Hanmer Hot Pools Explanation

WALT: Explain a scientific phenomenon

Our Task: Write an explanation that explains why and how the water gets hot in the hot pools at Hanmer.

Kia Ora Everyone ,

Do you know how the natural hot pools are hot ?

Well I’m going to teach you how  the Hanmer springs hot pools are hot !

In the small town Hanmer Springs there are natural hot pools that are formed by themselves . The water gets to high temperatures by the earth's core . Now I bet you are wondering how they are hot well what happens is …

In the world there is a thing called the ring of fire and New Zealand is right in the middle of it . There is also a fault line in New Zealand and the fault line causes earthquakes . The Earthquakes make cracks into the ground and the water goes into the cracks . It goes close to the earth's core so it heats up to high temperatures .

After the water heats up to high temperatures it goes back up the cracks and that’s how the water is so hot . Right now the water is about 173 years old and has been evaporating for years now .  

I hope today you learnt something about Hanmer Springs and next time of you go to Hanmer try to find out some more facts !

Earths Core

WALT: Understand and explain scientific language related to Thermal Pools.

Last week we had to choose a vocabulary word related to Hanmer Spring's to investigate.  We had to define what it is then explain what it has to do with Hanmer. We chose to do it about earths core and here it is. 

Blog X- Gymnastics

This week we have started this new thing that is called Blog X and we have to chose as many things that we do and sign up for them . After that you have to do at least 2 blog posts about it a term and this is my first blog post about it . 

My sport/activity I chose was Gymnastics. I am a member of the Greymouth Gymnastics Competitive team.  I am in step two and at the moment we are in competition session.   I really like Gymnastics because is is challenging . 

Hanmer Springs .

Tomorrow/Wednesday we are going on a camp to Hanmer Springs we are going to be doing heaps of cool stuff . Here is a slide to say what we are doing and some facts !

Bookweek .

Last week we had a thing called book week and our school does it every year for a week . What we do is we have a wacky Wednesday and a book character day we also have to theme our door out of a book . Here are some photos .

Term 2 Goals .

This term our class had to make goals for the term/year . My goals the ones below and i'm hoping that I will be able to accomplish these goals .

Getting To Hamner

Next Week our class is going to Hamner Springs for 2019 camp we are going to do heaps of fun stuff but we all had to make a google map to the root we are going to this is mine .