mountains mountains mountains!

today im about to read a story about sacred mountains here are three questions that i would like answers

1.what is so special about them?
2. how tall are they?
3.what are the mountains called?

after reading the story I found out the names Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and tongariro, I also learned that the mountains were once warriors and gods who fought for a woman called pihanga which is also what makes them so special.

Battle of the mountains:

It was also similar because they both talked about mountains that were warriors who fought hard to win love but battle of the mountains had more ajectives than the first story, sacred mountains
3 things I learned

1.the mountains were once gods and warriors
2.mountains have feelings
3. that mountains actually have genders
4. mountains can move
5. one of the mountains peaks got cut off in battle
my questions:

why did the mountains fight they could have made an agreement?
how much damage did the war make?
why couldn't they all just find other mountain partners?

The MT tongariro eruption

On August 6 MT tongariro erupted after 100 years. There was also a feild trip on the day it erupted there were 90 kids six parents and four teachers. the eruption lasted five minutes

DEJA VU!

Today we played around with google forms to make a pick a path story. first we created a new form then we inserted an image and wrote a short story for our pick a path. After that we wrote down the options on what path to choose. then we created what the ending was and what the best ending was then we posted it on our blog

Alarm call

For this week we wrote about a picture of a green goblin thing and a cute white cat. First the teachers gathered us together to brainstorm some good describing words for the goblin and the cat. Then we wrote a hook for our story and we also write a paragraph. and lastly we wrote the other paragraph. here is my writing

Minecraft skin

Today we played around with google sheets and created mine craft skins! I wasn't here at school when we did this but i'll try So mr maddren told us that google sheets can help with hard times table and impossible maths sums. Then he showed us that we could make mine craft skins if we make the squares smaller then he told us to search up a skin and try and make them. here is mine craft skin

ROBOTICS!!!!!!

Today we were told to make a blog post about robotics. If you dont know what robotics is its a LEGO thing with a brain and you need a computer to run it. Mrs Mcguinnety had a challenge board set up with 3 challenges 1: a straight course with tape to mark where your robot must stop Then challenge no.2 a straight then a turn right then left and straight then the hardest a small straight with a right turn
then left another straight then left and right then straight to the finish. The most challenging thing was the last one and the easiest one was the straight foward one. Here are some photos.

Te Manu Tukutuku poem

Today we wrote a feelings/senses poem about our new school. It had to be four sentences long and involved feel, hear, see smell, touch and overall feelings. First we started by brainstorming all of the feeling words as a group. Then we were set off to start our poem. Here is what I wrote.

17/10/17 Tuesday

Te Manu Tukutuku poem

Hear, see, smell, touch

I feel speechless at how big the new school is.

I hear the sound of children getting excited over the new school.

I see new and updated furniture as I walk in.

I smell that new building smell.

I touch the soft carpet like walls as if they were sheep.

Overall I am overwhelmed at how the new school is so different.

#Day 7 (Last day) New Zealand road trip

Today we did the last day of the New Zealand road trip, we went to taupo and rotorua. First we went to a lake that was poluted with rubbish. our activity was to use our imagination to make up three ways to clean up rubbish. then we went to a spa pool that was heated by the earth. the activity was to write about something that you find relaxing. Then we had the BONUS were we had to reflect on our past journey. Here is the last of #day 7 New Zealand road trip.