WALT: Know who is part of the Communion of Saints
In Room 2 our R.E task was to make a Google Drawing of The Communion of Saints. There is 3 sections of the group.
WALT: Follow the Technology Design Process (TDP)
In Room 2 for our Inquiry we are following the TDP because we are going to make Christmas decorations. Our client was Ms Rooney and she asked for Catholic Christmas Decorations and the first thing we had to do was to make a brainstorm about what we would do!
WALT: Write an explanation
In Room 2 these past 2 weeks we have been focusing on environmental problems and how the world is reacting to it. One of our task was to write and explanation about an environmental problem, and I chose Wildfires, since it is 2 problems in 1 because it also harms the problem: Deforestation. Wildfires burn down our forests and animals homes, so its a big threat to our Earth! π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
Here is the writing piece:
Did you know that if we don't try to help the effect of Wildfires on our Earth, 8,000 Wildfires could happen in the next year? Wildfires are a much bigger threat to the earth than you think, because at the end of this year, there will have been around 4,000 - 5,000 Wildfires. That's crazy! How big is this issue? How can we fix it?
If you are in a country where it’s very sunny, like Australia, there is a much higher chance of a Wildfire happening. Australia is also known for their Wildfires, and the amount of fires that are occurring is just going to get larger if we don’t try and find solutions.
The Wildfires are the sun. The second they touch something, there is no escape for it. Wildfires are just like a house fire. Wildfires travel fast and aren't a help for the Earth, because all the smoke rises to the air, and pollutes it. Wildfires are also another reason why birds are going extinct. The air makes it hard to breathe and their homes are all burned to ashes.
The main reason why these wild raging Wildfires are appearing are because of cigarette butts. People who smoke carelessly throw them into a bush, or in a forest. The cigarette butt could still be on fire, or very hot and that starts a fire. Lots of people, and animals, especially Koalas. Now all of you are probably not aware of how many Koalas are actually damaged. Around 60,000 are hurt or pass away from Wildfires. Koalas live in the forest and when a Wildfire occurs, it ruins their homes and damages them. Lots of Koalas get terribly affected, and it's so unfair. π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
So, How can we try to stop this madness? Some solutions we could use to narrow down the amount of fires are: Keep your vehicles off dry grass, and make sure your campfire is ice cold before leaving, or going to sleep or when you wake up, there might be a huge Wildfire! Usually fires happen in unpopulated areas, or they can happen naturally by the heat of sunlight, or a lighting strike, because all a Wildfire needs to occur is just fuel, oxygen and heat. Some days in certain countries the chance of a Wildfire could go straight up from 40% to 70%!!
A huge reason why we need to stop Wildfires is because lots of people and species are affected by it. Wildfires are linked with deforestation, so a Wildfire is basically 2 problems in 1, since they destroy forest’s and lots of animals' homes, including birds and other animals who use forest’s as a place they can use to live, get teared down to ruins. Stopping Wildfires is a must. If we do somehow make a huge effect on Wildfires. That number of 5,000 could go down to around 500 - 1,000!
In conclusion, the faster we try to stop these the better the Earth would be much healthier because there isn’t so much pollution going around. Australia is suffering a huge drought with all their fires. If we help we will help the firefighters from doing so much work and it will help all the people who suffer from these terrible fires. π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
WALT: Practice our maths knowledge
In Room 2 our teacher has told us to finish our Maths Work for Week 1 and Week 2. Once we had finished the Math Slide we picked one of the slides that we did and share it to our blog explaining the strategy we used to complete it.
WALT: Use our imagination!
In Room 1 and Room 2 we have been doing writing, and for our writing we had to use a picture of a duck and put him anywhere! Dakota in our class had originally made the duck and it represents our school! We call him "NBC Quacker" We had to use our imagination, and I think its very funny, my classmates did too!
(Credits to Dakota for the Duck Picture)
My duck is right now is at a Press Conference, and her name is Jacinda Quackdern and is making a very important announcement to her fellow ducklings. We better not disturb her! It looks "very" important. She is talking about how ducks will rule the world!? Oh no.. I will never watch the news anymore!
I have just heard very important new from HUMANS! The ducks are right now taking over all the hot-dog stands.. OH NO! Now there is a Quack Kong? He is taking over the skyscraper! NOOOOO! Wait.. I see something outside...
WALT: Solve problems and solutions
WALT: Reflect on our experience
Today, at NBC we were lucky enough to have some Kadoo African drummers come to our school to teach us a special song from their country and let people have some turns on the drums! They also taught us some dances. I got to have a turn on one of the drums and it was so amazing, I was so excited and very grateful that I got picked!
They are from West Africa, which to be honest, is a long way for Christchurch! A fun fact about West Africa, the 14th-century king was the richest person in all history of Celebrity Net Worth site! (That's a lot of money!)
The atmosphere was very happy, joyful and full of sound! The people on the drums were amazing because they kept all the rythm on the same track.
Their songs were very unique and we were very lucky to be taught them! My favourite part was probably having a turn on the drums and being able to be doing some cool dances!
Here are some photos of some students having a turn on the drums! π
