If a lahar was coming

Today we built Mt Ruapehu in the sandpit. We also made the Whangaehu River valley, the plain below the mountain and the railway bridge at Tangiwai. We wanted to learn how the lahar destroyed the bridge in 1953 causing the Tangiwai Disaster. Kora and Ariana poured lots of water into the crater we had made on top of our mountain. It whoosed down the side of the mountain and into the river valley. The bridge collapsed and bits of our train fell into the river. After that, we watched a short video about what do do if you are on Mt Ruapehu when the lahar siren sounds.  Now I know how to keep safe from a lahar if one happens when I am on a mountain.  Here is my Hazard Notice with the most important information.

If the lahar siren sounds on Mt Ruapehu, I will get to higher ground.

Mergus Australis research

Over the past one month i have been learning about Mergus Australis they went extinct in 1902 extinct sadly here is my work i leard that we did not have a lot of recording about this  animal so we never knew much about them research.

Science: Me and my DNA

This term for science we are learning all about how the human body works and how special we all are. We are also trying to learn how to think and act more like a scientist. So, Miss Fletcher asked us to look at our faces in the mirror and write down notes about what we look like. The information had to be precise and clear so that when someone read it, it would help them find the person it described quickly. It was a bit like being a detective. You had to look and notice things carefully.

Miss Fletcher said that what we look like depends on our mother and father. Making a new human is a bit like making a cake.  You get some ingredients from your mum and some from your dad. The ingredients are called DNA. Everybody’s cake is different to everyone else’s. 

Miss Fletcher said the person with the most efficient description was Andrew J as he wrote: My hair is 1cm long all over. He is the only student in Team Moana with a haircut like that so he was able to be identified very easily. You can read my description below. The sentences highlighted in blue are the ones that Miss Fletcher said were not precise and clear enough.  Twenty people said they could recognise me from my description. 

Moon Rover Lander

For science we made a Moon rover lander using only a
paper cup, paper, cellotape and straws.  We were given the
task of making our Moon rover land softly onto our Moon
landscape so that our marsh-mellow astronauts did not fly
out.

What I like best about my Moon rover is the parachute

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was we
made a new spring for the body.

One thing  I learned about landing on the Moon was it is
had to land on the Moon.

Here is a picture of my Moon rover landing on our school’s
Moon surface.  I hope you like it!

Bug Hotel

My class made a bug hotel. We made it in groups. The first group put a pallet outside and filled it with hay, bamboo, logs, newspaper and garden pots. I was in the second group. We made the bug hotel look better by adding more logs and pots and putting in more hay. We made the bug hotel to attract good bugs to our garden.