Weekly Update Week 9!

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Weekly Update:)


Hello everybody! This week has been so much FUN!!!
We played this game called Korfball!
We played 4 sessions of it!
I was really into it!!
Our Teacher was Youri!

Korfball was really fun because it was basically netball and basketball mixed together but the only thing that was really different was the hoops. They were the same height as a Netball hoop. But they were big and plastic and yellow and thick.

 It was also Mrs O'Donnell's birthday this week.
It was cool because the whole school came out of their classrooms and went to Room 11. And then everybody sang Happy Birthday!

Don the Eel Scientist

Today we went to Room 4 to have a talk with Don the eel scientist!

He worked for a science company and studied the eels the most!

• Eels can swim backwards.
• There is a North island version called the Austrailian long fin eels.
• Long fin eels are fatter that short fin eels.
• The biggest eel was known to grow to 2 metres long.
• The ear bone of an eel is used to tell how old a eel is.
• The ear bone has rings on it and each ring is one year, so you just count the rings and that is how you can tell how old an eel is!
• The things that look like horns on the edge of the eels face is really its nostrils!
• Eels have a really good sense of smell. So if you put meat on the edge of the river a eel downstream could smell it.
• Eels teeth are shaped like arrows but they are backwards. So if you put your finger in ones mouth you would not be able to get it out.
• They do not have to stay in the water all the time because they breathe through their gills.
• Eels are really cannibals which means they will eat other eels (cannibals is when they eat meat).
• When Eels eat they spin 10 times a second!

Missionaries in South Sudan

Today we had two Missionaries (called Phil and Janet) come to our classroom. They talked about a lot of things and here is some of them.

• South Sudan has no beaches, ut more countries surrounding it. So the closet they can get is to sit by the nile river and eat food. 
• It has about 65 or 64 languages.
• There is this thing called dialex, It is basically a different version of one language.  One of them is called Juba Arobic.
• And in Juba it is really hot. So most people have to get a mat and put it under the shower and then get it wet and sleep on that.
• And then once you get to sleep you are fine but if you wake up it gets difficult
• Most people drink 4 or 5 litres of water a day.
• And the way they get that water from a big truck and then they have to filter it, That water is from the Nile river.
• The average heat in Juba in daytime was 47 degrees!!!!
• There is no electricity like power lines.
• Kids are not encouraged to go to school
• And there is not a lot of normal toilets like in our houses, There is these holes with a x on it and then you have to squat over the hole.
• Also they have 220 solar panels.
• There is also electric fish in the Nile river.
• They use a stick for a toothbrush.
• Half of the children in South Sudan do not go to school.
• The water is very deep in river.
• The houses are usually up on a hill so that if there are enemy tribes coming they can spot them before they get to close.
• They use charcoal for cooking instead of ovens.
• The kids they get scars on their heads to show what tribe they are in.
• The barber in the barber in the barber shop has s blade.
• Some schools are in concrete buildings but others could be sometimes under trees.
• The curly hair that people sometimes get is called weeves.

Learn NZ Web Confrence

19/3/19

Today we had a live chat on Mr Grant's board about water.

I now know that there is such a thing as fossil water, it exists in North Africa and it is deep deep deep underground. And also if we feed our sheep and cows special feed that will make the waterways better.
We also need to have a limit on Rakaia river, It has a minimum flow. We will also never run out of water because of the water cycle will never stop working. Also you can actually turn sea water into fresh water. But it is a very complicated thing and it is also very expensive. It is called desalination.

Green Hat Day!

Friday 15th of March!

Today we had Green Hat Day!

We all had to wear Green Hats.

We had to wear Green Hats to celebrate St Patrick's day. ( Even though St Patricks day is really on Sunday.
Here is a picture of us in our Green Hats!

I am also really looking forward to the next Play day later today!
It is also Raining Cats and Dogs today!

See you next week!

Weekly Update Friday 8th of March

Hello!
This week it has been SO Amazing!
The highlight for me was our eel field trip on Thursday. And my favourite bit was when we got to dip our hands into this bucket and try and fish out a fish and then try to identify the fish that you caught.