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On Wednesday the 26 of September we had a garden day with other kids Family.
This was the day we opened our Kai garden and seeing and learning about things about photosynthesis, compost, sustainability and energy. We went to other classrooms and had a look at what they had learnt and done. The kapa haka group did three Maori songs in front of the teachers, juniors and parents.

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy? There are many types of energy. Energy is about being sustainable and giving energy to living things and also people getting energy from food.

Where do humans get energy from? Humans get their energy from healthy foods and drinks.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll
c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)Food.
b)Water.
c)Chlorophyll.
d)Sunlight. 

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green? The chlorophyll makes the leaves to appear green and when it is autumn there is less chlorophyll then it had before.
4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.
5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. It makes water in its leaves.

b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.

6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
Compost is like a waste bin for people to throw their fruit scraps and left overs in. Worms make worm juice for the compost bin.
What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

• Milk
• oil
• meat
• orange skins
• pet droppings
• bones
• Tins
• plastic
• packets
• clothes
• cloths
• shoes that are old.

List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

1. Apple core.
2. Banana peel.
3. Left over foods.
4. Fruit scraps.
5. Pear core.

Sustainability
This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.
Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):_______Dairy Farming. ______________

Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy Kai garden.

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

I have learnt that living things have energy but unliving things don’t have energy because they are not alive but living things are alive. What I liked about this topic was making a Kai garden and learning about photosynthesis, compost and sustainability. To be sustainable at home I need to re-use and recycle, exercise to keep fit and eat healthy food and drink plenty of water. At school I can be sustainable by playing with positive friends, doing my work on my net book and to help our caretaker pick up the litter. My role in the community and to be sustainable is to re-use and recycle and picking up the rubbish and throw it in the rubbish bin instead of throwing it in the ocean for the cold blooded animals to die.

Loud Shirt Day

Today is loud shirt day. This day is about supporting deaf kids. All the money will go to the deaf society so that technology  can provide to help kids hear better.





We think that this is an important charity as the money will help kids like Charday in our class who is partially deaf.

New Zealand Native Trees.

Narrative Story

Somewhere in New Zealand lived a girl and her stepsister Hannah and Madison. The girls were both 12 years old, but they did not look like twins. Hannah had brown silky hair that went all they way down her back, she had blue crystal clear eyes, light cream skin and she was tall with bony arms. Madison on the other hand had blond wavy hair (that was always in a ponytail,) darker blue eyes. light cream skin and was tall as well but she had bony legs. One beautiful sunny summer day when the weather was calm Hannah and Madison decided to go for a walk to the cemetery so they could see one of their ghost friends Molly and her cat. The first time they saw her Madison stood there completely frozen and didn’t say a word until Molly had gone back into the dirt with her cat. The two girls kept on walking and walking for what seemed like hours when they saw a little way that led someplace else. Madison thought it was a shortcut to the cemetery and so did Hannah but it did not lead to a graveyard it lead to a bush were everyone else in town liked to go because it was peace and quiet and they could hear the birds singing.

“Just look at it, you think it is a shortcut down to the cemetery Han?” asked Madison looking serious with her stepsister. Suddenly Hannah was not so sure what if they went down there and never come back her Dad and stepmother would be worried. Madison was waiting for an answer until she blurted out “ My mind is already made up sis, now you go down first then I will go because if this is dangerous I am not going down there.” Just before Hannah was about to go down she stumbled on a really hard rock but she was not injured and as she stumbled something opened in the path and she fell in it with Madison in too. “AHHHHHHHHHH!” screamed both girls in a harmony tune. When they fell on the ground they found that it was soft. “ Lucky, we could have died if this was actually lava,” Hannah told Madison. The girls looked straight in front of them and saw bushes and straight ahead was something glowing at them. The girls got up and ran over to it. They saw the most beautiful bush ever. It was big and it had heaps of beautiful flowers on it they wanted to have the bush but they knew that there will be other kids to look at it to. Then all of a sudden they heard the sound of a chainsaw coming their way. They were lucky to find a way to get out and they ran as fast as they could of the bushes. When they got home their dinner was ready there waiting for them they quickly ate their supper threw on their pyjamas and went to bed. The next morning came and the girls got dressed in jeans and a shirt with a jacket so they would not get cold. They skipped breakfast got their shoes on and just before they were about to go out the front door Hannah’s stepmother blocked the way. “ Just we do you think you two are going?” she asked curiously. “Well, um we are just going to the park and just talk about stuff,” Hannah lied she hoped her stepmother was going to say yes. She did and told them to be back by six. The two girls strolled off to the bushes. But in their surprise when they got there all the bushes and trees were gone and that meant chopped. The two girls were not thrilled but very very mad. How could those men chop and cut the bushes and trees thought Hannah and Madison and they went home feeling glum. “What is the matter with you two,” their father had asked them that evening. “Nothing Dad none of your business but we are okay,” said Hannah even though she was lying to her dad.

The next day the two girls went to a shop called magical growing. They had past this shop so many times and thinking it was boring, but today they had to go in because they wanted to save a bush. So they walked inside got what they wanted and left the shop. They went to the bush and sprinkled all of the stuff onto the trees and bushes. Then they went home ate their dinner and went to bed. They woke up early in the morning chucked their clothes on and ran to the bushes. They found a lovely surprise when they got there. The trees and bushes had grown and they saw the flowers blooming their petals on the bushes. They felt really really thrilled. They decided that everyday they would go there and have a picnic. They also never ever let the choppers come and chop and cut the trees and bushes again. The bushes and trees were all to them self for as long as they could live. The two girls lived happily ever after.

The Magic Flying Carpet

Long ago in a country called New Zealand lived a girl called Verity who had long red silky hair, light brown eyes, dark cream skin, bony arms and was tall and slim and was 13 years old. Verity was in town looking for a carpet for her house and just as she was passing a carpenter shop she finally saw the place she wanted to go to. Verity walked into the shop and as she was just walking by a carpet that was green and silver in the inside she saw a magical carpet staring hard back at her. The carpet was blue and had purple lines on it and the magical carpet kept on doing silly things like twirling itself together  then going back to normal and acting like it was dizzy. Verity went to the counter to ask the lady whose name was Kelly how much it cost for the magical flying carpet. Kelly told her that she did not have to pay because all the things in the shop were free. Kelly went to get the magical flying carpet and told Verity to watch out because it liked to be silly and doing stupid things. Verity did not care but just walked out of the shop with the carpet.

As soon as Verity got home she laid it down on the floor and she went to have a shower. Verity got out 2 minutes later dried herself got dressed and just before she went to bed she went to go check on the carpet the carpet was still there and Verity went to bed with almost a loud yawn. When Verity was sure enough to be asleep the carpet got up and flew around the house and bumped into something that made a noise that  sounded like the window opening with a creak. Verity woke up and tried to listen if there was another noise but then went back to sleep. The carpet went out of the window without making any noise and went into the dark, dark night leaving Verity and her house behind. When morning came Verity woke up went into the lounge and found that her carpet was not there. She let out a loud cry and ran to get her clothes on. Just as soon as she finished she grabbed her house key ran outside locked the door behind her put the keys in her pocket and ran into the town.

Verity kept on running and non stopping. She ran for what seemed like hours except it was minutes. She at last found the carpet lying down on the sunny green grass. She ran over to it put her foot on the side of it. “ WHY ON EARTH DID YOU DO THAT FOR I WOULD HAVE KILLED YOU IF YOU WERE HUMAN!” shouted Verity at the carpet. The carpet cried Verity never knew that it could cry. “Sorry, I just don’t like it when people run away from me,” Verity was now very upset with herself. “You also got to stop acting like a maniac,” Verity told the carpet as well. The carpet looked really sorry with itself. So Verity tried to cheer it up. “Come, lets go home and on the way I will buy you are friend to play with,” Verity told it then hopped on. The carpet got its friend and they played happily together making noises but Verity did not care. And the carpet never flew away again or Verity would get angry.