This podcast is talking about how pencil leads stick to paper?

Running Notes

Pencils are made out of wood. 

And pencils can write on paper.

Pencil lead stick to paper because when you write with a pencil  you are creating Friction. Pencils were found in 1500s.

Key Ideas

The podcast is talking about pencils and how does the pencil lead stick to paper. Pencil lead stick to paper because when you write with a pencil  you are creating Friction.

This podcast is how does pencil lead stick to paper?

This term we have been learning to put important Information from the podcast into the running notes.

Running Notes

It brights up half the world.

It’s closer than stars. 150 million km away. Take a car 180 years to get there. The closer you get to the sun it get hotter and brighter. 100 million explosions every second.

Key Ideas

The podcast is talking about the sun and how it lights up. I liked how they explained that the sun is 150 million km away from us.

The podcast is about interesting facts about the sun.

This term we have been learning to take important information from the podcast into the running notes.

Running Notes

Kangaroos jump instead of walking, they jump for over 70 km an hour. Goats have rectangular pupils to help them watch out for predators while there eating that’s also why their eyes are on the side of their head. Octopuses have 3 hearts. Sheep have 4 stomachs.

Key Ideas

The podcast is talking about animals and things people don’t really know about them. 

I like how they talked about all the animals because I didn’t even know some of these facts.

This podcast is about interesting facts about animals.

This term we have been learning about Diwali, this is little facts and stuff iv’e put in here.

This term me and my class have been learning about Hypothermia and Bush survival, and Heat Exhaustion.

We are learning all of this because we are going on a big hike we are going there next week. And we will be there for 2 days.

We learnt that armistice day Is a way to remember people from the returned services.

We are also learning about the time and date that they signed the treaty that ended the war (time: 11 am) (date:11th)

I learnt that the first world war started in 1914 and ended in 1918. 

Last term we were learning about science. Our first topic was bounce-ability.

What you do is you drop the ball from the roller then measure how high it goes. Then the next day you will do the same and see if there’s a different. 

Our question:

What do you want to find out? 

Draw a labelled diagram. 

What are you going to do? 

What do you think will happen? 

What things will you keep the same? 

What did you find out?

Last term we celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. You could choose if you wanted to do a poem or a diorama and I did one a diorama with Mienke and we did a forest.

We had to display the names with Maori names.  I learnt all the Maori name’s for are forest like the tree is

(Rakau)and river(Awa) 

I also did the Maori names of money.