Walt. Describe a NZ habitat and the animals that live there. My habitat is the native bush. This habitat is special because of the animals and plants. There are some predators like the possum. There are lots of pretty trees and plants. In the native bush one of the biggest predators is a human e.g a possum can’t drive a big tractor and kill all the trees but we can. So we have to look after it. My 1st animal is the kiwi.the kiwis home is the native bush. It lives in this habitat because … of the plants, trees and food . This is not a very safe place because of the predators that live here. The kiwi Is a bird and it eats bugs, berries and worms .The kiwi can only be found in New Zealand. These small birds are the national bird of NZ and this is the only place in the world you’ll find them. My 2nd animal is the possum. the posems home is the native bush. It lives in this habitat because of the plants,trees and prey. Possums eat almost anything like raccoons they will eat Fruit,nuts,insects.frogs.lizards and eggs. They will even eat garbage and Dead animals. There are 60 different kinds or possums! The possum is a pouched mammal. Possums are sometimes called Opossums they are still the same specie but in different countries called different names. This is not a very safe place for the birds that live here because the possum attacks them. The possum was brought to New Zealand from Australia. They eat eggs and attacks birds My 3rd animal is the Pukeko the pukeko allso lives in the native bush but can be found in other places It lives in this habitat because The pukeko is a native bird to New Zealand and is also known to Swamp hen. They eat plants other animals and roots of trees. Pukekos are very good swimmers surprisingly without webbed feet. Pukekos are hunted in duck season so most of the smart pukekos go to the wetland and places where hunting is not allowed. How can we make the Native Bush not endangered?... Stop cutting down trees and hurting animals and their homes. Make sure you put your rubbish in the bin or in a zipped pocket.

Brook's student led conference

hazelnuts.

Hazelnuts fall from trees so tall,

Bouncing from branch to snow.

It sits in a pile, for quite a while

trying to get out of the snow.

A small brown mouse comes

out of his house to look for some

twigs and leafs.

¨Oh look,” he said, scratching his head. “A nut a nut,

I quite fancy a midnight feast.”

So inside goes the nut as frightened as

can be.

¨In you go in you go into my stick house,” said the mouse. Inside the house the mouse was talking. “So how shall I eat you, I could make peanut butter or pancakes with nuts blueberries and whipped cream.” “Mmmm!” said the mouse licking his lips.

Well for the nut it looks like this Christmas has come to the end.

creatures of the deep.

WALT write a moment in time.

We were at home and my mum was telling my sister off when she had a call on her radio, there was a huge earthquake and there was a part of the ocean that had opened up. There's something dangerous there. I begged my mum not to leave me with my sister but she wouldn't budge. So I was stuck babysitting.

Suddenly, I saw a huge tentacle shoot out of the water. I ran to the kitchen while my sister clung to my hand. I took two sharp knives from a draw and handed

one to my sister.

Then I felt something slimy wrap round my legs and then it tosses me and my sister in the water.

I could taste the salty sea water then we were pulled up onto a rescue boat and mum was on it. The salty water was making my lips sting.

I smelt the salty air as we were dodging the tentacles that shot up from the water. The smell of the salty air made me think of movies where people get stuck out in the ocean for years.

I wondered would this ever end.

                                                                                           

click the links to find out more about the ocean,sea life and octopuses       Ocean   Sea life    Octopuses and squids

Waipara camp

Camp

Camp 

WALT: describe our camp at Woodend  


      On Wednesday year 5 students went to Woodend camp it was a incredibly long bus ride but all worth it in the end. When we got there, the girls put there bags on the right side and the boys put theirs on the left.
Then we all sat down in the main hall and listened to Cody, the manager of Woodend christian camp. After all that we took a walk around the camp. Then we had free time. I went on the swing, the water slide, did orienteering, climbed the climbing wall, did some team building activities, shot some air riffles did some archery, gaga doge ball, golf and go carting my favorite was archery. after free time and group activities we had nachos for dinner then for dessert we had  brownies, ice cream and chocolate moose after dessert we got our torches and played spotlight then they called as in for super we had biscuits and hot chocolate then it was time for bed we stayed up later then we were supposed to. In the morning we did the rest of our activities had some burgers for lunch and had the last free time  then the next school came and we went back.

Maths // Fractions

Maths // Fractions 

For fractions I have been working very hard to get all my answers right. I am very proud of my work and I appreciate all the work and time people have put into helping me. I enjoy doing challenging fractions until I've been sitting there for a hour! 

Here are some of the fractions I know...

1. 1/1            

2. 1/2

3. 2/2

4. 1/3

5. 4/4

6. 5/5

7. 6/6

8. 7/7

9. 8/8

10. 9/9

11. 10/10

Here's a Picture of my lovely work! 

Pet Day

WALT: To describe Pet Day.
Last Friday it was the Oaklands school Pet Day. At 9.15am there was a pet parade, where all the people with dogs showed them around. After everyone had seen the dogs we went to the hall to see the smaller pets like Cats and chickens.

My favourite was the Australian blue tongued lizard, it licked me. I also liked the sea turtle. It was only a baby and had a tiny shell.

I brought my dog tic tac. she was over excited to see all the dogs and got out of her leash so we had to carry her in the parade.

Mr Twit

        Mr twit is a horrible man with an over grown mop of hair all over his face. 

         he also has a horrible sense of taste his favorite food is bird pie. He would also eat boy pie if he could he tried to once.  Mrs and Mr Twit always pull tricks on each other one of the tricks that Mrs Twit did was she put worms in his in tomato sauce and said it was spaghetti. 

What he does to make good pie isn't the best idea he puts the stickiest glue in the entire world called hug-tight he spreads it all over the dead tree in his horrible backyard every Monday he does this and on Tuesday morning he goes to see if he had any birds for bird pie.

The Twits used to be very cruel monkey trainers Mr Twit kept four of his monkeys from Africa. He wants to try train them to do EVERYTHING  UPSIDE DOWN !!!!!

so as you can see mr twit is a horrible man thank goodness he didn't live till this day.

Intro Have you ever wondered why we live,die and go to heaven well i’ll tell you why. There was once a time when the earth was completely empty but then God came. He settled in it was very nice but God got lonely so he made dinosaur’s. He felt a bit better, but then after a thousand year’s it started to get noisy and the volcanoes started to erupt, which split the earth apart and put dinosaurs to extinction. God was upset now so he made animals and he put special animals on certain countries e.g on australia he put koalas and on New zealand he put the kiwis. He also added dogs,cats,lions,tigers and thousands more. God was very, very happy, but as time past he got lonely again. Even though god had thousands of animals to keep him company, god still felt lonely. After pondering this for a long time he new why...He had no one to talk to. So god created humans. God felt much better, but in time earth started to get more and more crowded,, but the humans were still happy. Now Hades was another god and was hardly ever happy and he did not like all of the happiness so he found a way to make the humans, and god upset ,he created DEATH !!!!! God was not happy and forced Hades to live in the underworld. No matter how hard god tried he could not get rid of the horrid thing Hades had made. God broke out in tears to see the ghosts of the people that had died. But one night when he was thinking about what to do a thought came to him what if he made a place where anyone who died would go to live and that was exactly what he did. But he didn't stop there ,god found a way to make humans live for sometimes one hundred years or more!!! But the people who now lived up in heaven wanted god to live with them so he went to live in heaven ,but he still keeps an eye on us most of the time. And that is the story of why we live,die and go to heaven.

The Nile crocodiles

The Nile crocodile is a reptile and belongs to the family of  crocodiles they are very clever and very  vicious.  Nile crocodiles can be found in the hot parts of lowland Africa. Some woman in Africa doing washing are some times eaten by Nile crocodiles. Nile crocodiles are best known for attacking large animals. The nile crocodile can dig out a nest and lays up to 10 to 70 eggs how many nile crocodiles are there?🐊🐊
 

2014 T4 Numeracy

We are learning to add and subtract by using my basic facts knowledge.

I know that 5 + 3 = 8 so 50 + 30 = 80

2014 T4 CARE

WE ARE LEARNING TO …

§  Self-evaluate how we have gone on our CARE values of Community, Active Thinking, Respect and Excellence.

§  Choose the value we have worked the hardest on and give a reason why we think that.

§  Choose the value we have improved the most in and give a reason why we think that.

§  Think of the value that we want to work more on during next year.