Our Time at Auckland Zoo

Today we had a great time at Auckland Zoo. We were very lucky with the weather. There were lots of animals out and about enjoying the sunshine. We saw some exotic animals such as capybaras, tamarin monkeys, iguanas, nyala, and serval. It was wonderful to see the new male lions and meet the  elephants Burma and Anjalee. The tigers Molique and Birani provided great entertainment as well.

Charlee's Info Graphic on Lions

This is my Lions DLO. We have worked on it for 5 weeks. It was apart of our dictogloss. The year 6's and 7's had to listen to Miss Paton when she told us what lions are.

Religious Education Values By Melita

These prayers relate to our school values.

Ethnicities / Cultures in Room 1 Maths By Angel

My Interpretation

In this class more of the students are Samoan. Less people are Filipino. Tongan and other have the
same amount of people. Four people were Tongan or fitted under the other category. Other includes:
Indian, Canadian, European, and Chinese. The Samoan category has a total of eight people. The
Filipino category was the lowest. It has a total of two people. In this area (Mt Roskill) there are more
Pacific Islanders than other cultures, and also there is a big amount of Islanders that are Christian
(Catholic) that go to church here at Christ the King, so this could be some reasons why we have more
people that are Samoan than other Cultures.

Room 1 Maths Groups Favourite Colours

My interpretation

Seven students chose red as their favourite colour. Students
liked red because it is a bright warm colour. Green was the
least favourite because no one chose this colour. The students
do not like green because it may not stand out from other
colours. Yellow and purple were liked by the same number of
people. Only three students liked yellow and purple.

Values Prayers By Angel

For Religious Education we had to make our own prayers of the faithful and we had to make it up and it had to be a prayer related to our four values. We also used The C.T.K Way poster to help us with our prayers and this is how my prayer of the faithfuls turned out.

Elephant Information Report By AJ

Elephant Report

Introduction:

Big Bulk and incredibly massive! Elephants belong to the elephantidae family and are a big
herd that sticks together. These majestic creatures are also known as the biggest land
mammals. Because they are mammals, they live on land which is their natural habitat.

Types of elephants:

There are 2 types of elephants, the African elephant, and the Indian elephant. Both male
and female African elephants have a swade back, wrinkly grey skin, and large tusks. However,
the Indian elephant is the complete opposite. Indian elephants are much smaller in size.
They have smaller ears, and their skin is less wrinkly.

Habitat and Diet:

African elephants mostly live in the continent of Africa.  Indian elephants also known as Asian
elephants, live in the continent of Asia. Elephants stick together in tight groups led by the
oldest female called the Matriarch. They can grow upto 11 ft tall and they can weigh about
13,000 pounds. Most elephants are so big that they eat upto 400 pounds of food and drink
about 30 gallons of water each day. Elephants are herbivores which means they don’t eat meat.
Instead, they eat things like leaves, twigs, bark, fruit, and roots. Baby elephants are often
known as calves. Calves have a different diet to fully grown elephants as they only feed off
their mothers milk. Calves are quite hairy and can grow about 2-3 ft tall.

Special features/ talents:

Other than baby elephants called calves, male elephants are called bulls and the females are
called cows. Elephants flap their giant ears to cool off, and use their tusks for fighting. Their
tusks can also be used to dig bark from the ground as they have poor eyesight. Although they
have poor eyesight, they have excellent hearing and a good sense of smell. Elephants have
long tusks, and have huge trunks that continue to grow for all their life.

Endangerment:

A huge number of elephants have been killed for their tusks. People who hunt for their  tusks,
are part of a commercial industry called the Ivory trade. The Ivory trade is where people hunt
for different mammals and tusks and use it to carve into art and/or to sell it for big money.
Elephants and other mammals tusks are worth about $1,500 per pound! Elephants tusks weigh
around 100-200 pounds. This means hunters are getting around $150,000 per elephant!

Conclusion:

Research has shown that if the poaching and killing continues, all elephants will be
endangered by the year 2020. We need to do our bit by not buying products such as elephant
skin, and not buying products from the Ivory trade industry. We need to leave the elephants
alone and stop harming them in any form or shape. If these negative things continue, these
fantastic creatures are no longer going to be around.

Elephants Digital Learning Object By Ferah

This is Ferah's Digital Learning Object on Elephants. Learn heaps from the information she has gathered.

Tu Kaha Programme

This week the senior school have been taking part in the Tu Kaha programme. Tu Kaha programme is a health and wellness programme. The first lesson focused on identity. The students had to introduce themselves in Maori or English. They also had to create their family tree. 

The second lesson focused on our school values and hauora house (health and wellbeing)-the components for a happy and healthy life. 

Check out out photos

Cluster Zone Netball

Today our Years 7 & 8 students represented our school at the cluster zone netball tournament at the AMI Netball Stadium in Mt Wellington. We won two of our games out of the eight played. There was a very tight game against one of the schools we competed against. The schools we competed against were: Marcellin College, St Josephs Onehunga, Waiheke Primary School, Auckland Normal Intermediate, St Mary's Ponsonby, and St Therese.  A lot of the students whom we played against play club and weekend netball. Our students did very well and made our school proud. At one stage we were in the top 3 within our pool of five schools that we competed against before the semi finals. A special thank you to the parents (Juanita and Lisa) for transporting the girls and to Virginia and her mother for coaching and umpiring the games.