Olympics by Milly

Olympics

Olympics  is when  people  from all over the world come and do sports. At the opening ceremony each team that    took part in it was in the opening ceremony. There were bikes full of plants. There are either a boy or girl walking with the person that has the flag. It was cool.

From Milly

Fiji Fun Day By Cooper

Fiji Fun Day

Once me and Mum  went  to Fiji for seven days. I saw lily pads. Even I saw frogs on the small, big, little and huge lily pads. Me and Mum took photos of going speed boating. Me and Craig went into our hotel. I got a necklace with a black turtle on the necklace. Even my Mum got me a green and white one. It was cool.

From Cooper Woolnough

The End.

My Dad By Kees

My Dad

My Dad he watches TV. My dad is tall. My dad has curly hair. Dad’s name is Jason Taniela. My dad plays monopoly. Then we have lunch. After the board game me and sister and my dad go to the pools in the city. Me and my dad have pizza for lunch. The flavours were cheese and meat lovers. We had some potato fries. The pizza came from Dominos Porirua by North City Shopping Centre. My Dad has brown eyes. Me and my Dad watch movies on my Dad’s PS3 from Sony company that made the PS3 or PS4. My Dad plays Fifa 15 on the PS3.

By Kees        

Cheetahs By Jason

Cheetahs

A cheetah can creep

creep,creep,creep.

A cheetah can run with fast furry feet,

run,run,run.

A cheetah can bite,

bite,bite,bite.

A cheetah roars loudly,

roar,roar,roar..

A cheetah is the fastest animal!

By Jason

Space By Zoe

Space

The sun is hot like fire. The sun keeps Earth warm so we survive. If we didn't have a sun, snow would be everywhere and people from the other side of the world would freeze because it would be so cold.

Mars has some of the tallest volcanoes in the world! All the stars and other planets stay up in space because there's no gravity but there is gravity on Earth.

In a few weeks or something like that, the Korimako class is going to study space and we may even go to Te Papa as a class trip.

We made colourful shadows with colourful see-through counters. This is how it works: the counter is see-through and lets the Sun’s light shine through the counter and if your counter is green, the shadow would be green; if your counter is red, the shadow would be red. That kind of thing. We read a book called “the Sun. It was all about space.

I love learning about space. My Daddy even teaches me before before school, after school and when I'm having breakfast. Did you know that Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system? Did you know that there are billions of planets to discover?

by Zoë!

Dick Joyce By Tim

Dick Joyce

A person came here. His name is Dick Joyce.  He trained for ages. He won  the first gold medal for rowing. I am glad he won a gold medal. I liked the oar too.

By Tim

My Dad By Makayla

My Dad

My Dad has a black beard. He has blue eyes. His hair is black in the middle of his hair. There is a circle. In that  circle there is just a bald bit.

My Dad gives me a lot of hugs. My Dad loves me with all his heart. I love my dad with all my heart.

My Dad has two cats. One  cat is black and the other one has some black and white stripes. The one with the stripes is a boy and it’s name  is Chubby and the black one is a girl and her name is Furby.

My Dad is my hero because he cares about me and he has a lot of fun with me. My Dad loves to tickle me and loves to play with me. My Dad sometimes takes me to the lagoon at Aotea. He takes me to swimming lessons. My Dad works at WW Wellington Scaffolding. He loves to take me to the malls.

Every single morning my Dad sees Furby in the tree and we like to say, “What are you doing in the tree Furby?”, when we are going to Before School Care.

My Dad is picking me up after the holidays and he’s taking me to a special place. He’s taking me to my Granny and Poppa.

I love my Dad.

By Makayla

Olympian Basketballer By Ahi

Olympian Basketballer

Today a Olympian told us about basketball. He was funny. I laughed and laughed and it was in the hall. His name was Paora Winitana. He told us about basketball training. When I am older I am going to play basketball.

By Ahi

Riley's Story

Riley’s Story

We saw Paora Winitana at the hall at eleven o'clock this morning. He told us about his job. His job is to play basketball. Paora played for New Zealand. He went to the Olympics.

By Riley

Salt Dough By Floyd

Salt  dough

Today I did salt dough. First we put a cup of salt in a bowl. Second we put two cups of flour in and mixed it together. Third we put a cup of water in the smiggle cup and tipped it in the bowl. We measured the salt. Then we measured the flour.  We put all of the ingredients into the big bowl. I got to mix the ingredients together. I made a big joker that was on a movie and I copied it. When I was finished I put it on a tray. I was happy after that because I did a good job.

Jason's Personal Learning Journey about Charon and Pluto

WHY IS CHARON A  DWARF PLANET?

What I found out:

It might a bit big for a moon. Charon’s lumpy body can be hit by asteroids. When Pluto was discovered on the 18th of February 1930 by an American Astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh it became the ninth planet, but it was by far the smallest.

Since 2006, Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

There are icy planets around Pluto. Pluto has a red spot. Charon orbits around Pluto. It is Pluto’s biggest moon.

By Jason

Photo Credits: http://goo.gl/9ccpov and http://goo.gl/qllZuR

Samuel's Personal Learning Journey about Dwarf Planets

THE DWARF PLANETS

Pluto, Sedna, Haumea, Makemake, Eris and Ceres

What I found out…

Pluto has an atmosphere with nitrogen and methane. It is the second largest dwarf planet and it has 5 moons. It is one third water in the form of ice. A year on Pluto is 248 years. Pluto is the brightest object in the Kuiper belt.  The Kuiper belt is beyond Neptune and Sedna (a dwarf planet in the Oort cloud).

Sedna is the second smallest dwarf planet. Sedna lives in our solar system of course. Sedna lives in the oort cloud and takes 1,500 earth years to orbit the sun.

             

Haumea has two moons or daughters and both were discovered in 2005. They are named Hi’iaka and Namaka. Namaka was discovered on the fourteenth of November 2005. One of Haumea’s daughters Hi’iaka was discovered on the eighteenth of April 2005. There is a large red spot on Haumea’s surface which may be an impact crater!

Makemake is the third largest dwarf planet.  It orbits outside Neptune which means it is a Plutoid.  It is the second brightest object in the Kuiper belt.  It has an official new moon called MK2.  MK2 is very hard to see in the Kuiper belt. Makemake is unusual because it is a reddish brown colour and it has ethane, methane and nitrogen ice on its surface.  

Eris is the largest dwarf planet.  It is found at the end of the Kuiper belt. It has one moon called Dysmonia, this means lawlessness.

 

Ceres is the smallest identified dwarf planet in our solar system.  It is the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.  The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter.   Ceres used to be called an asteroid.  Ceres has an ice mantle.

                   

By Samuel Sutton     

You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! Baking real gingerbread men

Ruma Kotare and Ruma Miromiro have been busy learning about measurement. We have been looking at how long and short things are and how heavy or light they are. You will have already seen and read about Ruma Miromiro using their measurement and teamwork skills to build some fantastic bridges for their gingerbread men. In Ruma Kotare, we created gingerbread men, measured and made clothes for them and compared them to objects in our classroom that were bigger or smaller. We had all been so busy doing gingerbread men activities, there was was only one thing left to do...make real gingerbread men!! Ruma Kotare and Ruma Miromiro joined together for discovery time and created some tasty gingerbread men using ALL of our measuring skills. Luckily for us they didn't run out of the oven, so we got to taste them - YUM!

Building a Bridge for the Gingerbread Man!

Ruma Miromiro are working on building a sense of 'Hapori' or 'Community' in our class through sharing and working together with our classmates. As part of this learning we decided to put our hard hats on and get to work on a problem of fairytale proportions....
The Gingerbread Man asked us for our help, he needs to cross the river but after what happened last time with that pesky fox he's not taking any chances! We worked in teams to build him a bridge that would get him safely across the river and prevent him from becoming afternoon tea! Mrs Pupuke was super impressed with how every single team completed the activity - we all worked together to come up with different solutions to the problem and the Gingerbread Man will live to see another day!