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.