Tawa @ Ngatea Primary School

Yesterday 23/6/16 when I got home from school I walk inside to see a tank because for ages I've been wanting fish so I ask where is the fish and my mum told me to look on the floor and in a bucket there is a ice- cream container with two black Axolotls and I picked the bigger one and Tumai (my brother) got the littler one then I took a closer look and in the bucket I saw a tail, then I lifted up the container with the axolotls in it and there was a baby freshwater eel. We boiled some hot water and put it into the tank then went and brought some ice to cool it down to 20 degrees and putting the axolotls in was tricky but we did then the eel was so calm and tamed. Apparently you are not supposed to put axolotls with other creatures but the person we got it off said that the eel and axolotls are getting on fine and they still are now. My axolotls name is Mr Midnight, Tumai's one I don't know because he has changed it so many times and the baby fresh water eels name is Mr Haz...

Government Pays For People To Move From Auckland New Zealand government is paying anyone from Auckland to move to another part of the country and be payed $5,000 in cash. Auckland Is trying to make an effort to tackle housing crisis, New Zealand Government has seen housing prices fly up in the last couple of years and has been leaving families in dire conditions. My opinion: I think it is good also bad because I thinks its good the government is trying to help other families but I also think it’s bad because they're trying to make people move from there home and they could stop immigrants from coming in and make the house prices lower. My Questions Who agrees with this? Why is The Government letting Immigrants take New Zealanders house and land? If you were wondering Dire means extremely serious or urgent. Immigrants people who come to countries and buy land and house and start to live there. Effort a vigorous or determined attempt

This week on Monday we had to share our IE with our learning teams and all parents and other family members were invited. MY presentation was on police which we had to work on with our creation after that we had to do a reflection and give feedback to another person in our learning team. This is my reflection If you can’t read it go here

May 2016 One family went on a holiday and went to a zoo called Cincinnati’s zoo the 4 year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and was badly injured after being dragged and thrown around the enclosure in shin deep water. After ten minutes the zoo keepers and firemen and police had to make the decision to shoot the gorilla dead. They didn't use a tranquillizer because it takes too long and that would make it angry and the gorilla would really badly hurt the boy. This gorilla was a rare type of gorilla 17 years old and only been there for 4 years in the zoo they were looking forward to breeding them to have more rare gorillas the his name was Harambe. Also there were two other female gorillas in the enclosure but the zoo keepers got them out. The boy was taken to a hospital and is now recovering. It was not the gorillas fault in my eyes the boy should have not been trying to get in there and the gorilla didn't know what to do. Click here to watch video

These last four weeks we have been doing metal for tech and we made a candle holder out of brass. First we got a square piece and cut in in to a circle shape the file it into a really circle shape, Then we got a rectangle piece and measured 35 cm in from each side and then bent both of the sides so they are parallel. Next we got a real thin piece for the handle we estimated 4 mm and bent the top of it then we put it around a pole and bent it to the right shape for the base. Mr Chivers put our circle into the centre lathe and made a bowl for the candle to stay in. Once we had all the pieces right we soldered all the pieces that needed to be stuck together once we were finished the solder dried to quick so we and of the pieces in right place and put them on a brick and the teacher blow torched it and made the solder melt again. We cooled it in water and we had to finish up next week and polish them so they look good and maybe if we need to we will use emery tape to take of the solder t...

This week our goal is: To organise myself to be ready to learn. I know I need to take a break from my learning. To achieve this I will have a better sleep go to bed earlier. Have a healthy breakfast in the morning. Half an hour before lunch or so and drink some water and regally drink water That was our goal last week I did achieve my first one I was going to bed at the right time at nine o'clock and asleep at nine fifteen. I did not achieve having a healthy breakfast because I did have much time to because I got up at eight o'clock every morning because I love to sleep in then I have a shower and stuff like that. I achieved the last one definitely because I was drinking loads of water and I did have little healthy snacks like fruit and things like that during class time and also having a break like a run every now and then.