Technology Blog post

This week I have been doing hard materials. I like working with the saws but it was really hard at the start. The saws are a bit like a sewing machine. In hard tech we were making shields but first of we had to start with the base.

Design your own challenge

Lately I have been doing the Otago Problem Solving. I find it pretty fun and exciting. I can't wait to the next test. When I first did the test I only got 1 right that's how hard it is. So stay here for more info.

Rimu Definition Homework Task

Rimu Definition

Where it lives: Rimu is a tree that grow through out New Zealand including Stuart Island.

Name: It's Binomial name is Dacrydium cupressinum.

Uses: A long time time ago, rimu was a main source of wood for New Zealand, including furniture and building houses. However, many of New Zealand's original stands of rimu have been teared down, and recent government policies band to chop down of rimu in public forests, though allowing limited cutting down trees on private land.

Protection (Conservation): It is a lc that means least concerned that means our tree is protected.

Traditional uses: The perfume leaves of this wood were used in vapour baths.

Maori important uses: MEDICINAL: 
Gum used to stop bleeding from wounds
Leaves. A lotion for wounds made with rimu and tawa bark and tutu leaves, boiled together.
Spruce beer made with rimu and mānuka used by Captain Cook.

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FOOD: This fruit is much prized by the natives, and the smallness of the size is made up by its abundance; this tree produces a resin very bitter, but eatable. The wood also has the same qualities, an infusion might be used for beer.

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DOMESTIC:
 20 combs made of rimu among museum artefacts he tested.

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CONSTRUCTION: Timber tree. Housing, cabinetmaking.

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FISHING AND HUNTING: Long war spears made from rimu. Manufacturing process described in.
Heartwood used for making hunting spears.
Among Ngapuhi, soot from burning heartwood of rimu or kauri used mixed with shark-oil to make black paint for canoes. Timber used in canoe making.

Homework task

Last term and this term I have joined boys choir.
This choir is a bit like a acapella group.
To join you had to sing in front of everybody there.
I got in fairly I think.
On the last day of school the teacher of boys choir chose me to be in the performing group.
I was pretty excited.

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Book Review Narnia the Silver Chair

Book Review

Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair.

Rating:

Comments: The Silver Chair is made by C.S.Luwis. It's about two people called Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole. They started the story with them at school. And then they enter through a door and now they were in Narnia. Jill is to remember 4 things that Aslan tolled her. Jill was on a quest to find the lost king.

I won't tell you too much of the book so if you like it get the book and start reading.

Piano Lessons

Term 1 and Term 2 I have been learning piano.

My piano teacher is Anne Crodd.

She is really nice and friendly.

I had her as a piano teacher when I was 6 and stopped when I was 9. Then played with another teacher.

With Anne Crodd I have a book to play from. I am level 2 thats pretty good if you played before.

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Homework Physical and Outdoors

In the holidays I took 3 long walks that was around 10 km.

Here's the map      
  Red is what I walked.    
   Blue is the river.

I walked with my family down from my house, then walking down to Gideons field, then walking down the river, then up the hill to my house.

In the end we found it really tiering and we all got some water and ice blocks.

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