I Wonder question of the week, how could we reduce NZ possum numbers?

This Week I thought hard about this question and did lots of research because I don't know much about possums!

If you didn't know that possums are a threat, why? because....

1. Possums compete with native birds for habitat and for food such as insects and berries.

2.They also disturb nesting birds, eat their eggs and chicks and may impact on native land snails.

3.Possums ignore old leaves and select the best new growth.

This is why we need hunt possums to help save the native animals!

Calf club Activities

Today at school we made miniature gardens! The rules were that we had to bring our own supplies, that the garden had to be on a dinner plate/tray and we couldn't buy anything at the store. My theme was Alice In Wonderland. To make my garden I used sticks, pom poms, glitter, cardboard, paper, a doll, plastic red and white mushrooms and e.t.c. After we finished our gardens we presented them to other classes than made a blog post about them!

Current events, Fussy Diet causes blindness

                                                              

A diet of hot chips, Coke and nothing else nearly blinded Australian, Cian Moore.

His mum, Kerry Moore, had tried ophthalmologists and pediatricians trying to figure out why her sons blindness kept growing and growing. But nobody had an answer!

Than Cian's parents saw Sydney ophthalmologist Stephanie Watson attempting to find out what was causing his blindness, turns out he had vitamin A deficiency.

When Cian was young he had fussy eating habits and all he ate was chicken, potatoes, dried bread and coke, this was obviously very unhealthy, unhealthy enough that he started going blind!

Cian is 16 now and is eating lots of vitamin A and his left eye is basically perfect now but his right eye is permanently blind.

Weekly Goal Self Control

P.S This is the video

        

This week the goal is SELF CONTROL, this means to have control of yourself when you want do something like eat a cookie when your not supposed to and you walk away from the cookie. The teachers presented us this song/video to help the goal along. 

I think that I have had a few situations of me needing some self control and I did! (Mostly) One of them is being silly with my friends and talk but I decided not to, BOOM self control!

Chinese students pay to flush toilet

A college in china is trying to stop the students from flushing to much by giving students passes to flush?

The college made this rule because large amounts of water had been used from the students, plus there had been bad droughts and water was limited.

The passes give student 3000 litres of water per month. The electronic cards must be swiped to use the toilets.

I WONDER question of the week

 

Is it better to be a kid or a grown up?

I think its better to be a kid because when your a kid you don't have to worry about bill's money and things like that. I also like being a kid because I like my school and my friends.

If you could be anyone in the world for a day, who would it be and why.

I would be Melanie Martines because she is my role model and being her for a day would be awesome! Plus I want to know what her life is like.... at least for a day.

Money Week

This week is money week and the teacher asked us this question. Are you a saver or a spender? If you won a million dollars what would you do with it? If you found $50 what would happen? Who is your money role model - why?

Q. Are you a saver or a spender?

A. I am a mix of both, sometimes I save my money        sometimes I don't. Most of the time I loose my money and find it later.

Q.If you won a million dollars what would you do with it? 

A. I would go to Thames, go in the warehouse buy everything that I have dreamed of getting, Get my family a new house, new furniture, a new car and give a dollar to my brother. ( I cant fit the rest of what I would do on my blog) 

Q. If you found $50 what would happen?

A. Add to my million dollar pile

Q.Who is your money role model - why?

A. It would be lady gaga if she wore a money dress ( What? she wore a meat dress) 

Postcard Vocab Buster

                              Vocab buster
Mourned     pg 104
His passing will be Mourned
It means feeling or showing sorrow for the death of someone
I found out it's meaning on google

Collapsible   pg 108
Then lifted him on a collapsible gurney man
It means able to be folded into a small space
I found its meaning on google

Fathers Day

           
                               

This week we were asked to recreate our dads online or a special person in our life and why they were awesome and special.

This is kind of what my dad looks like but older and you can never see his eyes but in the picture I made you can (kinda). To me my dad is awesome because he is always there for me and my brother, he takes us to cool places like up town bounce ( up town bounce is a trampoline park) and something that I find really awesome is that he works near two trampoline parks! Me and my brother are his most favourite people in the world when we don't include the cat. And he loves us as much as we love him.

Daffodil Day

Today at our school it is Daffodil day, to celebrate Daffodil day we dressed up what we wanted to be when we were older and brought a 2$ coin to donate to the cancer foundation. I dressed up as an artist and my friend Ashling dressed up as archaeologist. 

We donated money to the cancer foundation so it can help find a cure to stop cancer.

Impact

For impact this year I am in the Food miles group and our main question is what can we not grow in New Zealand but have because of importing

Q, What is it I hope I will come to understand more deeply through this inquiry?
A, I want to understand more about the differences between imported and local grown food like the taste difference, the price difference etc?

Q, What knowledge might I need to help move towards this understanding?
A, I would like ( or need ) to know the differences between imported food or local grown food.

Q, What is it I hope to be able to do more competently?
A, To be aware of the differences between imported food and local grown food to support our community.

Q, What learning powers will this inquiry help me practice and develop further
A, Connecting, by asking people questions who know more about this and to find out more by asking.

Mischa's summarie

The funeral finished and everyone was saying there goodbyes, then Jason saw the strange people from before and they were making him freak out... a lot. When everyone was leaving and Jason's dad was paying the funeral bill he was wondering where everyone was going and saw everyone quickly entering the Driftwood Cafeteria. But when Mrs Keese was leaving Jason was surprised and asked what about the cemetery? Aren't you coming with us? To say good bye to Grandma? She held Jason's hand tightly and replied She's not here anymore and left.

When they where following the limo to the cemetery Jason's father was being moody about the car because he was upset. Jason had mixed feelings when they carried the coffin and when they buried the coffin. The trip home was silent, when Jason was home his dad had a few beers then went to bed, Jason called Hector for his daily hatred call about Florida then Jason went to bed.....the one his Grandmother had a stroke in. They were woken up early on Saturday morning from the dumpster truck. Jason started thinking about how much junk there was in the house, then wondered about how many free magazines his grandma had gotten.

They started to dump things that couldn't be sold and give other things to charity, at the end of the day (Jasons dad was on his last trip the the donation place) and Jason was tired but still curious, then he stared at the white box Mrs Keese had pulled out with the note (Very important papers) and started to pull out yellow folders/papers as he was starting to put the things back in the box he noticed a magazine, not the Time or Life magazine, It was called bizarre Mysteries and was dated October 1944 the images where of a man, woman and a crocodile on its back, its massive jaws hanging open loosely. And lots of strange this things he hadn't noticed before on the picture by someone named Emerson Beale, I suddenly looked at the the letters EB, I heard my dad coming in the drive way and ran to him yelling YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!! He came in with groceries, so whats this?, what did you find he replied Is it weird grandma hid the important papers box! He held it and said wait I remember this the colours and that and that he tapped at the name I think she knew him ( the writer ) They sat together reading the magazine together and flipped through it some of the stories had monsters or ghosts and flipping through they could see that they were dark with murder and violence.

My Mural

                                                                                 

This is my Mural, it represents about how my Great Grandparents sailed from China to New Zealand. The bamboo and cherry blossom shows that my grandparents are from china and that everything is peaceful, the pandas and the buildings mean that my grandparents are moving out of home into the big city then the sea, boat, and New Zealand flag shows that they sailed on a boat all the way from China to New Zealand and finally the house next to the flag represents my family's home.

Group Endeavour Ignition - what are you curious about? ‘What we learn with pleasure we never forget!’

Today at school we are starting impact again in Marama, To start off the teachers put out different things on different tables then asked us to get some notes and write down some questions about what makes us curious at each table. The table I was most interested about was the food/spices table. Some of my questions where about why did bark smell like cinnamon? And Where does pepper corn come from? Next the teachers asked us to go to the table that we where most interested in, get a large piece of paper and sort out all the different categories in a group, And that was all for toady.

My Book Bash Question Master Role

This week we read the post card all the way to chapter eleven. Question master means to write five questions about the chapters we read.

Questions:
1. What did the paper explain Agnes's spirit as?
Answer:  Adventurous 
2.What was the girl wearing when she stopped Jason while he was walking back to the house?
Answer: Bright orange T-shirt and cut offs
3. What did they have for lunch in chapter seven? 
Answer: Burgers
4. What room did he enter when Jason got the phone call?
Answer: The Florida room
5. How many times did Jason say (I hate this place)?
Answer: Two

The Post Card

This week for Book Bash we have to read five chapters of the Postcard, then write a prediction about it.

I Think that Jason is going to look in the neighbours letterbox and find a Postcard that has something to do with his dead grandmother.

I also think that that Jason is going to meet a girl ( maybe apart of his family) and together they are going to find his/there grandfather. I think that because of the picture on the book.

My report on Raiden's holiday

On the first day of school instead of writing about our holiday we were to report someone else's holiday

In the holidays on Saturday Raiden went scout camping in Tura, When he was camping he met new people from paeroa and made a friend. (Callum) His scout leader was Jeramy, He said he went to scouts to learn new things, have fun and meet new people. Then he went home on Tuesday.

Maori Language week

This week at school we celebrated Maori language week, This week we celebrated many things but I am only going to write about three. One of the things we did was making poi poi's. These are used in dances to go along with the music. I made two with my friend Ashling. Another thing we did was singing and learning Maori songs. Now for the last thing I am going to share with you is that we made fried bread, People use fried bread to celebrate Maori language week because the ingredients are simple and does not take to long to make plus it is very fulling.

If you want to make your own fried Bread the recipe is bellow.

Fry Bread Recipe

1/4 cup of warm water

1/2 teaspoon of sugar

1/2 teaspoon of yeast 

1/2 cup of plain flour 

1/2 teaspoon of salt

cooking oil that can fill the fryer 

Add sugar to water a dissolved, then sprinkle the yeast over the top. Mix x the flour and salt in a large bowl and stir in the yeast mixture (can add more flour if needed). Roll out on a floured board and knead well. 

Leave to rise for about for about 10 minutes, or till it doubles in size.Return to the floured board and knead again lightly. cut them into small diamond shapes and shallow fry till golden.

Making Fried Bread

                                       

At school on Tuesday me and my learning team made fried bread! At first we were put into groups (I was with Morgen), Then we measured and mixed the ingredients. Next we kneaded the dough then we waited ten minutes for it to rise. While we were waiting we washed the dishes luckily since I was in a cast I didn't have to do the dishes !!YAY!! When the dough rised we put them in pots fulled with oil. Once they were cooked we ate them!

My Pepeha

Ko Mangere Mountain toku maunga  

Ko Tamaki River (river) toku awa

Ko Viaduct Harbour (sea/harbour) toku moana

No New Zealand/ Paeroa

Ko NPS toku Kura

Ko Jason toku matua

Ko  Kwan toku whaea

Ko Mischa toku ingoa

No Reira, Tena koutou, Tena Koutou, Tena Tatou Katoa