cultural week

This is the presentations form the Chinese woman of panmura...

kiwis

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report

Do you know what the closest and oldest living thing to a emu is? If you guessed a kiwi you are right. The kiwi is relative of the emu, moa and ostrich, these are flightless birds as well. However the kiwi is the smallest flightless and is only about the size of a chicken. The female kiwi is generally also larger than the male kiwi. The female is larger because she has to hold and lay the egg, the size of the egg is about the same size as an ostrich egg. The kiwi is also an important icon and bird to New Zealand because the kiwi is native to New Zealand and quite often New Zealanders are called kiwis. The kiwi is endangered and it is our job as New Zealanders to protect and help their chances of survival. To do this we need to understand their diet, there habitat and their predators. We need to do more to help these animals to survive.

Diet:
Kiwis eat a range of different types of food, they eat both plant and animals for energy. For instance the kiwi likes to snack on grubs, berries, leaves, and even freshwater crayfish. The kiwi is nocturnal, this means they sleep through the day and come out at night to go and source their food. They kiwi doesn’t need much water to survive because they collect a lot of water from the food they eat. An example of this is the earthworm, as the earthworm is made up of 85 % water. When the kiwi does require a little extra water it will dip its beak and tilt its head up to garle back the water. In order for the kiwi to get food it needs to have a safe habitat.

Habitat

Home sweet home, we all enjoy our home comforts and the kiwi is no different. A habitat is a place where all the needs of an animal are meet. The kiwi needs to have a place where it hide during the day and sleep, yet come out at night and find a range of food. The kiwi habitat also need to be dark and damp as they prefer to have the coverage from trees etc to protect them from the weather of the day. Kiwis are rather adaptable to environments and live in lots of different places such as farm lands, forests, sand dunes and even lower snowy mountains. They create burrows so they can nest and sleep safely during the day.

Predators
The kiwi has many predators because they cannot fly and are located on the ground. This make it easy for attacks from predators and makes the kiwi vulnerable. The predators of the kiwi are stoats, rats, cats, dogs and wild pigs. These animals came to New Zealand via boats when the british came. These predators don’t just attack the kiwi but some of them are out to kill and eat the eggs of kiwi. This is endangering the number of kiwis in New Zealand we must help to provide safe environments for the kiwi.

As you see the kiwi is important to New Zealand because they are a national treasure and are symbolic to our country. The kiwi is endangered and it is our job to protect them. We need to know about their diet, habitat and the range of predators. If we understand this then we can help to keep them alive. The kiwi is a unique and amazing animal that New Zealand needs to protect them.

Hangi

This is the diorama that me and Eva made it is on a hangi and tells you how to make it ...

Languges

In mandarin we have been learning how to say our names in mandarin here is my name.....

My crosses

Here is my crosses that I did. Do you like them?

Cultural Week

Last week it was cultural week we had lots of fun learning and tasting new and exciting things about different cultures we all had lots of fun and really enjoyed ourselves and we all enjoyed the presentations of the cultures we all worked hard and found it very interesting hopefully we can do it again !!!

Flowers

Roses are red 🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
violets are blue 
God made me pretty 
what happend to you?

A Ton of Sugar

I ate a ton of sugar 
It made me very sweet
It also made me very round 
and now I cant see my feet. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

My Weather Predictions

Science Bird Discovery

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something

hing in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment

M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, okulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.