Census NZ

hard materials technology

this term we have been working on creating a box, first we had to make a concept design and then we made a model, and after we finished our models we had to make the real box.

synonyms

today we have been working on synonyms and expanding our vocabulary 

Parts Of Speech!

Christmas tree

Christmas Tree Technology Challenge

1. This challenge was about, building a Christmas tree to the best of our abilities
2. Aspects we were being judged on, appearance, how many branches it had and team work
3. My team members included, Amy, mia, Ruby, Emma, Blake and me
4. The strength of our team was creativity
5. Overall results and what I would do differently next time, my team came second and Emily's group came first, i would have made sure my team all had something to do because that's what we lost by.

week 4 maths

week 4 term 4 maths

reading

Voyage of Exploration

1. The focus of this article is on scientific classification. Who is the person that is referenced with this term?

carl linnaeus

2. How does the information on pg.4 fit with the rest of the article?

because it's in the ocean and it helps scientists finding species to classify  

3. Do we need to understand about the Deep Towed Imaging System works to understand about classifying species? Why or why not? 

because its important to look for new species and whats in the ocean. 

4. How do the paragraph and photos on pg. 4 add interest to this article?

because it help us know what it looks like and makes the page look more exciting

5. Choose 4 of these scientific words. Copy the sentence they are in and explain their meaning/definition; retract, brittle, transmitting,  pectoral, organisms, subantarctic.

Subantarctic is a region in the southern hemisphere

retract: draw or be drawn back or back in.

to send (information, sound, etc.) in the form of electrical signals to a radio, television, computer, etc.

brittle hard but liable to break easily.

week 3 term 4 maths

Week 1 Problem solving

Raggle-Taggle Chicken

1. What is your description of what a raggle-taggle chook would look like? a injured chicken  

2. What was mum and dad's suggestion for the fate of the chook? chop off its head

3. What was the event that changed mum and dads mind about the chook? the eggs 

4. Mr Dick was the neighbour in the story. What was his reaction after the chook had scratched up the peas? he didn't mind because the chicken laid eggs for him

5. Identify the problem and resolution in this story? the chicken was scratching up the gardens but then he laid eggs for them.

6. Consider two other appropriate titles for this story other than Raggle-taggle Chook. taggle-raggle chicken, Chook Chook.

maths problem this week

Read Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nmj4Euwxv4

1. Before you start reading, what is your prediction about what the tools for young Change Makers might be?

a brain, a heart, support and something to change 

2. What are some of the worlds problems/issues spoken of very early on in the speech?

the ocean is on fire, habitats  collapsing 

3. Service is one of the Badges in the Gold Awards and Honours Badges. What are some aspects of service you have heard other people being involved with in Ms Beaumont's presentations at assembly?

tree mendous group, community services, 

4. If young people are provided the tools and resources they can lead positive community change. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why/why not i agree because children are just mini adults and can do the same things.

5. What are the current environment issues in Hawke's Bay you can think of?

the water has been contaminated, and habitats are collapsing 

6. "Instead of asking why, young people ask why not?" Can you think of a situation or scenario where this has been true for you?   when my mum tells me to clean and my sister says why and i say why not 

7. Empowerment is one of the biggest tools young people need. Explain what this concept means.

you need to have the power to do something and you need to be incharge of what you are doing.

Attachments area

Preview YouTube video Tools for Young Changemakers: Charles Orgbon III at TEDxAtlanta

Tools for Young Changemakers: Charles Orgbon III at TEDxAtlanta

Reading today

matt whittle is a man with a brain disorder and he wants to help others so he started selling things for cans of food instead of money he hasn't made a cent in his life! he goes to food banks  where he brings all the cans because he wanted to help out his community and he wanted to have a shop since he a little kid. some people thought it as a joke but he carried on helping his community!


https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/good-sorts-matt-whittle

On your blog please insert the link and have a go at answering these questions.

1. What is one reason Matt Whittle is even more of an outstanding Good Sort than any other NZer who has been nominated? he has a brain disorder and he sells things for cans of food instead of money! 

2. Matt does not accept money like other second hand shops. Can you think of a reason why he might have chosen to do this?  because he wants to use cans to help out other people or animals 

3. How has his Dad been a big supporter of his work?  yes 

4. Where are the cans going? to food banks around christchurch 

5. What do you think the community feel about Matt's work? they think it's awesome.

6. If you could tell Matt one sentence, what would it be? 

it's awesome that you are helping out the community and i wish more people are like you and help out in places. 

Maths problems

this week we had to solve a problem and this was this weeks problem!

Spca Flyers

fly away home- character description- amy

in class we have been learning about change makers and watched a movie called fly away home and we had to write a character description about a character of our choice from the movie.

cross country

My Goal for cross country is to get in the top twenty this year. i plan on achieving this by training and keeping the same pace and hopefully not walk and i will jog if i cant run.

rileys letter

this is a letter i wrote to a boy named riley because he raised money for his friend that has cancer and he is a changemaker!

Arianna Broad

Havelock North Intermediate School,

13 Nimon Street,

Havelock North

Tuesday 26th July 2016,

Kia ora Riley,

My name is Arianna Broad, I am twelve and I live in Havelock North.  I was born in Ireland but moved to New Zealand when I was about three. I have two sisters and a brother. I go to Havelock North Intermediate. I play cricket, hockey and canoe polo.

We are learning about how to be a  change maker where we have to make a change for someone or something like volunteering at the SPCA or raising money for the poor or with cancer like you.

I think it was really kind of you to raise money for your friend who has cancer. If everyone was like that the world would be a lot better. You raised $378 dollars for a friend who had cancer and I find it very kind of you.

You are a change maker and you’re an amazing person. You have a very kind heart to raise $378. And congratulations on raising so much money.

Regards

Arianna

Letter

in class we had to write a letter to a boy called riley he raised $378 dollars for a friend that had cancer! and this is what i wrote ,




Arianna Broad
Havelock North Intermediate School,
13 Nimon Street,
Havelock North

Tuesday 26th July 2016,

Kia ora Riley,

My name is Arianna Broad, I am twelve and I live in Havelock North.  I was born in Ireland but moved to New Zealand when I was about three. I have two sisters and a brother. I go to Havelock North Intermediate. I play cricket, hockey and canoe polo.

We are learning about how to be a  change maker where we have to make a change for someone or something like volunteering at the SPCA or raising money for the poor or with cancer like you.

I think it was really kind of you to raise money for your friend who has cancer. If everyone was like that the world would be a lot better. You raised $378 dollars for a friend who had cancer and I find it very kind of you.

You are a change maker and you’re an amazing person. You have a very kind heart to raise $378. And congratulations on raising so much money.

Regards
Arianna

End Of Term Reflection

End of Term 2 2016 Reflection

1. What has been the funniest, awesome, coolest achievement that has happened this term? Getting into a hockey team

2. What progress have you made with your reading, writing, inquiry and maths learning this term? I think i have made a lot of progress especially in my maths.

3. What are your aspirations for term 3? To get better at art and Writing

4. Who is one ‘new’ person you would like to sit next to next term? Emma

5. What is your goal for home-learning next term? Getting it all done.

6. What can your teacher do to support your progress and learning in term 3? By doing examples before making us do things

Find an inspirational quote that is going to be your reference for term 3.

Do what is Right

Not what is Easy

Speech

human brain

i am going to be talking about the human brain

The brain is one of the most important organs in the human body,

The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system. It receives information from the sensory organs and sends output to the muscles. The human brain has the same basic structure as other mammal brains, but is larger in assoiation to body size than any other mammel And it weighs 3 pounds.

The front of the brain is called the frontal lobe. The frontal lobes are The involved in motor function problem solving, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and scocial behavior, The back of the brain is called the occipital lobe and it is incharge of visual processing, it is located in the back of your brain. The brain is also connected to the spine.

Did you know, There is a virus that attacks human DNA making people less intelligent, harming the brain activity, learning and mermory. The brain uses 20% of the oxygen and blood in your body and keeps developing until your late 40s, also 60% of your brain is fat and the smell of chocolate incresses  theta brain waves which triggers relaxation.

Book Review

Book Review

Title: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever

Author: Jeff kinney

Genre

comedy

Plot/Synopsis

a surprise snow storm rolls in and Greg and his family gets traped in their house, and greg knows when the snow melts  hes going to have to face the punishment, but could any punishment be worse than being traped in your house with yo family? greg heffley is in big trouble the school property  has been damaged and greg is the prime suspect! but the crazy thing is greg is innocent well kind of.

Character

greg heffley is the main character. he and his family are snowed in their house  but greg is in alot of trouble at school so when the snow melts he will have to face the punishments.

Recommendation

i think this is a really good book and its deffanitly worth reading and any age can ready this funny book its kind of like a comic book and a chapter book combined.

Link to how to make tin a foil person.in art this week we had to made tin foil people using 30 by 30 cm pieces of tin foil and a bit extra  to make things like boats and paddles.

Graffiti Wall

this week we have been learning about the human body and how it works so we have made a graffiti

 wall. we had to fined a interesting fact about the human body and make a graffiti wall and put them up. and this it what i did.

Leaf Art

As it is Autumn, we thought we would use some of the leaves, sticks and other natural products found on the ground to create some leaf animals.  First we decided on our animal or mythical creature, then we planned out the leaves we would need to create our artwork.  Once we collected our leaves we glued them on to the paper (some required hot glue guns) and then presented our art. 

ANZAC logo

We had to design and make a ANZAC logo for reading. we had to either draw it on paper or on the computer and we had to explain why we had chosen the colours, pictures and words. and this is what i did...

Te reo game

this week we have  been making a Te reo game  or quiz and this is what i made...
                                                                  (Link)

The Dragon Slayer

For Writing we had to watch a video about a dragon slayer and we had to write about what he looks like, his personality and his job.

and this is what i did...

            The Dragon Slayer

                         WALT: Plan and write a descriptive piece of writing.

• Brainstorm words you could use.
• know what your story is going to be about
• organize my ideas into what could be written into a paragraph
• ordered my ideas so that the paragraphs make sense

         Task one: plan a descriptive piece of writing to explain the character of         

         Tarragon.

Looks Like: Strong, brown hair, Big sharp nose, muscular arms, helmet with horns, big mouth, small beady eyes, huge neck, big fingers, strong legs, has a flat head,

Personality: Mean, Angry, loud, grumpy, strong, tough, not afraid of dragons has a big heart, has a soft spot, rude,

Job: To slay dragons, kills lots of dragons, gave up his job for the baby dragon 19 kills, adds a mark to  shield every times he kills,  

Synonyms:

Brave: confident, courageous, fearless, heroic, daredevil

Strong: powerful, muscular, fit, tough, athletic

Kind: Kind hearted, caring, good natured, good-hearted, friendly

Caring: warm hearted, tender, loving, kind, kind hearted

Mean: rude, unkind, mean spirited, greedy, selfish

                      

ANZAC: Dulce et decorum est

For writing we have been reconstructing a poem following the structure of Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen.
Miss Hooper read us instructions and we constructed  our poem about ANZAC and the war.

Here is my poem:

A soldiers story

We trudged  through the mud cold, week and wounded.

The muds leaking into our boots the trenches are in terrible condition,

I have a terrible pain in my chest, finally i get to safety where i can rest

I was still in pain, i finally got away from the front line.

The men were wounded and have scratches and scars

Ripped clothes and dirty boots, they walked as if they had only just learnt.

We step past the dead and wounded, bullet shells scattered all over the floor.

I feel pain in my limbs i'm surrounded by my fellow mates.

“GAS!” I scream “put your Gas masks on”!

Our hands are shaking we fumble around putting our masks on  

We are all successful but one man is to slow

and drops his mask the gas starts to enter his lungs.

The gas is thick now it's a dirty green colour it's difficult to see the other men all i can barely see the ground.

The man without the mask come limping towards me,

The gas is filling his lungs but there's nothing i can do i know he's a goner.

His face is pale as we put him in the wagon we can tell he's in terrible pain

his eyes are almost rolled back into his eyelids

his arms are still flailing around he's moving about his face is scratched up,

All of us know hes a gonner.

The terrable sound of blood gurgling in his mouth,

The bubbling sound of blood forced up from his lungs,

The mucus coming out from his insides,

Its the sound that no one wants to hear.

If have experanced the horrors that i have seen

You would never tell a word to younge childeren,

“Its amazing to fight and die for your counery”

These are the nightmare i will forever remember.

Instafood

At the start of the year we had to choose an image off the internet and make up/ write about what they taste like and smell like.

           Instafood

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It's kawaii and it has cute animal faces some are white and others are yellow and brown. There is also a little pink pig on the top!

Take a nibble out of these kawaii donuts and taste the amazing flavors! These animal donuts have a variety of flavors strawberry, chocolate and more! Taste the icing it’s DELICIOUS!  

The donuts are scrumptious with a strawberry milk shake from StarBucks!

Home Work

For the past to weeks we have had to make a static image or a collage of a poppy field for anzac day!
we used...

• Red, green, light/ dark blue, black, white and yellow crepe paper 
• Light and dark blue and orange material
• Green and silver easter egg wrapper
• Wooden lady birds 
• Gold book covering 
• Silver jewels
• Purple glitter 
• Letter stickers 
• Vivid

ANZAC Art

For ANZAC art we had to make a silhouette of soldiers we did this by...
- Finding a photo of a soldier and printing it 
- cutting out the image 
- glueing on to black paper
- cutting out again 
- glueing the black cut out of paper onto white paper
- then gluing the black outline onto white paper  

Author's purpose

We had to make a powtoon for our reading, we had to do it about author's purpose, P.i.e Persuade, inform and entertain. it was fun making our powtoon we also had to remember what they P.i.e meant.

flag referendum

                      

                  during our unit and diversity we have been learning about the new zealand                                                        flag referendum we have been researching using our own questions to make 

                  our own decision on what we think the new zealand flag should be.

                 we have researched using our researching tips:

                        By Arianna and Emily

                                               researching tips

1. Quotation Marks to find exact sentences
2. Place a dash in front of a word that you want to exclude
3. Place an asterisk in front of a word that you're unsure of
4. Copy image URL to find similar images or the exact images
5. Write what you want to search and then the website URL eg Diamond sites:minecraft.gamepedia.com
6. Use related:url to find similar websites.
7. Use cache:url for a website that has been deleted
8. 
   

Use filetype:pdf __

1. ______ what your searching
2. Use intitle:url for that exact title
3. Put a plus in front of a word for that exact word in the title e. g +Hello +Kitty

use ¬ it will return synonyms for that word e.g ¬services

who is Kyle Lockwood?

He started designing the flag in June 2000. He entered a “Hutt News” flag comp on 2004 and won. He was born in eastern Wellington in the 1970’s. He has liked drawing since he was 6 and often drew the boats and aircrafts that went past his window at his grandparents seaside home. He went to the Massey University and earned 2 architectural diplomas and graduated as top student in 2001!

who designed the five flags?

Silver fern (black, white and blue) by kyle lockwood

Silver fern (black and white) by alofi kanter

Koru by andrew fyfe

Silver fern (red, white and blue) by kyle lockwood

Red peek by Aaron dustin

how much will it cost all together to change the new zealand flag?

26 million dollars to change the new new zealand flag weather we change or not

Te Reo

                              This week we had to create our own                                               imovies about Te Reo. we got into                                                   groups and started to record how to say                                         emotions we were given a camera and                              we went to the hall to record.