Book week

Book week

Book week is a full on week that I was lucky to be a part of.  However I had to be creative on Friday as I was at One Day School.

On Monday Stu Duval came to school in the first half of the day. He did some cartooning with us. He turned the number 5 into a cartoon dinosaur, the letter M into an angry face and the word ‘um’ into a camel! In the 2nd half of school Stu Duval told us the story of the crash that happened way back in 1890s with the ‘HMS Orpheus’ ship.  For reading activities in room 6 we will also make bookmarks and posters to promote books.

On Tuesday for book week Stu Duval came to our classroom to answer some of the questions we had. One of the questions we asked was, how do you get your ideas, so he told us about his idea book. At the end we all (everyone who was there, some people left early) rushed towards him to get his autograph.

On Wednesday for book week James Russel (the author of the dragon tamers,  dragon hunters, dragon finders, and dragon defenders) came to school to tell us about the books he writes. He told us about the time he stabbed himself with a hunting knife (while trying to spilt some crumpets that were frozen together). As well as writing the words James puts in virtual reality links in the books.  This is really exciting to have parts of the book come to life!

I think book week is a good idea and is really good week for people who enjoy reading.

Water Cycle

How the Water Cycle Works 

By Matthew 

I am learning to inform my audience with an explanation writing

The water cycle, what is the water cycle, do we really know the water cycle? The water cycle can be really simple for children to understand however, it can also be extremely complicated. Did you know three quarters of the earth is covered in water? But only 3 percent is freshwater and from that three percent only one percent is drinkable because the other 2 percent is ice. All the water that has been on earth has always been here, the water cycle recycles the water through a cycle. The water cycle is a series of repetitive parts that depend on each other. The three main stages are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Let’s look at the first stage of the water cycle.

Evaporation in the water cycle is when the sun heats up water turning it into water vapor. Solids and liquids cool when they evaporate because they give up energy to the escaping molecules. Evaporation of sweat on the skin helps control the human body's temperature. Evaporation process by which a liquid or solid becomes a vapor. Hot water evaporating inside the towers creates steam that rises from large cooling towers.Evaporation is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor. Evaporation is the primary pathway that water moves from the liquid state back into the water cycle as atmospheric water vapor.The reverse process is condensation.




Condensation is the next part of the water cycle. Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water. Condensation is crucial to the water cycle because it is responsible for the formation of clouds. So what happens during condensation in the water cycle? Water droplets run down the lid and falls back into the pot. That is simply what happens during condensation. Condensation the process by which water vapor (gas) in the atmosphere turns into water (liquid state).The water particles bump into the aerosols and stick together.


Precipitation is the last part of the water cycle before going back to evaporation.
So what is precipitation? Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. It is the connection in the water cycle that provides the delivery of atmospheric water to the Earth. Most precipitation falls as rain. Precipitation can only occur after condensation, which is when water turns from a gas to a liquid. The atmosphere is filled with water vapor, which is water in a gaseous state. Sometimes this water vapor cools and builds up on dust particles in the atmosphere, forming a cloud.




In conclusion each part of the water cycle depends on each other. The water cycle is made up of 3 parts evaporation condensation precipitation. But in various climate conditions one part can be dominant. So there you have it the Water Cycle.

Cross Country

It was Good Shepherd School's Cross Country. All the students watched as we worked until it was our turn to run. When it was our turn we had to do 2 laps. We started on the field by the tennis court, went up Telford Ave, around the turf, behind the classrooms, up to the gates through the up top playground and so on. Until the 2 laps were finished, but on the last lap instead of going round the turf and behind the classrooms we went around the field to about the end of the field. It was fun. I came 5th.

MindPlus - One Day School 2019

When do you go to MindPlus?

On a Friday instead of going to Good Shepherd School

What is the class room like?

The classroom is basically like the school classrooms except there are computers instead of Chromebook and there is a heater.

How long does the class last?

Well it’s starts same time as GSS but instead of ending 3 O’clock it ends at quarter to 3. I have swimming straight after ].

Why do you go to MindPlus?

Because it’s a school for gifted people like me =) (And maybe YOU)! But I passed a test which proved I was gifted and learn some things faster.

What different things do you to at MindPlus?

Not much. The class has 14 people in it and you can wear mufti.  We don't sit on desks,  were allowed to fidget around, we usually do one main subject for the term.

Do you still get homework?

No, but sometimes we get passion projects which are basically projects on stuff were good at.

Do you get school reports?

Yes, but sort of different from our school reports but pretty much the same.

So thanks for reading this please leave a comment.

The End =)

Samoan week

Samoan language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger phrases, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa.

Water Cycle in a Bag

This week for science we completed water cycle experiments. One of the experiments was the water cycle in a bag. We placed some coloured liquid into the bag after we can drawn the water cycle on the outside of the bag to show the stage. The stages are evaporation, condensation, precipitation and accumulation. The heat source from the sun or in our case the classroom would create the water cycle. We stuck the zip lock bag to the window. I really enjoyed this experiment and it looks really cool on our windows. Here is a picture of my water cycle in a bag.

Science Experiment

This term we are learning about the water cycle. We did some science experiments to see how some of the stages work. First we learnt about air particles, we got plastic straws and gently blew through them onto our hands and felt them. We then got little mirrors and put them close to our faces then breathed on them, this showed us condensation. Then someone blew up a balloon and put it in a bucket of water then let go. This was to show the gas particles in the balloon. The last experiment we did involved three balloons, one was only blown up a little bit, one was blown up a bit more and the last one was blown up all the way. We had fun pushing against the sides to feel the pressure of the air inside it. Overall these were fun wet experiments and showed us learning about gases and liquids.