2 acts

In school there were two acts.First there was Maungawhau peforming songs, a haka, a sasa and drumming.









Next was Mrs Lee's friends performing 2 songs from China.

Raymond Huber

This week an Raymond Huber came to school and talked to us about his love of bees and how he made stories like flight of the honeybee

Hangi

In school we have been learning how to make a hangi

Leadership badges

Today I got my level 2 leader badge, now i'm going for level 3

Bird posters

In school we did bird posters where we have to make a bird,described why it had those parts and put it on a poster, my bird was called Archi.

It had that beak to spear through fish, it had feathers to keep warm, the color was red, yellow and orange because its a tropical bird, it had that tail to fly fast and it had that kind of legs to grip onto branches.

Cultural week

This week it was cultural and there was 7 groups, I was in the Filipino group.

We made a Filipino desert named Yema, we also did a song called tong tong tong AKA the crab song.

Then all the cultural groups went in the hall and performed their songs dances and work.

Ben and James Factors and Multiples

In school we did slides showing about factors and multiples

Mini BB fair

On Thursday GSS had a mini BB (books and baking) fair to raise money for a mural for the powerbox.

There was cupcakes, cookies, books and a whole lot of other stuff. We raised near 575 dollars and the power box is gonna have a brand new mural

The New Zealand kiwi

I am learning to inform the audience by writing an information report.

Did you know there is as little as 70,000 kiwis left in the entire world, and in 50 years kiwis have the potential to be extinct! The kiwi is a native bird of New Zealand, not a fruit or a person.The kiwi is normally found in the rainforest, farmland, bush areas. The Kiwi is brown in colouring and has little feathers and short wings so they can’t fly because of their small wings. However they do lay large eggs the size of an ostrich egg. There are 5 species of kiwis: the Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi, the Brown Kiwi and the Tokoeka. Kiwis are New Zealand’s national bird but they are hunted by vicious predators.

The kiwi has many predators such as cats, dogs, ferrets, stoats and worst of all possums! These predators are the reason why kiwis have been moved to a saferhabitat on an island where predators cannot reach them. This is to help the kiwi survive. Stoats and cats are mostly harming baby kiwis in the first three months of life while dogs and ferrets go for the big birds and that's a big problem because without adults there will be no more eggs meaning no more kiwis,and possums eat eggs and adult kiwis. Which such predators the kiwi needs to make sure they have a habitat that can help protect themselves against predators.

A kiwis habitat can usually be found in the rainforest but they can also live in diverse habitats from rough farmland to snow tussock with lots of hiding places so you will see the home but not the kiwi. Kiwis live in dark places because they are nocturnal, but some threats (like us) destroyed some of its habitat, now half of kiwis are homeless but some New Zealanders decided take action and take the kiwi to a habitat where that is safe and is full of food to keep them from being hungry.

A kiwi is an omnivore which means they eat plants and living creatures like bugs.
They mostly eat invertebrates which means animals without a backbone like worms, larvae and more. Kiwis also eat berries, leaves and seeds and some unusual food like bracket fungi, frogs, freshwater crayfish, eels, kiwi fruit and tuna. Kiwis even have a favourite food, earthworm! They also drink water from lake like other birds.

As you can see the kiwi is a vital part of New Zealand it is the is the national bird and is a symbol for many people living in New Zealand. There are many dangers that threaten the kiwi bird, such as predators, lack of habitat and ensuring there is enough food for the kiwi to survive. In order to ensure that they will be around for the future generators we need to understand the kiwi and to work together to ensure they will always be in our future.

Weather prediction

We did a slide on what we predicted what the weather was.

Cross art

In school we did cross art which we are going to hang along the tennis courts

Exita-bill

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something

hing in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

M&M challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished al the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class gor 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.