Science Term 1 - Lab Safety

Today in Science period 3, we have to list safety rules in the lab and we also learnt how to light Bunsen burners. These are some simple rules that you have to do in the lab. What was easy, lighting the Bunsen burner, what was hard, nothing was hard for me. My goal today was to light a bunsen burner and teach others how to do it, and I achieved that goal.

The rules for the lab are:

Don't eat/drink in the lab,

Make sure you have your hair tied up,

No running in the lab,

Wear safety glasses when doing practicals,

Stand when doing practicals,

Keep your area clean - keeping your bag on the floor,

When you finish with equipment put it bag where it belongs,

Make sure you have covered shoes in the lab,

If something gets broken tell a teacher or you will get in more trouble.

Horror Story

Today in Hurumanu 2 for reading we are doing Horror-themed reading. We are doing this because it is the last week of school. I'm writing my own horror story with Felicity. We did this on docs, we have 1/2 chapters done, the first chapter is small but I'll keep on adding on to it. We planned out the chapters and characters in the story, the characters are people from our class including us. What was hard, thinking of ideas for this story, what was easy, writing a horror story because I like writing stories.

Here is what we have so far on our story.

Planing:

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Characters: Felicity also city, Kirsty, Riansha, Shelby, Loloma-girl group

Ashton, Isaac, Angus, Alex, Diago-Boy group

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Chapters:

Chapter 1-The Abandoned Cemetery

Chapter 2- The mean old lady

Chapter 3 - The Walk Around The Neighborhood

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Chapter 1 - The Abandoned Cemetery

On Friday 13, there was a group who were walking home together because they were going to have a slumber party at Shelby’s house. On the way home, they found a mysterious tunnel that they never saw, but they decided to go through the tunnel late at night. All the girls started at exactly 7 PM, they painted their nails, put face masks on. A few minutes later the boy gang came and toilet papered our house but luckily no adults were home. They quickly took all the toilet paper of the house, but then Kirsty started thinking about the mysterious tunnel that they saw earlier on the way back home. Kirsty told the other girls about the mysterious tunnel and they all decided to go to that mysterious tunnel. They packed flashlights and batteries, 20 minutes later they arrived at their destination. They all went in together with their own flashlights, they saw cobwebs all around the tunnel. The girls finally made it to the other side, they saw an abandoned cemetery, they went around the cemetery, Loloma accidentally stood on someone's grave. After 40 minutes of exploring they decided to go back to Shelby’s house. On their way back to Shelby’s house they kept on hearing someone stepping on twigs on empty streets all they could see was dark streets and so much fog in the void in front of them, they also kept on hearing hissing noises and random things falling down. They finally got home, they all set up their beds, after they ordered pizza but it came an hour later, the pizza delivery woman seemed sus. The old lady seemed so rude she made the girls charge extra money. But the girls refused because the old lady came late and the pizza cooled down so they paid less money. The old lady just walked off after giving the girls an evil look.

 Chapter 2-The mean old lady 

The pizza woman was very weird looking and kind of suspicious-looking. She was wearing a black hoodie and her hood was up. She had long black gloves on, she gave them pizza, they took it inside and all sat down at the table and warmed it up since the pizza came an hour late. After pizza, the girls went to bed. They were all asleep but Riansha kept on hearing scratching noises from Shelby’s closet, and suddenly the windows opened “WHOOSH” the wind came in from the window, she quickly woke the other girls up as soon as everyone woke up everything stopped, all the girls thought that Riansha was crazy. But the scratching began again and the girls were scared and confused “Hey City can you go and call the boys so they can come and see what the hell is in my closet please” Said Shelby “Sure thing” said Felicity so she ran down the hallway to the kitchen were here phone was sitting in the microwave she picks it up and calls the boys “hello?’ said Isaac “hi is this Isaac” asked Felicity “Yes how are you?” said Isaac “Bro it’s me Felicity” Said Felicity “Oh hi haha what do you need” asked Isaac “there is a weird noise coming from Shelby’s closet” said Felicity 

“Ok we will all be there in a second,” said Isaac.

More coming soon!

Collage Term 4 Art Unit

 Last week we started making collages. We used coloured papers to make our collage. I made a lake by mountains. We watched a video and we followed the steps, first, we had to lightly draw the picture we wanted, next, we chose the colours that we wanted on our collage, after, we ripped up the coloured paper that we choose, then, we glued the colours on our picture where we want them to be and then you're done. I choose to do a lake with mountains because I thought it will look good with different shades of colours of the mountains and the lake just looks better with something in the background. I enjoyed this activity because I like doing art so I really enjoyed doing this. What was easy, making my college was easy for me, what was hard, covering most of the white parts. I set a challenge for myself, which is that I have to add some type of 3D in my collage, and I achieved my challenge.

Here is my collage:

Wananga Activities - Diwali

This week we have to complete 5 activities. The first activity that I did was a Diwali activity, we have to create a DLO (digital learning object) about Diwali. I knew a little bit about Diwali because I celebrate it every year. I used Canva to make my DLO. What was hard, making the DLO look nice but also in theme, and try to make it stand out. What was easy, getting information onto the DLO about Diwali cause I knew everything. My favourite part was making the DLO because it looks so nice. My least favourite part was nothing really. I set my own challenge that was to do the most Diwali work out of everyone in my class. Please leave me some feedback!

Here is my DLO.

Book Review For Freak The Mighty

Today for Reading we have to write a book review for our novel study book. We have to write our book review as a paragraph. The title of the book is Freak The Mighty, Rodman Philbrick wrote Freak The Mighty. I choose to read this book because the cover of the book looked interesting because two boys looked like they are having fun. I think this book is really good because its a really good relationship between two best friends, and I feel like I have something in common like them. My favourite part of the book was when they became really close friends. The characters in the story were Maxwell, Kevin, Gram, Grim, Killer Kane, and Lorreta. I would recommend this book for students because they might have a strong connection with the theme of this book. But anyone can read it young or old, but you don't have to but you might be interested. Out of 5 stars, in my opinion, this book is a 4-star rating, because the chapter titles are good but some of the writing in the chapters kind of don't match with the chapter title.

Recording Our Speeches

Yesterday for Hurumanu 4 we had to record us reading our speech in groups. My speech is about why students should be allowed to use their phones during class/school times. I have to answer a few questions to reflect on this term speech writing. What was easy, recording my speech. What was hard, reading my speech in front of my group.

What was something you enjoyed about this speech unit?

I enjoyed writing about my topic and sharing it with my group.

When were you challenged, or felt the "fixed mindset" of "I can't do this"? How did you overcome it?

I was challenged when I had to read my speech in front of my group, I overcome it by just being brave and doing it first when the other people in my group didn't want to do it.

What did you learn about yourself as a public speaker or presenter? 

That you need to practice more and more so you can get it right the first few times because it took me so many videos for me to concentrate, and I easily get distracted so I had to persist not to get distracted.

In your own words, explain what is the purpose of persuasive writing.

Persuasive writing is when you write something and present it, like saying it in public, or to your family and friends. It also means your telling the reader about something you want them to know.

Gymnastics Term 4

Today in P.E. we have to blog about what we have done this term. We have to list a few things we can do on the apparatus. The 6 different apparatus are Trampoline, Bar, Mini Tramp Parallel Bars, Beam and Floor/Mat. The four different things we can do on the Trampoline are front flip, backflip, round-off and front to back to feet. The four different things you can do on the bar are flip, trough roll, hang off with legs hanging up and pull-ups. The four different things you can do on the beam are full twist, walking backwards on the beam, walk across on tiptoes and jump on the beam. Parallel bars walk on your hands forwards and backwards, bicycle forwards and backwards, leg lifts and tuck jumps. The four different things you can do on the Mini Tramp are crash-dive, front flip, full twist and a half twist. The four things you can do on the Floor/Mat are handstand, cartwheel, bridge and splits. One thing I learnt this term is how to get up on the beam.