Topic

 Last week Blake and I were doing a Topic challenge with the rest of the class. Our Topic was to see who can make a boat out of flax and flax flowers, everyone made a boat in the given amount of time so our next challenge was to float them. Everyone's boat floated so we did another challenge which was throwing them off the swing bridge and racing them. Everyone threw their boats and none of them broke but the boats were speeding down the river. I don't think any of them sunk except for me and Blake's boat which was half above the water.

Do you think you can make a boat?

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.

Te Kinga Bush Walk

 On Thursday last week the Te Kinga class climbed up Mt Te Kinga, we were going up to the 4th lookout point. We started the walk towards the mountain which was at least 5 minutes away. Finally after 5 minutes of walking we started our journey up the mountain. It was easy at first, because it wasn't as muddy and slippery at the bottom. It was a fun journey up until we got past the 1st lookout. After the 1st lookout, the ground was mostly mud that would take your shoes off you. I was wearing sneakers instead of hiking boots, so I had to leap onto tree roots, fallen branches and stuff to not get my sneakers dirty. Surprisingly I didn't get any mud on my shoes. When we got to the top we were greeted by a lovely view. When we got back down we grabbed our togs and went for a refreshing swim. While I was drying off I decided to be Super Zaine. People made fires on the beach for us to roast marshmallow. One person somehow got their marshmallow in the lake, but Solomon grabbed it and put it in the fire. Overall it was a good day.

Would you ever go on the Mt Te Kinga walk?

What I have learned about my Science Experiment.

Last week I did a Science Experiment about how a wave reacts to a different sea bed. I did two types of wave a surf wave and a Tidal wave Aka a Tsunami. I had two containers one with modeling clay shaped into little bumps and the other container was just normal. Nic used a hair dryer to create the surf waves which were tiny but there were alot of them. The container with the modeling clay was next. Nic used the hair dryer and the waves were smaller and quicker. After the hair dryer turned off the wave in both containers went away really quickly. Next was the Tsunami I had to shake both of the containers with the same force but it was really messy and I got drenched.

There were no photos sadly.