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.

Maths book

For maths this week we read a book called one is a snail ten is a crab. We then worked in groups to create our own version. My book is called 1 is a worm ten is a octopus and a bird. Here is my book . I hope you like it .

Moon Rover Lander

For science we made a Moon rover lander using only a paper cup, paper, cellotape and straws.  We were given the task of making our Moon rover land softly onto our Moon landscape so that our marsh-mellow astronauts did not fly out.

The materials I used for my Moon rover is paper and cellatape.

What I like best about my Moon rover is my wing's.

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was my

parachute.

One thing  I learned about landing on the Moon was you need to keep your moon rover is that you need to keep it straight.

Here is a picture of my Moon rover landing on our school’s Moon surface.  I hope you like it!

Maori

We have been learning to talk to each other in Maori. Here is a conversation I recorded with Aumaarire.

Art term 2

Handwriting Term 2

Here is my handwriting sample for Term 2.

I am good at writing the letters correctly.
I need to work on keeping my letters on the line.