How the sun has Impact on us?

Writing Purpose: Explain How or Why

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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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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.

Milky Ways/Galaxies

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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.

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.

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.

Video Star

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

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. 

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

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.

KWL Stars

Topic: STARS How do stars in the universe have an impact on us?

We are learning to explore, investigate, question and develop explanations.

K What I know...	W What I want to know...  ?	L What I learnt...
The sun is a small star and the closest. There is over 8 million stars in our galaxy. Exploding stars are called supernovas. Stars are all different colours depending on how hot they are. Some exploding stars can turn into black holes Mosts stars are based around the age 1 to 10 billion years old. Stars are held together by their own gravity. The sun is classified a dwarf star	Why stars are called stars? How stars made out of? What is the biggest star?	27/5/14 Stars are called star because from earth they look like the shape star. Stars are mainly made out of hydrogen and helium The biggest star known is vy canis majoris

My Learning

This is my learning about what we we liked about all the subjects. We also had to share this at interviews yesterday.

Something I enjoyed was I got a chance to share my learning with my family.
Something I want to learn is to sit still and improve my reading.
Something I am proud of is my turbulence writing because it is a great descriptive piece of writing.
Something I was happy about was that I got share my learning with my family.

Turbulance

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Fortune Favours The Bold

Mr Browns December Precept. Precept from the book Wonder!

Yay! I cant wait to see Mum, Pippi and Oscar and guess what, we were going on the hobbit plane. But then I am sad because I am leaving London. Excitedly Dad and I boarded the plane first passenger on. My seat was so comfy. It took forever to take off because there was so many planes that wanted to take off and land it must of took at least 20 minutes. Broom! Broom! we speed off down the runway and into the air, take off must be my worst part. Then my ears popped! Once we were at our altitude we were going to fly at. The safety video came on and interrupted my movie, I was watching. Dad offered to put my seat back into a bed but I said no because I won’t be able to sleep and I found it uncomfy. I went to sleep in a flash, soon enough I was awake.

I woke suddenly to find that the plane was shaking it was so scary I tried not to cry it was so hard not to it was like the plane was going to crash. I was shaking all over, I kept tapping dads leg till he woke up. The pilot said that the stewarts and hostesses have to take their seats. That was a good choice because they would off just kept falling over. Every little bump we must have been falling 3 metres and then regained. Dad was scared deep down but he did not show it. This happened for 20 nonstop scary minutes. Lucky enough we were flying over Greenland, at least we were on land. In the middle it stopped for about 2 minutes then I tried to get back to sleep but then there was a massive bump and I jumped. Then it continued it was like it was going to crash and at last the pilots said that the flight crew could get up and walk around.

When it was all over I was so glad and so happy the plane did not crash. Kindly a hostess came over to me and asked if I was alright but she also said that was the worst turbulence she had had in three years her whole flight crew experience, thats how bad it was. That made me feel even more scared. That I have witnessed very very bad turbulence. My dad told the hostess that he is not going to be able to get on the next plane from LA to Auckland. Basically I did not sleep a wink the rest of the flight, I might of dozed off for a little while and then woke up with a jump. Overall I was happy that I choose to keep my seat up. Across the aisle from me was the prime minister of Samoa throughout the whole turbulence he did not move a muscle.

What good came out of the flight, that the plane did not crash. Also I had to trust the pilots and lucky enough it paid off. I am proud that I got through it without crying but I was whimpering, quite loudly.

Cool Beans Poem

COOL BEANS

I am Awesome Beans.

Always smiley, I am Happy Beans.

Happy and bright, I am Skippy Beans.

Sliding on a rainbow, I am Rainbow Beans.

Jumping around being silly, I am Crazy Beans.

I stole the biscuits, I am Giggly Beans.

Teasing my brother, I am Annoying Beans.

Quick before they notice, I am Cheeky Beans.

Cartwheels,Walkover, I am Gymnastics Beans.

Cooking on the stove, I am Baked Beans.

Wet and dripping, I am Swimming Beans.

All hot and bothered, I am Red Beans.

Orange is yummy, I am Jelly Beans.

The sun is boiling, I am Yellow Beans.

Chilling in the grass, I am Green Beans.

Raining it's pouring, I am Blue Beans.

The Princess Dress, I am Purple Beans.

Last, I am Cool Beans.

Matilda.

Based on the phrase from wonder.

Space padlet

Created with Padlet
This is my space padlet for my homework. We are learning about space and here is some awesome facts about the stars 

Aliens Exist

Aliens Exist / Aliens Don’t Exist

I believe that aliens exist because there are 1.8 billion planets out there. There is a high chance that there will be at least one because there are so many planets. Our galaxy is so big there could be heaps out there rather than one with living things on them.

First of all, I know in 1969 there was sighting from the first spacecraft of a L-shaped thing fly alongside there spacecraft. The first people to see this were the first people also on the moon, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.

Second of all, I think they don’t want to come here because they have seen our weapons and  they don't want to get killed. I think that is sensible because I would not want to come to another planet and want to killed. But that is just my opinion.  

Third of all, Why would people put aliens in movies if they were not real? We would not even know about them. That means if they are in movies someone must have seen one.

I think they exist, but a lot of people don’t. This piece of writing is why, I think they are real.

My Sister

This is my poem from ages ago, we had to create a poem about someone in our family. I chose my little sister and that is what my sister is in the poem.

Colour In The Week

Colour In The Week

Monday is orange, Not getting ready.

Tuesday is red,  frantic and busy

Wednesday Is black, Scram otherwise we will be late.

Thursday is brown, Noisy and chaotic.

Friday is green, Quiet and calm.

Saturday is blue, all cruisy and delightful

Sunday is pink, all cheery and happy .

Commas Game

On our writing symbaloo we have 5 games to improve our writing skills. I choose the game Going to work with commas. I choose this games becuase I normally just keep putting ands instead of commas. Its not too challenging but I did find it fun. The worst thing about it is that on about the first 3 it tells you where to go and it not as challenging. I give this game 4 stars because it would be 5 if it did not tell me. I reckon this game is based around 7-10 year olds. I think I learnt not to put to many and's in because I have a habit of putting ands and even more ands one after each other for thing to get of do.

Link to the game.

Extraterrestrial Search Parsons Vocabulary

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Text: Extraterrestrial Search                          Author: Sharron Parsons

Word (and page number)	Sentence in the text	Meaning in my own words
1. Extraterrestrial P.4 2. Potentially P.4 3. Cosmonaut P.7 4. Velocity P.8 5. Metabolism P.14 6. Protoplanetary P.22 7. Civilisation P.26 8.Terrestrials P.29 9.Cylindrical P.29 10.Metallic P.31	1. We earthlings have been fascinated by the possibility of Extraterrestrial life inhabiting neighbouring planets 2. Hundreds of the planets that could potentially support life have been discovered in our own galaxy 3. She was a parachutist before she trained as a cosmonaut 4.Spacecraft Velocity, about 8300 kilometers an hour. 5.Most like Earth also needs water, a range of temperatures in which in which it can survive, a mixture of gases it uses for its metabolism. 6. The scientific team there uses two powerful infrared optical telescopes to study fast-swirling dust and gas clouds called protoplanetary disks 7. One way to do this is to search for signal from other planetary civilisations. 8. Welcome to another episode of ETS, the online program  that invites Earths expert terrestrials.    9. But he was unable to make out what exactly, the cylindrical object was. 10. He described these UFOs as metallic.	1. Extraterrestrial from the outside of our earths atmosphere 2. It could be possible but yet certain 3.A cosmonaut is a person trained the a spaceflight program 4. The speed of something given a direction. 5.The chemical processes within organism in order to maintain life 6. The stage of a human of social development and organization which is most concerned most advanced. 7. A gathering, A place  of cultural activities 8. Something that has happened around the world 9.Having a form of cylinder. 10. Metallic is a form of colour

Easter Egg Hunt

Maaatilda!!! Stop cheating your not supposed to watch Lou hide the eggs.”I know I know,” I said giggling. Finally my mum entered the room. She told us the rules...

• You are not allowed to take any one. Your one will have your name on it
• So off you go.

I ran to where one was but there were two, even better. One on the tramp. Two on the benches under the tree, that makes 5. So far the Easter Egg Hunt is going great. Curiously I wondered if my mum had put any out on my cousins farm, but I did not think she would.

Honestly I must of have walked past my big easter egg so many times before, I actually found it up a tree. I put down all of my many other easter eggs and started climbing the tree. It was not too high. Unfortunately I got stuck for a bit up the tree because I lost my footing and I became a bit wobbly. So I had to drop my easter egg to the ground I was so scared it would break, but it didn’t. Somehow had to turn around, so I would not be stuck. Despite, the ground shock I was ok I picked up my easter egg and ran out of the bushes.     

listen to ‘Easter egg hunt ’ on Audioboo

Sound off number

This is my sound off number 4. I am an owl as you can see.

Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

This my trailer about rock climbing.
 I hope you enjoy!!

Most Proud Of Challenging And Favourite

Flax Rock Climbing

My favourite thing about rock climbing was the dark one because it was challenging and really fun, you did not know where to put your feet some of the time because it was dark. But overall it was the funnest I also got to the top.

The most challenging thing was Maia's dad’s one because it was very difficult to get over the ledge. But I made it to the top, It was very hard because my hands kept slipping of the rocks.

I am most proud of me because, I was determined to get to the top on every single one and I did. I am also very proud of me getting to the top  even when I felt tired and my whole body was aching.

Camp Moment In Time

Are the chips cooked? Is the spaghetti getting heated up? it was all a blind panic. It was almost time to plate up so soon. The spaghetti started popping in its pot. The shaped toast was starting to burn quick quick turn them over, some were burned what a disaster. Lets give the judges the non burned ones. Ouch! the chip burned me as I tried one. The chips started sizzling on the gas cooker.  I think they’re almost done.

The air tension was pretty high trying to get all the plates plated up and all pretty for presentation. Pass me the toast no that one is burned. One circle on the bottom and one heart for the top. The burning hot spaghetti got sprinkled around the edge. Chips at the top like little hairs on someones head. The delicious large breadcrumbs with yummy chicken flavoring. Done! Don’t touch the plate. Then we were taking it to the judges.

Camp Flag

This is my camp groups flag, we are called the Minions.

The people in my camp group are(me) Matilda, Kyra, Jack, Ezra, Manasseh.

This is our Minions logo.

This is my Minion But it is not the winning one .

Ezra won for our group.

Internet Project

listen to ‘Internet project Interview rogan’ on Audioboo

In the late 1870s. The fastest way to get a message from New Zealand was by telegram. travelling along a cable. Some of the first telegrams cost 15 shilling per word that is over 100 dollar nowadays.Today we can send an email of a fraction of a sent. Nowadays Sending emails is much quicker than telegram.

When we search things or talk on social media you are normally connected to something called a wifi hotspot. These days we are making powerful computers called servers. Many businesses and universities have their own servers and networks.Big Internet companies have heaps of serves clustered together in one large building calls a data base.

168 million emails are sent every minute. 695000 updates on one social network are updated. 969 445 queries received by one major search engine. 600 plus videos one a sharing website. 11000000 conversations take place on instant messengers. Over 70 website created. 1500 Bogs posted. 370 000 Minutes on phone calls.

The Internet cost a lot of money and takes up lots of energy. The wireless technology also the millions of kilometres of wire and optic. Data centres use a lot of energy. A large number of data centres rely on energy generated by fossil fuels.  

Some internet companies are trying to find ways of reducing their environmental cost. One popular internet company has built a large data center in Sweden. The centre draws 120 megawatts of power, that's enough power for 16,000 houses. Even though the internet costs so much it changes our lives in many different ways. Technology is great,but we need to manage the environment cost so that we can continue to enjoy the internet.

Cyber bullying is very bad , it can really upset some people and it can cause death because they have been send threats and very mean messages on social websites. You know when you're doing cyberbullying and it is not nice. Think carefully before you send it will is hurt them or is it mean. Cyberbullying happens a lot way more than it should. People sometimes send threats through anonymous accounts. You know you're doing it and its a good idea not to press send.   

Fun Moment

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 you go into that team.” Team 1 go to that square team 2 go to that square my team was split into two groups”. The air smelt so fresh and so yummy. We were in the middle. Begin!  Whistle in my ear balls blew flew from every direction because we were in the middle and the other team were around us. We were pretty good at dodging, we were jumping around like crazy things dodging, ducking and speeding around the square. Grass tickled against the soles of my feet. I saw a ball whizzing at me at top speed, It flung into my arms I caught it WOOHOO. All I could hear was other people ,cheering and telling the other person to go in, another person came in from the line. It was harder, more than one person had gone and I was the one the were all aiming at ,one person was behind me, one in front and one on either side and at last, I was hit. The ball felt funny as it hit me. Sadly I went to the back of the line I was about to get back in again when the whistle blew and we had to change activity.

Dodgeball

Writing Purpose: To Entertain

Type of writing: moment in time

WALT use our senses to describe

• (see, hear, smell, feel, taste)
• different sentence starters / some short sentences
• action verbs (crash / crashing, scratches / scratch / scratching, smack / smacks / smacking bounce / bouncing, sprint / sprints / sprinting, dodge / dodges / dodging)
• present tense (I am, he is, we are)

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 you go into that team.” Team 1 go to that square team 2 go to that square my team was split into two groups”. The air smelt so fresh and so yummy. We were in the middle. Begin!  Whistle in my ear balls blew flew from every direction because we were in the middle and the other team were around us. We were pretty good at dodging, we were jumping around like crazy things dodging, ducking and speeding around the square. Grass tickled against the soles of my feet. I saw a ball whizzing at me at top speed, It flung into my arms I caught it WOOHOO. All I could hear was other people, cheering and telling the other person to go in. 

Another person came in from the line. It was harder, more than one person had gone and I was the one they were all aiming at. One person was behind me, one in front and one on either side and at last, I was hit. The ball felt funny as it hit me. Sadly I went to the back of the line. I was about to get back in again when the whistle blew and we had to change activity.