Art Exhibition

Come to The Parkvale School Art Exhibition 'Visual Art Inspired by Artists of Aotearoa' We are so proud of our art and how we told 'The Story of Us'.

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All the children of Parkvale School have created a special piece of art. Make it a family outing to the exhibition. It is open before school, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, this week and until 6pm each night.

Reports

We have been learning to write reports.

We have read lots of different reports and looked at what is different between reports and stories. 

We created our own mixed up animals and wrote reports about them.

BEARFLY

A bearfly swarms through the sky just like a butterfly. They are wondercrump creatures. the bearfly has big red googly eyes. Also a bearfly has brown coloured ears. Inside the ears is pink fur. A bearfly has a jet black wet nose. The bearfly has wondercrump wings. the colour on the wings are sky blue, canary yellow and lime green. The colour of the skin is cocoa brownish gold. It has a pink furry belly with rough pink pieces of skin on the paws. A bearflys first favourite food is fruit. the second favourite is vegetables. It nibbles quickly on the food and swallows it down. A bearfly lives in a pitch black den that is spooky slimy and smelly. It lives with its babies. the enemy is a great white shark. Something about a bearfly is that it can fly fast. Another thing that is special to a bearfly is it can stay alive for millions of years. Have you seen a bearfly? 

Created and written by Emily

GORLION

A gorlion is an odd animal. it is part gorilla and part lion. 

Appearance and Movement

My animals body is gold and furry. My animal can run and jump to other trees.  A gorlion has a furry branch like tail and flappy flying fly swat at the bottom of the tail. He has cocoa eyes and white eyes too. 

Habitat

They live with their families in the forest. There home is far away from New Zealand it is overseas. 

Diet

The grolion munches up the stripy lemurs. He camouflages and goes and hides in the golden grass. When the lemurs get close the gorlion jumps out and catches the lemur with his sharp claws. 

Predators

The gorlions enemy is the giant cheetahs. The gorlion tries to hide from the giant cheetah. He climbs a big tree. There is lots of animals at their home so the cheetahs run away. 

Created and written by Damarco  

CATCRAB

A catcrab is a much more dangerous animal than any other crabs in the world. It has two sandy sharp nippers and eight bendy crab legs, poking out eyes and shiny wet claws and two sharp incisors for biting its prey. A cat crabs body is covered in thick ginger fur. It also has a stubby fluffy ginger tail.

Movement

It scuttles sideways and sneaks like a crab. A catcrab climbs a tree and it pounces .

Diet and Habitat

It gobbles fish, seeds, baby fish, bugs, food scraps and jelly meat. It lives in the sandy beach, rocks pools and underwater in the ocean. Catcrabs as pets like to sleep on the side of the bed. Catcrabs snap at noses and play with bugs.

Enemies

Sealions, killer whales and dogs like to hunt catcrabs. 

Unique Characteristics

Catcrabs purr like a cat.

There were thousands of catcrabs then humans killed hundreds to cook them in a restaurant to get thousands of dollars of cash then catcrabs were getting endangered. So there were only 10 catcrabs left in the world.

Created and Written By Sam

GUINPUS

A guinpus is half penguin and half octopus. they have a pointy beak and eight long tentacles with sticky suckers that stick to anything. It also has lumpy eyes and flippers for arms on the side. 

How does a Guinpus move? 

A guinpus moves by wiggling side to side and sways. A guinpus can also move by floating in the water and using his flipper to glide. 

Diet

A guinpus eats snapper and shark and sea snails. 

Habitat 

A guinpus lives in cold water that is really sparkly like a shiny castle. 

Enemies

A guipus' enemies is a grey shark and sperm whale and fishermen. Fishermen are an enemy because they catch the guinpus on purpose to eat. 

Unique Characteristics

A guinpus is special because they spread their ink all over enemies actually it kills their enemies. There is only one left in the world. It is endangered now and when that one dies it will be extinct.

Created and Wriiten by Pinenga

FISHCAT

A fish cat is extremely so so cute and very unique. A fishcat is half cat and half fish.

Appearance

The fishcat has shiny scales on most of her skinny body. She has long spiky whiskers and she has red and green striped fins. A catfish also has furry legs with soft small paws on the end, a wide mouth and small round lemon golden eyes. Her tail is pink and dotty.

Movement

The fishcat always like to cattypaddle through the sea. A fishcat opens and closes its mouth when it is eating fish and other seafood. 

Habitat

It lives in the deep sea with the swaying seaweed. 

Predators

A fishcat's predators is a whaleshark, sea sharks and octopus of course. An octopus can eat fishcats. The fishcats can swim faster before the octopus gobbles it all up because the tentacles are too short. 

Endangered

This amazing species is endangered. There  are four more left. If you catch one drop your fishing line we don't want to eat any. We can protect the fishcat by making a marine reserve where their predators can not get them.

Created and Written by Marcus

LIBUN

A libun has a big fluffy mane around her neck and a peachy coloured body and sharp claws to catch its feast. It also has a cute fluffy round cream coloured tail.

How does a libun move?

A libun sprints on two legs and bolts on four legs and hops on one leg. 

Diet

A libun catches fish with its sharp claws and a libun hunts people to eat. A libun gobbles its prey up. 

Habitat

A libun lives in a deep dark cave and a pitch black den with all sorts of insects and family.

Enemies

A libuns predators is a sea lion and dogs and cats. They creep up on a libun. To protect  themselves they hop into a hole. The predator scrapes the skin off it.

A libun is the fastest animal in the world and has a man around its neck even when it is a lioness. 

Created and Written by Gwen 

DOGISH

A dogish is half fish and half dog.

Appearance

It has enormous gross lips and fat scales. It has two fins on the side and three

fins at the back.The fins are special because each one is colourful.

Habitat

A dogish lives in a mammoth sea all the way at the bottom of the sea. It lives with a school of other dogish.

Diet

A dogish eats starfish and nemo fish, and sometimes when its really hungry it eats seaweed.

Predators

A Dogish predator is an ugly electric eel who tries to sting him. The dogish protects itself by using its strong tail to swim away and hit the eel on its face.

Endangered

A dogish is endangered because people have been going in the sea and wrecking their home. If you do want a dogish to survive STOP wrecking their home.

Created and Wriiten By Nevaeh

EAGSHARK

An Eagshark is an unique  animal. It is half Eagle and half Shark.

Appearance

An Eagshark has a large 3 meter tail that steers the Eagshark ,a yellow beak that is very sharp ,brown face feathers that keep its face warm. An Eagshark  has 15cm fins that helps it glide through the water and 1m pomamanya (dorsal fin).

Habitat

An Eagshark lives in a sea cave underwater. A Eagsharks sea cave is full of coral and sea kelp. It lives on its own.

Predator

A great white shark tears the Eagshark apart. The Eagshark protects itself by stopping like its frozen and then ...

4 boxes come out both sides and top and bottom. There is a speedy engine part on the back and a gun part on the front .

Diet

A Eagshark is an omnivore. It eats whale sharks and basking sharks because they are sluggish and easy to catch. They also eat coral and sea kelp.

Created and written by James

Our next challenge is to find information about a real animal and write a report.
Keep an eye on the blog for some of these reports over the next few weeks. 

How many parts make a whole

We are learning how many parts make a whole. We have learnt that all parts of a fraction need to be the same size. 

Our challenge was to make a cake shop. In cake shops the cakes are cut up into parts so pieces can be sold. We had to cut the cakes up into different fractions and write the number sentence to show how many parts make up 1 whole. 

Created by Janice and Damarco

Created by Chahat

Created by Blake

Created by Blair

Created by Angus M and Whetu

Created by Kamora-Lee

Created by Holly

Created by Sam

Superhero Learning

The Superheroes of Room 1617 have worked so hard all term being wonderful managing self learners. Mrs Ramsay and Mrs H are so so proud of all you have achieved throughout the term. We celebrated our learning with ice cream spiders. YUM YUM!

Celebrating Our Learning on PhotoPeach

Have the most amazing holiday filled with happiness, fun and exciting memories. We look forward to next term and all the learning adventures we will have.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE

Thank you to Georgina for being the wonderful photographer.

Reducing Rubbish

After visiting the Landfill it has made us really think about the amount of rubbish we create everyday. 

Manauka Hub gave us a challenge of having a rubbish free lunchbox. Lots of  us took on the challenge. Here are some of the rubbish free lunchboxes from Room 1617.

We have made reusable sandwich wraps so we can create less rubbish in our lunchbox everyday.

Here are the steps if you want to make your own sandwich wrap. You can wrap other food in it too. Jessica has a sandwich wrap and a biscuit wrap.

First you choose the fabric you want to make your sandwich wrap from. 

Wow, we had so many to choose from.

Next you choose a shape for your sandwich wrap. We decided on a rectangle. Then you draw around the template.

 After that you use special scissors called pinking shears to cut out the fabric. The pinking shears are special because they stop  the fabric from fraying. We found out how tricky it is to cut fabric. 

Next you need to sprinkle grated beeswax on to the fabric.

(The adults had to grate the beeswax because that was really hard).

The beeswax smells delicious like honey but does not taste that good!

 After that you put it in the oven and wait patiently for the beeswax to melt.

You need to wait for a little while for the beeswax to dry and then you have your very own reusable sandwich wrap.

To test out our sandwich wraps we made sandwiches and guess what? They worked really well and the superheroes can wrap their own sandwiches really easily.

Even though the sandwich wraps smell like the beeswax they do not make our food taste any different. If the sandwich wrap gets dirty we can just wipe them clean with a cloth.

Thank you so much to all the parents who came in to help us make our sandwich wraps. We appreciate you giving up your time. 

Lunch time. Yummy! 

The challenge is for Room 1617 to use their sandwich wraps over and over again to reduce the amount of rubbish in their lunchbox. 

We are not only saving the environment but also money. We will not need to buy as much gladwrap. 

Probability - The Chance of Something Happening

WALA probability or the chance of something happening. We can use our fractions knowledge to work out the fraction of a chance of something happening. Playing 'chance' games is a great way to explore fractions and the chance of something happening.

We can create a Singapore Bar to show the whole and the fraction.

 

 Probability - The Chance of Something Happening.What fraction of a chance? on PhotoPeach

Recycling

We have been learning about how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle.

 Did you know that not all plastics are the same? 

We looked at some different plastics items and grouped them according to the numbers found on the plastic. The recycling number for plastic is found inside a triangle. It was easy to spot on some things but we had to look carefully to find it on other things. Some plastic items did not have a recycling symbol or number and this means it can not be recycled. 

Katie and Damarco looking carefully for the recycling number

All of these items have a number 1 on them

Ruben found a recycling number on this big bucket
then everyone began looking at all the plastic items around the classroom
to find out they can be recycled

James hunting for a recycling number but he couldn't find one

Even though these milk bottles look different they are both a number 2 plastic

Mac checking the lid and bottle have the same recycling number

Number 5 was found on all these items

Some lids and bottles had different recycling numbers.
We thought this was strange.

Blake found out that plastic shopping bags do not have a recycling number but
the small plastic bags have a recycling number of 4.

This is from the Hastings District Council website and shows what you can recycle and where it can be recycled.