To Be a Scientist

In order to be a scientist you need to question, look carefully, hypothesise, collect information and create an action plan. Finally, you need to action your plan.

About three or two years ago students from Waitohu school planted about 200 plants that the greater Wellington regional council gave them, well I think I have the numbers right.

On Tuesday my scientific brain wondered “Where are all the little plants?” Using my eyes I searched the field. There were flax bushes and other plants. We had to rip out the grass and blackberry plants that were strangling the plants and taking their water. We had to grab some rocks at the riverbed and surround the plants with them so weeds couldn’t take its water.

That’s all I can remember. GB!!!

My Chosen Career 👍

In social studies we have been learning about our future career. We used the Tahutu Career website to search for the career we chose. I chose security guard, farmer assistants, and mining engineer. I chose. And I chose those careers because as a mining engineer I like working with technology, solving problems, and being part of important projects. I chose Farmer Assistant because I enjoy working outdoors, being close to nature, and helping with practical work that supports food production. I chose the Security Guard because I like the idea of helping keep people and places safe, staying alert, and being responsible. And we made a budget and learned that income is money coming in such as your pay and expenditure is money going out such as bills. After we all chose our career we presented them to the teacher and the class. and now we are learning about entrepreneurs.

Potential Careers

In social studies, our current unit is focusing on our future and our career choices. We had to find out what careers suited us most and my top 3 were architect, tattoo artist, and florist. I chose to focus my studies on tattoo artist because it’s something I’d enjoy, and I’d get decent money (50k-79k a year). Your pay depends on whether you work at a parlour or run your own business. There is no specific secondary education to do this and it’s mainly designing, handling tools, and follow health and safety rules. This unit also included budgeting and presenting our career to our class.

making btter

Lats week we made butter with room 18 first fire Emily bought cream and brought it in next she split it into two pieces one was salted butter and the other butter was normal after we wet into room 18 to sake the cream a gare we sake tne cream

How we made butter

Last week rm17 and rm18 were making butter with whaea Emily and mr. Lloyd and– wegot to thceeam shake the ceeam turned in to buttrr but we all got to shke the .Next day we got to eat the butter on toastd the butter taste good I like the and and the salty but the end .

Math – Fractions and Decimals

Talofa readers,

In math we have been learning how to times and divied decimal numbers.

We also have been learning to do the same with fractions and we have been matching fractions with decimals numbers.

I learned when you times decimals like 2.4 by ten it equals 24.

Here is another equation: 3.5 x 10 = 35

My favourite part about maths is solving the equation.

What other equations do you know?

These images match each other.

Making butter.

Last week room 17 and room 18 was making butter with whaea Emily and Mr Lloyd. It was cool i liked it because Whaea Emily Splited half of the cream into the jars then she gave the jars to people that are in RM18 and RM17 and the only people i saw was Eshaan and Skyson then after Skysons turn Whaea Emily gave it to Pele. The reason why whaea Emily is handing the jars out to people so they can shake the jars and turns the cream into butter and then Mr Lloyd was talking about butter liquid cream and mixing. After that we ate the toast with butter.

Dusty The Scientific Method Meets Statistical Ivenstigation

Writing In Mathematics & Science

Specific learning outcomes:

Pose investigative questions for statistical enquiry.
Plan an investigation.
Use spreadsheets to collate data.
Use technology to display data.
Discuss features of data display.
Compare features of data distributions.

Question for investigation

We are investigating rubbish located on the foreshore between Mill Creek and Watson’s Creek, Karoro.

How will you gather your data? by going to the beach and finding rubbish.

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What variables might be present within the data. Ten Variables.The groups of the different things we found and what categories they would be in.

Collate your data on to a google spreadsheet.

Wood	Vehicle Parts	Hard Plastic	Soft Plastic	Fabric	Bones	Glass	Metal	Miscellaneous	Fast Foods	Cans
12	5	133	119	19	24	95	20	22	13	54

Create a graph using your collated data. Remember to include title and labels.

Analyze your data making comparisons between your variables. There is a lot more hard plastics and soft plastics then all the rest of the other rubbish. But if you added all the other rubbish together it would be a lot more than the hard and soft plastics. All together we found around 135 pieces of hard plastic that is the glass metal and wood put all together!!

Our question for further investigation: What will we find if we clean up the whole grey district?

I think the rubbish pickup was really fun to do because the group found a full can of beer and lots of more cool stuff.

Our Careers

This term we have been looking into our future and what Careers we would like to do. We had to decide on what career we wanted to do, and we used the Tahutu website to find out about it. I chose a Marine Biology because I love science and the ocean and I think that I would be a perfect fit. We made a budget on what we would get paid and we learnt how to divvy it out into monthly costs. Then we made a presentation to show the class.

Beach Cleanup Karoro

Question for investigation

We are investigating rubbish located on the foreshore between Mill Creek and Watson’s Creek, Karoro.

How will you gather your data? by going to the beach and finding rubbish.

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What variables might be present within the data. Ten Variables.The groups of the different things we found and what categories they would be in.

Collate your data on to a google spreadsheet.

Wood	Vehicle Parts	Hard Plastic	Soft Plastic	Fabric	Bones	Glass	Metal	Miscellaneous	Fast Foods	Cans
12	5	133	119	19	24	95	20	22	13	54

Create a graph using your collated data. Remember to include title and labels.

Analyze your data making comparisons between your variables. There is a lot more hard plastics and soft plastics then all the rest of the other rubbish. But if you added all the other rubbish together it would be a lot more than the hard and soft plastics. All together we found around 135 pieces of hard plastic that is the glass metal and wood put all together!!

Our question for further investigation: What will we find if we clean up the whole grey district?

I think the rubbish pickup was really fun to do because the group found a full can of beer and lots of more cool stuff.

My Amazing Poems!

Today I made this cinquain poem and Limerick about me, do you like poems Because I enjoy writing them? Have you ever eaten a croissant? I love making poems in room 3!

Aidan

Amazing,fast.

Fishing,eating,munch munch!

Has a soft spot for dogs.

Human

Limerick

In Ruma toru we sit in a row.

As our brains start to grow.

We did Steps, Maths Whizz, and writing but it was not very exciting .

The rooms go 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, and 12.

And that’s the way it will always go.

inquiry / rocket / term 2 / week 6

Hello bloggers today I will be showing you my rocket launch thing that I did for inquiry and not going to lie it was kinda hard because we had to make different line of the rocket but that’s fine but anyways if you scroll down then you can see my slideshow that I did and I have,t did it in a while anyways bloggers bye bye bloggers I hope you like it !

🚀~Staging Rocket Animation! Cybersmart 29/5/26 Term: 2 Week: 6~🚀

WALT: Couldn’t find it

Hello bloggers and welcome to another amazing blog post by me!

Today for Friday Finishing time, I had to finish my.. (I am going to tell you anyway even if you probably know since its in the title)

My cybersmart!

Also we had to do it ourselves (Plus the teachers of course) because Miss Taylor was sick

Now.. Let me tell you what we had to do for cybersmart

So for cybersmart, we had to make an animation about how a rocket stages!

It was really fun but it took a while because we had to keep doubling the slides

And for the background at the start and the end, it was this light colored space picture!

And for the middle (Where it shows the rocket) I did a darker space picture.

Since I was too tired to make it start on the ground, I just did it on a random space spot!

Also at the start and the end, I made someone in the rocket say some things!

I won’t tell you here because I want it to be surprise

So I basically made the rocket pink (Because it’s my favourite color) and I put a little moon picture on the right corner!

Oh and one last thing

The font was Gamja Flower, I did it on a Google Slides, I put a fire Gif at the bottom of the rocket, I rate this cybersmart lesson a 9.8/10 and there are 108 slides!

Here is my work!

I hope you like it!

(Sorry if its bad)

By Grace

Thank you for looking at my work and stay tuned for more!

If you want to comment then make sure its a helpful, positive and thoughtful comment!

Have a great day!

Bye!

Also in case you didn’t know, I will put the number of words at the bottom of every posts! (If I remember)

Okay bye for real now!

(322 words)

Armadillo 🩷

Hello its Chlea we are learning about Armadillo.

here is a fun fact about Armadillo they are the only mammals with a shell.

comment please

from Chlea

7 Wonders

Today we learnt about the 7 wonders of the Natural World. We then chose one to research and create a facat sheet about. I chose Paricutin Volcano, it was interesting. I would would like to visit it one day and see what is inside it.

week6 trem2 rounding to the nearest 1000,10,000,100,000

Hello bloggers today I am going to be showing you my math create task I got given 5 numbers in the thousands and I had to round every number to the 1000,10,000,100,000 then we went on to the create tasks.

WALT:rounding to the nearest 1000,10,000,100,000

BYE BETAS

Beach cleanup

Mathematics & Science

Specific learning outcomes:

Pose investigative questions for statistical enquiry.
Plan an investigation.
Use spreadsheets to collate data.
Use technology to display data.
Discuss features of data display.
Compare features of data distributions.

Question for investigation

We are investigating rubbish located on the foreshore between Mill Creek and Watson’s Creek, Karoro.

How will you gather your data?

We will count the number of different variables so that we can

record the proper number of them. We will then take the data that we gather and put it in a spreadsheet for people to see what data we collected.

What variables might be present within the data?

Bones, glass, hard plastics, soft plastics, wood, cans, other metal, fabric, car parts, rubber, furniture, miscellaneous. There could also have been bacteria that we couldn’t see. That’s why you wash your hands.

Collect your data on a google spreadsheet.

Create a graph using your collated data.

Analyze your data making comparisons between your variables.

Out of all the rubbish that we found out of the beach there was the most hard plastic. Saying that the most common thing that we found is hard plastic and that 25% of what we found was hard plastic.

There was a lot more rubbish at the beach than at school. That is a good thing though because we don’t want so much rubbish lying around at school that it stops people enjoying the playground and swing. Also little kids could try and eat it and that could make them very sick or could bring them to death.

Personal Comment:

Eloise: This is a big cause because it could make birds and endangered animals very sick.

Cade: This was such a fun activity and I would love to do this again.

Jethro: I enjoyed finding rubbish and I liked seeing the sea.

Chelsea: I enjoyed finding random stuff down at the beach.

I wonder how much rubbish there really is down at the beach?

Force-Mission3

talofa, to all readers and bloggers

On wednesday we did a lot of things in module 3. We designed our own rocket but on a piece of paper. My group had a lot of ideas and i drew a lot. We drew the fins the fire on the bottom and put designs and it was so cool. We made a lot of mistakes but we had the rubber, so we used the rubber. We did an activity too, and we have to fill it out.

I liked learning about parts of the rock and playing the games it was both really fun.

my slideshow comic.

This week, for reading, I have been reading a book, and the book’s name is Hukarere and Hine Tai. My learning intention was to evaluate and integrate ideas and information across a small range of texts. I had to make a comic slideshow on my own slide. I have not done that much, but I hope to continue on the comic that I made.

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Week 6 term 2 reading create task 1 2026

Hello bloggers, today I have made a blog about eyes.

WALT: summarize a whole body text by tracking how many ideas grow, change, and connect together. (Think about the begginning, middle and end of text.

This blog is okay but it is extremely hard to do and it took me a long time just to finish it.

If I need to anything please say it in the comments other whys bye!

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