Miss T's Classroom.

Challenge 3

Somes Island is in the middle of Wellington Harbour. It’s a scientific reserve free of predators of  the birds and creatures living on the island. In the first world war it was home of prisoners of war (P.O.W) and an a.a gun.This island has many, about fifty trails and one leads to the old lighthouse.  (Connor)

The Beehive  is the popular name for the executive wing of the parliamentary complex, because of the buildings shape.  This is where the prime minister adn the cabinet ministers have offices and where the cabinet meets.      By Joseph.

Wellington Cable Car.  You can find this on Lampton Quay.  There are two, but they only use one track.  They operate by making the track divide into two in the middle.  The cable car is red.  You can find it by looking for the pole with a cable car on it.  At the top you can access the cable car shop and the beautiful Botanic Gardens.   (Antonio)

The Botanical Garden  was made in 1886. The Botanical Garden is a very nice place to walk and relax with the beautiful flowers. It is nice to have a picnic or walk your dog. You  then take a tour with the cable car. By Beatrice and Amelia.

Te Papa is in Wellington.  It is our national museum and you’ll find a lot about legends, history and animals.  You can also see a 3D movie on an octapus.  There is also a nice cafe to eat while watching the birds.  Many of the exhibits are interactive.  Its a great museum.  By Britney.

 Statue of Mary.  The statue of Mary is on the top of the hill beside our school.  People coming south down state highway 1 can see her as they come into the Kapiti Coast.  She is 14 metres high and she was made in 1957.  Her halo is made of metal and it lights up the night. Hanging from her arm is a rosary beads with a cross on it.  (Breellen).

Lindale is a great activity centre on the way into Paraparaumu.  It is just off state highway one.  Lindale is a great place to take the family to, because its got a farm adn you can feed animals, there is a huge playground and a bunch of shops.  Lindale would be a great place to visit.  (Daniel M)

Kapiti Island.  This island is just off our coast and it is a bird scantuary.  It takes about 25 minutes by boat to get there.  You need a special permit to go there and they only allow a certain number of people on there each day.  You can see native bush and you can do the climb to the top or walk about.  There are lots of native birds to see.  Its a beautiful place.

Southwards Car museum has hundreds of cars, all of them olden day! there are quite a few olden day airaplanes too. it is very big. I reckon the Car museum is cool and I don’t like cars  that much, so think how much somebody who does like cars would like it!                     By Monique

Nga Manu is a nature reserve that shows all our native Fauna and flora.( animals and plants )

They can show you areal live kiwi and tuatara. They even have over seven hundred plants. You can hold all sorts of stuff there, BBQ, Guided tours and even weddings!  That is why you should viset  Nga Manu.

 

We are just ending week 8.  So who has Amelia decided is going to be our worker of the week, listen in.  I have been noticing her this week too, and I agree with Amelia.  She came up with a wonderful strategy for solving a maths problem when Mrs S was here during the week.

On Wednesday Mrs M came into our classroom to teach some people about adding and subtracting.  She taught us how to add using tidy numbers with rounding & compensating, and she taught us halving and doubling with Place Value and she also taught us to use Reversibilty.

I’ve got a cat, he’s got white paws and white feet, he’s mostly ginger.  He’s six years old and he’s thirty five in cat years so he’s pretty old, I got him when I was four I’m ten now, he got given to me because the people who owned him couldn’t look after him.  He’s got a friend called “Nugget,” Nugget has black fur all over, she is really shy she sometimes runs away from every stranger who comes near her.   He spends most of the day sleeping on my bed and most of his night time outside,  Gizmo always goes next door all the time.  When he’s not sleeping.  One time he got lost in a huge field and it took us three days for us to find him.  He spends most of the day sleeping on my bed and most of his night time outside.

By Amelia

This term I learnt about colour is how to mix colours and we did heaps and heaps of stuff about colour the first thing we did was visit a Monet exhibition in Wellington at Te Papa.  We learned that Monet and his friends never used black they would use a darker colour for shadows and that when he makes cold paintings he would always put a little bit of warm in it.  For example if he was drawing a snowy day he would put a cactus in it or something that makes it look cold.

By Amelia

Hi my name is Amelia,I’m 9 years old turning 10 on May the 2nd. I like reading and drawing, I also like netball, I like netball because it’s fun.  Idid an avatar it’s a kea, I did a kea because keas have colourful feathers and they’re my favourite bird.