Global Wind Day

Monday 15th of June is Global Wind Day.

For reading this week, you need to read one of the following articles about wind. Write a comprehension question or a comment about the article in the comments below.
Remember to write the name of the article and to check you spelling!

These Ultra-Cute Micro Windmills May Soon Charge Your Devices.- Article on Dogonews

Wind Power- wind power in NZ from Science Learning Hub.

World Ocean Day

Monday was world ocean day and we did some research into how humans are effecting our oceans. We also played a game that taught us some of the names and locations of the worlds seas and oceans. It is in the 'Other Links' tab on the right.

Here are some of our reports about marine debris, what it is and how it effects our seas and oceans.

Marine debris

Do you know that anything could be marine debris? Some people litter and don’t care. They don’t realise that they could kill an animal. Animals especially in the sea aren’t as smart as people. They can mistake a plastic bag for jelly fish

Causes   

Animals aren’t as good at seeing as humans. They could mistake anything for food.

Effects

Sea living animals die. If they die they will be left on the beach to create more marine debris.

What you can do to help

·      Don’t litter

·      Make sure when you put something in the rubbish it stays in the rubbish.

·      Recycle

By Sarah.

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Marine debris is when rubbish is in the water and kills sea life.

Main causes of marine debris are people littering and fishing nets falling over board, try not to let these things happen please!!!!

Main effects of marine debris are fish dying, turtles getting endangered, and having yucky oceans. Also in about 4 years the Great Barrier Reef will be gone because of marine debris.

What you can  do to help is stop littering and be careful where you put your rubbish.

By Josh

I’m going to tell you about marine debris.

Marine debris is when people litter on beaches and litter on water.

If you litter on water fish will think its food, and the fish will eat the litter.

We eat fish and if fish swallow litter we might the litter when we eat fish.

If we do not do anything we won’t want to swim at the beaches that have heaps of litter on them.    

 Do you want to swim on a beach with heaps of litter on it?

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

You can go on trips to pick up litter. And when you see people littering tell them not to. Put you litter in a safe place when you’re on a boat. Never ever dump you net your fishing net when it gets tangled in a rock

                                      By William

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Marine debris is when you put rubbish in the ocean.

If you put any of these things in the sea animals might die by Plastic, Rubber, Trash, Paper, Nets, metal, Plastic bags, Drink bottles and Rubbish.

Problem

If rubbish nets and lots of thing get in the sea or ocean animals will die because nets will tangle the animals. So don’t litter. All rubbish is bad for the sea so don’t litter. That is what marine debris is.

By Mojdeh

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Marine debris

Have you ever heard of marine Debris? Well it is when there is rubbish all in the water. The reason I'm talking to you about marine Debris is because it is polluting our ocean. Would you like to swim in a polluted ocean? The other reason is that it is killing our sea animals.

Causes

Things that cause sea animals to die are metal, rubbish, plastic, which is most common, fishing nets and lines, paper, tires and 6 pack rings. Also boats which drive past their fishing nets and rods could fall off and can catch all the sea animals, storm drains sometimes have rubbish going down the drain and then the rubbish will get washed down the pipes in the ocean and fish will eat all the rubbish and die. Sometime fishers even throw there rubbish over board.

Effects

The effects of it is that it is killing sea animals, like choking, eating and getting hooked stuck down their throat. They could even become extinct.

Conclusion

If this keeps happening to sea animals there will be no more of them. So make sure there's no Marin debris in the water. Start picking up rubbish for the animals, environment and us.

By Leela

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Marine debris is rubbish in the ocean and sea. It is also killing sea life and sea homes.

Do not throw rubbish in the ocean or sea and on land. Fisher man are losing fishing gear like: nets, rods and fishing nylon. Sometimes you can accidently drop rubbish outside, on land, beaches and seas. It is us that is causing marine debris.

It is killing animal’s habitats. Plastic bags are killing our turtles because the turtles think they are jelly fish. It can kill animals like: seals, turtles, fish and other sea animals like that. It can kill the sea animals like that. It can kill the sea world. A lot of sea animals get  caught in the net’s from fisher men. Sometimes metal rings can get stuck around turtles neck and it can grow with the turtles neck as it gets older.

We can start to pick up rubbish from the beach, ocean, sea and lakes. Stop throwing rubbish on the ground. It can make a big deference to the world

By Lucia

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 Marine debris is rubbish or in water and if rubbish goes to the sea fish will eat the rubbish then they will get sick die and the food will not die digest in their body.

Anything can be marine debris and if you throw stuff into the water you will go to jail because it is against the law.

If a rubbish bin is full and there is a plastic bin you must put the plastic stuff in the plastic bin and that will make the bin less full.

And sometimes nets wheels will get caught in seaweed and fish will not have homes to stay in.

And if you want to help you can pick up rubbish and that will save the environment.  

By Joshua

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Marine debris 

Do you know that marine debris happens in water?” well you said marine so of  course it happens in water ‘’ but do you what debris means ‘’hmmm no’’ it means rubbish.

It caused so many animals dying. When fish or other an animals that we also eat marine debris .Us humans cause marine debris.

Marine debris breaks habitat of sea animals. Marine debris can be anything, for example a net floating around can catch sea animals. Millions of sea animals are dying.

We can help by not littering. For more information go to the trash talk website.

By  Amy.

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Marine debris

Marine debris is rubbish in the ocean and it can be any rubbish like paper bags metal tiny beads even a six

Plastic rings

Marine debris killing strangling and suffocating sea life

It’s also killing fish so people who like fish help stop

Marine debris

Because the numbers are dropping

By Max

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Marine Debris

A Marine Debris is a patch pollution (Rubbish) in the ocean.

Causes

If someone litters somewhere then the rubbish could easily blow away and land in a drain or a nearby river or beach and all that water leads to the ocean.And that will affect all the animals in the ocean and even some rivers!

Effects

Some of effects are that when the animals see rubbish they sometimes mistake it for food and when they do they could get tangled or strangled and then they could die. Sometimes when turtles see metal rings they sometimes get their necks stuck by swimming through them by accident. And they could get strangled or it could grow into their skin.

If people don't stop littering then all the animals will die and the ocean will be very dirty and all the sea creatures will be gone!

By Emma

  

What Does Good Writing Look Like?

What should Year 4 writing look like?

To meet the National Standards for writing, we have to be writing solidly at Level 2 by the end of the year. To be above the national standards, we have to be starting to write at Level 3 of the curriculum. To help us to understand what this looks like, here are some examples.

End of Year 4 Example (Late Level 2)

End of Year 5 Example (Level 3)

This school has wonderful goal cards that show all of the things that you need to do to achieve at the different curriculum levels for writing.
http://www.cocklebay.school.nz/images/stories/national_standards/cbs_writing_goal_cards.pdf
Here is the level 2 success criteria. Do you do all of this independently and consistently? If not, what do you need to work on?

At Level Two

Audience, Purpose and Voice

• I write about several experiences or ideas often including detail or personal comment
• I use a process that will help me achieve my purpose for writing
• I independently write texts using language and a simple text structure that suits my audience and purpose (recounting, describing, narrating, reporting or explaining)
• I use mostly relevant information that often includes detail and/or comment supporting the main points
• I use a variety of adjectives, adverbs, nouns and verbs that clearly convey ideas, experiences or information
• I use similes and onomatopoeia to support meaning
• I choose appropriate media for publishing including visual and digital

Structure

• I plan and organise ideas and information using tools such as headings, graphic organizers, mind maps
• I use planning strategies to generate rich language for writing
• I write mainly simple and compound sentences that vary in their beginnings, structures and lengths and are mostly grammatically correct
• I attempt complex sentences using conjunctions such as when, how, because, although
• I use titles, sub headings, labelled diagrams and illustrations to support meaning

Proofreading and Editing

• I use accurate punctuation most of the time (including capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation
• marks, commas for lists, speech marks, apostrophes for contractions
• I write most Spell-Write Essential List 1 - 4 words and many from 5 - 7 correctly in my writing
• I revise my writing and edit it for clarity, accuracy and impact using a dictionary and a thesaurus
• I review my writing from a reader’s perspective and revise if necessary
• I reread, discuss and respond to feedback by making changes to my writing

Week 5 report

Week 5 term 2

Fitness-a-thon finished

This week the fitness-a-thon finished

The fitness-a-thon was a fundraiser for ipads, sports gear, iPods and chrome boards. Everyone has done there fitness test now and lots of people have got amazing Improvements since the last test. 

We hope that everyone in the school gets some money

This has turned into a really fun activity as well as good for your health.

By Sarah and William 

Samoan Language Week

This week is Samoan Language Week and we are investigating Samoa for our homework.
You can use this website to help you with your investigation.
Or these ones:

http://www.thecoconet.tv/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoCctafpdk (Polyfest –Samoan Stage)

http://www.mpia.govt.nz/samoan-language-week-24th-may-2015/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFe97vHRvIE Samoan Soldiers singing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8MiS-0zbY Samoan Anthem

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/samoans/page-1

Week Three Term Two

Science week

Science in a van :]

On the 3^rd of May we went to the hall for science in a van there where two people that talked about science. We all learnt so much about science like we learnt about matter like the 3 states of matter are gas, solid and liquid.    

 

 Growing crystals !

On Monday we made crystals

We needed: water

Salt       washer

Cups    string

Pencil    spoon

Steps: first you put hot water into a cup then we put loads of salt into the hot water then we stired it until the salt has disolvied then you tie the end of the string onto the washer then tie the other end of the string to the pencil. after leave the washer to create crystals on it also make sure the washer doesn’t touch the bottom of the cup.  

 

Oobleck!

You will need:

Cornflour,    bowl,    spoon,

Water and a   baking tray

Steps: first you put the cornflour into the bowl then you add tiny bits of water at a time then keep stiring until its as thick as honey when it is you can hold it over the tray.

 BY Leela and Rose

 

This week we made 'Ghost Bubbles' with dry ice and dish washing liquid. See the instructions here.
They looked really cool and we were inspired to write some descriptive poems to describe them.

Ghost Bubbles

Slimy gooey bubbles

when it pops it looks like a misty cloud

it feels like tiny bits of dust falling down

slimy gooey bubbles

 

By James

 

 Ghost Bubbles!
when the ghost bubble pops
 it turns into gas
and it feels slimy
so so slimy
and it smells like bubbles

My Mojdeh

Ghost Bubbles
ghost bubbles are bubbles that fall very heavily
Pop! Bang! Pow!
It goes onto the children's hands and on the carpet

By Lucia


Ghost Bubbles
Ghost bubbles, heavy and white
they are very slimy and look like a shost
if you have slimy hands you can catch them
they make steam everywhere
they are cld and they are spooky

By Blake
 

Science Week!

It's Primary Science Week and Mrs Carryer is very excited. There is a heap of cool science happening at Meadowbank School this week.
On Monday the Science in a Van people are presenting to us, we will be doing  a lot of science in class all week and there are awesome lunchtime labs happening every day. Look at the time table below. Which labs are you going to?

Homework this week is also science and technology themed. We can't wait to see what Room 34 come up with!
The science in a van blog has heaps of great ideas you can do at home.