Activity 2: North and South

Kia Ora, my name is Grace and I live in Moana, in the South Island, half an hour out of Greymouth. Moana has a big dark blue lake perfect for fishing and especially boating and swimming. There is a enormous amount of cool walks and tramps. Moana has a pub, cafe, school, local store and a campground. Mt Te Kinga is a mountain tramp at Moana, it has beautiful views all the way to the top. 

Activity 3: Ice, Ice Baby

Activity 1: The Legend Of New Zealand

Activity 1: The Legend Of New Zealand

New Zealand has many towns, city's, and villages. 30% of New Zealand is forest,
and 70% is land and fields.

Auckland’s city sky tower is the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern
Hemisphere. It stands at 328 metres high.

The first city in the world to see the sunrise is Gisborne, because it is 496.3
kilometres away from the international date line.

Science Board

On Friday the 7th at Karoro School I presented my Science board. Most of Room 1 presented a science board, they were all different and they each had an extra activity. 

My science board was all about Large Animals, I also had a extra activity were the kids put their hands in a box and guessed what type of hair or fur it was. Then they wrote their names down on a piece of paper and wrote what they guessed. All the kids that had the correct answer went in the draw to win a cookie. 

Welcome

Chance And Probability D.L.O

Hedgehog

Dragon Eye

Exotic Paradise Quiz

Exotic Paradise Informational Text

   


   

Click link to see my work

Exotic Paradise

                                 Click link to see my work

Fraction Of A Set D.L.O

Participating and Contributing Solo

Sushi DLO

Purerehua

Response To Ski Trip

On Tuesday we drove to the ski field. There wasn’t as much snow as I
thought there would be, but there still lots of people. We all got our skis,
boots, and goggles and helmets for some of us. We got different passes,
I got a all mountain pass and some other people got a beginners pass,
because they had not skied before.

I went down the chair lift twice and skied with my friends. I thought that the
trip was really fun and I really enjoyed it.    

In this photo we are in a lesson and are trying not to slide back into the
fence behind us.

Response On St John

On Monday in the afternoon Catherine from St John’s came to Karoro school.
Room 1 went to the tech centre to do a St Johns course. We learned what
DRSABCD means, the D stands for Danger, the R stands for response, the
S stands for send for help, the A stands for airway, the B stands for breathing,
the C stands for CPR or Commence, the D stands for Defibrillation.

We also learned how to do CPR and Defibrillation on a dummy. We were
put into groups of eight, all the girls were put together and there were two
groups of boys. There were eight dummies at the front of the room. The
first group of boys went to the front and done CPR on the dummies as well
as Defibrillation. Then the our group (girls) went up, and after that the other
boys group.  

I thought that learning to do CPR was good because if something happened
in real life it would be good to know what to do. I thought it was fun and I
enjoyed it.

Te Uru

Walt: participate in the learning of others.

Why: Building on our transition to high school.

Success Criteria: be active participants in a new cultural game.

:use our listening skills, watch, ask questions and practice.

On Tuesday 10CH from Grey High School, walked to our school. They were a
group of year ten students that came to teach us a cultural game called Te Uru.
I had never played Te Uru before but it was fun.

The rules were, you had to catch the ball with a flat palm, and basically netball
rules like no stepping with the ball and no knocking the ball out of other people's
hands. We did drills to practise catching the ball in our flat palm and also practised
intercepting the ball. I found it hard at first to catch the ball with a flat palm but then
I got use to it.

I would suggest for next time that there were more teams so that there was more space
on the field, also that there were two refs and at least one would be watching the game.  

Designing A Logo

Today in Ms Chowfin's class we learn't how to change the google logo. We changed the logo on Scratch. We changed the colors the background and the letters. We are learning design principles. 

Finding Refuge

Children have escaped persecution, but they can’t
outrun the latest threat.

The main idea in this article is about the monsoon season causing flooding
in Bangladesh were the refugees are. The main people that are talked
about in this article are the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees
who have escaped Myanmar from persecution. The refugees are now in
Bangladesh and are now at risk from the raging storms that are hammering
the region.

In the past week a three year old boy has been the first death of
Bangladesh's monsoon season. The three year old boy lived with his family
in there makeshift shelter, by a mud wall. The three year old boy was
crushed in his sleep and his mother was badly injured when the mud wall
collapsed. Since then another two people have been killed.

For many weeks thousands of refugee families have been preparing for
the monsoons. The families only have little shacks that are clinging to hills,
with just blue tarpaulin to keep them safe and dry. The makeshift city goes
on for kilometres. Not even the shelters on higher ground are safe from the
torrential rain. Even the shelters that have been strengthened are unlikely
to survive the outrageous high winds. It is very likely that a tropical cyclone
will strike the region.  

 

The potential for disease outbreak is very high. Already, almost 19,000
refugees are living in high risk areas and have been relocated to safer land,
and another 18,000 to be relocated by the end of the month.

The torrential rain also causes problems for agencies that are trying to
deliver life-saving humanitarian aid. This is one of the solutions that have
been tried.

Out of the one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, around
half of them are children. They have escaped persecution, but the still
remain in desperate   need of protection.

It made me think that lots of children refugees are at risk of dying every day from the
monsoon season. This text made me feel sad because there has already been three deaths.
I also felt lucky because I am not at risk from mud slips and flooding every day.

My life is similar or different to the children in the text in that :

Similarities	Differences
We are both kids We both need food and shelter	I am not a refugee I live in the country I choose to live in.

Some solutions that I have thought about to help the children who are Rohingya refugees
living in Bangladesh are move them to a island that does not have monsoon season.
With better shelters, fresh food and fresh, good water.

Book Review

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Do you like science fiction? Well this book is waiting for you to read it!
The genre of this book is science fiction. It is a novel that is adventurous
and teaches us to never stop but to keep going forward.

The setting in The Giver is in a town where you only see black and white.
There is no pain, no hunger and no war in this town. The Giver is also set
in the country and through rough and uneven ground.

The main character is Jonas.Jonas is a kid that lives in a town that can
only see black and white. Jonas lives with his younger sister and his
mother and farther. As Jonas gets older he gets the job as the new receiver
of memory.

Jonas has lived his life not knowing the truth and is about to find out every
little secret and memory about his town. Jonas meets The Giver on his
first day at work, Jonas starts to understand why he was given this job.
He soon finds out that he has to go on a mission to share his secrets and
memories with his town.

I connect to this book because some of the characters are around my age.
When Jonas is on his mission he doesn’t stop he keeps going to protect
him and his friends.

My opinion of The Giver is that the story was great. The Giver captivated
me because there was a lot happening. I understood The Giver very well.

I recommend people who enjoy adventurous books and from the ages
10 and up.

Lois Lowry is a great author and has written lots of books. I particularly
enjoy her books because they are adventurous and interesting.  

 

PLANETS

International Space Station

Key Points

I will have been successful in my reading when:

• I have read each of these articles
• I have written two or three complete paragraphs to summarise the key ideas within these

three articles.

The ISS orbits the earth in 90 minutes, and travels 16 times around the earth once a day it also
travels 400 km and 320 km above us. The ISS is the biggest object ever sent into space to orbit
the earth. 16 countries, including many ESA member states all worked together to build the Station.
The biggest part of the ISS is a central truss which 16 huge solar panels are attached to.
The Columbus laboratory was transported to the ISS by shuttle  on the 11th of 2008.
The astronauts study plants, animals and weightlessness.

Taku Mōkai

PLANETS

Hermit Poem

Hermits

The itch from my unshaved beard

 As I read my book in boredom

    sand pouring down as hours go by

    wind howls and the chill creeps through

Deep, deep in the dark dark cave lurks a hermit

Limited accessories he sits and waits  

He hides away in his shell and eats of what he has   

Novel Study, Number The Stars

Waitangi Day

Orcas And Me Poem

                                                      Orcas And Me

When I splash the clear mirror-like water

I can see black shadows in the deep blue sea

Sun is setting

we lie down for a good sleep in soft golden sand,

we all lie down with blankets and sleeping bags to keep us warm through
the cold wintery night

I wake up

waves crashing against the floor of the shore

orcas and me lets

go swimming

in the deep blue sea

This is a picture that I drew with pastel

Sometimes when you look out to sea you might just see a girl and a
Orca swimming in the deep blue sea.

How To Cope With Emotional Changes

Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling Skills - A statistical investigation

Question: Are Karoro School senior students safe cyclists on the roads?

Recently Room One students participated in a safe cycling skills programme facilitated by the
New Zealand Police. Students learned about the correct way to wear their bicycle helmet.
Helmets need to be tightened.

In the classroom we learnt how to check our bikes. First we did the N check,
the N check is where you check from your tyre to your set and the handlebars, then to the other tyre.
Secondly, we checked a helmet, we made sure the helmet had no cracks in it and if it fitted.
Thirdly we started talking and explaining about the road rules so that we know for when we
do go on the road.

The second session involved skills based on the court. The next day we brought our bikes
and our helmets to school and after morning tea we went outside got our bikes and did the N check.
We started from the front tyre and checked if it was on properly and if it was pumped up properly
then we move on to the handle bars to see if they were on tight and it wasn’t moving when you got on
your bike, and to see if the breaks worked. After the handle bars we checked if the seat was in the
right place for the riders and if the seat had its reflector. After that we went to the pedals to see if both
of the reflectors were in the right place and if there were any. Finally the last bit we checked was the
back tyre, we checked if the tyre was on properly and to see if the spokes were tight enough,
and we had to make sure that the gears were changing clearly.
Constable put some chain oil on some of the chains that were rusty.

Constable Jos made a course that we had to do, the first course was just zig-zagging around cones,
then after morning tea Constable Jos made two seesaws and a ladder we had to go over, it was really fun.
Following the court session students participated in a road circuit skills session.
Students had to get their bikes and helmets, and Constable Jos gave us each a orange jacket
with a number on it. We had adults on each corner checking that we did our hand signals
and if we looked back for cars. We had two goes because the first time most of us did not know
the course. The second time around was a lot better because everybody knew where they were going.
We had to put our arm out in whatever direction we were going and we had to look back when we were
coming to a to a corner to make sure there was no cars coming or turning in the same direction as you.

 

There were people placed around the circuit and marks were given for using the following skills:

This graph shows that I need to improve on

• Look behind after hand signals

This graph shows that I am good at

• Approx 1 metre from kerb
• Scanning for hazards

My marks were:

Approx 1 metre from kerb	Scanning for hazards	Checking parked cars	Look behind before hand signals	Correct hand signal	Look behind after hand signals	% Average Across Skills
5/5	2/2	3/4	4/6	5/6	1/6	65.5%

One of the collated graphs showed these results.  I think that this shows that the second time was
better because everybody was more confident about the course and new were they where going.
I think we improved more on the look behind after signal.   

My recommendation is that we do this every year but we have one quick course to see who is
more better with the six marks and put them into two separate groups.
The higher group will have a bigger course and more harder than the lower group.
And still talk about the road rules and how to check your bike as well as the course on the court.