Planet earth animals and their prey

Did you know?

Puma:

Puma is an Incan word that means powerful

Grizzly bear:

One grizzly bear can consume a tonne of salmon over six weeks

Ethiopian wolf:

The Ethiopian wolf is an endangered animal. There are fewer than 400 of them surviving in the wild

Snow leopard:

The snow leopard's tail is longer then its body measuring at 4 feet for a large adult

Goliath bird eating tarantula: 

The Goliath bird eating tarantula is the biggest tarantula in the world

  

By Tyler

Fitness/Skills basketball

Today we were developing our basketball skills and the control of their basketball. 

Getting into our teams

   Such a nice day to be out playing basketball 

   Teams making a plan

We had to work together to pass at least 5 times before we could score. 

   

   

Beak experiments!

Room 18 did a science experiment with different tools to show different beaks. We had pliers, a toothpick, tweezers, strainer and a straw! The first round was collecting water and putting the water to their stomach (the cups).                                        

              

We looked at the cups and saw who won that round....the straw! The strainer came last.

Second round the beaks had to crush the nuts !

The winner that round was the pliers!

Third round was catching worms! They were just string :-)

The pliers won again! We think the tweezers should have won though.

Last round catching fish - they weren't real fish

The strainer won!
After that we learned that every species of bird has their own specific kind of beak to catch food and eat.
If us humans took away their habitat, they wouldn't be able to adapt to a new one quickly and probably die out!
Nobody wants that....

By Jordan T

Manawa Assembly

Today was Manawa's assembly. Our class had been working hard to learn a dance. We adapted dance moves to the song Timber.
Here is the video of our dance. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed performing it :-)

Room 18

Animal Observations

We watched an animal YouTube clip where animals were fighting. We had to think like scientists and observe what we saw.
Click this link  to watch the clip and read our observations.
Did you notice anything else???

By Leah and Jordan T

Facts about Space

Did you know.....
The milky way has 400 billion stars. The sun is one of them. 
by Marcus

The sun is very large, you could fit more then one million earths inside the moon. 
by Tyler

The space station goes around the earth almost 16 times a day.  

By Shea 

  

 

Tongan Language Week

Today we had a student from our class read to us in Tongan.

    She is so brave

   Everybody was very interested in the story

   It's the end and everybody was not happy that it ended.

By:Jenna