Friday 1 September 2017

Writing

This week I did I writing test and I wrote three big paragraphs which is pretty good for me and I like writing stories. This is my story

The young boy had drowned almost a year ago but his parents were still looking for his body and grieving. But after days and nights of countless searching the parents gave up but never stopped grieving. It all started when the boy and his parents had gone on a nice trip to Bali. The water was warm clear and perfect for a young boy to go swimming. One day the family went on a boat tour around some islands. The warm as always was clear warm and perfect for swimming but was the day safe to go out on a boat?. No it wasn’t. As everyone on the boat was admiring the view and the water the little boy whose name was Lewis. Lewis was swimming around the boat and held onto it whenever it would go around some obstacles slowly. But then all of a sudden there were little, tiny crystal clear rain drops coming from the sky. Then the raindrops became bigger the clouds formed in a swirl and Lewis was terrified. He was desperately calling out to his parents as crew members scrambled to the sides of the boat to heave him up and then suddenly, a white flash and a crack so loud that everyone's ears where ringing. One of the crew members screamed burnt flesh melting down his face as he let go of Lewis. The sea now raged and the boat left in record time, but leaving young, frozen and scared little Lewis behind.


Lewis woke up with a disgustingly ugly face looking back at him. A whiskered, big lipped, wide faced catfish was circling around Lewis. “ That's strange?”, Lewis thought he had to be underwater to see something like this and even though he could see clearly (that was only because of his goggles) he felt like he was wet but breathing. Then Lewis’s heart stopped he was under water. He screamed but only bubbles came out, then he started crying. He remembered how he got here how his parents had been rocketed away on the boat, how they had left him to die. His tears under water were like normal tears except you couldn’t see them, and instead of going down they went up. Lewis lay there crying and crying for how long he didn’t know, he felt as if he would never ever be able to get up and swim back to the surface, he was tired hungry and heart broken.


Lewis woke with a pain in his arm the catfish was trying to swallow his arm!. He yanked back his arm little cuts and bruises bared his left arm as he was still trying to take it all in. But the catfish wasn’t a catfish it was a little shark. “ Ahhhhhhh!” screamed Lewis swimming for his life but the baby shark just followed him curiously and like it had almost known that this was the way that this thing whatever it was would react. Lewis could see that it was smoothly following him and he looked into its eye. It’s eyes were as black as the blackest night boring into him as though the shark wanted to be friends with him. Lewis stopped. The sleek shark's body rubbed against Lewis’s bare chest, “ that felt like sandpaper” Lewis though in his head. He softly put out his hand to touch the shark, it shied away a little but then let his hand rest on it’s head. Lewis felt a huge sigh of relief as he felt like he had just befriended a shark. “Wow” he thought that was weird. Then a thought came to his mind. I’m going to name you Fletcher he said. And just like that the little shark started racing around him as happy as could be.

The two friends swam around the islands near bali and even traveled further out into the deeper parts of the ocean. Although he still missed his parents he loved them and he knew that they loved him. He had a friend who helped him and even though that friend was probably the most unlikely of all friends he still mattered to Lewis. To this day people think that they can see Lewis and Fletcher roaming around the Islands of Bali. There is even a famous hunter looking to kill them and his name is Ollie Ritchie. Even if he did find them and killed them the pair's friendship would never be broken.

Friday 4 August 2017

Reading

We did a task on a newspaper article about how you can't make a messi but you can make it fun and this is what we did.

Tuesday 6 June 2017

Writing

We had to write what happened in a book that was about bees that we had read and put it into paragraphs. What happened at this school was amazing. How did these kids make up a business inside their school? And, what is really good about this, is that they are doing it for a really good cause, to help bees. The idea of having bees in this school grew to a much bigger project. The kids of Te Aro school had an idea to just try and get bees in their school garden. While they were working on this a man who had a job to do with bees was going to come in and talk to them about bees and change the whole operation. Martin is a bee keeper who came in and talked to the kids. He told them facts and asked them questions about what they wanted to do. Eventually the talk ended up in the students wanting to do a project on getting bees to come in and make honey. But what they didn’t know was how hard it might be. The students remembered Martin had mentioned ongoing costs. They were wondering how they were going to sort out the costs, because they couldn’t just rely on money from donations. So they figured out that the bees would have to pay for themselves. It was easy. They would just sell honey but now they needed someone who understood these things. They called in Lucia's dad who was an accountant to help them out with this. He explained Want’s and Needs and budgets to them. After that talk they were finally ready for their final stage of the project. Getting it done. Now that they had figured out all of the cost problems they had to figure out what they were going to buy. They would get a hive and they would also need to have varroa treatment strips for the bees to stay healthy. ANd in winter they had to buy sugar syrup to feed the bees. When they started to get honey they wanted new jars. But they couldn’t really afford that although it would look better. They waited to see what would happen next. Their plan was successful and worked out really well. The school has bees in the garden honey for their toast and honey to sell. Which is really amazing for them.

Writing

In class we learnt about proverbs,how to use them and how to recognise them. We had to write them down and see what some of them meant. A barking dog never bites- People who make big threats don't usually carry on with them. Easier said than done.- it's easier to say it than to do it Like father like son.- a son is like his father Little strokes fell great oaks Limited strength, when persistently applied, can accomplish great feats Look before you leap be careful and look before you do something Misery loves company be positive Where there's smoke there's fire- if you see smoke usually see fire You can’t judge a book by it’s cover- don’t judge someone when you meet them You can’t teach an old dog tricks- Old people are do not run around When there is cats the mice will play

QAR

Today we did some QAR work we had to read a story and then make up some questions. These were some of my questions. Right There What are the flavours of the slushy drinks. Think And Search Why was Starr unhappy. Author And Me What was the main part of the story. On My Own How would you have felt if you knew that the slushies were brainwashing.

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Technology

In science we have been learning about chemical and physical changes. A chemical change is when you add a molecule with another molecule but you can't reverse it back to get the original substance. A physical change is when something can be done to something but then reversed. An example would be if you put salt into water and the salt would dissolve, but if you dried it out the salt would come back. This link is an image of a chemical reaction This is another link to a video explaining what a chemical and physical reaction is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZGULLWEy1c

Thursday 6 April 2017

Inquiry

This is my reflection on my inquiry project for this term. 4- STEP Reflection. LOOKING BACK ← WHAT WAS THE TASK THAT YOU COMPLETED? My Inquiry project which had facts about NZ birds,bush and an insect of my choice. WHAT WERE THE STEPS IN THE PROCESS? I did all my information at the start so at the end I could just do all the fun drawings. Once I had done my information I started my drawings. After I finished my drawings I glued everything in then started on my references and then this. LOOKING IN ↻ HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? I feel proud about my work because we had quite little time to do it in but it was really fun. WHAT WERE THE POSITIVES? I learnt a lot of things about all my choices and it was interesting seeing other people's work. WHAT WERE THE NEGATIVES? We didn’t have much time to finish them and it was hard to find a lot of different websites because wikipedia would always come up. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? I have learned a whole lot of new facts about my topics and that you need to take time but not waste it. LOOKING FORWARD → WHAT ARE YOUR NEXT STEPS? Use more websites. Actually go to the place and use people around me for facts. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY? I could have done my topics one by one so I would do my bird drawings and facts and then my other ones. HOW COULD YOU IMPROVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? I could have taken more time on the drawings and just added a little more detail and use more websites to help me with more information. LOOKING OUT↺ HOW COULD YOU APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED? I could use my information on this project in the future on another project that could be the same or close topic to this one. WHERE WILL YOUR LEARNING BE USEFUL IN THE FUTURE? If i have to write some facts out or get tested on a quiz then I would know some information on the topic. HOW COULD YOU ADAPT WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TO FIT OTHER SITUATIONS? Just remember them and if they are useful enough then they could get me a to a higher group or just get some interesting facts that no one has ever heard before. HOW COULD YOU SHARE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TO HELP OTHERS? If they need facts then show them my project or give them some advice on what to do.

Wednesday 29 March 2017

Literacy

This is my groups book report on the story Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Title: Hatchet Author: Gary Paulsen Number of Pages: 195 Protagonist: Brian Robeson: Brian is a thirteen year old boy. Before he was exposed to the wild he was just a normal boy who would just take things for granted and quite moody. He is able to remember things when he was in survival mode and he has a good surviving mind set. Antagonist: The Bush between Canada and America along with the Weather. Conflict: The conflict in the story is the Person vs nature Setting: By the L shaped lake in the bush Plot: his parents divorced,he was depressed he, was in a plane that crashed, Climax:When he changes so he knows how to find food how to hunt and stuff Denouement: He got rescued by a plane pilot Theme:Keep a cool head and try to stay calm, Do what it takes to survive, Use what you have to your advantage, little things can do big things.

Wednesday 22 March 2017

War Without Guns

War without Guns
  • Who are the main characters in this story?
Mr Sutton and Paoro
Briefly describe their personality.
Mr Sutton is a pakeha who is quite cunning to get land he is also quite greedy. Paoro is someone who always gets what they want and not need but he also cares about his tribe
  • What does this sentence mean?  Mr Sutton was very obliging about credit?
He looked like he cared what they were doing and was trying to look like he was caring but he was just being cunning.
  • How are italics used to make this story easier to understand
To show that the things that were said in a different font were actually what the people said. It was also because it was copied and pasted from the newspaper.
  • What was the theme or main message of this story?
That you need to not get what you want and to be fair. And there are lot’s of ways to solve a problem.
  • If you had been one of the characters in the story (except Paoro or Mr Sutton) how might you have acted to help resolve the problem.?
If I was the sheriff I would have just told Mr Sutton that this is his choice on what he does and if they don’t move then well too bad. Because that would have saved all of the time and the old man almost dying.
  • Do you think that all wars could be solved without guns? Justify your answer to this question.
I think that it can’t because it might all just depend on one answer if you took it to court. The judges choice could mean the total annihilation of new zealand if america wanted to take it over.

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Camp Assesment

Weka Point Camp Self Assessment   Name:   
Camp is over.  Now it is time to reconsider the goals that you set and check to see if you achieved them.https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/10/07/21/16/goal-976853_960_720.png

After my camp experience at Weka Point, I know that I can now:
  • Tie a proper knot.
  • Pitch a small tent.
  • Abseil, just learning how to do it and just get it done.

I achieved these goals:   (Copy and paste from your list.)
  • Keeping organised in our tent
  • Keeping my bag tidy and helping my friends to do that as well.
NOW - explain how you achieved them.
In the mornings I just tidied my stuff up then told my friends to do that and I helped the with it as well.



https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/04/03/10/06/camping-309827_960_720.png
I feel... About Weka Point now it
It was really fun doing all of the activities because the people were nice and most of the activities were organised. My favourite activity was the soft archery just because that was one of the new things that I could try.

I used GOTAR when I …
Wasn’t really scared of anything but abseiling just was a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
Some things that could be improved at camp are…
The activities were fun but they could just update them and make them a little more organised and new.

Because…
Most of the activities that I have done were there and it would just be really fun to try and do new things at camp.

http://www.picserver.org/images/highway/phrases/teamwork.jpg
The best thing about camp was…because…
The best thing about camp was the soft archery because it was a new thing to me and I had never done it before. It was also fun because it was quite competitive against my classmates.

Friday 17 March 2017

Where I Am From Poem

I am from many sports balls

From dishing washing powder and fresh mown grass

I am from the green country house surrounded by farm

And strong with fresh gardens

I am from the gum and pine trees that provide birds and interesting insects to look and listen to

Whose arms are long and creak when the wind is strong

I am from my teddy monkey that comforted me when I was little and rugby boots that would get me pumped up for the season

From Ormond and Ioasa

I am from celebrating holidays with family and playing sport

And from the sayings, “ eat your carrots and you can see in the dark”

From going and hunting with grandparents and having farm sessions with them

I am from a non religious home but sporty and kind

I am from Sir John Ormond and Michael Ormond

From roasts and sapasui

From Sir john ormond becoming a Sir

And from going overseas to watch rugby that my dad used to play in

Falling out of my treehouse when I was four and breaking my collarbone is a strong memory

I am from those moments, sports, breaking bones and going overseas.

Wednesday 1 March 2017

The Iain Sharp Poem


In class this week we were working on the Iain Sharp poem. We read it a couple of times and were finding out about how to write it and follow his methods. This is the original poem made by Iain Sharp.


Iain Sharp Poem


Iain Sharp is a fat parcel
of mixed groceries
tied with a clumsy knot.


Iain Sharp is a black kite
adrift on changeable winds.


Iain Sharp is a pile of scoria
tricking softly to the sea.


Whenever I peep in mirrors
Iain Sharp frowns back at me.
It’s terrifying.


Iain Sharp is a runaway tramcar.
Iain Sharp is a chunk of moon rock.


Iain Sharp is nine letters
wrenched from the Roman Alphabet.


Look there and there!
Bits of bright confetti
blow from chapel to chapel.
I chase them with outstretched hands.

After some inspiration from Iain Sharp we decided to make our own poems. This is mine.

Tali is a humble and fast Ford Ranger with a big engine used to hard work

Tali is a tall tower filled from every corner  with cheekiness and sportiness

Tali is a lucky but dirty hundred dollar bill that you would find on a sidewalk

Tali is a sweet dessert that has lots of things to it but can have a bitter after taste if
not made properly

Tali is a muddy and bloody shirt with the number thirteen on his back

Whenever I look into mirrors I see Tali standing tall and proud it makes me feel jealous

Tali is sharp shards of steel that whizzes along rugby fields and makes the opposition run away.

Thank you for reading my poem.

Monday 12 December 2016

Nanogirl

Today a scientist came to our school today. She was really interesting and funny. I leant a lot about science and invisible energy. My favourite part was when she put Ms August on a piece of wood and stuck a leaf blower under it. It made the wood and Ms August float. It was a really cool and funny experience and I really enjoyed it.

Thursday 24 November 2016

Reading

This is my Kahoot on the story called The Slushy Drinkers. This is the link to it.

https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=ed8ee846-e24b-41c4-8697-f5c23206ed1a&user=room9hni&token=76b0c865-2601-4cb0-b2a6-d25835d5ba9d 

Media Studies

This term we have started Media Studies. We learn it with Mr Cottrell. We are learning how to use the cameras and operate all of the technology as well as doing a drama and roleplay theme. Our drama is about back in the day when there were goldminers and a man named Frank stole someones miners license. We have to act out what happens in the story. It is really fun and I am looking forward to learning more.

Homework

This is my homework on possums. It is about how they affected NZ and some facts about them as well.

Homework

This is my homework about the differences of saturn and earth. I have included facts and what is different about these two planets.


Ruataniwha Dam

This is my homework on the Ruataniwha dam. It is where it is and what the plans are for it.

Thursday 27 October 2016

Art

For art we had to do something on sustainability. When you tilt this art it shows a different one on each side.

Math

For math we had to make a box that could fit in four chocolate blocks. The winner got those four chocolate blocks. I worked with Bayedan and Jono. This was our box.




Writers Journal

This is another entry from my writers journal. The starter I used was footsteps in the dark.

Footsteps  in the dark. I’m jogging along the alleyway. This is a pretty dodgy place but oh well. I need to get some evidence that there are creatures looming around these areas. I have a photo of one, it’s really blurry though. Orange scaly face with Sapphire blue  eyes, and a long sleek body with a leaf green colour to it. Suddenly I hear a noise to my right. A massive pot hole is opening up. And silently but steady this “ thing” comes out. I fear for my life. I get my phone out and start recording. Then with a slight twitch it turns to face me. I know it can see me. I take a step backwards. Then my phone rings. It’s the office. “ Oi jeremey you need to stream what you're doing. “ We can see your tracking device and there's something big in front of you!!”. “Stream it!!” he shouts. “ Ok OK I say”. As I desperately turn the app on. This news is going on all the way round the world. Then it’s great big head picks up speed and disappears into another pothole. That was the most scariest and cool encounter I had ever seen.

My car is waiting outside the alley. As i get into it there are police car sirens whirring in the distance. It sounds like they are getting closer. That’s when I see the body. It’s lying all bloody in the car right behind me. It has fang marks as deep as my middle finger. Suddenly the “ thing “ comes back up. It engulfs my car in one bite. Crushing it and me. I feel claustrophobic. Then I hear and feel something in my back snap.

Footstep monster is apparently what they call the thing now. Expecting it to be me. Saying that my ghost haunts the place. Well at least I know the true story. ANd
that’s what matters to me most.


Star descriptive piece of writing
Star can picture it in my head
Wish maybe at the beginning say where he is

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Inquiry

This video is about a normal school boy making an amazing speech.  His name is Joshua Iosefas and it a=is an inspirational speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kd6FaxKx4  

Inquiry

This video is about a normal school boy making an amazing speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kd6FaxKx4  

Friday 14 October 2016

Writing

In room 9 we are learning how to make a character portraits. We have to describe the physical features of our character. Thi is mine.

As he looks over the hill towards the marching army, the seventeen year old general gets nervous.Brown hair and ponytail blowing in the wind, while his sharp hazelnut brown eyes scout the area around him. This young man is made for war. Strong and fit. Even  scarred by a tiger which he fought to death. He hears the horn sound. It's time for war. As he sits up straight in his saddle. His face still young, and his sense of smell still fresh. He smells like greasy mutton and bread. The smell common in the tribes. This could be his last time on a horse.

Monday 10 October 2016

Solo Hour In Nature

In room 9 for inquiry today we had to go outside to the treemendous, we had to just stay quiet and be by ourselves and try to just be calm. Some people were drawing some people were just staring into space, but me, I was sleeping. We found out that to us if you're
relaxed then time goes faster. Here are some pictures of what we did.

Friday 23 September 2016

Goals


  • I have three goals for next term.
  • To get my Technology flash.
  • To become better at Math, mostly at fractions.
  • To finish everything faster and to a good standard, and also to remember to glue things in.

Inquiry Change Makers

This powerpoint is about what I learnt and did this term and what i did with Change Makers.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GHtrai8zf7g0cHM-Wqd7HwY6q3KtCDR-pY9nvBHiYHk/edit

Social Dance Reflection

The social dance night was quite fun. It was really hard to hear and I had to shout instead of talking. Things that made the social dance a bit more wild was the sugar. There was loads of sugary foods and drinks and that made everyone go crazy. The dances were fun though. Overall the whole night was cool and I liked it.

Homework Changemakers

For our changemakers homework we had to research a changemaker that we liked or wanted to research about. Mine was Nelson Mandela. I like him because he has changed South Africa and has stopped them from Apartheid. To me I think that he has also changed the world. This is  a slide about him.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1057O8Xqzsrzq87oevi-38jfxtiw5LlyUI-hyTJ0jE1g/edit#slide=id.p

Writing

Quick Write 3

Hiding under my bed is something. I don’t know what. There have been reports about people going missing. And sometimes they found a bloody stain against the window or walls. It had been spurted everywhere. Then i feel something soft. SOmething really soft and wet. It’s coming up the side of my arm. I froze my heart is beating faster than a Bugatti Veyron being chased by cops. Then i reach down and it’s just my dog. I feel safe that i have him. You know it’s really funny how I feel safe with my dog, like it’s only a dog. Then it sprints away yelping. I can hear him go out of his doggy door and out onto the street.

Then i feel something sharp. Something that smells like would and a little bit of those sharpening things that are suppose to sharpen blades. Then i have the sense that there is someone standing over me. Someone getting ready to swing an axe sort of thing at me. Woah this is real, roll out of bed. I hear an ear splitting crack as my bed shatter in half under the weight of the axe. I get up and sprint downstairs. The figure doesn’t seem to chase me he just stands there. Then when i can see the door he just comes out of nowhere and swings.

Luckily it didn’t get my head unluckily it hit a gas can. Wait what is a gas can doing in my living room? Then everything gets foggy and i get to low ground. I push myself through the doggy door with all the adrenaline going through me, I start to take a video when i get outside. I hear a screech of tires, it’s the police.

They are all armed. One of my neighbours must have called them. Then the figure comes out. I notice it’s a doll. But for some reason it only has one eye. One eye little overalls on and red hair. It starts sprinting towards us. Firearm bullets piercing through it. It starts chopping madly. It only manages to get it hacked into one person though. But it was brutal. He just kept on chopping and chopping into the person until it was just tangled pieces of body and blood. Then the doll gets ready to move onto it’s next victim, but then a huge light blows it up. There was an RPG that was just behind us.

Then I fainted. I wake up in a hospital bed. There was a doll behind me. I quickly open the window next to me and throw it out. Then a doctor comes in and tells me that everything is going to be ok. I just relax after he he says that. Only to find a doll hacking into my chest when I wake up I soon fal back asleep and never wake up again.

Writing

Quick Write 2
Our sentence was I should have lied just then.

I should have lied just then. Then I could have easily just got away with wagging class. The principal doesn’t look impressed. All he says is “ I am so disappointed in you”. And then the worst thing happens. I’m afraid that I have to do this to you, but by what you’ve done I have to do it. He calls 111. Why though. I didn’t even touch the weed back there and sprint away with it. He was the only one that caught me. I’m going to have ask you one more time he says to me before he calls the number. No! I scream. And run out the door right past the office. Just to find all the cops and helicopters outside of school. I start sprinting, I hear gunshots behind and men screaming at each other. I peer around the corner. One of the policemen lunge at me but i dive into a bush. I fall down a hole in there. The cop can’t see me. I feel a stinging pain in my hand. Just to find a huge gash through the middle of it and soft tissue hanging loosely of it. I quickly grab all the leaves that have fallen down on me and put them on my gash. I feel limp and weak. Then I black out. I wake up to the sound of thundering blades on the helicopter. The army men around me have me in handcuffs. Woah I’m only 12. Why are they doing this to me. Then we cross a long wall. I know where we are. We’re in Mexico. I quickly side bash the man on my right and headbutt the one on the left. I grab their parachutes and jump out forgetting that my hands are cuffed. I pulled on the ripcord as it the parachute puffs out. I frantically get into the arm holds. They are really lose on my arms. So as i’m tightening the straps on the parachute the chopper turns round and speeds towards me.

Writing

Quick Write 1
For writing Miss Fisher sometimes just gives us sentence starters and we have to write a story using that sentence starter.

At that moment I knew that I should have just left the bull alone I should have just seen the sign that it was angry. And I definitely shouldn’t have been poking it and showing it a red rag. I soon as I turn round I see that my mates have got on the motorbikes and are yelling at me to get on. Everything is going in slow motion. Then it turns back to normal. I start sprinting towards the bikes with a huge cattle beast thundering towards me from behind. As I hear the revving of the bikes i take a huge leap at the bike and i just manage to make it. But that’s not all. It hasn’t given up. Not even after we close the gate it chases us halfway through the gully until we get to the creek. This is where we practice our jumps on our motorbikes. One of the dirt bike jumps look over the creek it’s this or nothing. As the first one goes over easily we get rammed in the back by the black and white beast. That gave us a little bit of boost and we get over the creek. That’s good but the bad thing is the first one when it landed it stalled and it’s slowly starting to burn. We have to ditch both bikes we race up the hill and head back towards home.

When we get home uncle comes out. He’s always happy and he’s even more happy when he get’s to come with us and take down all the mental bulls. So when we get in we start calling Uncle!! Uncle!! Frantically. We hear him say Hurry Up! And he's already on the quad racing down to the creek with the 308 slung over his back. We see it and it’s even more angry. We know the job. It takes all the energy and adrenaline we have in us to get it done. As I slowly creep up on it from the right side I have to climb up the side of the wet grass and dirt. When I get my foot hold I jump and try to wrestle it to the ground. Then to my left louis comes in and hits it hard with a grunt. We both lean back as uncle slings the 308 over his shoulder and gets it into position. We both tell him to shoot as the bull tries to throw us off. It's like holding onto a tornado. Then we hear a deafening bang and the bull slowly grunts and falls limply to the ground. We get spurted with blood and i even have half a bull brain on my face. Well uncle seems pretty happy. He gets money for the meat. He got to shoot something today. And he has seen his nephews with their first blood. Usually the bull shakes us off when we are holding it down so we never get blood on us but this time we got blood everywhere. I’m tired all i want to do is go back home and go to sleep. And that’s exactly what i’m going to do.

Thursday 8 September 2016

Electronics

This week we have started constructing our emergency lights. I am also ready to glue my picture onto the corflute. And drill holes for LEDs.

Thursday 1 September 2016

Math

In maths we are doing a statistical investigation. Me and henry are doing if HNI students would want shorter assemblies. This our plan that we did before we made our survey.


Name/s: Tali Henry
Problem: Assembly are too long
Question: How might we stop this


Strategies for investigation
(what are you going to do? How are you going to tackle this?)
  • Make a survey
  • Get as many names as you can for shorter assemblies
  • Go to miss beaumont and give her reasons why we should have shorter assemblies
  • Ask questions that are mostly open.  
      


Break it down!
Who will you need to talk to? What do you need to find out? What background information do you need?
We might need to talk to Miss Beaumont or the People who make the slides for the assemblies.
We could use a tally chart/send out a survey
Ask kids if they feel bored or tired when the assemblies go on.


How will you record your data?
(Tally? Electronic spreadsheet to collate?)
Spreadsheet.
Google Docs


Make a prediction
What do you think the solution or answer is?
Most kids will want shorter so it should be shorter assemblies
All the students will want longer assemblies unless you get to do something fun after assembly is done.


Your survey question
Open or closed question?
The reason behind it (how will this data help you in your investigation)
What kind of responses are you expecting from this question?
Why do you think that Assemblies should be shorter than they are.

If you could change the assemblies at our school how would you change them.

What Gender are you.









What is the most boring part of the assembly for you.


Do you think that the assemblies are a complete waste of time.

When the speakers are talking do you switch off from what they are talking about.






Open



Open




Open









Open
More reasons to have shorter assemblies


This will tell me ideas that the kids would want to have different subjects when assembly is going on

This will tell me if boys might want shorter assemblies but girls might want the assemblies to stay the same





This tells me if the kids are enjoying the assembly or just think it is boring.
I think from the students everyone will say they want shorter assemblies.



Just make them shorter


Male and female








People talking about random things



What possible barriers might you face?
What might you need to do to counteract these barriers?  
The teachers might not like the idea and try stop it.
Miss Beaumont might be offended by it and tell us off.
Kid’s might not respond to the survey so we will have to go and ask them front up
If they don’t make shorter assemblies the kid’s could go on a sort of strike.