Yougest Siblings

I remember when I was the youngest. I was cared for, always got support, my older siblings had to do things for me, yup that was the life. Here are three reasons being the youngest is the best!

Being the youngest is awesome because the youngest child always gets cared for, it’s been like this throughout history, because the youngest is always their little “Baby”. Relatives Aunties, uncles, grandparents and parents, they always care for the youngest. More support, more attention and more care is given to the youngest sibling. My Nana always gives my little sister TWO cream buns while me and my older sister only get ONE!

Secondly the youngest gets away with anything, because adults think that the younger sibling never does anything wrong. One day my parents left me and my siblings home alone. When they came back to the house was messy and they blamed it on me. Even though my little sibling didn’t listen when I told her to tidy up and not mess it up in the first place.

Lastly being the youngest is wonderful, as they don’t have to worry about surviving highschool or even getting into highschool. Parents expect you to help each other, and they want you to help each other with everything. As an example, my older sibling gives me lectures about studying from the start and what I will need to know in highschool, all the time. It kind of annoys me but I will always have a heads up!

As you can see, from the reasons I've given you. Being the youngest has its perks, unlike being the middle child. However it may have it’s down sides, it’s good to be the best of both worlds.

Vampire Bats

For the last two weeks we learnt about the mammals. This week we learnt about a certain type of mammal and it amazing abilites and flaws. We then were asked too improve one of the flaws, of this mammal. 

After doing this task I thought about it and what we did included everything in the scientific method. We had to identify the problem, create a hypothesis. then we had to find evidence too enforce the idea then creating a conclusion or solution. I enjoyed doing this and as a result I made this presentation, Enjoy!

Vampire Bats

Digestive System

T.V Advert (Firemen Sam)

Growing up their were many tv shows one of my top 5 is Firemen Sam. An educational kids show,that teaches kids the importance of fire safety. He is known as the Hero next door.

One of my favourite episodes, takes place on a normal day. A little boy referred to as Naught Norman, argued with his mother. He then gets sent to his room as his mother is busy doing something else. As the naughty little boy he is, he tries to find something to entertain himself.

He starts to make a paper airplane. As he was working he took his glasses of and placed them on his desk. But he didn't realise that the suns rays where shining through the lenses directly onto the paper. He continued working and went down stairs to fly his aeroplane.

The next thing he knew a fire started and Firemen Sam got a message, saying tha their was a fire at Normans Adress. Firemen Sam quickly dashed to estunguish the fire. When it was put out the cause was found. It was Normans glasses.

Norman was asked to apologize, and learnt his lesson on fire safety. Sadly that wasn't the last of Naughty Norman's shinanagins. We later one hear more about him in future episodes. 

So that my experience on this kids educational tv show. It's entertaining, fun and most importantly EDUCATIONAL!

Angelic Angles

The Digestive System

People should learn more than one language

Speaking more than one language can help you more often than you think. It’s good for the brain and helpful in unexpected situations. But what else is it good for? Well, read on to find out more!

When traveling  to a foreign country, you may have some trouble communicating with people. Probably because you can’t understand them and they can’t understand you.  But if you speak their language you’ll have no problem at all. It's not just being able to speak another language, but reading is important too. This is one of the many reasons you should learn to read and speak another language.

Before I may have noted that being bilingual is good for the brain and I wasn’t lying it really is. It helps slow down the aging of the brain. It also helps learning other languages easier. These are just a few, of one of the many reasons it’s good for the brain.

Another reason to learn another language is because, in the future or maybe even now more job opportunities will open up. Apparently it’s impressive to have learned to speak or speak another language fluently. It also may be helpful when talking to customers or clients, in your jobs already.

I have been in many situations when speaking another language has come in handy. I can fluently speak Hindi, and this is helpful in many situations. But I can't speak all types of Hindi. However sometimes when I hear or read other types of hindi my brain is able to decipher and translate the language. This proves what I was talking about earlierm, when I said learning a language helps learn other languages!

I find speaking two languages helpful as I get better at speaking itself. It makes my sentences come together easier and even saying them out loud. I am also able to think through most of what I am saying,  It also generally makes me feel more confident about speaking.

So those a few reasons I think you should learn another language. You should definitely give a thought you can do your own research on this is wanted. But either way, this is my opinion on speaking more than one language.

Mammals of the amazon Rainforest

Conversion and Volume

In Maths this week we did something a bit different. Throught the week we did our usual mathwork we worked on converting millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. But we also learnt how to find the volume, area and perimeter of different shapes including circle and cylinders.

But on Friday we had to complete two worksheets. It was fun and suprisingly my handwriting was really great. Nowadays we don't right as much because we have chromebooks and what not so my handwriting so doing thing like this makes my handwriting look so much better.

Throught the week I also wrote the formula to find thing in a shape and thing like how many centimetres in a metre in my maths book. Once again I was suprised as my handwrite was looking really good.

Mammals (Information Web)

This week we learnt about mammals and their special features. This plays an important part in our science learning this term as on of the branches in the tree of life are full of mammals. Humans themselves are well known mammals.

We learnt about the special features mammals have allowing themselves to surviv easily. We also learnt that male mammales fight each other and then the females mates with strong males so their ofspringss are strong. We learnt many of these facts and to share our leanring we had to make an information web. I chose three facts and then joined seperate statements to add on to them.

Textiles At Tech

Captivating Conversions

The amazing brains and morphing skin of OCTOPUSES and CEPHALOPODS

This week we learnt about another type of marine animal. It was very amazing and we learnt lots of interesting things that you might not expect from other animals. These finding where so amazing they make reality seem stranger than fiction.

I found this task somewhat easy, it wasn't to hard to share my thinking either. My favourite part was talking about octopus camoflouge. Because I didn't know that ocotopus had camoflouge and change to blend into things. I use to think that they just sat in thing that looks like them!

Exploring The Cellullar Makeup Of Zebrafish

This week in inquiry we focused on the cellullar makeup of zebrafish. We looked at their amazing ability to regenerate thier organs and some even their heart as well. But one of the most important things we found was that the Zebrafish's organs were similar to human organs. 

For this task we watched multiple videos and text and pictures. We then took some notes and as a result we made slides and posters to show our learnings and findings. I didn't have that much info so I did some more research on that specific animal. It's size life span and breeding techniques.

K.P.M.G

Today we had our trip too K.P.M.G. As always we had loads of fun and learnt heaps!  This time it was based on things we are covering this term. You might know that our theme is Something In The Water.

When we arrived we were greeted by Justine and some staff members. We were told to take a seat and one by one they all introduced themselves and what they did. However they also told us some bad but good news. Justine told us that Nate the chef has left, he got a better job offer. Good news for him but bad for us.

The next thing that happened was we were introduced to two women. Their names were Lucy and Susy, they told us that they work were ecologist. They looked at the environment and it's inhabitants. They also looked at saving the aquatic life. They have done heaps to help the environment in many other ways too. The last thing they did was tell us about how we can help aquatic life.





Then we had morning tea. It was amazing and delicious. We were all very thankful. We are alway treated to delicious meals whenever we take a trip to K.P.M.G. We ate and happily chatted away. Very soon after most of us had finished eating. We were told to line up.

This was because we were about to work to the Sustainable coastlines shack, for a presentation. It was about a ten minute walk and we all enjoyed getting some fresh air too. When we arrived their was a women standing their. She greeted us and told us to take a seat and get comfy. She then told us where the toilets and that kind of information.

Then she started her presentation, she started by asking us what we have been learning in school about what ways and stuff. I guess she was told what our theme for the term was too. She talked about all these waterways and it's inhabitants, how they can be ruined and how to save them. She also talked about what Sustainable Coastlines do for the enviroment and they study and find ways to help the enviroment. I was very interested in the information she was sharing and really enjoyed listening to her.


When her prensentation finished we were allowed to explore. Before the presentation had started she told us that the shack and everything in it was made out of recycled material. So when we explored it wasn't just the information on the wall too read. Me and Jedida looked at the posters and the art made from bottle caps and things you might find on the beach. However in this process we found a seat with sometype of animal skin on it, I felt it and stood their thinking is this real. Me and Jedida decided not to answer that question as it may make us sick to know.

After our adventure we walked outside where there was a gift shop and a broken kind of working piano. Their was also a beautiful view of the sun, I stood there and admired it before I second. Then I was snapped back to reality and pulled in to a photo. I stood their as all these adult took pictures and before I knew it we were done.

We lined up and started walking back. Me and Jedida were buddies so we chatted the whole way back, of course their was an adult to lead us back. Her name was Holly she was one of the staff members from K.P.M.G and we had some very interesting conversations. Mostly about food, what we love about food and what we don't like so much. We all agreed that we didn't like fish, and joked about how we wouldn't be caught over fishing in the sea.

Before we knew we were back in K.P.M.G, we sat down and waited for our next task. We were then split into 5 groups. I wasn't in the same group as Jedida but I still had Tha-zin in my group. We sat around tall table and were givin a large A3 peice of paper. It had some info and instructions. Our task was to find out about the God Tane Mahuta and what his domain was. Then we had to find out how soft plastic affected the Tane Mahuta's Domain. In this case it was how did soft plastic affect the forest and it's inhabitants. We wrote a couple of things down and discussed on what we thought and why we thought that way.

Before we knew it, lunchtime had rolled by. The room was filled with a delicous aroma, like last time their was a variety of foods some that I have never seen before. At this point I decided to try something new and eat a salad with these weird ingredients in it. It did taste nice and I did enjoy it. I have always loved the salads from K.P.M.G there always filled with lovely nutirous things. There weren't many tables so I sat with a King and was soon seated with a bunch of boys but I didn't mind. We talked about Marvel, End Game and the best way to torcher someone. Not saying that I would actually do it!

When we had all finsihed we returned to our table. Our next task was to construct a robot with a bunch of craft supplies, luckily it didn't have to work. So we designed a robot to collect all soft plastic and other rubbish and construct it into works of art. As a example Me, Makayla, Tha-zin and Eden worked on a tree sculpture made from Plastic bottles, straws and other craft supplies. It look really good and I was really proud of it, we left it at K.P.M.G as a memory of this trip.

When we had finished presenting I was asked to say a thank you to K.P.M.G, Justine, Sustainable Coastlines and Miro. Those are the people that helped and planned the day for us. We said our personal thank you and goodbyes and headed back to the bus stop. It wasn't far and I recognised it from this morning. Before boarding I looked up at the building and whispered a soft that you for this wonderful day. It truly was amazing and I had heaps of fun learnt lots and can't wait to learn more.

Break Out (Maths Week)

This week is Maths week and today we did a Break out on Measurement to celebrate. It was really hard some trouble and it also took some thinking. But in the end the answers were right in front of our eyes.

There were all these different types of locks that we had to unlock and it was really fun because we all worked together. I had heaps of fun and I really hope we will do more in the future. But we only got the last one because I am good at playing with things, This is because our we guessed it.

Maths Week (Morse Code)

The Fragile Web Of Life

De-Extinction

For this task we were to take notes on a peice of text our teacher had given us. It was based on de-extinction mostly on the topic of bringing passenger pigeon back from de-extinctions. Once we had finsihed that we were to research more on this and make a poster to show our learning.

I found this task relatively easy but it did take some time. Note taking is not as easy as you think you must have the right amount of info or it won't make sense. However I did enjoy this task and it did really help my note taking ability!

Credits

Information  From 

Passenger Pigeons & Jack Horner

Picture From

New Scientist

Capital E Performence

De-Extinction

Versatile Volume

Seven Life Processes

Do you ever wonder how to tell if something is really living? Well today I will be telling you several steps to find out if it’s alive. These steps can be used on Today we will be using the seven living processes. Also known as the M.R.S G.R.E.N, it stands for Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion, Nutrition.

You will need / equipment:
The test subject (We are using a Tree)
Time to observe
Something to record information and finding


Movements all tree move but it’s not always so obvious. is you look closely the position of tree changes over periods of time. There are even trees that can walk up to 20m per year.

Respiration is releasing energy we find in food. Trees use this process when they absorb sunlight to make food which they then use to grow. It’s also shown when they breath in Carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen

Sensitivity is another process meaning all living organisms need sense to identify their surroundings. Trees have senses as they sense can sense light and they use it too grow.

Growth meaning all living things grow. Most animals stop growing when they are adults but trees and plants continue to grow. Trees can grow to large sizes.

Reproduction meaning giving birth to new life. There are 2 types of reproduction process asexual and sexual. Tree use asexual reprodcution, and when they give birth to seeds which then grow into seedlings.

Excretion is getting rid of waste from the body. It’s not the same as pooping, for humans it like breathing out carbon dioxide. Trees excrete when they breathe out oxygen.

The last process is nutrition, which is something we get from food. All living organisms need food to get energy and do everyday things. Trees and plants however can make their own plants meaning they don’t have to find food.

So there you have seven life processes. As you can see trees use all of these seven life processes meaning trees are living. Like is said before you can test these seven life process on anything to see if it’s living.

De-Extinction

Life Processes

Seven Life Processes

Can Science Explain The Orgin Of Life

This week we learnt about how the origin of life startted, and what sparked it. We learnt about the origin of life because ourt term inquiry is Something in the Water and team five is focusing on how all living organisms are connected. One thing I found was that it started 3 and a half billion years ago which is very facinating it all started from on living organism.

We watched different videos and text, we also had to take notes and highlight them. Once we finished Amira and I decided to make this presentation. It covers most of the science in the origins of life but a full explanation has not been yet created!