Weekend

 In the weekend on Saturday my mum and brother where talking about getting a dog while I was just listing in my room watching you tube. Then all I heard was awww those are cute and my brother said yeah there alright but don't get one mum said nah I might y brother said if you do i'm gonna get my own dog and get it to eat that one I was like ayeeee so I went out to the lounge and asked what they were talking about mum said oh I'm thinking of getting a dog I was like oh ok like a dog dog or a puppy  mum said a 10 week old pup was like oh aye then I asked to see a picture and they were pre cool. But later that day Tyson went to go see my sister coz she got back from a army practice thing out in Burnham. And after he left mum said shes gonna get the pup I was like oh allgoods so she asked the guy where he lived and he said out in goon I was like aye how we gonna get out there she said she could get her mate to take us. So we got ready and mum didn't have money at that time so I payed but the dog was free so it didn't matter I just payed for gas and the food. It was about a half an hour drive not that long. The street was very quiet and the houses were about 10 meters from the next house. We finally got to the house drove up the long driveway and then we saw these little white and some were brown they were just runny around in the garage and next to there mum and dad. But yeah the lady came out and told us that the dark ones and one white one were getting picked up that day so we were looking and there was one down in the corner shaking and when it saw me it just ran up to me and sat between my legs shaking I was like aye so I picked it up he was a boy and he just stopped shaking I was like aye what a weird dog so mum decided we got that one he is white and has both brown ears and brown spots on his back. He is real small when we got into the car I put him onto the seat next to me and he just sat there and shaking heaps. Then I put on my seat belt then I looked at him then he looked at me then he just came onto my lap I was like ok ok allgoods then he fell asleep but it was a bumpy road and he almost kept falling of and kept waking up. Mum let me choose his name I didn't know what to call him so I just came up with Oddie so yeah but I forgot the breed of what he is. But yeah mum got him one of these squeaky toys and I took out the squeaky bit and mum was wondering the whole time home why it wasn't squeaking but yeah when we got home I got the squeaky toy and put the thing back in so yeah it started working she was like you little poo. So I picked up the dog and took him inside I just put him on the ground and mum almost stood on him I was like wow watch out mum. But yeah it was algoods he was just scared as. And he also kept humping my arm and leg's it was weird as.

Literacy

 I did spelling today and just other work.

Maths

 We just did a worksheet it was pre fun.

Athletics on monday.

On last Monday we had athletics I was excited but a lil nervous too but not really.
The day it started I went up to the board to see what I had first and the year 8 girls were with the year 4 boys I wasn't to happy because we had high jump first and I suck at high jump. But yeah when the bell rang everyone came inside and put on our hats but I just put sunblock on but then I found a spare hat and put that on. 

The teachers red out what everyone was doing and then after that everyone went outside to the places we were meant to be. There was a mat and pole and stuff for the year 4's and one for the the year 8 girls the year 4 boys one was pretty low and our one wasn't low but wasn't high. But yeah we then started I was at the back of the line and everyone was going good and doing it normally and then it was my turn I ran up to the poll then yeah I just slid underneath the poll I just couldn't do it normally so yeah that's that. 

The next thing we had next was long jump and I was happy to do it but I knew I wasn't good at it at all either but I still did it. The year 8's went first. Then it was the year 4's. After we finished it was break time. After break, we had sprints. The year 4's went first. After they finished we went to the yellow start line, but the teacher there, Mr Stewart, moved them further away so that we had to run longer. 

The sprints were pretty fun. After sprints it was long distance. We started in the corner where the cones were and just ran around the bike track 3 times. And then went back to the cones but I forgot to go back to the cones.

We finished that and yeah, it was break time and lunch time. I was first basically walking around though. After break we had discus and I knew that this would be the one I'm good at. The year 8 girls lined up in two lines and the year 4 boys lined up in 4 lines. Logo told us how to do it. Then he called up the first three girls at the start of the line and I was third so I stood up and go the discus. When it was my turn  I stood up and threw it, but only got 16.7 metres. I came second for the year 8 girls. Arika came first at 18 point something. Then all the year 4 people got ready. I think the person that won got 7 metres.

We then went to shot put. I wasn't too good at this, but the teacher that was doing it had dumb rules and I got 8.9 metres.

Math's

In math's Sharon's group has been doing problem solving with fraction's they were hard at first but then Sharon showed us how to do it and now it is very easy. You only have to devide two numbers and times the rest numbers and then you will have your answer. That is basicly all we have been doing in math's time.

Vagahau Niue Language Week

 

This term.

 This term started of pretty good. Now it has come to an end. Sad.

What I've been doing today.

Today i'm having a really good day because there hasn't been much people here because most of the class are at a skiing trip. So today has been really good and quiet.  At the start of the day we did a little bit of science and for that we are doing a bird garden type of thing and we did science for about 1 hour and a half then we went onto kahoot and did one of those the questions weren't to hard but most of them I got right out to the back field and had a bit of free time. I just got a ball and played kicks with Rylee and Addison but it was really hot. After about 1 hour we went back inside and did a quiz let which is a math game with groups of four and you have to get to 12 questions right  before how ever many groups there are and if you get one question wrong all the questions you had right you go down to 0.  

The Dawn Raid's of the 1970's

In literacy this week we have been learning about the dawn raid's this is what I have learnt. In the early 50's, 60's, and 70's, NZ needed a labour force to work. In mid 1970's the market crashed and jobs were lost. New Zealander's complained that jobs were taken by immigrants. The New Zealand government made a law that all over stayers had to leave NZ. So the police raided homes in the early hours of the morning and this was known as The Dawn Raids. Pasifika families were rounded up and deported back to their homeland. The Polynesian Panthers became the voice that taught Pasifika people about their rights.

Weed should be legal.

 

The NZ General Elections Referendum 2020

 The NZ General Elections Referendum 2020

New Zealanders will be voting on the two referendum choices below in October.

My opinion on ending your own life is that you should already be able to end your own life if you are really sick because it is your choice and your life if you have had enough. I also think that it should be legal so people don't have to suffer and I reckon that they shouldn’t have to die in pain.

My opinion on legalising marijuana is that it should be legal because it is just a plant and tobacco is legal and Marijuana isn't and a lot of people want it to be legal so they won't go to jail for growing a plant. I also think it should be legal to everyone, not just the people that use it for medicine but the people that use it for fun can still use it just not while driving.

TOPIC WRITING.

 

Write about the image below. 

Do the research-Mexico Olympics, 1968?        

                                 

Why was it controversial?

List the 3 athletes and countries they’re from.

Tommie Smith won the gold medal. And was born on the june 6 1944 and at the moment he is 76 he was born in Clarksville Texas. At the age of 24 Tommie Smith won the gold medal for the 200 metre sprint finals and won the gold medal in 19.83 seconds 

Peter Noman won the silver medal. Was born on the June 15 1942 he lived in Coburg that is a auburn in Melbourne in victoria in Austailia. Peter Norman died from a heart attack on the 3rd of October 2006 in Melbourne he was 64.

John Wesley Carlos was born in Harlem, New York. He was born on the June 5 1945 At the moment Peter Carlos is 75. He was the bronze metal winner in the 200 metres at the 1968 summer Olympics.

Work

 This is my fractions work in Math's. Smallest to biggest :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :(

Maths - Fractions

 

Today I drew pictures to show how different fractions add to one.

Wednesday Boxing

On Wednesday night at 6:00 I had my boxing training. Both me and my brother do it we started in a circle like always we did some stretches the stretches we did was a lunge but we held it there but our back leg went all the way down and all we did was lean forward to stretch the knee cap thing. We then put our left leg straight so only the heel of the foot was on the ground the we put our right leg sideways and lent on our left knee then we put our toes up to the ceiling then we switched legs. After both legs we stood up and did our arms we did a thing that your left arm goes across your chin and your right arm pulls it back and we did that with both too. Next was the neck stretches we did roll it back then forward side to side and circles both ways. 

We then got buddies I was paired up with this lady called Clarissa she is around 21 years old but the first time I saw her I thought she was way younger. I got the pads on and she got the gloves on the first combo we did was jab jab hook hook then a hook to the hip both sides then two uppercuts she did 10 of those then we switched so it was my turn to do 10. It wasn't that hard the only thing that was wrong was that there was no music because Brian's wife wasn't there Andrea shes the one that runs the group with Brian and Andrea also does boxing with the little kids well like 7,10 and 13 year old's but i'm not in that group i'm in the adults group with my brother and sister and Brian runs that group. When I finished my 10 I waited for the other people to finish but we all finish around the same time if we can keep count and I got a drink. 

When everyone finished Brian showed us what to do next i'm pretty sure it was jab jab kick to the right side of the head then jab jab and kick to the left side of the head but they actually put the pad there so we don't kick the persons actual head obviously. But some of the kicks I did made the pads bounce back and hit her head but she didn't mind. Then Clarissa did 10 of those but for some reason every session we have we always do that combo. 

Since its kick boxing, on Monday's we actually do more boxing then kicks but on Wednesday's we do basically just kicks like checking and that type of stuff it doesn't hurt that much it only hurts if you go hard and they check it or if you shin there knee. But we're actually meant to wear shin pads most people do but me and ma brother don't because we actually want to condition them so yeah. She did 10 of those then we went into this one we're me and ma brother do it pretty fast but I wasn't with him because he always goes really hard. But it went like this jab, jab, hook, hook, under, under, hook, hook, side, side, hook, hook then a knee to the left thigh. I did them too then we just rested for a little bit and got a drink and had a little spa then we got told of. Then a other guy took the class his name is Sefa he is also a sensei he's a black belt well we don't actually get belts we just get a coloured T-shirt. But anyways Brian went down to help Andrea because some of the kids down that end weren't listening like usual. So Sefa took over and we had two lines and we were standing in front of our partner we were with. And the people with the pads were on the side away from the door and the people with the gloves were the closest to the door and I had the pads on so I was on the side far away from the door and Clarissa was yeah I've said it enough. Sefa said alright we are going to do 1, 1, 2, and what that means is like front hand jab twice and back hand jab once so the leading hand is called one and the other jab is called 2 iykyk we just did heaps of different ones of those I wont type it out because its to confusing and I can't quiet remember to be honest. But we added a Parry and what that is, is when the other person goes to punch your  face nut you put your hand on top of there glove and push it down. 

What we have been doing in math's.

Every week we have Math's and we have it everyday except Thursday. Everyday we do the same thing and it isn't that bad its just the type of question's. But we do a square thingy and it's just a lot of times tables like 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s. The square thing we do i'm pretty sure its a math's graph. this is what it looks like. 

I don't know all of them just like that but I do know some I know 1s, 2s, 4s, 5s, 9s, 10s, and 11s, and that is it i'm not to far away from learning my 3s but for some reason I just find them really confusing. I'm getting better at the 6s and 12s but they are still hard.

Math's

In math's it is Ok because I am in Mr Redmond's group and his group is the easiest out of all three group's there is Mr Redmond's that's the easiest then it goes Sharon's hers is the Medium group and last is Nogo's group and that's the hardest. Every time we have math's we have to get a pen and ya computer and go down to the mat and get a work sheet and start to fill it out at the very top of the sheet there is a line of skip counting that you need to fill out then go down and there will be a block of 4 times tables up to 12. After that there is a line of 6 skip counting fill them out there is 6 times tables up to 12. Finish those then there is 9 skip counting and then there is 9 times tables to do. And at the very end of the work sheet there is algorithm's and double numbers times another double number and there not to hard but depends what type of numbers they are but the algorithm's are really easy. After you've finished the sheet you have to go give it to Mr Redmond. And then go on the computer and go onto the Mr Redmond's math's site and go onto the quiz thingy and fill that out all it is, is a lot of questions to fill out there is about 20 questions to answer. After you've done it there is a math's problem to do its pretty confusing tho its like um two people were making something like a house and we need to work out the perimeter of it then work out how much it will cost and then that's it and put it into Mr Redmond's turn in sheet.  And there is one more thing to do and it is a square math's thing and all it is is a square with little squares inside it and on the very left there is numbers going down to 12 and and the very top there is numbers going across to the very right up to 12. And all it is is meeting up the numbers in the square and times it or if it's plus, plus it and just do the whole thing then turn it in to the turn in sheet.

Math's Blog.

For math's I am in Mr Redmond's group. Every time we have math's we always do a math's sheet and it just has heaps of times tables on it. They aren't that hard but some are just confusing. Before we do the sheet Mr Redmond sets a timer and we get 30 seconds on each block of work. After the timer finishes he reads out the answers then goes onto the next block but after we've finished the whole sheet we see how many we got right. We then go onto the Rawhiti Tangaroa site and click math's at the top and then click Mr Redmond's math's it takes you onto his math's group and click it there's this slide and it says what date it is and what week it is. but math's has been really good.

Mrs Gren, living things

MRS GREN-7 Living Processes for a Crab.

Movement.
Instead of walking forward on two legs, they move quickly sideways in a flurry with their multiple legs. Crabs move sideways for the same reason humans move forward: that's how their bodies were built to move crabs, on the other hand, have multiple legs and they're located on the sides of their bodies.

Reproduction
Decapod crabs are built like a folded-up lobster. The abdomen, which is equivalent to a tail, is folded up tightly underneath its body to form an abdominal flap.

Sensing 
Like many other marine animals, crabs rely on their sense of smell to find prey. Crabs have chemoreceptors that allow them to detect chemicals in the water that are released by their prey a crab can "taste" using hairs on its mouthparts, pincers and even its feet.

Growth
This process is known as molting. They can live between 8–13 years and reach a size of 10-plus inches. Within 2-3 years, crabs are sexually active. At 4-5 years, they have grown to the legal harvest size (6 ¼ across the shell and 2-3 pounds in weight).

Respiration
The oxygen consumption, ventilation and blood gas transport were investigated in the tropical land crab Gecarcinus lateralis to determine the adaptations of the respiratory system for aerial respiration. The gills of Gecarcinus are reduced in size and specialized, in part, for salt and water uptake. The epibranchial space of the branchial chamber is very much enlarged and lined with what is probably a respiratory epithelium. There is a high ventilatory air-flow, produced by the beating of the scaphognathites, but the percentage extraction of oxygen is extremely low. This may be the result of ventilatory ‘shunts’, whereby a proportion of the air does not come into contact with the respiratory surfaces. The energetic cost of a high ventilation rate need not be high, because of the low inertial mass of air in comparison with water. A high oxygen tension gradient of 103 torr is maintained across the respiratory surfaces. This is interpreted as an adaptation to achieve a high oxygen diffusion rate through the reduced surface area of the gills. The blood has a relatively high oxygen capacity which is again thought to be an adaptation to compensate for the reduced gill surface area. Carbon dioxide tensions and content were high as in other terrestrial animals. Overall, the respiratory adaptations are thought to be related primarily to the reduction in the respiratory surface area which has evolved to deal with the problems of water conservation in these terrestrial animals.

Excretion
They have green glands in their second antennae that they use to get rid of some body waste. They also have a two-chambered stomach with a special grinding mill that grinds up food. They excrete most of their body waste though an opening on their telson. The telson is the last segment on their body.

Nutrition
Rich in vitamins and minerals, crab meat is also low in fat and contains Omega-3 polyunsaturated acids. Helps provide protection from heart disease and aids brain development. Some research suggests that Omega-3 also inhibits aggressive behaviour. And it's not just any old Omega-3 – it's the long chain variety.

MATARIKI

Over the week I have been learning about Matariki. I've learnt that there are seven sisters but nine stars. And Matariki is the Maori name for the small cluster of stars also known as the pleiades or the seven sisters, in the Taurus constellation. Matariki is the name for the central star in the cluster. During Matariki, it is a time to remember those who have passed away, and to celebrate the food that had been collected. Matariki is still celebrated today. Matariki can also be translated as Eyes of god. And Matariki has many different names around earth. Matariki is one of the star clusters closest to the earth.

EEL'S

This morning we had a class about eels and this lady was taking it she new alot about them. I was late to the class but I still learnt some stuff. I learnt the female eels live longer then male eels. I learnt some stuff about whitebait too She said that about 100 eggs are laid when the female whitebait gets pregnant and when she does give birth she just leaves them there and goes off and starts a new life. When the eggs hatch these little things called larva came out of the eggs and the larva just float on top of the river then they turn into a see through whitebait.

Math's screen Kastafy.

Yesterdays Tech.

Yesterday it was Thursday the 5\6\2020 we had Tech. We had no idea what class we were in but people from our group were saying that we were in a class called Mecatronic's I didn't know what it was but yeah when we got there we lined up in our lines. Most of our group couldn't remember what line we were in but we then saw some people in our group lining up on one line so we just joined them. Then Miss pretty came along well her real name is Miss Tate she is a crack up and she said that she has us next. Anyways this other teacher went to the start of our line and I had never seen her before and she said that we are going to room 12 I was really happy because that was the metals class but when we got in there all I saw was robots I was really dissapointed because I don't like robots one bit. There wasn't much we did so ill just talk about my second class. When break ended we went to line up at room 11 that was sowing I was really happy because I liked sowing and the teacher. We walked into class and put our bags down but there was only three of us and it was Me, Rylee and Lila we were waiting for about 3 minutes for the rest of our group to come over then Miss pretty said is that them over there and the rest of our group was at woods I had no idea why.

Technology for today.

At tech today I finish my clock that I've been working on for 6 weeks but we only went there 1 day of the week so it wasn't really 6 weeks but i did finish it today finally. I did want it to be another design but I couldn't find it so I found another one that I like and it was a love heart shape with 12, 6, 9 and 3 on it and I t said the word family on it it was also a mirror this is what it turned out like.  

Reading.

In our literacy group we have been doing reading activities. So the one that we did today was about Presidential pets it was about all these interesting pets it was about this president called president Bush and this guy called Calvin Coolidge.

William pike challenge

Today for our work we started on the William Pike challenge we didn't do much but we did login to it so we will do way more over the past. And the thing that we are doing for the William pike challenge is we are fundraising and donating to the SPCA.

Technology Plastics

Every Thursdays the seniors at Rawhiti go to Tech in Linwood. When we got there we had to go to the classroom that we were in before the Corona virus thing. I was pretty happy about that because we were making a clock out of plastic because we were in the plastics class. When we walked into the class I really wanted to start straight away because I really liked the design that I was going to do but when I got to the computer I couldn't find the design that I really liked but I still kept looking but nope couldn't find it. But then I found this love heart and it said family in it with block letters so I saved it and pasted it into this this other app on the computer I then made the word bigger and added a small whole on in the middle of the heart so that I could put Mecinism in and I also added the numbers but I didn't do them all I only did 12, 3, 6 and 9 I was thinking of giving it to my Mum or dad but I knew that they wouldn't of put it on the wall so I decided that I will put it on my wall at Mum's because It should look cool and I will have a new mirror to because the clock is going to be a mirror and the words are going to be cut out so they are just going to be black but it depends on the colour of the wall.

Tyre run and Zumba

Through out the week my class has been doing fitness in the morning. The fitness that we have been doing is with tyres, and the playground with obstacles. What we had to today was get into teams of 10 and get a team name give the list to Nogo and go out to the bike track. We then had to go to a cone on parts of the bike track

Swimming Today.

Everyday my class goes swimming I try to remember to bring my togs everyday. Today at the pool Mr Redmond was saying that he can only teach one group at a time because there are 3 groups and 1 teacher. He said he was going to teach the 4 lap group and that was my group. We only had to jump or dive in then see how long we could swim and stay under the water for and to the end of the pool. On the way back we did breath stroke. After that we did back stroke for 5 seconds then swap to freestyle. For the rest we just did what ever we wanted.

Maths

Today we did math's I am in Mr Redmond's math's group. Every math's session we do a quick 10 all that is, is a work sheet with 60 math's questions on it. We were all waiting for Mr Redmond to hurry up to time us. I started early but didn't finish them all Mr Redmond finally came and taught us we get 30 seconds to do 1 lot of questions. Math's is really easy so I think I will move up to Sharon's group Soon.

The first technology session in 2020

Today was the seniors first day at technology in 2020. We had to wait for Mr Redmond to tell us what group we were in when we got told we lined up in the lines until everyone was in a line. Then our tech teacher's took us to class I was in line 10 so I was doing electronics with Mr Osborne. We started making a lamp\light we had to get a rectangle of paper already prepared by the teacher. We had to  fold the paper in half and glue it to this square piece of wood and that made a circuit but it wasn't finished yet. After we did that we had to drill little holes in the circuit, there were little circles where we had to drill.

My second class was plastics when I first walked in I saw the teacher and I remembered her from last year when I burnt my finger in metals making a clock and she put this burn cream on it. Her name is Miss Hamilton. The first thing we did was sit at the table and talk about the safety rules. We then got on with some work we could make what ever we wanted out of the bits of scrap plastic. I decided to make a little dog using the vinyl cutter. I typed up silhouette dog\puppy I found one I wanted to use it looked like a pitbull. I then had to do the Cutstudio app it was so confusing I finally did It though. All we had to do was stick it to the piece of plastic then sand the edges till there smooth after I did that I sand blasted it and took off the plastic It looked very cool.

Zumba Friday

Today we did Zumba for fitness It was alright but It was confusing.

What I Know now?

The last couple of days we were in groups doing dance. And I learnt that It is a lot harder with a bigger group than independant. Most people we communicating with others. It was hard to communicate with others because everyone was talking. We went by ourselves It was a lot easier because we didn't have to communicate with anyone.