Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Xavier Fala





What is something that everyone needs to live, can be in all three states of matter and is part of a never ending cycle? If you guessed water, you are correct! Earth is covered in three quarters of water, this is mainly salt water. 97 percent of water is salt water, leaving 3 percent fresh water. Of that 3 percent only one percent of that water is drinkable. The water cycle is a never ending cycle that has been around since the beginning. All the water that has ever been on earth has always been here.The water cycle has three main stages that connect to each other, they are called evaporation, condensation and precipitation. The first stage is evaporation.




Evaporation is when a liquid is heated by a heat source. You can see evaporation at home when you boil the jug. The water is heated up and the water turns into steam, then after a while the steam turns into water vapor which you can not see. In the water cycle, the sun is a heat source. You can see this when there is a body of water or puddle and heats up the water and it disappears from the ground. This is evaporation, it moves up into the atmosphere where the next stage takes place.




Condensation is when the water vapor meets together in the atmosphere and comes back together in the form of clouds. You can see condensation in your homes when you breath on a mirror or window. When you breathe onto the glass your warm breath condenses together on the cold glass. You can see this more in winter because of the colder temperature. The water cycle needs condensation so that the evaporated water can come back together in order for the next stage to happen. Precipitation is the next stage.




Precipitation is when all of the water vapor joins together in the clouds and gets too heavy from the colder temperatures. Eventually the water vapor will fall down to earth as either snow, sleet, hail or just rain. An example of precipitation is when you take a hot shower and the water condenses on the mirror and gets to heavy and you see water running down the mirror. Precipitation is needed so that water vapor in the atmosphere can return to earth. This starts the cycle all over again.




The water cycle is an important and very delicate cycle. If one piece of the cycle is taken out, the water cycle will cease to exist. All the steps are important from evaporation turning water into water vapor, to condensation coming together and precipitation pouring down as rain. We as a people need to stop being wasteful with our water, or else there will be no future for life on earth.

Cross-Country Eden Albert

On Thursday the 20th of June 2019 we went to cross country zones we only brought  year 4-6 this year. This run was about 3 kilometers long, there was a sausage-sizzle for after you race. the races 

started at 10.00 o'clock and ended at 12.30.  Every school had left at about 12.50 it was a great experience.

GSS Book Week 2019

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favorite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favorite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!




Here are some photos from our time:

My book week character was: The sorting hat

Water-Care

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Water-care come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. In Room 6 we learnt a lot about Samoa and the Samoan culture. We watched Cultural Hub clips about the Samoan alphabet, animals and body parts. Did you know that the Samoan alphabet has only 17 letters? Also during reading time we did a scavenger hunt, our experts were Matila, Remy and Rosa. Here are some photos of what were looking at.