Stop Motion Animation

This week we have been working on stop motion animation. I wanted to some thing to do with Chistmas, So I did santa flying across the sky. I hope you enjoy!




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Welcome

Thank You Letters

20 November 2018      

Dear Gemma

Thank you for running our camp for us. We enjoyed your company and your help.
I learnt lots of new things about Arthur's Pass.

My favourite thing on camp was finding Brian.
Talking through the walkie talkie/radios to “Justine” was fun.📻 We would’ve got lost if we didn’t listen to
Kelly and Scott because we were going to go the wrong way. ⇦⇨

I also enjoyed the river crossing but getting cold in the water not so much.
The water was very deep and clear. 🌊When you came out of the water the breeze pierced your legs.

Another thing I enjoyed was the Spider's web challenge. 🕸
We all had to work in a team and participate and contribute.
I think the hardest square was the middle one, for me.

What I found challenging was the weather on the hike. When we got out of the bush it felt like a
never ending desert. 🌞

Something I missed about home was definitely my BED.🛏

Thank you so much for teaching us on camp. It was nice doing outdoor learning, Instead of
being inside all day. I hope I get to go to Arthur's Pass again.👍

                  Kind regards,

Billie😊

3D Cube Making

This Term when we had Mrs Wyld we worked on how to draw differnt view of 3d shapes.

Camp

This year we went to Arthur's Pass for camp. We did lots of activities / team challenges. Also a hike, I hope you enjoy our slide show!

Descriptive Writing

At the moment in class we have been working on descriptive writing. We have been useing pictures for idea for ou work. Here is a piece of writing I did.

Click here for a link to the original work.

Miners Homestead

As I walk through the scary woods, I stand still. I sink. Down my feet go.
But where? Looking down, my feet have been swallowed by water logged moss.
Walk on, I think. The fresh smell of the blowing trees dance up my nose. But wait, there is a hut!
A abandoned hut with what looks like a young rich tree has smashed through the roof. Golden
Kākāiki leaves dance on the top of this cripple tree, creaking back and forth.

I stroke my hand up the bumpy walls.  The hut looks like someone has slapped
a whole clump mortar and rocks togher. Half a job, I think! Walking in, the smell,
it is horrendously gross. It smells like a goat has died in horrible pain. In my sight I
see a pack of filthy, disgusting, horrible rats. Their red eye’s tell me to go. Looking
around again, there are holes in the tree roots. Someone or something has been digging here.
Old gin bottles have smashed everywhere.Tawhirimatea(God of the wind) blew some wind;
it creeped me out. I walk back out and inspect the hut again.

I notice there is a sign. It faintly says,” Miners homestead.”This place has been raided. For What? For Who? Why? Questions spin in my head. “Walk on,” I say. I walk on. “ STOP, WALK BACK.” A small pīngao(Golden, Yellow) nugget, sits under a leave! Gold! “Click,” everything clicked in my head. This place has been raided for gold and has been abandoned and forgotten about. This hut’s heart has been broken.

Manu information report

Tui

Tui are endemic (witch mean are found nowhere else in the world) to

New Zealand . They are medium sized. From a distance Tui look

black but in a good light they have blue, green and bronze on its

body.. It has

what looks like a white pompom on its throat. The Tui has a

beautiful song

with a complicated mix of tunes and noises with coughs

and grunts.

The Tui is common and widespread in Forests, towns and cities.

They pair in groups and tend to nest in the same area each year.

In Hamilton they have recently started nesting in new areas

because habitat

has improved.

Tuis diet depends on which season it is for Nectar and fruits.

The normal diet is nectar and honey dew. Tui Will often shift to

better nectar, such as puriri, kowhai, fuchsia, rewarewa, flax, rata,

pohutukawa, gums and banksias. Sometimes if you are lucky enough

pigeons come along to where the tui are  either eating berries or nectar.

The Tui start to dive bomb

the pigeons, it is really funny.

Tui  lay their eggs from Maramaiwa(September) to Maramatahi

(January) . The nests are built by the female, it is a rough structure

of twigs and

sticks. A clutch( clutch Is the group of eggs produced by Birds) is 2-4

white pale pink eggs with reddish brown spots. Tui prefer to

feed their young

with fruit and instets.

Tui have been known to be attacked by magpies and

defend themselves against them. Some threats for the

Tui are: possums, feral cats, rats, stoats,ferrets, and destruction

of habitat. Chopping down tree ruins their habitat and they can be

killed by cars.

By Billie