Uncle Don: Possums

 Hello everyone :)

Do you know a pest in NZ? If yes, which one? 

I am learning about the pest called a Possum!

In class we are still reading Uncle Don knows lot's of wacky stuff but this time pages 15 - 25 ?. I made a DLO about possums and to be honest I have always been learning about Possums. Ever since primary school when I read a school journal filled with facts about possums I have always been fascinated by them.

Here is my DLO if you want to check it out

Picture of Possum

 

I am grateful to uncle don for telling me more about possums.

Did you know all of these facts about possums before you read this post?

Do you like or dislike possums?

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Drama: Maui and the fish Tableaus

Namaste readers,

Do you know the story of Maui and the fish?

In drama class we have been making some tableous about maui and fish. We made a tablou with the start, the middle and the ending. I was a group of 6 with Lita, Riley, Delilah, Shontai and Kate.

Tablous

Tablous are like frezze frames. Showing or representing a scene from anything usinhg your facial expressions, physicality and levels.  

Start: Maui and his brothers riding the boat

Lita is sitting on the chair which kind of shows she leading the way as the eldest brother. Maui (Shontai) was hiding. I think we were working well as a group and our expressions were't that good. I think to improve we should of acted like we were rowing.

Middle: The boat shaking in the storm.

In this Tableaou were meant show us holding onto the boat hoping not to fall off. Our expressions need some work and it dosen't seem like it's really shaking I think this tabelou needs some work. But I think we would have done better if it showed someone halfway off the boat.

Ending: Brothers stabbing the huge fish which turned out to be a island.

Were using our hands to make it look like were holding a staff/paddle board to stab the fish which looks pretty good. Lita is like the fish were trying to stab and has pretty nice energy.

Our transitions were not that great. We had to think of what tableaous to do at the time we were said to all suddenly. It was quite hard to work as a team like that.

What is a Transition?

A trasition is basically the time we use to change our actions, expressions, etc.

I enjoyed having drama this term and looking forward to next year :) If we have it again

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Willow Trees

Talofa Readers,

In hurumanu 3, Te Ao Whānui we have been reading a book called "Uncle don knows lots of wacky stuff". You can find a bunch of different info and facts from reading the book. Then we make a DLO about a piece of info that interested us. I made a DLO about willow trees and how they are a pest to NZ on Bitable.

Here is the LINK to the DLO if you want

I never knew about willow trees to be honest until this so i'm glad that I learned about this.

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Mentos and Coke

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you drop mentos into coke.

Research

(With extra unwanted Info)

Method:

Equipment

• Mint Mentos (The original)
• Fresh Coke (No Sugar)
• Sprite
• Detergent
• Beaker/10 mil Measuring cylinder
• Safety Glasses
• Measuring Cylinder 100 mil 

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment
2. Put on your safety glasses
3. Measure 30 mils of coke into the 100 mil measuring cylinder
4. Measure 10 mils of detergent
5. Pour your detergent measuring cylinder with coke
6. Drop your mentos into the mix of detergent/coke in the measuring cylinder
7. Observe what happens
8. Measure the length of the foam that comes out. (For my class)
9. Repeat this with 3 other bottles of different fizzy.(For my class)
10. Compare them the other lengths to each other(FOR CLASS)

Results

	Coke	Coke(No Sugar)	Sprite
Height of Bubbles	68mL	55mL	50mL

Discussion:

Why did the bubbles form?

The rock surface on the outside of the mentos causes the fixxy to fizz. 

Starfish

Kia ora Readers,

Did you know that a starfish has no blood or brain?

In class for hurumanu one I have been researching about Starfish. I made a DLO with some fun facts that you might not know about starfish or know already. In my opinion starfish's look really gross and slimy and I would never come near or touch one unless I really had too.

(BTW this is the LINK to the site where i got most of my info from.) 

Starfish DLO

Have you learned a little more about starfish?

Would you touch a starfish?

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