Family Fiesta

Family Fiesta

Tonight is the family fiesta. It will start at 5 and go until 7 at Grey Main. You should come along. It is a fund raiser for Grey Main school and it will have a lot of activities. Some of the things you can do are...

Wack a rat - this is a fun game where you try to hit the rat as it comes down a pipe. You can win chocolate if you are good at it.

Bottle-O - you pick a tag from a bag and it is likely that you will win a bottle.

Performances - There are groups performing like the kapa haka group. 

Cupcakes -  there are cupcakes that the older students have made. You can bid on these. 

Food - There will be a lot of food on sale.

There are many more activities come along tonight at 5.

Blue whales - report writing

  Blue whales - information report

We are lucky to live with the largest mammal to ever have lived, the blue whale. Though they once nearly became extinct. For an animal this big what would they eat?

The blue whale is known for its size. It is the largest animal on the planet. Have you seen an elephant? A blue whale weighs up to approximately 33 elephants. That is 181436.948 kg WOW! Think of the size of an adult man, now times that by 1000 and there you have a blue whale. Blue whales are huge creatures. How could they become endangered?

Blue whales are endangered.  They have a population of 25,000 but it is thankfully not currently decreasing. Blue whales became endangered by humans from our past and current acts. Whaling started around the 11th century. It peaked in between 1846-1852. The U.S stopped whaling in 1970. At that point blue whales were nearly extinct. Nowadays the problem for blue whales and other whales is fishing nets and plastic in the ocean. About 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die each year because of fishing gear. Over the past 10 years 57 whales have died from plastic. This gets into their body when they are eating.

What do you think blue whales eat? How would they eat? Blue whales eat krill. The biggest blue whales can eat up to 6 tons of krill in 1 day. Lots of sea water gets in their mouths when they are eating. They have this sort of sive in their mouth to get rid of the water. It is funny how the biggest creature on earth would eat such a small creature.

The blue whale is huge, the biggest creature on the planet, It is endangered with only 25,000 left in the world and a krill eating mammal.

Reading - flower parts

As one of our reading create tasks we had to make a model of a flower and all its parts. I drew mine. Even if I can not draw. At first I was not sure what type of flower to draw but then I decided to draw that one.
 

Limerick - The was once this teacher

 The other day I wrote a limerick. When you write a limerick the first, second and last line have to rhyme and the 3rd and 4th line have to rhyme. Here is a limerick I wrote.

There was once this teacher 

who had a furry little creature

It ate a little student

It was very imprudent

Now it’s a child eater

That was winter

I have written a that was winter poem. Everyone else did a that was summer poem but because I have done on of them in the past I did not do one.

That was Winter

Remember

Sitting by the fire

Piled under lots of blankets

You creep closer towards the flame 

trying to touch it.

You get up to do something.

Making cookies to lighten up the day.

Then letting them melt in your mouth 

laughing with your family.

Remember

Playing board games

Hour after hour to past time.

Waiting for the sun

To break the darkness

Waiting for ever and ever

Soon asleep.

That was winter

All about me ~ Hobbies

 I did the all about me at the start of the term but I haven't posted much of it. One of the activities was to make an poster for a sport. I chose netball. Here it is.

Who am I

 I wrote a who am I poem. Here it is.

Who am I?

I am....

Daniela’s daughter,

Richards sister,

Gudrun’s granddaughter

Milla’s Cousin

Gunnars niece

I am….

An athlete,

A reader,

A learner,

A leader,

I am…..

Strong

Tall,

blue/green eyed,

I am….

Smart,

Thoughtful,

I am….

me

Digital photos - back flip off the Eiffel tower

 This was my favourite digital photo I made and by far the hardest. I used the same removebg.com and unsplash.com.

Digital photos - riding a tiger

 This is another digital photo I did. I quite like this one. We used removebg.com and unsplash.com to make these pictures as well as our editing skills.

Digital photos - Strong me

 Last year we did these digital photos. We had to use remove background and unsplash for images. Because there are only two people in the class from last year we did them again in this photo I am easily carrying 100 kg.

Fish in a tree - letter to Mrs Nickerson

We read some more Fish in a tree today. In this chapter Ally managed to solve a mystery that over 100 other student couldn't. Here is a letter from Mr Daniels to Ally's Mum that I have written.

12 Preston Rd

Alsorts

7869




Dear Mrs Nickerson




I am Mr Daniels, your daughter Ally Nickerson’s teacher. I am writing to you to inform you how smart your daughter is. I did this test with over 100 students and she was the only one who managed to get the correct answer. This test was where I gave them a box and asked them what was inside. It was two glue sticks taped to two sides though. This confused everyone else but Ally managed to get this correct.




I have also found out from another student that Ally is amazing at art. You have such a talented daughter.




I feel very privileged to have Ally in my class.




Yours sincerely




Mr Daniels

Fish in a tree - ABC poem

 We have been reading fish in a tree. This time we could choose what activity we did I decided to make an                                                                                            ABC poem about Ally in fish in a tree.