Emotion poem

Happy

Happy is goodness and happiness

Happy tastes like sunshine

It smells like goodness

it look like people dancing in the rain

It sounds like laughter in the sky

It feels like dancing alone   

Happy

Seasons

My Mother’s Coat

WALT: Identify poetic language features

SC: identify and use language features

My Mother’s Coat by Ta’i George SJ L3 April 2013

The author’s mother taught them to sew
Agree	Agree because it said  because of her I can sew.

Many cook island people wear coats like the writer’s mother wore. #
	cook island does not how to sew them a coat and they don't were coat

VOCABULARY - describe in your own words what these words mean:

1. extravagant- When you spend your money on shopping.
2. unique- Unique is when you do your work neatly.
3. discarding- The author might get rid of the coat
4. effective- The coat is not effective with dust in the coat.
5. awkward- The coat is not awkward at all.
6. nfazed- My mother coat always wore her coat with pride unfazed
7. peering-Big brown eyes peering from it fold
8. slenderness-Unusual and coarse their slenderness
9. belied-Their slenderness belied their strength

Science week,

Science week

Last week Term 2 week 10, the senior Glenbrae students had their science week. Each classroom rotated to another classroom each day to learn about the world around us. Our science project were all about the chemical and physical changes of matter.

At Glenbrae school we had science day  On Monday room 7 student  Mrs Raj was with us we learned about liquid,solid,gas liquid is water,  solid is Ice, Gas is stem we had fun with her.  

On Tuesday we were with miss parker she told us that we are going to make bared first we got out all the ingredient. when miss parker put the yeast it was fun when we but the bared near the sun the bared raised a bit. After that miss parker told us that we are going to make butter we used cream and salt we put it in a jar of jam after that miss parker give us the jar of butter to shake it it was done we go the bared so we could but it in the oven  it was cooked so we but the butter on the  bared after that we eat it.

On Wednesday we went to Mrs Tofa we made scoones then we did a little experiment about what will happen if you dip apple into spirit , Water, vinegar, we had to get into our house groups then we got a apple then we choose what to dip it in to. All the groups choose vinegar  but one group choose water and we had to wait for 10 minutes. when  10 minutes was over we see is the apple turn brown vinegar  was right then after we made the scoones and then we put it in the oven Mrs card went down to get the scoones so we can eat it.

Basket Boats

1. How does Thanh and his family look after the Thung Chai boat?

The thung chai if it is looked after well it should last for five or six years. The fishermen will cover the boats with palm fronds when not using them and also to protect the thung chai from the hot sun.

2. The boat is made from natural resources. What are the resources?  

The natural resources from which the boat is made are bamboo, sticky resin  from a special tree and water.

3. Find pictures of all of the resources needed to make and care for this boat.

green bamboo sticky resin  

4. Would we be able to make these boats here in New Zealand?

No we can't  make these boats in New Zealand because we don't have the special tree that makes the resin here in NZ.

This is my presentation

Today Glenbrae school had our inquiry roadshow this is when all the classes share what they have learned during the term. we share our learning by creating presentation posters,diagrams and hands-on activities.
I enjoyed the part when room 7 went to room 8 presentation day did a lemon and packing soder when they but the  packing soder in it went up of the cup.