My riddles

For my homework I have to write some riddles,

Try and guess what or who it is.

This is one I made with my class.

People look at me all the time
 I have a large vocabulary,
I can teach people a lot of new things,
I can be mysterious, funny, adventurous, romantic, scary, sad,
I tell stories,
I can take people to other worlds,
What am I?

Here are my ones,

I have ears but no eyes,

I can spread news,

I have numbers

What am I?

I have an eye,

I can not see,

I am small

I am sharp

What am I?

I am black,

Usually I am only seen at day time,

I move when you move,

What am I?

I am an instrument that you can hear, but you can not touch or see me.

What am I?

I am a small room,
but no one lives inside,
 Anytime I am very cold
 What am I?

I can be big,

I have something different to show every week.

If your there,

 You are either wide awake or asleep,

What am I?

The more you dry,

The wetter I am,

I can be fluffy,

But not always

What am I?

I am sharp,

I can change things slightly,

I can be big,

I can be small

What am I?

I have memories, but none are mine ,
whatever's is inside me is what is shown.
If I'm ever different it's because you changed me,
 What am I.

I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?

Everyday I stalk you all day long,
With every move you make, I will do the same.
I vanish twice a day with the sun's height and fall,
I will follow you anywhere,
What am I?

Dear 2016 year 5's

Dear 2016 year 5's,

Most of you 2015 year 4's will soon be going up to the second highest year level in the school. This means doing lots of fun activities like EOTC week, having responsibilities like bridging the gap, doing the speeches and fun things and lots, lots more. This also includes doing your last year of awesome garden to table.

In year 5 you will have Education Outside The Classroom or EOTC week. This such a fun week spending time with your friends all throughout year 5. It includes going on long walks or sometimes just playing games at school. You might even get to go to some really fun places we went too. But I don't want to ruin it for you so you will have to wait and find out what you are doing.

In year 5 and year 6 having responsibilities is very fun but important. This includes bridging the gap which is where you go to the junior side and either, look after juniors and solve their problems which is called duty. There is also games which is where you play games with the juniors and the last one you can choose out of is where you help and play with juniors who have problems or who struggle when doing things. You can do bridging the gap every term and it is really fun.

The last things we did in 2015 were really fun like assembly's, exhibitions, trips and much more. This year our assembly's were really fun for example our brain break assembly. We enjoyed that so much and we hope you did too. Also this year was the science exhibition. Some of the science was pretty cool. But next year we will have the art exhibition. Also we have speeches. Which is a mix of fun, boring and hard. If you do well you go into the school finals and then the zones and the Lions after that.

Overall being in year 5 is really fun because we have EOTC week, we have responsibilities, we have lots of fun things and much more. That also includes having awesome teachers!!

Have fun all of you,

   Kind regards,

      Olivia C.

Nanny Piggins Book Video

Hi Everyone!!

How is your long weekend going? Today I made a video about a book I really enjoy reading called Nanny Piggins- a Nanny that's a pig and a retired circus performer. I didn't have enough actors so I used my stuffed animals. I hope you like it!! ( please don't forget to read the book- it's super funny)

Science: Rainbows

What makes rainbows?? 

You might of thought once,   

well the answer is water and sun!!

Turn the hose on, on a sunny day, 

what do you get?

 "A rainbow" you say!!!!!!  

Rainbows are colours usually in the sky formed by water and sun. It is arced shape, just like a semi circle. Well, actually, the rainbow is a full circle but from most peoples view off the ground they see a semi circle. Most rainbows we see in the sky now will be a "primary rainbow" where the colour red can be seen on the outside (top)  through to violet on the inside (bottom). A rainbow is not an object, it can't physically be touched or approached. A double rainbow is where a second, much fainter arc can be seen outside of the primary arc. This is caused by the light reflecting twice inside the water droplets. As a result of this double reflection the colours of the second arc are inverted with violet on the outer edge and red on the inner edge. did you know that no two people see the same rainbow, in fact even our individual eyes see slightly different rainbows. If someone appears to be standing under a rainbow you can see, they will see a different rainbow at the same angle but further away. Isn't that amazing? It has the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun or it won't be visible. Did you know you can never get to the end of a rainbow, when you move the rainbow moves too.

Weekly Challenge-I would like to know that.....

I would like to know that...(I did a little more than three)


What would happen if there were no Moon?


The most immediate effect (other than the lack of moonlight, of course) would be on the Earth’s tides. With only the Sun’s gravitational influence, the difference between high and low tides would be reduced dramatically - as would tidal drag, which slows the Earth down at a rate adding about 0.002 seconds to the length of a day each century. Long term, the effects would be far more serious. The climate of the Earth is sensitively dependent on the 23.5° tilt of the Earth’s axis, and without the stabilising presence of our relatively huge Moon, the gravity of the other planets would produce big changes in this angle - as it does with Mars, whose tilt changes by 60° over a few million years.


Why do onions make you cry?




Do grasshoppers eat grass?
Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
If an African elephant comes to America, is it an African-American elephant? 
Why do you call a male ladybird a ladybird?!
Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?
Don't accept sweets from strangers, yet on Halloween, its encouraged! Why is that?
Why do we say "bye-bye" but not "hi-hi"?
Why are stairs called stairs inside but steps outside?
If the frog says rabbit why can't the rabbit say frog?
What does the fox say?
How can you chop down a tree and then chop it up?
Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?
Why does a grapefruit look nothing like a grape?
What shape is the sky?
How did Whittaker's get their name?
When night falls who picks it up?
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?
Why don't they call moustaches mouthbrows?
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say, does it say humans?!
Who decided what order to put the alphabet in?
If you worked at a Coke factory and were caught drinking Sprite at work, would they fire you?
If your not allowed to talk to strangers why do you say hello to them if they walk past?
Do penguins have knees?
Why do they call peanut butter jelly, jelly when it is actually jam?
Why are elderly people often called "old people" but children are never called "new people"?
If you only have one eye...are you blinking or winking?
Is it legal to name your kid "Anonymous"?
Why are softballs hard?
How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
If you dig a hole in the South Pole are you digging up or down?
Can a school teacher give a homeless child homework?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
Why is the word "dictionary" in the dictionary?
If there is a rule that states "i" before "e" except after "c", wouldn't "science, weird and seize etc " be spelled wrong?
Why is "number" abbreviated as "no"? When there is no "o" in number?






I am sure that there is a lot more questions but these are the ones that I listed.
Please comment down below if you have any questions to add to our class wonder wall.
Bye for now

My List Of Sciene All Around Me

This is for my homework. My challenge is to find as many different ways in which science is happening all around us. I have to Make a list and describe the processes. These are mine.

1. Walking to school.
2. Listening to music.
3. The TV. We can now watch cartoons and the news on a big screen.
4. Internet. People used to have to search it up in encyclopaedias.
5. Computers. It is electronic.
6. I phones. They are electronics.
7. Radio. We can listen to the news.
8. Microwave. They used to have to warm up their food over a fire.
9. Freezers. Before our defrosting freezers people had to scrape out the frost from the freezers.
10. Fridge. Now we can keep our food cold.
11. Oven. It used to be over a fire now we use gas.
12. X-rays. Now the dentist can check your teeth and the doctors can check your bones.
13. Hospital gear. Now the doctors can use devices and special machines.
14. Cars. The cars are moving to electric rather than petrol.
15. Digital watches. We now don't have to rewind the clock everyday and we use very thin batteries.  
16. Lights. Lights now use electricity so we don't have to keep using matches.
17. Solar panels. All you have to do now is put them under the sun.
18. Weed killer. Scientifically formulated to kill weeds and let the grass grow.
19. Medicine.  We don't have to use plats anymore.
20. Robots. Scientifically made so we don't have to do things our selves.
21. Traffic lights. They make less crashes.
22. Magnifying glass. It helps read small words from a further distance.
23. Windows. They allow to keep the warmth in and still be able to see through.
24. Ear phones. You can listen to anything on your phone without other people hearing.
25. Head phones. You can listen to anything on a computer without other people hearing.
26. Phones. You can talk to people that are far away from you.
27. Toilet paper. Toilet paper used to be used with leaves and stones.
28. Pens. People used brush and ink.
29. White boards. People used to use chalk boards.
30. White board pens. People used to use chalk. 
31. Smart boards. Now we can show lots of people at the same time off a big screen rather than a small screen on a computer.
32.  Paper. People used to write on fresh bamboo.
33. Wax. Scientist made wax for candles.
34. Mirrors. They reflect off the sun.
35. Water purifier. The scientist made a machine that makes seawater or salty water into plain drinking water.
36. Calculator. It was to hard for them to do it in their head.
37. Torches. People use it for light instead of using fires and torches. (Also lamps as well).
38. Washing machine powder. Scientifically formulated to get dirt and stains off clothes.
39. Power lines. They transport electricity.
40. Aeroplanes. They have aluminium wings. The pilot also has to work out how much fuel in the wings, that is science.
41. Air Conditioning. It uses science to work out if the air conditioner needs hot or cold air.
42. Opening heavy jars. It uses power and energy.

Weekly Challenge-Fitnes-a-thon

For school we are doing a fitness-a-thon. We are getting extra fit!! For our homework we have to research some benefits of regular exercise.






Here are my 10 benefits, of regular exercise.

1. Exercise helps you breath more easily.
2. It helps walk a longer distance.   
3. Exercise makes you fit.
4. It helps you lose weight.
5. Exercise improves sleep quality.
6. It increases bone density.
7. Exercise helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression and improve your mood.
8. It increases your chances of living longer.
9. Exercise improves your ability to do daily activities and prevent falls.
10. It builds strong, healthy muscles.
11. It's good for your heart

Here are some benefits I searched up.

1. You will have a lower chance of getting lung cancer.
2. It looks after and lowers your weight.
3. Exercise  helps improve oxygen levels in the blood.
4. Exercise prevents osteoporosis. ( Osteoporosis is a medical condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue, typically as a result of hormonal changes, or deficiency of calcium or vitamin D.)
5.  It helps you lose weight more easily (or eat more without gaining weight). 

After school the sports I do that will increase my level are gymnastics (my favourite sport) and dance.

ANZAC Day

Anzac Day is on 25 April. On this day we honour all the men and women who have participated in wars. It commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women. ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps.


 Thousands lost their lives in the Gallipoli campaign: 87,000 Turks, 44,000 men from France and the British Empire, including 8500 Australians. To this day, Australia also marks the events of 25 April. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about a fifth of those who served on Gallipoli. On ANZAC day there is heaps of different services which you can go to , to remember those who died for our freedom.


 The red poppy has become a symbol of war remembrance the world over. People in many countries wear the poppy to remember those who died in war or who still serve. In many countries, the poppy is worn around Armistice Day (11 November), but in New Zealand it is most commonly seen around Anzac Day.
The red or Flanders poppy has been linked with battlefield deaths since the time of the Great War (1914–18). The plant was one of the first to grow and bloom in the mud and soil of Flanders. The connection was made, most famously, by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in his poem 'In Flanders fields'.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

These are the poppies growing in Gallipoli





This is a poppy that we wear on our tops.

My A-Z homework

I am an awesome bouncy child who loves doing everything except for the dishes. I love gymnastics heaps. I am incredibly loud at home and love spending my playtime inside unless it is a big job. I am kind and like food. I am called mini Annabelle (my older sister who looks the exact same as me). I try to be neat in my work and my name is Olivia or Livi as my nick name. I seriously love pancakes.
Always remind me of when to be quiet. I am responsible and respect others. I am smart and love reading and writing. My favourite animal is a turtle. I am an untidy person and leave a mess everywhere (that doesn't mean I litter). I play the violin and piano and hates wasps. For me having x-rays is horrible as it is very hard to keep still and I always dream about yellow stripy zebras.