C.I.P

C.I.P 

In C.I.P today a group of us got the chance to cut the Ivy off the trees. 

We got the chance to use some tools to cut the Ivy off the trees instead of us having to use our hands.  Some of the tools we got to use, was from one off our teachers that have kindly let us use, and some of the other tools was the schools or either donated to us.   The reason we are cutting the Ivy off all the trees is because the Ivy grows really fast, also the trees are really hard and very old. The main reason is because the Ivy is suffocating the trees and not letting the sun get to them.  

In the morning on Wednesday's our class does Kiwi Kaha, 

today in Kiwi Kaha we got given a word find to have done and completed by a certain amount of time but... the leaders who was taking Kiwi Kaha put music on a speaker and would through a ball around and also take our paper to try and distract us.  The main reason for this was because we was focusing on trying to avoid being distracted.  

Hangi

Hangi 

In Maori the past few weeks we have been learning about Hangi. 

We learn that of course its made under the ground, then learnt what type of food they normally cook and how long it takes and what are the steps of make a Hangi. 

After that we had to make a drawing of what the steps are of how to make the hangi and cooking the food. 

Here is my drawing of the process for making one.

L.C

Learning Conference

Last week on Thursday we had our L.C we had to make a slide or a DLO showing our learning so that we can present it to our parents. In our DLO we had to put a blog post,learning story, Math, Spelling and a Task, and also our reading plus results. I didn't go to the learning conference but we still had to make a DLO explaining  what were been doing at school. 

I decided to make a slide show about my work. 
here is a link to my slide show I made. 

Learning Conferences

Digi Tech

Digi Technology 

For the past 8 weeks we have been doing Digi Technology, we had to find a issue on what to make a app abbot and find information.  My issue was drug use in the Olympics, I choose this issue as because I really enjoy sports but reading about people using drugs by cheating to make them faster or stronger I think that's a really unfair advantage for the other people who haven't cheating and I think it should stop. 

Would you stop using people from using drugs in the Olympics??

This is the app I made..

This is the learning story we had to do about Digi Technology 

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I really enjoyed this 8 weeks as i got to use new apps and games and how to find out about the sports and what has been happening around the world.

C.I.P Gardening

C.I.P Gardening 

In C.I.P last week we went down to the garden and moved all the tyres and looked through the classroom to see what we can change and do. Some people started move thing's out of the classroom and the rest of us moved the tyres and started taking the dirt off the mats to lift up the mats. 

In C.I.P This week we went out to our school garden and 20 people starting take everything out of the classroom and 10 other people helped cut down tree's and the rest did the gardening part. If you was in the gardening part you had to to dig up the soil, and make a row down the garden where we are going to plant some things. Then some of us went and cut down some branches from the tree's and put them into a pile's. 

The reason why we dugged up the dirt is to move around the soil so then we can plate new soil that is fresh and soft, then once we place the soil into the garden the plates with grow probably. 

Why did we find so much worms when we dugged up the dirt? 

The reason is because earthworms spend most of their days living underground in the soil and dirt, they surface at night order to feed on organic matter. Therefore you can collect the worms at night without have to dig in the day time. A shovel or small spade to move all the soil around or turn it over. 

Why are worms good for soil?

Worms help to  increase the amount of air and water that get to the soil underground. They break down the organic matter, like leaves and grass into things that plants can use. When they eat they leave behind castings that are a very valuable type of fertiliser. Worms are like free farmer help.