Bones and Skeletons

Last week Wednesday for tech we learnt about bones and skeletons. Our teacher told us to write down what we knew about bones, I wrote down "we have more bones when we are born. but less when we grow old". She pulled up some names about our bones, then we had to change the simple names into the scientific names. We also looked at a skeleton model and looked at fake bones and some real bones. Another fact is that the stapes is the smallest bone in our body located in our ear, and the femur is the biggest bone in our body.

66th Birthday

Last week Friday it was Ruapotaka's 66th birthday, it was a normal day until it was 11:30 were Mrs Hamilton held an assembly outside room 1. She asked us if we knew what today was, most of us were confused but the rest of us said it was our 66th birthday they brought a large
cake out and everyone was like WOW! The oldest student in our school came up with the youngest student and cut the cake there names are Nurul and Isadora. At lunch time everyone got a slice of cake it had blue icing on top of the cake the flavour was chocolate.       

Whale Count

New Zealand's very first nationwide whale count got started last weekend. The first whale enumeration will run from 9:30 until 3:30 on Saturday with help from volunteers all over the community. The plan is to design a baseline of how many marine mammals were seen along the coastline on one day, so they could compare number in the future.   

Making a Light Switch

On Wednesday 17th of June we went to tech. We used the same tools, the battery and the lamp station. To change it up this time we had to use a voltmeter, a switch and clip wires. The aim was to make a circuit only with equipment we were given. My method was to double my positives to my negatives and double my negatives to my positives. The result was that when you switch the light on the voltmeter would go up and if you turn it off the voltmeter would go down. We also made our diagram about our work

Knee Deep

For our 2nd week of term 2 we were finally at school. The first book we read was called Knee Deep, it is a story about a disaster that happened in Christchurch on February 2011.

Part of the story 
There were lots of collapsed buildings, chocking clouds of dust and tonnes of spilled raw sewage. For over the next six months part of the city wastewater system was fixed together but it needed to be repaired permanently. Unfortunately so did everything else in Christchurch.

What I wrote

Sat: Page 1 & 2

Does anyone remember the earthquake disaster at Christchurch immediately after the February 2011. Earthquake, distressed people, collapsed buildings, clouds of choking dust. What was more difficult to capture was the impact of thousands  of tonnes of spilled raw sewage .Of course they people of Christchurch understood this all too well. 

 

Saving Energy at Home

Today for tech we learned about how to save energy. For our first task we had to list the 10 things that use power in our house, I listed laptop, Chromebook, fan, PS4, and more. We also had to list the 10 places that use power I listed KFC and the Internet Cafe.

 For our main subject we used a battery and wires to light up the bulb circuit, the method was to put the positive to the negative and the negative to the positive.


The result was the light turned on, we watched a video and we had to  out how they saved power. I wrote you should turn the things not you're using off and to share energy so you don't use that much.   

Volleyball

On Friday the 5th of June we started our first lesson of volleyball.We warmed up by running around the court two times and doing sets to our assigned partners, my partner was Sione. after doing sets we got split in to teams.



The game was called King of The Court the king is in the 4th square and each time you get beaten you verse the other team that lost. Thankfully I got picked to be in the 4th square (we were just doing sets) we destroyed the other two teams but Franks team just dominated us. At the start they were wining by three points. We only got one then at the end we lost by three them with ten points and us with seven points and we got reset back to the beginning. We were going to try to get back but then the game ended.   

Earth Worms

Wednesday the 3rd of June on tech we were learning about earth worms. You might think its very disturbing but they are very helpful to our environment, by letting air in and carbon dioxide out and worms also help to increase the amount of air and water that gets into the soil and more.

 Mrs.Sharma give us some worms to see what day would do. I had four worms one of the worms were aggrieve the other two were sleepy and the other one was trying to jump out. We were watching a video of how helpful worm are.