Let's Litter Less!

For the past few weeks we've been working very hard in our groups to finish our presentation. My group is small but we have good ideas. Each person had to talk about an important part of littering. My slide is the second one. We each had to think of a question that is relevant to our inquiry topic. This slide presentation was made by Liza,Robati,Henry and myself.

The Graduation Movie

We made this movie to show people how we can celebrate success in different ways. While we were making the movie I've learnt how to use movie maker and I've also learnt how to make beats with button bass.
We were inspired by the flashback movies we saw at the Film Festival this year.

Learning at the Botanic Gardens

On Thursday the 13th of October 2016 Ruapotaka School went by bus to the Botanical Gardens in Manurewa. I saw heaps of plants at the entry. My favourite part of the entry was the water under the bridge. For the groups I was the leader and Saluselo was the tail-end Charlie in Mrs Hoeberigs’ group.

When we heading to the edible garden we stopped and took photos of the pohutukawa tree. Then I was reading about the liquid amber and the maidenhair tree. It said that you can pick a leaf off the ground for both of them and take it home do leaf rubbing then compare them, then rub them together. As we were walking I heard bees buzzing and birds singing in harmony. When we stopped to take photos Pupuke and I smelled the rosemary. I didn’t like it because it was too strong.

As we quickly strolled past the trees we saw some magnolia trees. Some magnolias were small and some were big. I took a photo of a big magnolia. I did a bee's eye view but before that we went to the rose garden and there were only roses. Some people were tired and needed a little rest so Mrs Buchanan and Mrs Hoeberigs decided to go somewhere where there's bathrooms, a drinking tap and shade. We all got to draw anything except for the five people that went exploring the rest of the garden with Mrs Hoeberigs. When they got back, it was time to go back to the bus. What a wonderful day at the Botanical Gardens.

Go Germany!

On Friday Ruapotaka had its first ever mini-Olympics.  We worked in groups to find out about different countries and athletes before our special event.  I was in a group with Maranatha, Kain and Mealofa learning about Germany.

My Anzac poem

My fruit salad art

We have been learning about how a seed sprouts. I drew a picture of the inside of a lemon to see it's seeds.

Anzac day

On 25th April 2015, it was the 100th anniversary of ANZAC soldiers landing at Gallipoli.  We learnt lots of things about life and war for the ANZAC soldiers when we visited Auckland Museum in April.  We created poppies, we have written poems and letters about ANZAC and World War 1.

My Top Tip

Ctrl+H=History

Ctrl H is a rare shortcut because a lot of people don't really use Ctrl H and I think that people should use Ctrl H.