WOTW week 12

Today for WOTW I did Resilience.

Coraline book report

I did a book report about a book called Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
A girl called Coraline moves to a new house. In her house she finds a door that just goes to nothing but bricks. One night she hears rats go to the door, opens it and finds a tunnel, with an evil “Other Mother and Father” Coraline has to find the souls of lost children before her other mother takes away hers.

WOTW week 11

Today for WOTW I did egregious. It was kind of hard because I had never heard of the word before but I thought it could be something bad like not caring about people. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could have found a picture.  

Attack of the Furball

Today we did a book report about our DEAR (Drop everything and read) book. The book I did was Star Wars- Attack of the Furball. It was hard to find a book because I haven't finished my DEAR book yet so I had to choose another one.

Jedi Academy- Attack of the Furball

Title: Jedi Academy- Attack of the Furball
Author: Amy Ignatow and Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Type of book: Fiction

This book is about a girl called Christina Starspeeder who goes to a Jedi Academy on Jedha. It is a story about Star Wars.
She is in a forest destroying illegal loggers when she finds and rescues a baby Nexu, which is a type of animal from Star Wars.
Then her Nexu gets stolen, and she has to save it.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves Star Wars!

WOTW week 10 term 2

Today we did WOTW. The word was precocious. I had heard of this word before but I didn't know what it meant. To be BTB I could have gotten an actual photo instead of word art.

Climate Change Information Report

This is an information report about Climate Change.

Climate Change
Climate Change has a big effect on our environment. It changes it, making animals migrate from their homes. And we need to do something about it.

How Climate Change is made
What our problems are made of is the overload of greenhouse gasses.
Greenhouse gasses are gasses, like Carbon Dioxide, or CO2, that trap heat in the atmosphere and radiate some out. It’s what keeps us warm! But since we keep using fossil fuels such as coal and oil, we get more Greenhouse gasses. If we cut down trees, we get more Greenhouse gasses, because trees take in CO2 and “Breathe” out Oxygen.
So what is wrong with Greenhouse Gasses? You ask. Well, if there are too many gasses in the atmosphere then it gets too hot. This causes the north and south poles and glaciers to melt, and this causes seas to rise. Earth warming up makes more storms and forest fires.
Another way for our planet to warm up is that carbon dioxide burns holes in the Ozone layer, which is what protects us from the Sun’s UV radiation. If there is no Ozone, then more of the sun's rays will get to the greenhouse gasses. We will also get more sunburnt, which is actually mild radiation poisoning.
Did you know?
Fake Christmas trees emit more CO2 than if you cut down a real tree!

What Climate Change does
Imagine Earth during global warming as a giant stove. Imagine putting an ice cube on that stove. That ice cube is the north and south poles. What will happen when you put the ice on it?
The ice will melt. The same thing is happening every day; and when ice does that, it makes water. More water means seas will rise, and rising seas means more tsunamis and floods.
The heating up of the atmosphere leads to more forest fires, and animals will have to leave their habitats.
It also makes more storms, and lightning can make more forest fires!

What effect it has on animals and their habitats
Food webs are an important part of an ecosystem. If one animal dies out or moves habitats, then the whole web shakes. Like when you touch a spider web, the entire thing wobbles.
This is the food web of some of the animals of the savanna.

Say we remove all the plants. With nothing to eat, animals like mice, insects, giraffes, and rhinos die off. When they’re gone, the other animals that eat them can’t eat anything. Then they die, and it goes on and on until there’s nothing left.
So, how do the trees disappear? Well, just light an entire forest on fire and the web will be gone.
Frequent lightning storms and forest fires made because of Climate Change can do this. And it’s not just fire. The habitats can flood too, and the trees can also go then.


Conclusion
People are always saying that climate change is coming in the near future. Climate change isn’t coming. It’s here, and we need to do something about it.                                                                                 

Orographic Rain

Today we were learning about orographic rain. Orographic rain is the type of rain we usually get on the West Coast! I made a graph of how it happens.

Matariki true or false

Matariki true or false

1. Some people can see 20 stars in the Matariki cluster

2. The main star, Matariki, is a god

3. The seven main stars are sisters

4. The Matariki cluster is also known as the Pleiades

5. The cluster appears during either Summer or Autumn

6. The Onion wives and the Seven maidens are other versions of the Matariki cluster

7. Tupu-a-rangi hates singing


ANSWERS:

1. True. If you have really good eyesight, then you can!

2. False. Matariki is not a god.

3. False. Matariki is the mother and the rest are her six daughters.

4. True. The Pleiades is the Greek name for it.

5. False. The cluster appears during either Autumn or early Winter.

6. True. There are lots of other Pleiades myths around the world.

7. False. Tupu-a-rangi's voice heals all the creatures and the forests.

PMI PLeiades

Today we read an article about the Pleiades cluster, then made a PMI about it. PMI means Plus, Minus, Interesting.