This week in PBL we went on minecraft and we learnt about deforestation
I knew that deforestation was when people chopped down trees for things like paper, land, factories and cow farms.
I did not know how bad deforestation was like how in one place there was forest with animals and then there was a big city
Deforestation can affect us with how many animals are losing their homes.
I think that if you cut down trees you have to plant 1-2 more trees.
What will you do to help Deforestation?
Hello. For reading we learnt about climate change. Climate change is getting worse every day like sea levels are rising and animals are finding it hard to adapt. I think that more people should bus and walk because say one bus can hold 26 people, that would be so much better and if we all just walk or bike, it would be the best.
Here’s a link to my slide about climate change
What would you do to help climate change?
Hello! This week for reading we had to do a book review I used a google drawing to make this. I love reading books so it was hard to choose but in the end I chose Truly Tyler. I loved this book. The art was amazing, and the concept was so interesting. I gave Truly Tyler a 4 star rating. It’s half a graphic novel and half just like a book.
Here is some more info about the book. Here is a Link too.
Are you going to read it?
In P.B.L I have been learning about the growth mindset.
I had to create a poster using Canva to show learning about our mindset.
Something that I learned was that a fixed mindset is when you are sad and mad and you tell yourself that you can’t do it but if you say I can’t do it yet it sounds much better and a growth mindset is telling you self you can and keep going even if you super stuck.
Something I found interesting was the quote that I found. I love it so much and it goes like this “I have not failed I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work ” Thomas Edison.
Something that I found challenging was finding the quote. It was super hard I could not find one I was looking for a good 10 minutes in till I found the perfect one.
Here it is Link
Do you know what a growth mindset is?
Just keep going you got this!
In reading I have been learning about animals.
I had to create a poster about Maned wolves, Aardwolves, and Kudu but you could choose any animal you wanted using Animal fact files.
Something that I learned was just about the animals. I learnt about animals that I didn’t know even existed and I learnt a lot about Maned wolves, Aaredwolves and Kudu´s. Like how maned wolf are 90 contentment tall and Aardwolf have 5 toes on the front feet and on the back feet they have 4 toes and there two types of kudu there the lesser kudu and the greater kudu.
Something I found interesting was that maned wolves aren’t even a type of wolf, it is its own species.
Something that I found challenging was finding all of the facts about the animals. but in the end it was so fun!
What did you learn about animals?
This week, we had Andrew Chinn come to our school to perform.
Who/When/What/Why paragraph
Andrew Chinn came to our school. He sang religious songs and he also wrote a lot of religious themes too. He came all the way from Wollongong in Australia. He is a well known religious musician in New Zealand and in Australia he has one daughter who works in Mecca. I was so surprised when he said that!
He came yesterday on Tuesday the 29th of February, which by the way, is leap day.
He sings religious songs and he used to be a teacher. He taught year one kids and had funny stories about the kids.
He came to our school because we sang a lot of his songs in mass.
Something that I liked the most about this performance was when he just being super funny I basically laughed my heart out he was so cool I hope to see him again
Something that I learned from this was that he wrote a lot more songs than I thought and I did not know how funny he was. The song that I like the most was the birthday song. It went like this is the birthday it not very long this is the second verse it shorter than the and then you clap and then you fake clap.
Do you know who Andrew Chinn is?
This week on Monday we went on a trip to the art gallery and look at two abstract art made by Louise Henderson here are the ones that we look at.
And then after that we got to make are one abstract art by using are initials my was L J S and once we had write are initials we got to panting it was super fun and then we had so go back to school and that was are rode trip.
Have you been to the art gallery?
for these last 2 or 3 weeks we had to learn a lot i mean a lot about the digestive system and it felt like it only took like 3 day it went super fast here is my work and if you find something funny please write that down.
Digestion
The way the food is munched and squash into tiny particles that you poop and pee out. Why does my tummy rumble? What is really going on inside of my body? Today, I’m going to take you on a journey alongside trillions and billions of microbes living inside of the human body hotel to see how the digestive system happens. To the microbes- human relationship is perfect– symbiosis. What a team!
Munching mouth
The digestive process begins in the mouth. Firstly when you pop a piece of food into your mouth, it becomes a zooming frenzy of activity.To begin the teeth munch and crunch your food into tiny particles. Then microscopic workers, which are microbes, produce enzyme farms which mix with saliva to Instantly break down the yummy food down. In addition the saliva helps to lubricate so it is easier and better to swallow. What a team!
The Food Slide
When you swallow, the tongue, which is a big muscle, shoves your food down your throat and into a long muscle called the oesophagus. At this point the food is squashed, moshed and mushed into the stomach though a propelling motion called the peristalsis. Peristalsis is a series of waves-like muscle contractions that moves the food though. Its Like ripples in a river. What a team
The Rumbling Machine
The food doesn’t take a long time to get to the stomach but after it hangs in your tummy with all your microbes for four hours wow that’s a long time. It’s like being in a bouncy castle and jumping round and round. When food enters your stomach your Muscles it pounds and swirl the gastric juices your food round and it makes it into a creamy liquid. These nutrients include fat in nuts, carbohydrates found in bead protein is found in meats and vitamins in broccoli. What a team
The not so small intestine
This is an unusual intestine because the small intestine is actually six meters long. Can you believe that the small intestine is six meters! These things are extracted from your s.i into your bloodstream and arrived round the body through the circulatory system like a friend delivering you gifts. The velvety lining of the S.I contains lots of tiny folds that act like a giant nut remnant sponge as a result humans can possess up to six to twelve lives of nutrients every single day. Welcome to the gut garden.
The Large Intestine
My favourite place is the gut garden. It is like a giant microbes party that teenagers would host in your body. 99% of your body is microbes set to work breaking down all of your foods. Inside the luggage intestine the colon absorbs water from leftover waste for the body to reuse. What a team!
This is where it all goes down
We have reached the final destination. This leftover waste solidifies and pushed along the sigmoid colon to the rectum I need to go to the loo to take a number two when the rectum is full, a message is transmitted via the nerves in the sphincter to tell your brain you may need to use the loo muscles around the rectum relax and your abdominal muscles help push your face out. You may have to poop! What a team!
Did you learn something new from this blog post?
Yesterday we had a visit from the Science Roadshow. The focus of the session was Sound Waves.
Some of the main messages about Sound Waves were how they work and if you a car goes past you the sound is pitch and when the car is a long away from you the sound is quieter and sound waves can go up and down .
Something I enjoyed the most was the spinning chair because you had some weights and when you put the weights closter the chair goes faster and when you put the weights far away the chair goes slower.
My favourite part of the Science Roadshow was when we got to see sound waves but in fire because watching the flame were super cool.
Something I will take away from this visit was that chux is worse granule because granule suck out all of the water.
If you could go to the Science Roadshow what would you do first?
