tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12976948396979334892024-03-14T18:13:23.093+13:00Aarmione @ Glenbrae SchoolI am a Year 8 student at Glenbrae School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 10 and my teacher is Mrs Tofa.Glenbrae Blogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09030080730452544769noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-60872088553749407182015-12-09T11:13:00.001+13:002015-12-09T11:14:16.610+13:00End of year emotions <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year is close to an end. We can all feel its presence, even a week early. The emotions are so mixed. Happiness, relief, sadness, longing. These are just some of the emotions us year 8's are feeling at the moment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have spent 8 years at our school learning new things and meeting new people. The "new people" that we meet at school are teachers, students and visitors. We have been the at the receiving end of opportunities, knowledge and other gifts while attending Glenbrae School. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We learn in a learning environment with others keen to learn. We do most of our learning on netbooks. I personally was very thrilled and privileged to do our work on netbooks. It was a very cool experience to be involved in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The classes we were put in was based on intelligence, willing to learn, and behaviour, depending on the year level you were in. Being one of the youngest people in my year level, I looked up to most of the older students as a mentor or role model. I looked at them and said "one day I would like to be like them." Most of my mentor or role models were none other but some of my classmates and best friends. I still look up to most of them, not only to lead, but to educate. I have learnt a lot from my classmates and friends, and I am sad to split from them this far forward in our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of my classmates I went to Kindergarten with, and we know each other well. Its really sad to see them go, but I wish them good luck next year, and throughout their lives. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-71979897984407554642015-11-24T11:02:00.002+13:002015-11-24T11:02:47.663+13:00Hockey Lesson<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-41447696018685946482015-11-24T10:52:00.003+13:002015-11-24T10:52:46.677+13:00Expedition Recount<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-62653536732528468402015-11-20T10:47:00.000+13:002015-11-20T10:47:14.459+13:00Technology ReflectionToday at Technology, we were in our technology class. We were in the Graphics Technology class, and it was our last two weeks after this week.<br />
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Today, we finished off our Juice Carton designs. We also had a evaluation sheet to finish off as well. That was only for the people with their laptops.<br />
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At the end of class, we said goodbye to our teacher, and walked back to school.<br />
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It was fun today it technology, because some of us got to finish off our work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-13897430658308606822015-11-20T10:09:00.000+13:002015-11-20T10:09:05.563+13:00Maniakalani Film Festival 2015<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last week on Wednesday the 11th of November, the students from Glenbrae School went to the Sylvia <span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Park Cinemas for the 8th Maniakalani Film Festival. Every year, the schools in the Maniakalani cluster makes videos especially for the Film Festival. We make a habit of making sure we positively show that we like the movies, and that we don't boo or dislike the movie.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we got there, we got ready to go inside. The presenters sat down in the chairs up the front. When it was a presenter's turn, we had to move down a seat or two. The movies were really creative.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When anyone from our school presented, I could hear some people from in the top right corner (where our school was sitting) cheering for them, among other schools, Brandon and I among them. I was really shy, but could hardly wait until it was our turn to present.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When it was our turn to present, I was really excited, and the adrenalin was pumping through my body. I went up, and then Brandon came up. All I could see were shadows and the bright spotlight was shining in my eyes. I could really hear the cheering coming from our School. We said our lines and went back down. I was really excited, and could barely believe that we did that. We sat back down and watched the movie.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When it was time to go, the presenters lined up and walked out of the cinemas. We walked to the buses. I was the only presenter that was able to go onto the first bus. I sat next to Fine. Manuae was behind us, so we started talking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we got back to School, we went to the hall. The teachers congratulated us (the presenters) and told us what was going to happen next. We were going to go back to class, and we would have 4-5 minutes to eat and play. After that we would pack up and go home. </span></span><br />
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When we got to the hall, we got into two lines. One line to the right for the girls, and one line to the left for the boys. Because there were so many boys, they got the boys to make two lines. When they did, we did our Hip hop routine. We went over it and made sure that we were doing it correctly.<br />
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Once we had run over our hip hop routine at least 3 or 4 times, the boys went to one side of the room. This week, the girls had to pick their partners. I picked Lennyx, but he had already been picked by Fine, so I went to look for another partner. I ended up being with Lennyx in the end, so I was really happy that I got to dance with him again (we were partners two weeks ago).<br />
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When we started the dance routine to the Samba, it was a little tricky, but we got there in the end. Around us, we saw boys pairing up with each other. It was very funny to see the boys duplicating the girls dance moves.<br />
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We also learnt the rest of our Waltz, and I was really excited about that. We learnt the final moves and started practising them. We got the moves, but it took a while.<br />
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At the end of the lesson, we said goodbye and lined up in a class line and went to class.<br />
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Today was a really good day. We learnt all the moves to all of the dances, and all we had to do was practise them. I was really excited, and I could hardly wait for next week's lesson.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-10477702744021687682015-11-20T09:27:00.002+13:002015-11-20T09:27:51.770+13:00Kiwi Can ReflectionToday after Morning tea, the students from room 10 went to room 11 for Kiwi Can. Miss Tuia wasn't here, so Mr Numia was teaching us.<br />
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When we got inside the classroom, we sat own in a circle. We said "Bula Kiwi Can" (every time we go to Kiwi Can, they have a different greeting for us every week). We did a re-cap of the last lesson we had and talked about the topic. We were learning about Respect. Our theme was Respecting Others. We had a little discussion about what it looked like to respect others.<br />
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After that, we got into our Energiser. It was called Soccer Tag. We had three or four games of Soccer Tag before sitting back down in a circle. We discussed what it looks like to respect others and how you can do that.<br />
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After that, Mr Numia explained what our energiser was. It was called "Green Machine". Mr Numia put us unto 5 groups and assigned us a part of the room. What we had to do in Green Machine was brainstorm some ideas for a machine that would make people happy. My group's ideas were to create emotion changing shoes. Basically what they were were shoes that if you wore and you were angry, the shoes would work on making you happy. I proudly invented those. Another invention that we created was a booth machine that you jumped into. The booth printed out a piece of paper. On the piece of paper was the emotion you were feeling on the inside, even though you looked happy on the outside. Alisi invented that great piece of engineering that hopefully will be invented someday.<br />
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When we finished presenting our ideas, we sat back down in a circle and did our GKQ (General Knowledge Questions) and that was in groups of three or four students. When it was our turn, we couldn't answer the first question, so Mr Numia gave us another question to answer. Lennyx answered that question correctly.<br />
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When we finished GKQ, Mr Numia did our points. We got 23.5, which was two and a half less than last week. We said goodbye and then we left.<br />
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Today was a really fun day in Kiwi Can, even though we got two and a half points less than last week.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-90841298203183469752015-11-18T11:05:00.000+13:002015-11-18T11:06:44.978+13:00Money Lesson<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, Rachel from pwc came to our class to teach us about lending and borrowing money. She also came on Monday. Today's lesson was about lending and borrowing money from banks and lenders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We learnt that to be a good borrower, you have to have good credit. You have to pay your bills and debts at the right time to avoid being untrustworthy and to avoid having to pay interest. If you have bad interest, you can do things to convince people that you're trustworthy and that you will pay back money on time. You can make more frequent payments, pay back money on time, pay back extra and being honest. These tips might ensure that lenders trust and will lend money to you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We learnt some new things from Rachel,and we can't wait to see her on Friday.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-14839090544320343612015-11-13T11:00:00.001+13:002015-11-13T11:00:40.488+13:00Trip to Stardome Observatory <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today on Thursday the 12th of November 2015, the students in classes 7,8,9 and 10 went to the Stardome Observatory to learn about <i>Discovering the Future</i>. This was a very fun time for the students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At 10:00, we boarded the buses. Rooms 10 and 9 was on one bus, and rooms 8 and 7 were on the other bus. When everyone was on, the bus driver drove to the destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got there, we had some morning tea. Then rooms 7 and 8 took off to the observatory for their lesson. The remaining classes played on the fire fox, park and on the field. We had a lot of fun playing around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we were told to come and collect our bags, we hesitantly did as we were told. There was one bag between 2-4 people, so there weren't that many bags. We sat down in two lines per class and waited until we were told to come in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got inside, we put our bags into the cage and met our educator. His name was Tim. Tim was a very friendly person. He took us into the Space room and got started with the lesson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the space room, there was a projection of a Nebula viewed from space. It looked so colourful and bright. It was a great sight to see so many colours in one cloud or object that occurs naturally. It was so fascinating to look at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tim told us to sit down, and he started the lesson. Tim answered the questions that the students asked him, and at the end of the lesson, Siosifa thanked him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After we got out of the Space room, we walked around and looked at the displays and objects that were there. Some of the things were roped off, but the things that weren't we were allowed to touch. All of the dis</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">plays were involving s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace. There were models of the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">planets, models of s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pacecrafts</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">, astronaut suits, models of s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace rocks, and so much more. Looking around, I was just so fascinated to see that some of these objects actually came from or are involved with s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">After our little tour around the aisles of S</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace, Tim called us into the observatory room where we were going to watch a movie. It was about how the universe, </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">planets and everything else in s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace was formed. The movie showed us a lot about what ha</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pened in s</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">pace, and how it was formed over millions of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of the long movie, we took a look at some of the stars. Tim showed us some of the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">planets that looked just like stars. Tim said that the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">planets were all in line with each other, that's how we see them when we stargaze. We also looked at constellations. We saw the star Sirius. Sirius is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky. The only two </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">planets we could not see were Venus and Mercury because they were too close to see in the night sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">After we finished looking at constellations, we went out of the theatre room, and walked into the foyer where we got our bags and ho</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">ped onto the bus. The bus driver then took us back to school. We got back at 2</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">:00-2:15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoyed my day at Stardome because I learnt some new things about space, and because I enjoyed playing on the park and fire fox. I cannot wait to learn more. I also cannot wait to go back and play on the park and fire fox.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-76891831007121227002015-11-07T09:52:00.002+13:002015-11-07T09:52:39.228+13:00Dance Fever Reflection<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a556e2f-de91-0fde-b43a-4fbceddc5dff"></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-44533140200377154582015-11-07T09:48:00.001+13:002015-11-07T09:48:30.776+13:00Technology Reflection <span id="docs-internal-guid-2a6a976e-de8d-d381-bc10-21f9afe2bb9e"></span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-70736804622396474922015-10-30T12:56:00.001+13:002015-10-30T12:56:23.064+13:00Technology Reflection<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today at Technology, we were going to make our shirts, but no one brought their shirts, so we didn't do that. Instead we did more sketches and stencils. At the end of the class, we packed and cleaned up the class, and the teacher told us to bring a shirt next week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Technology class was fun, because I got to do a few stencils, but cutting them was hard.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-34837048196332011782015-10-30T09:07:00.003+13:002015-10-30T09:07:54.062+13:00Reading Work - Term 4 Week 2-3<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The British wanted sovereignty over New Zealand, to establish a government, to maintain peace and to protect Maori rights. The Maori wanted undisturbed possession of lands and property.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see two pots each with “Maori anger” and “pakeha anger’, and a person is on both, trying to close the lid. The anger of the pakeha is big, while the anger of the maori is smaller. I think the message is that the pakehas were angry at the Maori, but I disagree with this cartoon. I think that the Maori people were more angry with the pakeha than the pakeha were with them. The point of view of think the cartoonist is representing is that to prevent the anger of both nations from overflowing, someone needs to stop the anger at each other, and they should be more kinder to each other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">List some of the ways that Maori have brought their concerns to the attention of New Zealanders. Give details of at least 3 examples. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Maori struggled to get their voices heard, despite by legal efforts, protests and hundreds of petitions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The function of the Waitangi Tribunal is to start working through Maori concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Choose one of the following case studies: Orakei, Manukau, or Ngai Tahu. In your own words, write a brief summary of the case.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>had been stolen.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think the meaning or message behind this poem is that someone was listening to a story of a mother telling her son a story of how the beach had been stolen, maybe by pakeha people. I think this is aimed at the pakeha people because when they came, things started happening, and the pakehas started claiming land that wasn’t theirs to claim.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-31412233037250756512015-10-29T13:42:00.001+13:002015-10-29T13:42:15.886+13:00Kiwi Can Reflection<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-10053653765922865082015-10-23T10:50:00.001+13:002015-10-23T10:53:09.374+13:00Technology Reflection 23.10.15<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, on Friday the 23 of October, the room 10 year 8 students went to their first technology class of term 4. Our current class is Gra</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">phic technologies. Our teacher is Mr </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pineda. In this class we draw and do art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today in class our task was to create some sketches for our t-shirt print we were going to do next week. When class started, he did the roll call, then told us what we were going to do today. He handed us a piece of paper to do the sketches. He showed us what we had to do, and we got onto work. A blank piece of paper soon showed a intricate design. All we had to go next week was bring a shirt to get our design printed on. I could hardly wait!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the class, we said goodbye to Mr Pineda and made our way outside where the teachers were waiting to escort us back to school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was a really cool, fun day at technology. I cannot wait till next week when we start printing our shirts. I assume it will be a cool experience, and a first for me.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-42382651954460759182015-10-23T09:41:00.000+13:002015-10-31T13:03:58.970+13:00Dance Fever Reflection 22.10.15<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, at 12:00, my class and I went down to the school hall to get our Dance Fever lesson. This was our first lesson, as last week we were at camp when they were here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we walked in, they told us to get into a boys and a girls line. Then they introduced themselves. Their names were Miss Rach and Lieutenant. Then they told us to get on our knees and practice the moves they taught us. The moves were right, left, roll it up, roll it down, muscle down, turn right, cat daddy, cat daddy, feet together, left kick ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p, right kick ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p, freeze, merge into a line with the boys, hands down, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">po</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">po</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p change three times, then 3 singles, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put your hands down. That's the hi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p ho</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p dance so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then they taught us the first moves of the samba. Some of these moves were really com</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plicating and confusing, but with the hel</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p of them and the other students, most of the moves got easier. The moves went like this - right foot back, ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p twice, left foot forward, ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p twice, ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p right, ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p twice, then do that again, but sideways. Now comes the tricky </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">part. You go outside foot, inside foot, walk to the right in four ste</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps until you face the back of the room, and you do that two more times. And that's the samba dance so far. They also taught us how to do the hold. We had to hold our hands u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p high, the girl's hands on to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p of the boy's. If the hands dro</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p, this is something called "romantic hold."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after that, the class finished. This was a really good lesson, and I really enjoyed it. I could hardly wait for next week's lesson.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-57647057348337400952015-10-07T00:40:00.000+13:002015-10-07T00:40:04.653+13:00Steve Jobs<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Jobs is known all over the world for being the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple computer, CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios, a member The Walt Disney Company's board of Directors, and founder, chairman and CEO of NeXT Inc. I read a book titled Steve Jobs insanely great. It is a graphic biography written by Jessie Hartland. I learnt quite a lot from this book, and I would like to share this new knowledge with you all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Jobs was born on 24 of February in 1955 to Joanne Schieble Simpson and Abdufattah Jandali in San Francisco, California. His </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parents are unmarried college students. They </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put Steve u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p for ado</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ption. Later, they marry and have a daughter named Mona Sim</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pson that they raise, then they divorce. Steve is ado</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pted by Clara and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Jobs. Unable to have their own children, they are very excited. Clara and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul later ado</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t a girl named </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patty. Steve grows u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p in the Santa Clara Valley/Silicon Valley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From a young age, Steve is very mischievous. He is a rule-breaker. His father </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul is a machinist. He makes </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prototy</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pes in the technology industry. He likes to fix cars in his free time. Sometimes Steve likes to hel</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p. They like to tinker. They visit the junkyard many times in the weekends to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pick u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p odds and ends for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">projects they make in their garage. Steve even has his own workbench.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His hometown in the 1960's is a busy, buzzing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">place with hundreds of technology com</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">panies em</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ploying thousands of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">peo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ple. The United States is in a Cold War and a s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pace race with the Soviet Union, the Russians currently winning the race with the launch of S</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">putnik, the first ever satellite. Trying to catch up, the government of the US is funding hundreds, if not thousands of defence contractors who are ex</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">perimenting with new s</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pace and wea</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pons technology. These businesses are part of the Military - industrial com</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">plex.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> His neighbourhood is filled with engineers who work at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">places like NASA, Westinghouse and Lockheed Missile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Com</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">panies that started small inside home garages like H</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P (Hewlett-</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Packard) are becoming giant. Tiny new com</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">panies and organisations are starting to a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pear in his neighbourhood. Steve and his father make good use of their garage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He learns at a young age that he is ado</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pted. He thinks that his biological </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parents didn't want him. With all the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">promises and words of encouragement from Clara and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul, the idea of his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parents leaving him will traumatise him forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is a very naughty boy in Middle School. He is very bored and mischievous. He is sent home many times. However, his fourth-grade maths teacher notices his brilliance, and kee</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps him occu</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pied with a challenge </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Her name was Imogene Hill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an outgoing and curious child, Steve makes friends with some of the neighbourhood's engineers. He learns a lot from them, always telling his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parents what he learns. He is a very bright, intelligent child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Steve was twelve, he decided to build a frequency counter to assist him with electronic </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">projects. Because he was missing much needed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parts, he contacts his neighbour, the co-funder of H</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P, Bill Hewlett. Bill gives him the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parts, and offers him a Summer Job making frequency counters. He gladly acce</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pts. He also has a news</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pa</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">per route job, works at an electronics store, and works at the mall entertaining kids. He saves some money, and at age 15 buys his first car, a Nash Metro</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">politan. He also smoke </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pot and took drugs like LSD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through a friend in the class, he meets Steve Wozniac, or Woz for short. They find out that they have a lot in common with each other, and decides to become friends. At this time, Steve is a High School senior. Woz is four years older, and attends UC Berkeley. He is a real techno-whiz, sweet natured, shy young man.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same year, he meets Chrisann Brennan, his first serious girlfriend. They later have a baby girl named Lisa.Steve wants nothing to do with it, and they break u</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve went to Reed College in Oregon. After one semester, he dro</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps out. He still stayed at Reed for a few courses. He es</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pecially liked the calligra</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">phy class. To earn extra money, he returns soda cans and collects five cents each in return. He works on an a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ple orchard and eats a lot of carrots. Because of this, he thinks that he should not bathe much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He moves back home after 18 months, and gets a job at Atari. He gets a job as a technician, but because he hardly ever bathes, he is made the em</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ployee on the nightshift.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would always ask himself this every morning - "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" When the answer was no for awhile, he knew something had to change. So, he decided to travel to India with his friend Dan. When he returned to California, his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parents could hardly recognise him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He likes to take long walks while he thinks. He meditates in the mornings, audits </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">physics classes at Stanford University in the afternoon, dreams of starting his own business, and goes back to work at Atari. His boss, Nolan Bushnell offers him advice. " Pretend to be completely in control, and people will assume that you are. Don't take no for an answer."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woz shows Steve is design for something called a home computer, which would be a first. They decide that they could do this, so they fundraise some money to buy parts to build a prototype. Woz sells his HP calculator for $500, and Steve sells his Volkswagen van for $1,500. And they start. Steve and Woz start thinking of names for their new company. Steve, thinking back to his days in Oregon tending an apple orchard, suggests Apple Computer. And Apple Computer is born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve and Woz become more active in a local computer club. One day, they decide to show their prototype of the Apple 1 computer. Everyone but one person who owns a chain of stores is not impressed. This man asks them to keep in touch, and the very next day when Steve drops into one of his shops, he makes his very first sale. Apple Computer is now in business. Following this news, an assembly line is set up in the Jobs' family house. Steve does the soldering. Woz assembles boards. Clara answers the phone. Patty helps too. Another friend does the book keeping. Dan packs the assembled computers into boxes, and Paul tests them. Steve also delivers the finished product.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apple Computer is a great success thanks to ingenuity, hard work and being in the right place at the right time. In 1978, Xerox gives Apple a call. Like many others, they want to invest in the hot, new computer company. Steve made a deal. "Invest a million dollars into Apple if they show them what's going on at Xerox PARC." Steve sees some good ideas, and uses them in Apple's next computer. These ideas include the mouse, overlapping windows, networking and more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1985, Apple has a big meeting without Steve. They suggest Steve quit running the group for the new Macintosh computer and start a research group at Apple, but he decides that he can't live with a smaller role in the company he founded. He fights with CEO John Sculley - who was only CEO because Steve offered him a job there - for the top job, but he is so nasty, unreasonable and difficult to work with that the board members and other employees choose Sculley as boss. Steve is forced out of the company <i><b>he</b></i> started in <b><i>his</i> </b>parents garage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He travels to Europe, thinking of creating another company. So he does. He calls it NeXT. The computer and logo will be a cube. He obsesses over the details and other things, which means that the computers are always later than the release date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He hires a Private Detective to help find his biological parents. He finds his mother, and flies down to LA to see her. He also meets his biological sister, Mona Simpson, a writer that lives in New York City. Later that year, he is asked to give a speech. While he is waiting to go on-stage, he meets a young Stanford business student. Her name is Laurene Powell. After the speech, they have dinner. They marry in 1991, and later that year, they have their first child, a boy named Reed. His first child, Lisa has also joined the family too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While running NeXT, Steve buys Pixar for $5 million, and invests another $5 million to keep it going. He keeps pouring his own money into the company to keep it afloat. No matter how many big ideas the company comes up with, the company is getting broke. A phone call to Disney is made to help. Disney gives them some money in return for rights to the characters, film sequels, and other things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1997, Apple buys NeXT, the company is failing and they're trying to make too many products. IBM and Microsoft now dominate the market. This is the year Steve makes a return to his first company after 12 years. He makes changes to the company, all for the better, seeing how close they were to bankruptcy. Steve later has an idea of having stores dedicated to selling Apple products all over the country. These are a big success. He also creates iPhoto, iMovie, Final cut Pro, iDvd, Garage Band and iTunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2003, Steve finds out that he has a rare form of Pancreatic cancer. He tries many ways to fight it. He and Laurene have three kids, Reed - 15, Erin - 11, and Eve - 8. He feels that his cancer battle should be kept secret, because he feels its a personal matter, and he's worried that the public will lose confidence in Apple. He prepares for his last product - Apple's version of a Tablet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve dies on October 5, 2011 in his home in Palo Alto surrounded by his family. He is 56 years of age. His last words were " Oh, wow."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Jobs was a very inspirational person. He has inspired people to do good. He is sadly missed. He has inspired me to believe that anything is possible, and that things happen for a reason, and anything you put your mind to can be achieved, no matter how crazy the thought.</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">The </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 15.59999942779541px;"><i>people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.59999942779541px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for viewing. I ho</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.59999942779541px;">pe you learnt some new things.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-15659417566680106252015-09-25T12:52:00.001+12:002015-09-25T12:52:42.650+12:00Technology<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today at Technology, we were in the Gra<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">phics class with Mr </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">pineda. Today we were going to do some word art. So for almost the whole class, we drew some word art. At the beginning of class, he did the roll call, and then he handed out some </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">pieces of </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">pa</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">per to do the word art on. Doing the word art was a little bit tricky, because I had never drew word art before.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">After class, we walked back to school.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-59146413921570407332015-09-22T14:36:00.000+12:002015-09-22T14:36:26.213+12:00Science - Room 8<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, my class and I went to Room 7 and 8 at our school to learn about Science. First we went to Room 8. Their to<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic was Sound. First we talked about matter. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matter is everything that has mass and occu</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pies s</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pace. There are three states of matter - Solids, Liquids and Gases. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solids are something that are hard, and the molecules are </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">packed tightly together. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In liquids, the molecules are loosely</span></span> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">packed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, we went on to the ex</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">periments. There we 5 ex</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">periments, all related to sound. Two of them involved </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">playing water as instruments. The other ex</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">periments included communication with two cu</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ps and a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">piece of string, making sound with a container and rubber bands, am</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">plifying using a balloon, and ta</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">p</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ping/blowing on beakers and test tubes filled with different measurements of water to ex</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">pose different sounds. These were the ex</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">periments that we did. These were really fun. Then we did a quiz on the mat. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I learnt that sound vibrates at different s</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; white-space: pre-wrap;">peeds, and that there are things that can alter the way sound is heard.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-17021791894448183842015-09-11T10:24:00.002+12:002015-09-22T12:49:31.784+12:00Nelson Mandela<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nelson Mandela was the former President of South Africa. His birth name was Rolihlahla Mandela, but his school teacher called him Nelson. </span><br />
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He was born on the 18 of July in 1918, in the village of Mvezo in South Africa. He died on the 5 of December in 2013, 95 years of age. His cause of death was a respiratory system infection. </span><br />
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Nelson Mandela was an anti-a<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">partheid revolutionary, minister and </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">philanthro</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">pist who served as </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He made a difference in the world. He was </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">one of the first ANC members, Also known as the African National Congress. He had three wives before he died and he also had 6 children. He was im</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">prisoned a number of times, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">particularly for standing u</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">p against a government that was committing egregious human rights abuse against black South Africans. The longest he was in </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">prisoned </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;"> was about 27 years. Four years after he was released in 1990, he became the </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">president of South Africa. </span></span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He is known all over the world for </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">protesting for his </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">peo</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ple and believing in an anti-a</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">partheid country. He was, and still is, an icon and role model of South Africa. He has ins</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">pired me to do right and to believe. I hope he has inspired you too.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It always seems impossible until it's done.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.</span></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-70334906850679156052015-09-09T10:31:00.001+12:002015-09-09T10:31:55.637+12:00Current Events<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-65824214659785893562015-09-03T14:25:00.000+12:002015-09-03T14:25:11.184+12:00Kiwi Can Session 3.9.15<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-7214800541384803332015-08-30T16:12:00.001+12:002015-08-30T16:12:51.271+12:00Poster - Actor<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a poster that I created about Actors. Mrs Tofa told us to select a job/occupation, and I chose acting. I ho</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pe you enjoy it.</span><img height="377" src="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1htLPvVVe7ftzbuAFqoz5fchSzoNM1fa5q3NlNLA0LCg/pub?w=1307&h=771" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" width="640" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-80346653500385263372015-08-25T11:02:00.000+12:002015-08-25T11:02:05.255+12:00Maths 25.8.15<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today at maths, we had to solve a maths question. It was Marilyn needs to fertilise her front lawn. It measures 20m X 35 m. Each bag of the fertiliser that she is planning to use covers 200m2. How many bags does she need to buy? The answer was that she had to buy 3 and a half bags.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I learnt two new strategies while doing this problem. They were place value partitioning and Rounding compensating. Maths today was so fun. Now I know different ways to solve maths problems.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297694839697933489.post-78428882812964822592015-08-20T10:12:00.002+12:002015-08-21T13:10:34.220+12:00Quiz - Hone Heke<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, Kyana created a quiz about Hone Heke. Below is the link. Have a try.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1508182218469245&lnk&">Hone Heke quiz</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1