Dodge Ball

Working as a Team

Level 1 Below the Level	Level 2 Working Towards the Level	Level 3 Working at the Level	Level 4 Exceeding the Level
I have a negative influence on the team.  The teacher has reminded me to get involved. I get into arguments, and sometimes use nasty words. I sometimes cheat.	I sometimes make a contribution to the team goal.  I sometimes need the teacher or my team mates to remind me to join in or try harder.   I try to use positive words and actions to encourage my team, but I find it hard.	I always make a contribution to the team goal. I include myself in the team activity, and I include others.  I sometimes use positive words and actions to encourage my team.	I am a leader in making a contribution to the team goal.  I make sure I include everyone in what’s going on.  I am always encouraging, and my positive words and actions lift my team’s performance.

Blog Reflection 

The team game we played was: Multi Sport

For this activity, I rate myself (circle one) 1 2 3 4

I gave myself this rating because (describe something that happened that supports the rating you gave yourself).  

What was something that was challenging about today’s activity? (in relation to teamwork)

How did I overcome this challenge?

Working as a Team

Level 1 Below the Level	Level 2 Working Towards the Level	Level 3 Working at the Level	Level 4 Exceeding the Level
I have a negative influence on the team.  The teacher has reminded me to get involved. I get into arguments, and sometimes use nasty words. I sometimes cheat.	I sometimes make a contribution to the team goal.  I sometimes need the teacher or my team mates to remind me to join in or try harder.   I try to use positive words and actions to encourage my team, but I find it hard.	I always make a contribution to the team goal. I include myself in the team activity, and I include others.  I sometimes use positive words and actions to encourage my team.	I am a leader in making a contribution to the team goal.  I make sure I include everyone in what’s going on.  I am always encouraging, and my positive words and actions lift my team’s performance.

Blog Reflection 

The team game we played was:  

For this activity, I rate myself (circle one) 1 2 3 4

I gave myself this rating because (describe something that happened that supports the rating you gave yourself).  Because I played well and I got out two times.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What was something that was challenging about today’s activity? (in relation to teamwork)

Catching the ball when you are on the bench and shooting it in the hop ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How did I overcome this challenge?

Thorw the ball harder to the other side .  ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Pancake Wars

Working as a Team

Level 1 Below the Level	Level 2 Working Towards the Level	Level 3 Working at the Level	Level 4 Exceeding the Level
I have a negative influence on the team.  The teacher has reminded me to get involved. I get into arguments, and sometimes use nasty words. I sometimes cheat.	I sometimes make a contribution to the team goal.  I sometimes need the teacher or my team mates to remind me to join in or try harder.   I try to use positive words and actions to encourage my team, but I find it hard.	I always make a contribution to the team goal. I include myself in the team activity, and I include others.  I sometimes use positive words and actions to encourage my team.	I am a leader in making a contribution to the team goal.  I make sure I include everyone in what’s going on.  I am always encouraging, and my positive words and actions lift my team’s performance.

Blog Reflection 

The team game we played was:  Pancake Wars 

For this activity, I rate myself (circle one) 1 2 3 4

I gave myself this rating because (describe something that happened that supports the rating you
gave yourself). 

 I gave myself this rating because I run side to side. In my team I was the key player because I
got half of the pancake . I really liked player

What was something that was challenging about today’s activity? (in relation to teamwork)  

Running and dodging other people and getting the pancakes then running back

How did I overcome this challenge?

I got better every time.

Pen

Hi For the last 3 or 4 weeks I have been trying to make a pen. But the computer was not working so I had some trouble making a pen.

1990 Songs

For the last two days I have been working with Harry about 1990 songs and researching past music decades.

Instrument Family's

We are learning about instrument family's. I hope you like my blog post. Please comment to my blog.

Buddy Holly

Name:  Stefan Joanne Angelina Germanium

decade: 1986

28 March 1986  died aged of 32 on Wednesday

Famous songs : shallow, hip hop

Challenge: She is best known for playing the piano when she was a kid.   

Name: Charles Holley

Decade: 1950s

7 September 1936- 3 February 1959

Rock 'n' Roll, 'Rave On'

Challenge: Not being good at playing the violin as a child.

Wind Power

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and lose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS: 

1. Pins 
2. Cups  (x4)
3. Pencils  
4. Straws (x4) 
5. Tape  

STEPS

1.   Put 2 holes in each cup 
2.   Put your straws in a cross 
3.  Tape the cross of straws together (go around with tape 3 times) 
4.    Then pin them done in the pencil with a rubber in it 
5. Then put the cups and straws together  

 Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

Hurumanu- Recycling

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

 

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

 

How can we prevent climate change by recycling these products?

 

Plastics:

Cycling or walking: 

Paper:

Steel: 

 

 

 

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

 

 

 

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

 

You need to answer three questions.

 

Name: Nappy 

 

1. How long do they take to decompose?  200 - 500 years 

2. What resource/fossil fuel are they made from? The components to making a disposable nappy are waterproof, wood pulp and synthetic polyacrylate (cloth Diapering) Disposable diaper, polyethylene plastic are used and the raw material for this is the oil: it takes 1 cup of crude oil to make the plastic for one disposable diaper.

3. How is this resource recycled?

4. How does this object contribute to climate change?

 

Fossil Fuels

 

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.   Wood
3. Oil

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
Coal is extracted from the surface of the earth or from deep within the earth (Called underground mining)

Where are they Mined?
1. Coal is mined in South Africa, America, USA, England.

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Cookie
2.   Plate
3.   Toothpick

Steps:

1.   Get your materials
2.   Get your cookie and put it on your plate
3.   Grab your toothpick and start mining 
4.   See if you can get all the chocolate chips out of your cook from the outside
5.   And then enjoy the rest of the cookie.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

That it was a little hard but easy at the same time because we had to mined it without the cookie breaking.

Conclusion: 

It was really enjoyable and easy.