Making Connections With Black Holes.

For the past few weeks we have been researching about black holes for inquiry. We worked in groups of threes and my group figured out some questions about black holes and they were about what we wanted to know about black holes. We had to research to try and get the answers to the questions about black holes.

Tai chi

Today we had Tai Chi in the hall and we got into a circle and said our positive and negative comments and our Random acts of kindness. The power word was courage and Mr. Gordon was telling us stories of people taking courage in what they were doing.One of the stories he told us was about a old lady and she lived next door to his school and she had a whole back yard full of fruit and vegetables and when he was seven and heaps of the kids at his school was  going over her fence to steal her apples, grapes, peaches and mandarins so she use to chase them back to the school with a rake so everyone thought she was a witch.  Then one day Mr. Gordon's friend wanted a apple but he couldn't get over the fence so his friend asked Mr. Gordon to steal a apple for him and he said no why don't we just ask so Mr. Gordon was trying to scare his friend, so he went to ask the lady and his friend was really scared so he was standing by the mailbox.  When Mr. Gordon went up to the door the lady said what do you want and he said an apple and the lady had a big grin on her face she was happy because he was the first kid to ask for a fruit, she took him to the back of her house and gave him a bag of fruit and because he was the first person to ask he to go to her house all the time to get a bag of fruit for his family. This story was an example of courage- being brave to ask.

Phone stands

At technology we were trying to find many different phone stands to see what phone stand we want to try or do.  we had a challenge to do and it was to try and find a furry phone stand and I found one but it wasn't really good because you couldn't even see half of the screen. There was a some that was good because you could actually see the screen.
Here are some photos of the furry phone stands

   

Design Brief

Design Brief

What

What is a phone stand?

A phone stand is a device for holding a mobile phone securely while viewing it.

What is the purpose of a phone stand?

THE PURPOSE OF THE PHONE STAND IS TO HOLD YOUR PHONE WITHOUT USING YOUR HAND

What does a phone stand do?

HOLD YOUR PHONE

What materials can a phone stand be made from?

IT CAN BE MADE OUT OF ANYTHING LIKE METAL, SPONGE, WOOD AND PLASTIC

Why

Why do we need a phone stand?

PEOPLE ARE LAZY WHEN HOLD PHONE SO THEY USE A PHONE STAND

Why is it called a phone stand?

IT IS CALLED A PHONE STAND BECAUSE IT HOLDS YOUR PHONE

When

When was the phone stand invented?

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When might we use a phone stand?

WHEN WE COME HOME FROM SCHOOL OR WORK OR WHEN YOUR HAVING A RUN

When do we need to take a phone stand with us?

YOU CAN TAKE IT ANYWHERE LIKE WORK, WHILE GOING FOR A RUN

Where

Where was the phone stand originated?

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Where will the phone stand design be used?

WORK, WHILE GOING FOR A RUN, LYING IN THE BED WATCHING MOVIES

Who

Who will use the phone stand?

ANYONE

How

How sturdy does your phone stand need to be?

IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU PUT YOUR PHONE.

How big does my stand have to be?

PHONE STAND NEEDS TO BE THE SIZE OF YOUR PHONE

How will I create my phone stand?

By using plasticine, 3D printer and some clay tools.

At technology we are making phone stands and we had to answer some questions relating to phone stands and the 5 W'S and 1 H. all of the blue words are the answers that I wrote down and the blackwords are the questions.

Camp Raglan Reflection Task.

This morning I have been working on my Camp reflection task.  The two task that I have chosen to work on was the A-Z camp vocabulary. The letter I found challanging was x because I chouldn't think of a word that starts x, so out of all 26 letters I got 25

 The list of words from A-Z

A-Achery

B-BMX

C-Chores

D-Dorms

E-Eating

F-Flash light

G-Games

H-High Rpoes

I-Insects

J-Jungle Gym

K-Kaykaing      

L-Low Ropes

M-Maps

N-Nature

O-Oreinteering

P-Pearnt helpers

Q-Quite

R-Running

S-Sleeping

T-Trail

U-Using 

V-Volleyball

W-Walking 

X- 

Y-Yelling 

Z-Zumba 

Here are some photos of people at camp having fun and from before and after.

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Lizzy's - Bio poem

This is my bio poem, a bio poem is some stuff about you like what country you live in, what you like to do and what you don't like.

Lizzy Hows does the Tide work? Close Activity

TIDAL PHENOMENON

What is a Tide?

A tide is not just the rise and fall of ocean water.  Tide is the movement of water caused by

complex interactions between the  gravitational and rotational forces of the Earth,

Moon and Sun.

The combined forces cause the oceans to bulge out in the direction of the Moon.

 As the Earth rotates around its axis, the bulge is directly in line with the moon.

 The Earth rotates a few times faster than the water bulge, therefore the solid Earth moves

towards the water bulge.  Observing the tide from Earth, you might think that the

water goes to the Earth’s surface.  

When in fact it’s the Earth’s surface that meets the water bulge.

Now you know what tides are and how they occur.

How does night and day happen?

How does night and day happen?

Half of the earth has day from the sun and the other half is night, from the sun's reflection on the moon.

Night and day happens from the sun and the moon.  This means that during the day it's light and we have sun, when it's night time it's dark and we have the moon. For example the sun lights up the moon and the moon reflects on to the earth and then it appears. The earth rotates on its axis, so the top of the earth is dark and the bottom of earth is light.

Did you know that the moon controls the tides. This means when the moon and the sun is closer to the Earth, we have a very heavy gravitational pull towards us and that makes us to appear with a King Tide in the ocean.

Did you know that there is 24 hours in a day, 12 hours in the day and 12 hours in the night.  And that happens by the rotation of the earth and the moon going around the sun, they rotate around the sun and the sun shines on half of the earth for 12 hours and the other half the sun shines on to the moon, and then the moon shines on the earth for 12 hours.

Did you know that the sun is fixed.  Fixed means that the sun canẗ rotate or move around the planets. For example all the planets rotate around the sun, and the sun can not rotate around the planets because it is fixed. If we didn't have a fixed Sun it would most likely mean that we wouldn't have much Sunlight/daylight because the Sun and Earth will be moving at the same time.

Today room 9&10 were working on explanation writing and the topic we were writing about is how night and day happens.
This my explanation about how night and day happens.

Lizzy - Iain sharp poem

Lizzy’s poem.

Lizzy is a Movie,

adventurous and Interesting.

Lizzy is a box of crayons,

big and colourful .

Lizzy is like a confetti that bursts open and brightens up the day.

Lizzy is a box that hides away when it is time to present.

Lizzy is a radio, loud and bassy.

Lizzy is a magic box filled with lots of amazing ideas.

Lizzy is a flower blooming in the sunlight.

The Different Phase Of The Moon.

These are the different phases of the moon. for inquiry the topic for this term is about our solor system.

Well Being Program Reflection

Every Wednesday all the girls in the kia manawanui have tai chi in the school hall.

Samoan Lanuage Week

Last week kia manawanui went to camp and that week we had Samoan lanuage so before we went to camp wehad to make a presention and samoan languague week.

Phone stands.- Technology.

At technology we are making phone stands and we had to make a DLO and put all sorts of phone stands.

ME!!

 At technology we did a task and we had to make a DLO about ourself and we had to put pictures of what we like doing or watching and this Is my DLO about myself.

Camp reflection

Her are some photos.