The Fibonacci in nature

in the flower above, there are five petals and five nectar stems, five is a number in the Fibonacci pattern, the Fibonacci pattern is found every where.

the same thing is in this flower too there are five petals and five nectar stems.

sailing, have a go!

here is me in the rescue boat.

on the 11.11.2019 my class did the sailing have a go program we learnt how to prepare an optimist yacht, sail it and pack it up. I didn't really go in the optimist but i went in Simon's (the instructor) rescue boat and if people weren't sailing fast enough I would squirt them with the water pistol. the lake was very high at the time, it was about 2 metres higher than it usually is, so at the end we got to swim on TOP of the jetty!

Miranda Jane Caird art

This term we have been learning a bout Miranda Jane Caird's art, so we decided to do some to! my one is on the left and Miranda's is on the right.

local mining history

here is a google slide about our historical local gold and coal mining

snow camp reflection

on the 19 - 21st of august our class and the middle class went on a snow camp to Arthurs pass and Cheeseman ski field. on the first night in Arthurs pass we stayed at the Arthurs pass education centre and on the second night we stay at snowline lodge, Cheeseman which was sooo fun! I enjoyed the camp but lots of people had colds/got cold at the camp. here are some photos from it: 

the generous pastry snowline backed for us 

the middle class playing games before bed @ snowline

Arthurs pass!

Arthurs pass!

snowline lodge

the AMAZING view from snowline lodge

Cheeseman ski field

the viaduct @ Arthurs pass!

pendulum painting

Title:   A Splash Of Color  

Equipment:

• String 
• Cup 
• Funnel 
• Pin/skewer 
• Paint 
• Popsicle sticks 
• Water 
• Bowl to mix paint 
• Paper 
• Chairs
• Large rocks 

Method: 

1. Put a ruler on top of two chairs and tie it to the chairs.
2. Punch a smallish hole in the bottom of a paper cup and tie the cup to the ruler.
3. Make a mixture of water and paint try not to make it runny.
4. Pour the mix into the Funnel or cup. 
5. Lift the dispenser then let it go and watch the magic happen.
6. If the paint doesn't come out then add more water or check for lumps.

Attempt One	The First Attempt didn't work out well. We added WAY to much water and it soaked the paper.
Attempt Two	The next attempt we added less water and we changed the paint to see if it would help. It didn't we still added TO much water.
Attempt Three	Attempt Three did not get a photo because the paper got soaked by the water flowing from the Tap.
Attempt Four	After Having our break we had some advice from one of our classmates. He said if we try something like a funnel it may work better. After break we tried it and it kind of worked the pattern wasn't amazing but we were on the right track.
Attempt Five	Final Attempt was our best attempt. We used gold paint and poured it into the funnel and success when we let it go it kind of slatted  a line but we liked it. We decided to add another color and it did the same thing SPLAT but we ended up really liking it.

Conclusion: 

In conclusion the paint doesn't need much water for this and we need a lot of paint to make an effective art piece. The higher the funnel or cup is the more it drips and splatters, the lower the funnell the more it control it has and the better art because it stays a long line instead of dripping. This experiment was harder than we thought.

jarred - job interview

today in class we interviewed Jarred / Zak and Camerons dad, for a job interview. we asked him some questions and he gave us some direct answers, one of them was "what was your weirdest job" and his answer was "i had to blink the eyes of a fish with a special button on a set for the TV show bumble and friends" and we were quite amused by that. but recently in the past weeks, we have been doing job interviews with a few other people including our principal.  

local history

this term our topic is local history and me and my friends found a few things about our local history. 

Matariki Digi-tools

today we were talking about the nine stars  (not seven) of Matariki so i made a google slide about all the stars and what they are for.

fair trade poem

this term in class we have been working on fair trade. here are The things we did for it:

• we made fair trade poems on fair trade coffee bean sacks with Indian ink and stencils.
• we ate fair trade chocolate (it was delicious).
• we looked at other people's fair trade poems on the fair trade website.
• some people bought fair trade food packages from home.

here are some pictures from it:

this is fair trade chocolate

this is the fair trade symbol

this is my group's fair trade poem

New world trip

on Thursday last week, Te kinga went into town to go on a grocery shopping expedition. first a nutritionist came and talked us though about foods and nutrition. then we went in to town and did an expedition to find every day foods and occasional  food. after we finished that, Jessica (the nutritionist) gave us a sixty dollar voucher to get some healthy things for smoothies. before we went to the super market we went to the Greymouth recreation centre and after we went to the super market we went to the library and Dickson park.

here are some photos we took while we were there!

Jacob checking the nutrition list

Jimi doing street interviews at the library 

Eden and Jacob picking some food

our class having fun in the pool

me doing a cannonball in the pool (in the rec centre too)

Jimi, Jacob and Levi doing some basketball at the rec centre

grace thumbs up

Rain

today we were writing about rain because there was a big storm in lake Brunner (our village)

The box

here is a slide about how me and a few of my classmates turned a school library returns box into a colourful gardening tools box.  

Shirley's car

in our class, we each made up a story about how our principal, Shirley crashed her car
please note: it is true that Shirley's car crashed but it was not her fault. it was just a case of slippery gravel and steep hills. 

master chef ice cream inventions

our class tekinga decided to do a master chef ice cream competition

here is a google slide in how we did it.