Cultural week

Last week everyone was sorted into a country or place. I was put in Brazil,
we made masks, we learnt samba dancing and it was so much fun.  I am
 looking forward to next years Cultural week.

Kiwi Writing

New Zealand's Native Kiwi Bird 

I am learning to inform my audience using an information report

What's brown, soft, and native bird to New Zealand? Yes, you guessed it

 the Kiwi bird! The Kiwi is a flightless bird and it just so happens to be 

one of New Zealand's native birds. Did you know that the female kiwi 

is heavier than the male kiwi, and the size of the kiwi egg is about 6

 times the size of a chickens egg! The closest relatives to the kiwi 

today is the Elephant bird from Madagascar, Emus, and the

 Cassowaries of Australia. Kiwis are one of the smallest and 

rarest birds in New Zealand. Most people think there is only one

 Kiwi specie, but actually there are 5 different species. The Great 

Spotted Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, North Island Brown Kiwi, 

Okarito Kiwi, and the Southern Brown Kiwi. In order to 

understand the kiwi we need to explore the importance of

 their diet, their habitat and take a look at the population of the kiwi.


Diet: Kiwis have a wide range of food that they like to munch

 on such as, worms, grubs, bugs, berries, and seeds that they

 find. Did you know Kiwis are the only birds that have nostrils 

at the end of their beaks so they can sense food from far away. 

 They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels, and small amphibians. 

Kiwis have a highly developed sense of smell, unusual in a bird.

 For a kiwi to survive they need to have food and water, that can 

be provided in their habitat. 

Habitat: Where do Kiwis live? Well kiwis can be found throughout

 New Zealand, across the North Island and South Island, right down

 to Stewart Island. Kiwis prefer natural habitats and would not make

 a good house pet. Kiwis don't require a pristine habitat but prefer

 the native forests of New Zealand. They can be found in scrub

 and rough farmland, exotic plantation, sand dunes, and snowy

 tussocks. Kiwis live in a huge range of habitats. However not

 every habitat is safe for the kiwi this leads us into the predators

 of the kiwi.


Predators: There are many threats to the kiwi as their habitats

 are on the forest floor. Some of these threats include stoats,

 cats, wild pigs, dogs and ferrets. At one point there was an

 average of 27 kiwis killed every week! That impacted on the

 population of the kiwi with around 1,400 kiwis dying every

 year. At this rate kiwis may disappear in our lifetime. A single

 roaming stray could take away an entire kiwi population in a 

matter of days. Luckily there are Kiwi sanctuaries where 

kiwis go and get protected from predators.

In conclusion Kiwis may disappear in our lifetime with the way

 where heading. But with Kiwi sanctuaries, and if we all set our 

minds to it we can all help save The Kiwi, and keep them for a

 long, long time. To do this we need to keep them in their natural 

habitat, have food and water and keeping them far away from

 predators. I hope we will all save the Kiwi so that future 

generations will know and love our national bird.

The Duck Billed Eagle

In Reading we each made a bird. We choose the head, beak, tail, and feet.
  Once we finished we wrote on the poster why we choose the body parts,
 What our bird eats and its environment it stays in. We also said why we
choose the colors. I called my bird The Duck Billed Eagle. I had lots of
 fun designing my bird.

Art crosses

In room 6 we have been painting our crosses for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how it turned out...

Science Experiment

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 learn

t 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 the amazing experiment.

The 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 realized 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 all the colors 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 got 41 M&M’s each!

 We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents Mass

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with

 our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first 

went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed

 our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song

 to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat

 for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the

 time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform 

some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the 

Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, okulele and Irish Dancing

. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are

 blessed to have such special people in our lives.