Air Pollution!

Today at Enrich we learnt about air pollution.

We watched a video with the ten most air polluted cities in the world.

It was really cool but at the same time it was really sad to see the conditions 

that some people have to live in.

After we watched the video we had to write down 2 things that we had learnt

and 1 thing that we wondered.

I learnt that Ahvas in Iran is the most air polluted city in the world with 372 

micro-grams per cubic metre and that LA is only 25 micro-grams per cubic metre.

I also wondered how do people breath in those conditions and how long before they got ill or died?

This is one of the pictures of Ahvas that was in the video:

The air looks really bad!

Today at Enrich!

Today at Enrich I did 3D Drawing with Darryn. It was fun!
We had to draw 3D boxes overlapping each other! It was really hard to get all of the lines straight.


Another thing we did today was the Wilson game called Bulls Eye.
We were in teams of 7 and 8 and had 4 little bean bags that we had to throw into hoops.
Once we threw the first bean bag into the first hoop you had go onto the next hoop that was further away then the first! It was great and I got two bean bags into the hoop. Yay!


We also did our Environment Projects and I think that the Waihopai Restoration project that I am doing with Madison, Kate and Hannah is going really well. We had a meeting with Environment Southland last week and we are allowed to do it! We are planting plants along the Waihopai Bank next to the dam to stop mud running into the river.

Dinoscope

Today for high interest stations I did the dino-scope workshop with Darryn. It was awesome!

A dino-scope is something you can plug into your computer and it is like a magnifier.

We looked at dead flies, it was gross. 

The wing looked really interesting because they had a pinky green sort of colour through it!

Here is a picture of the flies wing:

I also looked at a feather and one of the strands off the feather looks like a normal feather but only under the dino-scope. It was amazing.

I am looking forward to next week so I can do it again.

Teacher comment

Hey Hannah, I was so impressed with your day.  You and Kate quickly chose your environment project and were into it.  I liked the way you just got on with it, using your initiative and you have already made good progress.  I hope you enjoyed Spanish today, it looked interesting and a lot of fun.  I can’t wait to see how much you can speak at the end of it.  Hope you had a great week at school and ready for another busy day at enrich.

Jenni

Technology Challenge

Today at Enrich we did a technology challenge. 

That is where you are given a task in a group and you have a limited amount of materials! 
Today we had to make a shuttlecock launcher! 
The winners were the group who can make it go the longest distance in a horizontal line.
It was so fun!


Also Anastazia from Environment Southland came in and talked to us about the Waihopai River and Seaward bush and how they are getting polluted with people littering and how too much mud is getting in the Waihopai River. 

Term Two Self Assesment!

Today I did a self assesment about term two at Enrich. 

It gave me ten sentence starters then I had to fill it in!

It took me a while to do it but I finally finished it!

Here it is:

We also played a Willson game! It was great!

You had to be in groups of three and you had to hold hands!

When Darryn clapped you had to do a big jump but you had to do it in sync with your

group and you had to jump like a kangaroo so you had to jump with your feet

one beside the other and then you had to land with your feet one beside the other.

It was so hard!

Spanish

Today at Enrich I went to spanish.
This time we learnt how to say how old we are .
To say how old you are in spanish you say "Tengo ________ anos"
So I would say "Tengo dies anos" That means "I am ten"


We also learnt how to ask someone how old they are.
In spanish you say "Cuantos anos tienes"


We did an activity sheet that was awesome. There was a picture of
someone and underneath there was their name and age. You had to introduce them in
Spanish.


One of them was "Me llamo Jessica. Tengo trece anos"
That means My name is Jessica and I am thirteen 


I thought it was really fun and I can't wait for next week.