Aoraki Purakau

This is my Aoraki Purakau. We drew our art, then we went over it in vivid. After that we coloured it in with pastels and cut it out and glued it onto black paper.

 

 

My camp slide

This is my camp slide: 

Health day poster

This week we have finished our last celebrations topic thing. 

When we were finished all of those, we had to make a poster of a holiday. 

I did health day.

Enjoy!

 

Literacy Week 3

This week we have done two tasks for our camp literacy, firstly the Hypothermia slide that I did with Emma, and also the Heat Exhaustion project that I did With Casey. So go check out their blogs too!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11PshXN8NMKqyP31vYw3rsHlxgPnbD89EoXbfTJP6KZI/edit#slide=id.p

2004 boxing day tsunami

Here is my 500 word essay (literally, its 500 word's, approximately) on the 2004 boxing day tsunami. It was really fun, and if you want information about endangered species then go to Molly's blog!! Palm oil? Emma's blog!

My 500 word essay:

2004 Boxing day tsunami

A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra island, Indonesia, set off the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, also known as the Christmas or Boxing Day tsunami, on Sunday morning, Dec. 26, 2004.

At 7:59 AM, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake -one of the biggest ever recorded- burst through an undersea fault in the Indian Ocean, it shot a ginormous column of water toward unknowing shores. The Boxing Day tsunami is one of the deadliest in recorded history, taking a total of 230,000 lives in only a few hours!

With waves travelling 500 mph (meters per hour) across the Indian Ocean, the great wave hit the coastal towns of India with such great force that it made houses fold like cards, and the cars were swept up like a rainbow of oil and metal.

60 minutes later, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean, the waves struck the southeastern coast of India near the city of Chennai, pushing already polluted water kilometres inland and killing more than 10,000 people, mostly women and children, since many of the men were out fishing. But some of the worst ruin was given to the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30,000 people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless.

As proof of the record-breaking strength of the tsunami, the last victims of the boxing day disaster perished nearly eight hours later when swelling seas and ferocious waves caught swimmers by surprise in South Africa, 5,000 miles from the earthquake’s focus!

-The aid response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was unprecedented for a natural disaster, with a colossal $6.25 bn (billion) donated to a central UN relief fund assisting 14 countries. ... Aid agencies say the response was unlike any they had seen before, particularly in the scale of donations from the public. -     Link to information

Here are some fun facts about the 2004 boxing day tsunami:

1. 275,000 people were killed in fourteen countries across two continents, with the last two fatalities being swept out to sea in South Africa, more than twelve hours after the earthquake.

2. “A person will be just swept up in it and carried along as debris; there's no swimming out of a tsunami,” Garrison-Laney says. 

3. Within five years, individuals were back in homes they owned, often on their original land, in communities with new schools and in many cases improved infrastructure.

4. Did they know the 2004 tsunami was coming?

Quite simply, they had no idea it was coming. That's because despite a history of tsunamis caused by volcanoes and earthquakes, Indonesia has not had an effective early warning system for years. Saturday's disaster isn't the first time Indonesia's disaster readiness has been criticised this year.

 

5. The scientific name for the earthquake/tsunami is Sumatra-Andaman.

 

This report was based on the 2004 boxing-day tsunami, in the book that we read, Running Wild, by Michel Morpurgo.

 

By:

Lucy Boere.

Temp kit

As we prepare for our 2021 school camp to Aurthers pass outdoor educational camp, we have had to do all our maths on coordinates and how to keep yourself warm and safe. This is Emma and my Temperature kit, so go check out Emma's blog as well!!!

Show don't tell W5

Since starting our 2nd book for the term, Running wild, by Michel Morpurgo, we have had to fill in a show don't tell every week. Here is my week 2 show don't tell: