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. 

Do you wanna help Princess Rainbow back to her castle?

What's in a flower?

Yesterday and today, we've been learning about parts of a flower and how it pollinates.

Here is a drawing of my flower and what's in it.

 Hope you like it. 

24 Hour Digital Footprint

Today I was learning how to use ctrl + H to see my history.
I enjoyed learning how to do new things
I found it hard to take a photo of the sites
My 24 hour digital footprint map shows what sites I visit
Next time I would change things that doesn't belong in the right place

The Crystal Forest

 In the mysterious magical forest, there held a majestic owl perched on a branch. The forest is decent and green and there was a sense of peace in the air. There was magical fairies of different colours, happily creating colourful plants and trees. There were unicorns and white deer silently grazing the long green grass. Swoop! The owl quietly glided down the long mossy tree. The owl landed in the long rock, checking its surroundings. The owl was shocked because all the water was gone from the melting hot summer, so the owl immediately went to the fairies and told them about the problem. They thought about the Blue Fairy and it was a fabulous idea but the Purple Fairy told them her sister the Blue Fairy was sick. It's impossible to create water but it's possible if the fairies combine all their magic that they have and they can use all the magic in any element, just say the spell and it should work. The fairies can only recharge their magic using a gem. These gems can be only made in the mysterious cave located in the huge volcano that erupted in 1096. It was hundreds, even millions of years before the tower was built. Fairies and other enchanted people say that before the volcano was created it used to be a beautiful garden with flowers that grow all seasons, summer, spring, autumn and winter. But an evil dragon burnt the garden and no one noticed. It was so sad and so much worse.

 After a hundred years a gigantic volcano was growing day after day. Fairies decided to build a tower near it to alarm them if the volcano is about to erupt, but no one knows if there is any cave inside the volcano only the Queen and King of the fairies know about this. When the Queen and King died because of the big war,  they trusted the six fairies, especially the white barn owl. The unicorns, fireflies and moths also kept it a secret to avoid any evil. 

The five left created the magic and all of their magic was lost so they put it in wooden buckets to carry it to the lake. They went home and packed everything and went on an adventure. 

After three hours of walking they finally reached the dark, creepy, burning hot volcano. They needed to climb up the tall volcano to get all of the gems in the cave. According to the fairies this place is really dangerous and not safe, fairies tried to climb the volcano but ended up dead, fairies don’t know how or why but some came back alive, so after 30 minutes of climbing they finally reached the top of the volcano.