Leaf GIF

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This week we have been doing a reading activity about a leaf. We had to draw a leaf and put in the: verbs, adverbs, and also a few sentences about the leaf. The hard part was to think of all the words. The easy part was to draw the leaf. We also made a GIF of our leaf. The learning behind the task was to learn what adverbs were and how to use them. The hard part for making the GIF was to get all the timing and sizes right. The easy part was to make the actual pictures of the GIF.  We are learning about mood and atmosphere 

Tree Hut Adjetive

 We have been learning how to use adjectives to describe a mood and atmosphere. Here is a picture of our tree house that my group made and the adjectives to describe the mood. 

Can you guess the mood and atmosphere?

Compatible Word problems

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We have been learning about how to use Compatible Numbers. Compatible Numbers are any two numbers which add together to make a Tidy Number 

(a  number which ends in zero).  We had to choose two Compatible Numbers and another number. Then we had to think of a word problem which used our numbers and give the problem to a buddy to solve. Mrs Ogle, our maths facilitator, said this is called 'posing problems'. Here is my problem 32+54+18= Max shaved his head 54 times Auto shaved his head 32 times and Shank shaved his head 18 times. How many times did they shave all together.

On the bus to the snow

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Last week the year 5s and 6s went on a ski trip down in Mt Ruapehu, Here is a photo of my and my class heading to the mountain.

 

Measuring heads with wool

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This week we have been making graphs and estimate and then measure our maths group heads with a piece of wool.  I learned that Ariana and I had the biggest heads and Tanner and Harry has smaller sized heads.  Here is a graph of our head circumference size.

Plate tectonics

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Last Friday my class an I did an experiment to learn about plate tectonics and how the movement of the plates help shape New Zealand. I learned that the plates can move in 3 different ways, they go under, over and side to side.  Here are some photos from my plate experiment. Can you guess what we used for our magma?  

                                                                                     

Lahar warning

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Today we built Mt Ruapehu in the sandpit. We also made the Whangaehu River valley, the plain below the mountain and the railway bridge at Tangiwai. We wanted to learn how the lahar destroyed the bridge in 1953 causing the Tangiwai Disaster. Kora and Ariana poured lots of water into the crater we had made on top of our mountain. It whoosed down the side of the mountain and into the river valley. The bridge collapsed and bits of our train fell into the river. After that, we watched a short video about what do do if you are on Mt Ruapehu when the lahar siren sounds.  Now I know how to keep safe from a lahar if one happens when I am on a mountain.  Here is my Hazard Notice with the most important information