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Thursday, December 3, 2020

2020 Poems

Here are my poems about all of my greatest memories this year. sadly this is my last year here at marshland; next year I am going into year 9 and so are all my friends, I really hope I can stay friends with them all! <3

Luckily, I have some very amazing teachers and they take us out to do awesome things together before we all leave.

What interesting things have you done this year??

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Ta Moko

Kia Ora Bloggers! in class this term we have been doing a lot around our culture, we have been learning about how things have changed from in the past and present. We have learned about Maori Hangis, Maori Tattoos, the haka and more. 

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Ki-O-Rahi

Kia Ora Bloggers! in class this term we have been doing a lot around our culture, we have been learning about how things have changed from in the past and present. We have learned about Maori Hangis, Maori Tattoos and more. I have created an animation on a Maori game called Ki-O-Rahi, here is my animation.


how to cook a hangi

 Lately we have been doing a lot of work around our culture in New Zealand. I have created a poster on the steps to how to make a hangi. by the way in the first paragraph i meant to write hangi instead of han.

Have you ever tried to cook a hangi?



Friday, October 16, 2020

Leaders Trip

Kia Ora Bloggers, On Monday and Tuesday, the student leaders at our school went to PYDT, to learn about leadership and bout the seven habits of highly effective teenagers.

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind

Habit 3: First Things First

Habit 4: Think win-win

Habit 5: Seek first to understand the be understood

Habit 6: Synergize

Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw

We did some really fun and interesting activities learning about the seven habits. Here is a picture of one of our activities.

 Thank you. Are you a student leader?



Thursday, September 24, 2020

Sound-Literacy.

 Hey Bloggers! This week in literacy I have been reading about sound and had to write a short report on it. so here it is! :)

Sound

Today we will be looking about how sound works, I have four questions about sound, which are going to help us understand. I will be answering these four questions; What is sound? How does sound travel? Does sound work in space? Why does sound at different speeds through different materials?

What is sound? Sound is the energy things produce when they vibrate, for example, if you were to clap. Your hands would vibrate at very high speed (usually so fast, you can’t see them vibrating) The vibrations are very strong, causing the air to vibrate, so the vibrations go all through the air, eventually causing the air in your ears to vibrate, and that’s when you can hear the sound of the clap.

How does sound travel? In someway, the sound is a lot like light, Sound travels from some source, just like light, (it would come from the sun or even a lightbulb), It’s very fast and needs something to travel through/bounce off of, so it won’t work in places with no air, gas, or anything,  (like I explain in the next paragraph).

In the article, I learned that sound is like light, it needs something to travel through or bounce off of, this can be things like air, water, glass, or metal. After reading this I wondered if you could hear anything in space because there is no air or gas or anything for sound to travel through. So, can you hear in space? The answer is no, in 1660 Robert Boyle did an experiment testing if we could hear anything if we put a clock in a jar and sucked all the air out. It was proved that we could not hear anything, because there was nothing for the sound to travel through, so in space with no gas or air, you would not be able to hear anything.

Another question I formed while reading the article was, Why does sound at different speeds through different materials? Sound can travel through more solid materials because the molecules are closer together, making it easier to bounce off of solid objects, so when the vibrations bounce off a solid material, the vibrations are stronger and move faster. 

I reckon sound is very interesting, and by looking at these questions I feel like I have a better understanding of sound, and I hope you do too. 

Sources: 

https://www.explainthatstuff.com/sound.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4lR9EWGlY


Friday, September 11, 2020

Rocket Film :)

 Hey bloggers! this is our science film that Skylah, Ngawai, Braeden, Hana, and I made. We still need to add a few more clips and then it will be done. We have explained in the video what we were doing this term with rockets, I hope you enjoyed our rocket film :)

(it might be a bit hard to hear what we're saying, sorry) 

Have you ever launched a rocket? Thanks for watching, bye!