Chinese Language Week

20.9.2019 - St. Mary’s Green Gold Enviroschool Medal

Yesterday, The 19th of September 2019, was Silver Reflection Day, It was the day that everyone was excited about, Kauri and Kirsty were going to award our school Silver Enviroschool medal. Our school was as clean as a gem, later on it was the welcoming ceremony we sang different songs and the boys from the whole school did the haka and the boys were as serious as thunder there were students from campion, some of them studied here at St. Mary’s a long time ago. The enviroschool team did their amazing speeches in front of the whole school. After that we had our last song and all of the classes left, our class (Room 3) was the last class to leave. After leaving the wahi nui we moved on to doing arts and crafts. Some of us brought toilet paper, soda bottles, egg cartons, CD discs, yarns, jam jars and beads.  Firstly I did the DIY planters out of soda bottles, I made a Pandicorn (Part Panda, Part Unicorn) and even before I made did the painting I designed how the pandicorn was going to look like in the cut soda bottle, after designing and drawing I had the perfect design so I picked a soda bottle that I would use and then I started cutting the soda bottle and painting it, took me morning block and the middle block to paint and later on in the afternoon after I finished painting I dried it and placed it in a newspaper so that I wouldn’t get paint all over my desk. I moved on to the Manu Tukutuku. (Kites made out of bamboo sticks) Ms. Wagner brought us the Toi-Toi (Bamboo Sticks) that we were going to be using for the kites, we each grabbed 2 toi-toi, we also needed a brown yarn to tie the toi-toi up and a scissor to cut the toi toi we needed to cut the toi-toi as a size of our arm. While we were making our kites Kauri and Kirsty came to our class to talk about our waka (including the silver enviroschool team) but they’re almost running out of time so they rushed to visit the next class, so we packed up the classroom and by the time of 2:25 we did our prayers and by the time of 3:0) I went to the bus line to wait for the bus to come to pick us up, the next day Miss Hickling announced that we were awarded a green gold enviroschool medal instead of silver enviroschool medal! Our class especially the whole school was happy, our school was as happy as a sunny day.

The Power of Words

Today I was learning how to stop.

I enjoyed creating the slides.

I found it challenging to find the photos.

My digital learning object shows the meaning of stop.

Next time I will visit sites at the right time.

Bee Report

29.8.2019- Bee Report

Classification
A bee is a member of the Apidae family and Hymenoptera Family. The superfamily, Apoidea contains at least 5,700 species of bees.

Description
A bee has three tiny simple eyes, these simple eyes assist bees with sun orientation so they can navigate well during the day, two large compound eyes, compound eyes have thousands of lenses. A short hair grows in the compound lenses of the eye. These hairs are believed to detect wind direction, antennae of a honey bee is used to smell, claws to tell sweet, bitter and salty tastes, pollen basket to carry the pollen while searching for more flowers, a stinger to protect themselves and wings to dry the nectar and to fly. 

Location
A bee lives in a hive, they can be found in flowers, collecting pollen. Many people believe that honey bees are originated in Africa and spread to Northern Europe, Eastern India, China and America. However, because honey bees have been domesticated to produce honey for use, they are now found all over the world in different habitats.


Dynamics
A bee collects nectar from flowers and on the way back to the hive, digestive enzymes are already working to turn the nectar into honey. When the worker bee returns to the hive, the worker bee will vomit the nectar into a mouth of another worker bee and to another and so on and they will create that honey.

Fact: Bees can see ultraviolet so that they can locate where the nectar is. Bees do the “Waggle Dance” so that they could find the flowers so they can collect the pollen from the nectar. If the bee does the waggle dance for 1 second it means its 1 kilometer away. 
A bee dies after stinging because their stingers come off after and soon die.
People say pure honey doesn’t expire. 

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