Mexico Inquiry

Reflection of Week 1 Term 2

My Highlight of the week was Manual where some of us finished our Tables including Me, after lunch, my partner and I made a mystery bag where we had to make Frittata.

I learnt over the week a complicated equation, I will give you a demonstration:

4x10 is the same as 8x5

YouOnlyLiveOnce

Gotta love your life

Tin foil sculpture

This is my tin foil athlete who is doing Archery.
We made these awesome tin foil sculptures of athletes for an art night coming up , my two friend's made gymnastics sculptures if you want to visit their blogs go to http://rakaiaamym.blogspot.co.nz/ and http://rakaiamollyj.blogspot.co.nz/.

Olympic drawing

Here is an encouraging picture 

I love Pandas so I decided to write a report about them :

The Panda

This peaceful creature with a magnificent black and white coat is adored by all of the world and is considered one of China’s most fascinating treasures.Severe threats from humans have left just over 1,800 pandas in the wild.

Food

You would possibly think pandas eat so many different types of food but unlike other animals pandas that live in the wild only eat (99%) bamboo and a small amount of grass.The ones that live in zoos also eat bamboo but they eat sugar cane, carrots, apples and sweet potatoes as well.They eat up to 20 - 40 pounds of bamboo a day and spend 16 hours a day finding and eating food.

Survival

Pandas only have a few predators including jackals, snow leopards are some of the few that can kill and eat panda cubs.These creatures are peaceful animals and will not usually fight back, unless an escape is impossible, they will fight back.As cuddly as they may look, pandas can protect themselves as well as most other bears by using their physical strength, and powerful jaws and teeth.They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at time during winter.

Size/Appearance

We all know that the pandas coat is black and white but did you know adult pandas are about 150 cm from nose to rump, with a 10-15cm tail. And they can grow up to 90cm tall at the shoulder.A newborn baby is the size of a stick of butter.

The biggest threats to pandas are everyday human actions. Predators might take the odd cub but humans are the greatest threat to pandas.An adult panda can weigh up to 150kg.While its numbers are slowly increasing, the giant panda remains one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world.

Today we get to do four rotations including mandarin where 
we get to drink tea , ICT , Technology and Cooking.

Welcome

Welcome Sarah to your blog.  We look forward to seeing your learning over 2016.