Flight link

The following link is an interactive activity about the shape and size of wings (birds and airplanes). Check out what wing shapes work well for soaring, gliding and more.

Wings for flight Interactive

My future job

When I'm older I want to be a farmer and an artist. I want to be a farmer because when I was living in England I lived next door to my Grandads farm in the contryside and I got to ride in the tractors and play with Casey on the Quad and feed and play with the animals. And I want to be an artist because I have some talent in drawing.

My best friend

My best friend is Ollie.
Ollie is very funny because he does very funny stuff like really funny accents.
One of his accents is French. And he is very nice because he helps me with my maths sometimes.
And one day he came to my house and I was feeding my two lambs and Ollie helped me with one of my lambs.

Kiwi can

Kiwi can is when you are learning new games and activities. One game is skittes if you get hit by a ball you are out.

MY CAT

My cat had a sore leg so mum took him to the vet. He hissed once. When he was going home he peed in the car and then he came and sat on me. When we got home we gave Muffy some jelly meat and it was the stuff he liked. He is happy now.

my best friend

My best friend is Hazey. He goes to Mangapapa School. I would play with him evey day until I left Mangapapa School. He was the same age as me but I was older than him. I went to every one of his birthdays but I won't be able to now. He was not in the same class as me. He was in Room 17 and I was in Room 5. He was in my class when he was a year 123 and 4, but not year 5. I was in Room 5 and in year 5. We had a big school.

Another week has flown by!

This morning we went to our third session of Kiwisport. The Year 4s learn Cricket skills, and the Year 5s are doing Basketball. Next week we will swap over.
It is wonderful to see the sunshine again! This morning started off very foggy and cold, but we had a great lunchtime outside playing all sorts of things. Unfortunately, the field is too muddy to play on yet.
We have filled our chapter book jar again. So we have read 2x86 books! We have chosen to watch a movie as a reward, but this week has been so busy, we haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

Chapter Book Challenge

This term has started with a Chapter Book Challenge where we encourage each other to read chapter books. The books are sorted into four different groups, according to reading difficulty, font size and number of pages.
Most of our chapter books are from the wonderfully awesome Waimate District Library. They have a great range of children's fiction books from beginning readers to more difficult novels for children. Our school library has of course also got a great range of books. It is pleasing to see so many children now actively searching for a chapter book to read instead of 'just' looking.
So far we have read 86 chapter books (actually, that was the tally last week, so by now it must be over a hundred!)
Our first reward for filling the entire marble of jar (each chapter book gets one marble in the jar) will be watching a movie. Mrs Rehmann is keeping mum about the type of movie though...

Jack

A  scientist

A scientist works in lab and asks a lot of questions. They find out about animals and other stuff. They need to wear safety goggles.

Grace

A scientist

A scientist is a person who mixes chemicals. They study for a very long time. They wear safety goggles because if they mix liquids they might explode. They measure liquids before mixing. Some scientists studies animals that kind of scientist is a zoologist. There are different scientists: Zoologist you already know what they do. Biologist they study living things. My favourite is a paleontologist. They search for fossils.

Emily

What is a scientist?

A scientist is a person who discovers new things like chemicals and laptops. They use special containers measuring cups and spoons. They also wear special goggles to protect their eyes. There are also different types of scientists, for example: zoologist, biologist, geologist, astronomers.

Bailey

              A scientist

A scientist is a person who works at a lab.

A lab is a place where you discover animals and measure chemicals and you look at bugs using a microscope.    

A microscope is like a telescope but smaller and you don’t look up into the sky.

You look at bugs and animals. They normally wear a white coat with black pants.

There are lots of different scientists.

A zoologist studies animals and a meteorologist studies the weather.

Aidan

A SCIENTIST

A scientist is a person who discovers new creatures and puts chemicals with chemicals, and some of the time if they are unlucky, it might explode!!! A scientist makes magnet shoes also. Also there are lots of names for scientists, for example: biologist, zoologist, chemist, meteorologist and there’s lots more.

Ryan

A scientist

 

A scientist is a person who studies lots and uses lots of equipment like test tubes, microscopes, blow guns and machines. Lots of scientists study dinosaur bones and fossils. They are called paleontologists. (I once met a paleontologist with my old school.)

There are lots of different types of scientists, for example: biologists (biologists study living things), zoologists (zoologists study animals), meteorologists (meteorologists study the weather and climate).

Szhyiem

A scientist

A scientist helps people. He or she makes things like food, planes, wheelchairs, computers and experiments.

Ben D

Scientists

There are heaps of scientists who discover stuff. They study things like animals and the weather. A scientist who studies animals is called a zoologist.

Aimee

A scientist

A scientist is a person who is clever and discovers heaps of bones and dinosaur bones too. They make stuff out of potions. There are heaps of scientists like zoologists and biologists. There is a scientist with a dog that finds poo, like wolf poo and mountain lion and bear poo. A zoologist studies animals.

Paige

Scientist
A scientist is a person who makes liquids. They make potions by mixing different liquids together. They can find dinosaur bones in the desert and they can build robots. They can make their own liquid on what they make to come a live.

Joe

Scientist
A scientist is a person who works in a labcoat. They mix chemicals to make medicine, dishwashing liquids and equipment like that. They also discover new species of animals, plants and microbes.
Some scientists study animals and some study earthquakes. Scientists also discover bones from dinosaurs and cavemen.
There are lots of different types of scientists like chemist, paleontologists, biologists, botanics, seismologist, physicists, astronomers, meteorologist. Chemists make medicine and pills. Paleontologists find bones and fossils. A biologist is a scientist who studies living things.

Connor

A scientist has a lab and a lot of gear such as laptops. They have goggles to protect their eyes. We saw a scientist with a dog. He smelled animal poo like bear’s and wolves’ and discovered other animals.

Welcome to Term 3

We are already into Term 3! Our blog has suffered from sleepiness, but that's about to change. This term our focus is science. We are learning about flight. As a start, we asked ourselves what a scientist is.
What do you think a scientist is or does?