Koru Art

Today we made koru art with Whaea Rose.  My koru represents my little brother trying to touch birds flying in the sky. I really like the birds in my art work.

Balloon Hovercraft

Scientific Experiment Writing

B E G I N N I N G	TITLE	Balloon Hovercraft
	QUESTION	How does a hovercraft hover?
	HYPOTHESIS	I predict that it was going to fly up into the air.

M I D D L E	EQUIPMENT  AND MATERIALS:	A cd, bottle top lid and a balloon and a hot glue gun.
	PROCEDURE:	Step 1: glue the bottle cap over the cd hole.  Step 2: Blow up the balloon. When it is fully inflated twist the end so no air comes out. Step 3: Stretch the balloon over the end of the bottle cap.   Step 4: Open up the cap and place the cd on the surface.  Step 5: Untwist balloon and let go.
	OBSERVATIONS/RESULTS:	It hovered all over the table.

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CONCLUSION:

The air from the balloon creates a cushion of moving air between the disc and the CD and reduces the friction across the surface.

Title: Bridge Building

Labels: Writing, Science

We have been learning about forces and how they help shape the sort of bridges that we build.  

We learned that there are three main types of bridge design; beam, truss and suspension.  Using this knowledge we designed and built our own bridges.

Miss Fletcher set the challenge that our bridges had to be 30 cm long and strong enough to hold an object.

In my group there was Corrin and me.  We used ice block sticks to build our bridge.

Here is a photo of our truss bridge.  What I like best about our bridge is the triangle sides.

Volume and Capacity

This week we used popcorn to learn about volume and capacity. Here is what I learned.

Speech Writing

For the last two weeks we have been working on writing speeches. 

My topic was about saving endangered animals.

We had to present them in front of our class. 

I think I need to work on having more expression and eye contact.

Here is my speech.

Why is killing endangered animals bad?

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without animals? Well I have.An animal is a living thing. I think that killing animals is a bad thing for all of us because we hurt mother nature.We will hurt her because mother nature made animals for a reason.So that's why we need to stop killing them. Here are my reasons why.

Firstly, if we kill all the animals there might be too many bugs, and bugs can be anywhere. We need animals to eat them for us so we don’t get eaten alive or get really sick. Little bugs like ticks can make you really sick.

Secondly animals belong to mother earth. We need to stop killing animals or else we might really hurt mother earth. We don’t win anything by killing them, do we? Animals belong to Mother Earth and all animals play an important role.                                                         

Finally, if we kill them we will never see them again. If people kill all animals of one species they will become extinct and that would be sad. If we kill the babies they mother will be sad and then they won’t grow up and become adults and produce more babies.

Animals are important to people in the World and to Mother Nature.
And that is why we need to stop killing animals. We need them.