Zoofari :)

On Wednesday all senior classes went on a trip to Auckland Zoo. We were met by educators from the zoo who showed us around the exotic animals trail. 

We learned so much! We had an awesome day. 

Keep watching the blog for more pictures and learning from our trip to the zoo. 

Big thank you to the Warehouse and Richies bus company that sponsored us. Also thanks to all the helpers that came to support us!

Our happy but tired class at the end of the day!

John our instructor showing us how long a giraffes tongue is

Selfie time!

Holding a massive snake skin. 

A rhino's horn is made out of hair!!

Exploring the zoo

Hello!!

The Meerkat tunnel

Fact of the day

Did you know that 97% of all orangatangs are like you. Did you know that??

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Our learning on adaptation

This term room 18 has been learning about adaptation. We were gathering facts for our individual reports. 

Fact of the day

Did you know that a shrimp's heart is actually in the head!!! That's weird :) :)

Killer Plants

Storm has facts that we have been reading from a journal and here there are.

A carnivorous plant that is in New Zealand is sticky. When a insect crawls on the plant it gets trapped because it's sticky and gets eaten by the plant.

By Bradley

There are more than 400 species of carnivore plants in the world,and at 10 of these are native to NZ.

By Losa

Venus flytrap could digest human flesh.

By Patrick 

Insects are attracted by the pitcher plants bright colour.

By Abdul

10 species of carnivivorous plant are native to nz

By Jordan t

Carnivorous plants,such as the venus flytrap, have adapted so that they can get nutrients from the creatures they catch.

By Leah

Fact of the day

 The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump , that's crazy

T.R.A's assembly

Room 28 had a presentation about their experiences about their documentary.

Congratulations to all hese students who have done well in their learning

Merina was one of the fantastic learners 

fact of the day

Did you know if colour wasn't added to Coca Cola it would be green, crazy right?

Speech champion

The speech competition was amazing-go Bradley!!

Here are the judges,  And the winner is ........ Drum roll please,

            

 BRADLEY of room 18!!!! Round of applause everyone 

Proud parents proud teachers :)

Victory photo with the boys , welldone :)

It was very hard looking for the best ;) ;)

Well done to everyone that was involved in the competition. We are very proud of you all :-)

Our speech finals

This week is the speech finals and here is our finalist Bradley and Merina , well done guys!!!!

Fact of the day

There is a planet-that rains glass,sideways!!!!!

Fact of the day

Did you that on an average a human walks around the world at least three times in a lifetime?

By Heilala and Merina

Fact of the day

A humming bird weighs less then a coin. Isn't that incredible.

Reciprocal reading adventure

Rm 18 broncos reading group has been learning about the chicken leg affect. We also learnt how to do reciprocal reading.

Some of us have never done reciprocal reading before. When we were reading the chicken leg, we learnt a lot of information about our body. Here are some interesting information that we have learnt about our body.

I learnt that we are taller when we lie down on our bed, but when we wake up, we begin to go shorter. By Mary 

I learnt that gravity helps us get stronger and when it out of space there is no gravity so we could lift huge amounts easily.

By Kasanita

I learnt that gravity helps the blood flow though the body.In space that doesn't happen.

By Heilala 

  

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Brave student of room 18 had the guts to walk up in front of the class and say there speeches loud and proud

Good job. It's always hard right???

Nice movement. You look cool

Having fun yet???

Maths adventure outdoors

Last week was maths week and room 18 were maths exploring outdoors. With our bodies we made right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles. We made angles and estimated the angles we were targeting for. Also we drew patterns to see how long they go for. We let our imagination run wild. 

Here are some pictures.

    Great shape though . Awesome co- operation 18.

    Watch your steps boys!

Imagination run wild ! Work hard , group work I see

By Heilala, Marcus and Merina

Dragons: Saffrons skeleton

Saffron the hen had died... But that doesn't stop Bruno (the owner) and Saffron from going on an awesome adventure! Saffron died from eating rhubarb leaves. That very day that Saffron died, Bruno got a call from his neighbor, George, he asked if one of his hens died. That may seem like an odd question but George is a osteologist. Bruno didn't want Saffron to go on a show as a skeleton but then he thought what else could Saffron be doing.. rotting in their garden or going on a awesome adventure. Bruno took Saffrons skeleton to Georges workshop. There was a lot of bones from different types of animals such as seahorses, Sharks teeth, a flounder and there were also heaps of chemicals. The first thing George did was put saffrons body into hot boiling water, this will make it easier to remove the feathers.2 days later.. Bruno was back at the workshop. George showed him his magic helpers, they're dermestid beetles. Those beetles help him get rid of meat fibers that are still on the bones. Next they put the bones in a machine that removes the fat and oil from the skeleton. After they bleach it to make the bones look white and clean. Saffron ended up hanging with the dinosaurs.

Peace week.

This week is peace week and there was an assembly, held by whau about peace and adaptation.We had a man named Hamish, come from the Avondale library to talk about how you can make your own video game it was fun.      

This is a brave girl talking in front of the school.

Peace Poetry

Click the picture above to see Eliahu's peace poem!


Click the picture above to see Harvey's peace poem!