Why do bees swarm?

Why do bees swarm?


When a coloney is formed there can be up to  10,000 - 20,000 workers. When bees make a beehive they have one Queen Bee. This queen bee is a honey bee. When the hive gets too big the bees none of the bees have access to the queen anymore so that means they aren't receieving her signals so they don't know what to do. When that happens the bees that don't have access to her move away and fiind a knew queen and create another beehive.

NZCT Aims Games 2013

NZCT Aims Games 2013

Last week was the NZCT Aims Games.
The Aims Games is a sporting competition organised by Sport Bay Of Plenty.
166 Schools from around New Zealand (2 from Australia, 1 from Rarotonga)
come to compete in the sport that they have been chosen to compete in.

I went to watch some of the sports such as:
- Hockey
- Cross Country
- Soccer
- Basketball
- Netball
- Swimming

At hockey I watched our T.I.S team. They were playing John Paul College.
It was so intense. At half time it was 0-0 then at the last 2 minutes of the whole game our team scored 2 goals!!! The score ended up being 2-0 to us. We won.

At Cross Country I was also supporting T.I.S and also A.N.I because my cousin was in the team. Everyone did so well! We were all proud of everyone with their placings. I really enjoyed watching. Our T.I.S team ended up coming 1st overall (second in the relay. We had a third for Yr 8 boys, a first for Yr 7 boys.)

At soccer I was going to watch my cousin from A.N.I. Their team did very well. They won their first game 6-0 and then their second game was taken to penalty shoot outs which unforlunatly the other team won, but it was a close score of
3-2.

At Basketball I went to watch our T.I.S boys playing A.N.I and they lost, I can't remember the score but it was something big. Then I went and watched the T.I.S girls playing off for 3rd and 4th. They sadly lost by 1 point the score I think was 31-32. There was a few injurys and tears but everyone did an amazing job.

At Netball I watched our T.I.S invatation team. I can't remember who they were playing. But I think they lost. They have a very strong team. They both scored goals but I don't know what the score was because I went to go watch the hockey game.

On Tuesday after school I went to swimming to support my T.I.S friend Marijke. She was doing so well! Untill it came to her 50m freestyle because sshe dived too early and got disqualified, but if she hadn't been disqualified she would have came second with a Silver medal. She ended up getting a medal in the either 100m backstroke or 200m backstroke, I can't remember. But she did an amazing job and she is an amazing swimming.

At Aims Games 2013 I had an amazing time watching all of the sports. Our school (T.I.S) cam first overall. We have won it everytime. The NZCT Aims Games are held every year and each year they seem to be getting bigger!

Cool Fact: The NZCT Aims Games are half the size of the Olympics.

Norm Hewitt SPCA Assembly

Today in Block 2 Norm Hewitt came in and talked to us about Animal Care.
When Norm Hewitt was 7 he wanted to be a cowboy, he had cow boy p.j's, sheets, duvets and his favourite cowboy had on his bed. His family were watching the All Blacks play one night while Norm Hewitt had his cow boy asssescories on, he saw them do the huka and decided thats it, I want to be an All Black. So from then on all he wanted to do was be an All Black which he achieved. He played Hooker No.2.
After he was an All Black he started to love dancing. He decided to enter Dancing with the stars and got to the finals in that and ended up winning!
He talked to us about why we should be looking after animals.
He was very inspiring.

Homework Floorplanner and Spreadsheet

Task:
To create a rimu house school including the following:
• Hall
• Staffroom
• 4 Classrooms
• Swimming Pool
• Library
• Gym
• Field

Spreadsheet

Photo of School:

Kaitlyn setting and story openings

WALT: describe the setting of a story using ‘show’ not ‘tell’

SC:

- to use descriptive language to help the reader visualise the setting

- to use language that activates the readers’ senses e.g smell and sound

- to use similes and metaphors to describe the setting

- to use interesting vocab to describe the setting

Comment from buddy:

I like how you describe the talking like a chainsaw and how you call the principal the boss, you could have said a little more about what the sport you were playing was and you could of had a few more similes and metaphors and also you could have added some more descriptive language to help the reading know what the story is about 
- Lachlan

The noisy chatter of people as they walk past. They talk as loud as a chainsaw! I see the swings swinging as I walk past. I walk to the fresh green area and start practicing sport with a ball. I look around and wonder where everyone is. I hear the bell ring and go line up. I walk towards the big carpeted room. I see rows of seats. My row sits down. We waited patiently for the Boss to come up and talk to us. We stand as he enters the room then sit back down. Our teacher hands out our books while we wait for everyone else to arrive and we get time to talk to each other about our work. Once everyone has arrived the Boss speaks. Once he has finished we go back to our room. Then another bell rings and everyone flies out the door.

Can you guess where the setting of my story it?