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.

Technology Cycle Two

We have just finished technology cycle two for 2014 group K have been in food tech and learning how to cook all different recipes now look at this google drawing about our time at food tech with Ms.Basset making our Mama Mia Pizzas. Laura J and mine is called... 

"It will Bee healthy,"

Sock Puppets Explaining Bones

This is Amanda, Amber and my sock puppet on bones part 1 and part 2 please watch and enjoy!
Part 1


Part 2

My Human Machine Homework Questions

This is my human machine topic questions for this term.

My Hauora

This is my hauora which explains what I think is having spiritual well-being, physical well-being, social well-being and mental and emotional well-being.

Maths Show-Me

Simpson and his Donkey

Today we used Video notes to summarise this text about Simpson and his Donkey. Here is Miss Kay's summary because I haven't quite finished mine.

Highlights this year

Highlights so far this year

The subject area/s I am most proud of: I am most proud of my character writing because I was awarded a REACH award for it and also my maths with Miss Hooper and learning all about fractions, decimals and percentages.

Something I am really glad about: I am really glad that I have worked on my writing because it wasn’t my strong point last year.

Something I used to struggle with but I am feeling better about: Writing, definitely writing as I wrote before it was not my strong point at all it was probably my least strong point.

Something I have worked very hard at: PE because I am not a big fan running or sports and I think that I have worked very on my throwing and catching skills with Miss Kay.

Something new I have learned or experienced for the first time: This year something new I have learned is how to play softball I have play T ball and baseball but I never knew how to play softball and I found out that if you do not absorb that movement of the ball when you catch it, it REALLY hurts your hands and fingers.

What’s next?

Something I am wondering about: I am wondering when are we going to find out who is in choir or not.

Something I’d like you to know I struggle with: Writing because I find it hard to concentrate when the whole room is silent and when you can’t think of anything to write.

What I need to be better at: Presenting in front of the class I get very nervous presenting my work or homework.

Something I’d really like to learn or experience that we haven’t done yet: I would really like to learn how to play netball because most of my friends play netball and they say that it is really easy but when I watch it, it looks really confusing.

Film and Media Technology

Over this term group K for technology have been creating a film called "The Interrogation" in pairs. Catrin and I were a pair but I couldn't copy ours onto this blog post so here is Amanda and Paige's winning movie..

Character Writing

For the past few weeks we have been working on our character writing and I have finally finished mine and Miss Kay thought it was so good she gave me a REACH award. Here is my writing about my big sister Rachel:

Rachel

My wonderful big sister kind and caring and not always daring. All of my actions somehow relate to her, whether its dancing or smiling or being happy. She is always happy somewhere inside, even if she is gloomy. Rachel is now at Massey University studying for a degree in vet science so she isn’t always home which is sad.

She has hazel brown hair which is around shoulder height. Her eyes are a perfect dark brown colour. My sister is quite tall for her age  she is even taller than my mum and my dad. She smells like fresh flowers, that have just been picked in spring. You will normally spot her in shorts and a t-shirt or a t-shirt, cardigan and jeans.

No matter what she loves having animals around whether it is horses or donkeys to ducks or geese. Rachel has a passion for baking, in sunshine or rain, making brownies or cakes, or more cupcakes. One of the things she likes most is school, or anything to do with learning, it could be studying or trying new recipes - anything to do with learning at all. When she has a moment at night time and everyone is all puffed out she will kindly offer to cook anything literally anything from pasta to curry to thai or mexican she will offer to do all including chores.But most of all she loves being home with us her family and friends.

She is fond of Indian curries and naan bread she also had a job in the summer working at Namaskar India in Havelock North. One of her routines is to have yoghurt and rice bubbles for pudding after dinner to calm her stomach down. She also likes sunbathing after a swim and reading her book for a good hour and a half. She is also fond of writing and writes a few sentences of her day before she goes to sleep. Now lets head to the dislikes don’t worry there isn’t too many. Rachel (unlike me) is not a fan of maths at all I mean how can we even be related maths is one of the only subjects I like. Ok lets face it here is another thing she hates and I love:mushrooms! only the best pizza topping apart from cheese. Once again something that makes us different she absolutely will not eat lollies and ice cream it is unbelievable.

These are her hobbies that I know. One of her favourite things to do are to listen to music and do the daily crossword in the newspaper or any type of crosswords, sudokus or word puzzles. She will occasionally come home with one of those magazines that you can win prizes from. Sometimes she gets me a kids one and we do them together, and then we send them in and hope to win something good. But the only thing we have ever won is from the kids section and it was a cookie monster nine piece puzzle for 2-4 year olds. On sunny days every once and a while we shall go for a bike ride down to birdwoods and raid the sweet shop well I will Rachel won’t want to.

These are the things that I wanted to tell you about my sister Rachel and if you meet her one day I hope you remember all the things I have told you about her, because you will have met a very special person.

My Mihi

listen to ‘Ruby's Mihi’ on Audioboo

Wacky Whakapapa Homework

On Monday the 17th of March we were assigned our homework for the week. That week we had to find out some information about our whakapapa (family). We had to type up our family tree and write down some interview questions and interview two people one of our parents and one of our grandparents  or someone around the same age. Here is what I found out:

My Interview Questions:	Roy’s Answers (Grandad - Mum’s Dad)	Irene’s Answers (Mum)
What was school like in your day?	He found school very hard. He went to a catholic school where the teachers were nuns and he got hit daily by a bamboo stick.	It looked exactly like HNI. Teachers were allowed to hit naughty kids.Dental Nurse-Murder House. We played Netball and Aussie tag.  We didn’t have assemblies and didn’t get certificates when we did something well. We did school patrol. We also had to learn folk dancing.
What uniform did you have?	Black uniform Black boots Black shirt Black shorts	Primary School and Intermediate  were mufti and at collage , White shirt, grey skirt, black blazer, tie and a black hat.
Did you have any pets? What type of animal were they? What were their names?	Cats Dogs Ducks He can’t remember their names	3 cats- Nookie, Becky, Sarah 3 dogs-Amber, Timmy, Muldoon 1 blue budgie-Bluesmoke 1 mouse-Houdini
What sports did you play	Rugby,  Softball, Cricket and Boxing when he was older	Netball
What was your best and worst subjects?	Best Subject-History Worst Subject-Mathematics	Best Subject-Writing and Spelling Worst Subject-Mathematics