Aaliyahna read about volcanoes and the Pacific Ring of Fire. Here is her presentation about what she learnt.

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

Samoa tsunami 2009

Inoke and George have worked on researching the tsunami which happened in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga in 2009. The worse hit country was Samoa losing 129 people and killing many more. They also found a picture of the New Zealand girls who were killed in the tsunami in Samoa.

For their sharing work they both worked on the Ipad using Explain Everything to create a presentation about their findings. 

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

Fun in Alim

Six students in our class have been working hard in Alim (Accelerated learning in Mathematics). They have been learning about fractions and are moving to learn about Ratios.

They have also been using the new Ipads to record their learning and are having fun working with each other and recording their strategies.

Alim is happening everyday for this withdraw group and the six students have learnt a lot so far.

Here are some of their comments about being in Alim

Cherise - I like Alim because we are learning to use our times tables to solve problems in Maths. I also like Alim because I am learning that times table and division is connected to fractions.

Caroline - I like Alim because I am learning about multiplication, fractions and ratios.

Aaliyahna - I like Alim because Mrs Tofa is teaching us new strategies we didn't know about fractions and ratios. I also like solving the word problems.

Angelica - I like Alim because we are learning about ratios and solving problems with fractions.

Maara - I like Alim because we are using Ipads in our learning to record our strategies.

Alfred - I like Alim because we learn about ratios and fractions.