Diorama

In topic we have been learning about habitats. We had to pick a habitat and find information on it. I choose a coral reef. A fun fact I found is that sea horses have curled tails to grab on to sea grass if needed to change directions. I also found out that fish that live in coral reefs usually have flat bones that allow them to squeeze through tight gaps. Both of  these unique things are adaptations. This is my diorama on a coral reef and some animals and plants that live in this habitat.

Australasian Bitterns

Roaming the banks of New Zealand and Aussie, the Australasian Bittern, also known as the Brown Bittern or Matuku Herupo, searches through the wetlands for dinner. With a sharp beak and a shy personality will this bird become extinct?

The Austrilasian Bittern is a bird so it feeds on a diet of eels and insects. They will also eat frogs, spiders and snails. These birds have several different ways of catching prey. Some ways they catch their prey is by standing and waiting and slow stalking. Leg and wing movements are used to confuse or attract prey.

The Austrilasian Bittern is not only a predator but also prey. Sadly the Australasian Bittern is endangered. Drainage of swamps removes the habbitat of the Austriaasian Bittern. There are less than 900 left in the world. Stoats are major predators of the Australasian Bittern. They were introduced to New Zealand to control the amount of rabbits and hares but has had a devastating effect on native animals like the Australasian Bittern and it is still affecting our native animals.

Bitterns live in wetlands and banks of New Zealand and Australia. If you live on a farm during October you can go outside and try to spot any. Male Bitterns will build a nest with a clump of reeds in a bit of swamp water. Then they will place it on top of bent over reeds. Once this process is finished several females will breed in this male’s territory.

The Austrilasian Bittern is brown, black and white. It has long skinny legs, and can stretch its neck out super long which makes it look really tall. The Australasian Bittern has a low bellowing call to attract females. It also has a sharp pointed beak used for stabbing other Bitterns.

So now you know what an Australasian Bittern is, What it looks like, What it eats, where it lives and how it’s endangered. Everyone can help these incredible birds by doing simple things like voting for them on bird of the year. All the money raised on bird of the year will go to these birds if they win. I hope you have learnt a thing or two about these birds.

My Cross

This term we have been painting crosses to put up around the school. We had to paint symbols of our school, symbols of God and symbols of Auckland. The symbols I put on my cross is a Pohutukawa flower to symbolize God's creation,  the Maori symbols are to symbolize our multi-culture, the shield is there because it's our school symbol and the candle to symbolize that Jesus in the light of the world. This is my cross.

Addition

In maths we did a poster on vocabulary words we can use in a word problem. Me and my friend Molly did a poster on addition. These are our word problems that we made. We also put some words so that you can recognize an addition word problem with such as both, more, plus and add.

Mandarin

This term we have been learning Mandarin. We learnt how to have a conversation in Mandarin. Mrs Li was the one teaching us. She taught us a song to help us remember how to count to ten. It was a new experience and I am excited to keep learning Mandarin. Here is a page of my Mandarin book.

Love

Today we decorated a word from God's promise. We had many different options such as family, love, promise and so on. I chose love. The reason I chose love was because God loves us and his promise to us shows love. This is my word I decorated.

Alligators

Lately we have been writing information reports about a reptile. The reptile I chose was an alligator. The reason I chose this animal was because I was interested in learning more about them. The coolest thing I find about them are that they can grow between 2-4 meters now that's super long. Here is my slide about Alligators.

Religious Education

Today in Religious Education we did a play about Sarah and Abraham. The story is that Abraham and Sarah want a child however they think they are to old to have a children. One day God tells them to move to a different town. They are shocked to here this news but decide that they should listen to God. Soon later three strange looking men approach them and tell Sarah and Abraham that they will come back once Sarah has had a child. Sarah overhears from the tent and laughs. One of the angels says to them "why is Sarah laughing is anything impossible for God" That then is when they realized that these men are special messengers from God. A few months later God gives them a child and they name him Issac. The three angels return and Sarah and Abraham live happily with their son Issac. This is a photo of the play we performed.

Maths patterns

Today we had to color a pattern on 100 little squares. The reason we did this is because we are learning decimals, fractions and percentages. We had ten different colors. Once we had finished colouring we had to work out the fraction and percentage of each color. These are my results.