Aaron's Explanation

                   How Light Affects Plant Growth?

A plant needs water, nutrients, light and warmth to grow. If the plant doesn't have these things it will die.
If a plant has light and a little bit of warmth it will grow like a normal plant would. When the plant is green it means the sun has been shining on it causing it to make chlorophyll. All plants have water and light will stay healthy and grow bigger and bigger.
Plants that don't have any light will go pale and the leaves will start to go brown and die. The roots won't be able to suck up any nutrients or water to the plant. With no light the plant will droop because it has no energy to stay up straight. The root will flop over and the plant won't have any support holding it up.
Some plants can grow in the dark. To test to see if plants can grow in the dark. The plants will need the same amount of water so then it is a fair test. After a while the plant will go pale because it hasn't had any light to photosynthesis. Plants can survive for a little bit because the production that harmones is stimulated by the dark which makes suppressed light.
Finally the rest of the plant will start to fade out because of no sunlight, chlorophyll or nutrients. The colour will be an orangey brownish. All the other parts will have no strength and start to rot.
Plants grow every where and many different places. They grow in all conditions like hot weather or cold. No plants can grow without light.

By Aaron.

TERM 3 2013 REFLECTION

Something I have accomplished this term is maths because I'm getting a lot better at my fractions and decimals.
The area what I feel I made my biggest improvements are writing because last year I wrote a shorter. but now i can add more detail and write longer speeches and recounts.
My favourite subjects are maths, reading, topic and writing because I like learning different things and learning more. My least favourite subject is writing but since we have been doing more fun ways to write. I like it a bit better.
My goals I hope to achieve next term is reading because I need to read the questions right to get a higher standard.

By Aaron.

Kid zone

I was so excited because today I'm going to Kid zone with Willis. At 9:00 he will be coming to pick me up. The door bell rung and I zoomed like a racing car to get it. I opened the door and hopped into the car. Then we drove off like we weren't even there. It took us about 30 minutes to Invercargill. When we got to Kid zone, Willis and I went on the zorbs. Once we got in them we were trying to crash into each other. I did it a couple of times. But then I just fell back like I was a flat pancake, then relaxed because we were so num. Then it was time up. So the man grabbed me and dragged me onto a soft sponge. Straight after we went on the green machines. I started doing mean as drifties. Just before lunch we went to a room called Sew There. It was a place where you could make a mask or an animal sack. The people gave us the material and sheets of paper to make a pig sack.

Nutty News

                                                                   NUTTY NEWS

One sunny day, Mr Humpty Dumpety was sitting on a hard, rocky wall, eating ice cream. He was waving to any one who was coming his way and saying "what's up yhoul ghoul" Then a big gang of big boys came and pushed him off the wall. They said " Do you want a arm wrestle? If we win you have to go sniff a beehive" "Okay then"

So he came up to the first beehive that came his way. He asked the lady who was walking beside it . "Do you want to see me sniff this beehive?" "Of course not" said the lady. "That's a bit peculiar" said the lady. Humpty said, "PLEASE can I? I'm trying to do a bet. I lost it" The lady moved on and thought in her head "You are a very strange man"

So he went back to the wall and he was trying to get back on it. But he was so dumb that he forgot his grippy shoes. So he went back to the lady and said, "Can I please have my shoes back?" "OH are these yours. I didn't know" Here you go." Up went Humpty on the wall then suddenly a gang of butterflies  came, but he didn't know that he was allergic to butterflies. So he sneezed and sneezed then fell off the wall. He broke every part of his body and all the kings horses and his men were gluing and gluing every part they could. For the thousandth time they finally got him back to normal. Then Humpty came back to his wall and started to eat as much food as he could.

BY Aaron

Hottest House Baker

Friday the 14th of June we had to bake a cupcake and decorate it.
In the assembly the winners got announced and they were in year 5 and 6 Oreti-Geena and Georgia. Aparima-Lani and Willis. Hokonui-McKenzie and Nicole. Takitimu-Aaron and Rebekah.
We had a bake off on Friday the 21st of June. We had to make biscuits and we will find out who is eliminated in the assembly.

By Lani and Geena.   

THE SCOOP OF SUMMER

At the start of term 1 we did a story about what we did in the holidays. First we did our draft copy and we sorted it in three paragraphs. The first one was called All About Me, then In The Holidays and the last one was This Year. This was the story that I did:

The Scoop Of Summer

All About Me

When I grow up I want to be a famous rugby player and go on world tours to visit countries I have never been before in my life. Learn different languages and learn how to use chopsticks the right way. Also last year(2012)  my sister Rebekah and I moved to Winton School because five years ago my family and I moved to Winton. We came down from Lochiel and at Lochiel School we car pooled with this boy named Adam Hillis who then came to Winton School and then we car pooled with another family for about two and a half years and then we came to Winton School.

In The Holidays

On the 25th September it was my birthday. I usually send three or four people but in the Christmas holidays we went to Dunedin and stayed in the Holiday park down in the south side. The first thing we did was we went to Stirling Sports, I bought a rugby tee. The next thing we went to was Smiggle. I bought an orange pencil case and a rubber. So did Rebekah, but it was purple instead.  About an hour later we went to Moana Pool. The first thing I went to first was the Hydro Slide, then after that it was the diving board. About twenty minutes later after the diving board it was the lazy river. We got bored after awhile so we asked mum if if could get out and go back to the Holiday Park. But when we got back there was a flash new car right in front of our cabin. It was my dad.He must of bought it down from Christchurch.

This Year

During the year I am hoping to go back to Dunedin again and collect more Smiggle things. Also I want to get in another Southland team for any sports. My two favourite sports are Cricket and Rugby.

By Aaron Torrie.