My overall impression of the Literature Circles was good because I got to work with different people and do different jobs.

My favourite task was the Word Wizard because it was very easy and quick. 

The challenge I had was when I was the discussion director we were doing our first Literature Circle I couldn’t really do it.

The progress I saw in the conversations over time was good because people started to talk more and just not let 1 person do all the talking.

The RISE value I showed the most was empathy because when I was the discussion director I did a bad job at it but I was nice to myself.

From the Literature Circle tasks, I learnt that when you’re summarizing a story you don’t rewrite the story in a very short way, you just write the main ideas in bullet points.

From holding the Literature Circle conversations, I learnt that I’m not good at making interesting questions but I know how to do it now.  

For literacy we have being learning to make a fact file about some one and put it in to paragraphs. Here is my one.

Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear physics because of his experiments that revealed the structure of the atom and he is also famous because he was the first person to split the atom.

 Ernest Rutherford was born on the 30th of August 1871 in Nelson, New Zealand, he lived to 66 and his career in nuclear physics lasted 42 years.

 In his family he had 11 siblings who were Alice Rutherford Elliot, Ethel Rutherford Sergal, Florence Rutherford Streif, Percy Rutherford, Charles Rutherford, Arthur Rutherford, George Rutherford, Herbert Rutherford, James Rutherford, Ellen Rutherford Chapman, and Evelyn Rutherford and he also had a mum and dad and.

Ernest Rutherford studied radioactivity and nuclear physics at the University of Canterbury where he was taught by JJ Tompson who had said that the atom looked a bit like a raisin muffin and it was made up of 2 things which are the electron and neutron but a few years later Ernest Rutherford revealed that the atom actually looked like a bit like it had a center with lots of things floating around it. He achieved this by doing the famous gold foil experiment which was when he shot high speed particles at gold foil and he had a barrier behind the gold foil that detected where the particles went, Ernest thought that based on the last theory that the particles would go straight though the foil but when a did the experiment the particles went all over the place this proved that the atom was made up of 3 things and he discovered the proton.

In 1917 Ernest Rutherford declared that he had successfully split the atom but he had broken the gold foil machine. 

In conclusion I think that Ernest Rutherford is one of the greatest people in the field of nuclear physics and I think he definitely earned the title of the father of nuclear physics.

By Geordie Ryder-Foskett.

Today for literacy we had to make a timeline about New Zealand Advocates and Environmentalists from 1893 to 1980. My favorite  Advocates/ Environmentalists  is Norman Kirk because if it wasn’t for him the pacific ocean would probably have lots of radioactive things in it.

Today we went inside a stardome, a stardome is a big dark room where they project stuff onto the roof. First they taught us all about the sun and how it is made of hydrogen plasma,  hydrogen plasma is hydrogen which is a gas but hydrogen plasma is sort of like a glowing verging of hydrogen gas and also every stars core is 15° million degrees celsius but the surface of a star depends on its colour like blue stars are about 20 to 25 thousand degrees celsius but redish orange stars are about 5000° degrees. Next they taught us about how the universe is made out of 3 things something, nothing and radiation, something is you everything that you can touch and things that are made of atoms, nothing is space that has nothing in it and radiation is light.

For cybersmart we made this thing where we made goals for the next year and goals for when I am adult because Matariki is a time to remember the past and plan for the new year. Matariki in the star cluster is the mother of all the stars, Tupuanuku stands for food that grows in the ground, Tupuarangi stands for food that that comes from the sky, Wati stands for food that comes from fresh water and there are many more.

For inquiry we have being making cultural celebration posters here is mine.