SMJ week 1 day 5 activity 3 If New Zealand sank

Life in New Zealand was great everything is amazing and I love the beach, (Mission Bay) I like Rainbows End I also love the Sky Tower but it is very scary to go up and my favourite thing about New Zealand is going up North and kayaking. I'm going to miss New Zealand when its gone and I hope the next generation's will read my story.

SLJ week 1 day 5 activity 2 Tundra

Dear Danny I have come back from Tundra and I had a very great experience there. I have seen big mountains and I have climbed them too.
I have also seen a lot of animals there too the place has mostly farm areas and the temperature was not that good but not that bad. I had a lot of fun at the place and maybe you could go there too.

Yours sincerely
Alex 

SLJ- week 1 day 5 activity 1 Logging

I  think that logging is very bad because, cutting down tress is bad for the environment a lot of animals lose there homes because of logging, also trees produce oxygen for us and cutting down the trees, we humans lose oxygen and the less oxygen its going to be hard for people to breathe.  

SLJ week1 day 4 activity 3 My Hotel

SLJ week 1 day 4 activity 2 My favourite food

My favourite food is pancakes and Nutella

I like it because of the sweet taste and its nice for breakfast.

How to make it:

Whisk 1 1/2 cups flour, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda in a medium bowl. Whisk 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk, 4 tablespoons melted butter and 1 egg in a separate bowl fold into the flour mixture until just combined.

You can buy Nutella from you local market store

5 Questions I would ask SIR Edmund Hillary - SLJ week 1 day 4

5 Questions I would ask SIR Edmund Hillary 

1. How did you feel while you were climbing Mount Everest

2. Who inspired you to climb Mount Everest

3. What was your feeling at the top of the mountain

4.  were the equipment useful

5. Did you have any regrets while half way climbing the mountain

SLJ- Activity 3 day 3 The WWF

The name of the animal WWF is trying to save and protect are Tigers. The WWF are trying to get people to donate for the tigers also the video is very innerspring to me because it makes me want to go out and help the Tigers but, 
(sadly New Zealand dose't have tigers) 
The Successful thing the WWF are doing is stopping traps and hunters from hurting the tigers.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 day 3 week 1 The DOC

The three good things about working for the DOC Department of Conservation

1. I love lizards 

2. I would love to save these lizards from going to extinction

3. Lizards are great small animals and I like how they use there tail to get away from predators

Bad things

1. The lizards could come in the house and maybe get into foods storage and that stuff.

2. Its hard to find the lizards if they get lost because they are so small.

3.  If the lizards die.

Summer Learning Journey Wk 1 day 3 activity My beast

My beast would have the strength of an elephant the speed of a cheetah, he would have pointy ears, red beady eyes, a strong oger smell he would have wings on his ack, horns coming out of his noes, his colours would be black and red, he would also be the protector of his home town Fire night and he's name excalibur.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 day 2 activity 3 MATHS

Activity 3: Weird and Wonderful [10 points]

New Zealand is just one of many countries that has amazing plants and trees. In fact, the African desert is home to some pretty incredible plants, like the cactus. Some cacti are able to survive on as little as 3 millilitres (ml) of water a day. Wow!

Let’s imagine that you are given a cactus for your birthday. To keep it alive, you must give it 3 ml of water every day.

Over one full year, how much water will you need to give your cactus plant?

On your blog, tell us how to solve this maths problem. You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image, or post a video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer in millilitres (ml).

For an year you would have to feed your cactus 1,095ML.

Summer Learning Journey Wk1 day 2 activity 2

DAY 2: Forest Life

Activity 1: Giants Among Us [4 points]

New Zealand has a really special environment. Many of the plants and trees found in New Zealand are not found anywhere else in the world. These plants and trees are endemic to our country.  In New Zealand, one of the largest and longest living endemic trees is the NZ Kauri tree. Kauri are mainly found in three regions of New Zealand: the Coromandel, Auckland and Northland. The largest Kauri tree in the country is in the Waipoua Forest in Northland. It is called Tāne Mahuta. Some people refer to it as the ‘Lord of the Forest.’

Thousands of people go to visit Tāne Mahuta every year. Would you like to be one of those people who got to see Tāne Mahuta in real life? Why or why not?

On your blog, tell us whether you would like to go and visit Tāne Mahuta one day. Be sure to tell us why you do (or do not) want to visit this endemic tree.

I would really want to see Tane Mahuta in real life because I'm really astonished that us kiwis have the biggies Kauri tree in the world.

Summer Learning Journey Wk 1 day 2 activity 1

1.Tall Ferns. This is Zealand women basketball team.

White ferns.

This is New 

Zealand 

Women Cricket Team.

 3. Black Ferns. This is the New Zealand women Rugby Team.

I really like the Women rugby team uniform because it reminds me of the All Blacks.

(My favourite Rugby team)

Summer learning Journey Wk 1 day 1 activity 3 Ice Ice baby

Activity:
 Antarctica is the world’s coldest continent. Even though it is made up of ice, it is also the driest continent in the world. In fact, it hasn’t rained there for nearly 2 million years! It is home to many animals such as whales, seals, birds, and fish. There are no permanent human residents (people who live there all the time) in Antarctica, however scientists do visit and stay in Antarctica for a while to study it.

This year the airline, Air New Zealand, filmed their safety video in Antarctica. They used some fabulous actors from Hornby Primary School in Christchurch. Just like on aeroplanes, we also need to keep safe and be smart online. We need to think about the type of information we are sharing online, who we are sharing information with, and how to have a positive digital footprint.

On your blog, make a copy of this footprint and, inside the footprint, explain how you create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?.

Here are 5 ways to stay smart

online

Summer learning Journey Week 1 day 1 activity 2- Special place in my home town

A special place in my home town is my school because school gives me a lot opportunity and fun things to do. School also pushes my learning and conman sense.  

Summer Learning Journey week 1 activity 1- 3 cool facts about New Zealand

Cool facts about New Zealand

1. New Zealand is one of the least populated country with over 4 million populations

2.  Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand but Wellington is the capital 

3. The Auckland City Sky Tower is the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 meters high

Kiwican

Kiwican

Today in kiwi can room 7 and I learnt a the new topic, Respect for our community and don't litter, tag or steeling. I also learnt a new game called 123, in the game you have to do actions that represent the numbers if you so do the wrong action you lose.  

Kiwican

Today in Kiwican I learnt a new word. 
That word is Perseverance.

Perseverance to me means never give up and keep trying even if its hard.

Tapa cloth

Pele and I made this google drawing about Tapa cloth.

Last day of Gymnastics

Today on the 28th of August 2018, was our last day at gymnastics with our instructor Ethan. So for our last day we got tested on some of the moves that we did. Some of our moves was the forwards roll, hand stand, cart wheel and run and jump. 

After we got tested we got given these bands that represented our scores. I got a silver band the highest was gold and the lowest was bronze.

I  had a lot of fun at gymnastics and I was very happy with what band I got.  

Facts about Dry Ice

Background

• Dry ice is carbon dioxide when it is in a solid state
• Dry ice is sometimes used to make fog or smoke
• Dry ice can not be held with your own bare hands

   History

• Dry ice was first produced commercially in the 1920s in the united states
• Dry ice was used to freeze food in the mid twenties
• Dry ice back in the day was used to keep ice cream cold before electrical refrigerators

Raw Materials

• The only raw material used to make dry ice is carbon dioxide

The manufacturing process

  

                                        

                   

Fake blood

Science intensive

Today in Science intensive room 7 and I went to room 9. To learn all about movie makeup. Our activity was to find a characters face that you wanted to draw and then we had face paint it on a piece of paper that had a face.

My drawing was a fortnite character named Drift. 

Maths

Today in maths I straggled with a question because it really made me think and I was confused when I red the question. 

Superheroes Poem

Superheroes

They are big and bold like a pack of wolves

symbols of truth and justices

Super humans giving hope and faith

We depend on them like our families and friends

With safe keeping of their identities

Until they reach their destinies  

They will rescue those in need

in the speed of lightning

Boom! Crash! Ding! is what they have to bring

But sometimes we don't achieve  

Normal people can help us to achieve
and
give us hope that we can do helpful things  

Book week recount

Yesterday on the 19th of June 2018, Glenbrae School had our very first Book Week. All clases had been making stuff for book week

My class Room 7 were making dioramas about our favourite book.

Other classes dressed up as their favourite book characters and made posters .

The first thing we did was all the classes in the school gathered up in the hall and we did a parade to show off our fabulous costumes when the paride was done each class got up and told the other classes what character they are. There was also a prize for the best costume for the juniors and the seniors. The winner for the seniors was a boy from room 9 he dressed up as Kia from Ninjago and from the juniors was a girl from room 4 she dressed up as the fairy godmother from cinderella.

After the parade we then showed what we made for book week, Room 7 showed there diaramar, my diaramar was about Bad Guys Episode 5 by Aaron Blabey. After that we had a look at the other clases presentation and then we went back to our classes to have morning tea.

Later on after morning tea we had poetry recital each class chose some students to say a poem and also to thank and introduce. I was an introducer so I introduced one of the poets. After poetry recital we had lunch.

After lunch we had duff show it was called the Superduper show.

The show was about a superhero who got his powers from saving a lady about to get run over and when he saved her something magical happens and he got powers to bring book characters to life. He used these powers to stop the evil Dr Dismo. After the show was done we back our bags and then went home.

Why Fortnite should be allowed to be played at school?

                 Fortnite should be allowed to be played at school?

What is Fortnite about?Fortnite is an online game played by many people around the world. This game is for people aged 12 and over. This age is suitable for Glenbrae Intermediate students.

Fortnite is an online player vs player game and I know that this is a good idea to have students play fortnite in school because children can work together to build their confidence to work with new people from other schools and also students from different classrooms. It helps you with planning and also it will help you to think how your game strategies will work .  

I also want students to play at lunchtime so it won’t interfere with learning. The reason why I picked this time is because It’s closer to end of the day so you don't learn as much, because we learn a lot in the morning.

Fortnite is played on Ipad, computer’s, playstation 4 and xbox1. In our school we have a lot of computers and most kids play on computer rather than PS4 and Xbox1.

This is my argument on why Glenbrae Intermediate students should be allowed to play Fortnite in School.   

Samoan White Sunday

Neptune Information Report

Neptune

Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun it is also the coldest planet. Neptune is the third largest planet in the solar system. Neptune's name comes from the God of sea , Poseidon. The name Neptune comes from Greek mythology. Neptune takes 165 years to orbit the sun.

Neptune was discovered by three men; Urbain Le Verrier, Johann Gottfried Galle and John Couch Adams. They discovered it on the 23rd of September in 1846. Neptune was discovered using  ingenious maths and he also used Isaac Newton's law of gravity to predict the position of Neptune. It took Urbain Le Verrier a long time to study Neptune but he got the help of Gottfried Galle and John Couch.

Neptune has 14 moons the biggest moon on Neptune is called Triton. Triton was the first moon to be discovered by a English Astronomer, William Lassell on the 10 of October 1846. Triton is the only moon to orbit opposite Neptune's rotation. This moon is called a retrograde.

Neptune is the coldest planet in our Solar System because it is very far away from our sun so that means that Neptune doesn't get as much radiation and heat from the sun. Neptune has a lot of strong and cold winds. The temperature on Neptune is -214 Degrees Celsius to 353 Degree Celsius.   

Neptune is the coldest planet and it was discovered by three men Urbain Le Verrier, Gottfried Galle and John Couch using mathematics. The biggest moon on Neptune is Triton, Triton is the only moon that rotates the opposite direction of Neptune.

Ham Burger at Tech

Today at Tech we made Ham Burger.

Here are the ingredients.

1. Toast the bun

2. Slice Tomato and lettuce

3. Mix mince with pepper, salt, mix herbs fry until cooked

4. Put filling inside the burger

Temperatures around the world

Galileo Galilei- Reading Activity's

In Reading we are learning about Galileo Galilei. I have made a poster to show my understanding about Galileo. I have learnt a lot of facts about this person and I also have learnt to summarise information from long text.

Tech at Tamaki-Ham and cheese toast

Today in tech we made Ham and cheese toast.

Here are the ingredients.

Step 1: Cut the crust

step 2: Whisk 5 eggs with one a cup of milk.

Step 3:  Tip the bread into the egg mixture

Step 4: Fill in the cheese and ham seal all the egg with the fork

Step 5. Fry with butter 

Toi Toi PWC Visitors

Today people from PWC came and read to us the new

Toi Toi books. We read a lot of stories but my favourite one was called “The Whistle blows”. It was about Rugby game and how his team won the game. I have also learnt a lot of new words and I had fun reading different stories.

Saturn poster

Tech

Today in Tech at Tamaki Collage we made Butter Chicken.

Here is the Ingredients:

1. Slice and dice the onion and then fry it

2. Cut the Chicken the add 1/3 flour salt and put it in the pan.

3. Cook well and then add Sauce. Add brown sugar if it is sour.

4. Serve it with rice.   

Why we need a flying fox in our playground

Good afternoon Respected Principals and Teachers

I am hear to talk about the fact that our school should have a flying fox in our playground because it is something most kids in our school would enjoy and they would also want something new it would be a physical activity and a lot of older kids would love to play on it instead of tackle rugby. Kids would also feel like they are gliding in the air like a superhero. It will be something that the kids have never had before too. This is why I think we should have a flying fox and I hope you can conceder adding this is our playground Thank you.