Bee Keeper

On Friday we Sue a bee keeper came in and taught us all about bee keeping. It was really interesting and everyone learnt so much. We even tasted some of the delicious honey.

Share what you learnt about bees and bee keeping. 

Year 4 Cricket finals

Maths Challenge Week 8

Leave your answer in the comments section below.

Report on Water

Auckland’s Water Supply

Have you ever wondered where the water in your tap comes from?  Well, say you are a drop of water, you probably started off in the Tasman Sea.  One fine sunny day the sun would come out and warm you up.  Soon you evaporate upwards and form into a cloud.  Soon you join your friends (the other water drops) to form a bigger cloud.  The cloud is blown by the wind, over to the Waitakere and Hunua Ranges.

A few days later when it’s a cold and misty day it rains.  You fall into one of the Waitakere and Hunua Ranges 12 dams.  We fall into the Mangatangi Dam which holds 35.3 gigalitres (that is 35.3 billion litres) of water!!! 

The 12 dams in the rangers give us 80% of our water. The rest comes from rivers and wells.

While you are sitting in the Mangatangi Dam the dam starts the water cleaning process.  The dirt in the water falls to the bottom of the lake taking the bugs with it. After you've been sitting around for a while getting clean, and kind of bored, you suddenly start to move again.  You’re off to one of the 4 treatment plants.

There are 4 steps to cleaning our water. Screening, coagulation, clarification and filtration and disinfection.  Screening removes big bits like leaves and bugs.  Clarification and filtration removes small bits of dirt.  Last the disinfection kills the bugs.  That is done by Chlorine (but only a little bit).  Last they add some fluoride which helps to keep our teeth clean and strong!!

Now you’re super clean like after the best ever bath (like the one I just had).  You are ready to fulfill your destiny. You are travelling through the pipes to the storage tanks (that’s were you get kept until someone turns their tap on).

Every week Auckland people use around 3 billion litres of water….. That is a lot of water – or about 1.5 million swimming pools worth!!!

So there you go, down someone’s mouth to help power their body.  Hope you had a fantastic trip!  Thanks for reading, and remember, water is precious so don’t waste it!!!!!!

By Alex M.

Bee Presentations

This term we have been learning about our connection to bees. Over the last few weeks we have been researching different questions about bees. Here is what we found.

Comets and Martians

Click on the link to see the Maths question then leave your answers as a comment below.

Moon Hoppers and Earthlings

Answer the following problem and leave your thinking as a comment below. 

Reading Activity Week 7

Astronauts and Shooting Stars

Read the article and then create 3 questions about what you read. You can also answer questions others have created. Remember that your questions must be about the information in the text.You should have at least one why do you think question.

Flying Saucers and Rockets

Read about the culture of Iran then share 3 things you have learnt. Remember to share key ideas from the article. Once you have completed your activity you can read the rest of the article and comment on the other comments.

Swimming lessons

Today we started our swimming lessons. We are so excited that it is our turn in the pool and we will be learning how to be better swimmers. 

What have you learnt from our swimming lessons? What are you looking forward to during our swimming lessons? 

Reading Activity Week 6 Term 1

Read the article and then identify what the main idea is and then list some supporting detail. Click on the link to create a Popplet to share your ideas.

Here are our Popplets

Homework Challenge Week 5

Our homework challenge this week was to use our spelling words to create a story. Here are some of our stories that we have written.

Fireworks

It was the beginning of Guy Fawkes Night. Everyone was excited about what was happening and the children’s voices were babbling excitedly in the crowd. Everyone was silent, waiting for what was about to occur.

Suddenly, a loud boom! A firework explodes in the air.  Everyone looks up.  Pieces of the fireworks glistens in the sky.  A fountain of fireworks fall to the ground.

Usually it would have been longer but they said through the speakers that it was going to rain so that was all they could offer. Even though it ended early it would be a night that the children would remember.

By Alex M. 

Christmas Day

Two children wake up. They have a lovely breakfast and then they go into the living room to open their presents. Later their mother tells them excitedly that there is something occurring in the park tonight. The children say, “We prefer to stay and play with our presents right now.” Mum replies, "I think it will be regretful if you do not go, it is fireworks!" "Yippee, oh yeah!" shouted the children. The dog started barking and wagged its tail. "Let’s target to be there at 6pm." said Mum. After tea, they got ready and go to the park. Soon the fireworks start banging all over the dark sky. They look like a colourful fountain.

By Jessie

There once was an ugly, deceitful, resentful prince. He was resentful because everyone loved the beautiful, delightful princess who lived a beautifully decorated castle while the prince lived in a rusty old garden shed. She was thoughtful and peaceful and the people in her village lived peacefully and gratefully gave offerings to their princess.  The prince wanted to be like the princess so he had his hair cut and bought some beautiful new clothes and had a shave.  Because he was now handsome, the princess thought he was delightful.  They got married and lived happily ever after in the beautifully decorated castle.

By Poppy

An EPIC day at the park

It was a nice, peaceful, sunny day when several families went to the park. My family and I went as well. The scenery was very beautiful as everybody laughed happily.

We had a barbeque and had sausages, meringues, croissants and lots more. It was delicious. There was a big surprise waiting for us. A long limousine parked right beside the park! Then, a very, very famous movie star came over to my direction, I asked for her autograph and she said yes. She was very elegant. The movie star's name was Rebecca Gilton, she was dressed very beautifully and was wearing a red dress. It was a wonderful, delightful day.

By Jaime