Earthquake questions

The reason that the earthquake happened is because two tectonic plates have rubbed together creating shock waves that you don't see causing the ground to shake and rumble.

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Kia Ora and welcome to 2010. Thanks to all the visitors we have had since the New Year but we have a brand new class - hence a brand new blog.
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2009 Edublog Nomination!

Gosh - look what I found on the Wainoni Blog - it's about us!

Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Edublog Awards
Our nomination for the 2009 Edublog awards are. . .

Best Class Blog; SpringstonRoom6

Love all the work you put into your blog!
Posted by Justine at 8:03 PM
Labels: Blogawards, Justine
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Wow - we had better keep up the good work for the last few days of the year! It is good to know that other people love our blog too! Thanks for the vote Justine.

edublog awards 2009

Great disappointment - while Wainoni nominated us, we failed to appear on the nominations and voting list. Check out the winners of the best class blog...

1st: Billings Middle School

2nd: Mrs Yollis' Classroom Blog

3rd: English with Rosa

I don't know what you think - but they'd better watch out next year - we'll be giving it another go!

Breaking News! An epidemic has hit Christchurch

Kachina (Year 7) and Jahna (Year 6) are two investigators who have made a movie to show what an evil epidemic like the Black Death could do if you are not ready. This movie will tell you how to be prepared. So listen and learn what they have to share.

Special thanks to Morgan P for being a great Filmer, actor and a wonderful editor. We couldn't have done it without you!

Adam's Voki on Bridge to Terbithia

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Voki of life in Nepal

Blue reading group read about children living in Nepal. We think their lives would be hard because they have lots of jobs to do and don't go to school.

Morgans Wordle

This is a Wordle of my favorite song "Down by Jay Sean". I like it because it has a catchy rhythm, and I like the lyrics. You can create one here http://www.wordle.net/create

Kachina - My wild self

My wild self is called KaChinA the Cob-dog-sha-ringo-orb-fly-peacock. I have my cobra hood to scare of any bully animals as I have my big dog ears so I can hear if something is coming. My spider legs help me make silky webs to catch my pray and my shark teeth help me eat it. My most prized part is my monarch butterfly wings; they can flap 5 times in one second.

What you need in a survival kit

Do you know what you need in your survival kit?

 For their inquiry Hannah A, Adam and Andrew have made a movie to show what you need in a survival kit. Having a survival kit is really important, you will need one after any disaster, so you better be ready!

Morgans Wild-Self

This is my Wild-Self. The horse tail is to flick away annoying insects and bugs. The wings are to fly away from danger. My big wolf ears are to hear my prey and to look more normal. My strong zebra arms are to run fast, and to stomp on prey. My jelly fish bottom is to look more graceful when flying. I think I truly am wild!

'Go Wild' and tell us about it!

As you can see, I am a very confused creature.
My giraffe ears are actually antennae that detect the small nocturnal sounds of my prey. They work together with my ultra-sensitive ears in picking up the smallest vibration. I have Bush-Baby eyes that are really like having night vision goggles. Wherever you hide - I can see you and my Tree Frog sucker pads help me to cling to any surface along the way.
I am actually quite vain, although not quite as proud as a peacock! My Bird of Paradise feathers will take me from casual to any high society function such as a ball or movie premier! Last but not least, my ultra-strong Tree Boa tail will in a tree near you so watch out!

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

7000 Hits on the Blog - WOW!

Lady Bug Note Generators
What an amazing team. We will have to find a way to archive this blog next year so you can keep going back to look at and comment on your work. I am really proud of you all!

Hannah L. is proud of...

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Emily's Voki

Can-drive

Can-drive!

For term four, Springston School has been focusing on challenging change and how we could help with other people trying to cope with challenging change. 

For Room 6 students,  Mrs Taylor helped us brainstorm lots of ways we could help people. My group was Philip, Hannah and me, Courtney. After hearing about the Samoan Tsunami we decided we would do everything we could to get Samoa what they needed. There were a whole bunch of teams from our class wanting to fundraise for Samoa, but luckily we had all the ideas for what we wanted to do. 

Our first idea was a can-drive. We figured that people would rather give cans than money.  Mrs Taylor thought this was a great idea and set us straight to work on it. We decided we wanted our can-drive to be a competition so we told everyone it would be from the 15th-19th of November and the class with the most cans at the end of the week would win their own personal mufti day!

At the end of the week we had an amazing result. We had a total of 203 cans and $26 so the result was unbelievable! Room 5 was the winner of the mufti day with a total of 55 cans.  Well done Springston School.  Samoa will be happy with our result.

By Courtney Jones!

Don Binney - Art

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Home work - ten cool words

baleful — sinister
chasuble — priestly vestment
Cimmerian — very dark
circean — referring to beauty of a dangerous kind
contumacious — rebellious
contumelius — insolently abusive and humiliating
cynosure — the center of attraction
eschar — scab or burned layer of skin
flagellum — long, thin appendages
flagitious — villainous