Homework challenge

Homework challenge

This week we have been given a homework challenge. For this challenge, we have to create something using a milk bottle, I have done a pot plant. For my pot plant, I had to cut off the bottom so that the plant could fit in then I had to paint, vivid the facials and the pattern then plant the flowers in it.

So far I am up to doing a second coat on my milk bottle, the most challenging thing was painting it because I had done my plan in vivid so I had to do a lot of coats. The paint also started to chip off so I have to do a second coat which might be hard because there is a flower in it.

pictures

Before I started

My plain

Painting

First coat

Earthquake

Last  Monday two minutes after midnight a 7.8 earthquake shook the upper East Coast of the South Island many homes were damaged and  evacuated. It had destroyed roads farms and knocked down trees, the 7.8 earthquake was flowed by around about thousands of aftershocks.

An earthquake occurs when the tectonic plates rub together making the ground move when the plates move they separate and make big cracks in the ground.

In many towns up the East Coast of North and South Island had tsunamis warnings to signal them to stay clear of the coastline and move to higher ground. Many people have been affected by this earthquake people can’t go to work, teenagers couldn’t finish their exams, truck drivers and farmers families and many more were affected by the earthquake.  

Year six bike ride

Year six bike ride

Last Friday the year sixes did a bike ride, we started in Paeroa at a farm and went to the Karangahake Gorge and back. We went down a gravel track, it took around about one hour, until we got to the tunnel. The tunnel was dark but it was not as dark as I remembered it. Once we came out of the tunnel we went down to see a waterfall, we also saw a goat called Holly. We arrived at the battery around one o'clock, we sat down and ate lunch then went to explore. We went over a bridge and saw a huge hole in the ground that was used for gold mining we also hopped into an old train carriage, then we headed back.

On our way back we went a different way instead of going through the tunnel. We walked our bikes along a very tight track, we came to another bridge and then went up a hill then we went through a bush until we arrived back at the farm.

Photos

                                                 Before we start

                                             Holly the goat

                                         

                                  On the way there

                                  

                                   

                                   At the waterfall

                   

                                The Battery

                           

                            The old carriages

                        

                          The big holes

                     

                           The tight track

                 

                                The end