A concrete poems are poems that describes an object, animal or person. A concrete poem is special because it’s shaped as the topic! For example, if it’s talking about a ghost the shape of the poem would be a ghost. Remember, concrete poems don’t have to rhyme but if you’d like you can.

You can make a concrete poem by…

-Deciding what topic and shape you are going to do (can be anything but the topic and shape have to match

-Start by drawing your shape (It will act as your guidelines).

-Now with your drawing (doesn’t have to be detailed, just an outline) You will start writing your poem over your lines/drawing

-When you are done writing your poem over the lines you can erase the lines and you’re done!

Here is my poster about water:

Extreme weather

What factors can cause extreme weather?

Heat waves, melting glaciers, and rising water levels

Could you relate it to the water cycle?

Heat waves- It connects to evaporation in the water cycle because the heat evaporates the water up to the clouds.

Melting glaciers- When glaciers melt it leaves water so when it evaporates, it evaporates more water and it rains more.

Rising water levels- Glaciers melt and when they melt it leaves water with rises the water levels. With more water that means that more water to evaporate which can lead to heavy rain and constant rain.

Here is my amazing weather report this week! Tune in to our amazing report 🙂

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My life as a droplet

Welcome! My name is Drip and I have an amazing cycle to get to you. Come with me and I’ll show you my life cycle.

It all starts with one step, evaporation! Evaporation is when the liquid from a water source turns into a gas. The gas goes up to the clouds and fills it up with gas. Next we have… condensation! Condensation is when the gas that was evaporated turns into liquid/water again. The last main step is precipitation. You might have heard or even seen precipitation too! Precipitation is when the clouds fill up with too much water and it comes out as rain, snow, hail, sleet and more.

Now you might be thinking how to I come to you and others well, I fall from the clouds and merge into a lake or river. I typically end up in a water facility and go to your tap, but sometimes I like to go on an adventure and go to the Waikato River, Hūnua River, etc. Oh no! It’s evaporation time for me and my friends. I’ll catch you later in my next adventure bye!

Week 3- My river is flowing to…

From the snow caps at the top of Mount Ruapehu the water/ice slowly trickles down Mount Ruapehu and ends up in The Waikato River. The drops of water slowly merges with the river which then flows through the soft plains surrounding the lake. Finally it ends up in Lake Taupo/ocean.

Where did the water go…?

The water could have…

-Went up to the clouds (evaporated)

-Downhill because it was flowing down

-Underground water (it went underground to the water storage until it resurfaces)

-To the ocean (the water precipitated to the ocean)

What I think happened is all of the above because they all connect to each other to make the water cycle!