Othaniel's Active Earth Animation

More Volcano Diorama's

For writing we have been learning to write information reports. This has worked in well with our Active Earth topic. All our information reports have been about volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field.

Mount Wellington

General Statement
Mount Wellington is our local mountain. This means that it is the closest mountain to us. We have a dormant volcano that won't erupt anytime soon.

Description
Mount Wellington is the youngest volcano onshore. This volcano was formed by an eruption about 9000 years ago. The mountain is 135 metres high and you can get up to the top by walking.

Location
You can see Mount Wellington in the Auckland volcanic field. There are lots of suburb surrounding Mount Wellington like Panmure and Glen Innes. Mount Wellington is 10 kilometres southeast from Auckland City.

Conclusion
Maungarei is moari for Mount Wellington and translated as the watchful mountain. Moari used this area as a village so if their enemy is coming they can get ready to fight. Mount Wellington is unlikely to erupt again.

By Othaniel

Our Trip to Maungakiekie

Below are some sentence extracts from our writing sample. We wrote about our trip to Maungakiekie.

When I woke up, the sun was beaming out of the sky and through my window. I said to myself "we finally get to go on our trip to Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill).

Sentence by Howard

This week on Wednesday we travelled to Maungakiekie on a bus.

Sentence by Aldora

First we had loads of fun. We were rolling and sliding down, but I kept hitting my head on other people's mouths.

Sentence by Othaniel

Then we went into the education classroom, there was a teacher called Nadia. She showed us three rocks from volcanoes and one was from One Tree Hill. It was massive and it looked a little rusty.

Sentence by Shayne

Othaniel's Story

Listen to Othaniel's story about Miss King.

Swimming Group 3

Our group was allowed to practise diving if we had
a good lesson with Miss Walters. We found out that
diving isn't as easy as it looks but it is fun. Check out our video!

Othaniel

Here is Othaniel's self-portrait.

Who am I?