Hi Lotte here. Today in Lockdown I have been researching about Ashgabat a practically abandoned city found in the strange country of Turkmenistan I made a podcast and a podcast script about it. The hardest part of this task was definitely going into Lockdown I had already done some research on it but I had left it at school the day we went into Lockdown but its okay now. I hope you enjoy this post! Kia Kaha stay safe and wash your hands.
Have you noticed that knives are quite sharp? It's almost like they're meant to cut things!
Hello, Ciao, Hola and Guten tag. My name is Harry and I’m going to talk to you about why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons.
Now, I have two stories involving sharp knives. I'm in Hokitika with my friends making a knife at a workshop and I ask the teacher if it's sharp enough-she runs her finger along the blade- It wasn't sharp. I go back to filing the blade and then I eventually stop, and remember how she tested how sharp it was, and let me tell you personally that it was sharp.
This story is about bagels. Now I like bagels, and when I got home from school one day I made one. I got a knife and cut… I myself on the finger NOT the bagel which was quite unfortunate, Because bagels are really nice. Now I know what you're thinking and no I was not deprived of that delicious seagull, I mean bagel.
Now kids, just don't play with knives it'll hurt, quite a bit, and I know you think I'm one of those people who are completely crazy for safety, but if I was you wouldn't be listening to this speech since I wouldn't have any stories. I'm almost fine because I have lots of experience and I'm a bit careful. Keep away from knives that are bad for your health which most are.
Now time for some facts. In the USA 1.56 in 1000 people get injured from knives which doesn't make too much sense to me because some people get half an injury. Put your hands up...if you have injured yourself with a knife? According to my statistics, 1 in 4 people in my class has not had “near-death” experiences, those lucky ones. Now to the next story!
I think we can all agree that flaming arrows are cool, and I really liked them-I decided to make one and it worked, but it was very intense when the flame was 100s of millimeters away from my hand. I am forever traumatized from that very moment. I later found out that a crossbow works better than a bow since arrows are heavier so it's not as powerful which makes the fire still burn when it hits its target, and it makes a cool whoosh when it flies through the air.
This is a bit off-topic so don't be surprised if you are confused. Unless your parents are okay with you nearly killing yourself don't try this at home. Crossbows are very powerful. Mainly I'm saying this to make sure your parents don't sue me when you have spontaneously combusted using a crossbow, make sure your parents don't even think about suing me, I don't have a lawyer but please don't, cause I've heard it's not fun getting sued.
About 500 people each year are killed from fire but archery is relatively safe with an average of 0.57 injuries per 1000 people. Still, those percentages don't make much sense to me. Now if you somehow haven't got the message, weapons are dangerous. I don't really have anything factual because most people should know that weapons are, Let's put it… bad for your health.
Overall, just don't play with weapons, (which is something I need to learn) but it's something you might too. My friend wanted to make an explosive because that's fun, And he along with his dad got some very explosive stuff and started making small explosives-BANG they blew up the kitchen. Now when I go over to their house and go past the kitchen the wall looks like it's been burnt but they fixed the rest.
Thank you for listening to my speech
In class, we have been learning about an energy topic. We got to choose a type of energy. I choose to do Potential and Kinetic energy because I thought that it was going to be fun and because I like learning about Potential and Kinetic energy. We already learned about Potential and Kinetic energy last term/1st term for the year 2021 and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed making this because I like to make things that can teach others with what I learned. This was difficult because I was stressed, I thought I was not going to finish it. But after an hour or so, I finished it. I made a speech and two microphones as well because one of the things that have potential and kinetic energy is a microphone, when you drop the mic after saying something epic or funny or if you just wanted to do that.
Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M
See you next time! :)
Class pet
Dear miss farr
I am your student jackson.
I am writing you this because
I want a class puppy it could be Alex
The first reason!
Do you know how fun it would be to have a class puppy?
Well, it would be fun because we could teach it tricks and play with it to make it fit. We could go to the beach and run it around the field twice and make everyone love it!
Second reason!
It would be great to have one if we did any way everyone won't be so bored you could say we can play with the pup if you guys do your work
Third reason!
Everyone would love it they would play with Alex and sit with Alex if he's lonely
If we do everyone would be respectful and help each other to finish so we could play with him
I think we should it will be fun overall if we do that to make it fit and we fit is well filter than usually if you don't agree its find
by jackson
Today my class is going to athletics. Miss Farr (my teacher) is doing discuss so she is not here either so the rest of the class htat did not make it in athletics, has to be split up. I am in Taiao. Taiao is the class next to Whenua. (Whenua is my class) Miss Farr sent us activities to do when we are split today. One of the activies was for reading, we had to make a brainstorm about what we know about volcanoes with 2 people or 3. I worked with Elise. Miss Farr gave us a set of question that she said we could answer if we wanted to. I choose to but Elise did not. (that is fine that she did not because it was optional) I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to work with Elise. I would never really work with Elise in class but I might have a different thoughts about who I work with next time. This was difficult because I do not really know that much about volcanoes but I am happy that Miss Farr told us to.
hi for the past week we have been learning about solar panel and energy today we finished making a model of our school and add leaves as are solar panels and where we think it should go so I and my friends made are one out of cardboard then we had to make a video of are model it toke me about 1 week to do this
Today Milla and I created a small map of Paroa school (Our school), then we added leaves which we used as solar panels. We added solar panels to most buildings in the school. We have been looking at energy for about 4 weeks now but we are doing energy for 10 weeks. For the past 1 week, we have been focusing on solar energy and we had to create what our school would look like with solar panels and why we need them. Milla and I learnt that solar panels are really expensive, they cost around 3,000 to 30,000 dollars. We enjoyed making the model, we started off by making it 3D but then we realised we only had one day left so we made is 2D instead.
How do wind and the sun affect your daily life? The sun affects your daily life by giving you light and some people power. The wind affects your daily life by being able to fly a kite.
What activities do you do that engage the energy of the sun and wind?
I go outside and play with my dog by throwing a bone or a dog toy for her. I also go to the beach and feel the breeze when it is really hot so I don’t faint.
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The ways Tawhirimatua influences us.
He influences me by making me want to try bodyboarding because the waves he makes look cool and fun to bodyboard on.
Hi how are you. today we did Oil spills, as year 6's we don't go to tech like the year 7 and 8's do so when there at tech we do oil spills. so we had to do a drawing on a piece of paper or on our Chromebook I think I was the only one that did it on my Chromebook but I'm not sure. fire extinguishers burn oil so that why I did a fire extinguisher. I had to use shapes to make the fire extinguisher (the bubbles took forever to do but I managed). thanks for reading. Milla
today we did T-shaped literacy and we had to make a model of the school and explain how and why we should have solar power at our school. We explain how much money and energy it would take and help us I hope you enjoy it.
