Miss Birtch story

A rocky hill with trees toward on it in an orderly bunch shining on to the water. The on bray sky fading into the water. All the ships heading out to sea to go sail across the still waters. Jemma is sitting with her dog on a walk sipping her water and enjoying the bleming sun.

Jemma is a very active and athletic person. she likes to go on hacks with her dog Cassie. Cassie is a very curious dog. As they are going on a port hill walk she sees all the ships and wonders what it would be like to go and see them upright in person.

Jemma's dog got off the lead she smelt something salty. She followed her nose and did not listen to Jemma as she called out her name. Jemma chasted after Cassie up and down hills and Jemma stopped. She could not find Cassie anywhere.

Jemma has a secret whistle to call Cassie if Jemma is in trouble when Jemma whistles she comes running over to Jemma. As Jemma whistled Cassie sprinted over to her and Jemma yells good girl. She got her back on the lead and did not recognise where she was. She started to try and walk home but got herself even more lost. She finally found her way home happy and safe.

Lorde

Lorde is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. 

She has been singing for 10 years. 

she first started doing covers for other peoples songs.

Lorde best covers

When she was in intermediate she started writing her own songs and singing them. 

Royals

She has now won 3 awards now and has a great future ahead of her. 

What i would want to learn at school

So today Miss Birtch gave us a task to write a blog post about what we would want to do at school that we do not have.

I choose horse riding as they don't have it at many schools. I think if some people start getting into horse riding it could give you a great career. You could go to the Olympics for horse riding as it is a sport.

You can get an average of $500-$700 dollars a week.  

bora bora

my dream holiday is going to bora bora. bora bora has been my dream holiday for most of my life. it is such a gorgeous island to go to. I want to go to bora bora as you can do a lot of fun things like a sunset cruise and go dolphin and whale watching.  

                             

            

                                                                           

Horse Riding

So today miss Birtch asked us to write a blog post we could choose out of 6 things so I choose "what do you do to keep fit and healthy." 

As my sport, I choose horse riding. I choose horse riding as I am an equestrian an equestrian is someone who rides horses as a sport and that is their passion. When you ride you would probably have a favourite discipline like xc, show jumping, dressage, polo etc. My favourite discipline is xc and show jumping as you learn more than you do in others. In all horse riding sports, you can compete and win rosettes and ribbons. 

These are rosettes and ribbons. You win these at competitions. As I don't have my own horse yet I don't really compete but in my riding school, I go to we do indoor competitions that I go to. I now have one 1st place rosette one 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and two 6th place ribbons.  

making a game in P.E

This week in our groups in P.E we had to make up a game with 2 balls and 2 Frisbee we didn’t have to use everything we got. We only used the 2 balls and played bench ball Dogg ball. It turned out to be pretty good but we can fix a few things in it though. There were benches that we had to stand on if we got hit neck and down. everyone joined in witch was good.

guitar

 so today in music Mr Mitchel brung in his guitars to show us and teach us about them thank you for looking at my blog.

P.E

Working as a Team


Level 1
Below the Level
Level 2
Working Towards the Level
Level 3
Working at the Level
Level 4
Exceeding the Level
I have a negative influence on the team.
The teacher has reminded me to get involved.
I get into arguments and sometimes use nasty words.
I sometimes cheat. 
Cylinder
I sometimes make a contribution to the team goal.
I sometimes need the teacher or my teammates to remind me to join in or try harder. 
I try to use positive words and actions to encourage my team, but I find it hard.
I always make a contribution to the team goal.
I include myself in the team activity, and I include others.
I sometimes use positive words and actions to encourage my team.
I am a leader in making a contribution to the team goal.
I make sure I include everyone in what’s going on.
I am always encouraging, and my positive words and actions lift my team’s performance. 


Blog Reflection

The team game we played was:  Ki-O-Rahi

For this activity, I rate myself (circle one) 1 2 3 4

I gave myself this rating because (describe something that happened that supports the rating you gave yourself).  I gave myself this rating because the teacher had to remind me a little to join in

What was something that was challenging about today’s activity? (in relation to teamwork)

It was challenging being in the middle and protecting the Cylinder in the middle when people kept on hitting you with the ball.

How did I overcome this challenge?

I started protecting myself like putting my hands out.

song/music

In music, we had to make a song  

To my ex-best friend

You have chosen the wrong things in life

But I can't help you 

I have tried so hard to help you go down the right paths

But you didn't listen to me

I have stopped you from cutting 

But I can't help you now 

I have to go my own way now 

So to my ex-best friend 

You always knew me right 

Through hard and low times

I knew I could trust you

But then you left me 

All the bad choices you have made

Lead you down this path

Getting court up in 

Drugs alcohol smoking lead you here

You may not think it has to lead you 

Here but it has and I'm sorry

But it has lead to losing me

So to my ex-best friend 

You always knew me right 

Through hard and low times

I knew I could trust you

But then you left me

You were changing so much you have hurt

Me in many ways 

Now the time has come to say

My last words to you 

Goodbye best friend

singing

Today in period 2 we did C.I.P.

We started to weed and move some wood.

some of the wood was rotten and falling apart.

When we were weeding there was stinging needle. a stinging needle is a type of plant that stings you and you can get really itchy.

Today In period 3 we had singing.

The first song we sang was tip of my tongue for our warm-up song. We sang home again 2 times. Then big Aroha, whaling, green light and light surrounding you.

tip of my tongue, wake up, home again, big Aroha, whaling, green light and light surrounding you       

  

Ki-o-Rahi

Today in P.E we played Ki O Rahi and the teams that weren't playing did research about Ki O Rahi. here is the slideshow I made with my research. 

I hope you enjoyed my slideshow has a good day Goodbye.

The visit of Ella West

Ella West visit

So yesterday Ella West came to our school. In our class we
Have a ‘Night Vision’ group for reading and Ella West wrote ‘Night Vision’. They had to do a blog post about the book ‘Night Vision’. The blog post caught her attention and she was already coming down to Christchurch for family things and so she decided to come and visit us. 

The day came where Ella West came to our school. We had a little meet with all the ⅞ classes then ⅞ Al went to the learning commons. We asked some questions.
She is a journalist for the southland times forming magazines. She tries aiming for 1000 words a day. She is currently writing a new book called ‘Sound of My Heart’ and it is about a 16-year-old girl running a half marathon and trying to compete against older people.

‘Night Vision’ has won 2 awards.
Her first book was thieves in 2006. In ‘Night Vision’ there is this girl that has a disorder where if she goes in the sun her skin burns and swells up based that on a true part in life because some kids are not too lucky and actually has that disorder where they can't go in the sun. So they don't go to school and cant play netball basketball etc.

       

music

in music we have been researching about the decades of music here is a slide show I have done about the music

adele

Name/Adele Age/31 Decade music was popular/2010 Genre/pop, soul, contemporary R&B and blue-eyed soul Name of adeles most popular song/Hello How did she become successful/Adele became the first living artist since the Beatles to have two top-five hits in the UK single and album charts

music

Orchestra 

An orchestra is a combination of the instruments in the groups called the woodwind, brass, percussion and strings

Woodwind 

Woodwind is 1 of the 4 families of instruments that include flute, oboes, clarinets and bassoons

Strings 

Strings are 1 of the 4 families of instruments and that includes guitar, harp, piano wier and ukelele 

Percussion

Percussion is 1 of the 4 families of instruments that you can scrape, bang or rubbed its like drums 

Brass

Brass is 1 of the families of instruments produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air that you blow onto with sympathetic with the vibration of the player's lips in the brass family that includes the trumpet. 

singing week 6

In singing today we were practising for a big Aroha concert. We first sang tip of my tongue we didn't sing that the best but that was ok, there were only 4 or 5 people singing. We sang oh my my lots more people sang it and I would say it was an 8/10 because some people were out of sink but we will hopefully get better at that and getting in the sink and louder than we are now before the concert.  big aroha concert 

in the big Aroha concert, we have to sing bad hair day, big Aroha, don't dream it's over, green light, home again, light surrounding you, nature, oh my my, shark attack, stand up, tarakihi, tip of my tongue, wake up, whaling, we know the way and why does love do this to me 

 

Maori

How to make a hangi,
A hangi is a traditional Maori method of cooking food underground using hot stones, and it is commonly practised throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. The food has warm, earthy tones, and is a firm favourite for social gatherings throughout New Zealand. A hangi involves setting up the pit, heating the stones, preparing the food, and then placing the food into the pit to cook.
Gather volcanic stones for the hangi. A hangi for 25 people will require enough volcanic stones to fill a 1 m  in diameter hole, around 0.5 m  deep. Non-volcanic stones will crack and explode when heated, which can be dangerous. Collect pieces of hardwood for the hangi. Wood for a hangi must be untreated, and you will need 45 pieces that are 1 m long and 5-8 cm wide. A slow-burning wood such as mānuka or macrocarpa works well. Get 3 food baskets. Food baskets for hangi are usually wire trays with sides, but they can be made out of a variety of different materials. Baskets that are made from small chicken mesh or welded perforated steel containers are common.
Dig the hole slightly bigger than the stacked food baskets. 200-300mm deeper and 200mm wider and longer than the baskets work well. The hole will need to be slightly larger than the food baskets when they are stacked so that there is enough room for sacks to be placed on the sides which will protect the food from the embers and dirt.

Pile the wood and volcanic stones on the ground to make a fire stack. There is no particular order to stack the wood and stones, and all that matters is that there is enough room beneath the stack to start a fire and that the stones are evenly distributed throughout the stack. The fire stack should be located next to the pit so that you can easily transfer the hot stones.
Light the wood in the fire stack in 3-4 places. Light a match and set alight 3-4 corners of the fire stack. If the wood doesn't show flames immediately, blow gently on the smouldering area to help it along.

C.I.P week 5

C.I.P week 5 what we did today in C.I.P

Today in C.I.P I helped out with the outside classroom, we sorted out the tables, chairs, metal thing and plastic things. We had to take apart the tables and chairs. We swept the dirt, leaves and dust.

 In the planting group, we turned over lots of dirt we turned over the dirt to break up the crusty soil and creates the air in the soil. we planted cauliflower, beetroot, broccoli and cabbage.

Also in the planting group, we raked the soil so it is easier to plant. we planted three plants in a row for the cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli and four in a row for the beetroot.

In the planting group, we made a mini-greenhouse over the plants to protect them. 

What we did in C.I.P

Today at the start of cip, we headed to the changing rooms and changed into our P.E gear. Started walking down to the garden and sorted what we were doing Mya, Tehya, Jessie, Kody and I were started cutting trees and opening up the middle of the plant to get sunlight into the plant so it can grow properly. We had 3 dwords that we needed to help us and there were dead diseased damaged deranged. We cut off the dead parts of the trees the deceased parts as well, you had to cut off the branches that were facing down and growing the wrong way. 

The teacher that was helping us and giving us tips was Mark. There were people in period 3 that carried on doing the outside classroom, cutting the trees, planting trees and cleaning out the greenhouse. 

  

poem

Kalea
Clumsy, Silly, Nervous, Happy
Best friends with Tehya, Nici, Libby, Megan and Tahnesha Daughter of Stuart (Dad)
Lover of horse riding, Horses
Sad, Depressed, Stressed
Losing someone, The loss of an animal, Getting overwhelmed
Getting in to zones for swimming, Getting confidence
Skydiving, Getting into the Olympics for horse riding
Wigram Christchurch
Thorman   


what i did in the holidays was i went to horse riding camp with friends and had a friend stay over for the night and at camp i was there for 5 days and 5 nights. I got there on Sunday night the second week of the holidays and came back on the Friday night and had a great time. 

solar energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1.  cups x4
2.  water
3.  tin foil
4.  x2 sheets of white paper
5.  1 sheet of black paper
6. 1 large cup
7. thermometer
8. 1 heat lamp

Steps

1.   you get the 4 cups and fill with water 
2.  put cups on septet peace of paper or foil  
3. on one of the peaces of white paper with a cup on it you put the big cup on top of it 
4.  you get your heat lamp and turn it on and face it to the cups 
5. leave for 40 minutes 
6. test temperature  

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	12	12	12	12
45 minutes	16	14	22	24
60 minutes	20	19	20	20
75 minutes	18	19	22	26

Findings: when it first came out of the tap it was 12 

45 minuets cup 1 was 16 cup 2 was 14 cup 3 was 22 cup 4 24

60 minuets cup 1 20 cup 2 19 cup 3 20 cup 4 20

75 minuets cup 1 18 cup 2 19 cup 3 22 cup 4 26

conclusion

When the heat lamp was on the cup they started heating up. We turned off the heat lap and the heat kept on going up and up but cup one went down on the last round on the 75 minuet one.