Athletics

Last week on Friday 16th of November, T.P.S (  Tamaki Primary School ) had their school athletics day.  Every year T.P.S have their school athletics as a fun way for all their year eight students to leave and students from the past to come back and support their house.

There are four different houses Tobruk, Benghazi, Alamein, Tripoli and they different colours to help represent their houses a bit more Tripoli is blue, Tobruk is red, Benghazi is green and Alamein is yellow.  I am in the Red team Tobruk, I think that my house is the best because we are one of the only two groups that have two recorded wins.  We had this event at the TPS field which was fulled with kids and parents running up and down it ( including teachers ) . We had four different sports that we did before running they were Standing jump, long jump, shot put and discus. My favourite sport out of all four was long jump because it involved my two favourite things running and jumping.

The running races were really tiring, we started of with the little kids first from five year old's all the way upto me and a couple of other boys who are thirteen as the age
went up so did the length of the race it started at 15 meter and ended at 100 meter .  My first race of the day was a bit funny because all the thirteen old boys tied in the first race and were all laughing at the end because I was running with a cape on and it looked funny.  After our 100 meter race we started on our 400 meter races the year six's all the way upto year seven and eights. When the race first started I was in last place because I was only jogging and when I saw everyone else starting to get tired I started to sprint and ended up coming second place.

At the end of the day we had our final races for all the people that came first, second and third and our house chants. When we got to our house chants we were all putting 100%  effort into chanting as loud as we could, this was my favorite part of the day because people were happy and dancing.

Follow up reading tasks !

Today we had to do some follow up tasks for reading because this week for reading we have been reading about three men that mad a possum trap. They made the possum trap because they saw the damage that the possums were doing to the wilderness.  Here are some of the questions that I answered. 

Identify the qualities of an" innovative designer "

1.  They have to be patient, because if they are patient they will get more facts and knowledge to be able to solve a problem with their invention.

2. They have to be on task, because if they are not on task they will never get what they need to build their invention and solve their problem. 

3.  They have to be hard working, because if they aren't the problem won't be solved in the end.

4. They need creativity, so that it  

  What do we mean by " native bush " . 

When people say they are going to the " native bush " or they are talking about the " native bush "  they are just talking about the forest. " Native Bush " is just another term for the forest. And when they say the " native" part they mean the native plants of the forest and the native trees and animals. 

Is it important to look after the bush ? If so, whos job is it to look after it ? 

I think that it is very important to protect the native bush because is we dont some of the people and kids in the future wont get to see the bush or any if its animals. I also think that it is very important to protect the native bush because its not only for us because its some animals home. And some of the animals that live in the native bush you cant find anywhere else.

I dont think that its only one person's job to look after the native bush but everyone that wants the next generations and the generation after that to see the bush and the animals that live in it. 

Which animal species were introduced to New Zealand ( three animals ) .

1.  Cows - Cows were introduced to New Zealand in the 1814's.  

2. Sheep - Sheep were introduced to  New Zealand in 1773.

3. Deer - Deer were introduced to New Zealand between 1861 and 1919.

Thinking about Bias

Today Room 9 was with our teacher Mrs Komor and we were learning about the world bias. The first thing that we got given was a sheet of paper with all the things that go into M&M's and the differences between normal M&M's and peanut M&M's.  When I say things that going to M&M's I mean the sugars and sodium that going to to and how much goes into it.

Then we got another sheet of paper that had someone else's opinion about M&M's on it like how they think that they are the best treat and how they think that they are healthy.  In my opinion I dont think that they are the best treat ever because I feel like there are better treats in the world or that have been made, and I like other lollies that are far more cheaper than M&M's.

Then we started to learn about the word "bias " and what it meant.  The word bias means rating something on how reliable and credible it is.So if you got any information from site that sometimes has true facts but it's not always true so you wouldn't want try it. Or if they have got any other information to back up what they are saying most of the time what they are trying is false not true.

Maths

Today for maths I worked with my two friends ( Alo and Aja ) to work out some of our questions that we hadn't finished.  One of the questions that we helped each other to work out was " Paul has five different ways to get to school from his house. The length of each way is different the length of all the ways to school are 0.6 , 1.2, 0.9,
1.3, 0.3, 0.6 and 0.7 " .

The first thing that we did was plus 0.6 and 0.9 we decided to start with these two numbers randomly. 0.6 + 0.9 = 1.5 + 1.2 = 2.7 + 0.6 = 3.3 + 1.3 = 4.6 + 0.3 = 4.9 + 0.7 = 5.6 . This is how we solved " how far does paul travel within a week. We choose to answer the question like this because it was the easiest way for us to understand the problem and the easiest way for us to answer the question / problem. Something that I think we should do next time try and see how many different ways we can get the same answer just to try and double check that we got the right answer.

Natural Disaster Research

This afternoon we were researching about Natural Disasters and different facts about them like What is a natural disaster, how do natural disasters happen, where do natural disasters happen / why do they happen in different places, why do natural disasters happen and who is affected by natural disasters. The question that I decided to  research about was " What is a natural disaster " . 

From my research I have found out that a natural disaster in my own words is  something that happens naturally that can harm huge amounts of people and animals. This is my definition of an natural disaster because when they usually happen they tend to hurt huge amounts of people not only physically but emotionally to. People can be hurt physically by natural disasters when they are in the middle of an Earthquake, they could fall through cracks in the earth or something harmful could fall on them. People can be hurt emotionally by natural disaster by losing someone they love to and Earthquake, Tsunami, Avalanche or a Landslide and lots of other natural disasters.

According to what google said about what a natural disaster is it is a " Natural event like a Flood, Earthquake or a Hurricane that causes damage or loss of life " to me this means that a natural disaster is a event that happens naturally that cause damage or or loss of life.