God Strand

For R.E we are learning about God's desire of humanity and Jesus' virtues and his actions.

Bean Propagation

WALHT: Carry out and record a scientific investigation.

Purpose:

To grow a bean from a seed.

You will need:

Push pin, yogurt container, soil, seed of a bean, tea bag, water.

Method:

Step 1: Poke holes into the bottom of the yogurt container and pour water to test if the drainage works.

Step 2: Wet the tea bag slightly, place into container, cover and fill with appropriate amount of soil or ¾.

Step 3: Make an indentation in the soil, place bean in and cover with dirt.

Step 4: Add some water and leave in a dry and sunny place. Water daily.

Hypothesis:

I think that it will grow some roots in a week or two.

The Dragon

The Dragon

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was a kingdom called Aotearoa but there was a dragon. Aotearoa was ruled by a fair and noble king called King George the 3rd. George was born royal by King George the 2nd and Queen Bella. George's wife Eve had a baby boy named Mark but, unfortunately, she died a couple of days after Mark's birth. Because of her death, George gave his son to his brother Henry, he had his own kingdom far, far from Aotearoa, to raise him as a knight.

    The dragon, it was the size of a castle and had a fire hot as lava. The nasty and very hungry dragon lived in a cave not far. Anyone that dared to take one step in his cave was instantly eaten in one bite. He stayed there only because long an ago he once terrorized the people but King George stopped him if the villagers would give part of their stock to feed him. But because of the lack of rain, there was hardly any crop. So they stopped feeding him.

    One random day something dreadful happened. "Rrroooaaaarrrr" the dragon flew out of his cave into the clouds landing on the castle, destroying more than half of it. Once on his feet, he stomped on the remaining towers. From the rubble, King George appeared yelling "You will not take my kingdom monster!" And in one bite King George was gone. Darkness covered the land and dark clouds covered the sky. Despair, grief, and fear was in the air. While the dragon picked out George's crown from his teeth.

    News of the King’s death spread. Very soon the news of George's death spread to other kingdoms like his brother's. To avenge his brother's death he sent his best knight, Mark (George's son that Henry raises). "Mark, go to my brother's kingdom Aotearoa and slay the dragon and bring me back his head!" Henry ordered.

Mark responded, "Yes your majesty." Mark rode off on his horse followed by a cloud of dust. For days and nights, he rode closer and closer to his destination not knowing it was actually his father's kingdom.

    Slowly entering the once amazing and vast green lands of Aotearoa, but now a dark and abandoned field. Houses turned to ash, markets into charcoal and fields filled with crop now an empty field of dirt.  "Now where is that overgrown lizard." Boom, the burnt market stands still standing fell to the ground. The ground shook anything, not crushed fell to the ground. Rrroooaaarrr, fire shot straight at Mark. "I guess he doesn't like visitors" Mark yelled hiding behind a market stand.

    Mark ran from behind one stand to another making his way to the dragon. Just a couple meters from the dragon, with his sword in his hands, he ran towards the beast pointing at the dragon's neck. The dragon's tall scaly neck. Seconds later Mark's sword ripped through the dragon's neck. Splat the head fell to the ground with liters of slimy and gooey blood dripping from the cut.

    Mark wrapped the dragon's decapitated head and took with him back to Henry's kingdom. A feast was thrown in honor of Mark with the beast's head hanging over the banquet table. Over the following years, Henry and Mark returned Aotearoa to it's vast and lush green lands. The darkness and clouds disappeared and Henry ruled both  and his own kingdom.
WALT use the structure and language features in a narrative.

Seed Propergation

WALHT: Carry out and record a scientific investigation.

Root Hairs

Purpose:

To demonstrate that roots have root hairs.

You will need:

Magnifying glass, blotting paper, large plastic soft-drink bottle, peas, cress seeds.

Method:

Step 1: Cut the top from a used plastic bottle and rinse thoroughly. Place some blotting paper or paper towel around the inside of the bottle, near the bottom.

Step 2: Wedge some cress seeds between the blotting paper and side of the bottle.

Step 3: Add enough water water to fill the bottle to the bottom of the blotting paper. Leave in a warm, light place and watch carefully over a few days for the seeds to germinate.

Step 4: After the seeds have germinated (after 5-7 days), extract one of the plants and place it in a drop or two of water.

Step 5: Examine the root with a magnifying glass.

Hypothesis:

I think that in 2-3 weeks the cress seeds will grow roots and turn green.

Kathleen Hall

In reading this article I have been learning to combine close  reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of people known as heroes or leaders.

Kathleen Hall was a New Zealand missionary nurse. Her missionary work started in Peking (which is now Beijing) and other large Chinese cities. Yet she knew the people without hospitals in the countryside were the ones that needed the most help. She gained permission to settle into the Hebi mountains near those kind of villages. Kathleen Hall was known as the “barefoot doctor”, because of the way she would walk to the nearby villages to visit and care for the sick.

Kathleen used her neutral citizenship to acquire medical equipment for the Chinese army. At that time it was the most dangerous mission of all. Before being sent back to New Zealand after being caught by the Japanese army, she boarded another ship and joined the Chinese Red Cross.

Miss. Hall believed in helping those in need.  Kathleen believed that even in war people should have the privilege to use medicine. She thought that people lacking medical help are the ones that need most attention. She detested war and the thought of taking sides. This wasn’t  just because she was a missionary.

She was a courageous and brave person. Kathleen showed this in the way she use neutral citizenship to help the Chinese. She was a compassionate person in the way she help and cared for the people in China. She showed perseverance  in the way she kept trying to help the people in need. Kathleen showed this in the way she was a missionary nurse, barefoot doctor, and provided the Chinese army with medical supplies.

Kathleen Hall was someone that put the needs of others in front of her own. She helped people as much as she could. Kathleen didn’t think about what’s in it for them but what more can she do for them. She put their own personal safety in risk to help others.

Kathleen Hall was more than a New Zealand missionary nurse, she was a hero. That’s why there's a marble statue of her in Song Family Village in China.

Cress Seeds

CRESS SEED REPORT

Kahikatea Cress Seed Experiment: Prove plant roots have hairs.

WALHT: Carry out and record a scientific investigation.

Ingrid Andaya

01.03.2016

Propagation of Seeds

INTRODUCTION

We are conducting propagation seed experiments discovery what’s the plants are best to grow in the school garden.

EXPERIMENT

To prove that plant roots have hairs that help them to absorb the moisture from the soil.

MATERIALS

1. Clear container
2. Water
3. Paper Towel
4. Seeds (Cress Seeds)

DATA

Day	Enviromet / Whether	Improvements
Day 1	Classroom by window (Sunny)	None
Day 3	Classroom by window (Sunny)	Slight improvements (roots sprouted)
Weekend	Unknown	Unknown
Day 6	Classroom by window (Cloudy)	Great improvement (longer roots)
Day 9	Classroom by window (Sunny)	None
Day 15	Classroom by window (Rainy and Cloudy)	Mass improvement (some seeds turned green and more roots)

RESULTS

Unknown because we did the experiment wrong. The seeds are meant to be on the side and absorb the water absorbed by the paper towel. Not stay at the bottom and absorb the water there.

CONCLUSION

Unknown

Building Patterns

WALHT : find and continue a  pattern  - recording results in a table and transfer these results to  a graph display

Factory Number	1	2	3	4	5
number of gray squares (x2)	2	4	6	8	10
number of red squares  (+6)	9	15	21	27	33
number of all squares	11	19	27	35	43

This graph shows how the red tiles increase by 6 and how the grey tiles increase by 2 with each building.