Reading Work: Matariki

This week for reading my group is reading about Matariki. Our first task is to fill out a form of what we already know about Matariki. Matariki Celebrates the Māori new year. It includes the 7 stars or sisters. Their names are: Tupuanuku, Tupuarangi, Waiti and Waita, Waipuna, rangi, Ururangi and Matariki. Matariki Is the mother of the sisters, the only time matariki

The SVA

The SVA is a group of lots of students that live in Christchurch, they help people that have suffered in the earthquakes. The group has around 3,000 people in it. The SVA started in 2011 with around 300 people in it. The group just kept expanding, they also donate food to the people that dont have much food. They all buy the food with their money, non of them have to do this but they all do. If you want to you can search them up to see all the work they do

The Water Cycle

For writing the last weeks we had to write about the water cycle this
is my writing

The Hydrologic cycle is the same as the water cycle. The water cycle
is what makes all the weather thats wet happen

Water gets heated by the sun and turns into gas, then that gas floats
into the air and gets condensed and makes a cloud. The water vapor
turns into water droplets.

The weather can vary between, Rain, Hail and Snow after that It all
melts over again and evaporates into clouds and then the water cycle
starts over again.

Volcanic Eruptions

For Kete me and logan made a video talking about what we wrote about volcanic eprutions.

Buddhist Temple

Going to the Buddha Temple

On May the 22nd the year 8 classes went to a Buddha temple to practice 3G4G. When we got there we got spoken to by a man that was volunteering at the temple. The first activity my group did was to make a lotus flower from paper, the lotus flower grows from a seed in the mud the flower can grow in the chinese gardens or lakes. It can Grow through the dirtiest water as well. After we did that we had to bathe the Buddha in water when we did that we had to half bow to the Buddha and pour water over him. When we did his right shoulder we had to say different things from the 3G4G then we had some food and water

Learning From Earthquakes Chart

Today I made a Screencastify about my reading task. The task was to put sentences form the article into my own words with the concept of different things in the article .

How A Tsunami Is Formed

How A Tsunami Is Formed

The way a tsunami is formed from tectonic plates sliding, volcanic eruptions and underwater landslides. Then that pulls gravity up and the water goes with it above the normal sea level then crashes down with waves under water and hits the shore with a huge wave that make the tsunami. Tsunamis are very deadly as the wave get to over 100 ft high (over 30 m) and can have speeds of up to over 500 mph (over 800 kmh). There is also a trough and a crest in the waves. The trough is the lower part of a wave and the crest is the higher part. Tsunamis can go very far in shore so it would be safe to run as far and fast as possible. In some places they put walls or safety barriers.