Mihi

In class we made Mihi's.  Here is a picture of mine.

                       If you want to see the picture close up click on it.

Lunch time sport

Something that runs at H.N.I is lunch time sport. Lunch time sport is a activity
that  a a teacher runs through lunch times. There are different sports over the year. 
We are just finishing non-stop cricket. Two classes face, then  another two classes face till we have our
top two teams in year 8 and year 7. Then the top teams will face so
we find out who are grand winners are.
This year each class has been named after a country competing in the cricket World Cup.
My class is Kenya so the picture above is the Kenya flag.
Classes did not have to  make the flag but some people in our
class decided to paint it. Now it gets taken out to each game that we play.

Below is a picture of what the lunch time sport schedule looks like.

camp

   On Wednesday of 12 / 3 /2015 Rooms 13 and room 15 went to Weka Point camp. We were there        until Friday and it was a lot of fun. We did a lot of challenges and activities like mud slide, flying        fox, raft building and riding, archery, orienteering and my list is endless. Here are some pictures         with a caption from camp.
     

This photo is of my group going rafting. We had to make our raft from blow-up tyres then tie them together with the knots we had learnt.  Those knots were a figure of eight and a double hitch knot. We were in groups of 4 so we needed enough tyres for four of us. My group made our raft with three tyres, two small and one big. We made it in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head. We then had to carry them down to the river and we set off.

In this photo we were getting into  out kayaking groups.  I was with Rebecca and Sophie. We practiced kayaking with our paddles.  After that we took our boats down to the water and set off. We paddled around following the leader for a bit. Then we played fruit salad where we are all a different fruit. There was a apple, pear, mango and  orange. The leader would call out one of the fruits and those people would have to stand up and swap with another one of those fruits.  While everyone was walking across the canoes the other people would have to hold onto the boats so they did not separate.  Then once everyone was all mixed up we all had to go back to our original boat.  We did a few other activities in our canoes then we went to get dry and changed.

bug man

Today Ruud Kleinpaste or you may know him as bug man visited us at school today. He came to our assembly to talk about bugs and how they affect everything.  He talked about some of the different bugs, and  how all of them have there place in the ecosystem, also how they help us humans and other animals to survive.  Here are some facts that he told us.

1.Scientist have only discovered 1000 insects but they have a theory that there is around 12000 to 30000 bugs.

2. Bugs our useful for a lot.of things, for supplying food for humans ,they are food, dung eating insects like ants and more reasons.


3.  people find eating bugs really gross some humans. but we pay heaps for sea invederbats like our sea slugs and snails. like Paua, pipi, oyster ,mussels and more was  food. 

Different insects and animals and there different uses:

4 .One of the insects that supply something our bees. They supply 1/3 of our food they  pollinate our vegetables and fruits and the grass so when animals like sheep cows eat the grass they have part of the pollen so without bees we would eventually run out of food

5. Monkeys eat leaves and bugs so before they eat the leaf they turn over the leaf  to look for bugs.

6 .Kiwis are 80 percent insect eaters they eat a lot of bugs they are like vacuum cleaners they will eat most things.

7. When you see a blue butterfly up in the trees and you want it to come down you have to find a shade of blue like there wings and put it on the ground then the butterflies will come down to look at it.

8. Orchid bees take the pollen from orchids like other bees take pollen from flowers.

9. Orchid bees are really quick hard to see.

10. If you want to see a Orchid bee well you should go to their hive to see them all.

11. If two Orchid bees met they talk to each other ( in bee language) to tell one another where they got their pollen from so that the other bee can go there and swoop there pollen for the Orchid pollen.

Orchid flower                                                                                    Orchid bee

12. Sloths eat one big leaf a day which does not give them enough energy so that is why they are so slow. They go to the toilet once a week on a Friday so they have to climb all the way down the tree stalk to got to the toilet.

13.moss grows on the back of sloths

14. moths live ob the back of sloths, and when the sloths climb down the tree the moths lay eggs in the poo.

15. Humming bird can be very small around the same size as a pray mantis.   

16. Poisonous frog eat poisonous ants and put some of that poison on them as a second protection.

17. Without dug disposal insects like ants it would take 3 years for us to be  living in 7 feet of poo.

Here are some pictures that he showed us and of him.

 

Earth Science Pangaea

     Earth   Science  Pangaea

Here is a video explaining what Pangaea is

1. Pangaea was made up of?

              d. All seven continents.

    2.   How does the author organize the information in this passage?

              c. The author describes Pangaea and then explains the process

                      that made it drift apart.

   3.    Which of the following answers supports the statement,

         “Earth’s continents may be in different positions in the distant

         future?”

                  b. Continental drift continues to move continents a little each

                          year.

    4.    Read this sentence

             “The name Pangaea is derived from the Ancient Greek words

           ‘pan’ meaning ‘entier,’ and ‘Gaia’ meaning ‘Earth.’”

               As used in the sentence, the word derived means:

                                  b. formed from.

    5.   What is this passage mostly about?

                c. Pangaea and how continental drift

                       has changed the earth over time.

   6.  What are some of the effects of continental plate movement?

             . volcanoes erupting

             .  Earthquakes

             .  Continents breaking apart, and spreading across the

                Earth.

             

  

  7.   Describe evidence from the passage that can help explain why    the Earth’s continents could look different in millions of years.

                  . from like what happened back then there were continental

                       drifts which made the countries separate and become more little

                       countries and then is happening all of the time.  So in the next

                       million years there would have been a lot of continental drifts.

                     . Also from all of the volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

    8.  The answers below includes and incomplete sentence. Choose

         answer that best completes the sentence.

         Continental plates move under the surface of the continents.      

        as a result  continental drifts occurs.

                                        a. As a result.

     9.  Read the following sentence.

             Scientists believe a new  “ super- continent,”  like Pangaea,

             may form again in millions of years due to continental drift.

        Answer the following questions based on the information

        provided in the sentence you just read. One of the questions

       has already be answered for you.

                     1. Who is the main subject of the sentence?  scientists

                         2. What do scientists do?  All scientist have studied a certain topic

                             which they still study and try to find things out about that,

                            subject.

                         3. Why?  Because they might be interested in the topic they are

                             looking at and want to find more out about it.

    

   

      10. VOCABULARY  WORD:  speculate ( verb): to make a guess

          about something without basing it on  a lot of evidence.

              Use vocabulary word in a sentence.

                                    All of the scientist speculate that in millions of years the world will be joined together again.   

         

                            

                                     

                                  

Room 13 pic collage

 

Here is a Pic collage of most of room 13. There are 15 boys in this class and 14 girls. This Pic collage was taken in I think the second week of school.

Room 13 Turangawaewae drawings.

Room 13 Turangawaewae drawings.

 For our inquiry out topic was Turangawaewae which means our place to stand. We all drew pictures of a place / structure from the town we were born in or that we live in (some did places that they like).  I drew a waka in a river. Many people did different places or landmarks.