Reading outside the box (Mystery)

Mystery Moor
Enid Blyton

During this book the four kids are out on a hunt to follow the gypsies. But they hear a plane coming. It drops millions of money. But they aren't the only one who knows about the money. The two men are on the hunt for the money. After the kids had hidden the money they were caught and kidnapped. Will rescuers come to help or not.

I love this book because it is short and quick but is a real mystery. I also loved this book because it is about horses. I would rate it a 4/5 stars! I would recommend to kids of ages 8+.

Budgeting

For the last couple of weeks me and Libby have been deciding our future. We first had to find a job and a house to stay in. Then we had to pay for tax, power, food, car and anything else we want like phones or a dog. What I learnt from this is that I will not be a millionaire once I leave home unless I win lotto. It was a challenge to find out the insurance and power. I enjoyed finding out the costs.

Point Perspective

In art we have been designing a piece of art. We had to use water colours. Here is my peice of artwork. 

Puberty Lessons

In this picture we had to complete this sheet on how we felt when we did puberty.

Maths angle

In Maths we have been learning angles. Here is my understanding of angles. 

Reading outside the box (Award Winners Book)

Book = Wonder
Author = R.J Palacio

10 year old boy called August was home schooled but then it was decided that he will go to a school for 5th grade. But August is no normal kid he was born with what doctors call "small anomalies" During this year at school August gets bullied. Will August's fit in or will he be bullied for the rest of his life?

Reading outside the box (One of the Series)

Pony Club Secrets (Fortune and the Golden Trophy)
One of the Series

Izzy had just arrived at back a Chilver point pony club heart broken by leaving her foal Storm in Spain. But when she goes to her paddock she finds another pony in there. But worst of all it is her new pony. With the trophy waiting in the club room what will she do? Will she make this pony a superstar or will it all fail? But that isn't the only thing happening, the pony club is moving to the river paddock. And with a new club president is he actually here to help the pony club or make it get shut down!

Stereotyping is not good!

Earlier this week we did an activity when we were learning about stereotyping.Stereotyping is not good. Stereotyping is when someone makes a judgment about someone they just meet. It is not nice and can be very hurtful to someone. Please do not stereotype.

Art in Room 12

Hauora is a concept of well-being we have been exploring in class. Here is a collage artwork that I created to illustrate my understanding.

Learning how to use google sheets.

In class we have been learning how to use google sheets. We were given a sheet called Wicked Formula and we had complete it. We were given a potion and had to find out how many toenails, wings, etc were in it. On number 5 we had to see how many things she would have to buy for 137 people. Now I know how to use google sheets and I can use it for in the future.

Study Ladder

Recently on study ladder, I received a gold certificate for getting 500 points.  Study ladder is a reading website which sets you reading tasks for you to complete.  Each tick you get is a point. And I have 501 points.

Ovenless Awesomeness

Recipe for Rocky Road

Ingredients

100g Dark Chocolate
1 1/2 TBSB Golden Syrup
70g Butter
50g Marshmallows chopped up.
100g Biscuit
Raisins or Cranberries

Method:
1. Place biscuits into a bag and crush them until they're broken up. Put aside.
2. Melt the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in the microwave on a gentle heat.
3. Cut up the marshmallows into tiny bits and add raisins or cranberries and your biscuit mix.
4. Mix your butter/chocolate mix together.\
5. Make a log on baking paper. Cover in coconut.
6. Put your names on the outside and refrigerate in the student center. 

Report Writing

All About The Watch

Watches are important! Where would we be without our watches? No one would know the time and we would always be running late. Watches are worn on a wrist and can be found in all sorts of different colours and shapes.

What was used before watches? Sundials. Sundials are a one handed watch that shows the time by using the sun. During the day the sun moves so the shadow moves around the circle showing the time. I know it’s genius!

But what about the wrist watch? People say the first watch was invented by Abraham - Louis Breguet in 1810 for the queen of Naples. Yeah, that’s right 1810!

What about watches now? Watches are now like phones. You can access messages on it and you can monitor your heart rate. In the future, I think your watch can make you dinner.

By Sophie

Reading outside the Book

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Number 4)

By J.K. Rowling 

Read a Chunkster 

 I loved this book and would definitely recommend to all. This book is about a big event held at Hogwarts (Wizard School). 3 people from each of the three schools will come to Hogwarts to complete a number of quests that may lead to death. But when Harry gets picked to represent his school at the big event, nightmares become to arrive. Will Harry stay alive and will he win?

Furnware Trip

Thank you so much for letting us go to Furnware! And a big thank you to the parents and teachers!!! It was so much fun and was a great experience. Thank you.

Reading outside of the Box

Sunken forest
Written by: Des Hunt
Read by air

Amazing book that would definatly recomend to all. But what happens when Matt gets sent to camp at lake Waikaremoana. Is all tails true? Will Matt survive in a deadly disaster? And what will happen to is unlikely friend in the disaster? Recommend to ages 9 and up.

Reading outside of the book

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
By: J.K Rowling
Have seen the movie first

I loved this book. I would rate it 4.5 stars out of 5!!! Great book and movie and really keeps you on your toes. This book is about the very beginning of Harry Potter and how his parents passed away. But are the muggles being completely true about Harry Potters passed. And will Harry defeat you know who?  I would recommend to people 10 and up.

Who am I?

I keep you warm or cold  

I can be on your ceiling or walls

You control me with a remote

I go on and off on your command

You can find me in most rooms

What am I?

By Sophie

In reading we have been doing Inferences. Can you guess who I am?

Inquiry - Innovation

Sophie's Inquiry - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

This is our inquiry we did. We had to choose 3 people that have done a Discovery, Innovation, and Invention. Enjoy!!!

Electronics

Starting construction for my emergency light in electronics. Today in electronics we designed our cover for our emergency light.

This is the design I choose. 

Inquiry

For our inquiry topic this term we have been learning about innovators. Here is one of our tasks for inquiry.

Leaning Tower of Pasta

For inquiry, we have been doing inventions. This is one of our challenges we did. We were given 20 minutes to creative the tallest tower. And we WON!!!!!!

Quad Death

Writing Purpose: To inform other HNI students the rules of the game and to develop our creative thinking ability.

Audience: Mrs Ellmore and HNI students

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfVvophGAk

Use your creativity to come up with 3 alternative names for this very exciting game!
4 Nations	Rekit ball	Heads up

Imagine another class here at HNI has not played this game before. Complete the rules below to clearly describe the aim of the game and exactly what the rules are.

The aim of the game: To get the fewer points than the other teams.

Rules:

1. When you catch or throw the ball you must have your bottom on the ground.
2. DON’T throw too hard.
3. To give a point to another team they must have all the balls on their side.
4. The team with the fewer points win.
5. Don’t throw the ball too high or you will get points put into your team.

Game Adaptations:

Use your creative thinking to explore possible adaptations to this game to enhance both the fun factor and the ability to win the game. I have given you one example for each category but challenge yourself with other ideas and thinking.

Attack	Defence	Game Plan/Strategy
Use balls other than netballs that aren’t as heavy so the speed of the traveling ball also speeds up the game.	4 players from each quad are allowed to sit on the bleachers to stretch their arms and intercept flying balls. Some people at the back can stand up. If the ball goes through the bottom, the team that throw it will have an extra point.	People on the perimeter of the quad pass the ball to someone closer to the bleachers to allow them to throw it further into the opponent's area. Aim for one team so they get out faster. Have the good throwers at the end and tall people at the front so you get more balls over faster. Make sure all you players are spread out.

Electronics

The GET READY THRU Website says that in our Emergency Kit we need a TORCH and spare batteries. At Electronics I am going to design and make an Emergency Light for myself.

Technology usb stick

This is my designing I went through to finish with a USB stick with the shape of a fish.

Bus Timetables

Brooke, Kimberly and I have been working on some bus timetables for Mary Doyle retirement home to go out shopping for a couple of hours in Napier or Hasting. We all had jobs. I had the job of doing Napier. Kimberly did Hasting and Brooke was the presentation person. It was very difficult but manage to understand it in the end. The link below will take you to our prezi which Brooke designed.

http://prezi.com/6qc6iy60gvp1/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Colour wheels

We are learning to identify the primary colours plus, the secondary and tertiary in-betweens. With only blue, yellow and red colours supplied we experimented with producing the 12 basic colours.

By Sophie

Top Spot Competition

The cold misty air flows into my lungs making me gasp with excitement. The water gliding over my toes makes a shiver run through my spine. Diving in like a dolphin to find what mystery happens next, makes my tremendous mouth curve into a banana. Fish zigzag. Crayfish side step from rock to rock, sprinting against each other. Weeds tangle between my toes, iron chains in a jail makes me shiver. There I swim with my eyes glittering at the lakes view. No other place I would rather be.

By Sophie

This is my description that I will be entering about Taupo in a writing competition. The aim of the description was to describe a favourite kiwi place. So I choose Taupo where I love to go in the holidays. 

Pony Whisperer The word on the yard ( 1st book )

Second Chance

This book I read the first page then put it down. But then I picked it up and enjoyed it so much. 

This book is what most of you can relate to, except for the bit where she can hear horses. Pia's mum breaks up with her husband. Forcing them to move away with Pia's pony Drummer. But when Pia falls off her pony on a trek she stumbles over Epona. A statue which gives her the power to hear what ponies say? But then it all falls apart when she gets asked to go on tv about it. Will Pia get through the tv show or will Pia forget something that she can't do without?

Great for ages 9 - 12

The Three Bears Sort of

Picture Book
By Yvonne Morrison 

This is a great story with lots of true and interesting facts put greatly together in a picture book. Great for kids but might struggle on a couple of words. Is very amusing and is a great book to read to people. Great illustration and love how it is different from any other book I have read. 

This book is about a family of grizzly bears. They live in a abandoned house. But a little girl comes to their house uninvited. When they are not there. What will she do?

Materials Technology

Key Tag Design:

This is the process I went through in designing  my key tag.

My places: Turangawaewae

This is my Mihi and "my map" to illustrate places special to me.

Mihi

Ka tangi te titi

Ka tangi te kaka

Ka tangi hoki ahau

Tehei Mauri Ora

Ko Rongokako te maunga                         

Ko Ocean beach te awa                             

Ko Sophie ahau

Ko Brett toku matua

Ko Paula toku mama

Ko Charlton toku ingoa whanau

Ko Maungawharau te kura

No reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa

Mihi

PB4L - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Today we talked about personal behavior. This slide is showing what a good student will be and do.