The cool cruddy compost pile

Today there was compost up my snozzer because we had to clean mother natures pet hate. Mother nature hates rubbish because she cant destroy it herself. My class and I went down to the compost area and we begun picking up rubbish. Yucky disgusting mouldy yogurt containers, mucky plasticy rubbish was everywhere. Some boys were digging a hole to china and they found rubbish and more rubbish. The things we found were pens, glass bottles, bits of metal these things can not be broken down. Only leaves, dirt and bits of wood should be in there because these things can be broken down by mother nature. It is important we pick it up otherwise our soil is yucky. 

Tane Mahuta Group- day 1. look around the school

I am part of the Tane Mahuta Group
Our job is to keep the place looking good and welcome back bird life by making it so they want to live here. 

Today we are thinking of things we can chuck into the school to make the birds welcome. We walked around the school area and looked to see what we could do. When we got back to class we thought about ideas, and wrote them on a bit of paper. One of my ideas was to make bike track with bird-trees around it. 

My favourite area in the school is the native planting out the front and the community gardens because they have birds in them. 

My best idea to improve our school is to plant plants that birds love. Where they can hang out, build nests and eat the berries. We also want to put a marshland in front of the new buildings and plant the old plants that used to be here before we put concrete everywhere.

Filter systems-experiment

What is filtration?

Filtration is separating solids from liquids by adding a medium through which only the liquid can pass. 

Examples are:

1.  coffee jug/plunger
2.  RO unit for fish tanks
3.  pool filter
4. water treatment plant that gets water from lake

Aim

Aim: To make a filtration plant using household materials. Water Filtration Plant What is filtration? Filtration  is separating...

Materials

1. Tissue/filter paper

2. Sand

3. Pebbles

4. Scissers

5.large plastic bottle 

6. Dirty water

Process 

Step 1

Cut the bottle at the bottom of the sticker to create a funnel and container

Step 2

Put the funnel in the container 
Step 3

Fold a piece of filter paper and place it in the bottom of the funnel . 

STEP 4

Put sand into the cone shaped paper and gently push down, fill up the cone and around so its level cover the sides too.  

STEP 5

Tip in a layer of pebbles and tap them down

STEP 6

Slowly pour dirty water in the top and watch it become clearer

you can pour the water through the filter again to make it even more cleaner. 

Measurements

Write a short sentence about the water every 1 minute. 

Include 'How much water has filtered through', 'How fast it is dripping through', and 'How clear the water is'.

min 1. A few drips have come through. 

min 5. there is just enough water to have a wee sip 

min 10. there is about a cm of water in the bottom. 

Conclusion

overall our filter worked well. If you were stuck in the desert you could use this filter system to filter some water and live. You could even make two of them to double the power. 

Monkey-break

In the last week we have been creating a stop motion animation

What is stop motion?
when you quickly move characters and make it look like a movie and take pictures of the slight movement in the model clay. You take all of the pictures and put them all together to make it look like a movie.
What have you done so far?
Me and my group have made a storyboard sketches, this has pictures of whats going on, the characters doing stuff. Red means the character is moving and the blue means it is still. we have written a plan and story.
What do you still need to do?
We still need to make the characters out of clay and get them acting. We need to make a background and write a script and make all the stuff like the cage and the big friendly giant.
Brief outline of your story
The story is about a monkey trying to escape from his enclosure. first he tries to use a banana as a key but it didn't work. Then he tried to bend the bars but it hurt him. Then he tried to steal the key from the guard and it was the wrong key. Big friendly giant hears monkey screaming in frustration and then he goes and picks up monkey and brings him to his house to live happily ever after.

Here is a picture of my story board