We are a Year 4 class of powerful learners from Auckland, New Zealand. This blog is for sharing our thinking and learning with our readers.
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Monday, 1 December 2014
Zombies rule the land
Zombies rule the land forever when people don't stop them.
Zombies eat brains when they rule the would!
Never ever go to a zombie or it will rule the would!!!!!!!
Unicorns
Unicorns
I wish I were
A unicorn
On the fluffy clouds
Gliding through the sky
Anxiously
By Samuel
I wish I were
A unicorn
On the fluffy clouds
Gliding through the sky
Anxiously
By Samuel
Turtle
Slow lazy the turtle walk.
Dirty ugly it looks.
Hard strong the shell.
Big large it is.
Friday, 28 November 2014
Jack's Kennings poem
An air polluter,
A ground taker,
A transporter,
A deadly machine,
You can get to places faster,
It's a four wheeler.
Mrs McGhie
A perfect teacher for a perfect class
Always has a smile on her face
I love her and she loves me too!
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Video game poems
Video games are fun but sometimes your eyes hurt do don 't play everyday
Just remember to win.losing is not want you but you have to say you had fun
At playing games.just remember winning is not everything!!!!!!!!!!!
The Guedes it poem
A very fun place.
Every kid would love it even adults.
Brings everyone happines
Break,lunch and dinner
Breakfast,lunch and dinner are all important.
Please eat your food before you do anything.
Especially eat breakfast because it is the most important
Meal of the day.but don 't eat junk food.
Just remember breakfast is the most important meal of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I were...
I wish I were...
Steve
In minecraft
Building houses and crafting things
Quickly before the night comes.
I wish I where a poem
I wish I where a
Bee flying around
To get pollen for honey.
Mrs McGhie
#1
Mrs Mc Ghie
Teaching us incredibly fancy poems
In our bright colourful classroom
In our humongous school
Because we need to learn all the wonderful poems
Dandelions
Swaying gracefully threw the garden.
Plop a Dandelion seed dropped .
The next day a girl come.
The garden had Dandelions.
The girl blew the dandelion.
The 5 ws poem
Water pollution
Killing and destroying,
Daytime and night.
Oceans and rivers,
All because of litter.
The dragon poem
Dragons destroy everything they see.
Dragons shoot fire balls in the city to be left over to dry.
Red as flames dragons are as bright as 6000 fire flys!
Dragons dance up in the sky as eagles.
I wish I were Poem
I wish I were
A Dandelion
On a stem of a flower that blooms
Gliding and flying into the sky
Softly.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
5 W Poem
Lizards
They are sunbathing on rocks.
During summer and spring.
Lives in: rain forests,bushes,leaves, and rocks.
Hides in the leaves in winter and autumn.
Birds
Fast, high the birds go
Soft, cuddly they feel
Little, small it is
Cute brown it is.
I Wish Poem
I wish
I was Steve
Battling and crafting
Building and mining
Fighting withers and Ender dragons
I wish I was Steve
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Cholera
It's a infection for your intestines.
Bacteria called Vibrio Cholerae.
What happens when you get it?
A lot of diarrhoea ang vomiting, diarrhoea happen when you poop a lot and vomiting comes out of your mouth and makes a big mess.
How is Cholera spread?
Cholera germs are found in feces they are infecting people.
Cholera is also spread when people with cholera get into the water.
When a infected person get into the water. Also people drinks and eats what was in the water.
Cholera is not likely to speard to one person and another.
You can get cholera in parts of Africa and Asia.
Monday, 17 November 2014
Starship
- More than 9,000 children being operated on a year
- On the 18/11 1998 Starship opens
- U.P.M.C Auckland Children's Hospital was the name of the hospital before Starship was built in the same location
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Mountain Gorillas
Although Mountain Gorillas are incredible creatures, people are still hunting the adults to kidnap the babies. The baby gorilla is as fluffy as a bushy hedgehog. As the baby gorilla looked through the forest it could smell danger. Mountain Gorillas are incredibly strong. Baby Mountain Gorillas are: cute, fluffy, incredible, small and wonderful. Mountain Gorillas are incredibly strong and wonderful creatures!
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Friday, 5 September 2014
Steam Puff
Duchess jumped out and stopped the lift from falling.
''Now what do we do,'' said Victor.
''We fly'' said Duchess. Samson turned into a flying train.
''Get on''said Victor. Duchess grabbed on.
.
Samson flew towards an old, tall tower. Samson smashed into a window, then
another.
"Hey what was that?"said Victor. Samson turned around and went back
to the broken window. They landed in the tower.
''Dad...Dad are you here?" said Victor.
''Help''said the professor. They went towards the sound until...they both opened an old wooden door. Duchess took a step back,Victor stood out of the way. Duchess ran then jumped towards the professor.The professor was free.
They all ran back to Samson and flew away with the professor. Killamari didn't
notice them.
The End
Saturday, 16 August 2014
The Robot and the Girl - Ty's BookTrack Story
We published the story using a programme called BookTrack. Mrs McGhie took a screencast of the story so that Ty could share it on our blog. It's really cool because we could add sound effects to the writing.
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Thursday, 3 July 2014
My Rock Story
Rocks have been around the world for lots of years. Some rocks come from volcanoes. obsidian is an igneous rock. Igneous rocks are made of hot liquid rocks that has cooled and hardened. Liquid rock comes up onto the earth's surface through volcanoes.
Some rocks such as granite are very hard strong. Others such as chalk are very soft and easily crumble. We can write with chalk because it wears away when pressed against a hard surface.
Some rocks have tiny holes that water can flow through, other rocks such as slate do not let in any water. People make roof tiles out of slate because it keeps the house underneath dry.
Each kind of mineral forms its own type of crystal and when lots of crystals lock together they make rocks. Granite is a hard speckled looking rock, each speckle is a different crystal.
By Brody
Rocks
Rocks are very cool. They are very hard just like a gem. And a crystals. Rocks have been around for billions of years.
How are rocks made ? Rocks are made from sand. Sand is little pices of rock sand when volcanos erupt lava comes down. Little pices of rockfall out the volcano.
Rocks are very strong.
Igneous rocks are crystals. They fall into a volcano when the volcano erupts they turn into magma and then lava igneous rocks are very cool.
Metamorphic rock is made from sedementyry rock. Igneous rock is made from hot liquid. Sedementyry rock is made from little pices of rock and sometimes shell
All of these are important one they are very rear two they are very strong so they won't break and three they are very cool.
By Ty
Fossils
Some fossils can be shells and rocks.
Fossils are only on beachs and inside caves.
Fossils can be pieces of stuff like leaves.
Fossils were alive millions of years ago.
Fossils used to live in the sea and they catch a wave on to the shore.
By Olivia.
Rock facts
Coal is hard and black,It's also some kind of mineral.It's the most common mineral,It's used all over the world for energy.Coal is mostly used to make material and steel.
A mineral is a natural solid material but it's definitely not alive. Minerals always have the same ingredients every time,like chocolate chip cookies.
When rocks melt they normally turn into magma.Rock have been around for billions years.There are over 4.dto5 billion rocks in the world.Mountains are made of rocks and rocks are formed by layers small particles.They are together and formed into sedimentary rocks.Sedimentary rocks are the most common rocks in the world.Mountains are made because rocks crusts push up and form mountains.
By Jack
By Jack
Dylan's rock report
I'm going to share Igneous rocks with you.Igneous rocks formed by magma and volcanoes.Most
igneous rocks have been around for 4.5 billion years and others have been around forever.
This is my fossil that is a dinosaur tooth.My great grandad found it on an island on the beach.Now I'm going to share fools gold with you now.
Fools gold is a type of fake gold the real name is iron pyrite.When people find this particular type of rock they would say I found gold!!! Then they would take it to a gold shop and the guy would say this is fake gold.Then he would say this is iron pyrite.He would say oh? I didn't know that.
Some people carve rocks into statues.pumus is a type of rock it is formed by volcanoes.They can clean your feet some how.
Types of rock sedimentary rocks are: breccia,sandstone,shale,and limestone.
Types of metamorphic rock are diamond,graphite,marble,gneiss,quartzite and schist.
By Dylan
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
If a Minecraft person was in Auckland
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I am from Minecraft and I made a portal to Auckland.It looks a little different here.Nothing looks like blocks and my bow does not work and my swords are gone so is my crafting table.Now I have nothing I have to meet new people and I have to get new friends and weapons.I have to make a new portal so I can go home.where should I go first?Mmm.maybe to the movies!.Nope I don't have any money,so I should go find a house and bed.I need to find another Minecraft friend.There are lots of people in this town,but I don't think there are lots of Minecraft people in this world because there are not many portals in the Minecraft world,but I saw one portal there.Ill call the person that made the portal.
It was my brother.Hay dumb head.I don't like him and he does not like me.WHAT!i made a portal here and someone broke it.AND!So I need to make another one.We want to help.GO AWAY!NO!We will all work together.NO YES!OK! First we find some obsidian second we have to find flint and steel.Then were done.
Sana and Aula find the obsidian.Me and Talat will find flint and steel.Lets go.Me and Aula have found obsidian.Me and Talat have found flint and steel.Ok.meet up at that big building ok.Hi let's build the portal.There,there,there and there.let go home.yay.Where home.Has something like this ever happened to you?
By Shuaib
By Shuaib
Friday, 27 June 2014
My rock report
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The volcano has erupted |
Shuaib
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Rocks
How Rocks Were Made
Some stone was made by a big clump of clay.Some rocks are made by minerals.
Igneous Rocks
Some igneous rocks have tiny minerals in them and some don't have any.Greenstone sometimes gets caught in the volcanoes,Basalt normally comes out of the volcanoes.
Sedimentary Rocks
Sedimentary rocks are made of tiny pieces of big rocks.Most Canyons are made of Sedimentary rocks.Limestone is a kind of Sedimentary rock.You can find fossils in some Sedimentary rocks.
Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic rocks are rocks that have changed their form because of the earths crust.Marble and Slate are two kinds of Metamorphic rocks.You would normally find Metamorphic rocks deep inside the earth.
The rock cycle goes like this Magma to Igneous to Sedimentary to Metamorphic and over and over again.
By Samuel
By Samuel
How are rocks made?
How are rocks made
Rocks are made by mineral and broken parts of rocks that form into large or small rocks.
Coal can be formed into liquid, fuel and soap, Pitch is used to waterproof roofs.
Sedimentary rocks
Sedimentary rocks are made from tiny pieces of bones and rocks. They are stacked together like pancakes.
Metamorphic rocks are like a tube of toothpaste because the rocks are squeezed together.
These are some of the types of sedimentary rocks: breccia, sandstone, shale and limestone.
Rocks can be transformed into dust. Different minerals join together to make rocks.
Diamonds are the only minerals can cut glass.
So as you can see there are many types of rocks around the world, they are amazing properties.
By Hajoo
Monday, 12 May 2014
Term Two Week One
For the next three weeks we will be learning all about Geometry. Mrs McGhie placed shapes around the room and we had to write down what we knew about them. We were doing lots of thinking.
We also started thinking about our new Inquiry topic - we're going to be learning all about Geology. To begin with we browsed through lot of the books on the topic to get our ideas and questions started off.
After that we started brainstorming what we already knew about the topic.
Then we identified keywords to help us with our research.
Finally we wrote down all the questions we had and organised them into categories.
It took us a few days to do all of this thinking and recording. We can't wait to start learning lots of new things.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Welcome to Our Blog
Welcome to our classroom space in the blogosphere. We will be using this blog to share the exciting things happening in our class this year
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