earthquake slide show

This is a slideshow to tell you instructions about how to keep your selves safe when an earthquake comes to your city. We took photos in a group and uploaded them into a Google App called Picasa.

The Earths Layers

W.A.L.T: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
Did you know that the crust has 7 tectonic plates that hold the land and sea.It is about 15-75 km thick.

The mantle
Have you ever wondered about the mantle? Did you know that the mantle has 2 parts, the upper mantle and the lower mantle.The upper mantle is 400km thick and the lower mantle is 2300km thick which is more dense than the upper.

Outer core
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 a star dies out.

Inner core
The inner core is solid. It contains iron,nickel and sulphur.The temperature of the inner core is
6650 degrees Celsius. It is about 1220km thick.

Princess Te Puea Presentation

I also helped out Mavis with her Princess Te Puea project. This famous Maori woman definitely showed whanaungatanga! - check it out!

My Inquiry Presentation!

I had 3 weeks to question, research and present information to do with Whanaungatanga. I chose Maori medicine. Here is a photo and a video of my presentation.

My Very 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.

W.A.L.T find information

We were learning to find information about harakeke.I learnt that the harakeke plant is like a whanau. You never cut the rito because that is the baby of the whanau.

Chasity Term 2 Goals

Term Two Learning Goals
My learning goal for Reading this term is:
To read more chapter books at school more often.
To achieve this goal,
I will need to read my books every night before I go to bed.
My whanau can help me achieve this by
Making the words challenging for me so if I read that same book again I will know the words off by heart.

My learning goal for Writing this term is
To do my work with out talking to a friend or mucking around like playing hand games.
To achieve this goal, I will need to
Keep on doing my work without talking to my friends when I’m typing my writing.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Sitting down with me and supporting me by checking if it makes sense and has full stops in the correct places and making sure that I have the capital letters in the right places too!

My learning goal for Maths this term is:
To learn my times tables all the way to 12 times tables so that I can get better at recalling them quickly.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
To learn them everyday after school and before I go to school.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Supporting me so that I get better at maths.

My personal goal this term is
To be careful what game I go into because I might go into something that I don’t know and virus might come up.
To achieve this goal, I will need to:
Go into a different site I know, in case a virus comes up.
My whanau can help me achieve this by:
Nan watching me or my brother on the computer in case a virus comes up, so if a virus does come, up she can fix it.