My reports on the Kea

lately we have been working on writing about native birds to New Zealand and we have been working on these for a few days and my native bird was the Kea also known as the New Zealand mountain parrot.

hangi

we had a display of a Maori oven called a hangi we paired up for around two weeks to make a slide or a diorama and me and my partner made a diorama and this is what it looks like 

prayers

On Monday we did prayers for hole school and it was on cultural week and we said a prayer in Maori,Samoan and Chinese and we had fun doing it. 

calendar art

We have been working on our calendar art for 2019. We have been working on these for  all term and will be put on a calendar  for 2019

God title page

We have been learning about God and we have made a title page

Mandarin

we have been learning about the langue mandarin we have been learning about mandarin for eight weeks and we have been learning how to do a conversation in mandarin and we have been learning our names

Author visit

A author came to visit our school his name was Raymond Huber and he is a New Zealand author and he came to our school to talk about his books and his addiction about bees 

Abraham and Sarah

we have been learning about Abraham and Sarah and how God gave them a baby by following Gods instructions. Before Abraham was called Abram and Sarah was called Sari. Abraham and Sarah were 40 years old and did not have a child but they wanted one then God said I will give you a child if you travel to the land of cannon and it will all be yours but Abram and Sari had doubt in God but they still did it they traveled to the land of cannon and then God gave them a baby boy.

social justice

We had a social justice week and we watched a video about being fair to others 

and it was about a square not fitting in with all the other shapes so it showed some shapes helping him fit in and treated the same and the lesson is that everyone should be treated the same no matter what they look like. 

speches

How kids can make a difference

Do you know what can start small but can do humongous things if you guessed a child you are correct.Now we will get serious do you see around you you might see a nice tree a butterfly the beautiful sun but this not this all around the world.

Now I will talk about the dangers of the world. There a dangers to the world and I will list them for you explosive weapons, world war, poverty, global warming and extra .You might think it’s fine but you're wrong all of this will keep growing and growing until the human race is gone.

Now I’m going to talk to you about solutions to those problems. Stop littering if every kid in new Zealand pick up one piece of rubbish that's 1.4 million pieces of rubbish gone from pollution sounds like a lot right but what if every kid in the world picked up one piece of rubbish that’s 1.9

billion rubbish WOW! But that’s is only one of the many world threats. World hunger the suction food but how do we get this food I know make a food grower that makes food get bigger. You might think that’s not possible but it could if you try really hard.

People that have made a difference think about it.If people have made a difference how do you think Martin Luther king jr what he did as a kid you think he would of sat there just no he would of trying to fight to make a difference look at him now he made the world change.Elbert entine he is one of the most smartest people ever to live.

what do you think he did as a kid he couldn't talk till he was four years old but did that stop him from be becoming one of the most smartest people ever to live he worked and worked till his limits were accomplished. These people have done everything they can as a kid look in a history book they are amazingly famous.

Okay have you got all of this information.Now you know how to make a difference so why don’t you go out there and make a difference.

kiwi information writing

KIWI

Do you know what bird that can’t fly but is a national treasure if you guessed the kiwi bird you are correct. Now some fun facts do you know kiwis lifespan is approximately 30-50 years, kiwi height is 33-63 centimeters. Kiwis we discovered in the mid 1800’s. Many people think there is only one Kiwi but did you know that there are 5 types of Kiwi birds North Island Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, Great Spotted Kiwi, Okarito Kiwi. Kiwis do not have very good eyesight so they have to rely on their touch sense for navigation .The kiwi has the egg size of a Ostrich egg but the Kiwi is the size of a chicken, interesting right. There are lots of interesting thing about the kiwi bird. There are three main things about the kiwi which are the diet, habitat and predators.

Diet are very important in a Kiwi’s life to have a healthy life and so they do not look yummy for the predators. First of all Kiwi’s love to eat invertebrates ( invertebrates are animals without a backbone) for example worms, spiders, beetles and extra . When the Kiwi eats his delicious plate of icky sticky worms he swallows them down his enormous beak into his digestive system bye bye worm. Kiwi birds don’t just eat insects they also eat small crayfish, fruit, plants ,eels, fungi and amphibians so the kiwi bird is a omnivore. The kiwi does not need water because worms are made up of 85% of water.Some people wonder if kiwis eat kiwi fruit apparently to google the answer is no .The kiwi bird has to have a home with lots of food around it so the habitat is next

Home for a kiwi bird is a place where predators are away and food is near but where is this home. Kiwi birds home are usually underground or a borrow. Kiwis live in the forest because they prefer somewhere dark, damp and and where's it has wetland . There are 15,000 that have made a home in Stuart island. The kiwi is a sensitive creature and needs the right habitat or they will parish that's whats so important about a habitat and where it’s at. Kiwi birds are wise of how they get home .

Predators are a the biggest threats to kiwi there are many threats to the kiwi bird. All of the predators were all brought by the English they brought stoats, weasels , possums, cats, dogs and extra .there was over 12 million kiwis and now there are fewer than 100 thousand around.

In conclusion the kiwi bird is one of a kind. A kiwi bird is a bird that everyone wants, to have in there country but if we want it to stay alive we have to take care of it but taking care of our world.  

bird creation

These are our bid creation we picked a body part of each and created 

our own bird and all of our class made our own and it took two days to do a draft and the poster  

and it was worth it

Grandparents mass

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, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.

weather slideshow

cross

We have been painting on a cross for putting on our school gate so people look at our creations. We have been working on these crosses for weeks and we started on doing a draft on paper three times get ready for the real thing. Some people are doing two crosses for early finishers. The school have been working so hard for these crosses and this is what they look like.   

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.