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Friday 28 March 2014

Do You Know About Panmure Cottage?

It has been there for generations Panmure Cottage is one of those thing that have been there since centuries. It is very important to the people of Panmure because very rare things from the centuries are there. The cottage has been there for so long it is now a museum so that people can come see what it was like in the old times.
One room shows how the babies use to sleep and what they used to wear. First the cottage was made next to McDonalds but then got relocated and now with us in Panmure. When they did their washing people put their owning into a
place where you grab the handle then move it forward and back that made your clothes clean. They had saw that you use to cut down a trees,but the saws that they used needs two people.


In one room it showed all the pictures in the fire brigade. In a room there was a candle lair where all the candle go on top. They even have rocks from Mount Wellington volcano. The rocks are called bomb rocks.


It is important that we maintain Panmure Cottage because its a historical site and because its part of Panmure.

Wednesday 26 March 2014

Great Wind Powers

Wind is the movement of air that is moving, when wind get out of control it can make a lot of natural disasters. Wind is one way that the whole earth moves excess heat around. Wind can move to lot of places like all around the world.


They cause cyclones, monsoons, trade winds, and hurricanes. Winds are strong,when there is strong wind that means that the wind is moving fast but when it is called light wind that means that the wind is moving slowly.


The wind blowing from the north is called northerly and the wind blowing from the south is called the southerly. Some wind is very important because the help people with raining their plants.

Some winds aren't great because some types of winds cause hurricanes,twisters or a tornado.

Thursday 20 March 2014

Heroes of the heat

Firefights have really special jobs. They protect people. Some Firefight have big trucks that have hoses and ladders so they can climb high.  They have to be really really fast and strong because sometimes they have to have to jump over fences or have to run to the fire house.

They have to practise because they don’t know what will happen to them. They have high optical courses and have to practise their aim for their hose.

Firefighters go around a lot of places trying to find the source of the fires so they can put out the fire.

Firefighters are important because they keep people safe from fire.  


Wednesday 19 March 2014

Can you give me an example of liquid?


We are learning to understands the different states of matter. I can do this when I can give an example of a solid, liquid and gas.

Thursday 13 March 2014

The Three water matter

     
We are learning to understand the 3 forms of water matter.
I know this because I can explain the differences of all the 3 different forms.

Monday 10 March 2014

The Forty days of Lent

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Lent is a very special time in the year. Lent is when you receive ash on your forehead and it's kind of a sign of remorse.

The beginning of Lent is called Ash wednesday, another meaning of Lent is when you give up something for forty days and forty nights. When Jesus gave up something he suffered for forty days and forty nights in the desert without food. When you go church you can see that the priest wearing purple which mean it a time of Lent.

Lent starts at Ash Wednesday and ends at palm sunday. Lent is also when you give up something that is important to you.We go through this 40 days so that we can be sorry and have a change of heart.
The ashes are made from the palm leaves like the ones then jesus enter Jerusalem. First the palms get burned and afterwards they get turn into Ash.

Thursday 6 March 2014

The Almighty Cops

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Who are Police officers?
Police officers are also called cops. Cops are people who are trained by really special people.

Cops have really special jobs.They protect people,some cops have highly rifle guns and tasers and a shield to protect themself. Cops have to be really fit like muscles and abs because sometime they have to  have to jump over fences and have to outrun dogs.
Cops go around a lot of places trying to find the criminals so they go jail.Criminals are people who like doing bad stuff,they love to kill,steal or run away from police officers.

Police officer are useful because they take criminals away and put them in  jail.