I truly believe this octopus was an incredible idea, and having it float in Auckland Harbor is just the perfect finishing touch. The artist behind this masterpiece has such a wonderful imagination, and it’s incredibly inspiring.

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We got a chance to recount our ideas from the year Including what we are most proud of and what we want to get better at in 2025.

We got the chance to learn about Christmas around the world not just Christmas here in New Zealand. I chose Venezuela because my relatives on my dads side of the family live there.

For the summer learning journey, we got a chance to learn about the wonderful but deadly creatures of the ocean. For this task I chose to do the Atlantic Manta as my dangerous animal.

WALT  we are learning to identify the main idea

I had to listen to a podcast on how pencil lead sticks to paper I also had to take notes on the podcast here are some of them

Pencil lead sticks to paper without coming off because pencil lead applies friction you have tiny little fibers in the paper which allows it to stick. Pencils contain graphite the pencil was first developed in the 1500s the found big slab in the ground and made wood around it to make the pencil when they dug it out of the ground it looked like lead but darker so they called it dark lead. 

This podcast explains how pencil lead sticks to paper.

We were so lucky to get to learn about probability. We learnt how to recognize the probability of these events.  So for example it is certain it will be dark tonight because it is dark every night. It is unlikely that I will go to the moon when I’m older because I don’t want to be an astronaut when I grow up but I didn’t put impossible because I want to be an astronomer. It Is impossible for me to fly tomorrow because people can’t fly without machines aka gliders, planes, or parachutes etc etc. Did you know Wilber and Oliver White made the first airplane in 1903?

WALT we are learning to identify the main idea

I listen to a podcast about how the dinosaurs died, and I also had to take notes on the podcast. Here are some of my notes. 60 Million years ago an asteroid collided with earth the asteroid cased a lot of volcanoes to erupted.

The main idea of the podcast is to explain how dinosaurs died.

WALT we are learning to identify the main idea

I had to listen to a podcast about the sun, and take notes. some of my notes were that the sun is 147.59 million kilometres away.  It would take you 180 years to drive to the sun in a car.

The main idea of this podcast is to explain the concept of how the sun lights up the world.

WALT we are learning to identify the main idea

we had to listen to the animal podcast an write down some notes here are some of my notes goats have rectangular pupils and octopuses have 3 hearts

the main idea of this podcast is to tell us about animals.

I learned a lot of things from this podcast including that squids have their heads shaped like donots

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