Year: 2023

Maths Data

Lately in maths we have been doing Statistical Investigations. This week we had to go around the hub and ask people so thing here was are question.

The Summer Holidays are around the corner, what do your fellow classmates like to do during their holidays in Christchurch? This will help you find out some fun new activities to do in Christchurch during your holidays.
Before you start make “I wonder” statements about the data cards.
Using the data card templates printed collect data from 32 children. You will have 5 different questions to ask them.
Once you have your data, sort the data cards into sets.
Represent the data using different graphs.
What statements can you make about the data?

This is my slide with all my data

Have you ever done a Statistical Investigation?

This Weeks Gospel

This weeks Gospel was Matthew 25:1-13. Here is a slide show I made. The Gospel was about to always be prepared

We read the gospels because we are a catholic school and it is important to learn about Jesus life and what he did and by flowing in his footsteps you can become a better person . We know that Jesus loves us know matter what.

Matthew 25:1-13 by Monica

Have you ever been somewhere and you forgot something important?

 

The Fascinating Food Journey!

For these  3 weeks  we had to learn a lot about the digestive system and it felt like it only took like 3 day it went super fast here is my writing.

 

Digestion- The process of food broken into small particles to be absorbed by your body! Why does my belly rumble? How well do you know your gut garden? Hello, today, I’m going to take you on a rocky ride so stay seated, alongside billions trillions and millions of microbes living inside the human body Hotel to see how you digest food. The microbe- human relationship is perfect – What a team!

Open wide!

The digestive process begins in the mouth. When shoveling some delicious food, it becomes a party in your mouth. At the start your teeth munch and crunch your food into tiny digestible pieces. Then tiny microbes, the enzyme factories, produce enzymes which mix with saliva to immediately start breaking the food down. In addition, the saliva helps to lubricate the food so it is easier to swallow too. What a team!

Your Tube!

When you swallow, the tongue pushes the food down the back of your throat and into a muscular tube called the Oesophagus. From here, the food is mushed and squished into the stomach through a spinning motion called peristalsis. Peristalsis is a series of a wave-like muscular contractions that move food through. It’s like a ship bobbing through the ocean, but with sides that push you forward. What a team!

The Rumbling machine!

The food doesn’t take long to get to your stomach, but once it’s there it has a party there for a few hours. It’s like traveling in a time machine. When the food makes a grand entrance into the stomach the acids absorb it into a creamy, nutrient rich liquid. These nutrients include fat in chocolate, carbohydrates found in pasta, protein from meatballs and vitamins in fruits and veggies. All essential for energy, growth and keeping your body healthy.  What a team! 

The not so small intestine!

This organ’s name doesn’t match its length because if you roll it out, it’s actually over six meters long, I think that’s crazy! After your food goes into the small intestine over 90% of it is absorbed into the circulatory system- these things are minerals, vitamins, fats and all the stuff your body needs to move. Like your own uber eats being delivered. The velvety lining of the tiny folds that act like a sponge. As a result, humans can process up to six to twelve liters of nutrients everyday! Welcome to your gut garden. 

The Large Intestine!

My favorite place, the Gut Garden. It is like a jam packed Taylor Swift concert with all her fans moving around to find the best spot for them to see her as 99% of your body’s microbes set to work breaking down the food . Inside the large intestine, the colon absorbs water from the left over waste for the body to reuse. 

EXIT here!

During the final digestive stage, this leftover waste solidifies and it is pushed along the sigmoid colon to the rectum. When the rectum is full a message is transmitted via the neves in the sphincter to tell your brain you need to drop the kids of at the pool! Muscles around retum relax and your abdominal muscles help push your faeces out. You have a poo!

The End

 

Super Science Roadshow

Yesterday we had a visit from the Science Roadshow. The focus of the session was Sound Waves. 

Some of the main messages about Sound Waves were that they can be low pitch and high pitch because the sound is trapped. They gave us an example with popping a balloon outside a jar and one inside a jar. When it was outside it was really loud and when it was inside it was quiet. 

Something I enjoyed the most was all the activities, especially the Kinetic Sand and the rotating chair because the Kinetic Sand was so satisfying and fun to play with and the rotating chair was fun because we sat on a chair with weights and we would spin and have to put the weights up and down.

My favourite part of the Science Roadshow was the shows we did  because they were so funny and learnt lots.

Something I will take away from this visit was that sound travels through waves because I did not know sound can travel. 

What happens if a balloon is inside a jar and you pop it? 

 

Math quiz

This week we do a Maths Board but we do not do that any more and we can chose what do do out of the math tasks and I did a quiz I did the quiz about division.

Click Here To Do My Quiz Hope You Like It

RE

This week in RE we talked about forgiving people. For my create I made a poster on canva.

Here is my poster 

The main message I took out of the gospel was always forgive people no matter who they are.

Do you like forgiving people?

PBL

The driving question for our PBL over Term 2 and part of this Term has been, “How can we as performing artists communicate positive messages to an audience?”

We learnt about The Arts, in particular the elements of Dance, Drama and Music. We read a number of fables or fairy tales and learnt about their positive message. We then took this learning and applied it to our own play writing script. 

In my group there was Esther, Chole and Harper K and we planned out what our script, and fairy tale was going to be. Click here to see our planning document. 

Once we had planned our ideas, we started to write our play writing script. The fairy tale or fable our script is based on is The three little pigs.

 The positive message that we wanted the audience to take away was that hard work and time pay off. It means while the first two pigs quickly built homes and had more free time to play, the last pig had more time to work on his house. 

 

The Google Slide shows everyone’s performance in Tumu, my group’s performance is on slide 9. 

Something that I enjoyed about this project was the acting because I love acting and it was so cool to do acting out of acting class 

Something that I found challenging or would change about this project was writing the script because everyone kept adding things and deleting things and it was hard to think of what to say. 

I am most proud of this project because me and my group worked together well and we had a great time. 

Do you like acting?

 

My Amazing Science Experience

Hello and welcome to my blog. This week in Tumu we were been lucky enough to be doing science. In science we have been learning about power this week we did a experiment on battery power.

My hypothesis is that the buzzer will start to buzz when we put the zinc in.

Materials used

  • 2 copper nails
  • 2 zinc nails
  • Buzzer
  • Beaker labeled T full of tap water
  • Empty specimen jar
  • Jar with salt
  • Tissues
  • Empty Beaker labeled S (for discard salty water)

We put in the copper rods and pushed them into the salty water and the buzzer went off but when we did it with all of the other combinations it didn’t work.

This was really challenging because it wouldn’t work until we pushed the rod into the water they had been skimming the top of the water.

Do you do science at your school?  Do you like science?

 

Cycle Saftey

Hi, last week the year 6 in tumu got to participate in cycle safety. For the first day we biked around the front court and played games like sneak up grannie on our bikes. We also learnt new skills on our bikes like being able to signal cars and look over our right shoulder. We did cycle safety for 3 days on the last day we got participation certificates, a map of  Christchurch and all the cycle lanes and they ask questions and if you get them right you win a slap band. Cycle safety is really fun and if you get the chance to do it you should because its a great opportunity and you learn cool skills.

Have you ever done Cycle safety?