The Water Cycle

Today we looked at the Hydrosphere and we looked at the Water cycle specifically. There are 7 major parts in the continuous cycle known as the water cycle. This relates to our term wide theme known as the Living Earth.

A Guide To Earth's Inner-Core

The Earth's Inner Core, is the very heart of the Earth. It's responsible for many things and most importantly the Geosphere. Here is everything you need to know about the Earth's Inner-Core. This was a literacy task, that I've been meaning to do for a while, but it's taken me a while to complete it because I wanted it to be high quality and easy to read and understand. It isn't 100% the best I could've done but seeming that the circumstances, we've been very busy lately, so I hope you enjoyed. WE'RE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK YAY! :))

The Origin of Earth's Water

Water has been around for many years and nobody knows exactly where it came from. We use it everyday it cover a lot of our earth makes up 60% of us, so why is it such a mystery of how it so easily comes out of our taps, showers and drink bottles today. For this task we had to take notes from a video and summarise what we learnt before and after watching it. I liked this task because it helped us practice note taking and finding the key idea and, it was easier to see how our knowledge grew from that video.

The Origins of Water

Today we did some writing in literacy, all week we've been learning about water, and how it might've come to be on our earth. Water has been around for many years and nobody knows exactly where it came from. We use it everyday it cover a lot of our earth makes up 60% of us, so why is it such a mystery of how it so easily comes out of our taps, showers and drink bottles today?

Revision and Recap :))

Today we recapped some of the stuff we learnt earlier in the year. It was great to recap on things especially since, this is the part of the year we're we forget most of the stuff, while we cover new things. This task was, fun and easy to do, it was also pretty straight forward.

The Hydrosphere

Here is what we learnt about in home room this week on Friday. We learnt about the Hydrosphere, which relates to our term wide theme We Are the World. I am enjoying this pretty very much, and had fun learning about this one in specific. But it's mainly because I can tell how this one relates to the Biosphere. I also enjoyed this because it allowed me to find something from way back when and it actually helped me, remember and recognize some of the knowledge we were learning. Does the Water Cycle ring a bell, yup I learnt that in year 5 and it was SUPER FUN! so it was cool to revisit that part of my past.

Different Biomes and The Biosphere ~Extension~

This week, we learnt about the Biosphere, in extension. We looked at ecosystems, climates, animals and how this all works. We also looked at how the biosphere is made up of parts from all the other sphere such as the Atmosphere, Geosphere and Hydrosphere. We are continuing to learn discuss and research in depth what all of these are. I'm pretty happy with this task, in which we had to answer some questions and research a couple different biomes. Enjoy!

Leaves and Life ~Science~

This week in tech, we looked at leaves photosynthesis and plants. We looked at exactly what happens during when a plant makes does photosynthesis, the process of how they make food and oxygen. Plants are very important because they make oxygen and breathe in carbon dioxide, they are also the beginning of every food chain. I enjoyed this task, and my knowledge of plants and leaves has been extend a lot, over the past two weeks.

Goodbye Graphs

Well, it's good to finally be moving on from graphs. For this task we basically had to read and make conclusions on graphs, except the fact that most graphs had somewhat of an issue with them, made that a bit trickier. I did like this tasks and think that we covered statistics quite thoroughly through the past few weeks. I'm glad we are finally going to move on to another part of maths.

Te Reo Maori (He Tino Pai)

Today in our tech rotations we had a moari class. We learnt how to have a conversation and share our opinion on things. It was fun and at the end I filmed a video with me and my sister. I had loads of fun and pretty soon I may become Bi-lingual wouldn't that be fun. Tune in again next week for more!

Inside of the Earth ~Note Taking~

Today in literacy we practiced note taking. We did this in groups I work with Kahurangi. Together we skimmed through 2 paragraphs of a text we were assigned. We then made note from them. During this task I learnt to things. Keep it short and sharp, and just get the key information. I'm looking forward to to learning more and getting better at taking notes, because this will be a key skill we'll need in the years ahead.

Which Graph?

This week we did more on graphs and statistics. There was one graph that absolutely suprised me and even confused me a bit, so today during Maths I will most likely ask about it. It was the Box and Whisker graph, I think we learnt a little bit about it last year, but we didn't do much. Overall I'm feeling pretty good about statistics. For this present a we had to answer the question and comeplete the activities it was pretty straight forward and easy to complete.

Volcanic Eruption

This week we are learning about the Earth, and Tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are pieces of lands that broke apart two hundred million years ago. We are learning about this because it relates to our term wide theme We Are The World. Throughout this term we are going to be looking at the Geosphere Atmosphere Biosphere and Hydrosphere. Tectonic plates relate to something we learnt about last week the Geosphere. Tectonic plates are also related to the Earth's Crust, volcanoes and Earthquakes. It's all very interesting, see the presentation above for more.

Plants ~Science~

This week in Science during tech we learnt about plants and photosynthesis. The process of how plants grow and make there own food. I learnt heaps about this and really enjoyed this topic. My favourite bit was learning the chemical equation. Overall I have to say that I  have a new respect for plants and anything that makes oxygen for us.

The Atmosphere

Today we learnt about the Atmosphere. This ties in with our term wide them the living earth. I found out some pretty interesting things, and during our class discussion we did have many things about Climate change and the Ozone layer come up. It was all quite fascinating, I was looking forward to doing the Atmosphere, even though it is something we have learnt quite a bit about already.

Significant Statistics

Here is my Statistics Maths Create Task. We had to make Graphs about , our lockdown life. I enjoyed this but I had trouble finding a use for the different graphs. I did eventually get to using other graphs but as you can see the way I'm using it isn't exactly the best way to present it. I want to continue working on that and hopefully in future I'll be able to improve.

Which Graph?

This week we looked at more graphs and did more Statistics. This time we matched the right type of graph to the reason we'd use it. I don't think I did this completely right but, in my opinion I think I completed this task at a decent level. I liked this task, it was a good mind teaser and it really helped me think about what kind of graphs are best to use. 

The Structure Of The Earth

Today we did some inquiry. This is an extra task, that we had the choice to do. It was basically an extra task that helped us memorise the layers of the Earth aka the Geosphere. It was a fun and easy task, and it did help me remember the layers.

The Geosphere

This term we are learning about the different parts of the world. We are learning what makes our planet sustainable for life and the different parts of it. Last week we learnt about the different stages of life, this week we learnt about the Geosphere which is the ground and everything beneath it.

I'm very well interesting in this topic. I don't know much about it since I never really had a reason to learn it. But I am very much enjoying it, and look forward to learning about the Hydro, Atmos and Bio-sphere.

We Are The World

This Term we are learning about the Earth. That's a very broad topic so I'm going to explain in detail what exactly we are learning about. So millions and billions of years ago the Earth started to form, there were different parts chemicals and stuff involved. Eventually the Earth came to be habitable and started to sustain life. There are different parts to sustaining life we are learning about the Earth's "spheres". The Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere and Geosphere, and how they all play a role in sustaining life.

In this presentation about we learnt about the different stages and I quote "The 5 mile stones" which are important because it was those things that show the different stages the Earth went through before it was fully developed and safe to live on.