Orana Park

Hello fellow readers and welcome back to my blog. Today's blog post will be about a trip that Bh and Tz took to Orana Park. This trip took place on the 23rd of September on a Monday. Our transportation was a 11 seated van and a bus. Once we arrived at Orana park we got of the bus and a lady called Elizabeth told us the rules.

Once she had told us the rules Tz and Bh went to see the Meerkat's. Once we had seen the Meerkat's we split off into 2 groups group 1 and group 2.

I was in group 2 with my best friend Tasharn and some other students, in each group there where roughly 20 -27 students. When we split into 2 groups a Orana park teacher went with each group, the Orana park teacher that was with group 2 was Bethany and the Orana park teacher that was with group 1 was Elizabeth.

The teacher's that were with us on the trip to Orana park were Miss Birtch and Miss Tozer.

Miss Birtch was with group 1 and Miss Tozer was with group 2. I really enjoyed the trip to Orana park because I got to learn plenty of new information about animals e.g Gorillas thump there chest when they are scared etc I also enjoyed it because the students from Bh and Tz got to feed the giraffes.

Here is a picture of the Orana park Meerkats.

Hope you enjoyed my blog post.

Free Writing Story.

Kia Ora and welcome to my blog post we had two working from home day's as the teacher's moved furniture and things into our new Kahui's and were given tasks to do, for one of them we got a option on what we wanted to do and one of the options was to write a story so here is the story I have written.


That Night

The two coins in his pocket clinked together as he stumbled down the cold pavement, the
holes in his shoes turning his feet into blocks of ice.  His heart turned cold as he felt icy fingers
gripping his arm.He then felt a hard and scratchy fabric being placed over top of his mouth and nose.
Later on he found himself lying on a comfortable couch wrapped up in two warm and cozy blankets,
he blinked and then blinked again thinking that it was all a dream.

He was confused about what had happened because he didn’t know what happened.

When she walked into the room, his face lit up looking like Rudolf the reindeer but his red nose being all
over his face.

He gave her a saucy wink she says “ is your eye ok there, you appear to have a nervous twitch,''
he winks again she then says “ I think we need to get you to a doctor”. 

She says her name is Riley breaking the awkward silence between them he says “ Hi Riley i’m Poot “

He watches her fall to the ground calling an ambulance…………

TO BE CONTINUED...

Hope you enjoyed my story :)

Hurumanu PE Blog

Hello fellow bloggers for today's blog post we will be talking about our Physical Education class so the first thing I am going to be talking about is the warm ups.

We do warm up's to ready our body for a game of something we also use warm up's to stretch our body giving a lower chance of injuring your body e.g Stretching you muscles to fast and hard, on Monday we had PE for PE as you know we have been split into groups and named our teams and chose a sport, So for Monday the team French Fries taught us the sport Bench ball.

Before we begun the game of bench ball we did some warm ups the warm ups that we did were 40 Star-jumps 10 times running up and down the court and 20 High Knees I found this very tiring.

The next thing we did was a drill the purpose for a drill is teaching you a skill that you will need for a game.

For the drill we played sneak up granny at first we weren't really sure how this was teaching a skill for bench ball, but as we started to play we found out what skill it was teaching us the skill was sneaking up beside or behind someone so if someone passed the ball to them you would be able to quickly snatch it out of their hands or something like that.

After the drill and warm up's we started to play, PE hurumanu is a joint hurumanu between Tz and Bh year 7 and 8's so for the first game Tz and Bh year 7's versed each other and Tz and Bh's year 8's versed each other. Since I am a year 7 from Bh I versed the Year 7's from Tz unfortunately we lost but I really enjoyed playing the game for the next thing we did in PE hurumanu we swapped over and the year 7's versed the year 8's and in the end the year 8's did win.

That is what we did for the game side of PE hurumanu.

For the maths side of PE hurumanu we did maths that involved a field and there were multiple different questions that we needed to answer before finishing the maths my team got one part of the question right and the other part wrong  so we had to go back and our brains just got very muddled up so I didn't enjoy that maths side of PE .

I learnt some more skills/ strategies for maths like I learnt the working form.

Some of the strategies I used for figuring out the maths questions were Place Value, Rounding, Tidy Numbers etc.

I felt that the work was difficult in certain areas I can't really remember the questions at the moment but I know that they were difficult to work out other parts were rather easy though.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post about PE hurumanu.

C.I.P TerraCycle + Bic Stationary Recycling

Hello readers today for C.I.P we are going to be talking about the TerraCycle + Bic recycling programme that our C.I.P has signed up for.

For this project we are going to have to spread awareness to the community some of the way's we are doing this is by creating D.L.O’s and poster’s about what we are doing.

I think that parent’s from the student’s at Hornby High will be donating a large variety of pen’s, I also think that large companies will donate some of the pen’s.

One of the questions that the teacher's asked us to put in this blog post was how many kilo's do you think we will gather so I predict that we will gather 400kg or over that amount.

You are also probably wondering what we are going to do with the money we receive. I think we should put the money towards a charity for example Red Cross.

For this task we also had to create a D.L.O here is my D.L.O about TerraCycle + Bic ...

Hope this information helps you :)

Ella West

Today for first period all of the year 7/8's went to the auditorium to see a author called Ella West....

A while ago Mrs Allan- Fletcher and her class read a story called Night Vision once they had completed reading the book they made a blog post about the story Night Vision talking about Ella West and Commenting on her book.

After her class had made a blog post on their blogs they had found out that Ella West had seen their blog post's and she decided to come all the way from Dunedin to see and talk to the year 7 and 8 group about the stories she had written.

So today as what I said at the start of the blog Ella West came in to visit the year 7 and 8's, The main stories she talked about with us were Rain Fall and Night Vision, She basically just talked about what gave her the idea of writing these stories and where the stories are based, for example Night Vision is based in Ashburton and Rain Fall is based in West-port.

One of the other things that she talked about with us was that her first stories weren't as great as her older stories and also that over the years she could tell that her knowledge had grown on certain topics and that her books had improved in their information over the years.

She also talked about how she couldn't make the top 10 New Zealand authors because her publisher made the ISBN Australian so she wouldn't be able to get any profit because of the ISBN number, another thing she talked about was how a Italian translator translated a copy of Night Vision into Italian.

I loved the talk that we had with Ella West I liked how she described how she had intertwined facts from history into her book and that's what I loved about the talk with Ella West.
I would love to have a talk with more New Zealand author's.

                    

These are the covers of two of the books that Ella West talked about.

Community Circles

Every Monday we do something called community circles in this time we learn about zones of regulation and emotional regulation for this task we had to make a D.L.O about this time of day we do this every Monday and sometimes Friday.



Hope you enjoyed !!

Digital Tech.

For Digital Technology today we are righting a reflection on how we feel about digital technology I think that digital technology will help with your future career if you are looking to become a cyber smart teacher etc.

So far in digital technology we have been learning about environmental social and ethical issues, once we had studied and informed ourselves upon these issues we had to choose one of the three, I chose social issue because I wanted to spread awareness of drug and alcohol abuse and also Gender identification bullying.

I strongly believe that people should not be bullied for what they want in life it's not fair.

Something else we have done is we watched three videos about all three issues.
Here are the videos we watched.

Environmental issue.

Social issue.

Ethical issue.

For the Social Environmental and Ethical issues research we had to make a copy of  a doc and put our research on that doc.

Here is the link to my doc.
D.L.O

I am going to be creating a game to help spread awareness about these topics to help these people to feel supported and cared for.

Some of the websites I used to find out all this information are
Link 1 , Link 2 , Link 3 , Link 4.

From these sites I  have learnt that there is a large amount of people who are unaware that they are abusing as there mind is being wiped by these chemicals.

One other thing I learnt is that Gender identification is a very common thing to be bullied from as people find it disgusting that girls act like boys because they wanna be boys and boys act like girls because they wanna be girls or some people just wanna be both so they act like both and have 2 personalities I personally respect this and wanna let people be who they wanna be but this is the information I gathered from the sites.

The topic that I decided to focus my main attention on is gender identification because I feel that some people are unaware of other peoples feelings in that sort of way and that people need to know about this topic as those people are under appreciated.

Hope you enjoyed this blog post.