Shivers on the water.

Splash! cold water running down the stream. Rocks are rubbing hard on my feet, Ouch! as I trip onto the water my face reflects on the water but lucky my face never hit onto the rocks.

People laugh at me but it's really not funny getting wet purposely in front of a bunch of students.

Its shivering cold as the cold water chills up your feet until it reaches your arms, no towel nor warm clothes to wear just shorts and a short top swimming tog.

Wind is blowing roughly getting you even colder. You would wish you were never in this Activity getting fully wet.

Time for another activity No!! It's just getting worse and Worse!! every time the longer you stay the worse you will get cold and sick.

“This is the last activity” shouts out the lady running the activity FINALLY!!! “10 seconds are left” yay!!! no more getting wet and no more shivers I am never coming back to do this activity ever again.

BY Amanda

Google cardboard

What is Google cardboard?

Google cardboard is made by scientists and computer experts. Google cardboard will allow you to experience real things as if you are there in that image in real  time, situation and scenery.

How does Google cardboard work?

Google cardboard works by placing your smartphone into the cardboard near the lenses then you fold the cardboard and connect the magnets to close it then you can experience an animated 3D when you put the Google cardboard on.

What is it made of?

Google cardboard is made out of cardboard, lenses for your eyes to see through it also has magnets to connect to the sides so that it can hold and all you need is a smart phone to be placed into.

http://www.flamingtext.com/

Stingray

Stingray

Stingrays are flapping fish without scales in the sea. They can breathe both water and air isn’t that amazing.

Stingrays have weird body features. Sometimes we can see them swimming coming up to land, flip in the air and many times under the sea hiding in the sea bed.

Stingrays have legs. Which  many of us do not know.  Why do stingrays have legs? Stingrays have legs and they are called claspers.  They are just a part that help them to swim.

This is the question everyone's asking about. Stingrays breathe both air and water under the sea. They breathe from their gills and spiracles which are special for stingrays.

Stingrays are only found in temperate seas or warm tropical waters. This is a better environment for them it is the best condition where they thrive in the warm tropics and temperate sea waters.

Their diet is carnivores which means they mainly eat meat such as crustaceans, fish, worms, sea snails, shrimp and shellfish.They have sharp jaw teeth which will allow them to crush these kind of food.

These facts are all about Stingrays and it tells everything all about it. They are creatures that swim in shallow water and very huge sea creatures that will amaze you.

http://ngkids.co.nz/

Back to the future (Nike mag)

The NIKE mag.

Do you remember the movie back to the future? Wasn't it a cool movie when that amazing that shining shoe with sparkles appeared right in front of your face? Well Marty Mcfly was the one that wore the amazing looking shoes.

Marty Mcfly and Doctor Brown had to travel thirty years to the future. They were in hill valley CA to save Marty Mcfly yet to be born children. The date of the arrival is October 21st 2015.

As we talk about the fantastic iconic sneakers Nike has released a new famous model of the Nike mag sneakers that Marty Mcfly wore in the movie though the ones were just props he wore. The Nike mag can power tie its own shoe and light up how cool is that.

The real happy news is that Nike has planned to release the additional pair Next year on 2016. The bad news is that they will be limited edition and launch in via auction. Because the company donating all the money for the Nike mag to The Michael J. Fox donation which would mean it  will be expensive for all of us to buy it.

A Day At The Beach

Child labor

Child labour is a work for young  children ages 6 to 15 years old who are not meant to be working. But are forced to work. Children are usually enslaved for money due to poverty. They don’t go to school and miss out on education to know the fault of their own.

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/childlabour/

Children are being enslaved and beaten up they are also forced to work without stopping. They work in factories such as the making of chocolate, in mining such as gold, charcoal, chrome, diamonds, emeralds and coal. Sometimes they are work in the distribution of drugs.

http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang--en/index.htm

Child labour are happening in this countries the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Mongolia, Colombia cote D'ivoire, Zimbabwe and Brazil. There are many ways children are used to do work in construction, agriculture, domestic helpers in manufacturing or factories or used to fight in wars. For some children receive no pay, have no protection they get sick and ill and sometimes injured they don’t receive good food and place to sleep This is the truth of child labor on what is happening.

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/childlabour/

In the ILO, child labour is defined as using young children to work in dangerous and unsuitable conditions. Children below 16 years of age work in factories and mines to provide for their family.  They don’t go to school nor get good education.  Now ILO are trying to make rules to help and protect young children not to be used as slave, labourers, in drug trafficking and even to fight in wars.

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/briefingpapers/childlabour/

What can we do to stop child labour? A big problem all over the world. What can we do to help children who had been used in labour? Child labour is not fair. Children deserve more. They should be treated well. These children who are being forced to work do not deserve that. If other children are living freely why can’t other children be free too? People should think before they act.

By Amanda

Syrian Exodus report

Syrian Exodus

How would you feel in a place where killing is happening everywhere? Is this war going to end? You would probably be  hoping that this will never happen to your lovable country. Looking at people getting killed, raped, tortured and murdered made my heart bleed. We are so lucky here in New Zealand, we are not in that situation that Syria has to go through.

200,000 Syrians have lost their lives and over 11 million people have been forced to move away from their homes and own country. In March the 11th,  there were teenagers who were painting on a school wall so they were arrested and tormented. July 2011 hundreds of thousands were taken to the streets across the country.   This was how the war started.

The President of Syria took out freedom from his people. Rebel brigades fought and started to battle the government. The government controlled the cities, towns and countrysides, and  the fighting passed on to the capital of Syria, Damascus. In June 2013 the United Nations  said that 90,000 people have been killed in conflict.

The total killings as of March 2015  reached up to 220,000. The Government and rebel forces have been raging war and many civilians were suffering from lack of food, water and health supplies. 6,000 civilians have been killed by the government's air  strikes which was meant for the rebels.  The people were caught in the battle.

Nearly four million Syrians have fled Syria since the crisis had happen.  The syrian refugees are leaving to other countries such as america and britain and other countries including ours. 6.5 million syrian refugees have displaced syria.

In Syria people are dying and being shot by their own people, and this is not a way to solve this civil war. Maybe one day it could be us in this war, fighting and killing each other when this is not the solution.

What can we do to help the Syrians find a better peaceful place? Can we help the Syrians? If we can what is your  resolution?  

By: Amanda

Child labour vs. Chocolate which one do you pick?

Do you love chocolate? do you know the secrets of chocolate? well I know and I can tell you what are the issues that are going on.

Did you know that kids ages to 12-16 are forced to work in cocoa farms to collect cocoa nibs my opinion I think all for money. They are slaved to work being unpaid in the Ivory coast in west Africa.

Some chocolate companies just like Hershey's and others never have given out the real truth. They hide it behind their backs the truth that hasn’t been spoken out to the world what issues of chocolate going on. Nestle is the company that provides all the cocoa to be given away to chocolate companies.

Nestle gets all the chocolate from the Ivory coast where the children are trafficked. Children are slaved and beaten up to collect all the cocoa nibs.

This is truly unfair to those kids who are trafficked and slaved to do all the work. How would you feel when you are slaved just like them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8j2l-3TxTg&feature=youtu.be

My goals for term3 and 4

My goals

Maths: I am confident in subtracting and adding tens and ones. I am also confident in learning the strategy right and understanding it very well. I can add hundreds to the 2 digit numbers and is very easy. But I need to be careful while doing the strategy.

I am working in Stage 5. I would like to do the strategy right and carefully with no mistake and learn a different strategy (not repeating the same strategy). I wish I could work with Mrs. Cochrane's class.

 

Where to next?

To learn more harder maths and move on to stage six so that I can move on I do not want to stay on the same stage I really need to move on. Learn more about fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex and hard numbers, decimal numbers, more on measurement problems- area, weight, length, volume, conversion, time and money, geometry and doing investigation in statistics.

Writing;

I am confident in explaining and and adding more information to my work.  I need to learn more vocab and making sure that each of my sentences makes sense.  I need to proofread it before I post to my blog. I must always use paragraphs and put them in the right correct order. I am working on Stage 4B.

Making sure I proofread my work before publishing or posting. I need to put my work into paragraphs in the correct order to make sure I do not get mixed up with the first or second.

What to next?

I need to move my writing level up  to 4A- achieve level 4. I should be able to proofread my work by myself by using interesting words. Make sure to  write in paragraphs and add harder words to make my work interesting. So that I don’t need to use the same words because it is boring.

How to make chcocolate

How to make chocolate

Cocoa trees are found in West Africa. Chocolate pods is where the chocolate beans come from. When the beans are dried you put it in the sun where they get the flavour from. When the beans arrive to their destination they are blended, cleaned and then dried. When it is dried the shell comes off and only the nibs are left. Then the nibs are grounded into a nice cocoa mass, the mass is then processed into cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

White chocolate does not contain cocoa mass only cocoa butter sugar, milk and lecithin are blended altogether and putted into rollers. They are then anchored into a big tank. The chocolate is heated in a processed machine in a temperate. The temperate involves heating and cooling to the chocolate to make a specific crystal structure. It insures a perfect snack and texture and so that it will shine to each of the chocolate. Once the chocolate is tempered  it is made into solid chocolates bars, truffles, whipped chocolate cream, caramel and chocolate figures.

By: Amanda

Who invented google?

who Invented google?

Larry Page.

Google began all back in 1995 Larry Page was born in 1973 of march the 26th East Lansing Michigan United states. Larry Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. Larry ended up getting paid  with 29.8 billions of dollars.

Page’s father Carl Vincent Page was a computer scientist back in 1965. He was a computer science professor at Michigan university. Larry's mother Gloria was an instructor in computer programming.

By: Amanda

  

Contamination of water good or bad?

Is our water clean? and Why other countries’ water are unclean? Its time to face the truth. Our water is always clean and is never polluted I think that we should be confident to find real proper water.

Did you know that our water is always clean because chlorine is put in when we go to the pools. The chlorine is put in so we can swim and don’t get the itch. American water is dirty from the tap. You can only buy clean water from stores. Do you like to drink contaminated water. Ew! I would rather just drink flavoured water (that is my suggestion.

Now would you be wondering that do we take shower in chlorinated water? Yes and we drink it too.  Again we take showers and swim in it.

Contamination of water can  kill marine life and can pollute the environment because they are chemicals that can kill. The water you drink is fake it is time to face the truth once again. Chlorine a CHEMICAL is added into water! Is chlorine good for our health-- I don’t know.

Our water can be contaminated by cattle waste and human waste and other animal wastes. Water goes through the waterways that’s why we have sewage pumps and pipes that are really smelly and disgusting. Will you drink this water?

By: Amanda

War or peace

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Earthquake

The magnitude of the quake reached to 7.1 that shook Christchurch at 4:35am on the 4th of September 2010. Five months later on the 22nd of February 2011 12.51pm an after shock had struck the city. The magnitude was 6.3 though the magnitude of o.8 was lower, many of houses and buildings have been  damaged. In the city centre twenty two people was buried under the cathedral. In September after the earthquake erupted only a few people got injured. The February earthquake was unusually destructive the February quake was a fault that is only 6 kilometers southeast of Christchurch. The ground shook more violently in the February quake because the earthquake was more shallower than the September quake. In February 2011 earthquake there was far more damaged that caused liquefaction particularly in the eastern suburbs of Christchurch.

By: Amanda

Fossil discovery in Kenya

Fossil discovery in Kenya.

What have researchers long suspected about hippo ancestry?

That hippos involved in a family of plant eating semi aquatic mammals called anthracotheres.

Why could they not confirm it?

Because they could never verify the theory since the only fossils of ancient hippos were discovered and couldn't find any proof.

What led Lihoreau and his team to search for hippo fossils?

They were curious to find parts of the hippos body.

What was finding the teeth so helpful?

They were able to find the teeth because they found molar patterns. Mammal teeth are unique.

How much did the ancient hippo weigh?

220 pounds.

Why does Lihoreau call the hippo the real African mammal?

He called the hippo the African mammal because it originally belongs to Africa.

Digital classroom

Digital classroom

What I learned in a digital classroom is that we used chromebooks to do our work. Chromebooks helped me in my projects as well.

I like using application on the chromebook and it was fun to use them we mostly write our work and publish them most especially our research

sometimes my friends helped me in my maths because I try to get things right and most of the time the teacher aid would take me to the library to learn my maths.

I struggle to get them correct. Whenever I still don’t get it I go home and and learn them with my mum. I am pleased with about that I’m at school to learn more application I could publish and present my work.

By:Amanda

All about ME

Saint Therese

Hi my name is Saint Therese I first Believed in God when my father talked about him and how everything is made perfectly for the world.

Then I had the feeling that I started to love God and became a nun that does little things in little ways and his precious little flower one and only in the world.

Rap-punzle

On the twelfth of November 2014 our school Christ the King went down to the hall and watched a show called Rapunzel. It was performed by the N.Z playhouse actors. When  we first went into the hall we were all settled down waiting for the actors to appear and I got a fright when the first character popped up and guess what? It was pinocchio. I was fascinated by how he had so much life in him and how his nose grew long and I wondered how he made it that way?

I liked how Rapunzel wound her hair around her head It would take for ages to wind it around like that, her hair was like a cone. It was hilarious when this cow, Simon Cow was a judge. He was nasty to the people that were performing.

What a day  we had with so much humour. I laughed alot. The actors were amusing. It was great drama. It was perfect when they were rapping we “clicked” and “clapped” to the beat of the rap. I think the Rap-punzel show  is suitable for both kids and adults because it  made this school laugh and  feel happy.