Pakiri Beach

Running along white sand towards rough waves was really cool. But jumping into it was more fun. We were at Pakiri Beach jumping and swimming with big waves.It was me and my cousins. We were looking for a good spot where there were neat waves.

Camp Bentzon

One of my highlight for the camp at Kawau island for year 6 2009, Camp Bentzon was Mr Coop's food. Every day he would bake a whole lot of buns. It would be nice and hot , freshly baked and its taste would be yum . My favourite food that was made by Mr Coop was very delicous and it was Lasagne. For lunch we would have Hot dogs or Burgers.

At Camp Bentzon there are 4  groups . The 4 groups are called different names like Katz, Kawau, Bentzon and Mansion. In the groups there are A's and B's , Katz A & Katz B, Kawau A & Kawau B, Bentzon A & Bentzon B, Mansion A & Mansion B.The team I was in was Kawau B.

My Blog Wordle

In extension Mrs Burt showed us how to use "Wordle". Wordle is a website that shows you how many words you have. It also shows how much you have used it by how big it is. You can change the colour and also change the fonts.

Video Conference With Hamish Campbell

                    
On Wednesday the 5th of August at 9'am the extension group had a video conference with Hamish Campbell and also Diana-Grace. Hamish Campbell is a very famous Geologists in New Zealand. The reason for this conference is for us to learn about the Fiordland earthquake and more.

 Hamish taught us a lot of interesting facts. There are a few that I remember. He told us that there are 2 kinds of plates called the "Pacific Plate " and " Australian Plate ". The earthquake was called Dusky Sound. 

 He explained to us how the earthquake happened. The 2 plates hit each other and pushed against the other one. It was meant to crash but instead the Pacific plate slid 5 meters under. The earthquake lasted for only 30 seconds.

He also told us about the earthquake that happened in 1976 in Tangshan, China. It only lasted for 15 seconds and was very huge. There was a big amount of people that had died during the earthquake. 242,000 people had died in a building.

 Thanks to Diana-Grace and Hamish Campbell for sharing very interesting facts about the Fiordland earthquake and also thanks to Te Papa museum.

  

My Report About Red Admiral Butterflies

Australian butterflies are often blown out to sea. They nearly always die because they sometimes fail because they don't reach the land.

     There are other kinds of butterflies, like the red admiral butterfly. The red admiral butterfly is not only native to New Zealand. It is also found nowhere else naturally. The red admiral caterpillar also takes advantage of the toxic ongaonga. The food ongaonga is a vicious stinging plant that has been known to kill people and even horses. The brightly coloured stripes on the adult upper wings are another self-protecting feature.  

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are very large lizards that used to live in certain places like forests and deserts.                                                                                                                                                                                                        On the first day of term 2,we had immersion assembly. Immersion assembly is to find out what our topic for the whole term is. Mr Burt and the teachers were all dressed up in different costumes that was to do with our topic which was Dino-Might.Mr Burt Cracker the cave man. He had a very big cracker in his hand that he cracks pterodactyl or others for him to eat.

          Dinosaurs are extinct creatures. Dinosaurs used to live in the time before humans. They lived near water and also lived on land. They lived until the end of the cretaceous period.

         

Extension Google Earth

Yesterday at extension we went on google earth.Google earth was fun. We could look at other country's as well. When I typed down a country it took me to it. The first country I located was New Zealand,so it took me there through the Internet. While I was looking around in New Zealand I just found out that you do the street sight. When I found out I quickly typed my address.