China's New Rocket

 

Today we had current events, which is basically a quiz about all the things that have happened recently that are usually on the news. We usually do this every week and after we have finished the t quiz we have to choose a topic about one of the questions on the quiz and research about it. I chose to research the new Chinese rocket that landed in the Indian ocean. They launched the Chinese rocket on the 29th of April and it landed on the 10th of May. I found this really fun because lots of people thought it was going to land in NZ! Maybe next time I could improve by adding more information and not being in as much of a rush.

Coral Reefs

 

Every week our class does a weekly quiz. Our teacher chooses a topic from the quiz for us to study. We got assigned to research about Coral Reefs dying. We have to make it as presentable and informed as we can so that we can get house points. I decided to make a few paragraphs about what was destroying coral reefs. Maybe next time I could make this BTB (Better Than Before) I could make it a bit more colorful. 

Valarie Adams

 Valarie Adams is a four-time world champion shot putter. She is a New Zealand Olympic athlete. She was born in Rotorua, New Zealand. She has a personal best throw of 21.24 metres outdoors, and 20.54m indoors. Valarie Adams has been a shotputter since 2006 when she was 22. 

Her height is 1.93m and she is 36 years old. She has 1 kid, who is 3 years old. She gave birth to Kimoana when she was 33. Valarie Adams has 3 siblings, Steven Adams, who is a famous basketball player, Lisa Adams who is also a shot putter, and Warren Adams. At the national level, she has won 15 shot put titles at New Zealand Athletics championships between 2001 and 2018, as well as having a hammer throw national title in 2003. From 2006 to 2012 she was chosen as the New Zealand Sportswomen of the year seven times.

Refugee camps

 

My Class has started to do something new. Every Friday we get a topic that we have to research. This week's topic is Refugee camps. At first, I had no clue what my teacher was talking about because honestly, I didn't know a thing about refugee camps. I found this activity pretty fun because I love researching topics, but it was pretty challenging because researching it and trying to find all the facts is pretty hard. Next time I could maybe improve by adding a bit more information and adding a bit more color.

Japan Research

 Japan is a small country with a huge population in Eastern Asia. It is a large group of islands that stretch from the sea of Japan to the Pacific Ocean.

Tokyo

Tokyo was originally known as Edo. The name of the city was changed to Tokyo when it became the new imperial capital. Edo was originally known as a fishing village. During the Edo period, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the world. It is located at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu, which is the largest main island and referred to as Japanese mainland.

Sports

Sports play a great role in Japanese culture. Sumo, Judo, and Karate are traditional Japanese sports. Baseball, soccer, and Rugby have been adopted from other cultures. The city of Tokyo has hosted multiple international events, including the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Holidays

In Japan the largest holiday is New Years because originally the Japanese celebrate Shogastu (New Years) during the New Year based on the Chinese Lunar calendar.

Coming of age day is a national Japanese holiday. It is celebrated on the 11th of January. Coming of age day is where Japan celebrates the day where they honor young Japanese who will reach the age of 20 at any point during the year.

The Emperor’s Birthday in Japan is celebrated because it is a national holiday in the Japanese calendar. Everyone that gathers in the palace greets with Japanese flags and cheers of banzai. The Emperor’s birthday is on the 23 of February 1960, he is 60 years old.

Geography

75% of Japan is made up of mountains. The mountains were barriers to transportation, stopping communities from mixing and limiting the economic development of isolated areas. 69% of Japan is forest.

Two Portuguese traders Antonia da Mota and Francisco Zeimoto ( possibly a third named Antonio Peixoto) landed on the island of Tanegashima in 1543. They are first documented Europeans to set foot in Japan. This is important because they were the first Europeans to set foot in Japan.

Japan is an archipelago which is an extensive group of islands, but only four islands out of all of them make up the majority of Japan’s land area.

Culture

In Japan, people eat KFC on Christmas day. Every Christmas season, an estimated 3.6 million Japnese families treat themselves to KFC, and it became a nationwide tradition. Japan’s  Christmas KFC tradition began in 1974. People think it was like another way of having a Christmas turkey dinner.

For the past few weeks, my class has been researching Japan. We were set to complete different categorized paragraphs with information telling you stuff about Japan. This activity took me a few weeks to complete. Maybe next time I could make it BTB (Better Than Before) by maybe adding a bit more information and explaining why I wrote this. This was personally really fun because I really like researching and writing. This was difficult because I had to translate most things into my own words. I hope that from my research you have learnt a bit more on Japan :)

Asia Continent

For the past few weeks, we have been researching the 7 continents. My group got Asia, and we had to research all about it. This slide contains a lot of facts and things about Asia so YOU BETTER READ IT. Maybe next time my group could improve on researching places by adding a bit more information.

Water worries

Water worries

Water wastage is where we run out of water, how? You ask. Well, let's just start at the very beginning. There is a dinosaur drinking his water then soon after… oops he needs to go. The pee comes out and is laying on the ground, it is a hot summer day and all of the heat from the sun makes the pee evaporate into clouds and it leaves behind all of the salts from the pee. Then it rains dinosaur pee but don’t worry it's just water!

Now let's get to the important part. All water comes from everywhere the sea, lakes, rivers, and THE SKY!! But in New Zealand after the Christchurch earthquake we were running out of water, even though the world's water stays the same amount no matter what. The earthquake caused a drought which meant everyone had to try to save the water that was left. Each year our water wastage increases. The water cycle takes a big part in water worries. If the temperature isn’t right not enough water precipitates and it ends up people not having enough water and having to reduce it.

One big reason why we run out of our water is because of the farms. Lots of farms have many cows and many cows need lots of water. Also lots of cows need lots of grass which grass isn't exactly water but farmers need to put fertilizer into the grass for the cows. After that, it gets washed out then ends up into rivers, lakes, and the sea. Obviously, we can’t drink fertilized grassy water.

Hopefully this has changed your mind or at least made it understand that we need to reduce the amount of water we use and try to make a difference in keeping our water nice and clean for the sake of us staying alive. Also I hope this educated your brain a little bit also.

Orographic rain

For the past few weeks, we have been learning about the water cycle. Today we had to finish off what we started yesterday. Yesterday we started to make a google slide about how it works on the west coast when it's raining. I found this challenging because it was hard to make and write down all of the information. Maybe next time I could improve by adding a bit more detail so it is easier to see.

Food for thought

This week we have been learning how to read labels on food products to see if they are okay to eat every day or if they are occasional foods. First, a lady named Brittany came into our class/school to teach us all about our bodies, how to read labels, what is healthy for us and what is not healthy for us. Then the next day/Friday we took a trip to New World/the supermarket to do some labeling work on a sheet. We had a sheet and there were 5 different categories of foods...
Breakfast cereals, Bread, Muesli bars, Snack foods, and Milk/dairy products. And what we had to do with them was choose two different things from each category, one of them had to be an everyday food and the other one had to be an occasional food. And how we worked that out was when we looked at the labels the sugar had to be less than 10g unless it had fruit in it, Energy could be anything, the fat total had to be less than 10g unless it had seeds and nuts it could be higher, the calcium we don't know, the sodium/salt had to be less than 400mg, and the dietary fibre had to be more than 5g.

Dick Frizzell Art

WALT recreate Dick Frizzell's art. This week we have been working on recreating Dick Frizzell's art. I really enjoyed this because I love art and because it is fun to make artwork that can be displayed anywhere. What I found challenging was drawing the picture and painting the background, this is my artwork.

Zero waste

Today we had to make a life cycle about Insect life cycle, plant life cycle, Bio-fuels or decomposition/Growth. I enjoyed making it but it was hard because we couldn't get pictures from the internet.

Today we are exploring the world of a point of view of a bird, I am going to be a house Sparrow.

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