My Cross

In room 6 we were making re crosses and here is mine.

Some R.E. work

Here is some of my re.

kiwi bird

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

What is a native bird to New Zealand that has wings but cannot fly? If you guessed a kiwi you are right. Kiwis are small fuzzy flightless birds that are native to New Zealand. The scientific name for the kiwi is apteryx and there are five different kiwi types. The Northern Brown Kiwi, Southern Brown Kiwi, the Small Spotted Kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi, and the Okarito Kiwi. All species are endangered, they have many threats as they venture out in search of food.

Diet
The kiwis diet has a normal diet like any other bird. The kiwi is an omnivore, so this means they eat both meat and plant sources of food. Plant sources of food are berries, leaves and seeds. When eating meat they normally feast on invertebrates. Invertebrates do not have a backbone and make for an easy meal to digest, such invertebrates are grubs, beetles, worms and more. The reason that the kiwi loves eating these bugs is because the kiwi is rather good at locating food with its sense of smell. The kiwi is so fast it can catch up with he or she's meal and they also have a great sense of smell so it can smell its prey If they eat those types of insects. The flightless kiwi needs that exact location to have these types of foods.

Habitat
The habitat is a place most people call home and animals are no different. A habitat provides an animal with all their needs from safety, food, to housing. The kiwi birds habitat can be found in a range of environments from snowy mountain edges, sand dunes, forests and farmlands. The only reason why the kiwi lives in these lands is because all the kiwis favourite foods are in these locations. It's very easy for the kiwi to get food as they are great adapters. This means they get used to their habitat. The kiwi might make a borrow or a trench to live in until the kiwi hears something running across the ground. Yes, a predator, hunting the precious, flightless bird.

Predators
The kiwi is a flightless bird that is found on the ground level this makes them vulnerable to lots of predators. These predators are causing these endangered kiwi problems because all these mammals are killing kiwis for food. When I say mammal I mean stoats, weasels, cats, dogs and pigs. Some of the predators are much bigger than the kiwi like the wild pig. The kiwi is known to be fast and to be able to run as fast as a human but these mammals are able to outrun humans too. We need to make sure we provide habitats to help keep the kiwi safe.

As you can see the kiwi is an important icon to New Zealand, but we have to know more about the kiwi to help it survive and not to be endangered at all. We need to understand the diet of a kiwi so we can make sure they have plenty of food, we need to understand where the kiwi lives so we can help protect it from predators. New Zealand loves the kiwi and it is well known around the world, we need to do more to protect it.

Mandarin

Ni hoa

Room 6 are learning how to speak Chinese and we have a Chinese class every Friday morning.

Ji jin

hangi

In room 6 we learning about the hangi. My friend Noah and i made our own hangi it was really hard
when we presented it to the class we were fine with.

bird poster

room 6 kids all made a bird poster each mine was called the flame duck weirdly because i couldn't
think of a name.

Last week was cultural week and everyone in the school chose a class to learn a langue from a another
country i chose Spanish class and on Friday all the different classes performed their cultural dance

Ransom Note - Code Club

We made a ransom note for code club which is after school. We used trinket to help us.

math slides

bird beaks

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learnt about the meanings of the words we need to know like, aim. Aim means trying to achieve something in the experiment we were trying to see what shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we learnt what will we change( the equipment), What we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having the same person doing each type of food also by having the same amount of time of 30 seconds. We had an amazing time experimenting with rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss Down for this amazing experiment.

m and m challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realised that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished alll the colours we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class gott 41 M&M’s each! We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, Tap dancing, Ukulele and Irish Dancing. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are blessed to have such special people in our lives.