MINI INQUIRY DAY

This week we had a mini inquiry day which is where we had to choose a topic about energy which is this terms overall topic. Amy and I decided to do our presentation on Animals using Ecolocation and Ultrasound. We decided to present it on prezi which is an online website that is awesome to use for presentations. This is what we came up with...



   
Hope you found it  interesting!

Melted Crayon Art

My Melted Crayon Art

For our flower show this term, our class did melted crayon art. This is where we take a canvas and hot glue crayons on the top. Then we get a heat gun or a hair dryer and melt the crayons. We had to make sure the canvas was up right or on a lean to make the crayon flow down. For my canvas I decided to do a silhouette. My silhouette is a picture that Bansky did. My original idea was a girl holding a balloon but then Mr Marquand showed me this one. I think it's really cool. I also decided to go with pastel colours. I didn't come anything at the flower show but I really like what I have created and I cant wait to hang it up in my room.

Creative Writing

We had to write about either being shot at war or helping someone who had been shot. This is what I came up with.

I walk to the front line. Crawling further into the action. Bullets fly past me. The guy next to me falls to the ground in agony. It's like slow motion, I hear screams of pain and the bang of bullets. As I put my head down and trudge forward, the only sound I hear it a loud bang. It's the only sound I hear and it isn't a good one. I drop to the ground in a mix of blood, sweat and pure agony. i grab my stomach, gasping for breath. I feel like giving up. Death surrounds me like a dark blanket but I won't let it bring me down. I try shouting but I can't even hear my own voice. I start  rolling. Down down down i roll until I feel bloody cold water surrounding me. Someone comes down beside me and half carry, half drags me back to the tents. Immediately someone tends to my wound. I feel the bandage wrap tightly around my body. Just when I can't breath any longer, air is filled into my lungs. Mumbling is all around me and I can see dark figures, but my body weakens and I can't move. Medics try to keep me going but I have to give in. Again darkness sweeps over me like a dark blanket. But this time, it doesn't go away. My last thoughts are of my family, and the people who were once my friends. Hopefully I can go and see them now. As I feel my soul rising, I am proud of what I have attempted to try and save my country.

Energy

This term our topic is energy. There are different forms of energy. Light, electricity, chemical and many more. But the one type of energy we have mainly been working on is sound. Sound is vibrations moving through the air. It moves like a ripple effect. It vibrates the air around it, then that air around that and so on. We did heaps of cool experiments with Mr Marquands awesome speaker, like freqency/pitch. One of the things we have learnt is how fast sound travels. Did you know that sound travels 332 metres per second? Light can travel 7 times around the world in 1 second! That explains why lightning always comes before thunder, because light (obviously) travels faster than sound. I wonder why light travels faster than sound? Then there is conservation of energy. Which is when energy can't be created or destroyed, but just changed into different forms. For example, in a hydro dam, the still water is potential energy, then when it goes down its called kinetic energy and then it changes into magnetic energy and then changes into electricity which changes into light, heat, or sound etc. It's pretty interesting learning about sound. I can't wait to do another experiment around it!

Athletics Day

Me (left), Breanna (middle), Amy (right).

On the 30th October 2013, children aged 8-13 at Te Pahu School, had athletics day. Paterangi also joined us. Athletics was held at Te Pahu School, and the reason we hold this event is so we can keep fit, learn about competion and get a feel of what its like at the Olmpics.
We had activities like discuss, shotput, sprints (100 metres), hurdles, high jump and long jump.

My favorite is long jump. I usually jump off my right foot but on the day, for some reason, I kept jumping off my left foot. When I finally did jump off my right foot, I didn't do a very good jump. I guess I found out that I'm better on my left foot. I came second in long jump. I was really happy and proud. :D

High jump isn't my favorite. In fact, before I even started this year, I hated it. Last year I couldn't even jump 1 metre. Then this year, in practise, I jumped 1.12 metres. But on the day, I went to jump 1.10 metres and failed. I also failed the next 2 go's, which meant I was out. I was so gutted because I knew that I could've made it if I had had a couple more go's. I ended up coming second. Again. For the rest of the activities I came 4th.

My legs were killing me the next day. Next time, I want to train harder and do better in all activities. Can't wait till next year!