My Magnificent Volcano

My Magnificent Volcano 

The past few days my  Neila and I have been working on a volcano. This term we have been focusing on Maori myths and legends. In our group session we were reading the story, Battle of The Mountains. This was what we chose to do for our reading follow up. Here is how we made it;

The first day we made a volcano shape out of tinfoil and tape. We covered a small bottle in tinfoil and stuck some different sized tinfoil balls to it. Then we covered it in lots more tinfoil.  This took us quite a along time. The shape was inspired by Tongariro one of the main characters in The Battle Of The Mountains. The next day we mixed lots of different colours of paint. We finally got the perfect reddy brown colour. On the last day we made the volcano erupt. This was my favorite part.  I really enjoyed making a volcano and hope that one day I can do it again.

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Meerkat

Meerkat Blog Post

I yawned as I stretched my arm up. I had a late night last night. We were running from the hideous

vultures. It was time to get up.

 “Get up! Get up! ” 

I growled to my brothers and sisters. Finally one by one they stumbled out of bed.

I popped up out of one of the entrances to our den. My best friend Carrot appeared beside me.

I gazed up at the big willow tree that shielded our den from strong winds.

On one brunch hung a sweet pink fruit. My eyes were stuck on it. 

“Brussel what are you looking at?” Carrot asked me 

Without taking my eyes off the strange new fruit, I answered: “

Up there” I pointed to the pink sphere

Brussel gasped! I scampered back down the hole and called to my brothers and sisters,

“Come, come to witness the scared Bula Bula Fruit!” I cried in a war like way. 

The Meerkats lived for the Bula Bula Fruit!

We clambered into a round circle and started our sacred tradition. 

“O fualaau e lua. O fualaau paia e lua. O fua tatou te ola ai. O fualaau paia e lua. The bula bula fruit.

The sacred bula bula fruit. The fruit we live for. The sacred bula bula fruit.” We all sang with everything
we had! 

“GAW GAW GAW” We heard the horrifying noise of the Vulture, the one thing that we fared! 

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Waterpolo

Every Friday I play water-polo. Water-Polo is a sport played in a pool. There is two goals and one ball. It is played in two teams. Each team has one goalie. The aim of the game is to get the ball to the other side of the pool and get as many goals as you can. Unless you are a goalie you have to play with one hand (Passing, Throwing, etc). You can swim with the ball using two hands. Water-polo is a good sport to play if you want to get fit. It is great fun to play with your friends and family. I like playing water-polo because it is a very exiting game. If you have the chance I think you should try it out!

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What Is Culture?

Welcome back!

This week we have started our new PBL for this term.
It is all about culture.
We were set a task to create a blog post explaining what culture is.
Here is what culture means to me:

Culture is what you call your background.
If your family is from Australia then you have an
Australian background. Your culture can have special things that they celebrate.
Your culture might play a special sport or eat a special food.
Culture is special to us because it helps us to identify each other.
I am from Malta and Ireland but I don't celebrate any special traditions from there.
I celebrate Catholic traditions such as Christmas and Easter.

About Malta:

Cuisine,

The food in Malta is made up of a mixture of Italian and English food.

National dish:Stew tal-Fenek (Rabbit Stew)

Other Dishes: 

• Fried Rabbit with wine and garlic
• Fresh and Cured Gbejniet
• Gozitan Ravjul
• Figolla (Easter Sweet)

Sports:

• Golf
• Water Polo
• Football
• Tennis

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Where are you from?

My PBL

Hi and welcome back! Today I am going to be sharing my PBL slide with you. (Please Note this has not be fully edited so there may be some mistakes)  I hope you enjoy this. This term we our main question has been, How can we use our hands, head and heart to create a healthier me? After we discussed this question we rotated round all four teachers and learnt about four different subjects,

1. Brain Science
2. Mindfullness
3. Physical Activity
4. Nutrition    

We chose which one we liked the best and then we carried on our investigation.  We wrote a question and started researching for it. We then made an action plan and filled it out. Down Below is my PBL slide and I will do my action plan is another post.


   




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