Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy?
Energy is the power that keeps us humans going and moving.

Where do humans get energy from?
Humans get their energy from food,plants and even water.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll

c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)_Sunlight________________
b)_Chlorophyll______________
c)_Water__________________
d)_Carbon Dioxide___________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green?
Glucose causes the leaves to turn green.

4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.

5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)

a. It makes water in its leaves.
b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.


6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)

a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
Compost is like a fertilizer that help make plants grow healthy and strong.

What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?
List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

• Brown Stuff
• Green Stuff
• Dead Plants
• Leaves
• Food Scraps

Sustainability

This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.



Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):_Pork Farming__





Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy Kai garden.



MY TOPIC REFLECTION

●What have you learnt about this topic?

●What did you like about this topic?

●What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at

home, at school, in my community?

I have learnt how plants grow and what they need to grow.The thing I liked about this topic was making our projects and presenting to them to the parents.Also I liked the trip when we went to Mangere Mountain.
My role in the community is to never litter and to always choose the right choices for what I eat so that I can have a balanced diet.Also I have to always participate in all discussions so that I can understand what I am learning about.I have to start doing chores around the house can be clean and green.This is how I can be sustainable at home.


Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy Kai garden.

Loud Shirt Day

Today is 'Loud Shirt Day'.This day is about supporting deaf kids.All the money will go to the deaf society so that technology can be provided to help kids hear better.

We think that this is an important charity as the money will help kids like Charday in our class who is partially deaf.

Fractions

When Fish Came to Tahiti

One hot splendid day there lived two children named Anna and Joshua. They lived on a beautiful and most gorgeous island called Tahiti. The island was surrounded by lovely palm trees, pure white sand, glimmering water that would shimmer around the seagulls while they would swim, fantastic fale’s and excellent people in the village.  The two kids always wore spectacular looking clothes. They always wore the same colours.  If Anna wore blue and red Joshua would wear blue and red so you get what I mean. They were like twins except they weren’t family. But they really wished they were because they loved to have sleepovers with pillow fights and eat mouth watering fruit with delicious smoothies to drink.

One day the whole entire village started to moan about the amount of fruit they were eating. Every day they would have fruit for breakfast, fruit for lunch and fruit for dinner and even fruit for a quick snack.There was lots of moaning going on!!! Every day the children would wake early from all that racket. They couldn’t even shut their eyelids. Until one day the children had enough of the moaning so they got up and stepped outside and shouted to everyone”STOP MOANING SO WE CAN HAVE SOME SLEEP, IF YOU DO STOP MOANING ABOUT EATING FRUIT THEN WE WILL PROMISE THAT WE WILL FIND YOU SOMETHING ELSE TO EAT BEFORE SUNSET!” So the children went off to find something else that the village could eat.The children  would do anything to stop that annoying moaning.


The children were searching for hours. Suddenly they spotted something moving around in the ocean, it was a fish, but there was more where that came from. There was a whole sea of fish! The children found some string, a long wooden stick and a hook that was as sharp as a swordfish quilla quill. With all those tools they could catch fish for the village to eat so they managed to catch a fish and  then cooked it. They had a little taste of the fish, it tasted so succulent that the children were hungry for more but they had marched off to tell the whole village about the tasty fish. Then they gave people a taste of the fish they loved it. They thought that the fish was mouth watering with all its flavours. They just wanted  more and more. The Mayor had announced that fish is the best food ever to be caught and cooked in Tahiti. So fish was the most popular food for a long time. The children had saved the day from eating fruit for the rest of their lives. They still liked to eat fruit but not ALL THE TIME!!!

The End

Photosynthesis

This is my Popplet related to Photosynthesis.

Weather in Te Reo Maori

My Wordle

This is my Wordle related to Photosynthesis.