Rockets are a Go !

Rockets are a Go !

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Today the year 6 and 5 block had two mystery visitors, Gerry and Emily from New Zealand Aerospace Education. They came in and taught us history of Rockets, Science around forces of rockets,different types of Rockets and different Motors for Rockets, we were very lucky to build our, very own Rockets in groups of 3 and launch them after lunch today on the Reserve. We had such a great experience with them. I can’t wait till their next visit.

Number Patterns

WALT : recognize Number Patterns. 

Description of Learning : 
This Week  we are learning to recognize number patterns. In this activity we have an example there to help us figure out the answers and understand it. Some of the Questions are very tricky, like the bottom number pattern it's really tricky. 

What is Adaptation ?

WALT :  Define Adaptations. 

The process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment. Adaptations are Habits that have changed to help animals or creature to Survive in its environment. I think adaptation means a creature or animal has changed its habits to survive in its environment.

For an Example : A Human being really likes Charles junior. But it's really bad for it's health, so that's why the human being trials for a week to, not eat Charles junior and eat healthy food. Which also is called a Adaptation, because the person has been eating Charles junior and then stops eating for a week, and if the trial works it's going to stop eating.

Virtual Tours

Walt: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

Hooray, It’s time to go to a Zoo ! Today in Room 6 literacy class we are on a Virtual Tour of San Diego Zoo and Safari Park. Should be an exciting Experience, except our class is going on a Virtual tour of a Zoo. Can we even call it a Zoo Trip, because we’re just on a Virtual Tour looking at small screens of our Chromebooks ?

Plan of my paragraph topics

1. Introduction	Orientates and hooks
2. Body Paragraph 1	Teacher explained we were going on a website. What was the website about -  What kind of website - What did you do.What animal cams and videos  I watched and which animals were they about.
3. Body Paragraph 2	Which animal did I do - Sumatran Tiger animal 1 -
4. Body Paragraph 3	Which animal did I do - Lemurs
5. Conclusion	What I think about the San Diego Zoo

Today Room 6 Literacy class, have been writing about our Virtual Tour of San Diego Zoo and Safari Park.We went on to a Website about San Diego Zoo and Safari Park. We explore the Zoo animals and we also listened to what the Zoo keepers have to say about the animals. We also had to make sure we watched at least 2 videos and take notes and the animals. If you would like to Explore the Virtual Tours too, please click right here -> Virtual Tours

Dinosaur Reports

Adaptations

Walt : research animals and their adaptations. 
My Chosen animal is the Penguins. It lives in Antarctic.It has adapted to survive in the polar region by these things. Penguins are flightless birds. While other birds have wings for flying, penguins have adapted flippers to help them swim in the water.Most penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere.The Galapagos Penguin is the only penguin specie that ventures north of the equator in the wild.Large penguin populations can be found in countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina and South Africa.No penguins live at

the North Pole.Penguins eat a range of fish and other sea life that they catch underwater.Penguins can drink sea water.Penguins spend around half their time in water and the other half on land.The Emperor Penguin is the tallest of all penguin species, reaching as tall as 120 cm, 47 in the height.Emperor Penguins can stay underwater for around 20 minutes at a time.Emperor Penguins often huddle together to keep warm in the cold temperatures of Antarctica.King Penguins are the second largest penguin specie. They have four layers of feathers to help keep them warm on the cold subarctic islands where they breed.Chinstrap Penguins get their name from the thin black band under their head. At times it looks like they’re wearing a black helmet, which might be useful as they’re considered the most aggressive type of penguin.Crested penguins have yellow crests, as well as red bills and eyes.

Habitat Study

Walt: summarise information into presentations

Description of Learning : 
This Term we are learning about Survive, Outwit, Outlast and Outsmart. So this Week for our Reading Activity we are learning about Habitats and have been Studying them. The Paua Shells have been learning about Rainforest and Tropical Rainforests and the animals that live in it. I have also learnt about what sort of animals there are. For an Example : Herbivorous mammals that live in the forest canopy include flying squirrels, monkeys and sloths.

Fear Factor Challenge

Walt: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

Frog Eggs and Swamp Water Gross ! I guess we were having a Fear Factor Challenge. It’s a Show that people do gross things and weird challenges. But before we had our very own one we, watched a video that had two people eating  Bugs, Blood, Worms, Rat hair chips and Maggots (the blood was real.) Now it’s time for Room 6 Fear Factor. And  I can’t wait to see who are the Constants ? 

Plan of my paragraph topics

1. Introduction	Orientates and hooks
2. Body Paragraph 1	About Fear Factor what is it Why did we do it Where it was
3. Body Paragraph 2	Who picked for Room 6 Fear factor how everyone was trying to get pick.
4. Body Paragraph 3	What they ate ? Mr Goodwin said it was frog eggs and Creek water But turned out that it was baked Beans without the sauce and kiwifruit juice
5. Conclusion	What I think about the fear factor challenge why you don’t try this fear factor challenge at home.

Description of Learning : 
This is my Writing about our very own Room 6 Literacy Class's Fear Factor Challenge. Which Inez, Rima, Christian and Hosea contested in. We also planned our paragraphs. Our Paragraphs should be guided by the chosen purpose of our recount. Today we are discussing potential vocabulary that we could use for our recounts.We also picked a purpose which will help guide our recount, and help us write our recount for our reader and audience.  

Problem Solving

Walt: try different solutions to solve multiplication problems


Description of Learning :
This Week on my maths presentation I have been learning about Multiplication and trying different solutions to solve multiplication problems, also shown above in the Presentation. And I solved Here's how I solved it :
So in the First Slide I wrote how much each seat cover costs, which is twenty six dollars. And then I did how much did it cost to buy seat covers for all 5 seats. After writing that down , I wrote what was important information, so I circled them. For More Information Read the Presentation that is Above : )

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