Dinosaur Blog

For this week we have been focusing on and experiment including excavation
What we did?
We created a stone with plaster if Paris and water in a cup, we put a little toy dinosaur in the cup.
Then we waited 2 days.
We the. Excavated the dinosaur with a pestle and nails.

EOTC Week Reflection

EOTC Week Reflection

This reflection is about my favourite parts of EOTC 

What did you enjoy?

I enjoyed adrenaline forest but my favourite part was when we went to spencer park because I ankle broke our teacher Mr Tisch.

What did you find the hardest?

The hardest part was when went on a wetlands walk, it was because it smelt like minore and there was horse crap everywhere.

What skills did you learn?

I learned how to persevere in Adrenaline forest.

What did you learn about yourself?

I learned that when my adrenaline kicks in I can hold on to ropes for ages.

Passion Project Finishing Up

Who was in the group?

Me, Sam, Austin, Daniel, Gabriel, Taianu, Presayus, Nino and Niko

What we did for passion project?

We hosted a year 8 basketball tournament for 2 hours.

What we have achieved?

We have achieved leadership skills and the experience of hosting a tournament.

S.W.O.T

Strength=Leadership skills.

Weaknesses=No one listens and everyones nervous.

Opportunities= Leadership roles, Have fun, Practice, Try something new.

Threats= Unsportsmanlike conduct, injuries.

Planning

Photos

Conclusion: The tournament was mostly paperwork but at the end the tournament was actually fun.

Passion Project Update

Passion Project

We have been finding out who we are doing our basketball tournament and our schedule, we our going to be doing a year 8 basketball tournament.

The game will be 5v5 5 min games with 4 teams.

The schedule will be released later on.

Poems

Bouncing a ball
Always on your feet
Shoot the ball into the hoop
Keep on running back and forth
Everyone has a position
Trying to score
Breaking sweats
All people play
Losing makes your strive for wins
Love for the sport grows.

Haiku
Raindrops
Falling from the sky
Water goes everywhere
Raindrops dry up

Limerick

The man loved wearing red.
But that day he hurt his head.
He would walk from the street .
And then hurt his feet .
Oh he loved his red.

What I Would Want For The Summer Learning Journey

To Emma

What I would Like for the Summer Learning Journey.

For the Summer Learning Journey I would want to get just $50 in cash just to save it or spend on food and Online currency for games : McDonalds, R6credits, Vbucks, Burger King.
This is what I would want for the summer learning journey at the moment.

From Aron

Passion Project

Passion Project

For Kete my passion project group has been doing a year 7-10 basketball tournament. Before my group had an idea to do a year 5-6 basketball tournament but the options were hard and limited.

What I've learned?
We have learned that a big group is hard to maintain and control by giving the others work. But when the group is controlled the work goes down easily and fluently.

How this will help out learning?
This will help because our learning will be easily faster and we can get more done before the time limit.

What Is Our Next Step?
Our next step is to promote our year 7-8 tournament so we can have a lot of people to enjoy our tournament.

How are you sure this is our next step? 
This is our next step because we need people to enter our tournament so we can have a successful passion project.

What is the evidence you have did that?

The poster is not fully done.

S.W.O.T Analysis

We have started to learn about what we are gonna do for our community sports, our group has decided to do sports for fundraising.

Whos in my group

A lot of my friends.

What is a S.W.O.T

S.W.O.T is used to analyse the main points of the idea. It focuses on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

• Basketball tournament donates a can of food and gives the can of food to charity.   
• Basketball tournament donates clothes that are to big or small for you.
• Basketball tournament donates money to play the tournament.
• Do a sprint to donate stuff to your favourite charity.

S.W.O.T. Analysis

This S.W.O.T has made a good dent in the work we need/

The Outcome was very good.

Strengths We are donating to the homeless We are doing sports we enjoy Playing along with the community People will get healthy	Weaknesses Easily distracted - Try not to get distracted and commit to our work We don’t do much work  - Do more work We leave work at the last minute -Try to commit to our work and finish it
Opportunities Building the confidence To make a difference Connect with different people Practice your favorite sports Have fun	Threats Dangerous People - Ask a teacher to supervise us Stray dogs - Run or Bad weathers - Check the Weather No equipment - Tell someone to bring the equipment No money- We don't need money.

Acrostic Poems

Writing
For writing we have been learning acrostic poem if u don't know what an acrostic poem is its a downwards poem describing the downwards word.
This is my first try and I will hopefully be doing more

The first word is my name, the second is the colour red, the third is rain and the last is summer.

A Good Sportsman
Runs really fast
On the basketball team
Never tries to start fights

Rising as the best colour
Everyone loves or hates this colour
Dangerous Gang colour

Runny water dripping from the sky
A wet day
Inside is where rain doesn't happen
Never stay outside in the rain

Sunny everyday
Under shade is what where you should be
Make use of sunscreen
Make sure you have ice
Everyone eats ice cream
Rain barely happens

Flying Tips

For learning we had to give out top three flying tips.
My top 3 tips are.
1. Arrive to the Airport early once you get your stuff ready and your waiting for your plane you can rest.
2. Tune in
Listen to music or listen to something that will help relax you bring headphones or earphones unless they are supplied on the plane. But remember turn off your phone when needed to.
3.Read something or talk to someone.
Read a magazine or talk to someone just to kill time who knows maybe the person next to you could be your friend.
Bonus tip
4. Get rest
While your on the plane go to sleep you don't want to be sluggish later.

Hopefully these tips will help you on a long plane ride.
Which tip will you follow the most?

Japan

This term and week we had to do challenge about a country chosen I chose was Japan this will explain a little about Tokyo and Japan.

Japan:
Japan capital city= Tokyo
January weather in Tokyo= 10 degrees maximum on average 2 degrees minimum
Japan area= Southern area
Japan most spoken languages= Japanese and English.

Japan capital cuty population=9.273 million 2015

Probability D.L.O

This D.L.O is about probability.
Last week we learned about probability and chances of what the wheel will land on.
So we did if the wheel was half red and the other was half yellow. What was the chance, since the wheel was symetrical it was  50/50  or 1/2 . With this information you could transfer the fraction to decimal or percentage,(50% and 0.5)
This works with all fractions.
Are probabilites.

The activity we did was a colour wheel spinner.

Adrenaline Forest EOTC

3 times I will be resilient at Adrenaline Forest.
Last time I went I couldn't complete the course to the standard I wanted
This year I think adrenaline forest will be kinda hard but...

I will show resilience by trying as hard as I can too get up to the highest level.
I will show resilience when I'm unable to pass through when someone is in front of me.
I will show resilience by actually trying to get a good view by being the best at adrenaline forest.

Whare Word Meaning

Whare word meanings.

Wharemanaaki- The restroom gathering building.

Kaikaranga- An adult woman/woman caller for your group. Please note that it is not our kawa for our Kaikaranga to call to a rangatahi (teenager) or kotiro (girl). Please ensure that your Kaikaranga is an adult as it is only appropriate that the Kaikaranga of Te Whatumanawa Māoritanga o Rehua karanga to another adult.

Kaikorero- An adult woman/woman caller for your group. Please note that it is not our kawa for our Kaikaranga to call to a rangatahi (teenager) or kotiro (girl). Please ensure that your Kaikaranga is an adult as it is only appropriate that the Kaikaranga of Te Whatumanawa Māoritanga o Rehua karanga to another adult.

Waiata-Singing welcoming.

Powhiri-The pōwhiri or ritual of encountering has been performed by, Māori for many generations. Although initially used to determine whether visitors were friends or foe, pōwhiri today are utilised to welcome all visitors from royalty to school groups to a marae or place. There are many aspects of the pōwhiri process to observe and these may vary from marae to marae and area to area.

Rangatahi- the younger generation.

Write it 2

What I'm looking forward to in EOTC
For EOTC week we are going to be going to a Lake to do some water activities , Marae, Adrenalin Forest, Spencer Park and finally we are gonna participate in the omaka challenge.

The one I look forward to most is the water activities at the lake because I like to swim and just chill inside of the water. I also think spencer park is gonna be fun because they have a basketball court, playground and sand  volleyball net, there is also a beach nearby we can walk too. The activity I least want to do is the omaka challenge because it involves things like screencastify, iMovie and powtoon which are recording apps.

Write it Kete Challenge

This writing is for the EOTC Week Bingo

At school in year 7 I would always look forward to going to p.e on Tuesday on and or Thursday but one day we were shocked to find out we had to do gymnastics.
As Mr Hilliard told us to enter the gym, we walked in silence as we saw equipment we never saw before.
He gave us instructions about the equipment and then told us to warm up we did a few quick laps around the gym then got ready.


He told us to gather up on the mat. The thoughts going on in my head were, why are we doing this  this is stupid. He gave us the instruction and we tried it.
Surprisingly the things we were doing was kinda fun.

How I felt? Annoyed and Bored
My thoughts? Why are we doing this trash sport.

My thoughts after? This isn't that bad
How I felt after?  Kinda bored and felt more flexible

I heard everyone say gymnastics is boring.
I felt like the same way most people did.
I knew that I wasn't flexible.
I thought gymnastics was stupid.
I saw most people's gloomy faces.
 This writing is one of the challenges we have for  our Kete.

Commenting Wrong

Commenting Wrong

A lot of the time I scroll through other people's blog I always see people make a comment that doesn't even relate to the post. It usually happens with blog posts that really bland/ no images, videos, and doesn't pop. A good way to prevent this is to make your post very interesting by adding images videos and making your sentences middle length, so not to sweet and not to short. It also helps if your title is catchy or interesting.

Do wrong comments always appear in the blogs you scroll on?

Maths D.L.O6

This D.L.O is about multiplying fractions.
3/4 of 9 = 6 3/4
How to solve it.
The fraction number gets multiplied with the whole number.( 3x9=27)
Then you fit a number into the 27 the number for this equation is 6 so we then put the fraction with the 6.

Maths D.L.O

This maths D.L.O is about Transferring percentages, fractions and decimals.
How to do the transferring . The fraction or decimal will always be an even 100 or 1000. It will also be above sometimes.
Ok here is an example
1/2 = 0.5 or 50%
1/4 = 0.25 or 25%
1/5= 0.20 or 20%

Musical Stage Positions

For Music my class had to make a definition list for the Jobs on a musical stage.

Front of house/FOH: Is the part of a performance venue that is open to the public.

Musical director: The person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance or production, typically the conductor or leader of a music group.

Stage Manager: The person responsible for lighting and technical arrangements.

Producer: Responsible for the overall financial and managerial functions of a production or venue, raises or provides financial backing, and hires personnel for creative positions.

Makeup Artist: Makes you look perfect for the type of scene.

Choreographer: Responsible for the overall financial and managerial functions of a production or venue, raises or provides financial backing, and hires personnel for creative positions.

Stage performer: Entertains the crowd on the stage.

Scenery Designer: Designs the scene and sets made for the musical/ performance.

Costume Designer: Designs and makes the costume

For the performer.

Lighting Designer: Does the special effects and lighting for the stage.

Maths D.L.O

This maths D.L.O is about multiplying double digits.
(E.G)
15 x 8= 120
Step 1: Do 8 times 5 in your mind answer 40
Step 2 : Hold the answer in your brain. Next do 10 x 8  = 80.
Step 3: Plus all the numbers 40 + 80=120 that's your answer.
This also work with double digits on each side.
But this time you must times the number on the right side with each other.

47 x 28= 856

Article Opinion

Link to Article

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/valedictorian-anonymous-instagram_n_7571462.html

This article is about a person in a valedictorian school who created a secret account on Instagram and posted about his friends creating a positive community.

My thoughts about article.
I think the person who created this is a really good person. The person who made the Instagram account and made the posts is a positive leader who is probably really healthy with his social life. This person is really smart as he created a positive community with the Instagram account.

Term 2 Best Higlight

This blogpost is all about my best favourite Highlight of Term 2.

First I think term 2 was one of the not bad terms of the year but then again it's only been half a year.

My highlight.

My highlight of term is when winter sport started and we got to play rugby against each other's team, My team was not that good but we had a lot of fun because just played bull rush.

Art Activity

For Art my class had to create a Lino print.

The Lino print had to resemble something we liked or something like a hobby

Here is mine Remember to leave a comment.

The best thing I like about my prints is the sport word.

Kites

Kites

Aim: To look at a kite and how we can overcome the 4 forces of flight.

Forces of flight with Kites

Force	Increase / decrease	How do we do this when making a kite?
Drag	Decrease	We need to make sure it is pointed, We need to make sure it is angled correctly to the wind,
Lift	Increase	Longer string, face into the wind,
Gravity	Decrease	We make it streamline, use light material,
Thrust	Increase	Strong steady wind,

Write a definition about the following types of kites and find a picture of them that you can upload to your blog.

1. The Sled Kite.
2. The Diamond Kite. 
3. The Barn Door Kite. 
4. The Sode Kite. 
5. The Delta Kite. 

Name 5 types of kites that were used in China?

• Beijing kites.
• Weifang kites.
• Tianjin kites.
• Nantong kites.
• Jiangnan kites.
• Taiwan kites.
• Flat-Kites. 
• Hard-winged kites.

Name sports that use kites?

Sport kites can be flown in aerial ballet, sometimes as part of a competition. Power kites are multi-line steerable kites designed to generate large forces which can be used to power activities such as kitesurfing, kite landboarding, kite fishing, kite buggying and snow kiting.