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This week in writing, we’ve been writing about tides!

Tides are the way the ocean water goes up and then goes down on the beach, twice a day. Imagine the ocean breathing! It’s mostly caused by the Moon’s pull, like an invisible magnet. When the water is high, it’s high tide. When it’s low, it’s low tide.

Here Is My Writing About Tides:

One high tide always faces the moon, while the other faces away from it.
Between these high tides are areas of lower water levels. The flow of water from high tide to low tide is called a tide. Most tides are semidiurnal, which means they take place twice a day.

As the earth spins, the water level goes down, giving us low tide. The Sun pulls too, but the Moon has the biggest job. Sometimes the high tides are extra high; these are called spring tides. They happen when the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up, making their pull even stronger.

Other times, the tides aren’t so big, these are neap tides. This happens when the Sun and Moon pull the water from different directions, tides are important because they help animals know when to eat and rest. They also help sailors move their boats safely. Isn’t it neat how the Moon makes the ocean move?

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Kia Ora, Reader!

For this weeks reading,  I read a book called “The Bucket Man” written by Anna Smaill, and I was asked to write a blog explaining my understanding of the book. The story takes place in a hot, barren future after the rain disappears from the sky for a long period and never comes back. Our protagonist is named Jack. Jack also has a grandmother who was a former scientist who worked along with a neighbour of theirs, Gordon Ratana. Gran borrows Jack to deliver water to Gordon Ratana’s house with a carriage along with their tired horse. In the story, Jack tells us that Gordon is completely ”cuckoo” and everyone knows it. His flat roof was covered with 10-litre buckets, like he was waiting for something never coming.

Later, after Jack asks his Gran various questions about science, Gran tells Jack that he was just like Ned. Ned was Jack’s great-uncle. After arriving at Gordon Ratana’s house, Jack drops down from the carriage they have been riding and hauls buckets of water to Gordon’s place. As he does that, Jack hears metal clanging against metal; he also sees “meaningless” labels on the buckets on top of his roof. When Jack returns, he doesn’t say anything.

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For math this week with the year 8’s we have focusing on financial plans and budgeting money. We had to work out of our Math books and our textbooks providing all of the questions that we need to answer. I also learnt some new words I learnt about new words like income and expenditures. Income means money that you bring in or money you get into your bank account and expenditures is the money you spend.

Also we needed to create a spreadsheet, but before we get into that there is a backstory to why we needed to create this spreadsheet. In this textbook there is a girl named Harper and this boy named Ari and then we had to do some activities. The spreadsheet is one of the activities we needed to do. I am not quite finished I’ll give you a headsup when I do.

Here is my work:

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This week for engineering we focused on electrical engineering it was all about electric and how electric works. The activity we played was quite fun the first activity we did was all about trying to keep the ball alive going around in a circle, we couldn’t pass the ball with our hands we hand to use our other body parts. We weren’t able to throw the ball across each other after we finished the first task, we went straight into our next activity which was Matariki kit it was about trying to make a star light about Matariki.

Here Are Some Photos:

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For the last two weeks RM9 have been focusing on persuasive writing we need to persuade our teacher to go to sports camp. I really agree with going to sports camp for multiple reasons I am going to share my reasons with you. Here is my writing there is only a little bit because I was just brainstorming.

My slide is the second one because my teacher gave me a template which is the first one, but I thought I’ll go do one myself. I have been to a sports camp I really enjoyed going to sports camp because It was fun playing sports with other people and schools, I will give you a heads up when I do my persuasive writing.

Have you been to a sports camp?

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This week in RM9, RM10, and RM2, we had a challenge to make a water filter in engineering it was interesting and fun learning about how to make a water filter. At first, my group wasn’t really sure what engineering was. When we went to engineering. As we were all getting ready to get into our challenges, we were watching a video of how to do it, but sadly not everyone brought an empty water bottle. At our last engineering class we got told to bring an empty plastic water bottle.

Here is my  DLO:

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This week for reading, I’ve have been learning about Te Aro Pā, a Māori village that used to be in downtown Wellington a long time ago. We read a book that told us about how Māori people lived back in the ancient days, what their constant life was about, and how the village was coordinated. It was really interesting to learn about their beliefs, homes, and how they worked together as a association.

Since all of us are working on the same topic, we decided to make a DLO were we can work together. This way, we can finish the DLO faster and share all our ideas in one place. Everyone is helping by adding their answers and pictures to the DLO, which makes it easier to see what we have learnt.

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For the last 3 weeks Edmund Hillary School has been working on speeches to get ready to speak clearly and there is a competition happening in Auckland all schools around New Zealand. Our topic about what we are talking about is whenua/land, yesterday Edmund Hillary School did a speech infront of the school. There were a couple of students in each class to do their speeches. There are four options to choose what type of speech you’re going for, like: Rap, where you can rap about what whenua represents with rhythm and rhyme. Spoken-Word, the one I did. Kinda like poetry except you’re preaching the word. Prepared-Speech: Speaking with confidence and speaking with confidence on what you’re saying. And last but not least, there’s Flash-Talk: You have 15 seconds to talk about what the meaning behind each picture presented on a slideshow means.

Here is my speech I’m not quite finished but I will be soon, I will give you headsup:

Spoken Speech

Kia ora, my name is Kairangiahua and today I am going to talk about what Whenua to means.

In the heart of Papakura where I belong, I was born and raised in Rosehill most of my life was all in Rosehill. When I moved to Papakura it was a bit hard for me to interact with other people after 5 years in Rosehill, I managed to find myself.

Land is a important part of me, because where I come from is a special place to me and that place is called home. My marae is Turangawaewae a place to stand, turanga means a standing place and waewae is feet it all adds up to a place to stand. Turangawaewae was built by my tipuna Te Puea Herangi

Here is a saying that my ancestor said, “if I am to dream, I dream alone. If we all dream together then we shall achieve” I took this whakatauki from my tipuna to let everyone know we can dream of anything and chase it. My dream was to be a basketball star I would always watch people play basketball at the park. I would wonder what do I wanna be when I grow up

How I connect to the land is goes down to generation after generation.

I made a connection with my friends that I couldn’t let go even though I may talk at the wrong time I still . You taught me lots of things that i didn’t know you had patience in me, I would try not to give up on myself but when I do that’s when

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Today for Engineering we had some tasks to do based on Civil Engineering. First task of the day was to build the highest Jenga tower out of Jenga the year 7 & 8’s go into groups of 3 – 4 people in a group, there were no rules so our group used the tin that the Jenga sit in. We got 3 minutes to see who could build the highest tower even though we added the tin in the make the tower higher other people saw our idea and copied which was a good thing because it was a challenge we got the tin and putted it at the bottom so we could put the Jenga on top of the tin.

So it could build more height at the end of the 3 minutes our tower busted down our Kaiako (teachers) inspected who had the highest tower. My friend Veni’s group had the highest tower, the next task was similar  but we had a tea towel the purpose of the tea towel was to crush it up then try to build the tower. On top of it we had the same idea like the previous one get the tin then build it on top of it to get more height to win but that didn’t work because it was wobbly and unstabled we got the same time which was 3 minutes the group next to me took the win.

Here is my group that I was working with:

The last task was to build a bridge using limited resources that were 8 pieces of cardboard around 2 inches long, about 2 pieces of tape, and scissors. At first it was a bit hard because using those kinds of materials so we got our chromebooks and did some research about what we could do to inspire our bridge to put in some effort. But our group couldn’t quite get it so then time ran out of the window, finally it was time to inspect on other peoples bridge and recorded all of the people who built it.

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Today I’m going to write about our Engineering we did on the start of the week. Last year, some of us students were lucky to get a big opportunity to go to Papakura High School and learn more about Engineering. Everyone had to write a short piece about themselves and why they should be chosen to go to Papakura High School every Wednesday to do Engineering. Only 20 people were picked to go.

Now this year, all Year 7 and 8 students have the same opportunity to learn about Engineering. We started our first class and had to get into groups based on the lines we were standing in. Some lines weren’t even, so a few people put their hands up to move into different groups to make it fair.

Once all the groups were ready, we waited for everyone to be quiet. The teachers and helpers from Edmund Hillary School who came to teach us Engineering started explaining what we would do for our first class. The group I was in was a part of a bridge we had to build a bridge using the tools that were down on the ground that the engineers gave us. We needed to collaborate work as a team to get it done fast to me it was quite easy.

Nga Mihi – Kairangiahua