Adaptation Presentations

We having been learning about adaptation.
Here are some of the presentations we created to show our knowledge.
There will be many more to follow. Please comment positively :-)

Fact of the day

• Sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move through mediums such as air and water before reaching our ears.

  

A is for Adaptation

Liana, Jordan D, Merina and Victor wrote a book about four animals and how they have adapted to their environments for children in room 16.  They included 'augmented reality' - using the iPad app Aurasma, you can point the iPad at four pictures in the book and a video of the animal will play.  Here is a video of the book.
(posted by Mrs Robyns)

Fact of the day!

Did you know that Ostrich is the fastest animal on two legs, amazing right!!!

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

Another great clip from Kid President

What do you think? Write your thoughts in the comment box below.

Adaptation Vocabulary

We created a wordle with lots of vocabulary related to adaptation. Do you know what they mean?


Comment below with the definition in your own words :-)

Killer Plants

Our reading group (Storm) were reading about killer plants. We made some presentations to show what we have learned about how these plants adapt to stay alive. Enjoy! By Losa and Leah By Bradley and Patrick By Abdul By Jordan T

Catching Mustelids

We have been learning how to retell and present our ideas.
Here is our presentation.

By Harvey and Sammi.

Panthers reading follow up

Panthers have been learning how to summarise. We are still on our learning journey but we have started retelling texts better. This is an article about how pigeons have adapted to help humans.

Our first attempt at a stop motion movie

Mr. Osler helped a group of us make a Jurassic Park scene and we thought it would be a great idea to make a movie with it.
It was our first time using stop motion so we have learned a lot about what we will do differently next time.
Narrated by Bradley.
Thanks to Mr. Osler for all his help.

Sports Shed Makeover!

Yesterday Rosebank School were lucky enough to have a group of generous people come and donate their time and efforts to help our school. They came to paint our sports shed!

We are very grateful for what they have done. We will be putting murals on the sports shed in the future too. 

Keep watching the blog for more pictures :-)

The amazing group with Bradley and Montell

Fixing the inside of our shed

Even the top got a makeover!

Thank you all again so much!