Narrative

With a roar the hot air balloon car failed to start because of the

depressing rainy day. Grandad Tom and Granddaughter Ellcie

were going on a Sunday drive, well that's what they think.

Finally the car starts and their Sunday drive begins. It starts

off awkward because they hadn’t seen each other since before

World War II. Finally Grandad Tom breaks the silence

“So Ellcie what's been happening” he say awkwardly"

“ Um well nothing really” she replied shyly.

As they drove along the road they felt a little airborne. That's

when they realise that they are getting higher and higher in the

air and fast. Some doves flew onto the bonnet of the car

 “Aaaarrrrgggghhhh” screamed Grandad Tom. 

That's when another problem appears Ellcie notices that the

old car is out of control and going from side to side. By now they

are above the clouds. Ellcie say in her head, “Gee Grandad is

very quiet,” she looks over to him and see him fast asleep. She

thought in her head “why would he be asleep” and then it came

to her he’s dead. 

“No he can’t be” she said in disbelief. She then looked at his

stomach to her relief he wasn’t dead because he was breathing

his stomach was going up and down. Ellcie thought some more 

“ Oh I know, he passed out” she said aloud.  

Ellcie thought some more then she thought of the doves and how

he screamed he must have passed out because he got so scared.

Ellcie shoke her grandad so hard that he woke up. She then took

hold of the wheel and asked 

“Hey grandad you ok” 

“Yeh” he said tiredly. 

“Do you know what happened grandad?” she asked

“No do you?” he replied. 

“Not really” she said.

“How are we going to get down?” Grandad asked. 

“I think I have an idea” Ellcie replied. 

Ellcie quickly looked around the car for something sharp,

“there's nothing” she said.

She asked her grandad if he had anything sharp his reply was

a no. She opened the glove box and right there was a pair of

scissors. She grabbed them and asked 

“Why do you keep scissors in your car?” 

“Oh you know just in case we get stuck up in the sky higher than the

clouds” he says. 

“Okaaaaaayyyy” she replies

Anyway she stabs the balloon with the scissors and they slowly start

going down. When they get to the ground Ellcie says

“ Grandad I think I will go on more Sunday drives will you” 

“Yeh that would be nice” Grandad replies.

SLJ Taster Week

Kia ora koutou

No Kawatiri ahau

Ko Ngāti Pakeha te iwi

Ko Marris töku ingoa whanau

Ko Paul töku Matua

Ko Kym tӧku Whaea

Ko Phoebe  töku ingoa

Ko Noah  töku tungane

Tënä koutou katoa

SLJ Taster Week

Kupu O Te Wiki

Each Week we have a Maori phrase to learn here are the phrases from week 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Collaging Google Drawing

Today in room 1 we have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to group together. We had to make a New Zealand bird and have a background of its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this? Here is my work it is a New Zealand South Island Robin.

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

On Thursday the 14th of November, the seniors from Karoro school went to
the Regent Theater to watch the first ever Toki Pounamu Film Festival in
Greymouth. The festival was made of videos that students from all around
Greymouth had made. The videos had to relate to the theme, ‘Our Place’,
that was only for the schools in the Toki Pounamu cluster. 

There were so many different videos that schools had thought of as ‘Our
Place’. Some included the ocean, mining, history, their school of town. The
schools that had entered were Karoro, Grey main, Paroa, Blaketown, Saint
Patricks, Kaniere, Kumara and Paparoa Range. 

All the videos the schools entered were great.  The one that was my
personal favourite was Paragrey, by a group of students from Saint Patricks;
their names are Diana, Antonia and Eva. Their video was a song about
Greymouth. Their song was originally Bad Guy by Billie Elish but they
changed the lyrics. That was my favourite part of it. One thing that I noticed
that they could change for next time is some of the pictures that they used
weren’t from Greymouth. 

Overall I enjoyed the film festival and the videos chosen. I also noticed that
the videos were suitable for all ages of viewers at the film festival and
especially because they could only have the festival go for 1 hour.

Kowhaiwhai Art

In He Kākano this term, we have been learning about different kowhaiwhai
patterns and their meaning. First we had to do some practise patterns and
when we felt confident we started drawing some ideas. It took us a while to
figure out whatwe wanted to do but after quite a few sessions we came up
with our pattern. 

The meaning behind our pattern is that the koru symbolizes friendship this
includes the red koru heart. The white shapes symbolize abundance. The meaning
behind thissymbol in Māori means a large quantity of something. So overall our
pattern means a large quantity of friendship and love. We chose the colours red,
white, black and green because we wanted to keep the colours close to the original
colours that were mainly used in Māori art. 

By Milan & Phoebe

Maori Phrase Of The Week

We are learning to say simple maori phrases. This week the maori phrases are: 

                         He kuri tāku mokai- My pet is a dog.  

      
                                     He ngeru tāku mokai.

City Animation

In class we were making animations and my animation was about some kids meeting up and went shopping.

Ski-ing Word Art

This week the year 7 and 8's went ski-ing. We did a word art of some vocabulary from ski-ing. Here is my word art.

He Kākano

In He Kākano this term we have been learning how to give basic directions in Māori. Here is my work that I did with Mackenzie and Dakota.

Sign Language

In room 8 we are learning to introduce our self in sign language and say what we like to do. 

Colony Collapse Disorder

WALT

We are learning to write an information report.

 Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic
of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

• Be interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening
• statement and a series of facts related to that statement.Include
• some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or
• map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources.  This
• information will be written in our own words and we will
• write down our sources at the end of our report.

What Is Colony Collapse Disorder?

What is colony collapse disorder?
Colony collapse disorder (CCD)
is when a colony of worker bees
leave the hive leaving behind
plenty of food and few nurse bees
to look after the queen bee and the
immature bees. Often if a bee gets
colony collapse disorder they will
fly away and never return so after
about a day they eventually die. 

In six years leading to 2013 over 10 million colonies were lost
often to CCD. The lifespan of a healthy worker bee that is going
well is 4-6 weeks. But if a worker bee gets colony collapse disorder
then it could be a lot shorter lifespan. In the foraging season alone,
about 800-1200 bees die per day.

Some possible causes of CCD are Varroa mites because they are
the world’s most destructive honey bee killer and the viruses they
carry have the chemical treatment that is considered a cause of
CCD. Nutrition is also one because malnutrition stresses bees out
and that weakens their immune systems and it would make it easier
for them to get CCD. Undiscovered disease is considered a possible
cause. 

Colony Collapse Disorder affects
humans because it threatens our
food supply. Bees pollinate 70% of
our food and pollinate 90% of our
wild plants. Crops like cherries and
blueberries are 90% dependent on
honey bee pollination. As the
number of bees are dying, the
number of food crops is decreasing.
That means there would be less
fruits, vegetables and less honey for us.

My source’s were Wikipedia, IFAS Extension and Quora.

How Bees Pollinate Paragraph

Learning Intentions

We are learning to understand the importance of bees in nature
through learning about pollination and interdependence.

We are learning to take key information from an information report
and write it in our own words. 

Writing task: Bee experts

Write a paragraph about how bees pollinate flowers.  

The paragraph should:

• Have a heading.
• Have a minimum of four sentences.
• Explain how bees pollinate flowers.
• Tell us why this is important.
• Be aimed for Miss Ireland’s class so they can understand this.
• Be written in your own words.
• Use your photo of your flower cut in half.
• Use an additional photo or diagram if you wish.

How Bees Pollinate Flowers? 

Flowers and plants depend on bees to pollinate them so they
can stay alive just as bees depend on flowers and plants to
feed off. This is an example of interdependence. If bees went
extinct, many flowers would die and there would be no honey,
no fruit, no vegetables and most food would be gone. Bees
pollinate flowers by flying onto a flower and then eating the
pollen and nectar. At the same time, they brush against the
male part of the flower so pollen sticks to them. They then go
to another flower and brush on the female part so they produce
seeds that drop and make more flowers/plants.

Lake Daniell

Lake Daniell

On The 12th of June,  rooms one and eight, Ms Kemp,
Mrs Robins and eight other parents went to Lake Daniell
near Springs Junction.

First we got into our car groups and then headed off. I
was in Ms Kemp’s car with Billie. We stopped in Reefton
to catch up with the group and to go to the toilet and to
stretch our legs.

When we finally got there we got together and had a talk,
then Ms Kemp gave us all a number to number off. After
the number off we started walking. We did a few stops to
get the group all together. My legs were getting sore from
some hills.

By the time we got to the lake I was really hungry but before
I had some lunch I went to look at the lake. The water was
really cold but I expected it to be because it is winter. After
we had lunch we
started walking back. I walked back with Mackenzie and
Sasha.

By now my legs were really sore and I just wanted to sit
down but I powered through. When I knew we were near
the Sluice Box I collected a few rocks so I could chuck them
in.

After the Sluice Box I was so excited because I knew the end
was near so I started walking faster. When we could see the
cars we started running, and when we made it I sat down
straight away,it felt so good.

We waited for the group to make it to the end. After we had a
talk we got back into the car and headed back home. By the
time we got back to Greymouth it was 5:45. Ms Kemp dropped
Billie off first and then me. I was so glad to be home.

The Umbles

The Umbles

These are some early signs of hyperthermia

Grumbles - they will have a change in behaviour and will
be acting negative.

Fumbles - they will be reacting slow and will be acting in
a poor condition.

Mumbles - slurred and slow speech and will be acting
sleepy and confused.

Stumbles - they will have loss of control in movement/
slow motion and they will be stiff.

Callaghan's Ridge

On 11th of April room 1+8, Ms Kemp, Mrs Truman and some parents went to Callaghan's Ridge
for a day tramp. The first thing we did in the morning ws a check for raincoats and beanies.
After that we got into the cars groups in my car group was Hannah, Nathan.K, Korban and the
driver was Nathan and Hannah’s dad Wayne.

When we first got there we had to wait for a while because the parents had to drop there cars
at the end of the track and then walk back. While we waited we found some of the items on
the scavenger hunt list. For the scavenger hunt we were in groups my group was Korban and
Wairini. The items we found were Lancewood (Horoeka), Crown Fern, Fantail (Piwakawaka),
Sandfly (Te Ngamu), Bracket Fungi, Bellbird (Koromoko), Button Fern, Kidney Fern, Mountain
Beech Tree, Hochsteller Entoloma and Tomtit (Miromiro).

When we got to about half way we found a good place to stop and build our bivy and have
lunch. In my group was Clem, Billy, Jack, Brighid and me our adult with us was Lee Clem’s
Dad. How we built our bivy was we had a tarpaulin and rope we put the rope through the
holes in the tarpaulin and then tied it to the 4 closest trees to us. After lunch we packed up
the rope and the tarpaulin then started walking again. As we were near the end I started
slipping a lot and getting really tired. When we finally got to the end I felt so happy because
Callaghan’s Ridge was only my 3rd tramp and I had finished it.

After the tramp we got back into a group talk about how well we did, then got back into our
car groups and went back to school and by then the bell rang and we went home. In conclusion,
I would definitely go back and do Callaghan’s Ridge again because it was fun and I enjoyed
getting outdoors. Next time if I ever went I would want to go on a sunny day instead of a rainy
day.