My Author Study on Jacqueline Wilson!

My Funky Monkey Cafe' Presentation!

My Coggle!

My Coggle on what I think we should use our money from the cafe for, ideas for improving our classroom, my thoughts on Exploring the Unexplained (our inquiry), and my ideas about table groups. Follow the lines and colours to look at my ideas!

Theory of Pythagoras

These are some questions we had to answer for our maths homework about the theorem of pythagoras!

The Theorem of Pythagoras

Walt:  understand the theorem of Pythagoras and show our thinking.

1. What is a ‘theorem’?
1. A theory proved by facts or scientific method.
2. Who was Pythagoras?
1. Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician.
3. What did he do for a job?
1. Pythagoras was an ancient philosopher and mathematician.
4. Why did he do that?
1. I don’t know,
5. What was his claim to fame?
1. He figured out that A squared + B squared = C squared on a triangle.
2. He later named this theorem the Pythagorean Theorem.
6. What is the importance of his theorem?
1. You can now work out the length of the hypotenuse of a triangle
7. Explain where it can be used.
1. It can be used in a maths lesson
2. Architectural design
3. Building design
4. Designing
8. Prove the theorem with two diagrams showing your understanding.    Make sure that you show all of your working out.  Label your thinking around your diagrams.  

Nelson Mandela Essay

Nelson Mandela is a worthy person of this essay not only because he eliminated apartheid but because he suffered so hard to get to the point of which he could eliminate it. On Nelson’s journey to eliminate apartheid and became president he had to go through 27 years in the Robben Island Prison.

The Robben Island Prison has some of the harshest conditions in the world. Each and every day of those 27 years he had to break rocks in the hot sun. While he was at Robben Island he was great at secretly passing around notes for people and he never was caught.

In 1990 Nelson was released from Robben Island because President Frederik de Klerk decided to lift the ban of A.N.C (African National Rights) and ordered for Nelson to be released.

After 4 years of being free from prison Nelson became the first ever black South African President. Nelson continued to be President until 1999 when he retired and Thabo Mbeki was elected as president.

In the way of life Nelson had had three wives. In 1944 he married Evelyn Mase but they split up in 1958 because Evelyn was very stressed about Nelson’s devotion to the anti-apartheid cause. Later in the year 1958 he married Winnie Madikizela he was married to her the time while he was in prison and they then divorced in 1996, 6 years after he was released from prison. Then two years after the divorce he married Graça Machel. They were married until Nelson’s death. Caused by a Respiratory Infection at the age of 95! While he was married to these ladies he had had four daughters and two sons.

Makaziwe, Nelson’s oldest daughter/child is still living and now has four children of her own and is married to Isaac Kwame - Amuah. She was named after her sister (Makaziwe) because she died at the age of nine months. Zenani is Nelson’s second daughter/child and married Thumbumuzi Dlamini when she was 14. Makgatho was Nelson’s first son and third child and was widowed with four sons when his second wife Zondi died in 2003. He later died in 2005 because of AIDS. Zindziswa was his fourth daughter/child. She has written a hit book called “Black as I am”. His youngest child is his second son called Madiba Thembekile. He died in a car crash in 1969.

In the end Nelson had a wonderful life and has inspired many over the years. He has connected the black and white in South Africa and has helped many have a better life in this world. Even though he is not with us today he is still inspiring us inside of our hearts.

By Ruby Hughan

Mind Map of a Hero

My Scale Drawing for Extension Maths

Over the Term 1 holidays Extension Maths had to create a Scale Drawing for the Hawke's Bay Mathletics competition.
Here is my Scale Drawing!

Materials Technology: Cam Reasearch

Food Technology: Burger Heaven Presentation

My ANZAC Story

Scary Movie Ruby, Tori and Jenna

This is a movie that I created with Tori and Jenna. Sorry if it doesn't make sense we forgot to film a scene (when the pizza man comes). Enjoy!

ANZAC Biscuits

This is a picture of some of the ANZAC biscuits  I made for reading but sadly I forgot to bring them in on the day so I didn't get to enter the competition. :-(

BEDMAS ShowMe

This is my ShowMe explaining how to use BEDMAS in equations!

PBBI's Parlour Ad for Media Technology

Jenna, Tori and I's Ad for Media Tech.

What does New Zealand mean to you? From my Dad's view!

Turangawaewae Word Cloud

These are some things about New Zealand!
( Put your mouse over it to see the words I have used )

Created with Tagul.com

My Goals

These are my goals for this year!

Where I'm From Poem

I am from the busy roads

in the capital

I am from the fun, loving family,

friends and animals

I am from the friends that live

nearby but not anymore

I am from the family time at

Christmas with presents galore

I am from rowdy dogs who

race and fight all day

I am from the annoying little sister

who always gets her way

I am from the holidays in Samoa, Fiji

and Napier that I have had before

I am from the holidays to be in

Venice, Italy, London and

Paris I am waiting for

I am from the school

and education

I am from a very very

lovely location

I am from the times bursting

into tears and laughing

I am from my home

in the country

This is, where I am from

Seven Things You Don't Need To Know About ME!

Here is my Tackk on Seven Things You Don't Need to Know ABout ME!

Technology Rotation 5

During Science we have been learning many interesting things to do with the world and how things work. Each session we would go around the six tables trying new things and then learning how it happened and what was happening. One of my favourite things that I learnt was that if you put a white flower into water with food colouring, the flower will change into that colour because the flower drinks up the colourful water and uses the water to grow so the colours grow into the flower. I also learnt that the best source of sun protection is clothing. I hope you learnt something from my learning.

PE

During the last three PE sessions we have been rotating around three sports with Miss Kay, Mrs Smith and Miss Pitt. These are the sports we played Miss Kay - padder tennis, Mrs Smith - non stop cricket and Miss Pitt - T - ball. Here is a photo of room 12b boys and 12a girls listening on how to play padder tennis before they play it (because there is no photos of me)...

Maths: Lotto Game

On Wednesday the 19th  of November the Extension Maths group were assigned a project to create a new lotto game not inculding numbers in the draw. We had a success criteria (Down below) and a time limit in class (it was due on Tuesday the 25th of November). Marguerite and I created a game together called REMOZ. On the Sunday I went to Marguerite's house and we spent 3 hours handmaking the tickets for our project. We also made a Prezi with the winning items on it (Prezi below). To win our game you have to get all of the items correct.

          Success Criteria:

• Create a game of chance that can be played by NZ adults 18+ (as this is the average age)
• Your game must be exciting and original
• You need to work out the theoretical probability of winning your game
• You need to work out the cost of each ticket (this cannot be a random number you need to justify why this amount, remember that lotto wants to make a profit).
• You need to identify approximately how much the prize draw will be. (Do second and third get a prize?)
• You will need to set up an example for the class to play

Our Prezi:

Sustainable Art

During art we have been creating our own projects (in a group if we want) out of used materials.
Amanda, Anna and I are making hanging gardens out of plastic bottle. Here is my work so far!

Narrative Writing

In writing today we created a six sentence story. To make the story Miss Kay told us the theme of that sentence and then we had to create the sentence to go along with our story. This is the order of the themes: their name, where they live, their talent, their problem, their wish, and the resolution/the ending.
This is my story:

Once upon a time there was Tigily name Tiger - Lily. Tiger - Lily lived in a beautiful little cottage just behind the Magical Waterfall of Oooe (Ewwwoe). Tiger - Lily was very fond of the beautiful forest of Oooe, and spent all her time taking care of the forest and the villagers who lived inside of it. One day Tiger - Lily was walking down the blue jellybrick road when she came across the evil witch named Fauna Flick, who turned her into a monkey, Tiger - Lily was very sad. After a long tiring day trying to turn herself back she decided to try and find the Wish Witch Florence Fix. The next day she was on her way down the purple jellybrick road when she found someone, not the evil witch nor the wish witch, but she did find The Wandering Wizard named Wazlo, who changed her back and took her home!
The End

Maths, Reading & Visualisation

In reading we have been working on our comprehension strategies.  Last week we focused on visualisation - they way we can create mental images when we read to deepen our understanding of the text.  We read a short passage that explained how to measure a very tall object without having to climb it and we visualised how we would do this.
Yesterday we went out and put this knowledge into practice. We first stood at the bottom of the pole and then we held our arm out with a pencil vertically out at arm's height then slowly walked back until the pencil looked the same size as the pole. Then we had to tilt the pencil horizontally. Next you put the end of the pencil on the pole and your friend has to slowly move across so that they are on the end of the pencil then you measure how far away they are from the pole and that is around about how tall the pole is.

Economics

On Wednesday the 29th of October we learnt about economics and how everyone has unlimited wants but there are only limited amounts of resources in the world. We then had to do a videonotes where we write down some notes while we are watching a video. Then we had to write and say simplified definition of economics in any way we like. Amanda, Rida and I created a Pic Collage and then inserted it into a Show Me. Here is a screenshot of my videonotes and our Show Me/Pic Collage.

Videonotes:

Show Me/Pic Collage:

Electronics Finished Project

We have one more session of electronics technology for this cycle and today we have all nearly or have finished our emergency lights. Most of this session we have been using the soldering irons to solder our wires together so that our LED's light to create our emergency light.

This is my finished soldering

and this is my finished product

Reading: Newspapers

During reading we have been learning all about newspapers how they were made and the sorts of jobs that are included in a newspaper. We also have been learning about the different sort of articles and pictures you can find in a newspaper like infographics, 3 different types of photo captions and comics. For one of our tasks we had to create a comic to entertain people. The topic for my comic is overprotective parents and how they react to every little thing (even if it might not hurt for that long). Here is my comic!

Pressures on the Earth

Today after maths Miss Kay told Jamie to hand out a balloon to everyone and then she told us to blow it up to a reasonable size. We all then had to pretend that the balloon was the earth. She then asked us a some questions on being environmentally friendly. If we answered the question the environmentaly friendly way we were allowed to let some air out of our balloon, therefore letting some pressure off of our earth. But if we answered incorrectly then we had to blow another breath into the balloon, which gave the balloon more pressure. I found out that my actions take some pressure off of the Earth.One of the questions were...
Do you leave the tap running when you brush your teeth?
Here is a picture of our table group and what happened to their earths!

' The Giver' - Reflection

The Giver Book Cover

My Question - What is so jarring about the new list of rules that Jonas receives after the ceremony of Twelve ? What seems to bother him most about the list?

My Answer - 

The rules that jarred him the most is the rule that he is allowed to lie. That bothers him because he has never ever been allowed to lie in his life and now all of a sudden he is allowed to and also that he is not allowed to talk to anyone about his training.

His rules that he has to follow for his job:

- He is only allowed medication for things unrelated to his job

- He is not allowed to discuss his training with anybody ever

- He has to reoprt to the Annex straight after school.

- He has to go straight home after training

- He is allowed to be rude

- He may lie

The Movie - 

The movie probably wasn't the best they could have made it to match the book because . . . 

1. In the book when he was receiving memories the giver put his hands on Jonas's back not his wrists.

2. Fiona did not become a nurturer she was assigned to work at the house of the old.

3. In the book Jonas did not have to jump off the edge of their community to get away from them.

4. He did not attack Asher on his way out of the community.

5. Gabe was sleeping in their house the night before he was going to be released not at the nurtring centre.

But in the end it was a great movie and we all had a good time!

My Dance Elective

In my elective we have been making our dances for the production and then filming them. Today is our last elective session this year and everyone in my elective are going to watch a dance movie to sum up our elective sessions. It has been really fun because I have learnt a lot of new dance moves and styles of dancing.

Speech: Tongue Twister

In writing we have been learning about speeches and debates. One of the things we tried is tongue twisters we had six tongue twisters to choose from (Red lorry yellow lorry, unique new york, which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches, We surely shall see the sun shine soon, Which witch wished which wicked wish and One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one too) and then we had a competition on who out of your partners could could say on tongue twister five times the fastest, I won out of me and Rida. We were saying the racehorse one here is me saying it five times in 25 seconds.

Persuasive Writing

Here is my persuasive writing that I have been working on for the past few weeks.

Animals Shouldn’t be in Enclosures

Animals, animals, animals. Why can’t we all just be like all animals, and be wild? Because not all animals in the world are wild. If they can’t be free then why can we. We are animals too. When are they going to have the same rights as us. I am now going to tell you why I think that animals should never be kept in zoos or held captive.

Hunting, being in a group, natural things like this cannot happen in an enclosure. All of these things are things you think about when you hear the word ‘wild’ you think about running, being free, doing anything you like but think, these animals cannot do this because of some cruel humans who take them away from the world and never return them.

Animals are lot like humans have you realised. We need the same things to survive food, water and shelter. Most people know that, that is why you normally get a pet right? Because you think you are doing the right thing, but one thing you didn’t think about is, what if you were taken to a strange place where you don’t recognise anything but what you were brought there with wouldn’t you be scared and feel alone and trapped. That is what they probably feel like.

Have you ever realised that animals have their own minds and their own lives to live. Well did you know that animals are actually really smart and creative creatures like birds building their houses in trees out of sticks and how naked mole rats make their house underground and they don't die of being frozen to death.

Once again just to tell you once more, I believe that animals should never ever be kept in cages, enclosures and or held captive.

Technology: Electronics

Today in Electronics we soldered for the first time. We were soldered wires to copper tape on a piece of cardboard with soldering wire. Here is a picture of me while I was soldering and my soldering work.

PE: Social Dancing

In PE we have been learning to social dance. We have learnt seven different types of dances the Gay Gordons, Coconut Cream, Red Hot, Sha la la la la, Maxina, Sea Cruise and Bus Stop. It has been really fun and we have been able to dance with a wide range of year sevens and eights and have learnt a whole lot of new moves.

Keith Haring Art

In art we created a drawing based on Keith Haring. Then we created a script for a 30 second long Chatterpix about him and his art. I was sick when we did this so this is my friend Anna's art and a bit about him.

Exploring Parliament

During Inquiry we have been learning about changemakers and Parliament and how Parliament works
Here is our understanding of Parliament (click to enlarge).

Reading: Richard Henry

In reading for the past three weeks we have looked at three different New Zealand changemakers these are Eslie Locke, Archibald Baxter and Richard Henry. My partner Anna and I  were assigned a task to create Tellagami about Richard Henry and a bit about what he did. Here it is. Enjoy!

Technology: Cycle Three

In Materials Tech we have been learning  how to use plastic. We made key ring tags first cutting them out and filing them ourselves. Then we made USB model to hold in place a 2 gigabyte USB stick we cut it out using a laser cutter and we designed it on a program called 2d design. Here is my final presentation of my USB cover (Click to enlarge).

Maths: Mathletics

In Week 2 Term 3, 12 year sevens competed in the Hawke's Bay Mathletics Competition on the Tuesday 28th of July. I was in a team with Amanda Kelly and Charlotte Broadhurst we scored a total of 197 points overall we were one of the bronze winning teams!

PE: Cross Country Training

So far in cross country training we have run 2 different courses and recorded our times each day. Today we walked the full cross country course it took us 29 minutes and 7 seconds. So far my times have gone down and up in level one and going down for level two. Here are my times for each stage!

DATE	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
	3 Field Laps	Guthrie / Brookvale / Woodlands	Guthrie / Brookvale / Russell Robertson / Croft	Full Cross Country Course
23/06/14	11:18
26/06/14	10:16
27/06/14		10:29 1 lap
30/06/14	9:50
01/ 07/ 14		24:51 2 laps
02/ 07/ 14	12:51
21/07/14	10:43
28/07/14		2 laps 25:28
29/07/14		2 laps 23:55
30/07/14				29:07 Walking

Change Makers - Term 3 Inquiry

This term we are focusing on people who have made a positive difference to the world (or their part of it).
This is some of my work.

Who can we identify as change makers? Why?	What actions + decisions do they take?	What do you think motivates change makers?	What might change makers do to motivate others?
People who somehow make a change in the world. Because they have made a difference.	They decide that they are going to do something about the thing they think that they can improve on.	Things that they see that they think they can make nicer or better for the world.	Persevere and make your dreams your reality, even if everyone else thinks its impossible, if you believe, you can do anything!

Reading: 'Wonder' Reflection

Here is my reflection of the book Wonder that we have been reading this term. Here is my character description! Please click on it and it will enlarge for you...

Inquiry Reflection

This is my inquiry reflection answering my inquiry questions. I am also using a 3, 2, 1 template to show my learning. A 3, 2, 1 template is where I write three things I learnt, two thing I found interesting and one question I still have. Here it is!      

My questions!
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
How does it affect the human machine?

My Answers!
Alzheimer's Disease is a disease that slowly shrinks you brain and affects all of your five senses.
Alzheimer's disease affects your human machine because it is shrinking your brain and takes control over what you do, so you are now not the ruler of that body. Alzheimer's disease is also a terminal disease so you
will eventually die from it. :(

I learnt...
Where our internal organs are
How our body system works
Why we need to eat healthy

Interesting things...
Blondes are supposed to have more hair than people with other coloured hair
Our body is made up of 55-65% water

I still want to know...
Why are we made up of so much water ?

My Dance Elective

For the last term on a Thursday afternoon we have been splitting up and going to our chosen elective. An elective is an extra activity that we do on Thursday afternoons in term 2 & 3. At the end of term 1 & 2 we get given a form to fill out and bring back saying which is our first, second and third choice elective and the faster you bring the form back the elective you want to do most, is probably going to be the one you get into. If you do not bring your elective form back in time then you get put into a random elective. Well enough talk about electives this is the 1970's & 2000's group practising their dances for the production! (I am in the 70's the group at the back,)

My Ode to My Thumbs

Here is an ode that I wrote to my thumbs:

 Thumbs

Oh Thumbs, Oh Thumbs

My double jointed wonders

Without you i’d be bummed

Because we have such fun down under

The palms of my hands

With thumbs

Humans write

People use them to play drums

and most of all use them to recite

Humans and Monkeys

The only living that are worthy

The lucky ones with thumbs

Te Reo: Te Tinana

For te reo we have been learning how to say maori body parts. Here is my show me showing you how to say some body parts correctly. Enjoy!

Picasso Art

 

For art we have been learning all about Pablo Picasso and all of his style art. To start off we picked a partner and drew their front on face and side on face and then combined them to make a picasso artwork. Then we cut our pictures from magazines and made a background collage. Here is a pic collage and a picture of my drawing.

I drew Mia. This is what I ended up with!

Explanation Writing - The Muscular System

Here is my explanation writing about the muscular system.
Please read on!

Explaining: The Muscular System

Did you  know that every human (even children or babies) have 600 muscles in their body? Yes, you are not reading incorrect, 600 muscles. So don’t be ashamed if you see someone that looks like they have more muscles than you, well they actually don’t. That person has just used their muscles a lot to make them grow larger than yours. Did you also know that humans have three different types of muscles smooth muscles, cardiac muscles and skeletal muscles. Your muscles are like elastic so they can bend and twist and turn in any way you want.

Smooth Muscles

Smooth muscles are involuntary muscles that means that they move or do their job without you having to do anything, so your smooth muscles are automatic muscles. Your smooth muscles are essential for you to survive because these muscles help digest your food and control your urine (pee). If you didn’t have smooth muscles you may not digest your food properly and get indigestion and you would pee all the time, wouldn’t that be a nice world. Now I guess you are wondering how these muscles do these things, well,  your smooth muscles create a layer in your bladder called a sphincter which contracts and relaxes to control your pee. Your smooth muscles are also found in your stomach where they help push the food down that you had just swallowed this is one of the main reasons that you need smooth muscles. You can also find smooth muscles in most of your organs like your stomach, intestines and bladder in between your outer and inner lining.

Cardiac Muscles

First lets start off with a fact the word “Cardiac,” means heart related which means that all of your cardiac muscles are found in your heart. Cardiac muscles are also involuntary muscles and just incase you forgot that means that they work without you even trying to move a muscle. Your heart is a cardiac muscle because it is heart related and it contracts and relaxes to pump blood around your body. The heart is also part of your circulatory system but here we are talking about the muscular system.

Skeletal Muscles

Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles ,what do you think that means? You guessed it these muscles move under your control so you choose when the move, where they move to and how they move. Since these muscles are under your control you can choose to relax or contract these any time you like. Skeletal muscles are also controlled by a different system these muscles are controlled by your nervous system but once again that is a totally different story. These are all your main skeletal muscles pectorals, triceps, biceps, quadriceps, gluteus maximus, hamstring and calf muscles.

Now that you have learnt all about this amazing body system why not learn about more like the heart in the circulatory system and your skeletal muscles in your nervous system, go and visit some of my friends blogs to find out more.

PE: Large Ball Skills Self Assesment

This term we have been learning how to dribble, kick, pass and catch balls in Netball, Rippa Rugby, Football and Basketball. Here is my self-assesment.