Holiday Promgrame

Create a 2 week long holiday programme for kids your age for this holidays. 

The programme must have different morning and afternoon activities. i.e. 9.00 - 3.00pm

You must think of something to do different every day.

You can go out of town (parent transport).

Your total budget is $200 for the 10 days or $20 per day.

You can include out of town activities.

Do it as a table.

Gifts for family for christmas

Find a gift online for each of the people in your family. You need to find gifts for a minimum of 5 people. Your total budget is $300. You may wish to include grandparents, cousins or your teacher. 

Paste an image of the gift, the website and the price. Say who each gift is for. 

You need to make sure you include postage in your gift costings. 

Include the total costings. 

Mum:

Elizabeth Arden Red Door EDT 50ml
$45.00



Dad:

Articulate Game
$ 34.99




Older sister:

Garnier Fructis Sleek and Shine Thermo Spray 150ml
$ 6.95




Younger sister:

Adrenalin Forest Pass
$27





Grandma:

Arcosteel Chef Essentials Pot Set 3 Piece
$ 50.00



TOTAL: $163.90

Renaming objects

Piece of the sun.

Sugar Cloud

The white writing wall

Transformations : Maths

In our class we have finished learning about translations. Here is a mind map about what I have learnt.

Internets Forum

TASK:
What is an internet forum?
It is a group discussion site where people can talk about a certain topic.

Have you ever posted on a forum? Explain.
Yes I have posted on a forum. I had to post on a forum about how do I do something or how something went wrong. I mostly use this when I am using minecraft because multiple survival servers have grieving (People destroying or wrecking objects) and people have to report it to the moderators on a forum to fix something up.

What is a thread?
A thread is when you are talking or making decisions to each other on a forum or on any site like youtube.

What is the forum administrator’s job?
To check if there's appropriate language and if it is a suitable topic. They also have to check if people are spamming or annoying people in the thread. They also need to solve the problems or block people from their thread or entire forum. They alos need to promote or remove members from the form as well as to run the forum.

What are some different names for forums?
Meetings, debate, discussion, conference.

Find a forum on and provide a link for:

Minecraft : http://www.minecraftforum.net/
Rugby : http://www.therugbyforum.com/
a topic you are interested in
Technology : http://www.tech-forums.net/forums/

What do you think the rules for posting on a forum are?
Must be appropriate and relevant to the subject, no spamming or annoying other members of the thread. Don't budge into people lives and stick to the subject.

What do you think the consequences are for breaking the forum rules?
Get removed from the forum and have no more requests to join the forum.

TASK 2:
- Go to our class forum. Register using your school email.
 -Post a response to the thread topic and vote on the poll.

 -Read the posts of 3 others and reply to their posts.

Edited Social Dance Photo

TASK:
Choose one of the photos from social dance. 

Use a photo editing online site or alpha/green screen effects etc. to change the background to make an amazing picture. You can also include captions.

If the photo is not of you, you can email it to the relevant class member. 


Upload your annotated photo to your blog.

King's, Queen, Prince's and Princess's dancing in a Meadow.

Transformations : Enlargement

What 2 things do you always need to say to describe an enlargement?
The centre of enlargement and how many times the object has been enlarged.
What does centre of enlargement mean?
The centre of enlargement is a dot or a cross where the object expands from.
What is a scale factor?
The scale factor says how many times the object has been expanded or shrank.
Explain how to work out the scale factor on a grid, and with no grid. Use diagrams you have screenshot from the myimaths lesson.
For the ones on the grid you count one of the sides of the shape. Now if your scale factor is 2 you will double the squares and if the scale factor was three you will triple the sqaures and so on and so on.

For the ones with no grid you use a mirror to measure from one edge to the centre of enlargement and then you double triple or minus the amount of the scale factor same as the one with he grid.
What happens to the angle sizes in the corner of the shape when you enlarge it?
The angles stay the same because it makes no difference if you enlarge it. Also if you were to enlarge a triangle the angle still needs to add up to 180.

Life Ed Summary

TASK:
Write a full summary of Life Ed: From the Shadows.
This should be at least ¾ of a page. 
Use subheadings.

Remember to include some of Michael’s awesome stories about actual people affected by drugs.

Drugs through puberty:
Teenagers have a high risk of taking drugs in teen hood but more risky if they take it going through puberty because you are climbing the 7 rungs of the ladder. The 7 rungs of the ladder means the seven years through puberty the bottom meaning childhood and the top meaning adulthood. When you take drugs then it will effect your body and will change your short term memory and your future thinking which will change the way you look or do in the future.

Drugs:
There are different types of drugs that we learnt in Life Ed but most of the drugs we learnt of were illegal drugs. Illegal drugs are placed into classes Class C being dangerous but not as dangerous. Class B being 2nd dangerous class and Class A being the most dangerous and effective class. Class A is very dangerous, thats why the police fines you a lot of money and/or a lot of time in prison to keep you safe. Most of Michael's stories he told us, most of the people were 13 and started having marijuana and then from that drug they went onto many other drugs.

Alcohol:
There are the three most likely drinks of alcohol that they sell everywhere. Beer, Wine and Spirits. Beer has the least amount of alcohol in it, Wine has the average amount of alcohol in it and Spirit has a lot of alcohol in it thats why at bars they put it in small glasses. There is a certain amount that Spirits, Wine and Beer should be poured into the glass to remove the alcohol from your body. Spirits should be poured into small glasses. Wine should be able to fit 3/4 of a wine glass and Beer should be able to fit the top of a tall glass. If you pour it to the right amount, the alcohol should disappear from your body less than 1 hour.

Acronyms:

What effects the brain.

M emory
R easoning

J udgement
M echanical Skills

I ntelect
C oncentration
E motions

Why teenagers are more affected to drugs than adults.

F aster
A sorption
R ate

To get out of a bad situation.

R eason
E xuse
A ssertive
C hange the subject
H umour

W alk away
I gnore
T ell someone or toughen up.
S ay no!

Problems with information:
- irrelevant
- false
- wrong
- incomplete
- too difficult
- biased

To make a wise choice.

D elay
T he
D ecision.

Human Memory:
Long term.
Short term.
Todays thinking.
Future thinking.

Multiplication using lines

To make this work you have to draw the lines so my equation is 21x42. What I do is I draw 2 lines then leave a space then I draw 1 line. That makes 21. Then I draw 4 lines going the other direction then leave a space and then draw 2 lines. Now we draw curved lines to separate the numbers. Now lets count the first dots. I counted 8 dots then the middle ones, I counted 8 dots and the last ones I counted 2 dots. Put it together and you get 21x42=882√

Hope you learnt a new trick!

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 you are thinking about a character
 in a digital movie
 and it only guesses indie movies or english movies.
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Here is the Sound cloud!

Transformation: Translations

Task:
Explain what a translation is.
Explain how a vector works. What does it look like? What does the top number indicate? What does the bottom number indicate?
Give a real life example of when translation is used.

Translation in maths means moving a 2d shape around a grid. Translation in maths has something called a vector and a vector tells you how to move a shape up and down and left and right. A vector has brackets either side and the two numbers are stacked. The top number says the number has to go right or left. How you know this positive means right and negative means left. The bottom number means up or down. Same thing positive means up negative means down. We use lots of translation in real life like, a flying fox, elevator, a car and all sorts if they move up or down or left or right.

A quiz about the Wizard of Oz

Task:
Use the 7 servants to write 7 questions for The Wizard of Oz movie we are watching for Availll. 


Put the 7 questions onto a quiz: Quizyourfriends.com 

Here is the link to my Quiz!
http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1411061443324293&a=1&

South Korean Mindmap

45 minute Inquiry - Is the book dissapering

Is the book disappearing? Will books be in museums and expensive? Is it good to transfer to ebooks or to stick with books? Our environment is changing and which one of these would you live with? radiation and nuclear power spreading around the world or billions of trees cut every year making oxygen harder to find.

Apparently a third of our class are already starting to use ebooks, now just imagine the whole world which use ebooks, iPads or other technological devices that have books. What would happen to our schools. When I started primary we all used books and our teachers read books to us. Will that happen in the future? Already parents and teaching their children by tablet than books. Don't you remember that your mum or dad came up to you with a book and say cow goes moo sheep goes baa but now you have a tablet to do everything for you.

So is it better to change to ebooks and tablets? Some people say yes because you can interact and do interesting things with that you cannot do with books.

Researching an illegal drug (Methamphetamine)

Task:
Research one illegal drug in depth. 
Find out:
class
describe how the drug looks 
how it is made
ways the drug is used
how it affects the user
streetnames
negative health effects it has on the user
dangers 

Write a summary in paragraphs. No pictures. 


Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine is a Class A drug and has very high risks of getting injured hurt and change of looks and death. Methamphetamine looks like pure white crystals shattered into small bits. Methamphetamine is not like other drugs which is made by plants, methamphetamine is made from multiple of drugs put together eg. Tablets, sprays, syrups, powders and all sorts of drugs. There are different ways the drugs is used like swallowing, sniffing, injecting, throwing it and sniffing it from fire, smoking it, placing it on your body and all sorts of ways. Methamphetamine has major effects on the user like recking the surface of the skin, breathing trouble, making you look older and other deadly effects.

Street names

* Crank
* Crystal, Crystal Glass, Crystal Meth
* Christina, Tina, Cris, Cristy
* Chalk, Chalk Dust
* Meth
* Ice
* Speed
* Geep, Getter, Getgo, Go Fast
* G
* Trash, Garbage, Wash
* White Cross, White Crunch
* Hanyak
* Hironpon, Hiropon
* Hot Ice, Super Ice
* Batu
* Kaksonjae
* LA Glass
* LA Ice
* Ice Cream
* Quartz
* Chunky Love
* Cookies
* Cotton Candy
* Dunk
* Gak
* Go-Go Juice
* Junk
* No Doze
* Pookie
* Rocket Fuel
* Scooby Snax

Jack and Jill Play - my made up play.

TASK:
Read this play script of a scene from Jack and Jill based on the nursery rhyme. 

Write a scene for a play script for a later scene in Jack and Jill, or for another nursery rhyme. 

Make sure you lay out your play script correctly with:
Title
Cast list
Scene number
Stage directions in brackets e.g. (Jack and Jill are walking along lane holding empty pails or buckets)
Character names at the beginning of each line with a colon: and a tab space

The different ends of the story Jack and Jill.

Characters:

Mum

Jack

Jill

Narrator

Scene 2:

Mum:   I wonder where those kids are? (pauses) I better check whats going on, it has been awhile.

(Mum stomps outside and opens the door.)

Mum:   What is going on out here?

Jill:   Well, since Jack is normally clumsy he,   tripped over this small rock!

(Jill holds the little rock shoving the rock in the mums face.)

Mum:   Really he tripped over this small rock and, his head is cracked like Humpy Dumpy! 

Jill:   Ya that is what exactly happened!

Mum:   Well come inside and we shall fix Jack up.

Scene 3:

Narrator:   Wait I have got a better ending I'll just rewind the story and make Jack and Jill switch                           bodies.

Mum:   I wonder where those kids are?

(Jill wakes up and faces her body which is Jack)

Jill (in Jacks body) : AHHHHHH Jack wake up!

Jack ( in Jills body) AHHHHHH get out of my body!

Jill:        How did this happen?

(Mum mumbles the lasts words in the last scene and walks outside.)

Mum;       What is going on out here?

Jill:           I am in Jacks BODY!

Jack :       And I am in Jills BODY!

Jill and Jack screams:   AHHHH

Mum: How did this happen?

(Jack and Jill shrugged)

Jill:      It must of happened when knocked into each others head.

Jack:    I feel different.

Mum:  Well we shall go to Hogwarts and get you two fixed up.

Rotating shapes

Task:
Answer these questions:

What 3 things do you need to say to describe a rotation?
- Where the centre of rotation is.
- How much it is rotated.
- Whether the rotation is clockwise or anticlockwise.

Explain what centre of rotation means
The centre of rotation is the spot where you rotate the shape. It can either be on the shape or outside of the shape.

My first gif.

Captions of photos

Wow I can see nothing up here, I need to go higher!

Ahh what a wonder pool party,
I wish that Babe and Wilbur were here.

"See I can be Kung fu Panda!"
"No it is just you kicked me in a painful spot!"

Mummy! Why am I blind!

Ahh STOP HUGGING ME!
Wait why is the camera here?

Any one want to have sushi from my sushi cart, anyone?
Its eatable, or is it?

Abstract art

Task:
Find a piece of abstract art which illustrates (must be ABSTRACT)

happiness
anger
disappointment
boredom
Paste it into your blog (label with the emotion)

Use Sumopaint or do a google image mashup to create an abstract illustration of one emotion. Paste your image into your blog (label with the emotion).

Boredom

Anger

Disappointment

Happiness

Punctuating missing 3

"Mum where are my favourite socks?" I asked yelling for help.
"And where are my Tuesday undies?" asked Dad searching through his drawers.
"You know I have to wear them today just wear mondays undies, no one is going to know," replied Mum.
"No ones going to know you say I'm going to know and to wear mondays undies pfft that would be idiotic!" dad answered back with a streak in his voice.

This was only the beginning of our family disaster. For the next few weeks things were starting to disappear and fast! With dad losing his tuesday undies and me losing my favourite socks, Isaac then lost his favourite bow tie, while mum then lost her favorite dress.
"We thought we were going mental its not like they could just hop up and run away!" said Isaac.
Mum suggested that we recap our steps
"When was the last time you had your items," she said.
We all replied.
"Before washing day was the last time we had them so maybe its the washing machine that's caused all this drama," Mum said with a glimpse a hope in her eyes. We checked the washing machine there was… nothing with nothing to prove. I decided to put a Go-Pro in the machine to watch it in action to see if there was something suspicious really happening inside, what I didn’t realise was that the washing machine would take my Go-Pro too
"AHHH ITS GONE!" I yelled at the top of my voice. "What are we going to do?"
"Lets just give up!" Mum said to me.
"Fine if that’s the best idea," I moaned.

A few weeks later Isaac had dropped his toy car behind the washing machine and as we were looking for it, a pair of undies popped up out of the blue just sitting there.
"Mum, look," I said with a big grin on my face.
"Who would have guessed!"
We both stood there smiling.

Punctuating a story #2

"Morning class," greeted Miss Green.
It was an ordinary day and everyone was sitting at their wooden desks with pens and pencils. By their side, the sweet sound of voices filling the room, brought music to my ears. I decide to listen in on Brittney's conversation with Ella.
"OMG, last night I reached into my bag to get out my book and it wasn’t there!" explained Brittney.
"No way," replied Ella, "That exact thing happened to me, I was sure I put it into my bag."
This is a little strange I thought to myself why were things disappearing.

Eventually the bell went and it was time to go home. I told my mum what I had witnessed at school, and she was lost for words that night I couldn't get Brittney and Ella's conversation out of my head. I grabbed my laptop out of my bag to google this mystery as I unzipped the case I looked down only to see that there was no laptop in my bag, this is insane I decided to look in my other pocket of my bag and to my surprise my lunch box was also missing.

The sun was shining, birds singing, it seemed like an ordinary day. I walked into my class that is usually full of colour but, not today. My class looked like a prison cell.
"What happened!" I gasped.
"Don't worry kids," assured Miss Green, "We have a thief in our class and I am going to get to the bottom of this one by one!"
Miss green started checking our bags. Everyone seemed relaxed except for James. Miss green made her way down the line and James was last to be checked.
"Oh," said Miss Green, looking rather lost.
"What is this?" she asked James, as she pulled out two books, a pencil case, my laptop and two class posters from James's bag.

I was utterly shocked to say the least.
"I am so sorry," cried James. "Its just that everyone has laptops or books and our class is so colourful, that I wanted to take some of it home to make my house look better.
"The truth is that you should be happy with what you have and not want stuff from other people."

Punctuating a story

It was a Monday morning. I just got woken up by my mum to get ready for school. I got out of bed and reached down for my uniform but, it wasn't there. I looked under my bed, under my pillows but I couldn't find my uniform anywhere.
"Kaidin have you gotten in the shower yet?"
"No mum I cant find my uniform."
"Well you better find it quick or, you will be going to school in your onesie!"
"But mum I cant find it anywhere it’s like its just disappeared."
"Oh sure just like all your other stuff huh Kaidin?"
"I got a note to go to school with to say that my uniform is lost and that I have to wear mufti just for today." Which was a pain because every teacher I walked past asked why I'm in mufti and where my uniform is so, I just showed them the note and moved on.

When I got home I went to go grab my iPod from where I always put it but I looked and that wasn't there either! I yelled out to my mum
"Mum have you seen my iPod?"
"No but do you know where did you last put it?"
"Mum if i knew where i last put it do you think id be asking you where it is?"
"Sorry just trying to help." I thought to myself that ill try to find it later, so I run into my room to go on my PS3 but, surprise surprise it’s not there.
"Mum!"
"Oh what now Kaidin?"
"I know you're up to mischief tell me where all my stuff is!"
"Kaidin, do you really think I would hide your uniform away from you, so you would go to school in your onesise? Now what’s gone missing now?"
"My PS3 the whole thing, the controller is here but not my HDMI cable, power cord or my Elgato!"

Ebola KWL chart

My First Picture book

Here is a little picture book that I have made in Term 3.

Read this free book made on StoryJumper

PEEL Paragraphs #2

Task:
Write a PEEL paragraph responding to this statement

Rimu is the best syndicate at TIS.

You must:

Decide on your umbrella Point
Give at least 3 Explain reasons, each with an specific Example
Finish with a Linking sentence back to your P statement.
Use sequencing words for your reasons

Rimu is the best syndicate at TIS because they work as a team. Firstly, they cheer the team on and they celebrate when a teammate does a good job. However when a teammate fails they say "Nice try," and get them back to their feet. Secondly, they shout their chant together to spread their success and to grab students into their house. They do this by, walking into other houses or they stand in assembly and they shout their voices out. Thirdly, they work academically together to reach the success criteria. They do this by, sharing ideas and discussing whether it is right or wrong and going through the instructions so they would understand together. Also when someones lost in their work they work with the student to get them on track. Therefore that is why Rimu is the best syndicate in TIS.

PEEL Paragraphs

Mr Diver is a successful principal because he is confident. Firstly he talks to his students and gets them involved in academic activities. He grabs random groups of students and test them on their general knowledge. Secondly he communicates with parents. He does this by grabbing parents on special events to congratulate of the child's success. Thirdly he makes up speeches on the spot. He does this to inform us on what is going to happen and what is happening. Finally He collaborates with the teachers to see how the students are doing and to test them on their subjects. Therefore Mr Diver is a successful confident principal.

Elections Finnished!

Task:
What percentage of the vote did each party win?
National : 48.06%
Labour   : 24.69%
Green     : 10.02%
NZ First : 8.85 %
Maori     : 1.29 %
ACT       : 0.69%

How will parliament look? (How many seats will each party have?)
You will see a big group of National with another big group of Labour beside them and then green would have some of the seats and then little seats for some parties scattered around the place.

Who is the Tauranga MP and which party is he/she from?
Simon Bridges : National.

Who came 2nd and 3rd for Tauranga?
2nd Clayton Mitchell
3rd Rachel Jones Labour

Who is the BOP MP and which party is he/she from?
Todd Muller (National)

What regional seat does the Prime Minister hold?
Helensville (National)

How many people voted?
Just over 2.4 million people voted.

Election Day Rules

Task:

Election day rules
When is election day?
Saturday 20th September.

What hours can you vote on election day?
Between 9:00am - 7:00pm

What date does this year’s election officially end?
Saturday 4th October (2 weeks)

Why does it there a gap between election day and when the election ends?
Because they have to collect the data and calculate how many seats people get plus the place where you vote needs to travel to parliament.

Summarise each of these rules for election day in your own words.

Hoardings - Not allow to display any Hoardings on election day, should be taken down the day before.

Sign-written vehicles - Not allowed to display election advertising on the day, that cover up vehicles objects etc.

Fixed signage on party headquarters and MP’s electorate offices - You can leave your sign up.

Delivery of election material prohibited - No letters in mailbox on election day.

Websites and social media - You can keep what you have got but it must be published before the election day.

Processions and demonstrations - You are not allowed to change peoples mind by influencing people using a loud hailer.

Streamers, rosettes, ribbons etc - It can be in the party colours but it must not have the party name or a logo.

Clothing promoting the party or candidate - No tshirts that have it but you can have the party colour.

Imitation ballot papers - Can't hand out cards that look like a ballot card.

Assistance to get to a voting place - You can do it but you can't talk about parties or leaders

At the voting place - No MPs in the voting place doing nothing but, they can stay in if they are voting.

Campaigning around advance voting places - You are not allowed to campaign on the day.

BOP electorates and Tauranga electorates

Task:
Find a map which shows the Tauranga electorate and the Bay of Plenty electorate?

Tauranga electorate map:                                      BOP electorate map:

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Which electorate do you live within?
BOP electorate.

List the candidates for the Tauranga electorate and the Bay of Plenty electorate. 

The BOP electorate candidates are Todd Muller (National) and Clare Wilson (Labour).

The Tauranga electorate candidates are Rachel Jones (Labour),Simon Bridges (National) and
Ian McLean (Green).


Which candidate would you vote for and why?
I would vote for Todd Muller because I think I will do well keeping the farms clean and that the cows are healthy plus other animals.

How long has the Tauranga electorate existed?
It has gone for ages! Started in 1881.

Has the Tauranga MP over its history been mainly National or mainly Labour?
The history of the Tauranga MP was mainly National.

When was the last election?
It was in 2011.

When was Winston Peters the MP for Tauranga?
1993

What does an MPs job entail?
To do a job for the government and to look after their region.

MPP System in NZ

The MPP system is fairer than the FPP because each of the parties that have over 5% of votes, get a seat in parliament. You can also get in parliament if you get a MP seat. In the New Zealand MPP system you get 2 votes, one of them you get to choose the party you want and the other vote goes to the MP of the town that you are in. There are 120 seats in the New Zealand Parliament and if a party gets 30% of votes they get 30% of 120 seats in parliament.

The civilian party and making own party.

TASK:
Investigate The Civilian Party. What are some of their policies?
-Establish a space program, and become the first nation in Australasia to send a man to the moon; not to explore it, just someone we don’t like.
-Make Wellington airport safer by moving it to Christchurch.
-Ice cream.
-Bring ultra-fast broadband access to the majority of rural New Zealand by 2016 and dial-up to Invercargill by 2017.

You want to set up a political party in this coming election. How do you do that?
-You need an acceptable party name.
-There needs to be 500 eligible Members.
-A secretary or a sitting MP who is a financial member of the party to make the application.
-An Auditor.
-Party membership rules showing what is required for current financial membership, and candidate selection rules which provide for the involvement of members in the process.
-A party secretary with a postal address and contact details.
- $500 application fee.
-Statutory declarations from its party secretary concerning membership, intention to contest general elections and advising of any component parties.

Name your party.
The Futuristic Academic Living in New Zealand Party.

Create a policy for
HEALTH - All ambulances will be free and will make sure that kids have a monthly check up.
EDUCATION - Reward the students at the end of a semester or term.
DEFENCE - Build high-tech (Force fields) walls around our country and make mechanical doors to let ships and planes in (eg. like the hunger games)
BUSINESS - Will give 5% more money to workers so they can buy a house.
ELDERLY - Will make all the rest homes 50% cheaper and if they don't want to be in a resthome houses will be 80% off.
ENVIRONMENT - Make a machine that is environment friendly with a click of a button turns the whole Nation into a future istic look and will fix all the rivers and beautiful landscapes so everything is perfect and lots of land for animals and bring animals back to life like a mammoth .

3 OTHER POLICIES OF YOUR CHOICE
Free internet (Fast) No cost.
Make the Nation made of technological glass.
Shops will be 50% cheaper.

Comparing Electoral Systems

Task:
Create a Venn diagram comparing the NZ electoral system of government with the electoral system of government of another country.

Task:
For each of the following political parties
National
Labour
Your own choice of party

Find:

1 policy you think is a good policy. Copy and paste the policy. Say why you think it is a good policy.
Deliver future-focused learning by connecting all schools to the managed network of New Zealand schools by the end of 2016. This is a good policy because we would have fast internet with no slowdowns we have Internet that sleeps and wakes again.

1 policy you think is a bad policy. Copy and paste the policy. Say why you think it is a bad policy.
Invest in the future of Christchurch education with the $1.137 billion education renewal open a new Year 1-13 school in Christchurch East by 2017. This is a bad policy for Christchurch because it would be hard for the little kids to survive there plus it would effect the children going through puberty.

1 policy which will affect YOU directly. Copy and paste the policy. Say how this policy will affect you.
Put in place a programme that provides an affordable option, available to all schools, for Year 5-13 students to have access to a portable digital device, in the classroom and at home. This will affect me because if they get elected, each one of us will get a digital device and they might use it to track us maybe.

Find 3 political words or phrases which you don’t know the meaning of. Copy down the sentence and underline the word.
e.g. Review the implementation of the operations grant with a view to increasing it to address equity challenges and outside of school factors that impact on student achievement.



Use any further fiscal headroom to get debt to 20 per cent of GDP debt earlier than 2020.
Clarify the meaning of the word or phrase in this sentence and the meaning of the whole sentence.

Time zones

Task:
Answer these questions.

What is a time zone? 
A time zone is when you have different times in different places.
Why do we have time zones?
 We have time zones because we need to know what time it is in our place.
How are the time zones set? 
The time zones are set 15º from the meridian of the country.
Which direction does the Earth rotate? (clockwise or anticlockwise)
The earth turns anticlockwise.
How many time zones are there altogether? 
There are 24 time zones
What are the time zones named? 
Pacific standard time, East Timor Timor, West Greenland Time.
Which time zone is New Zealand part of?
New Zealand Standard time / New Zealand Daylight time UTC +12 / GMT +12
Name 2 other countries which are also in our time zone.
Kermadec Island, Fiji.
What is the international date line and why do we have it?
We have an international date line to seperate days because one side is facing the sun and the other side is not.

Embed a helpful Youtube video you have found

Dialouge

Task:

Create dialogue for this image. Include taglines. 

"Can you check my tongue again doctor," I crowed.

"Uh why do I have to do it?" he complained.

"Because you are the doctor!" he explained, "You are supposed to fix things and check if everything's alright!"

"Uh fine open wide," he dribbled.

The patient chameleon spat his long tongue out and it was almost touching the ground.

"Well there is definitely something wrong with that," the doctor said.

"What's wrong doctor?" the patient said.

"Well there seems to be some bumps on your tongue." the doctor informed.

"Oh dear!" The patient shouted as he slowly rolled his tongue back in.

"There is a way to fix it though!" he shouted.

"What do I have to do doctor?" he questioned.

"Well you would have to lick a mouldy branch like this for an hour," he answered.

"Ok I'll do that," he said, "Actually I have a branch like this at my house."

"That's good, so you go home and heal your tongue and call me if anything goes wrong."

"Ok doctor see you soon!" he shouted as he left the branch.

Then the doctor said to himself,"Lol, I am actually not a doctor, but I wonder if it actually gets better?"

The next week I see my patent with a mouldy tongue.

Losing my passport (fun story)

I have been in New Zealand for nearly a day now. I came here because it was much quieter and they had good schools here. I came here with my dad and mum and we live in a flash shack by the beach. When we got to our new house my passport got missing within my luggage and I still can't find it this very day. If I lost my passport that means I can't visit my family in England at the end of this year so it means so much to me that I find my passport! I know that it isn't at the airport because I was carrying my passport in my hand, so the only place it would be in is in the house. I looked in my room, my mom's room, the closet, the lounge but I still could not find it! I thought that maybe it was at the airport so I took a walk to the airport because it was only a 30 min walk and plus I didn't want to tell my parents, so I walked down and once I reached the airport and I could hear footsteps behind me. I keep walking and walking for a few mins and someone is still following me but, I quickly turn just looking at the corner of my eye and I saw a man in a business suit hiding a meter away behind me. So I quickly ran for my life and I could hear them running too I was running hard out it felt like I was going to get a stitch so I start to slow down but he started to catch up but... I stopped and turned around (which I shouldn't of done) and the business man came up to me and then said "excuse me lady why were you running away from me seriously well any way heres your passport, your name is Jane right." I nodded. "Good ok hopefully I will see you next time," he screamed with a skip in his step and there it is in my hand my passport.

Dangerous Decibels

Task:
Bullet Point as many of the important ideas and facts we learned at Dangerous Decibels as you possibly can.

1. You Measure sound by decibels
2. Hearing goes up to the brain
3. Past your ear drum are some hairs that make you hear.
4. Safe is 85 decibels
5. try move from earphones to headphones.
6. Hearing is vibrations
7. If it gets too loud ,the hairs inside your ears will go flat.
8. don't poke anything into your ear
9. your eardrum is like a tissue
10. If you go to a firework show or a heavy metal concert, hearing problems will occur in 1 sec unless if you have protection.
11. If you are doing a piano practise it is around 85 decibels.
12. Anything over 120 decibels can lead to instant hearing loss.
13. If there is buzzing or weird voices you can hear, it can probably lead to hearing loss.
14. The ear wax inside your ear is a natural cleaner.
15. If you block your ears and talk to someone and they talk back and you hear funny noises you can feel how it's like to have hearing loss.
16. Try to wear ear plugs in the water because your eardrum is a tissue and some peoples ears the water won't come out so try wear protection.
17. If you want your ears cleaned you can ask an ear doctor.
18. If you have to shout to someone close to you the environment is too loud.
19. Piano practise will never lead to hearing loss.
20. Listening to music at full volume can lead to hearing loss.

5 original similies

TASK:
Create 5 original similes
NO CLICHES!
As tired as a vehicle running with no gas.

As quick witted as a businessman understanding his boss.

As frightened as a child who is lost in a crowd.

Gently like a mother holding her child.

Grey like aluminium on our laptops.

Maths Week - Knowledge Last day

The 20 Dollar Question. 
One of these knots is not a knot.
Which knot is it ?
(a) Red
(b) Blue√
(c) Green

The 20 Dollar Question.
Two of these knots are not knots.
Which two are they?
(a) Red and blue.
(b) Blue and green.
(c) Red and green.

The 40 Dollar Question. 
This very famous clock is in
the St Pancras Railway
Station in London.
Lots of movies have this
clock in them.
What time is it ?
(a) 11 - 20
(b) 11 - 40 √
(c) 7 - 58

The 60 Dollar Question. 
The start of this century was a day
celebrated through-out the world.
Your parents will remember it !!
What day of the week was
January 1st, 2000 ?

Saturday.√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

What is this? It looks quite old

and is in the British Science

Museum.

Is it

(a) A toy.

(b) A money box.

(c) The first calculator.√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

At low tide the water comes

up as far as the fourth rung

on the ladder of the ship.

What happens at full tide?

The water 

(a) comes up to the top 

of the ladder.

(b) comes up to the

bottom of the ladder.

(c) stays on the fourth

rung of the ladder. √

Maths Week - Famous math people

The 20 Dollar Question.
This man was one of the
greatest mathematicians.
Calculate the age
Leonhard Euler was when
he died.
76 years old.

The 30 Dollar Question.
Pierre de Fermat was a very
gifted French mathematician.
How old was he when he died?

64 years old.

The 30 Dollar Question.

Sofia Kovalevskaya was an

outstanding mathematician who was a 

Russian and very popular.

She was born in Moscow in 1850 and

died in Stockholm in 1891.

How long did she live for?

41 years.

The 40 Dollar Question.

Sir Isaac Newton was

one of the greatest

mathematicians of

all time.

He was born in England

on Christmas day.

How long did he live

for? 

80 years

The 40 Dollar Question.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

was a German maths

person who became

famous for his work

in inventing calculus.

How old was he when he

died? 70 years old.

The 40 Dollar Question.

Sophie Germain lived all her life in

Paris. She was a brilliant

mathematician. A street in Paris is

named after her – and perhaps also

a football club!

Sophie lived from 1776 to 1831.

How long did she live for? 55 years.

The 50 Dollar Question.

Maria Agnesi was born in Italy in

1718. She was eldest in a family of

21 children! 

Maria was a very bright and

intelligent student. She could speak

5 different languages before she

was 9 years old !

She became an outstanding maths

person and was the first professor

of mathematics at a University.

Maria died in 1799.

How old was she? 81 years old.

The 50 Dollar Question.

Ernest Rutherford is New

Zealand’s greatest

scientist. He was awarded

the Noble Prize in

Chemistry in 1908. 

Lord Rutherford was also

a mathematician. While at

University in 1892 he

taught mathematics at

Christchurch Boys’ High School.

How many years did Ernest Rutherford live for ?

66 years.

Maths Week - Bathtub Maths

The 20 Dollar Question. 
The hot water tap when it is full-on can fill a bath in 7 minutes.
What fraction of the bath can it fill in 1 minute?
4 1/2

The 40 Dollar Question.
When the cold water tap is full-on it can the
fill the bath completely in 5 minutes.
Colin has just had a long hard run and
wants to have a cold-water bath.
How long will the cold water tap take to fill
3/5 of the bath for Colin? 3.15 mins

The 60 Dollar Question.
The cold water tap when it
is full-on can fill a bath in 5
minutes.
The hot water tap when it is
full-on can fill a bath in 7
minutes.
How long will it take both taps
to fill the bath when they are
both set to full-on.
Give you answer in minutes
and seconds.
3mins 15secs

The 80 Dollar Question.
When the bath is full its volume is 1 cubic
metres. Archi is a person with a volume of
0.08 cubic metres.
He carefully jumps into the bath.
How much water will spill over the side of
the bath!
Give your answer in cubic metres.

1.16 cubic metres

The 100 Dollar Question.
When the plug is open the bath will empty
completely in 4 minutes.
Now when Toni comes to have a bath the
cold water tap and the hot water tap are both
set to run full-on but unfortunately someone
has left the plug open and the water flows out
at the same time.
How long will it take to fill the bath now?
Give you answer in minutes and seconds.

16mins 35secs

Maths Week - The 300 Dollar Question

This week is maths week and we have to solve an equation every day. Today is 2 10s for a five. Here is the skit that we have to solve out.

Skit:
Abbott: Have you got two tens for a five?
Costello: Just so happen to have it.
Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five
dollars.
Costello: Just a minute, just one minute!
Abbott: Something wrong?
Costello: Fifteen dollars just went south!
Abbott: What do you mean?
Costello: You gave me a lot of your fast talk, you said 'do you have
two tens for a five' and I gave you two tens for a five.
Abbott: Just a minute, are you accusing me of cheating?
Costello: No, but you got two tens for a five.
Abbott: Alright here's your five now gimme back my two tens.
Costello: Okay, that's better.
Bud gives Lou five dollars and Lou gives Bud ten dollars.
After a slight pause Lou realises he has been conned again.
Costello: What are you doing?
Abbott: What’s wrong now?Costello: Look Abbott, here's two tens gimme a five!
Abbott: Certainly.
Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five dollars.
Costello: HA HA HA HAAA!
You did it to me...
You did it to me again.
Abbott: Oh come on.

The 300 Dollar Question.
How much did Lou lose ? $20 x A=$45
Try to act it out with you friend. Use paper as money!
Maybe you can act it out as the famous Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
did!

Improving Bikes

Task:
List 10 ways you would like to improve bikes (bicycles) (These should be realistic improved features)

1. The seat is more comfortable when you sit on the seat for a long time.
2. Bag compartment.
3. GPS.
4. Rear view mirror.
5. Actual lights that turn on and off.
6. The bike has led lights so that at night you can see the bike.
7. Tyres that don't flatten or brake.
8. Automatic gears.
9. Brakes that always work.
10. Water bottle socket.

New Coke lids

Coke has designed 16 new bottle caps which mean that people can reuse coke bottles for lots of different purposes.

Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform the otherwise-useless left-over plastic bottle into something creative, fun and usable. This environmentally friendly campaign launched in Vietnam, where 40,000 free caps will be given away when purchasing the iconic soda drink.

DO NOT CHEAT BY LOOKING AT THE INTERNET!

Try to guess what the 16 changed bottle caps are: 

Clue for 1 bottle cap to get you on the road: it’s round, translucent and pops.

My guess:

1. Spray pump √
2. Dummy√
3. Water gun√
4. Weights√
5. bubble blower√
6. Water bottle lids x
7. Coffee plunger x
8. Balloon blower x
9. Bath plug x

Actual 16:

1. Water gun
2. Pen
3. Pencil sharpener
4. Baby shaker
5. Pump spray
6. Soap cap
7. Weights
8. Light
9. Saucer
10. Salt and pepper cap
11. Bubble blower
12. Drip sauce bottle
13. Soy bottle cap 

Child Safety Handbook Questions

1. What edition of the Child Safety Handbook is this?
40

2. Where does the information in the CSH come from? 
900º NZ

3. What is a disclaimer and why is there a disclaimer in the CSH? 
A disclaimer is information saying that if they do something wrong to not blame it on them and they put it in this book because the book tells you important information.

4. What are 3 medical conditions which can develop as a result of being overweight in childhood?
- Diabetes
- High Blood pressure
- Cholesterol

5. What is the recommendation for 
- television? Limit TV watching no more than 2 hours a day
- rewards for good behaviour? You can have healthy treats, than sweets.
- number of meals and snacks per day?
- exercise?
- salt?
- milk? Have milk and water not soft drinks
- soft drinks? Try avoid soft drinks try have milk and water.

Picture book and movie facts.

1. Where do Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and Kanga live?
He lived in 100 acre wood. √
2. What country is Dracula’s castle found?
It can be found in Romania and it is called the Bran Castle. √
3. Tin Tin’s friend Captain Haddock lived in what house?
He lived in Marlinspike Hall. √
4. Huckleberry Finn travelled down what river?
Mississippi River √
5. Where did Paddington Bear come from?
The Paddington Bear came from England, London. X
6. The Scarlett Pimpernell was set where and when?
It was set in the UK year 1905. √
7. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson was set where?
It was set in Scotland in 1751.√
8. In The Cay, 11 year old Phillip Enright’s boat leaves from where before it is torpedoed?
Curacao.√
9. In what city does Black Beauty pull a taxicab?
It happened in Victorian London.√
10. Where was Tarzan raised?
He was raised in the African Jungles.√
11. Where was James Biggleworth otherwise known as Biggles born?
In India May 1899√
12. Where does 7 year old Sara Crewe from the Little Princess story go to school?
Minchins Seminary for Girls in New York.√
13. Which country does Lemuel Gulliver wash ashore on his first voyage after being 
shipwrecked? Lillipot.√

14. What country does a family who were shipwrecked come from? Switzerland √
Their names were father: Willian, mother: Elizabeth, and children Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz

15. In Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” where was the emporer when a child said “but he isn’t wearing anything at all!”

16. In Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist where does Oliver spend his early years picking and weaving oakum? 

17. In the “Little House in the Big Woods” the first of the Little House on the Prairie series, where is the Ingall’s family home? 

18. What city is Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain set?

19. What is the title of Lynley Dodd’s book about a bossy warthog?

20. In what countries did the group in Journey to the Centre of hte Earth go underground and then emerge?

Weird popular foods around the world

Here are some weird foods I found around the internet.


Urine-soaked eggs:

They use the urine from virgin boys in hospitals and leave it overnight before it is soaked with the eggs. Apparently it is really good for you because it defends radiant energy and fend of illness. This piece of food comes from China.







Penis Fish:

These are actually spoon worms and they are actually famous in Korea. They call it penis fish because it is served raw and has salt in it.

Short Story

Today I have to right a story about a taxi an old enemy and Valentines Day.

One happy day I was walking across the street to get to the other side to get to the cinema. Then suddenly out from the open a taxi came speeding out and knocked me over! Once I got up I was trying to see who was in the car but I couldn't see. Then out came a Person that I thought I used to know and then I knew... It was my old enemy! We argued and screamed while standing on the road. Lots of honking lots of yelling and now everyone was angry because they couldn't go across the road. About now people were standing on their cars yelling and screaming at us even though, we were angrily fighting so we didn't notice. But suddenly out of the sky Valentine gifts came falling from the sky since it was Valentines day. The gifts were balloons, flowers, chocolate, cards and lots more. But apparently a card came flying down and gave my old enemy a paper cut! I was laughing and laughing and my enemy got scared and ran away. All the gifts falling from the sky made everyone smile and happy. Then people got in their cars fixed up with their mistakes and then it went back to a normal day. But incase you didn't notice I am a chicken so tell your children what actually happened when the chicken crossed the road.

Maori word Quiz

Here is my Maori word quiz! Lets see how much you know about Maori words!

Maori Language Week - Ranginui and Papatuanuku

Today for our blog post we are doing a blog for Maori language week and today we are doing the story of  Ranginui (the top God of the picture) and Papatuanuku (The bottom God of the picture).

1. Who is Ranginui? 

Ranginui is the Maori God of the sky.

2. Who is Papatuanuku?

Papatuanuku is the Maori God of the land.

3. Who is the Maori god of the forests?

The Maori God of the forest is Tāne-mahuta

4. Who is the Maori god of the winds?

The Maori God of the wind is Tāwhirimātea

5. Who is the Maori god of war?

The Maori God of war is Tūmatauenga

6. Who is the Maori god of the sea? 

The Maori God of the sea Tangaroa

7. Find a link on YouTube to the Maori story of creation about Ranginui and Papatuanuku. Embed the video. 

8. Summarise the story of creation in 10 words.

Tauranga Moana Islands - Maori Language week!

This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. Our daily blog posts will all be related to this, this week.

Islands in Tauranga Moana

Task:
These islands are well known to 
locals but to Maori of Tauranga 
these island have their own 
respective Maori names. Find out 
these names.

Leisure Island
Moturiki Island

Peach Island
Motuopae Island

Rat Island
Motuopuhi Island

Mayor Island
Tohua Island

End of term 2 review!

Start of term 2:
At the start of term two I had to get used to things since I was back at school although, I was really happy that I could see my friends again. I was abit happy because it was a nine week term but, we still had lots of things ahead of us. But one thing I didn't want to come up was Science Fair!

Science Fair:
Sooner or later my teacher says 11 days left! I haven't even done my experiments I was doing my experiments when I went home trying to finish very quickly. While that was happening the worse thing came to me I was sick! When I finished all of my experiments I had to print it all out. So I went to school the next day. Some of them thought I haven't done it because I was so ill too long. On the day Mrs C checks my science fair and she says "you're good to go!" It was 2 days left it was the weekends I glue everything on make sure it is all correct and handed it in on Monday.

Cross Country:
We all got to the the start then 3 2 1 GO! I was rushing through trying to catch up to my friend Josh but he was too far ahead. I ran the whole course and when I got to the end the teacher said good job Jeremy. But there was something wrong! I was gonna vomit! I quickly handed my card in having that thought in my head that Mrs Mills said to us, (if you are going to vomit on my shoes, you will have to lick them off!) Sian gave me water I gobbled it up I didn't care it felt like I splashed the whole thing on my face I didn't know. I quickly collapsed on the ground while Sian was saying "inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth." That really helped me and I felt alot better so SIAN SAVED THE DAY!

Maths:
I was really excited about math and it was my favourite subject. We were learning about graphs and data. I'm not really interested in it but I don't care it was still math. We learnt lots throughout the term like Box and whisker plots and Scatter plots and much more. Hopefully we are doing Geometry next term because thats my favourite maths subject because I want to become an architect.

Technology:
This term for technology I did music and science. I really liked music because we got to make ads and play musical instruments and lots more. It was really cool we got to do concerts and the people who played piano got to play on the modern piano. When it came to science I wasn't really excited but the one thing I was excited about we got a reliever plus the experiments are awesome! Our focus this week was energy.

Students in high school with long hair

Most students around New Zealand have mufti as their school uniform. Well some kids that have mufti as their uniform but students made their hair long and don't tie them up. A year 12 student Lucan Battison was suspended from the St Johns College's principal around last month for having long hair. The rule at that state was that the students hair must be out of their eyes and should be off their collar. So he tried different ways to not make his hair long like tying it into the bun but the school did not allow it but, what the school wanted him to do was to cut his hair. Around that week Lucan and his school got sent to court about this problem. After the court room was finished the St Johns College's principal was not happy about the decision the court made but what is going to happen now?

Climate of New Zealand

Today we looked at a chart on wikipedia of the climate of New Zealand.

 Here is the chart:

Today I am going to use subordinating conjunctions below to make 10 statements related to the chart.

because:
Alexandra has the coldest temperature because, the chart dips down in June and July.

although:
Hamilton has the highest temperature in January, although Napier and Alexandra have the highest temperature in January too.

even if
Even if Hokitika was hot, it will still be raining.

Girl or boy and right or left?

Today our class wanted to find out who in our class is a boy that is right handed, a boy thats left handed, a girl thats right handed and a girl thats left handed. Here is our results.

Class interuptions

We are constantly being interrupted during class times. This is a problem.
Today I am going to come up with several possible solutions for this problem.

What kind of interruptions occur?
1. Intercom
2. Messenger
3. Phone
4. Internet

How does this affect us?
We are doing our work at our desk and when an interruption goes up we all

Intercom:
When the Intercom goes on you sit quietly and continue with the job that you're working on while you are listening to the intercom and taking notes in your head if it applies to you.

Messenger:

To be continued

Social Experiment

What I think this video is going to be about:
Well the word in the title has the word social and what I know about the word social it means like you meet a group of people and you talk to each other and get to know each other and stuff like that. So I think part of this experiment has got to do with people around us.
Also it has the word experiment so what I know about this word is that maybe in this video they will try out to do something with the people in the environment.

Aim: √
The aim of this experiment is to find out what people feel when an anonymous person gives you a compliment.

Hypothesis:√
I think most people will feel shocked on what good thing that comes out of the speaker and most people would feel ashamed or angry when a insult comes out of the speakers.

Equipment: √
You will need:
- Speaker
- Wireless microphone
- Camera
- An anonymous voice.
- A Laptop

Method: √
Step 1: Connect the camera to your laptop and make sure it's turned on looking out to the place you are going to put the speakers.
Step 2: Set up your microphone to the speakers and make sure it works and that the speakers are turned on.
Step 3: Place your speakers the public area where the camera is.
Step 4: Once everything is in place it is time to start the experiment.
Step 5: Once someone comes right pass the speaker use your anonymous voice and give them a good compliment or a bad compliment.

Results: √
Most of the people which got a good compliment were shock and were feeling quite good about themselves. When it got to the insults the people felt furious and some of them swore or were looking at someone else and blame them on what the speaker said.

Conclusion: √
My hypothesis was correct because I said that the people that got an insult did look around and were furious. This experiment shows how people react to an anonymous comment.

Scam letter

On Thursday my teacher got a scam letter from Emily Park. Here is the link to the letter.
Link: Scam letter

What this letter is about:
So this letter is from Emily Park and it is to an Anonymous person and it is about someone who had lost US$75,00+ from scammers in Africa who talks to the FBI and meets a woman called Mrs. Maria Fernandez who gives back US$1,300,000.00 to Emily park. Then it says to participate to get the money you have lost or to give your money to be safe.

I've got 2 reasons this is a scam:

Reason 1: Emily Park's email changes throughout the letter.
Reason 2: I says she actually talked to the FBI about this but it is very unusual to talk to them unless someones murdered someone other you would go to court about this.

I have got 2 pieces of evidence that this is a scam:

First Emily Parks email changes,
so here is the first one,



Here is the second one.



Second it says

15 Things I do when I am bored.

Today I got to do a blog of my choice so these are the 15 things I do when I am bored. Hope you like them!

1. Play on my laptop.
2. Watch videos on youtube.
3. Watch a movie.
4. Go for a walk.
5. Shoot some hoops.
6. Search for my cat.
7. Jump on the trampoline.
8. Play piano.
9. Play guitar.
10. Play ukulele.
11.Play on the wii.
12.Write a story.
13.Play a board game.
14.Write a blog.
15.Go shopping.

Subordinating conjunctions

Blog:
Make a sentence for 10  of these subordinating conjunctions.
Highlight or underline the subordinating conjunction in your sentence.
5 of your sentences the subordinating conjunction should be at the start and in the other 5 it should be in the middle. Remember your comma between clauses.

Subordinating conjunctions at the start: 

Now that

Now that the rain is gone, we can all play outside.

As

As the sun goes down, we start to drift asleep.

Only if

Only if there was a way, to get across this highway.

When

When I had my 10th birthday, I got a guinea pig.

Even if

Even if even if I get 4A in a test this time, I won't meet the National Standard because of my last results.

Subordinating conjunctions in the middle:

Because

I like maths because, I am so good at it.

As soon as

We will go to the library as soon as, I finish eating.

Since

We will now play a game since, there is lots of people sick.

While

We will wait here while, you go in the shop.

After

We will go to get sushi after, we go to the bank.

Mean median mode and range song

Mode, Median, Mean and Range
Mode, Median, Mean and Range

Don't you think these words sound strange?
Don't you think these words sound strange?

I will get your mind to change


Mode, Mode, Mu, Mu, Mu, Mode, Mode
Is the number that occurs occurs the most most
Singing Mode, Mode, Mu, Mu, Mu, Mode, Mode
Is the number that occurs occurs the most most
You got 1,2,2,3,3,3,4
1,2,2,3,3,3,4, which of those numbers did I say more?
which of those numbers did I say more? 3 is the mode cause it occurs the most
Mode, Mode, Mu, Mu, Mu, Mode, Mode
Is the number that occurs occurs the most most
Singing Mode, Mode, Mu, Mu, Mu, Mode, Mode
Is the number that occurs occurs the most most
You got 1,2,2,3,3,3,4
1,2,2,3,3,3,4, which of those numbers did I say more?
which of those numbers did I say more? 3 is the mode cause it occurs the most

Now stop, lets take it to the middle. Got to find the median no time to daddle diddle
Line up all the numbers from the smallest to the big and the ones thats in the middle does a media jig
Go median, middle number, go median, middle number

Now the third ones mean, not nice but mean
Its the average number if you know what I mean
Just add up all the numbers and divide them by the number of added
Whats that, whats mean?
You add up all the numbers and divide them by the number of added
Yeah you know what I mean
You add up all the numbers and divide them by the number of added

It's the average number, mean, its the average number
1 more round and the song is done
Lets talk about range and have some fun
It's the biggest number minus the smallest number, in the group, in the group
It's the biggest number minus the smallest number , in the group, in the group

You got Mode, Median, Mean and Range
Mode, Median, Mean and Range

Don't you think these words sound strange?
Don't you think these words sound strange?

I just got your mind to change


Here is the video I used:

Science behind a glow stick

What I think now: I predict that when you snap the glow stick the plastic makes a small explosion of bubbles and the chemical inside get attracted and then it starts to glow.

What I think now after hearing other ideas: Inside the glow stick I think there is something solid like glass with a chemical inside and when the glass snaps the chemical attracts and mixes so it will make it glow.

What I think now after seeing what happens: After I saw what happens behind the scenes of a glow stick, I found out there really is a glass tube behind it with chemicals and when you break the glass you mix it round thats why you have to shake the tube and then it starts to glow up.

What I think now after researching: So inside the plastic tube (not the inside tube)  is Phenyl Oxalate Ester and also Fluorescent Dye Solution outside the glass vein (which is the small glass tube inside the plastic tube) And inside the glass vein...

Synthesis is when you find something new and you experiment and research to improve your knowledge.

Math (Sampling)

Yesterday for maths we learnt all about sampling. We learnt why we do it and how to do it and we learnt lots more. So today I am going to talk to you about samples.

There are three types of samples Random Sampling, Systematic Sampling and Striated Sampling.
There are also two types of Random Sampling, there is Drawing out of a hat and using a Ran on a calculator.

- what is a sample? A sample is to take a bit from the population.

- why take a sample? A sample is safer quicker and easier.

- what are some examples of sampling done in real life? There is lots of sampling done in real life they use it in Hospitals, Science labs, Restaurants and many more places.

- what does the word ‘population’ mean? A population means taking the whole group from the topic.

- how can you tell if are you sampling the right population? You can tell by looking at the statement and you take the whole group that you can see in the statement and then you should be sure that you are taking the right population.

TIS Times with Bailey Dobier

Reporter: So, when did you start going to THINK Global School (TGS)?

Bailey: Around 2010.

Reporter: What do you do at TGS?

Bailey: Its like a normal school but you travel around the world and you learn things from that country.

Reporter: What was your favourite event in what country?

Bailey: The most amazing event that I have ever done is snorkeling because I've never done it before but it was amazing and plus it was in the Galapagos Islands and the waters are amazing and clear and you could see all the fish around you.

Reporter: Do you get sea sick?

Bailey: I used to when I started TGS but I've recovered from it.

Reporter: What country are you from?

Bailey: I am from Christchurch, New Zealand.

Reporter: In this picture, what were you doing and where was this taken?

Bailey: In this picture I was trekking across Himalayan the Kingdom of Bhutan and I was looking at the scenery across the mountain. Isn't it beautiful.

Reporter: Yes it is beautiful I wish I could have been there.


Here is the link for the actual articlehttp://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/10109409/Life-changing-journey-for-student: