as people went in and out. I could smell the fresh air. The broken wooden fences surround me as I stared at the view.

I looked at people walking by and I spotted a Tohunga as he was saying a karakia before he cut the harakeke. I saw the Tohunga heal the wound and the ladies weaving baskets and other things.

I could smell the hangi that was steaming and cooking and I looked at the huge pit before my eyes. The men rolling the hot rocks into the pit, the ladies putting the baskets on top.

When I turned around the corner, I could see the children walking into a church to start school as they would sit on wooden chairs. The only thing I could smell is rusty chalk back then.

I could hear the children running on grass playing sports and games. I saw games like string games, knuckle bones, poi, poi toa and ki.  I saw the children preparing  their plans and going into action.

I opened the door to the time machine again and travelled back to 2011. When I got back I felt like I won the lotto, but I didn’t.  I had just had a great adventure!

The Different Uses Key

The Different Uses Key...

I used the Differences Key to find 10 new and unusual uses for poi.

1. To pretend it is a micro-phone and sing.
2. To make it more colourful.
3. To use it as a quest and make it the treasure but it will be the sword.
4. To throw at people.
5. To try and break a coconut with it and you can use any part of the poi. (world record/famous)
6. If your a secret agent you can put a bomb in it and throw it at people and the bad guys will think it does nothing and  it will explode.
7. To play poi and not bands.
8. To make a dress out of lots of poi.
9. To draw on it and hang it up.

  10. To clean your body with it because you put the soap on the plastic and
    rub it on your body.

Inquiry Presentation - Governance Group

Our group was researching Maori governance as part of our topic Whanaungatanga. Did you know it were the tohunga that upheld Maori laws before the missionaries arrived? Neither did we! Watch to find out more!

My First Movie!

Miss Hansell set a challenge of making our very first movie using iMovie! We had to take the pictures, add transitions, add music and edit it all ourselves! Here is the end product, I hope you like it.

Elizabeth Term 2 Goals

Term Two Learning Goals
My learning goal for Reading this term is:
To read a whole book a day and move up a level. To be higher than the national standard.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Go to the library and go on my pin and to reserve books and return it back to the library.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Getting me reading books to them and my whanau will help me with the mistakes I make.

My learning goal for Writing this term is:
To describe my characters better and not have a story that I’m not going to finish and to be higher than the national standard and moving up a level.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Write descriptions of my family and to not give up and finish my work.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Helping me get up a level by encouraging me.

My learning goal for Maths this term is:
To learn my 12, 8, 7 and 6 times tables and to be higher then the national standers.To learn my dividers.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Practice my 12, 8, 7 and 6 times table and my dividers then tell my family if they could check my work.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Checking my work and timing me.

My personal goal this term is:
To look after Ria. (which is our pet rabbit)
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Give her lots of food in the morning and water so it could last till I come back from school.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Brushing Ria and reminding me to take care of her.