Fungi report

Hypholoma Acutum is its significant name. It is a part of the sap-robe family which is lives on decaying wood leaves or branches. A brown cap covers the top which sits on a long white stalk. Thousands of tiny little gills under the cap have spores in them. The fungi lives on a rotting branch eating the dead wood.

Fungi description

My writing was inspired by the picture at 47-50 seconds on the video below

Mushroom description

Beautiful popping red toadstools with tops as flat as pancakes.
A nice little family of fungi grows at the roots of a big tree. It looks like a perfect place for a smurf or fairy to live. Beautiful green grass covers the ground. Brightly colored leaves are scattered on top and rays of the warm autumn sun shines all over the ground. Long white stalks hold the mushrooms up. Little white dots on top make it look as if the mushrooms has freckles.

Anzac

world war 1 mascots

Lots of different animals went to war and all did different things such as donkeys carrying supplies cats caught rats in the trenches and some went as mascots.

A mascot can be many things like a teddy or a animal and people believe that they bring good luck.
Many nz troops had mascots the soldiers kept mascots for lots of reasons a mascot was a friend and companion like a pet. A mascot gave them positive to think about. It was a reminder of home and normal life.
Some soldiers had mascots while they were in new Zealand some had mascots when they were overseas sailors in the navy had them too. Pelorus jack was a bulldog that lived on the ship HMS new zealand.

When the first pelorus jack died in an accident (he fell down a funnel) a second bulldog with the same name took his place.

Not all mascots survived the war some died in the fighting. A dog named Freda the mascot of the nz rifle brigade has a gravestone at cannock chase in england. lots of mascots had to be left behind lots animals were given to cairo zoo when the troops left the city

The bantam and the soldier summary

We are learning to summarize text

We are learning to summarize text

"The Bantam and the Soldier" Summary

Young Bantam getting picked on by the other Bantams and its war time.

When war came to the village he took the good animals with him and he left the bantams to fend for themselves.

The little bantam slept away from the others.

There was an explosion the bantams got blown up except for the little one he stayed in the bush and he was the only one that survived.

The soldiers headed into the village one was Arthur and he got picked on like the bantams by the other soldiers.

The farmer heard movement in the bushes and it was the bantam.

Arthur freed the bantam and put it in his coat pocket.

The soldiers tease Arthur about having the bantam.

The soldiers started to like the bantam.

They collected bugs for her and she rewarded them with a egg.

Bertha kept hope in the soldiers.

The battle moved past them.

They weren't allowed to take bertha with them.

They took Bertha back to the farmer and said goodbye.

Arthur returned home and was friends with his fellow soldiers.

He said to his niece i want to tell you a story and told her about the bantam called Bertha.

Moral and message of the story:

• if you're nice to people you get good things back
• if you stay strong in your mind about something to achieve your goals.
• the chicken brought hope to the soldiers
• if you are really positive about something and others aren't stay strong about it and eventually they will come around to it.

School camp photos

Gannet

Sam Strahan

Friday the 24th of April was the Manawatu Sam Strahan Rippa Rugby Competition for schools with under 100 students. We, Northern Oroua, had some pretty tough competition with teams from Waituna West, Linton Camp, Kiwitea, Hiwinui and Bainese. Last year we lost to Waituna West in the final so we are really hoping that we will go well this year.
A quick run around the field and some passes. We were ready for our first game against Waituna West ... Dun Dun Daaaaa!!!!!
Our starting team was Huntah, Logan, Lachie, Jacob, Hannah, Rupene and Ella and our subs were Aubyn, Aleisha and Brooke. It was a fairly easy game but one of the boys from Waituna West was small and speedy and he would zoom past our players. Because he was small, you had to bend down to get the rips and he scored a couple of the tries. At half time Brooke, Aubyn and Aleisha came on. The final score was  8-3 to us.
From here we had 4 more similar games and were pleased to make the final.
This was a nail biting game. Each time we scored a try they returned with a really quick try. It was really even. At full time we won by only a single point. The score was 8-7. When I watched the first half it was really frustrating to watch as we knew we had to win this year. I knew when I went on that I had to make a difference.
It was a great day. Thank you to the Turbos for organising it!