Video of energy around our school model

Today continuing on from  my model of energy, I had to make a video explaining how and why we needed solar electricity. As you will see I  have added my answers in the video. The hardest part of this task was trying to be heard over the wind and finding a quite space to record. I hope you enjoy this post.  

 

model of renewable energy around my school

 

Hello! today for reading I had to make a model of the school and how and where to put renewable energy sources around our school. I had lots of fun completing this task with my best friend daisy. The hardest park of task was using all the resources that we needed to. I hope you enjoy this post! 

Having more trees

Hi my name is Lotte and want more trees around the town and country. Having trees around will: Help the environment, make greymouth and the country a more beautiful  popular spot and the health and safety benefits of having a tree around. I hope by the end of this letter that you will agree with me.  

The first reason I want more trees ids the endless benefits. Don't believe me? well here are a few: Oxygen in an hour one tree can provide enough oxygen for day for a family of four. Stress reliever having a bad day at work? The sight of a tree will instantly calm you down and finally energy saver trees can very naturally reduce energy by sucking it in through its bark. Barely any of these benefits can be found with out some how relating to trees. As you might agree with me trees have a lot of benefits that help the planet the other thing about this is they are a renewable resource, meaning they can never run out as long as action is taken by humans plants and animals.            

Trees are a sign of blooming and life anywhere in the world. Even as a city, Christchurch is full of trees, Hagley park and everywhere in between around the city, having trees around not just provides a very natural beauty but almost completely reduces fear and stress. This is one of the main reason Christchurch is a very peaceful coumtiy/ city. I my opinion this is a great move from the city officials because of popularity and comfort it has provided. As you might of noticed towns and city's with more natural beauty tend to be more popular for example: queenstown, lake tekapo, ect. 

As great as they are trees can cause some very bad accidents. The story of these accidents will often go something like this: a kid that has never probably seen a tree let alone climb one, next they will try and climb the tree...well you can imagine what happens next. So how do we fix this common problem without trees this question is very hard to answer, but with tree this is easy. We could even have half an hour long classes on tree climbing and planting trees to stabilise the future. Having one tree at our school I can tell you right now that you will find about one hundred kids from my school alone.   

In conclusion I want more trees to help build a better more sustainable future for me and the other children of today tomorrow. I hope after you have read this letter that you will now agree with me and take immediate Action to my requests.  

Sincerely Lotte     

           

Podcast on energy

 

Today for reading I did a podcast called kiddie talk with my friends daisy and Elise. The podcast was about how a small island in the middle of Pacific of the ocean gets renewable energy/electricity. The hardest part of this task was making good info in our own words. I hope you enjoy this post!       

word of the week

 

today the word of the week was aesthetic. The hardest part of this task was doing it in time for golden time. I hope you enjoy this post 

brain storm on solar and wind energy

 

Today we did a brain storm on wind and solar energy we had to answer two questions: how does the wind and sun effect our lives and what activities involve these two types of energy. The hardest part of this task was making enough information. I hope you enjoy post!      

ocean quiz

 

Today we are doing our blog contract and I chose a quiz about the ocean. In the quiz you have to chose different answers and trry and get them right. Elise daisy and katie helped me make it. I hoped you enjoy this post!  

modelling energy

 

For this task today for reading we had to make a model on representing energy and modelling it. What I would like to better is using my time better and having more time. The hardest part of this task is getting enough information and detail as well as making it look good. I hope you enjoy this post! 

Master word of the week

 

Today the word of the week was erratic. Each week our teacher chooses a word for us to fill up this google drawing.  The hardest part of this task to me was getting enough information on the drawing in my own words. I hope you enjoy this post!    

Oil spills

 Paradise in Peril

WALT: Make connections between texts.

Task: Watch this  Mauritius Oil Spill Video and answer the following questions. Now compare the two oil spill disasters. What is the same and different about the events and their impact..

Questions

Who owned the vessel? japan

How much oil was on board? 4,000

Where is Mauritius?  Southeastern coast  of Mauritius 

Why might the government describe the area as ‘sensitive’? Because it's a small island depending on the ocean

What are some problems that Mauritius may face? The environmental effect and the economy  

What have the people of Mauritius already done to clean up the spill? They have collected  hair and straw to suck up the oil 

Where was the tanker travelling? To the island 

Who is Happy Khambule? An afraica senior and energy campaign  manager. 

What is the same / different about the Mauritus spill and the MV Rena spill in New Zealand?

Mauritus Spill	Both spills	New Zealand Spill
4,000 tons	They both had big impacts on the the environment and economy	36,00 tons

Word of the week

 

This week week for word of the week I had to do the word initiative, we had to note down the synonyms and antonyms of the word, put down the definition in our own words and then the real definition we also had to add a picture to put a extra touch. The hardest part of this text to  me was making a good picture. I hope you enjoy this post!       

Understanding kinetic and potential energy

 

Today we are understanding the differences and similarities of potential and kinetic energy. My first task was to watch a video explaining the two different types of energy, Then I went into this google  drawing and answered the the question best I could. This was a fun task especially the part when I was watching the the video, it was also quite easy because all of the answers could be found in the questions. I Hope you enjoy this post!    

All about me

 

Today we had to create a google drawing explaining what we ourselves to put on our blog. This was an enjoyable task but the hardest is part was putting down what I like since I like a lot of things. Next time I would probably put a bit more on what I'm not good at. I hope you this post!   

understanding pi

 

Today for maths I have researching about pi, and create this google drawing, to clarify our information we had to checked at least 3 three different websites and they had to say the same thing we were writing down. This, to me was a very enjoyable task but the hardest part was getting enough information in the time we had, next time I think I would try and get at least on more paragraph down.  I hope you enjoy this task!   

Global warming/ energy reading

 

This term we are focusing on energy. In this task I had to pick a word which was global warming and put down its definition in my own words as well as some facts and and a picture. This was one of the funnest tasks for energy reading so far, but for me the hardest part was deciding which word to chose but that was okay and the end because I know quite a lot about global warming. I hope you enjoy this post! 

why shouldn't animals be in zoos?

In my opinion I don't think animals should be kept in zoos, and by the end of this text I hope you will agree with me . First of all , why I don't think animals should be in zoos is because, animals are meant to be wild and free, like humans that brings me to a question we wouldn't lock humans in a cage, why animals?  I understand when a animal is sick or hurt that a zoo would want to keep a close eye on them, but what I don't understand  is why there not just one or two pairs of eyes staring at the animal but possibly several hundred. 

Also instead of giving them a nice open place to recover in but a stuffy cage purely for human attention? I have once been to a zoo and was shocked to find that they load people onto a caged truck for feeding the lions, the poor creatures would have to wait until the truck had done a full circuit until being fed, one lion got so hungry that it jumped onto the truck only to be partly blinded by flashing cameras this as I see it is human cruelty.  I hope by now you will agree with me that the horrible age of zoos needs to end.

exploring circles

 

Today we are learning about the measuring, and exploring the radius, diameter and circumference of circles.  We went around the classroom measuring the circumferences with string and the radius and Diameter with a ruler. To complete this task we had to measure at least five different  circles from around the classroom. This was a mostly  enjoyable task but to me the hardest part  was putting the string around the different circles with the amount of time we had. I hope you enjoy this post!

comparing and contrasting energy

 

Today for my learning I am doing T-shaped literacy, we had to, as you can see read supporting texts A and B and buddy up to compare and contrast the texts, I was buddies up with daisy and did text A. The hardest part of this task was trying to identify what was different about the text but in the but as the text went on the easier this got. I hope you enjoy my post.     

reflection of pool of knowledge

 

today I made a post on the pool of knowledge about energy that I did with my house colour a couple of days ago, we made the pool to put together how much we knew about energy my group specially stated natural energy such wind farms, the hardest part of the tasked was working together and sharing our ides.      

The history of what now