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Friday, 19 October 2018

Term 4 Goals and Expectations






Walt: use correct sentences to help structure our writing.


Instructions

This term is going to be a MASSIVE term filled with loads of events and fun.
This is your chance to set some goals for what you want to achieve this term.


This term we had three holidays and now it is over and we are ready to start term 4. This term our topic is called Te WA Toi. This means it is time for art.
This term I am excited for school because I get to play with my friends and get to do some work. My goals are to get better at stuff like reading and my other goal is to be kind on another.I would hope to learn about  lots of new things.

Marshmallow Challenge


Walt: create a structured recount with correct tenses and punctuation.


Instructions

Complete the challenge with your friends and then use this template to write a recount.




Have you ever had a marshmallow challenge? Well Room 8 Literacy has.
Today Room 8 literacy did a marshmallow challenge we had lots of fun.


Miss Parrant told all of room 8 students to go and sit on the blue screen.
After that she was organizing the stuff.  Then she came and said
you have 18 minutes to do the marshmallow challenge.
She also said if you eat the marshmallow you will get disqualified.
Miss Parrant told us to go and find a table and start.

The next thing we did was that we put all the spaghetti and we poked it on the marshmallow.
We got the string and tied  it up on the spaghetti.
Then we we got the sellotape and wrap it on the bottom.

After that we Miss Parant said that we had 30 seconds left and my teammates were in  a big hurry.
My teammates Actually made a tower.

Me and my teammates were very happy because we won. Me and my teammates were really happy with our tower.

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

niagara waterfall

Image result for niagara falls
The Niagara River, as is the entire Great Lakes Basin of which the river is an integral part, is a legacy of the last Ice Age. 18,000 years ago southern Ontario was covered by ice sheets 2-3 kilometers thick. As they advanced southward the ice sheets gouged out the basins of the Great Lakes. Then as they melted northward for the last time they released vast quantities of meltwater into these basins. Our water is “fossil water”; less than one percent of it is renewable on an annual basis, the rest leftover from the ice sheets.
The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward, its melt waters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, down to the St. Lawrence River, and, finally, down to the sea. There were originally 5 spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at Queenston-Lewis ton. From here the Falls began its steady erosion through the bedrock.
However, about 10,500 years ago, through an interplay of geological effects including alternating retreats and re-advances of the ice, and rebounding of the land when released from the intense pressure of the ice (isostatic rebound), this process was interrupted. The glacial meltwaters were rerouted through northern Ontario, bypassing the southern route. For the next 5,000 years Lake Erie remained only half the size of today, the Niagara River was reduced to about 10% of its current flow, and a much-reduced Falls stalled in the area of the Niagara Glen.
About 5,500 years ago the melt waters were once again routed through southern Ontario, restoring the river and Falls to their full power. Then the Falls reached the Whirlpool.
And it's nice and peaceful to visit and here are other pictures of Niagara.
It's 51 meters and in Canada. 
It was a brief and violent encounter, a geological moment lasting only weeks, maybe even only days. In this moment the Falls of the youthful Niagara River intersected an old riverbed, one that had been buried and sealed during the last Ice Age. The Falls turned into this buried gorge, tore out the glacial debris that filled it, and scoured the old river bottom clean. It was probably not a falls at all now but a huge, churning rapids. When it was all over it left behind a 90-degree turn in the river we know today as the Whirlpool, and North America’s largest series of standing waves we know today as the Whirlpool Rapids.                             

Thursday, 28 June 2018