Biomes

This is the slideshow I made for school today. I enjoyed looking at the completely different climates of the 6 biomes.

LEGO Ecosystem

This is a LEGO ecosystem I made. It has got a: Bat (Consumer, biotic), Wolf (Predator, biotic), Spider (Producer, biotic), Snake (Predator, biotic), Fish (Producer, biotic), Frog (Consumer, biotic), and a Rabbit (Consumer, biotic) Worms were my decomposers but I didn't have a lego one. I enjoyed building the habitat of all these animals. The thing that challenged me the most was angling the spider web piece on the triangle plate. The animals co-exist together by producing, consuming, decomposing. An example: the rabbit eats the flower, the wolf eats the rabbit. the snake eats a frog, the spider eats the snake.

Pacific attack

The Pacific Ocean has an island like a patch of garbage in between California and Hawaii.

Mothers day card

This is the card that I drew for Mother's day yesterday.  I looked at two different pictures of a fantail (Piwakawaka) to get inspiration. For my grandmas, I drew a cornflower and some poppies. I enjoyed drawing the birds and flowers.

Design a sea animal.

This is my creature for today. It lives in the benthic zone and is named the camouflaged snake because its dark blue skin blends in with the gloom of light.  Its habitat in the benthic regions is deep below in the trenches. I made this creature as a sea snake because there are a lot of snake-like things in the benthic zone.

How much will dinner cost?

This is my work for the activity "How much will dinner cost?". This is if you had nothing and made this meal it would cost ______ and serve 4 people. I really enjoyed this project because you could look through supermarket websites and see how much all the ingredients price.

Aquatic vocabulary

This is my Aquatic vocabulary so people that don't know the meaning of some Word in the Aquatic regions.

Sea Regions

This is my work for literacy today. I found this really interesting with facts about Benthic, Nekton, and intertidal zones. What I found most interesting that plankton can create oxygen! What I found hard was finding information about the zones.

Identifying factors

This my worksheet for Thursday, Week 4, Term two. I found this activity a bit confusing at first but my Teacher ( Mum ) explained it for me so I could work it out easier.

Possum problem

This is the activity I completed today for literacy medals. I enjoyed learning about why possums affect the NZ forest and wildlife, along with why they were imported in 1837.

Possum Ecosystem

This my model of a possum ecosystem made out of LEGO.

I also made a picture so you can get a better idea of a good ecosystem with food, predators, and where the possum lives.

We did this because it was an activity for Paroa School and we needed to draw, build, or find a habitat. My drawing shows more details because LEGO does not have any insects so I couldn't put them in my LEGO model.

Ecosystem

This is my labeled diagram of an ecosystem. I enjoyed drawing this picture and labeling it. the hardest part was thinking of different bugs, insects, arachnids, and birds. the bird that I drew was a bird that I saw fly into the garden. It was a goldfinch! I looked through our NZ bird book and looked through the information. If I could add more it would be more insects I couldn't add because I didn't have enough room on the paper. The abiotic helpers are non-living things that help the environment, the biotic helpers are living organisms that help the environment by consuming, producing, and decomposing.

Blood falls

This is the picture I drew for an activity that involved a descriptive caption that we had to picture in our mind and draw. I really liked this piece of work because you got to draw.

Vocabulary

This activity was quite fun because you got to take photos and describe words. My favorite part was taking pictures of different animals and living organisms such as sheep and bacteria.

Squared numbers

This is my maths for term two weeks four. I found this activity easy but I didn't really understand the last one so Jack and mum showed me different techniques of explaining it so I could work it out.

If I could go back in time to one event

This is my slide for the literacy medals blog contract. I found this activity quite easy.

Spanish New Year

Spanish New Year

A Spanish New Year's celebration is quite busy with all their traditions.
It is important for Spanish people so they can try and have good luck,
and for other festive opportunities. They make sure to feast with family and friends.
Spanish New Year’s will be celebrated on Thursday 31st December 2020.

Luck is one of the most interesting Spanish New Year's traditions because it includes many
different ideas. One of the most famous customs is eating 12 grapes, 1 for each stroke of the clock
at midnight. The idea of 12 grapes is to bring good luck for each month leading up to the coming
year. By the time the 12 grapes are eaten, it will be New Year's day and you will have good luck for
the whole year. Another popular tradition is putting one coin into a number of cross-shaped
biscuits, the person who gets the biscuit with the coin in it gets good luck for next year.
Lottery tickets are very popular at the time of Christmas and they have a superstition
so if you rub it against a bald man's head,  a pregnant woman's belly or a cat will make it a winner.
In the northwestern region of Galicia, lottery players hang their tickets to horseshoes! 
If you want to fall in love you should wear red underwear to call Cupid for aid,
in some parts of Spain it only works if the underwear was gifted.

The food is probably one of the most important things in New Year’s traditions.
A custom is to eat lentil soup, as the round lentils represent a coin to bring you wealth
for next year. A traditional meal in Spain is vegetables, pork, cornbread, black-eyed peas,
and beans. Sometimes a piece of gold or a coin will be dropped into a glass of cava for good fortune.

The Spanish culture celebrates New Year because it is the start of a year which will hopefully
bring good luck and happiness.

By Harry

Fractions and Decimals

This is my maths work for term 2, week 3. We did this to understand how to convert fractions to decimals. I enjoyed doing this because you got to watch a video.

Chinese New Year

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese people living in China and around the world. It is like when we celebrate Christmas - families get together, people feast, and there are gifts and fireworks.

The day is celebrated on the first day of the first month on the Chinese calendar which is between January and February. The festival date changes every year. It is also called the Spring Festival. It is the start of a different animal’s Zodiac year.

The Zodiac year is a “turntable” of 12 animals that took part in the great race. The great race was invented because the Emperor wanted to keep track of time. The animals in order of first and last were: 1. Rat, 2. Ox, 3. Tiger, 4. Rabbit, 5. Dragon, 6. Snake, 7. Horse, 8. Sheep, 9. Monkey, 10. Rooster, 11. Dog and finally in 12th place is the Pig. The cycle changes every 60 years because of the heavenly stems and earthly branches.


There are many Chinese myths, but a popular one was about a beast called Nian. The beast would ravage towns and cities in search of food, it would eat livestock (mostly cattle), crops, and occasionally people! The people were terrified of the beast and would put food on their doorstep so it wouldn't harm them or their animals. Once they found out the beast was afraid of the color red, they would hand out red lanterns and other red things to scare the beast away. They used fireworks to warn the beast not to come. After they did this Nian would not come to the towns and cities anymore. They would continue with this tradition but they only did it on New Year to celebrate Nian not coming.


In conclusion, the Chinese New year is globally celebrated by one-sixth of the world population.

By Harry

WALT round numbers including decimals to the nearest whole number

This is my work for rounding up decimals. I enjoyed this worksheet because it was like a game.
Next time I think I could make the lines neater.