Sunday, June 29, 2014

How the sun has Impact on us?


Writing Purpose: Explain How or Why
WALT organise our ideas into an effective structure
Success Criteria

Title which asks a question about the topic
Beginning, middle and end (like a hamburger)
Introduction links to conclusion
Paragraph groups of sentences
Cause and effect (because, if, so, as a result, then...)
Key topic words

How the sun had Impact on us?
Have you ever wondered how the sun has an impact on us? Well you will soon find out. The sun is one of the most important things ever. We would be dead without it.
The sun as a massive impact on us because if there was no sun we would be dead but if there was no atmosphere we would also be dead. The sun has impact on a lot of things plants and plenty of other things including us. If there was no sun, the plants would not grow because, they need water and sunlight. Even though the sun is a dwarf star, it is close to us enough to keep our planet spinning every day. 

Our sun is a fiery gas ball but it contains heat that beams down on us. The beams would be much hotter if we did not have our atmosphere. Did you know the sun has impact on the moon? The moon shines down when the sun is not facing us so there is light up in the night sky. The moon gets it's brightness from the sun because, the sun shines on to the moon and the light reflects down onto earth. Some houses are solar powered so if the sun stopped working they would have no power. Our sun is a massive chunk of our planet. It keeps us living. The sun beats down on us and gives us everything we need. 

This is how the sun has impact on us. The sun is a key thing in a humans life cycle as well as plants and trees. The sun is a massive part of peoples lives.
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Matariki Art

This is my Matariki art. We based it off this..

The rising of Matariki 
Mā te whetūrangi o Matariki, e tiaki mai, e manaaki mai I a koe,
I a koutou rānei, mō te tau e taka mai ana

In English 
May the gentle light of Matariki guide and inspire you all this year.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Milky Ways/Galaxies

WALT take effective notes

My Topic: Milky Way/ Galaxies

Key Words:
Elliptical, hydrogen, Lenticular galaxies, irregular galaxies 

Interesting Facts: A Galaxie is a massive group of stars.
The Greek word galaxies means milky.
There could be 180 billion galaxies.
In a Huge galaxy there could be up to 10 trillion stars.
Our galaxie contains about 400 billion stars.
The largest local galaxie is the Andromedd.
Gravity can pull galaxies into new shapes
Any new questions I have:
How have they discovered it is spiral? What if it is not.
How come they called it the Milky Way?
Why do people call it spilled milk?
How come the Milky Way has so many planets and stars in it.
Is there a black hole in the centre of the Milky Way? 
If there is a black hole is the centre of the Milky Way? Where does it take you?
Who decided it would be called the Milky Way?
How big is the Milky Way in diameter?
What is the Milky Way made out of? 
Does the Milky Way have a atmosphere?
Is there any other planets that have life on the? 
Is there something else in the Milky Way that is not a moon, star or a planet?
Who started the saying it looks like spilled milk?
How was the Milky Way created?
Who found out we were in the Milky Way?
Why do they think we are in the Milky Way? What if we are not?
Does the Milky Way move around or does it stay still?
How come you can not see other galaxy's they are so big?
In comparison what would be the Milky Way and what would we be a sand speck or and the Milky Way a tennis ball?
Do any other planets in the Milky Way have gravity?
Could you get passed the black hole or portal.
How did there get to be so many stars and planets in the night sky
How many galaxies have we actually found out about? 

Texts I have used (includes websites, videos, multimedia):
I have used the doc Mr M shared with us and
 Wikipedia on the Milky Way.
Click here to go to page 
Bibliography
Stellar Populations and galactic evolution 
Size and shape of the Milky Way 
Visual charaacteristics of the Milky Way 


My Big question is......
How does the Milky Way work?




Middle of the year reflection


Matilda's Midyear Reflection from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.
This is my middle of my year reflection going in my report.

Something I found challenging was the young leader mud run sort of thing because there were three activities. The one I found most challenging was the walking upstream in a little river, at some parts of it, it would be up to my shoulder.

Something's I am proud of is getting to the top on all the rocks walls at Flax Rock because I was determined to complete them all and I did.

Something also I am proud of is my maths because I have made a massive improvement this year and I made it into extension maths.

Something I  found Interesting was Green Team because we look after the environment and plant seeds it is really fun as well as Interesting.

Something I enjoyed doing is sport because they are all fun and challenging this year I have learnt how to play rugby and canoe polo, I also made it to inter school swimming but it was cancelled because of bad whether.

I enjoyed going on the Waka because before I went on it  I had so many nerves and after I came off it I had none.

Something I learnt was how to clean a fish tank. So when I get fish I will be an expert. I also write the posts up for fish n' chips blog.








Tuesday, June 24, 2014

How hot is the sun?

How hot is the sun.
The sun is 93 million miles away.
The hottest part of the sun is the core it gets up to 27 million Fahrenheit. In celsius that is 14999982.2 degrees.
Does the sun spin in a matter of fact it does it spins quite fast here is a photo of it spinning.


We also had to read these facts sort of thing after we did that. We had to play some games they were really fun. There was this one when there were some words and you had to match them. There were 5 words. There was one I had a rough idea of so I tried it and it was right. I was so pleased.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Gymnastics

This is my genius hour. Its questions about gymnastics and their answers.

Holt Planetarium Visit

HOLT PLANETARIUM VISIT  
Monday 16 June 2014

Something I enjoyed was that when the sky is darker you see more stars 

because I actually never knew there were faint stars that can only be seen by telescopes and dark sky's.

Something I found interesting was using a yoyo in space

 because since there was no gravity and it just came back to you, I found that fascinating 

The most exciting thing about space is there is millions of planets out there.

because it would be really cool if there was life on another planet.

I would like to learn more about Milky Way becuase I have always found it interesting. Why is it spiral?


“How do stars in the universe have an impact impact on us?”
I want the rest of my inquiry topic to be about: The Milky Way becuase  I have heard so much about it and it will be interesting to learn about for starters why is it spiral.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Video Star


Unconditionally from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.
This is our video star. Maia, Kyra, Rosie, Tracey and I created this together.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Summarising 3-2-1


Topic: Fast Rust 

3 Things I learned
That you need iron ,water and oxygen from the air around us, or certain metals to create rust.
Rust crumbles as your touch it.
Steel rusts faster of slower in different environments.

2 Interesting Facts
The Auckland harbour bridge has been called one of aucklands biggest paint jobs. Three coats of paint of paint stop the 6000 tones of steel. This paint lasts about four years depending on the weather.

Rust can eat iron away just with water and oxygen 

1 Question I have
Why do people think rust is bad?  When other people like rust?

Ruth Pretty

 This is Ruth Pretty she is a famous chef.
My mum had a course with her in Wellington so I had to go, since it was the weekend of Annie the musical. She served some yummy dishes. I was her taste tester with two other ladies. Before I became her taste tester I got to try two things and they were roasted Sichuan pepper salt with squid and Baked camebart with tomato chilli jam, toasted peanuts and coriander. When I was her taste tester there was black olive tapenade, black olive and Parmesan rugelach, salmon roll with sour cream inside, lamb meatballs, quinoa cranberry salad and prawns. For the desert dishes there was cream brûlée and salted carmel tarts. 


Monday, June 09, 2014

Waka ride

This is my story about the Waka ride. I actually can not believe that I went on it.


Waka - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Minecraft Park


Matilda's Minecraft Park from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.
This is my minecraft park. We had to do it for homework, we also had to figure out all the measurements. One minecraft  brick is a meter squared.