Technology

For the past few weeks in tech we have been working on our light bars. What these are is a bar with a led light inside of it. Firstly we had to make the bar of plastic to fit inside our light bars. Than we had to construct our bar for our light to sit on.

After that it's complete, I made my light bar for my mum! It had her name on it, with too love hearts.

Community Impact Projects

Today for community impact projects, we had kiwi kaha first 30 minutes for the rest of period 1, then we went out to the garden, then we had morning tea, after morning ted period 3 we did some more gardening out in the garden, a couple of us helped Mr Tisch plant some watermelon and corn, then I had a job to grab some water so we could water the plants. It took us ages to find a tap that worked! 

For period 4 we did blogging as a reflection for what we did today. 

Writing

Inspired Writing 

For writing we have been learning to increase the vocabulary in our writing. Our task was to get a picture and write our sentences using and describing what is happening in the picture. We had to then highlight what changes we made in each sentence. 

Here is the final sentence of my writing: 

1. The girl swam underwater. 
2. The girl swam under the deep blue sea. 
3. The girl swam under the deep blue sea like a human fish, holding a light as bright as a star. 
4. A girl swam under the deep blue marine, in the form of a fish, holding a light as bright as a star. Her surroundings made her feel lost. 
5. An interested  sea diving girl, swam under the deep blue marine, in the form of a fish, holding a light as bright as a star. Her surroundings made her feel extremely lost, Emily was very anxious. 

An interested sea diving girl, Emily swam under the deep blue marine, in the form of a dolphin, while holding a light as bright as a shriveled down star. Her surroundings confused her, they made her feel extremely lost. Emily was very anxious, but interested to see what was in front of her.

Now that my writing is complete we have to mark ourselves on the vocab rubric: I rate myself a R5, personally I think that I can think deeper and come out with something more creative, I also think that I can make it more interesting and better to read! 

Tecnology

Key Rings

In technology we have made our own key rings using tinker cad to create our designs. 

How we created these was set out a template,found a design we wanted and then inserted it onto the template,then made it a dxf and sent it to our teacher. 

END RESULT 

Community Impact Projects

Today for community Impact projects  we didn't do very much apart from pull weeds out of both areas (classroom & back garden).  in period 2 we had kiwi kaha we did 1 activity which was to walk aroudnd the classroom and trade cards to make the most money our team came third with $1150 dollars. During period 3 I had athletics training, we did shot put for the people who are doing shot put. I injured my shoulder throwing the 3kg shot put.

I'm looking forward to the Canterbury Athletics! The event's I'm taking part in are Discuss, shot put and 60m sprints.

Pizza box oven (science)

Pizza Box Oven

Materials: 

1.   Pizza box
2.   Tinfoil 
3.   Scissors 
4.   Black Plastic 
5.   Tape
6.   Ruler
7.  Cellotape
8.  Vivid 
9.  Glad wrap
10.  Sticks 

Steps:

1. Get a pizza box and cut a square, but making sure its a flap.   
2. Cover the flap in tin foil and put a square of glad wrap on the inside but not on the flap. 
3. Put a piece of black plastic in the pizza box on the flat area. 
4. Tape it all down so there are no pieces up. 
5. Put news paper on the edges of the sides of the pizza box.
6. 
   

Findings:

Time	Temperature
0
15
30
45

Conclusion

Technology

Digital Tech 

During our technology lessons we have been learning a variety of different things such as, Lazer cutting, tours around the space and area and just working on computers. For our first lesson, Mr Rzoska took us for our tour around his work shop showed us how to use the machines and what to do and what not to do. We had a piece of paper with a whole lot of rules on it, we had to go through those rules and then sign it if we agreed to them. 

On our second lesson we got to play around on tinker-cad. It is a site to make and create a piece of work that would be either lazercut or be put in drafts for something else. We played around with the site and got to cheek it out and see what we could do, I learned how to do make a key chain. 

On our third lesson we then played with a new site, it was very complicating. So we stuck to our original site. We carried on playing around with it. 

We have come to our forth lesson but unfortaunlly I was sick so I couldn't attend school. 

Today's lesson we are blogging about what we have done for the past lessons. 

Here is the link for tinker cad - https://www.tinkercad.com/ 
Here is the link for thingverse - https://www.thingiverse.com/

Solar Energy (science)

Solar Energy 

Aim: To learn about how solar energy is used. 

Hypothesis: I think that the colour black will attract the heat the most. 

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	21	24	22
30	21	23	21
45	21	22	21

Materials:

• Tinfoil 
• 1 plastic cup 
• 2 polystyrene cup 
• 1 heat lamp 
• Thermometer
• 1 white sheet of paper 
• Sheet of tinfoil 
• 2 sheets of black plastic 

Steps: 

1. Grab all your materials. 
2. Secondly you grab your plastic cup and wrap the black plastic around it and then place the cup on the other piece of black plastic. Grab one of your polystyrene cups and place it on the white sheet of paper, lastly grab your last cup and wrap it in tinfoil (NOT covering the top of it (so tuck it inside the cup) and place that on the last piece of tinfoil. 
3. fill each cup with 50ml of water. 
4. Plug the heat lamp in, and make each of the cups are getting light of the lamp. Make sure its a d

  

C.I.P

Community Impact Projects 

Today for community impact we were pulling out weeds from both gardens. I didn't enjoy any of it one because it was cold two because the grass was wet so it made our hands cold. Something I enjoyed today was Kiwi Kaha for the first time, we played a game called Spaceship and another game where we used our body language to create something. 

Hurumanu - Drama

Change and Challenges

In drama this week, we have been learning about two different learning objectives but in two periods, Slam poetry and puberty Our tasks were to complete our own piece of slam poetry and work together as a class to learn about puberty. 

Here is an example of slam poetry: 

We made out own slam poetry, we made them about ourselves, here is some of the information i put in mine: 

• My name 
• Three or four adjectives that describe you/person 
• Important relationship 
• Two or three things, people, or ideas that person loved
• Three feelings you/person has experienced
• The fears that you/person have discovered 
• Two or three things the you/person wanted to see or happen or wanted to experience
• His or her residence 
• Last name.....  

Hope you now know something about slam poetry, don't want to go to far into puberty... 

Science Wind power

Science (Wind Power)

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS 

1. PLASTIC LID X4
2. TAPE
3. PENCIL
4. PIN
5. SKEWERS X2 

STEPS

1. Get all the materials you need.
2. Tape plastic lids to the skewers. (two on each skewer.)  
3.   Tape the two skewers together.
4.   Pin the skewers to the pencil.
5.   Test to make sure it spins.
6.  Go to winding spaces to see the wind speed.

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( Chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0.5
2.	Old J Block site	1
3.	Grass hill in the quad	1
4.	Tennis Court gate	0

CONCLUSION:

There was much wind where we went today so the number of spins would be a low amount.

The places that had the most wind were the grass hill in the quad and the old J block site.

The field was the second most windest place in the school because it spun half the way around.

The Tennis Court was not windy at all and it spun 0 times.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	0.5	0-2	0
Old J Block site	1	0-2	0
Grass hill	1	0-2	0
Tennis Court Gate	0	0-2	0

Moved In

New Classrooms 

On Monday 23rd both year 7 & 8 classes were moved into the new our new classrooms. In total there were three classrooms that built, each class had to move in with a buddy class, our buddy class was Sh. We had been given names for each of the three classrooms (Mohua, Riroriro and Tieke). The name of our building is Tieke, all the names that we have been given are birds. 

Tieke/Saddleback 

Mohua

Riroriro

When I first entered the building I saw the lights on the back of the tv the looked really cool! Something that I noticed was that parts of the room wasn't completely finished. Something that stood out to me was the quad area, the quad area is a setting place for the whole school to chill out in our brake times, in the quad area there is fake grass laid out in the middle with a hill to the side of it, and seats all around it. 

When I first entered the buildings I thought that it was a little stupid as its like a really open area, other than that I thought the tiered seating was the best! I also thought about the sharing classes with out buddy class, turns out its actually going okay.

When I first entered the buildings I felt, safe, warming and very excited to be able to get out of the old buildings and become closer to the rest of the school, 

In conclusion I think that the buildings are awesome! And I can't wait to find out what's going to happen for the last term of the year! 





  

Science Laboratory Introduction (science)

Science Laboratory Introduction 

Aim: To learn about the expected behaviour in a science laboratory. 

Our R9 Class Treaty: 

1. Quiet Voices 
2. Sitting with appropriate people
3. Not fidgeting 
4. Not disrupting anyone 
5. Respecting equipment 
6. making good choices 

Equipment: 

100ml Beaker 

250ml Beaker 

250ml conical Flask

Funnel 

10ml Measuring Cylinder

Glass stiring stick 

Spatula 

250ml Mesuring Cylinder

Test tube tongs

• Test Tube - Used for most experiments using liquids. They have a bung that goes in the top. 
• Conical Flask - Used for experiments with liquid upto 150 ml. THe flask has a rubber bung for the top and the glass is heat proof. 
• Glass Stirring Rod - A 20cm glass rod used to stir and mix any liquids together, 
• Test Tube Tongs - These are used to hold a hot test tube after an experiment. 
• Spatula - For holding very small amounts if chemical powders. 
• Funnel - 
• Measuring Cylinder - This is used to measure liquids for experiments. The liquids will be poured into a beaker or test tube once measured out. 

2040 Documentary (science)

Documentary - 2040 by Damson Gameau

This afternoon for science we mixed with the other science group as the J block buildings are being shifted and no students were allowed to be in them, we got together to watch a documentary. This documentary was about Climate change, Damson wanted his daughters future to be better than it was today, so he travelled around the world to ask kids about what they would like to see in the future. 

What surprised me?

Something that surprised me was that cars were driving themselves, plus they were electric. How much this one person wants to change the world and how many people agree with him. Something else that surprised me was how much we could change having solar power, and that it can connect to your neighbours. 

What excited me? 

Something I found exciting was the amount of things that us people can change if we just make a little difference to this world. Like people have already started Bangladesh have started using solar power and making a huge difference to their homes. 

What worried me? 

Watching the documentary a lot of things worried me but when it came more into the documentary it kind made more scene. One thing I found very weird was people growing gardens on top of there buildings and houses. 

I think that if we start making a difference now we will have a much happier place!