Car Gun

Unusual bikes

For the last 2 weeks our class has been biking. Our teacher came up with an idea to create an advertisement on an image we found when typed  Unusual Bikes. We came up with ideas to make people want to buy it. Here's my bike I picked to advertise......

This bike is not real, sorry if you had to go and find a shop called 29ers bike shop.

Facts on the atmosphere

This is my slideshow on atmosphere, I hope you like it.

The Internet

Internet safety is really important. I gathered this information to help you.

Hearing poster

I created this poster to tell people to protect their hearing because if they don't they'll end up losing a couple of little hairs on the shell shaped thing inside your ear and eventually become deaf.

Report on a Wereigator (werewolf alligator)

Werewolf Alligator

This is probably the most terrifying monster you have ever heard of or seen. This monster is part Werewolf and part Alligator, say hello to the Wereigator.

Description

This creature is 2 m and 53 cm tall. It lives in the swamps where it can camouflage in the reeds.The Wereigator has an Alligator head. It has 1 werewolf arm and 1 alligator arm. It also has 2 legs, one is an Alligator and the other is werewolf leg. The tail has scaly skin and fur growing out of it. Its eyes are red and it’s teeth are about 10 cm tall  and approximately 5 cm wide. The Wereigator combines the strength and running of a Werewolf and fast swimming and huge bites of a Alligator. This creature is very rare and there are approximately 37 of them in the world.

Why it Is so terrifying?

This creature is terrifying because can camouflage itself as a log or it could play dead. Imagine a packgregation of Wereigators surrounding your home,dribbling, and getting closer and closer to you to bite your face off!

Now you know what he looks like and can be alert when he appears, and if you're off guard, there is a good chance of you dying.

Glossary

Packgregation: A pack of werewolves and a congregation of Alligators.

Wereigator: An Alligator and a werewolf hybrid.

Here is the Wereigator:

CREATED BY: Zach and I

Balloon rocket

Last week our class did a science experiment in room 15. We got given a piece of paper that had some stuff written down on it, we had to write down what we thought was going to happen before we did some science. I hope you enjoy! :)

Balloon Rocket!

Equipment:

• 3 balloons (just incase if one or two of them pop)
• 1 long piece of kite string (about 10-15 feet long)
• Tape
• 1 plastic straw

Method:

1. Tie one end of the string to a chair, door knob, or the other support.
2. Put the other end of the string through the straw.
3. Pull the string tight and tie it to another support in the room.
4. Blow up the balloon (don’t tie it.) Pinch the end of the balloon and tape the balloon to the straw shown below. Now you're ready to launch!
5. Just let go of the end and watch it zoom off.
   

   Prediction

   Zeb: The balloon will fly across the line.

   Tyrone:The balloon will go across the line like a rocket and run out of oxygen or air in it and it will stop.

   Observation

   Zeb: The balloon went zooming across the line.

   Tyrone: The balloon flew across the string and got from one chair to the other.

   Explanation

   Zeb: The air was pushing the balloon across the line.

   Tyrone: The air or oxygen comes out of the balloon causing it to move the opposite direction of the end of the balloon.

    CREATED BY Zeb AND Tyrone.
   

   
   

Science: Boat or Submarine

Today (4/11/13), our class did a science experiment in room 20. We had to decide what kind of shape we would be doing for the experiment. Then when after we had created the shape with clay, we placed it into the water and counted the coins we placed into the clay and when it sunk we took 1 away from our count. For example: if I counted 7 coins and it sunk on the last coin I minus one coin which equals 6. I hope you enjoy reading this science experiment! :)

Question/Goal/ problem

Make a shape that will hold more than 11 coins

What shape of container will hold the most weight ?

We are choosing a pan because it is wide and the wider it is, the more water keeps it afloat

Hypothesis

It will be able to hold more than 5 coins.

Materials

Container filled with water, modelling clay, old coins

Method (What I did)

Create a boat out of modelling clay.

I Fill the container with water.

Place the boat carefully onto the water so it floats.

One at a time , put coins carefully into the boat . Count how many coins are in the boat before it sinks.

Observation/ Analyse

We made a pan and we got 5 coins in so that's pretty good we thought we needed the pan to be bigger.

Conclusion  

It sank because it was probably tall and not wide enough. It floated because it was wide. The width and the length was about 44 cm wide.  

Where are my eye balls!!

This is fun!

I rich! NOT

Science: Speedboat

Here is my Science report on a cardboard boat and a paper clip. This is all on how it floats and why. I hope you enjoy reading it. :)

Race a Speedboat

Can you make a paper boat race across the water just by gently touching the surface of the water?

Hypothesis (What I think will happen) The boat might sink because water might get on it causing it to shred to pieces.

Wrong!

Materials

Coloured card, washing up liquid, pencil or sharpie, scissors, large container of water.

Method (What we did)

1. Filled a container with a bit of water.
2. Poured some washing up liquid into the container.
3. We cut a piece of cardboard into a boat.
4. Now we place the boat into the water.

Observation (What happened)

Mr Severinson poured a bit of washing up liquid into the container. Marcus placed his cardboard boat into the water and nothing happened until Marcus put his finger in behind the boat and it went 10 cm away from where he dipped his finger in.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

The washing up liquid broke the surface tension making it weaker and the other end stronger, causing the boat to move when you place your finger into the water.

Short Experiment to Follow Up

Make Metal Float

Gently place a paperclip on the water’s surface.

Hypothesis (What I think will happen)

I think it might float because it’s light.

I was right about it floating but not about it being light?

Observation (What happened)

The paper clip floated when henry had his hand underneath but when he moved his hand away, the paper clip sunk.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

Because there was no hole or anything on the surface. If there was a hole in the water the paper clip will not float, dipping your hand in is causing to make a hole and the paper clip will only float when the surface is just flat.

Science:Does air have weight?

On the 29/10/13 our class did a science experiment on air and if it has a weight and it does. This is something on how air does have weight.  Hope you enjoy reading this. :)

Does air have weight?

Equipment: Ruler

                   2 newspapers, or one

Prediction: Q. Does air have weight?

No, air does not have weight because if it did, we would be carrying air.

A. Air does have weight, it weighs 15 pounds per square inch.

Observe: When Ollie karate chopped the ruler it didn’t break because nothing was on the end of it, Mr M got a piece of newspaper and scrunched it up and placed it on the ruler. This time the when Ollie karate chopped the ruler the ruler did not snap but the scrunched newspaper went into the air and floated down in 5 seconds. Mr M got newspaper and instead of screwing it up, he flattened it and placed it on top of the ruler. Now when Ollie karate chopped the ruler it snapped, why you say, well if you want to now read my explanation below.

Explain: The ruler broke because Mr M had flattened the newspaper , and while he was doing that air was coming out causing the air to push down onto the newspaper and the ruler would eventually break or snap. This sometimes failed because the newspaper wasn’t flattened enough.

Whoa, fascinating.

Fire the catapult!

Hennah Hands art

Today, room 16 and I have been working on our hennah hands. We have done some great work. I hope you like my hennah hands art.

I have done some patterns, and I don't really know what they mean so I made what they mean up. Have a great day!

Geo Guess

Yesterday in class, we all went onto a site called GeoGuessr. So at the start it would show you a picture, any kind of picture of a place somewhere in the world and you click somewhere were you guessed it might be. When I started I got 1,983 points and the lowest pints I got was 13, the highest points was 7,427. To get the highest points you have to be close to the location or right on it, but sometimes you would get low points if your further away. Here are some pictures of GeoGuess.

Limerick poem

The singer By Tyrone Harmer and Elijah Casson

This poem is a limerick. It is meant to be funny. Did you notice the rhyming patterns? Lines 1,2 & 5 rhyme. Lines 3 & 4 rhyme also.

1. A singer stepped up onto the stand,

2. He sang so good he joined a band,

3. They went to the beach

4. Saw an old peach
5. and their car got stuck in the sand.

Kereru/NZ wood pigeon report

Here is my Kereru report, I did this report in kereru. If you want know some facts about kereru you can read this and you'll know how to save this spectacular creature, the kereru. There are some sights to look at for more details and facts. Enjoy reading this report!!
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The Amazing NZ wood pigeon

The NZ wood pigeon (Kereru in te reo Maori) are spectacular creatures. You might think they just fly around and eat food from our national trees but no, there’s more to Kereru than just that! Kereru  fly up to 50 km in search for food. Kereru are special to our national trees and you’ll see why in the facts soon on Life cycle. Kereru can live up to 20 years and some people think it’s alright to eat them! Read this report to find out more about this amazing bird that flies in the air.

Description:

Red beak. Red, white,blue and green feathers. Claws are red and it’s eyes are reddish. Also it looks like a pigeon (It is a pigeon, New Zealand wood pigeon). The biggest pigeon (also bird) in the entire WORLD!!!!

Habitat:

It lives in New Zealand and where they live are Kaitawa, NZ forests, parks, gardens and the forests of Northland. Kowhai tree, Tawa, Tariri, Karaka, Kohekohe, Nikau, Miro, Pigeonwood, Titoki, Supplejack, Kahikatea,  and Puriri trees. Mainly all kereru live in forests.

What they eat:

Kereru eat leaves, flowers, berries, and fruit of all the many, native and introduced trees New Zealand. Oh and also they eat some of the food off Shrubs. Their favourite food is small fruit, shoots, leaves (already said) and buds.

Threats:

People that try to eat them for their feathers and meat. Windows are also their threat, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!!!! Windows are threats to kereru because they get killed or injured when flying into them! Possums are a threat to Kereru too, they eat baby kereru and eggs when they haven't even got a chance to be an adult!! .Cars are one of the other threats when people don’t watch where they’re going!! The biggest, threat, ever, is.........

PEOPLE DESTROYING THEIR HABITAT!!! What I mean is that some people are cutting down NZ’s trees and without trees, there’ll be nowhere for the Kereru to live. The loss of their habitat (home) has been from  Kereru falling off trees with food when getting cut down by chainsaws.

Bird Types in NZ:

Tui, Riroriro, Kakariki, bellbird, NZ falcon, Blue duck, Kiwi, Kakapo, Morepork, Kokaka and Long-tailed Cuckoo are all endemic. Theres more so if you want to see more types of birds in NZ like the Kaka ( or the others you can look here at Native birds of the NZ forests.

Actions:

Kereru can fly up to 50km in search for food.  

Life cycle:

Female Kereru has one egg per nest. Kereru eat seeds, spreading them by POO helping our native and introduced trees.The mother and father kereru take turns at sitting on the egg for 30 days!!! Kereru eat between 60 to 70 native tree food varieties. After the baby kereru receiving so much love and care, many kereru eggs and chicks do not live because of the possums and other animals. Possums and rats, occasionally stoats and cats who invade, attack, inroad and foray nests, killing them!!! Young Kereru are lucky enough to survive and are already leaving the nest after six weeks has past. Kereru can live up to 20 years, that's not so long.

Did you know?:

Did you know that Kereru are the largest pigeons in the entire world!! Did you know that Kereru are 650g and 51cms long. Did you know that Kereru are birds of the lowland forests, and forest margins. Did you know they make a slightly “coo” noise, you are most likely to see a Kereru because of it’s “whooshing” sound their wings make when flying. Kereru are our the only surviving bird since the moa with it’s beak that can open wide enough to to gulp down native fruits more than 12 millimetres in diameter, such as the Tawa tree, taraire and karaka tree.

If YOU want to learn more, go to www.Kereru.org,  http://www.kcc.org.nz/, www.forest-bird.org.nz, www.doc.govt.nz or www.kaipatiki.org.nz. Now you can save our native bird from getting killed by people, possums,maybe stoat and maybe ferrets? Thanks for reading this report about Kereru!

This is the end of the report I hope you had fun reading my report about the kereru.

Kereru art

Here is  my Kereru art that our class did with pastels and copied it onto our camp book to a black piece of paper. (The image is below the words) I hope you enjoy it  and also a "Kereru VS Possum" facts.

       Kereru VS Possum

       

“As Ku Ku slept” by Erin Devlin, Annie                            Kereru	Jeanne                         Possum
Native Bird Native bird Wood pigeon Eat seeds whole and spreading them by poo, helping our native trees. Its illegal to kill and eat Kereru Kereru can fly up to 50 kilometers in search for food. Kereru eat between 60-70 native trees varieties.	Pest Brown Big eyes Threat to birds Dangerous Black Family with Stoats and Ferrets Kills birds Killer zone Almost every female possum has a baby every year. Possums can live up to 14 years. Possums damage and eat our bushes  and farm props.

Kereru art
                                                               Sketch art

                                               
                                                                      Real art

                  
                                                               Real image of Kereru at camp!