Our visit with Mike O'Driscoll.

 Today Te Kinga went for a walk down to the lake to learn what Mike (Solomon's dad) did for his job. Mike once a month goes to Lake Brunner and does some tests to see if the water isn't contaminated and is safe for the environment. Some of the tests are testing the temperature and also doing a Black disc visibility check, which is seeing how far he can see under the water. There is another test to see how much dissolved oxygen is in the water. The reason Mike sees how much dissolved oxygen is in the water is to see if the fish can breathe under water or not.

Here is a picture of today:

Literacy Task.

Last week for literacy I did some work about a Roald Dahl book called Danny the champion of the world. The work I did for the book is novel studies. Novel studies has a bunch of questions for each chapter for the book I am reading. The questions that were given to me were hard and it made me read the chapters over and over again. So my novel studies work is challenging which is a good thing to help me learn.

Topic

 Last week for topic I learned about hydro powered dams. Hydro powered dams are dams that create electricity from water. The way the dams work is that the water from a lake or river goes through a tunnel and pushes the blades which are connected to a turbine making them spin. The turbine is connected to a generator, so when it spins its powering the generator. The generator then passes through electricity to power lines which powers houses and buildings. Our school is powered by a dam called the Arnold dam which uses Lake Brunners water.

What im looking forward to this Term...

 What i'm looking forward to this term, is the sports. In winter time there is usually a lot of sports to do. This terms sport that we are learning is handball. Handball is a mixture of Netball and Basketball, Handball teaches you about communication, throwing and passing skills and of course teamwork. Along with sports my goal for this term is to get better at my basic multiplication. I'm already good at my multiplication but I want to be able to quickly know the answer if its on a test. So what i'm looking forward to this term is sports. And my goal for this term is to get better at my multiplication.