Wacky washing powder

W.A.L.T  create our own fair test that we have been learning throughout the term and during my fair test we had to discover which washing powder was the best on tea stains on white material, what I enjoyed was setting up the board and doing the experiment, and what I think we could improve on next time is maybe improving on our information.

Here are some images:

Infographic

Here are 5 facts about volcanoes:

1. The largest known volcano

currently is Tamu massif.

2.Volcanoes grow the more they spew lava.

3.The word volcano originally came from the Roman God of fire Vulcan.

4.The first volcano (Etna) is 350,000 years old.

5. There are three types of volcanoes the shield volcano, the cinder cone volcano and the composite volcano.

Link to video about volcanoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3IyeYRzmA

Persuasive writing

W.A.L.T create a persuasive piece of writing using our language skill to persuade someone of our point of view.

Dear reader,

I am writing to inform you on why I think we should have a summer sports
tournament for schools around Christchurch.

Firstly, I think most children throughout schools would enjoy it, getting to
go outside, make new friends and meet new people would keep children
fit and entertained for the summer and even bring a little competition
throughout schools. There would be a variety of options for students to
choose from such as Tennis, Field hockey, baseball, basketball, and soccer.
And in my opinion, having these options through summer sound cool.

Secondly, people need exercise. Obesity in New Zealand can be a problem
and it can be caused by technology, lack of exercise, or complete laziness.
Being outside and getting to play games can result in huge health benefits,
did you know it can improve your health mentally and physically and bring
the best out of kids years 6 - 8.

Thirdly, being outside and playing a summer sports game can help develop
leadership and communication skills and learn how to play as a team and not
hog the top position when it comes to playing fair. It will also help kids learn
about responsibility and maybe kids who enjoy the sport might continue it and
make it a career.

In my opinion with provided facts about how beneficial having a summer,
sports tournament is, this is why I think it would be a great idea to have a
sports tournament provided for year 5 - 8 students in the summer.

Sincerely

Jaimie

year 8

St Bernadette's school

My Mihi

This is my Mihi we are learning to create our own mihis for Maori language week. more information will be added to my mihi in the future, Enjoy :D

Mission to mars!

W.A.L.T, In science we have been studying Newtons law of motion and have been doing some experiments based on the law of motion and making changes to compare our results, one of them was a rocket ship that me and my group created, here are some photos.

What me and my friends did was held the rocket between two fingers and blew it up using a pump, that rocket was filled with water so the air pressure would make it go up.

What I enjoyed about this experiment was creating the rocket, we drew diagrams and planned out what it was going to look like ( it looked a lot better in my head :D ) but i also enjoyed watching my friends get soaked when the rocket exploded in their face :D. ( i'm not a bad person :( ).

What I think we could improve on next time is one instead of photos we could make a video and two
we should try a different sized bottle.

Paragraph writing

W.A.L.T
- Use paragraphs to link similar ideas together
- write in structured, well developed paragraphs that flow well from and the next within the text
-  use linking words or phrases to link paragraphs for effect
What I learn't,
What I learn't from this exercise was to use more descriptive language and be able to hook the reader in to make my text more interesting. I really enjoyed being able to hook the reader in and enjoyed the process of linking ideas to complete the story
What I found difficult,
What I found difficult about this activity was trying to link the ideas from the paragraphs. I also think that next time I could improve on my ideas and try some different types of grammar e.g semicolons

Writing:

As he collapses onto the damp cold floor he stares speechlessly at his hands. he begins to quiver as he tries to hide the fear and guilt of what's happening tomorrow they are coming and he can’t fix it. He pulls his hands back and tries to rest as the voice inside him constantly whispers to him “It's all your fault. They don't want you there, Don’t go back, it’s over...” his stomach churns as he closes his eyes then drifts off into an ocean of shame.

The next mourning he heard footsteps at the door, he had to flee but he felt like he deserved whatever fate lay behind the door. He couldn’t do it, he couldn’t run now, not after what had been chewing inside him all these years, he had to face the truth. He slowly turned the handle and flung open the door “it was me!” he screamed, his hands raised in the air, “what are you talking about” mumbled  a soft bitter voice, it was his wife Annie he went to grab her in a hug but she disappeared, was it a hallucination? A chill went up to his back as he sat there torn at what happened. That was the last straw he had to see her again.

He grabbed his belongings and the broken teddy bear stuffed away in a drawer, tears filled his eyes as he stared at it but he didn’t care he needed this, he set out into the woods taking one last glance back into his childhood home then fled, hours went by it seemed like an eternity but he somehow made it through. He decided to sit down before his legs broke in two, he tried to remember Annie and his daughter as well, last time he saw his daughter she was only 1 year old, she would be 12 this year, he flicked through his memories and there was Annie ,she was dancing and took flight on the ballroom floor this memory nurtured him to sleep like a lullaby sung to a baby.

The next mourning he awoke surrounded by Russians, A tall man wearing army badges spoke up “what brings you to Russia my friend” a ghastly grin broke out among the soldiers laughing as the man stood his ground and said “I am here to see my wife and daughter”, the laughter broke and whispers went across the soldiers “sir the closest town is 10 miles that way, the soldier pointed back the way the man had come “But that’s impossible” the man blurted out “ my wife and daughter live over….” he looked behind the soldier there was nothing there but ruin, they had been bombed, he couldn’t believe it!

Panic rose as his face turned red, he sprinted past the soldier's tears streaming down his face “wait” wailed the soldiers “dangerous gas”, the man stopped and picked up what was left of a gas mask, “five minutes” he whispered. He searched the small town or more like what was left of it, bodies lay scattered on the ground until he reached a small cottage and walked inside, a small girl about 12 lays on the floor and next to her was Annie… He reached out and touched her soft face he had 1 minute left tears streamed down his face making his mask fog up, he pulled out the broken teddy bear from his bag and placed it in his daughters arms as he stared upon both of them “I’m sorry I left you”, “I thought you would survive without me we were so poor and.. And.. I love you”. He remembered he had 10 seconds left, but he didn’t want 10 seconds he slowly pulled off his mask and kissed his daughter and wife on the head “I’m sorry” he mumbled. The room went silent and all went black.

The end...

The Circus

This week we were working on our dumbo activities and one of them was to create a circus either real life or digital

What I enjoyed about this topic was the fact that my Grandma was kind enough to buy double sided tape and cardboard. I also really enjoyed making it it took me 2 hours and I think it is fabulous.Also big thanks to my teachers for letting me stay in during break to paint it it is not quite finished but I think it is still amazing

What I could improve on next time is adding animals and maybe more decoration. what I didn't like was that I had to put time into this I did it on one of our days of in school strike day but other than that it was still really fun.