Welcome to Room 17's blog for 2020. We are an energetic Year 4 class and our teacher is Mr Tucker. We are looking forward to working together and learning lots of exciting and new things this year! Check our blog regularly to see what we have been up to. We would love to read your comments.
Tuesday 1 December 2020
Tuesday 17 November 2020
Monday 16 November 2020
Happy Diwali
We have been learning about Diwali. Our school had a special assembly this morning.Some people dressed up in costume. Sophie decorated this Rangoli pattern.
Monday 26 October 2020
Thursday 15 October 2020
Monday 12 October 2020
Sunday 11 October 2020
Wednesday 7 October 2020
Scooter Skills
Auckland Transport sent a trainer to our school to teach us about safe scootering. We learned about fitting a helmet correctly and how to use our scooters safely.
Animal Report By Cory
Smalltooth sawfish (credits thanks to national geographic kids)
This is a report about smalltooth sawfish. smalltooth sawfish link
Introduction: This report will tell you a lot of amazing facts about these amazing fish!
It’s a nice day when the seaweed flows with the water suddenly! A chainsaw comes out, it's not a normal chainsaw that comes to life (it’s a smalltooth sawfish!)
General description:The smalltooth sawfish like all sawfish are in the ray family and also the shark family.
What they eat:Did you know that sawfish only like to eat shrimp and they herd fish. (they don’t eat humans or hurt humans) however they will attack you if you annoy them they will cause serious injuries.
Habitat: They live in the mostly atlantic ocean next to north America.
Size: Smalltooth sawfish can grow up to 25ft 7.6m; including the rostrum, it can camouflage itself on the seabed then it attacks! (true fact smalltooth sawfish were built for camouflage) When it chips a tooth it grows back as many times as possible. When it comes to breeding they can have up to 10-20 young.
Why they are special: Because there are about 5,000 left in the earth
Thank you for reading this special report about smalltooth sawfish.
By Cory
Animal Report By Zach
Introduction
This report is about komodo dragon I picked this animal because it looks like a crocodile
Did you know that the komodo dragon eats deer water buffalo pigs and smaller Komodo dragons. And they have been living for millions of years.
Wild Komodo dragon I found only on Indonesia's Lesser Sunda island.
And it can go up to 10 ft
Animal Report by Oscar
Arctic fox report!
Introduction
This report will tell you how long the arctic fox can live, what they eat, and their lifespan.
They can live up to 7-10 years which is not a long time.
The arctic foxes habitat is Polar forest regions.
They can weigh 3-20 pound.
The arctic fox can grow up to 28-43 inches.
The arctic fox can also run up to 30 mph.
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GOOGLE SAYS An arctic foxes scientific name is Alopex lagopus and it lives in Canada.
They are extremely well adapted to the harsh, frigid temperatures of the arctic.
They are carnivores. They are in the canidae family.
Well, this my report about arctic foxes hope you enjoy and have learnt something.
by Oscar