Today, we had a visit from a worker at niwa, Mike. He showed us how he measures the level and temperature of the lake and sends the results to labs to be tested. afterwords, we went to a more swampy part of the lake to find critters that live in those environments.
Here are some photos of our discoveries:
In the first week of term, our school had book-week. throughout the week, teachers from the other classes came and read us books after lunch. on Friday we got to dress up as our favourite book characters. I dressed up as Tintin and my sister dressed up as Snowy, his dog.
Here are some pictures of our costumes:
This year I am looking forward to leading the school kapa haka group and leading in my position as head girl. we are going to upgrade a lot for the school and look into new activities for the house groups.
This term we have been learning about earthquakes, Tsunamis and Rocks. We live very near to the alpine fault in NZ and there has been a large earthquake overdue for years. Our class has been going on a tsunami walk every week in case of the threat. I have bundled up all of this information and put it in my narrative I have been writing, called Don't count your students. here is a sneak-peak of the story; It was an ordinary, boring day at school. Our teacher Nic was droning on about sentence work as my friends and I sat, slumped into our seats, around our orange, star shaped table. Kaelyn was trying to put her hat in her pencil case. Zoe was eating her shoe. Krystal was... well just Krystal. Mackenzie was picking her nose with her pencil and - RUMMBLEE! A giant, deep, roar echoed through the school, waking us out of our boredom.
Today we did Top Team. We split our house groups in half and had to do, 9 different fun activities. I learned a lot about Teamwork and working with classmates. It was a sporty activity which was great for our well being and fitness. We got wet in some of them and puffed in others but overall it was a great way to start the week.
At the start of term, we learnt about Rita Angus's art and her type of beautiful styles. we learnt how to paint with special techniques with Bob Ross's help. We painted our own landscape of Lake Brunner on a large piece of paper.
Mistakes are important for learning as the saying goes "we learn from our mistakes".
When we make a mistake we learn from it and try not to make that mistake again. If you don't try to learn new things because you're worried you will make a mistake, then you will miss out in so much in life. But if you try and make a mistake you can just keep on trying and trying until you don't make a mistake. And if you do, it's not going to end the world.
