Video for Inquiry

These past few weeks we have been preparing a inquiry presentation in groups to present to the class.Ours was about the Circulatory System.
In our presentation we used this video from Kids Health

Shared Lunch

So much SUUUUGGAARR!Yum.

Snoopy Characters

In our class we have learning buddies.We made characters on a site and ....Here's Benedict!

Urinary System Writing

The urinary tract system. An interesting thing. I doubt you know much about it apart from the fact it ends with it coming out your...well you know. Well within these four paragraphs is as much as you need to know(and possibly all you want to know)about the urinary tract system.As you might know(unless your blind) your urine is a pale gold/yellowish colour.The urinary system is basically made up of five things.The kidney’s,urethra,ureters,bladder,and the...you know what . The way it works is reasonably simple . Well when I say reasonably simple… the kidneys filter blood and take all those nasty toxins and chemicals and deposit them into the bladder through the two small tubes called ureters.Then the urethra carries it out into the toilet(well unless you don’t get there...)so pretty simple right. Although we haven’t got to the really technical part yet. When you’re dehydrated you may have noticed that the colour of your pee is slightly darker than usual the same happens when you have a kidney problem. The colour of your urine depends on what you have eaten, drank, inhaled and been exposed to.

Do you know why the colour of pee changes?I do. But that’s not the question. Do you? If not your answers are right here right now in this paragraph. Basically the standard colours for urine are different shades of yellow. It more or less depends on what you have eaten, drunk,inhaled and been exposed to. If dehydrated the colour of your pee turns a pretty revolting browny yellow. The colour of your pee can really vary. It can turn red(don’t worry not because of blood) because you have eaten too much rhubarb,beetroot and blueberries but personally I hate all of those things. Strange right? It can also turn a strange green or blue colour because of a rare genetic disease. If this happens too you don’t worry you won’t die or anything it could just be food colouring.

Your urine’s colour varies as explained in the paragraph before but can it tell if you have anything wrong with you? As a matter of fact it sometimes can! Urine is a clever thing. It’s like your bodies way of warning you that something is wrong. Of course there are other ways of your body warning you but we aren’t concentrating on any of those things. It can sometimes tell you if you have a kidney or liver problem. White blood cells can sometimes appear(this does not mean the colour of urine) which indicates an infection. But the most common reason for you urine colour changing is dehydration. Normal colour for urine=pale yellow-gold. Abnormal colour=Brown-dark-yellow.

Basically the urinary tract system is just the bodies ingenious way of removing nasty toxins and chemicals out of your bodies. The bodies ingenious way of telling you whether you have something wrong with you. Did you know that urine is not magical? That’s what one of my “reliable sources” told me.Yes it may be sterile but it’s not magical. That was possibly the best bit of info I have found out about the urinary system.Although I wish it was magical...Okay getting slightly off topic here. Hopefully you have learnt a lot about the urinary system and think it’s as weird as I do.

Awesome human body facts

These and many more are going to be put up in our classroom on a graffiti wall.

Integer Project

This is a Powtoon about the adding and subtracting with positive and negative integer rules

ENJOY!

Authors Purpose= PIE

Soldiers Tale ANZAC

Glory or Insanity?

Exhausted, dying and bloodshot the men trudge on slowly, a man behind me coughs violently and collapses into the dark sticky mud. The mist obscures the view of the enemy. All of us wishing for the end.

A bullet slams into my shoulder and blood spills out.

“RETREAT”! Blood spilling everywhere I start the short crawl back to the trench, pain eclipsing my view.

Drunk with fatigue the men once again stumble onwards some already collapsing.

Dirt shrouds the features of their face.

The men were brave once but they had been broken apart and had no souls.

Screams fill the air as another mist of bullets fall the soldiers in their tracks.

“GAS PUT YOUR MASKS ON FOR GOD SAKE GET YOUR MASKS ON”men frantically scrabble around.

One man was too late, he cried a bloodcurdling scream “SOMEBODY PLEASE”.

He didn’t finish the sentence, he coughs up a glob of blood and falls on top of me.

I push the bloody corpse of the soldier off me and slow my breathing.

Gas shrouds my view.”IS EVERYBODY OKAY”How many casualties?” “Just one sir”.

The soldiers squelch on through the dark sticky mud , the gas attacks the frail mentality of the soldiers.

Flashbacks plague my mind attacking at my brain like a gun.”PLEASE HELP ME”.

My comrade screams and coughs a huge glob of blood up it dribbles down his chest.

How would you feel if one of your best friends came crawling towards you asking for help.

Blood gurgling in his mouth and streaming down his chest.

Four men reluctantly picked him up and threw him on.

What if you saw every time the wagon hit a pothole blood come rushing up to his mouth.

The wagon hits another pothole, SQUELCH.

Blood comes frothing out of his mouth bubbling down his un-breathing corpse.

Every time it hits a pothole all of us brace not only for the impact but also for the disgusting sounds.

The blood drips down his body and onto the dirt.Why did I sign up for this?!

If you survived you would not be the same, if you died…well then you would be dead.

What if every time you went to sleep you heard the screams and groans of dying soldiers all around you.

You felt bullets whipping at you like a red hot poker.

What if you saw war every time you closed your eyes , would you call war glory,insanity or just plain stupidity?  

BY BENEDICT

Pou Whenua designs

This week we have been designing Pou Whenua for Kotahitanga week.Everyone in the class designed four and in the end we made a google form and voted on which four we liked best. In the end we chose this one...

This design was designed by Nina but Carter,Anja and Benedict(me)helped create it.

(We helped because we were three how got the the 2nd 3rd and 4th most votes. 

Identity

In RM 9 we have been learning about our identity and what makes us unique we all did collages of things that we like here is mine:)

           (It isn't the greatest picture but at least it gives you you an idea of what we have been doing)

P.E we do in Rm 9

These are photos of us playing Capture the Rugby Ball(similar to Capture the flag)here is the basic concept of the game: There are two teams and two rugby balls, the aim is to run across to the other team's ball and bring their ball back to the halfway line. It is a great quick game to play.

HNI Gold Book Goals for Term 1 & Term 2

My gold book goal for Terms 1 & Term 2 is to have a Technology Gold Award 

I will achieve this by concentrating and working as hard as I can and doing my best work

By the end of Year 8 I would like to have a Sport Gold,Service Gold, Tech Gold and Academic Gold.

Wanted Poster

This Week we did Wanted Posters and I did mine on the website Glass Giant then I put the Wanted Poster on a Google Drawing then I downloaded the drawing as an image and uploaded it here YAY!

Non-stop cricket

Today we played non-stop cricket we played boys vs girls and the boys absolutely thrashed the girls. It was great fun!

What should Becky have done

Becky Video

In class we watched a video called Jigsaw for 8-10 year olds here is a link to it

Cybersafety

                                 Cybersafety at HNI poster

                              Our new HNI hats have just been given to us Whoooo! They are black bucket hats with a white rim on the edge. They have H.N.I on the front and Harcourts on the back(the sponsor).

Fruit Kebabs

           It was our first day of Tech and we had Food Technology with Mrs Bassett and we practiced our knife skills and made Fruit Kebabs , delish!               

Piece of work I am proud of: Engagement Poster

 Engagement is one of the values at our school. The values are Resilience,Engagement, Accountability,Courtesy and Honesty and if you use all of the first letters of all the words it spells REACH.

Cybersafety Vid

Cyber safety Video

What Would Patty feel like 

WALT 
In class we watched a video about someone cyber bullying somebody else I have put the link above(cyber safety video.)

STOP CYBERBULLYING

My Blog Goals

My goal in reading is to read everyday for 30-60 minutes
To achieve this I need to make sure I have a book to read every night
The people that will help me achieve this, me, my family

My goals in Maths is to be able to do the stage 7 maths test well
To achieve this I need to work hard in Maths and if possible sometimes practise at home
People that can help me me, my teacher

My personal goal is to learn to learn some more strategies for multiplication and division
To achieve this I need to go over in my head what prime numbers are and search for new Maths terms
People that will help me achieve that me, my teacher