Teaser week, Day 1 Activity 2: Exploring our roots

Below is my pepeha:

Inspired writing

In writing with Mr Scott we had to do inspired writing. Inspired writing is when you look at a picture and write what you see in the picture. We had 5 choices of a topic. They were Space, Animals, Apocalyptic, Fantasy and Our world. Each of the topics had several pictures and we got to choose them and then write about them. We had a certain way on what to write, we had to write 6 sentences about the picture but we had certain Vocabs. So here was what we had to write:

1. Write a simple sentence that describes something about the picture.
2. Add adjectives to the simple sentence, to add more detail.
3. Add more language features like similes or metaphors to enhance the sentence.
4. Use topic words directly related to the picture.
5. Use emotive language to create/clarify mood.
6. Paint a clear picture in the mind of my readers and give the reader detailed and specific information.

So here was the order then we had to do like order. I chose to do Apocalyptic because the photos looked interesting. So here are my sentences on my story and my picture:

1. An abandoned city.
2. An abandon dark city.
3. An abandon dark city. It’s quiet just like space. Signs standing there just like boring cows munching on the grass.
4. An abandon dark city. It’s quiet just like space. Signs standing there just like boring cows munching on the grass. The pole lights were rusting while sitting there like trees. Rubbish on the ground looks like its been there for long. 
5. An abandon dark city. It’s quiet just like space. The pole lights were rusting while sitting there like trees. Signs standing there just like boring cows munching on grassThe streets are filled with loneliness and sadness. 
6. An abandon the dark city. It’s quiet just like space. The lights were rusting while sitting there like trees. Signs standing there just like boring cows munching on grassThe streets are filled with loneliness and sadness. The sun shines through the stained windows.

am/pm time and 24-hour time

Maths this week was kinda easy but I still got it done so here is my slide on what we did and what I learned from it:

Renewable energy

In science, we had to learn about different types of renewable energy and what they are used for. We had to make a dlo or a normal blog about each of the renewable energy's so here is my slide: 

Cliate change

How is sea-level rise going to affect us in NZ

What places will be affected?

Were places are already flooding

What else do we need to think about?

Islands and where they're lower building

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Coastal areas

What does this do to our drinking water?

Adds more salt

What are the main concerns?

 

1.   Drinking water
2. Floodings

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  To use fewer fossil fuels
2.    Walk more often
3.   Cut home energy 

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no solution

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Using electric vehicles
2.   Use electric heating
3. Renewable energy

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Walking or biking
2. Using fewer fossil fuels
3.   Use solar power

Biography

Today in drama we had to write down someone we had to admire and put down everything we know about them. I did a slide for my Idol. I had put down my idols biography and nationality etc. So hope you enjoy my slide:

Wind experiment

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1.  Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS

4 dishes 

1.   2 sticks
2.   Cellotape
3. Pin  
4.   Pencil (rubber end)
5. Plastic round lids

STEPS

1.   Grab the 2 stick and form them as across the tape them in the middle 
2.   Tape the plastic lids to the sticks (2 on each end)
3.   Put the pin through the middle of the sticks and tape
4.   Grab the pencil and put the pin inside the rubber end of the pencil

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind Manager

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. Repeat the above step four (4) times and record the number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.

• You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0
2.	Old J block site	7
3.	Grass hill	6
4.	Tennis court gate	2

CONCLUSION:

There was not much wind today so the experiment didn't really work, but we did get a bit of wind on the other side of the school. The ones that had the most spins was Old J block and the Grass hill. The one that had the most spins was the Old J block, the second was the Grass hill and then the Tennis courts. Somehow there was less wind comming from the Field. That means the areas that what surrounded got more wind the field was open spaced which had less wind.

Inferring

Hey, guys today I'm going to put in the slide it will explain what we are doing this week for reading. So go and jump into the slide.

I hope that this was helpful if you have anything to say you can comment so I can have some feedbacks so I can do better.

Changes and Challenges

This week in drama we have been learning about how our body changes. What we are and how and why our body changes once we get older. We have also done a Bio poem as well. Here is my Bio poem that I have done:

Bio Poem

Milan

I am funny, pretty, energetic and friendly

I am the big sister of Nikau, daughter of Teana and Anton,
great-granddaughter of Sandy and McGee.

I love my whanau, all 25 first cousin and my friends.

The three common feelings I feel is sadness, happiness
and Frustration.

The things I fear is losing my family and friends, ghosts
and sharks.

My achievements are getting better at netball, making my
family proud and learning how to do my hair.

I want to go to Disney land and experience whats it’s like
to be in the army.

I live in Christchurch, Hornby.

Milan Ngawaiata Ataahua Popata

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What is a slam poetry:

Changes and challenges

Hey, guys so today I'm going to show you a slide and this is going to show you what we had learned this week in drama. This is also a collab with Maia that is in my class.

Haiku- spring

Spring Poem

So for drama, we had to make a haiku poem about spring in groups of 2-3. So I went into a group with Lily and Maia, we had a job to do each. My job was to write down adjective words of spring, Maia's job was finding verbs about spring and Lily's job was finding words of nouns about spring.

So if you don't know what a haiku is it is a poem that has 17 syllables in it. In three lines of five, seven, and five. So then we added the words together to make it as a poem. Here is my poem that I had made:

           
                                              Spring

Pretty, bright, the sky as wonderful as a winter wonderland.

Animals blossom like a flower awakening from an autumn slumber

Sun shines bright like a single star in the night sky.

Here is a drawing that I did at the back of the poem so when my group reads it you can see the drawing of spring and know that it is about spring:

                                

Here is a poem that Lily had made:

Springtime

Sound of birds

Flying high in the sky

What a lovely spring

New science lab

Aim: To learn how to behave in a science laboratory.

Our R9 class treaty:

1. Pay attention
2. Act responsibly around dangerous objects
3. Do not run in the laboratory
4. Put your bag under the desk so people don't fall over it
5. No food or drinks in the laboratory
6. Do not sniff or taste substances 

Safety in a laboratory:

1. Follow the instructions given to you by the teacher
2. You must not enter the laboratory without your shoes
3. Report all breakages to your teacher
4. You must never eat or drink in a laboratory
5.  Shoes must be worn at all times
6. If you spill something you should tell your teacher immediately
7.  You should wash your hands after every practical activity
8. You should know what you are doing. If in doubt ask your teacher
9. Never taste or sniff chemicals

How do we work in the laboratory:

                                          

 100ml Beaker (Used for experiments related by liquid. They have a bung that goes on top)

250 ml conical flask (Use for experiments elated to liquid. Has a bung that goes on top and is fireproof.)

 Spatula (for holding a very small amount of chemical powders) 

                    Test tube tongs (Used to hold hot test tubes)

                    20cm Stirring rod (used to stir and mix any liquids)

            100ml measuring cylinder (used to measure liquids)

               10ml measuring cylinder (used to measure liquids)

                                          Funnel

                                            250ml Beaker

Asking questions

Why we ask questions in reading?
So the reason why we ask questions in reading is so that we can know that you can understand the story and that you can explain the story in your own words. 

So for example you had to read a book for a test that you are doing. You get called up by your teacher and he/she will ask you multiple questions. If you get most right they know that you can understand the story and can write it in your own words. 

It would best be good for when you have to buddy with someone and ask them questions about the story. IT can help you for asking questions so that they can answer them then they would understand the story. If you don't know what to ask your in luck.

So if you don't have any idea on what to ask here is 4 things that will help you:

2040 Documentary

Today in drama and science we had to work with SH and DS. What we did is watch a documentary in the auditorium. It was called in 2040. The video was about a man and he was telling his daughter about global warming and how we can prevent it from becoming more worse than now.

The documentary took 1 and a half of the periods, so it took very long. The man who was talking was Damon gameau. What he did was travel all around the world and talked to other people and how they prevent global warming. What surprised me was that Bangladesh was very smart, what they did was they had used this box. What it did was it collected the solar energy and then it would save it. Then if the owners wanted to they could share it to others that needed the power. 

At night when they needed power, they would use the box and use the power because what the box did was it saved the power and then when they needed it they could use it. 

In the documentary, they showed children and they had asked them several questions about what they wanted in the future and what they would do to prevent global warming. Most of them had said they wanted to make a thing that only used solar power, some had said we could stop eating animals and eat more of fruits and plants.

What really excited me in the documentary was that they had time travelled and showed what would happen if we do something about global warming and see how beautiful it could look. There would be self drivable cars charged by solar, buildings growing plants all over them. Seeing green everywhere. This is exactly what I really want see in the future. 

What I worry about is if we don't stop that we might all die and we might won't get to achieve that we wanted to see. But he makes it more possible but that is all I have to say it was really amazing but I won't watch it again.

Decomposing

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis: I think that banana will rot the fastest.

Materials:

1.  Banana 
2.   White styrophone
3.  Paper  
4.   Bread
5.   4x Test tubes
6.   carboard
7.   Test tube rack  

Steps:

1. Have your ingredients in strips  (banana strips, styrophone strips, paper strips and bread strips)
2.   Grab your test tubes and rack, put a piece of banana and the rest of the strips in the test tubes
3. Add half a test tube of water to the bread only!
4. Depending on the size of your test tubes are , depends if you need a bung or not

Findings: All the strips are normal.

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow & brown	-	The banana was brown and yellow as it was going yuck.
Paper	White	-	The paper turned out to be cardboard.
Stylophone cup	White	-	In a strip, coloured white.
Bread	White & brown	-	Bread was normal, had half a test tube of water in it.

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3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	colour	Looks like it was smashed and turned green.
Paper	White	-	The paper turned out to be cardboard.
Styrophone cup	White	-	In a strip, coloured white.
Bread	White	colour	Looks like it was smashed and turned white.

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5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana
Paper
Styrophone cup
Bread

  

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Images:

Conclusion:

Water cycle

Ki Ora everyone today in science we are updating on our water cycle experiment. So by using this table we are going to see if the experiment worked.

Findings:

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?	1	1
Amount of Water	1	1
Acidity	0	2

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

1 = small 

2 = large 

The water cycle is a very slow process. It takes a lot of patience to get everything right, also to see the changes in the bag. AS you can see in my table above both bags have worked for this experiment. (The 0 doesn't mean it didn't work it means there is no acid in it). How you know the experiment has worked, you will start to see the cycle come into place, condensation will appear. 

Maths DLO

Kia Ora everyone todays DLO id very interesting because I had added something a bit new. Anyway this is what I had learned in maths this week and its been really useful. The work that I did was for once fun for me so I hope this is fun for you. So hope you enjoy and have an awesome day kakite.

Solar energy

Today in science we had to be in buddys and Mr Mitchel had read a text then we had to put it in key points. Then we went into a group of 4 and we had to make our key points into a sentence then share it with each other, which one that was the best we all copied it. 

Then in the same groups, we have to used the hexagons and put them into the correct order. Just like the one post I did, with the hexagons. Then we had to do a table to show the most valuable sources of energy. Solar power is the most abundant source of renewable energy.

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability	10	2
sustainability	10	2
Accessibility	9	3
Cost	10	3
Your Choice ...	Y	N