White tail Spider

White tail Spiders have venom to kill other spiders.

A White tail spider is about 12-15 millimetres long.

 

White tail spiders have fangs and palps.

 

White tail spiders bite other spiders to eat them.

 

What do you know about White tail spiders?

 

Why do they bite people?

 

Why are people scared of white tail spiders?

 

 

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Reading

I am learning about reading.

 

I have to point to the words.

 

If the letters are the same the word is the same

 

Tails

 

 

look

 

Mum

 

is

 

I go to school

 

a

 

You can look in books. You can write in books.

Does someone help you read?

 

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Weather art

Matawhero 14 has been looking at weather and the water cycle. As a part of this unit the students have produced this artwork using pastels and dye.

The students were required to incorporate aspects of a wet weather or stormy scene. They needed to understand the concepts of foreground and background, blending pastels, position and size of features and creating outlines with dye.

Here is some of the artwork that presents these concepts well and shows some of the different types of weather explored by the students.

Olivia's snow scene.

Awatea's lightning scene.

Vania's rainy day.

Tayla's rainbow.

What type of weather would you have drawn?

What do you like best about these pictures?

Would you like to see more of our amazing artwork?

 

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Collection

When it rains it falls into rivers or sinks into the earth. Rain can also go into lakes and oceans. This is called collection.

How Evaporation Works

Evaporation is when the burning sun brings the water up to the sky from the ground. It turns into a gas called water vapour. It forms into a cloud. This is called evaporation.

How Evaporation works

Evaporation is when the burning sun brings the water up to the sky from the ground. It turns into a gas called water vapour. It forms into a cloud. This is called evaporation.

Raining down.

Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it any more. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail or snow.

Evaporation

Evaporation is when the water evaporates into the clouds and it stays in the clouds for a little while. The sun heats up the water and it gets caught in the clouds.

Precipitation

Precipitation is when the clouds get heavy and it rains or snows. It can also hail.

Our condensation freeze frame

The water vapour or steam in the air starts to get cold and it changes into another state of matter called liquid. This is called condensation.

Emma Reads a Book

Emma is learning to read the word "the".

Emma's number writing

1-20 numbers!

I go to school

I go to school on my scooter.

 

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Types of weather

Ua is rain in Maori.

Ra. The sun helps the flowers grow.

Pata ua. Its when it rains then stops.

Hau. wind lets us fly our kites.

Kapua. Clouds can sometimes cover the sun.

Ua whatu. Sometimes rain freezes as it falls. this is hail. It is very hard.

Hukarere. If it snows for hours it may become a blizzard .

Awha. Storms make dangerous destruction.

Aniwaniwa. Rainbows make everyone happy.

Uira. Lightning is a giant spark of electricity.

Huripari. Big thunderstorms can make a tornado.

Weather can change all the time.

What is your favourite type of weather?

What's your favourite Maori weather word?

What do you like about weather?

What kind of weather can you get?

Olivia K T and Alex.

 

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Words about weather

Have you seen the weather before on the TV?

Read this if you don't know what weather words mean.

Pressure is the Air pressing and pushing.

Gravity is the force of the earth that makes things fall to the ground.

Humidity is the amount of water vapour in the air.

Hail is frozen rain that falls from the sky.

Water vapour is a form of gas.

Smog is a dirty fog made by pollution.

Isobars are a line on a weather map that tells you how strong the wind is.

The closer together,the stronger the wind.

The Atmosphere is a bubble of air around the earth.

A gale is a really strong wind.

The Temperature is how hot or cold it is.

The dew is tiny bits of water on the grass. You might think dew is rain on the grass.

What questions do you have about the weather?

Have you heard any of these words before?

Do you know what these words mean now?

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Water cycle

We have been predicting weather and I have been predicting the water cycle

Water evaporates up and it forms a cloud this is called evaporation.

The sun heats up the water and the water cames up this is how evaporation happens.

 

 

Next the clouds are formed it is called condensation.

Then when all the drops of water get heavy it either rains, snows or hails this is called precipitation.

Next the water goes into rivers, lakes or oceans this is called collection.

Have you seen all four pieces of the water cycle?

Have you tried to predict the water cycle before?

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How to predict weather

We have been predicting the weather.

 

There are many ways to predict the weather,

Here are some ways:

 

If there is dew on the grass it will probably be sunny.

 

Smell the flowers,do they smell stinky it might rain.

 

And one more way is the wind direction.

If you drop some grass you can see which way the wind is blowing.

If the wind blows east it should rain.

 

Have you tried predicting the weather before?

 

I think it is fun to predict the weather,do you like

Predicting?

 

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Quin high jump

Ethan high jump

Aaron high jump

Ashley high jump

Ella high jump

Imogen high jump

Zahraa high jump

Olivia high jump

Rebecca high jump

Bradley high jump

Cameron on the high jump

Cameron high jump

Polar Animals

We have been learning about polar animals.

The animals we have been learning about are whales and penguins.

We have been writing facts about our animals.

Where do polar animals live?

What do polar animals eat?

What is the most dangerous polar animal?

What is your favourite polar animal?

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Swimming Whales

We are the unicorns and we have been learning about polar animals.we did pictures and facts about the Three polar animals that we studied on for the two weeks it was very fun. We got put into pairs and this pair is Imogen and Kyla and we both studied on whales.

 

Do you like whales?

Have you ever seen a whale?

Do you think whales are cool?

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North and south

 

Room 14s reading group the unicorns are Learning about

Polar animals.

Facts

Female polar bears make dens when they are pregnant with there cubs.

Adelie penguins can stay under water for six minutes.

What is your favourite penguin?

What is your favourite type of polar animal?

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Shadows

We read a story about Shadow's. We had to find the sun and stand in front of the sun.the sunlight made our shadows. we used chalk. And it was windy.

Then we waited in till lunch and then we checked on it.

When the sun moved in to the clouds we could not see our shadows anywhere.

the shadows moved because the sun moved.

We all so stood on the Shadows and then miss McCann took a photo of us.

Would you like to do a shadow picture yourself?

What do you know about shadows?

By Leo and Cameron H

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