My Nana

My nana is as old as the caveman themselves. Wrinkle crease her rusty skin like train tracks her hair is prickly and grey like a porcupines and her eyes bag and bulge like there full water just ready to pop out.

Nana is not the usual stay at home, retired old lady she enjoys many active things such hiking,riding her bike and taking long walks around her neighborhood. But she also enjoys other things like playing the violin in an orchestra,making delicious puddings and most importantly helping people at the blind foundation.

Sometimes i remember things nana used to do with me,my mum and my sister. I imagine myself eating her stupendous,spongy lemon pudding, drizzled with custard and sprinkled with icing sugar. I would dig my spoon into the tiny china bowl and shovel great mounds of this delicious lemony goodness into my mouth.

Another thing that i remember very plainly is going to the Hamilton gardens with her and a few of my cousins. Garlands of flowers and ivy were strung around wooden poles, poppys danced and frolicked in the sunshine and the great marble statues looked as if they were really alive.

With a heart of gold and a soul that's pure i'm so glad that she's my one and only nana.  

sustainability and conservation

Persuasive writing

Rubbish, everybody has rubbish. Plastic rubbish, Metal rubbish, Glass rubbish we have it all. But where does it really go? do you send it to the dump or dump it yourself? whatever you do with it if it's not reducing,reusing or recycling IT'S NOT GOOD! Just think what would happen if we just dumped our rubbish in any plain old spot do you know what could happen!!!

Reason one animals could DIE!

If you go throwing your rubbish in a dirty river it could float out to sea and a turtle might think it's a tasty jellyfish or into a grassy field land animals might get it caught on there heads then suffocate and die!!! And if you say who cares its just a few dumb animals you should care! So we have a thing called a food chain example: Tree eats sunlight → Bird eats berry from tree→ Then possum eats bird. Of course there are far more food chains then this inside the world but if just one animals species dies so do all the other animals and the worst part is then comes the humans!!! Did you know that one hundred thousand animals die each year just from eating or getting stuck in plastic!!!

  

Reason two one big dump.

If the cities get overloaded with rubbish the streets would become paradise for rats and flies then we would have to cut down more and more trees to make more and more dumps. Some rubbish takes so long to break down that then it wouldn't be a very sustainable system. And over time the whole earth would become one great, big, brown dump then where would we live???  Did you know banana skin takes 2-3 weeks to decompose and a metal drink can can take up to 500 years thats along long time if you think about it.

Who would want to live like this???

Reason 3 WE NEED TREES!!!

We may not notice it but trees are very important to our planet if we didn't have trees we would all be dead by now, and it's not just trees that we need flowers and plants too. They all produce oxygen if we cut down trees to make new dumps and clear room for rubbish eventually air levels would get very low forcing extinction on the human race.

In conclusion i think we should reduce reuse and recycle our rubbish  we really do only have one earth.

How high is that tree?

A few weeks ago our class did an activity using cyclometers to measure trees and poles.

First we made our cyclometers.

here's mine

Then we measured a tree and wrote it in our math books.

Statistics

copy of super rugby 15 rugby and netball 2015 overall standings

super 15 rugby statements

These are my statistic graphs

haiku poem

inventing tenting 2

we did called inventing tenting we had to plan the shapes to make our net in our maths books. Then we had to draw it down on grid paper and stick it together to make a tent next we had to repeat this on a piece of card until we finished.      

          This is an activity 

spider attack

Now Put yourself in this position, say you're an ant, a very curious,cheeky ant it's just a normal day you're working at the anthill then in the corner of your eye you see something gleaming in the bushes since you're always into exploring you think to yourself why not take a closer look ? so you cautiously scuttle into the blades of grass until you reach a couple of mini sand dunes but that doesn't stop you come on come on i need to see that shiny thing wounds round and round in your head until you finally reach the top of the hill and clamber down the dune with your head held high but at the bottom of the hill it is not a very pleasant sight suddenly a vicious looking spider jumps at you and races around and around your legs at the speed of light and in a flash you're covered in icky sticky silk that tangles around your legs and to make it even worse that beast climbs on top of you and two sharp fangs pierce the flesh in your body and send the venom coursing through your veins and the last thing you see is a giant spider devouring that horrible creature that attacked you.