My Earthquake PMI.

Kia ora,  my fello commenters
Today I did a P M I and an information report about earthquakes. A P M I explains what I liked about, what I didn't like about it and what I found interesting about it.
 Earthquakes 
 An earthquake is when the crust of the earth shakes really strongly. They are caused by the mantle moving the crust. The mantle moves tectonic plates on the crust apart and together. Sometimes when plates touch each other they get stuck for a while. But the mantle keeps moving and eventually a weak part of a plate cracks and the plates break apart suddenly. Earthquakes can do a lot of damage by breaking roads and houses. When the earthquake breaks a building it can fall on people so make sure that you're under a table when you're having an earthquake.

Is the Earth like a hard-boiled egg?

Kia ora 

We are learning about what the Earth is like on the outside and the inside. We used hard-boiled eggs as mini-models for the earth. We got to design our own continents and islands on the outside of the egg shell. At the end of the experiment we got to eat the egg!

Here is the link to our science experiment.

The Structure of the Earth Facts

Structure of the Earth Facts

We are learning about the structure of the Earth.

I learnt that the Earth is made up of 4 layers. They are: Crust Mantle Outer Inner.

Facts about each layer:

Crust -The Crust is made up of soil and rock. It is 8 to 40kms thick.

Mantle - The Mantle is really hot and is squishy liqud. It is the thickest layer.

Outer Core - The Outer Core is even hotter and is runny to. It is 4000-6000*C.

Inner Core - The Inner Core is even hotter then the Outer Core and the mantle and is rock solid
because of all the pressure from the other layers.

Our group -  

First we created a 3D image of the earth using clay.

We then cut the shape in half to show the

different layers. After waiting for it to dry, we

identifiedee each layer by painting them in different colours

Below are some pictures of our work.

halving shapes

Hello my fello commenters

We have been learning about halving shapes.
The reason behind this task was to find halves of tricky shapes.
The thing I found hard was that not all the shapes were even on both sides.
Something that helped me was using the squares in the background.

Mixed Ability Maths

Hello fellow bloggers,

This term we have been doing mixed ability maths.

I feel good about mixed-ability maths.

The thing that I have enjoyed about mixed-ability maths was all of the work is really easy.

The thing that I found difficult about mixed ability maths was that  my group was hard to communicate with because they keep on drawing pictures that has nothing to do with our work on our work.

I would change my group to change my negitive thinking

I can ask the teacher to do it.

A cat is a life form because...

We have been learning how to write a fishbone diagram and also doing research about The living world so our teachers gave us this writing task. we learned what a fishbone diagram is and how to use a completed  one to make our own using a life form of our own choice. We had to organise the fact boxes by using MRS GREN witch is an acronym which reminds you about what life forms do. Here is mine. I chose to write about a cat. The thing that I liked about it is that you could do eyerything. The thing that was easy was that I know everything about cats. So here is my writing.                                                                             

Fruit Art

Kia Ora Fellow Bloggers. We are all doing some 'All about me' activities. I chose Fruit Art. In this activity we had to create ourselves using our favorite fruit and veg. Finding some of the Maori words was quite hard for me. Choosing what things to use for myself was pretty easy. I used the arrange tool to make some of my body parts go to front or back. This is mine:
Ka Kite Ano!