Showing posts with label Thematic 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thematic 2012. Show all posts

Making our Truffles...

For our focus this term we made truffles for LT3's market day. We were split into 5 groups.  We had five names for our groups (company names).  
  • Truffle Ninjas (Dru, Jackson, Manaia, Elliot and Thomas)
  • Planet Truffle (Seth, Samara, Ryan B, Neco and Caitlyn P) 
  • Truffle Monsters (Nicky Toby, Kayd, Ryan R and Jacob)
  • Mrs Bubble's Truffles (Meg, Niamh, Tasman, Amber - Rose and Kimiya)
  • Truffle Dwarves (Demmy, Tiana, Kaitlin GR, Depenga and  Brook)
We all made lots of yummy truffles, there was lots of truffles!


Packaging Truffles...

Can you see a Ninja?

Planet Truffle...


Planet Truffles' advert - Would you buy their truffles?




Truffle Ninjas...Masters of the truffles!

What do you think of our design for our company?


What do you think of our advert?



Truffle Monsters

Our logo for our company. What do you think?


Our advert for our truffles....


The Truffle Dwarves...the smallest truffle makers in town!

This is our finished logo for our company.


Our Truffle Dwarves advert...


Mrs Bubble's Truffles

This is our finished logo...what do you think?


Our finished advert...


Mrs Bubble's Truffles


In class we are making and selling truffles for LR 3's Market Day. We have been learning how to  make a logo for our product above is what we have at the moment.  Do you like the opacity of the text, lighter or darker?  It will be up to you. We have also learnt about copyrights, so say McDonalds we cant have McTruffles and use yellow and red.  We really like our logo so far and we hope you do too.


Logo Designs for our Company...

Dear Truffle Companies

How are your logo designs coming along for your truffle company?  What do you need to think of when designing a logo?

I look forward to seeing your designs.  Regards CEO of Truffle INC.

PS Here is the link for the Logo Quizzes.

Company names and slogans...
Exploring logo designs...

How well do you know your logos?

My trip to Uganda 2012

This year I went to Uganda. The night before I left I didn't get any sleep.  The day we left  I was so excited to be seeing my friends their, like Tony.

To get to Uganda I had to go on a plane for 24 hours. When we got to Uganda Tony gave me a big hug.  We got to our hotel and it was terrible.  There were bugs everywhere!  So we looked everywhere for a different hotel.  We finally found one and it was a nice place to stay, for Uganda.

The next day we went to Lira and we ran a conference for two hundred people.  The conference went for five days.

Next we went to Sudan and we lived in a mud hut with bombs outside.  We went on a boat and an animal safari.  We saw a crested crane and lots of different animal.  We went back to Jinja to rest for are last days in Uganda.  We said goodbye and we flew back to Christchurch.


Headlice...our Stories...

Once I had head lice and we didn't know what to do.  We combed my hair and cleaned it.  Then we went down to Timaru and my Nana brought Nitenz.  This shampoo worked and we got Nitenz spray.

I had nits and I treated it five times and it didn't work! I dyed my hair and it worked.

I taught a junior class once and felt like I had head lice for the whole year!  I remember one day my relief teacher was walking back to class and live lice were dropping off her head!

I had head lice and I used this stuff that contained acid.  When I put it on it stung like mad.  It felt like fire, it really hurt, but it got rid of them.    

My sister and I had head lice at the same time.  I used the same treatment as my sister, but I had the boy one and my Sister had the girl one.  We had it for about a month, it really was annoying! My Mum had to pull the eggs out of my hair!  It  and it really hurt!

Last year I had head lice once.  I used this stuff called Move, I had to put it on my hair and put a shower cap on for an hour.... IT STUNG SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!  When the hour was over  I had to take it off by washing my hair in the bath.  Then the next day I still had them it was so itchy!!!!!!
That afternoon I used Move again.  My Mum and I broke the cycle.

I had nits for a whole year and I couldn't get rid of them! I the used a product that I had to put on with wet hair and even with cold water the product STUNG so much.

Once I had head lice. My mum had to condition it and then brush it constantly for ten minutes after with a fine brush. But it did not work, so my Mum had to buy some children's product stuff.  When we got home we realised that it put a little bit of poison into my body. My mum said "I think we should just do the conditioning and brushing," and after a while I finally broke the cycle!!!!!

One day I got head lice and my Mum straight away said, "I'll go and get the conditioner from the shop."  It was tea tree oil and it did not smell nice.  I had to do it about three times before we broke the life cycle.

Thomas found a magnified head lice in one of his books.

the video head lice to dead lice

This video is about head lice and how to get head lice out of children's hair.  This is a very good video because it tells you the things you need to take the lice out of your hair.

Neco and I found this video on YouTube.  In this video it shows you how long to leave the olive oil in your hair.  It takes 8 hours.

Has anyone ever tried using Olive oil?


We're ready for Take Off!

"Kids today have head lice that evolved on two species of cavemen. Once species led to us. The other species went extinct." The Guardian, Thursday 7th October 2004

Our Departure Card...
What we think we know about head lice...
What questions do we have?
Why do they eat your head and drink your blood?

Food Web Tangle!


This is the food web we had to make.
On Friday we had to make a food web.  We put sticky tape on some kids foreheads. Then we used string to tie together our wrists. Then we had to pull a string if we ate someone, so they would have to pull there string.  I liked this lesson a lot and we hope we do it again sometime.

Tasman with her sticky sticker, she was a caddisfly larvae...
                                                         Demmy she is a koura, a crab.
Who is eating who?

Micro-organisms

Remember to check out the Children's University of Manchester for more information.

Click here to visit the BBC Bitesize activity on micro-organisms. What did you find out?


More action at the Groynes...

Thanks to Ryan B's Dad for some more shots...

Click here to go to Picasa for more photos from the Groynes.

Arty shot through the gum trees...
Thomas' Mum about to adopt TRD as a fencing mask!
Ms K uses X-RAY vision!
Ryan and Brook sampling....
Ms K, I need a scientific record...
Identification row...
Ryan, TRD supervisor...
Hmm...still chips left in the packet!
Stand firm Mr Rubbish!

Looking for creatures...

Last Friday I went to the Groynes with my class. I went in the purple van. The weather was hot and sunny. When we got there we played a game outside next to the water called ‘Not feeding the ducks.’ The game was awesome I really liked it. I was in a group. I found out you shouldn’t feed ducks if you have a picnic because they should eat water boatmen which are insects. After we played the game we came back to school. It was a lovely day.

I am looking at the creatures found in the river.

We went to the Groynes and it was super fun! Our favourite things were dressing up like garbage and catching the bugs. Our favourite bug’s were the water boatmen and midge larvae. The water boatman has six legs and hides two of them underneath its front. The midge larvae is just like a little, little red worm. To men called Ben and Bill showed us how the Groynes got its name. It's called the Groynes because there are BIG, BIG rocks shaped like cylinders, called Groynes, that’s where it gets it’s name.

 

Hunting in the Water...

On Friday our class went to the Groynes.  It is named after concrete and rocks mixed together.  First we had to fish for little bugs.  Then we had to drop them in this big container with water in it.  We had to work out what sort of creatures they were.  After that we had morning tea.  Then we had a another activity.

There were three children that were dressed as ducks and the rest of us were water boatmen insects. The next activity there was a fake river and a few people were rubbish floating in the river.  The rest of us were water boatmen or back swimmers.  The rubbish had to stop us by tagging us.  When we had gotten tagged we had to join the line and tag other people.

We learnt not to pollute waterways.  Don't put rubbish in the water!







 

Field trip to the Groynes

At the Groynes we went fishing for aquatic invertebrate.  All we had to do was get the T.R.D. (Terminal Retrieval Device), dip it in the river,  make a figure of eight in the water and bring it up to check for any movement.  If there was movement in the sieve we brought it up to the tray. To get the in vertebrae out we did the rock and roll movement.

For the rock and roll movement we dipped the sieve in the tray and rocked it from side to side.  Then once the things inside were loosened we rolled the sieve out of the tray and looked for the bugs inside. Then when we found one we picked it up with a Miniature Retrieval Device (A.K.A. spoon), identified it with a magnifying glass.  Once it was identified it was put it in the next tray, with different compartments,  for different species of bugs/insects/larvae.  By Ryan B

After we did the hunt for water bugs we did a duck game.  Three people had to be ducks and the rest of us were water boatmen.  The ducks and to tag us. After about 1 minute and 30 seconds we played another round of the game, but there was two humans.  They were Ryan B and Amber-rose.  They had to feed the ducks with fake rubber bread.  By Ryan B

The ducks didn't get the nutrition they needed (from the bread), so they had to crawl on their knees because they were very hungry! The next game was a game with water boatmen and back swimmers and our class had to wear costumes.  We went in the river (which was  grass with rope around it), and had to swim like water boatman and back swimmers.  It was so much fun.  By Jackson
                                         
This group is gathered around Ben listening to instructions...                
The list of aquatic creatures, so the groups can identify what they caught. 
Our group is identifying the water bugs.
Dressed as water boatmen and back swimmers.



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