Monday, 23 September 2013
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
PIZZA PARTY MONDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER
We will be making pizzas on Monday to celebrate learning about fractions.
It would be great if you could bring a topping to put on your group's pizza.
Examples: A can of pineapple, spaghetti, ham, tomato paste, vegetables.
You do not have to bring a topping to participate.
Any questions see Whaea Scarlett
Thanks
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Monday, 9 September 2013
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Environment Inquiries
THE RAIN
FOREST
*NIGHT LIFE:
for many jungle creatures, the sun going down is an alarm clock for them
to get up. Animals that wake up at night
are called nocturnal creatures and have special features for survival in the
dark.
*Hide and Seek:
A jaguarondi has large eyes which help it see in the dark. These small cats are hard to find in the rain
forest. They are excellent climbers and
speedy fast creatures.
*Toad in a hole:
for these toads, life is a safer underground or in the dark. They spend the day in a forest floor burrow
and come and come out to have dinner such as mice and insects.
*Jaguarondi: these jaguarondis hunt small birds, mice
and lizards around trees, plants and bushes.
*Fly Fishing:
fishing bats don’t need to see well as they have outstanding
hearing. They can hear they hear the
size and shape of fish in the river just by sensing the ripples on the surface. They take fish out with their sharp dirty
claws.
*BIG CATS PREY: A Indian tiger is a nocturnal hunter
of forest deers and bush pigs. Its long
whiskers help it feel its way around and it can see in the dark five times
better.
*Owl butterfly:
The spot on this butterflys wing fools nocturnal hunters shamely.
Sharyn
Plantation
Forests
There are 4 major layers in the forest. These are the emergent layer, the canopy layer, the understory and the forest floor. There are different animals that live in the different layers of the forest. In the emergent layer, which is the top layer of the forest birds, butterflies, small monkeys, bats, snakes
and bugs can be found. In the canopy layer
birds, monkeys,
frogs, sloths, lizards, snakes and many insects can be found as well. If you are like Whaea Scarlett and don't know what sloths are, they are medium sized animals. They have three fingers, they are extremely furry, they have long arms and long legs, they hang upside down on trees and they love to sleep all day.
Skye-Loren
Africa
Africa has the longest river. It is called
the Nile River. It is 6400km long. Lions, zebras, and many other animals live
in eastern and southern Africa.
Terry
Wetlands
Wetlands are areas where standing water covers the
soil or an area where the ground is very wet. Freshwater wetlands are not connected to the ocean.
They can be found along the boundaries of streams, lakes, ponds or even in
large shallow holes that fill up with rainwater. Freshwater wetlands may stay
wet all year long, or the water may evaporate during the dry season.
Joseph
The
New Zealand Forest
We have two main types of
forest in New Zealand – Beech forest and
Podocarp/Broadleaf forest.
The beech forests are the largest native forests
remaining in New Zealand. Many were spared being burnt or cut down because the
land they grow on is often steep and mountainous, so it is not good for farming
or building houses on.
Podocarp/broadleaf forests have a wide variety of
plants growing in them.
Jason
The
Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest is
the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering over five and a half a
million square kilometres (1.4 billion acres).
Over half of the Amazon
rainforest is located in Brazil but it is also located in other South American
countries including Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia,
Suriname and French Guiana.
10% of the world’s known
species live in the Amazon rainforest.
20% of the world’s bird
species live in the Amazon rainforest.
It is home to around 2 and
a half million different insect species as well as over 40000 plant species.
There are also a number of
dangerous species living in the Amazon rainforest such as the cougar, jaguar
and anaconda.
While the protection of the
Amazon rainforest remains an issue, deforestation rates have been reducing
while areas of conserved land have been increasing over the last 10 years.
In both 2005 and 2010 the
Amazon rainforest suffered severe droughts that killed off large amounts of
vegetation in the worst affected areas.
A recent study by climate change experts suggests that
a 3 °C rise in world temperatures by the year 2010 would destroy around 75% of
the Amazon.
Maya
Antarctica
Antarctica is located at the South Pole and is
surrounded by the Southern Ocean. Over 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice. It
is the driest and coldest continent on earth. Antarctica is the fifth largest
continent based on size, but it is the smallest in population with an official
population of 0 (although some people do visit for scientific research).
Some animals do manage to survive in the cold and dry
climate of Antarctica. These animals include penguins, seals, and the snow
petrel (a bird).
Antarctica has no countries and no portions of the
continent are owned by any country.
Luke
Africa
Building houses on stilts to raise the floor
above ground level had
many advantages. houses can be built on mountainous slopes
or over water air circulates easily and the stilts are a protection
from dangerous mammals and snakes. Many tow in morocco
reflect the Muslim or european communities in the ways.
Logan
The
Ocean
Did you know some birds travel 71,000
kilometres each year to get food . Did you know there are close to 3million
seabirds nesting on rangatira . Did you know about 97percent of earths water is
salt water. Tooth fish can live for more than 40 years their average weight is
30 to 40 kilograms but some weigh more than 100 kilograms. Did
you know wedell seals live on the antartic ice all year around. Did you know
the earliest lighthouse were fire built on hillsides to guide ships. Did you
know a blue whale can eat four tons of
krill a day . Did you know the Orca is the largest member of the dolphin
family . When measured from the ocean floor Hawaiis mauna kea rises more than
9145 metres making it the tallest mountain on earth . Did you know the tallest
wave ever measured was 500 metres high in July 1958 at litu bay Alaska.
Utterance
Antarctica
Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, emptiest,
coldest place on earth.
An ice sheet covers all but 2.4 percent of
Antarctica's 14 million square kilometers.
At its thickest point the ice sheet
is 4,776 meters deep and averages 2, 160 meters thick. This is 90 percent of
all the world's ice and it is 70 percent of all the world's fresh water.
There
are lots of penguins, whales, seals, krill (the main food for whales), and even
fish in Antarctica's waters, but there are no land mammals and, as far as
scientists know, no native peoples.
Eskimos and polar bears are found in the
ARCTIC, not the Antarctic.
Milly
Wetlands
Nile crocodiles live in the wetlands
because they blend in with the grass
Wetlands also act like sponges by holding
flood water and keeping rivers at normal levels
American crocodiles are well armord with
scaly skin
There are more than 1,000 American
crocodiles not including hatch lings in Florida
An American crocodiles diet consist mainly
of small fish invertabrates reptiles
birds and mammals
American crocodiles are grey and green or
olive green with long slenders snouts witch distinguish them from their cousin
the alligator
American crocodiles are found in southern
Florida ,the Carrabein south Mexico and along the central American coast south
to venzuela
South Florida is only place where you can
find both crocodiles and alligator
BY SALVANNI
Arctic
Ocean
Each fortnight about seven new speicies are
discovered in the ocean surrounding New Zealand.
There can be so many phytoplankton in the
water they discolour it creating a “red tide”.
Toothfish can live for more than forty
years.
Blue penguins are 1-1.3 m tall and weigh 30 kg.
Scientists call dead whale that has fallen
to the seafloor a “whale fall”.
Sealions hunt for fish and squid.
A blue what can eat up to 4 tons of krills
every day.
About 97% of earths water is salt water.
Sea turtles live in the sunlit zone.
Abraar
Lake
Taupo
Lake Taupo dwarf’s the neighbouring volcanoes of Ruapehu.
Taupo‘s eruption of 30,000 and 1800 year’s
ago were some of
The world’s largest eruptions. They covered
most of the North Island in ash and left behind a huge caldera that has since
filled with water to form
Lake Taupo. Lake Taupo The north island
heart according to Maori legend is the largest fresh water lake in New Zealand.
The Lake was created in an accident
volcanic eruption and the region is full of natural thermal springs and
bubbling mud pools on the lake’s edge with mountain views.
Taupo township is base for visitor wanting
to explore the regional highlights.
Keisha
Outer
Space
Venus is about the same size of earth. It
is also the hottest planet in the outer space.
Pluto is the smallest planet of all. It has
1 moon called Charon, which is half its side.
Uranus is four times bigger than earth it
is circled by 15 Moons.
Shooting stars or falling stars are not
really stars at all.
Meteors can travel into our atmosphere at
about 5 to 40 miles per second.
Jupiter has 16 moons one of them are called
IO which has active volcanos.
The moon is the closest thing to us in
space.
Saturn is a spinning ball of gas and liquid
circled by 16 Moons.
Morgan
Lake
Taupo
Lake Taupo is the largest lake, source of
spectacular Huka Falls, and center of an active volcanic region where
geothermal energy bursts through the earth’s thin crust.
The paradise, and destination for holiday
adventures and relaxation.
Taupo is fresh water and these are the
manes of the fish’s 1. Rudd 2 Catfish 3 Gambusia 4 Koi Carp.
The average length of a catfish is 75 cm
and found mainly in Waikato river or lake Taupo, the koi carp average length Is
25 cm and found mainly in Auckland and Waikato, average length of Gambusia is
3.5cm if was a male and if was female 6cm and found mainly in top half of north
island, and the last fish called Rudd is 25cm found mainly in Waikato or Auckland.
Pornthipha
Africa
- Cape buffalo
The cape buffalo also known as the African
cook, is a powerful animal that has few enemies buffalos, rhinoceroses, and
leopards. animals in Africa.
Their power and sized means that they are
very able to defend themselves.
They have taken their place in the African
big five elephants, lions, cape The Tigers roar can be herd 2 big five are
known to be some of the most dangerous and aggressive.
Jack
The
Rainforest
Did you know that earthworms are very different to elephants and sharks
but did you know that worm are female and male at the same time. Some male
sperm cells to the worm . The female egg cells in it own baby. This happen in
side both worm . Finally the baby worm has came out.
Shonah.
ALL
About The Rainforest
Forest facts: did you know that owl
butterflies are the size of dinner plates. A tigers roar can be herd 2.5km away
and it is very noisy.And did you also know that owl butterflies can trick
people in to thinking that they are real owls. The rainforest has very
colourful animals and plants. Biologists think there are still more animals
that live in the rainforest that they don’t know about yet. Some forest species
are extinct because people are clearing some of the rainforests. These are some
of the animals and plants that are still alive. Jaguars, and are wild orchid.
Nina
All
about the Antarctica
The ice in Antarctic is about 2 kilometres
thick and no trees grow in Antarctic
The winds in the southern ocean around
Antarctica can reach the speed of 300 kilometres and hour. Antarctic is the
direst and the highest and windiest
place on earth and the ice its thickes point was when the ice was
covering Antarctica
Is almost 5 kilometres .the coldest
temperature ever recorded was at vostok research station in 1983 it was
89.2c.no rain falls on the land only around the edge of the coast. Antarctica
contains 70 per cent of the world’s fresh waterin the form of ice. The biggest
iceberg ever seen was larger then Belgium it covered about 30.000square
kilometre. Scientist have found fossils
in Antarctica this means that the continent was once warm and trees and other
plants lived.
Tane
All
About The Ocean
On the sea bed there are 7 kind of fish
living there called hatchet fish ,lantern fish,viperfish, fangtoothfish , and
gulper eel also anglerfish and crabs.
Giant tube worm lives above a bubbling sea
volcano.
Star fishcan live on land and sea.
Hammerhead fish is the wriedest shark .
A blue whale can eat four tons a day .
Too much planktons make red water(very
harmful).
Sea lion hunt for tasty fish and giant
squid.
Large fish like tuna use their speed to
catch and eat smaller fish.
Coral reefs grow in the sunlit zone.
When the ocean gets deeper it gets colder
and darker.
Vince
All
about Antarctica
Antarctica is the driest highest and
windiest place on earth.
At its thickest point the ice covering
Antarctica is almost 5 kilometres deep.
The biggest iceberg ever seen was larger than
belium. it covered about 30.000 square kilometres.
In Antarctica penguins eat fish.
Summer
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