Going Going gone

The NZ life in 2018 has been filled with NATURE, WATER and FUN! New Zealand is surrounded by water almost everywhere you go! When your driving down the motorway you will either see Trees and billboards or trees and water! New Zealand has so much trees and is filled with BEAUTIFUl flowers and bushes! New Zealand also has a lot of parks, pools and many more such as malls, shops and things like that! If your in need of something and your short on cash you can just go to a $2 shop and buy what you need! New Zealand does get very hot at times but that's when going to the pools for free comes in handy! New Zealand is a beautiful place filled with very beautiful people! A lot of flowers, trees, hot weather, a lot of DELICIOUS FOOD and a lot of entertaining things to do!

Fantastic Beasts

My beast has big red eyes with a long black nose.
My beast has a long fur tail and can smell 100 meters away.
It can hear anything from 100 meters away.
This animal is faster than a cheetah and sounds like a tiger/lion

Tane Mahuta tree

Why I would like to visit tane mahuta

I would like to see tane mahuta because i want to see how big it is and it my other reason is because we can be outdoors instead of being indoors on our gadgets. Visiting tane mahuta would be great because than i can explore more stuff about new zealand.

My Pepeha

This week my class room has be working on our pepeha. This was so cool here a video of me saying my pepeha

The Tsunami

The Tsunami is an  impact of an earthquake . The Tsunami takes time to come to New Zealand so it strength has been losing so it has shrunk and the little wave didn’t hit NZ. The tsunami is a really big wave that people gets crashed from that they try to have time to evacuate from their country and migrate that's how most people gets safe or they straight run to the big hills.


Before people evacuate to have time in the past they  would eat other different kinds of food to survive by living near ocean so that they could find more sead food to cook , in the future people evacuate from the tsunami instead of living near the ocean go to build houses in big hills so that can be safe in their houses.

Earthquake explantion

What is an earthquake?
Why do earthquakes happen?
Crust - plates - converging, diverging, continental and oceanic
Where do Earthquakes happen?
Ring of fire
Examples of Earthquakes
What is the impact of Earthquakes?
Landslides
Liquefaction
What happens to cities and buildings
What happens to people
Tsunamis
What was the strongest earthquake ever?
How are earthquakes measured? (magnitude, richter scale).


Earthquakes can strike any moment without warning, They can bring down tall buildings and rip highways to pieces

Why do earthquakes happen?
Earthquakes happens when the rocked underground suddenly breaks along the fault. This warning release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake.



What was the strongest earthquake ever?
In 1960 the Valdivia earthquake of Sunday, 22 May 1960 was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale.

What is an earthquake?
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of earth.

There are different kinds of Earthquakes around the world some can also be strong and break highways into pieces 

Liquefaction

What is the impact of earthquakes

WALT: WRITE AN EXPLANATION TEXT

WALT write an explanation text.

Introducion. (2-3 sentences)
Say what you are talking about
Body 1 - heading.
Body 2 - heading.
Body 3 - heading.
Conclusion.
Summary.

Headings
What are volcanoes and how are they made?
What are the different kinds of volcanoes? (3 stages and 3 kinds)
What is the Ring of Fire and why is it important?
Are there myths around volcanoes?
When a volcano erupts, what is the impact on the land and people?
Can we predict a volcanic eruption?

Technical Vocab
Molten magma, Vulcan, volcano, volcanic, tectonic plates, Ring of Fire, Roman God, ancient, erupts, magma, lava, ash cloud, extinct, active, dormant, fault line, Earthquake, inner core, outer core, crust, mantle, vent, throat, secondary vent, crater, rock, 452, 1500, Pacific Plate, equator, 75%, 90%.

Volcanoes are a mountain that bursts with lava. Lava melted rock that has erupted from a volcanoes onto  earth's surface
What are volcanoes and how are they made?
Volcanoes are what forms magma from within the Earth’s upper mantle works its way to the surface. At the surface, it erupts to form lava flows and ash. Over time as the volcano continues to erupt, it will get bigger and bigger.

What is the Ring of Fire and why is it important?
Ring of Fire is important because it based on a plate called tectonic, the boundary plate receives the power of collide of each plates; then the crust receives and squeezed, then raised up.

What are the different kinds of volcanoes? (3 stages and 3 kinds)
There are three main types of volcano- Composite or Strato Shield and Dome and the three stages are Active Dormant and Extinct.

Volcanoes are a mountain that bursts with lava. There are different kinds of volcanoes and they can be very dangerous.

WORD/MASTER VOCABULARY FINDER

HOW DO WE PREDICT THE WEATHER?

Yesterday me and my class Room 7 did how do we predict the weather for our inquiry topic natural disasters. This is my goggle drawing I did for how do we predict the weather

AUTUM LEAVES NARRATIVE

In a far away school there was a boy named jacob who was riding his bright Kowhai bike to pick up his friend named James. “Summer has ended” said Jacob
“Yeah and now we have autumn” replied James

They continued to walk to school suddenly Jacob push his bike and James fall down to the ground that it was really  hurtful, that his knee was bleeding that he really need help Jacob was trying to help his friend but he just felt guilty of himself that he hurt his own friend.


 So a car stop by and helped James get up and gave him a plaster . “Sorry James” Jacob Resopnly said
“It okay Jacob” James Replied



They finally went inside school and was really happy that they straight away went to class before they were late

 Today me and lily made this short narrative writing ! This is mainly about two boys and autumn leaves

HOW TO USE DIALOG IN OUR WRITTING

Focuses for writing this week
Explanation in my own words.
Where do speech marks go
Before and after the sentence the person said.
How to put in other punctuation
Any punctuation has to go before the speech mark.
When to start a new line or when to keep writing
When 2 or 3 people are talking.
Different words for ‘said’
Asked, replied, responded, yelled, screamed, shouted, mumbled, said, muttered, gasped, panting, chuckled, thought, told, uttered, continued, whispered
Adding adverbs
Responded politely, asked politely, screamed angrily.

EXAMPLES
“Who can I pick on?” asked Miss Ashley.
“Me” replied Timote.

“How was your day?” asked Hope.
“Great, thank you” replied Miss Ashley.

“How was your weekend” asked Dwyane.
“It was good” responded Havea.

If more than one person is talking, you put the reply underneath.
Mary was a beautiful girl who was wearing her long black hair in two plaits. She asked her mum, “can I go to the pools today?”.
“Why do you want to go” mum replied.
“It’s hot and I want to cool off”.
“Fine then”

If it’s only one person, you keep going.
Little red riding hood walked along the dirt path and thought to herself “I’m getting hungry”. She had walked a looooonng way but the thought of warm apple pie when she got to grandma’s house kept her going.

MY GROUP’S EXAMPLE.
“Hi Vaiola how was your day?’’said Hope

“Amazing, how was your day Syariah-lee?” Asked Vaiola

“My day was great, thank you for asking” Replied syraiahlee
“What are you doing today Hope” Asked syraiahlee

“OOHH I am really busy because I need to go school then after school I need to go to the gym and then I need to look after my baby sister. How about you Vaiola?”

“Its good but really it busy because we have to go to school then we have to walked back home which is ’real far’. Hope what time do you go to the gym?”

“KNOW!! because I have to leave at 10:40 cause it starts at 11:00”

Bouncy castle

Last week on Thursday 14th June room 7 went to the bouncy castle near the school hall. There was a lady telling us the rules after that we took our shoes and socks off and lined up in with a buddy. I was with my friend named Hope. It was finally our turn me and Hope went on one each mat and waited for the lady to say go. The lady said go and then we went through little circles then into a fridge then into the washing machines and then we were finish. After that we put our shoes on and then we lined up into two lines and then we walked to our classroom. 

Night light

On Monday I have read a book with my reading group called bright sparks. We read the book called Night light. This is the Google drawing I have done for the facts about the moon

How seasons happen

What are stars?

Sunlight on Earth

Sun information report

Title: sunlight on the earth

Paragraph: what is the sun?

• Star
• Does not move
• Surrounded by 8 planets
• Part of the solar system
• Small - big

Paragraph 2: What its made of?

• 99.87% Hg
• Core is the hottest part of the sun
• Its hot
• Energy

Paragraph 3: What does the sun do?

• Compass
• Shadow
• West
• Egyptian
• Sunflowers know where the sun is
• Total darkness
• 8 minutes -
• produces light and warmth

The Sun!

The sun scientific name is sol.

What is the sun?

The sun is a star that is part of our solar system. The sun sits at the centre of the solar system, it is orbited by 8 planets which rotate at the same time. The sun is the biggest part of our solar system, but it’s small compared to other suns in other systems. The sun does not move because it’s a star.

What is the sun made of?

The sun is made of energy. The sun produces energy, called solar energy which can be used to power homes on Earth. The core is the hottest part of the sun, it is 27 million degrees F*/15 million degrees C*. It’s made of Hydrogen gas which is sometimes known as Hg.

What does the sun do?

The sun produces light and it also produces warth.

If there was no sun the solar system would be total dark.

It takes 8 mins for the solar system. The energy from the sun takes 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth

Conclusion.

The sun, is called sol, sits at the center of the solar system and products light and heat and the sun is a big giant star that lives in the solar system.

What is the sun and what does it do?