Kia Kaha

This week throughout uara (values), we have been doing Kia Kaha which is Maori for stay strong. In Kia Kaha we have been learning to make shields and help others. When we made the shields Mrs Drummond photocopied some shields and we started listing reason why ourselves are unique and why the class is special. This is my Kia Kaha shield.

Khan academy

Today Mrs Drummond let us on to this new website called Khan Academy. Khan Academy lets you on to videos and activities that teach new stuff. You can pick a topic on maths and challenge a question . You can levels up  if you got enough question right on that topic. I've learnt more about about equivalent fractions and adding larger numbers  example: 28,543 + 54,678 .So I recommend Khan academy. Here the website   Khanacademy.com

Rifleman

WALT: Write an information report about a NZ bird.

Rifleman

What is the color of an army Jacket and sounds like a rifle? The Rifleman of course.

Rifleman is small bird only sizes up to 8 cm and  New Zealand’s smallest native bird. The Rifleman was 6 to 7g . The reason why the Rifleman was called a Rifleman because some of its fur was similar to the army jacket. Rifleman's scientific name was Acanthisitta Chloris. The Rifleman is not at any concern being endangered.

Habitat

Rifleman live in the woodlands and forests also  rocky outcrops. Riflemen are native to New Zealand meaning that it lives in New Zealand only. But the Rifleman usually likes the forest as there are a lot of insects.

Diet

The Rifleman eats grubbs from the forest floor and small insects from tree trunks and trees.  They eat beetles spiders moths and caterpillars. The rifleman hunts with i'ts sharp beak.

Appearance

The rifleman is the color of an army Jacket because it uses the colors and patterns of an army in that way it can blend in with their surroundings (camouflage). On the rifleman's feathers it has lines of colour finishing at the end of the feathers were most riflemen have black at the end of their feathers. The front of the rifleman is a shade of white on its body.  Most of the rifleman the rifleman backside is mostly green.

Cultural week

This week was Cultural Week. You got to choose which language you get to be in so I chose French. At the assembly your language had to do a performance. For french our group were going to hold up Banting and sing Frere Jacques. When we sang I was very anxious and nervous. In the French class we learnt how say Ja m'appelle Henri -  my name is Henry. bonjour -hi ( most of us already knew that ).
I think French is a cool language.    

Schedule

All Blacks vs South Africa

The All Blacks were off to a good start by scoring a try but not kicking the conversion.  Doooooooooo the buzzer went for Half time. The score at half time was 24-17 to South Africa. I was trying to stay awake. Rieko Ioane scores a try the commentator says in the background. Full time the score was 36-34 to South Africa (sad). But at least the All Blacks have got three wins in the Four Nations. I learnt that the All Blacks can't win every game they play.

Crosses

In class we have been spending our time art to do crosses.  But it has to have something to do with our school GSS. My cross has red stripes on the left, yellow stripes at the bottom, red stripes on the right and orange stripes at the top. The GSS symbol and a Heart in between the GSS symbol and the orange stripes.

Raymond Huber

The author Raymond Huber came to our school to talk about his published books and non published books. The first book he talked about was Sting. He talked about how bees have a weapon but can only last once. He talked about how bees work and how hornets invade bees hives.  He had other but he didn't talk about his other books as much as the bee books. There was a book that didn't get published because the publishers thought it was just weird.