Maungarei Animation!

Our class was given a task which had to be completed on time. We had to do an animation about a Volcano we knew information about. We had to show others what we knew about this Volcano. I have chosen Mt Wellington.

This is my movie. Hope you enjoy!

Information Report about.....

Volcano Report

What are Volcanoes?

Volcanoes are coned shaped and erupts lava. They are mostly found on the edge of the Tectonic plates. Volcanoes are found in Hot Spots. It also erupts hot ashes, Rocks, Steam and lava. Most Volcanoes are found underwater. They can cause Tsunami's.

How are they formed?

The magma builds up the magma chamber below the vent. It creates enough pressure for the magma to erupt. As it releases it causes clouds of ash and fountains of lava to explode. Then the lava turns into molten rock.

How does an eruption occur?

An eruption occurs when the heat pressures the magma to come out of the vent. High pressure causes the magma to be gooey, sticky and thick. That is how an eruption occurs.

Types of Volcanoes

There are 3 types of volcanoes. One of them is the Cinder Cone Volcano. When a Cinder Cone Volcano erupts it flows in fiery clouds of ash. This volcano is very explosive. It is coned shaped and it has steep sides. The pieces of this volcano flows as high as the sky. There are varying sizes. Some are as fine as the sand and some are the sizes of houses.

Another one is Shield Volcano. Shield Volcanoes have shallow shield mounds. This volcano got its name because it is shaped like an ancient warriors shield. This volcano has flat bottomed craters.

The biggest Volcano?

The biggest volcano round the world is Mauna Loa. Its name means long mountain. It is one of the most active volcanoes on earth. Mauna Loa last erupted in 1984.

Mauna Loa is one of the largest volcanoes on earth. It is so big that its slopes cover a large part of Hawaii. It also is 4170m above sea level. This is one of the volcanoes which is a largest of a chains of islands.

Volcanoes are cool to learn about because there are many around us. We have 48 volcanoes around us and they are very fascinating.

Personal Shield Reflection

Today we had to fill out a reflection form about our Personal Shields we had done last term. We had a time limit for finishing this and I had finished it on time. So here I am going to explain what each section means and why I chose them.

Left Top: This represents my culture which is Maori and it also has my name written. I had cut my name out with magazine letters.

Left bottom: This part of my shield represents my hobbies. I like playing with the rugby ball, I like listening to music and I like watching t.v.

Right Top:This part represents where I come from and where I live. Obviously I come from Aotearoa.

Right Bottom: This part represents what I'd like to be in the future. I would like to be a Musician because I like music or I'd like to be a Flight attendant.

My overall comment was good because it had detail and the background was really good. I also finished it one time so that was good too. I would of changed my left top and added in more detail so that there wouldn't have been any gaps. So I would give this a 9.5 out of 10.

Five Fabulous Facts

We had to make an animation or 2 pictures of a volcano. We also had to have Five Fabulous Facts about Volcanoes because this term our focus is about Volcanoes. I chose 2 pictures.

This is my Five Facts:

1. Lava erupts from volcanoes and it is formed into Molten Rock.

2. There are 3 types of volcanoes which is Shield, Cinder Cone and Stratovolcano.

3. The biggest Volcano in N.Z is Mt Cook.

4. The maori name for Mt Wellington is Maungarei and it erupted 9000 years ago.

5. Mt Versuvius erupted in 79ad and covered Pompeii with hot ash and Lapilli.

We Finally win!

My heart pounding excitedly while waiting for our game to began. We had done a few exercises before our game.

Mrs Nua gave out our bibs and amazingly I got given GS. I was GS (goal Shoot) for our team. Usually I was given WD(wing defence) . I was so amazed and I quickly hopped into my place before the beep went off. The game had began.

April had started off with the ball and it got all the way to me. With my partner defending me I quickly got away and Leni passed the ball to me. Helen was free so I passed it to her. She scored and back to the centre the ball went. With Great defending Mauina got the ball. "Here,here!" I quickly passed it to Helen Tui,my heart was pounding and all of a sudden we got another score. "Wooo!" I said under my breath.

Everyone cheering on the side line were from our other team and school. They were supporting us like other teams should. They were supportive and encouraging for us on the courts. The ball headed back to the centre and the opposition team had the ball. They were very good and they played as a team. They pass the ball to each other and suddenly Maunia defends the ball. She passes it all the way back to our score and with my heart pounding we scored again.

The overall score was 13-10. We had won. We were so excited because this was our first win out of our 3 games so far. Every week our coach Mrs Nua gives out points to the best players. This week April got 3 pts, Mauina got 2 pts and I got 1 pt. I felt very proud of myself.

Here is a quick snippet of our Netball game.

First game of Netball

There are two Year 7 teams that play Netball.Our Ace team (Year 7's) played a very tough game last week down at Morrin Rd Netball Courts. We played Auckland and lost by 9 points. My position was the WD (Wing Defence). I found it tough in places and easy in some because this was my first time playing Netball. But in my team there were quite a few experienced people. Our player of the Day was April.

The overall score was 16-7. We lost but hopefully we'll win next week.

Our team called the Crew 2 also played Netball down at Morin Road. They played St Cuthberts School and came a draw. The scores were 8 all. Their game was quite challenging because both teams were very good at playing Netball. There were also quite a few experienced players in that team too. They played a good game and hopefully they'll win their game this week too. Their player of the day was Rachael

First Day back at School!! Term 2

I left home excited to be coming to school. " I wonder what this terms topic is", I said to myself. I entered the school gate heading towards our classroom.

I peeked through the window and saw a Volcano poster hanging on our white board. Suddenly I knew our topic this term had something to do with Volcanoes.

As usual when the 2nd bell rang we quietly walked to the hall for an Immersion Assembly. An Immersion Assembly is when all the teachers dress up in costumes

that fit with our topic. I was right. Our topic for this term was Active Earth. All the teachers were announced in teams to do their scene. Team 4's scene was funny because they played a show called "Who's Smarter than a 10 year old". The winner was Cinder(Ms Squires) because she got most of the questions right.
In our Year 7 team there were only 2 teachers which were Mrs Nua and Ms Tito. Mrs Nua was dressed up as Lady Lava aka Lady Gaga. She looked really hot and fiery because she had VERY hot colours on like Red,Yellow and Orange. She also had a fiery mask on which covered her face kind of. She looked like lava coming out from volcanoes. When our teachers had finished Mrs Tele'a quickly announced who she was. My favourited costumes would have been Mrs Nua dressed as Lady Lava and Mrs Vaafusuanga dressed as Maggie Magma.