The short cut

The short cut

So we decided to take the road the man told us to take so that we could beat the crowd to the grand canyon.  We were all enjoying the trip and mum and shawn's dad where taking turns driving so that they would not get too tired.

About halfway between the two places we started going up a big sand hill with steep drops on either side which gave me the creeps. We went round a corner and there was a tree, shawn's dad try to dodge it but he was too late and we hit it and it brettey much split the car in half.

When i woke up about an hour later ( well that what my mum told me)  and still nobody had drove past and it was getting dark. Mum shawn and I were standing outside the card but shawn's dad was still knocked out.  It was dark when we saw lights coming up the hill and we tried to light a fire so that they could see us. It took awhile but they finally arrived when they saw our fire. The husband-tim and wife-maggie were running late to their hotel when the found us. By that time shawn dad had woken up but he couldn't get out of the car so tim was trying to get him out and he did it pretty quickly and then we squeezed into the car and they  got us to our destination.

My speech about Poverty

Hi this is my speech and liked my speech cause I had a good topic and that I didn't have do it front of lots of people so I wasn't that hard. I chose my topic because there are lots of people living in poverty and some people don't know about it, and that people need help these people so that they can live better lives. I think my speech went ok but I did need to do some more stuff to improve it more. I think that if I slowed down and look up at the audience I would of done it better

Science project

This is the science project that we did in our class. I did mine collaboratively

Marimba Festival

On wednesday we went to the Marimba Festival and played music, swam and had fish and chip for dinner.  We stay at a papamoa and played on the bounce billow. At the Festival there was about 120 kids  On Wednesday we went to the Marimba Festival and played music, swam and had fish and chip for dinner.  We stay at a Papamoa and play on the bounce billow. At the Festival there was about 120 kids  and lots and lot of instruments. It was really fun 

Science Projects

This is my science project and I did on solar electric fencers. I did It because I wanted to know whether if you put a solar panel under the sun or under the shade and see which one has got the most energy to charge a electric fence. I found that the shade solar panel was better than the sun solar panel and it was way more consistent then the other solar panel. I like going down at 9 o'clock for the first night then started to hate it because it was really annoying when you were tied. I am still wondering if the would keep the consistency if I left if for long.

Whangara Farm trip

Whangara Farm trip

We have been learning about seed and doing test in class to find how they grow and what agls they grow on best. So we went up to a farm that is doing test and triling how they grow so they can use the best for there stock.

They have a tester doing all the scientific stuff that is involved in the planting and the way they do it to prevent the bad grass and pasture but get all the good stuff.  She does stuff like check an weather monter and put cages on bites of grass then leave it for two week then they measure the grass, then they move it to other spot and have a look there .

They also have their own nursery were they grow poplars and willow for a couple of year then they cut one of the main poles and then they go and push it into a part of the farm. Th farm owners hobby is to do this so his farm does not fall apart.  The root hold the ground together so there in not really any slips around when there are trees. The poplars like dry steep places and the willow like the wet and by the river

I like going and doing our test so we can go and figure out if our seed would do the same as the farm environment. I also like looking at the cages and seeing if they made a difference to the grass and hammering the nails in so that the cages would stay there .

I am still wondering if the dirt and fertilizer make a difference to the type of grass or if you need a special type of fertilizer to grow the plants.