BATS

ECHOLOCATION

Did you know marine mammals like dolphins and whales use echolocation  same as the bat?. They use echolocation to locate their prey and to navigate around their environment. Bats  emit high a pitched sound and wait until it echoes back to the bat and that tells the bat there is an object. Marine mammals uses echolocation like this to.

Echolocation is not only used by animals there are very few humans that use echolocation. Ben is a boy that doesn't have any  eyes  but he uses echolocation to navigate his way.  He might not have eyes but he can locate his way through cars and ride his bike everywhere. He emits a sound clicking his tongue and he listens for an echo to see if there is anything ahead.

The people from the university of California wanted to have an experiment with Ben. They did a test to see if he could tell where the objects are and how high they were. He got all of them right but it was hard for him to tell where a thin object was  because when he emitted a sound it bounced everywhere. But amazingly he managed to locate a thin stick standing up on the table.

As you can see that some animals can use their ears to see by using echolocation to navigate their way and and to locate their prey. Not only animals that uses echolocation other humans uses echolocation like Ben. He uses echolocation to see and he emit a sound by clicking his tongue.

immersion assembly

Immersion assembly

Today’s assembly was awesome as it was about how I like to move it move it. It was funny. When I was in the hall all the teachers were in different costumes and we watched every team’s topic our topic was about sounds. My favourite team topic was team one it was about the zoo because they are going to the zoo tomorrow.This term in team5 we are going to learn about sound and we have to create instruments using different objects.

In assembly Mr Burt did a experiment it was about the movie Up when the house was flying using balloons but in our assembly we tied the balloons into a small taxi toy  from Mr Burt it took sixteen balloon to make the small taxi to fly. Mr Jacobsen was walking on the stage wearing his 8 fencing wire shirt and he told us what his shirt means and then he asked for volunteer and he picked lee and they were discussing what 8 fencing wire was.

Fiafia night

On wednesday the 9th of April we had our fiafia night in our school. There were food stall and lots of people it was approximately 3000 people . Mr Burt called all the fiafia group to go to their changing room and my group  was the Samoan group. After we changed into our fiafia costumes we did a prayer in Samoan and then it was show time.

We walked and we sit where our group was we have to wear  our jackets  because it was cold that time it s about eight o’clock. The Senior Kapa Haka group was first they walked on the stage their hands were shaking I thought they were nervous but it was part of their dance and culture. Our number was number twelve and the number eleven was performing it was the junior hip hop group.

It was our turn to perform my heart was pounding that time some of the boys had butterflies in their stomachs. When we walking on stage the kids were cheering at our group calling out kids name. When we were performing we couldn’t even see anyone so none of us were nervous we were going hard out on the stage we were hyped up . Finally our performance was finished we were really tired and our parents were proud of us showing our culture.

Before fiafia was finished we finished of the Tongan from one of the prefects. After fiafia we went to our changing room and my auntie and uncle picked me and my sister. Then we went straight home and it was the best night ever.

Here are the highlights of the fiafia -

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christian show not tell

SHOW NOT TELL

. The owls were hooting outside in the trees. As I got changed into my pajama the moon was shining bright through my window.The wind  was blowing making my windows rattle  . I ran to the kitchen but  tripped over sports gear I left lying on the ground “ Man my room is like a pig sty i have to clean this up “,.

CHRISTIAN SHOW NOT TELL

SHOW NOT TELL 

Roger was excited that he was going to visit his family in Samoa . Roger was jumping up and down saying “ Im going to Samoa  tomorrow”, . On the morning Roger dashed into his parents room he said “ lets pack our bags we are  going to samoa “, until dad said  they are going o samoa two more weeks . Roger clenched his fists and ran back into his room and slammed the door hard .

Roger came outside from his room with a frowned face the dad ‘asked him why are you so sad Roger’, Roger answered “ because we are going to Samoa tomorrow” , Roger’s dad laughed  and said ‘’ I was just joking go pack your bags we are going soon “ . Roger dashed to his room and packed all his stuff .

christian show not tell

SHOW NOT TELL

Emily  stomped her feet and shouted  to her sister laura, “ Im coming to the shop with  you”. Laura clenched her fist and said ,” No you are not coming with me to the shop you are annoying you always ask me for food “. Laura’s mum said to Laura , “ take your sister with you  to the shop”, Laura stomped her feet and locked herself in her room and started throwing stuff in her room .

Emily was excited that her sister took her to the shop with her. Laura’s  Heart was pounding because her friends were there she felt embarrassed and running away from her sister. Laura’s friends saw her and started coming to her she dashed into the toilet and left her sister behind.