Book review (Holes)

                                                                   Hello today I am going to be doing a book review about holes

1. What is the name of the book we have read as a class and who wrote it? The name of the book is holes the book was written by Louis Sachar 

2. What was the book about? The book is about a boy named Stanley who was framed for stealing some shoes that had fallen out of the sky then he went to the camp green lake and escaped when he crashed Mr sirs car into a hole then ran away not long after that his lawyer came to get him from the camp green lake and then he asked if he could take his friend zero.

3. Who was your favorite character and why? my favorite character is Stanley yelnats cause Stanley's family history is really big and interesting and Stanley is a really funny character.

4. Did you enjoy the book? Why? Yes, Cause it was really interesting how he survived and how he survived in the desert.

5. What were the similarities and differences between the book and the movie? That the camp was exactly as I imagined it and when they were on God's thumb that bit wasn't in the book.

6. Did you enjoy the movie Why? Yes, I enjoyed the movie Cause it explained a lot and it was a bit the same and it was better than the book.

7. Would you recommend the book? Who? Yes I would recommend the book probably to everyone cause it's really interesting and funny 

Term 2 Reflection

                                                                         Term 2 Reflection

Hello, there I'm going to be doing a term 2 reflection today 

1. What was a Term 2 highlight for you and why? Steam groups cause we made a car that runs on air

2.What was a challenge and how did you show resilience? Steam groups when we had to come up with a plan it was hard as and I and my group were gonna give up but we didn't 

3. Which option subjects did you do in Term 2 and what did you learn Japanese drama music In Japanese I learnt how to make a rice ball in drama I learnt how to do a play in music I learnt how to play smoke on the water on a guitar 

4.What goals would you like to set yourself for Term 3 choose a curriculum based goal and a co-curricular goal?  Mathematics remember to bring my pen/pencil Remember to organize my uniform before bed.

Imploding can

 Aim: What happens when a hot can is placed in water?

Equipment: Gas tap, Can, scissor, Tongs, Tripod, water, Bunsen Burner burner, container 

Method:

Result: What happened to the can: The can have liquid in it then once it boiled I put it in cold water and then it imploded because of the cold gas.

Conclusion: Why does this happen: Hot gas turning to cold gas and then imploding./

Rising water experiment

Equipment:Candle,cup,water,bowl

fill the bowl up with water, put your candle into the bowl, put the cup over it, and then the candle blew out by itself, and then when the cup was released, the candle realized some of the smoke.

 Conclusion: The candle can't survive without oxygen and since the cup was over it blew out but it contained the smoke and then when released the smoke came out

Drawing challenge health

                                                                         Intro

                                                                         In health on Thursday we had a reliever because Mrs. Hastie was sick so what we first did was we had to go and fill out a form on google forms for Mrs. Hastie then after that we had to find a partner to do the drawing challenge I went with hunter and he was telling me what to draw and I had to draw it and I didn't really do a good job but we handed it in to the teacher and she was all good with it and then after that, we had to write a blog on how we did in it. The IP skill I showed with some warm fuzzies the warm fuzzies that I used was oh well we can do better next time and the IP skill that we used was non-verbal communication.

Marsh mellow tower challenge health

                                                                                 Intro

In health, we are studying interpersonal skills today we made a marshmallow towers me Wiremu and Cody made a pyramid                                         This was the pyramid                    

                                                                                Main: When we had to make the marshmallow tower we went to go and get our resources and we went to decide what we wanted to build I thought that could make something with a strong structure and tall but then we just made a pyramid instead so here is the pyramid that we made. I used this warm fuzzies and the IP skill we used verbal communication and we made the pyramid out of it I really worked well with Cody and Wiremu we didn't fight over it and we just went along with it.

Dilution and Filtration

Intro: Last week in science we mixed copper nitrate with sodium hydroxide to make a bright blue precipitate

1.Which test tube had the most concentrated sample of Copper nitrate: Diluting-test tube 1

2.When we added water what were we doing to the concentration: Chemicals weaker-diluted with water.

3.Test tube 1 

4.Make sure you have a photo to post!