Current Events

Current Events

Which American state has been hit by Catastrophic flooding in the past week? Louisiana

What was special about the 400m women’s track final race? The eventual winner was coming close to being overtaken so she threw herself over the line

How many times has Usain bolt won the gold medal in the 100m track event? Three times

Which New Zealand town has been plagued by water quality issues recently? Masterton

How many olympic gold medals does USA swimmer Michael Phelps now have? Michael Phelps has 22 gold medals all together

What Australian rugby team accused of doing to the All Blacks before the Bledisloe cup match at the weekend? Bugging their team hotel room with a listening device.

US swimmer Ryan Lochte claimed that while in rio he? Was robbed at gunpoint

A shark found in Greenland is thought to be the oldest living animal with a backbone. How old is it? 400 years old.

New laws have been introduced allowing the GCSB to spy on New Zealanders. What does GCSB stand for? Government communication security Bureau

In which event did kiwi athlete Eliza McCartney win a bronze medal? Pole Vault

Auckland Transport

It is not the Auckland transports fault that they can't slow down trains or that people won't wait until trains have gone past that's and they think that they can make it before the train does, we have those bells so that people know when a train is coming through.

A lot of people should be safer around Auckland Transport because the driver driving the train can not slow down that easy. Old people should watch out for trains because they don't want to turn out to be in the same way that man died. Why? because some people have already lost their lives and it is really hurtful when someone loses someone that they really love especially family.

Science Intensive week with Mrs Tofa & Miss Stone

On Monday room 7 students had science Intensive with our teachers Miss Stone and Mrs Tofa. We were put into 2 groups, group one and group two. Who ever was in group 2 had to go down to room 3 with Miss Stone and Mrs Tofa stayed with group one in class. Juring this week we have science intensive week were we do science in our class rooms.

In group one we had to do a car experience with Mrs Tofa. In the car experience we had to read a paper that had law 1,2 and law 3. The first law we read was law 1, it was about force and inertia. The second law was about acceleration and the last law was about when the force is pushing the other reacts.

The girls got to build the car first and the boys did the Sir Isaac Newton quiz. After that we swapped over the girls did the quiz and the boys finally got to make their car.

Here is the steps to make a car:

Step 1: Get a few straws like about 4 or 5

Step 2: Cut the end bits of the straws that you don't need to make it shorter.

Step 3: Then get something for the balloon to hold on, 

Step 4: After that tape the bottom of the balloon to the cardboard box so it can hold

Finally step 4: Blow the balloon big so that it can push your car far.

In the end of finishing our cars the girls and boys raced. The girls put their car in the middle and let go of the balloon so we can see how far it goes everyone and the teachers we yay, Then the boys put their cars in the middle and they failed we started laughing because it was so funny, they tried again and it did a front flip.... 

I had so much fun on monday with Mrs Tofa and I learnt so much about that yesterday.

The emperor of peka peka beach

In the beginning of the story a penguin was washed up on to Peka Peka beach. He was found by the animal vet who had taken him to an animal hospital. They had found 3 kilograms of sand and sticks inside the penguins stomach.

I'm feeling happy because happy feet recovered from swallowing 3 kilograms of sand and sticks. When I started to read this book I thought that the penguin might not survive but after 2 months of his recover he was fine and they sent him back.

Facts about Emperor Penguins

Link for my facts http://mentalfloss.com/article/56416/20-fun-facts-about-penguins
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/penguin.html

Fact 1: While other birds have wings for flying, penguins have adapted flippers to help them swim in the water.

Fact 2: Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, especially in Antarctica.

Fact 3: Emperor penguins are the tallest species, standing nearly 4 feet tall. The smallest are the blue penguins, which is only about 16 inches.

Fact 4: Emperor penguins often huddle together to keep warm in the cold temperatures of Antarctica.

Reading - Hatchet

                Hatchet

                                                               Gary Paulsen

              We are learning to: Interpret complex plots, sophisticated themes and abstract ideas.

Catalog - A complete list of items
Consuming - Completely filling's one's mind and attention
Tundra - A vast, flat treeless Arctic region of Europe.

1. Where is Brian going? Canada)
2. Why is Brian not speaking to his mum? Because he is angry that his mum broke off the marriage.
3. What did Brian’s mom give him on the drive up to meet the airplane? Hatchet
4. What happened to the pilot as they flew toward Canada? The pilot driving the airplane had an heart attack.
5. How did Brian know the pilot was having a heart attack? He already knew the pilot was having an heart attack because he has seen someone in the mall have a heart attack.

You might like to consider the following questions:

What do you think of the story so far? I think that the story is getting interesting, I also like how the author wrote this story for audience to enjoy.

What do you think of the main character? I think that the main character is too young to drive a airplane.

Who might you recommend it to? I would recommend this to a pilot.

Give it a star rating out of five. I give this story a five out of five because it's a cool book and spooky.

Kiwi Can

Today in Kiwi can I learnt about resilience and goal setting. Mr Afutoto talked to us about resilience and about goal setting. Mr Afutoto talked about our future. For our warm up game we played Limbo, For limbo some one from the group had to hold the limbo stick.

After the limbo we got a piece of paper from Mr Afutoto and a pen to just one goal for our future. We planned our goals. He also talked about how much lawyers and business people get from there pay. If we just spend 10 minutes talking to lawyers.

Finally we played GKQ, I learnt about what i'm going to do for my future and how to get there. It probably would take time to get where you want to be.

Volleyball

This morning room 7 students had Volleyball lessons with coach Antonia. She asked us a few question about what is the first most important in volleyball we said serve but it was all of the positions. For our warm up game we had to get a partner, My partner was Amelia.

I and my partner had to do a dig and set,We did that for 5 minutes.Then we lined up on the white line with our partner on the other side of the net. We just had to serve the ball to our partner and they catch it.

After that we were numbered from 1 to 6. This game we played was volleyball,The first group to verse was group 1 and 2 on the other side of them, group 3 and 4 versed then at the last net, group 5 and 6 versed. We swapped over to different groups to verse them. Our lesson was better than last week. I learnt a lot of new skills.