What are tectonic plates?

Taki has been reading about volcanoes and has come across information about tectonic plates. Here are some of his responses from his reading work this week.

Tectonic plates

What are the tectonic plates?The tectonic plates are made from slabs of crust and the top part of mantle and that makes tectonic plates.

How do they affect natural disasters?By going under each other and causes trouble natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsumani and landslides

What other natural disasters are caused by tectonic plates?Earthquakes, Tsunami, Floods and Landslide

Samuel created a poster to show events in the story he read

Taki created a timeline to show events in the story he read

Levi's timeline for his reading activity

Life on Desert Road

This week I read a story called Life on Desert Road. It is about a road in the North Island which is near Tongariro National Park. I also read the biggest eruption in New Zealand created Lake Taupo near Desert Road. 

Desert Road has not houses near it so if you break down you have to wait a long time for help to come. 

By Tamati

Alfred read about sharks and this is his presentation about what he read

Maara's presentation from her reading activities

Shannon's presentation about Giant Tortoises of Glapagos Island

Salesi's google presentation about Sharks

I read a great book today

I read with my group a book called Let's look after our World by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen.

I created a poster in my book about what I learnt. 

I learnt we need to recycle our rubbish properly. A lot of people put food, glass, paper, milk bottles and containers in one bin but they should be separated. 

When we put our rubbish in the right bin the truck will come collect the rubbish and take them to the recycling plant. 

Reading today

Today we read a book called Looking after our World. The book was written by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen.

I learnt about pollution. We are polluting the earth with rubbish and gasses that we send into the sky. If we do not do something now, we will ruin our planet forever. 

Gas and chemicals sent into the sky pollute the air

Looking after our earth

Today we read a book called Looking after our world by Diana Noonan and Keith Olsen. 

I learnt that we need to stop pumping factory waste into the rivers, lakes and streams. We must also stop sending fumes and gasses into the sky.

It is killing our earth and we need to look after our planet earth. 

My reading for today

Today my group read a book called Looking after our world by Diana Noonan. 

We need to look after our birds because they are helping our planet earth. 

Birds do a good job of getting rid of the bugs. In the garden we don't need to use poisonous chemical sprays because birds are taking the bugs away. 

By Miami

My reading this week

Alfred

This week I read The best camping place in the world written by Tadpole. 

As one of my activities, I had to create a list of gear to take when I go camping.

Here is my list:

• Shoes
• Water bottle
• Rope
• Food 
• A life jacket if you going in the water
• A life boat 
• A waterproof tent
• Lighter to light the fire
• Warm clothes
• Hat
• First Aid Kit
• Sun screen

Desire's Reading Activity

This week I read Just to be safe by John Lockyer. We were learning to question the author's purpose for writing the story. 

The story is about Kate and her grandma. They went on a trip. We also described the settings in the story. They went to the beach and there was a park. Grandma was worried about the safety of the flying fox and said they will go play on the other equipment just to be safe. 

Grandma is a caring grandma because she cares about Kate.

I think John Lockyer wrote this story because grandparents worry about their grandchildren's safety. 

By Desire