Our video about amazing dykes.

The amazing dyke

In Frisia, the north west of Germany storm tides appear every two to three years and can kill up to 50000 people and destroy houses and landscape. To protect themselves the Frisians build little hills and on these they build their houses. Later they build a big dyke all along the coastline. One big storm came 1362 and the flood destroyed the dyke in 21 places and 50000 people died.
(A dyke is a big dam and it is 9 meters or higher)

On the two pictures you can see a sluice. It is a special gate that only let the river out and not the sea in.

Rubbish

Today our class room went to a rubbish festival with Sarah from Nelson City Council. She told us not to litter the school. we should put our rubbish in the bin. If it's paper try to reuse it, then recycle. There were apples, sandwiches, bars, raisens, bananas and chippies thrown out. You can take it home if you don't like it or put it in the compost. Try and not use gladwrap because it's hard to unwrap and you can't recycle it. We are going to try and not use gladwrap or wrappers next Monday (but that's a holiday so we'll try on Friday.)

Too Much Rubbish

We have just been to an assembly with a day's worth of rubbish in it. You can compost paper, food and cardboard. It was so stinky. Unfourtunately, people havent found a way to recycle plastic yet. We have three or two big rubbish bins and three or two big recycle bins. We had a challenge to not have plastic in our lunchbox on Mondays.

Sea Creatures

Cushion STARFISH
Cushion starfish are fat and it’s skin is bumpy but the skin is not sooth and silky and they love water. By paris

Sea anemone.
It was green like a grassy garden.
It sucked at my finger it was really
Sticky. By Grace

The chiton is slow and small .its got a eight plated shell because it bends over rocks and it doesn’t like the sun. By SamA

Cable Bay

Crab sometimes have blue on top. They are super duper fast like a racing car. Most crabs are brown, some are blue brown and some are red. They can snip us.By Louis

I saw a star fish. It was a cushonstarfish. The colour was orange and black. Starfish stick on the rock. Star fish live in the sea. I like star fish!.By Ann

When I went to Cable Bay I saw heaps of starfish all different colours like purple blue green brown and black.There were brittle cushon and spiny.The starfish grab on to the rock like a slug.. By Brittany

At Cable Bay

Snake skin chiton
It’s oval like a stone when it’s afraid. It is a slow creature, as a slug. By Nic

Spiny Starfish are damp, dismal, spiny, star shaped fish.
Their suckers are as powerful as a sumo wrestler tugging a rope. By Lewis