Hello to everybody out there. I hope that you're having a great break from school, and that Santa was good to you this year.
Just to let you know that this blog will be going off line sometime near the end of the holidays, perhaps the 28th or 29th of January. Until then you are of course welcome to use it as you have in the past.
If you have any comments or opinions about the blog and how we have used it, please leave a comment. I would really like to know how it could be improved on for the future.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays - they will be over before you know it!
Mr B.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Merry Christmas
Hello pod 9,
Just wanted to say I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and I hope you all will have a safe Christmas too. I going to tell you what Im doing for Christmas because Im really excited and I really have to tell some one so what Im doing is going to the beach with my family and we are going to have a christmas lunch there and my poppy is going to bring his boat and we are going to buy a hotdog or a buscuit (not the foodthe sea toys) and weare going to have so much fun.Well Merry Christmas and have a happy 2009 oh wait I almost forgot good luck for the year 6's that are going to intermedit (however you spell it) have fun and tell me year 5 and6's what class you are going in. Bye
Just wanted to say I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and I hope you all will have a safe Christmas too. I going to tell you what Im doing for Christmas because Im really excited and I really have to tell some one so what Im doing is going to the beach with my family and we are going to have a christmas lunch there and my poppy is going to bring his boat and we are going to buy a hotdog or a buscuit (not the foodthe sea toys) and weare going to have so much fun.Well Merry Christmas and have a happy 2009 oh wait I almost forgot good luck for the year 6's that are going to intermedit (however you spell it) have fun and tell me year 5 and6's what class you are going in. Bye
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Street Art
During this final term of 2008, our topic for art has been street art. The key concepts that we have been exploring have been:
1. The use of modern fonts over traditional fonts,
2. The contrast of using cold colours and hot coulurs, and
3. The use of space, and in particular the layering, or overlapping of letters in words.
Every student in Pod 9 made their work based around a fruit. Their work has been compiled into this slideshow. They worked really hard to achieve these results, and I feel these photos do not provide the same effect as seeing the works in real life, so to speak.
I think you'll see the quality that everybody strived for during this learning.
Enjoy.
Mr B.
1. The use of modern fonts over traditional fonts,
2. The contrast of using cold colours and hot coulurs, and
3. The use of space, and in particular the layering, or overlapping of letters in words.
Every student in Pod 9 made their work based around a fruit. Their work has been compiled into this slideshow. They worked really hard to achieve these results, and I feel these photos do not provide the same effect as seeing the works in real life, so to speak.
I think you'll see the quality that everybody strived for during this learning.
Enjoy.
Mr B.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Theme
This is our theme work about falling and sinking
Falling and sinking are the same because....
-both involve objects being pulled by gravity.
-both can be reduced by making things wider and flatter in shape.
Falling and sinking are different because....
-objects fall through air and sink through liquid.
-falling is faster than sinking because liquid is thicker than air.
-some objects that fall, don't sink.
We made tin foil boats to make rocks float.
The best designs that held the most weight were the ones that had the largest areas and had high sides. The high sides stopped the water getting in and the large areas stopped the shapes falling through the water.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Hurupaki Tapuwae Champions
Today Pod 9 and Pod 10 played the final of the Hurupaki Senior School Tapuwae competition. It was a very tight battle, with some very long periods of play without goals being scored.
In the end Pod 9 came out on top by a score of 18-15. Both teams played exceptionally well and can be proud of the way that they played - hard but fair. Pod 7 finished third, and Pod 8 fourth.
On the whole, I think the competition has been a success and I intend to run similiar competitions next year.
Hopefully we will have photos of the "trophy presentation" next week, depending on when it will be held.
Mr B.
In the end Pod 9 came out on top by a score of 18-15. Both teams played exceptionally well and can be proud of the way that they played - hard but fair. Pod 7 finished third, and Pod 8 fourth.
On the whole, I think the competition has been a success and I intend to run similiar competitions next year.
Hopefully we will have photos of the "trophy presentation" next week, depending on when it will be held.
Mr B.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Gravity
The force of gravity is constant, all objects fall at the same rate.
Fair testing
A fair test is when all conditions are exactly the same for both tests.
Things we used for tests ...
-Blue shot put
-Green shot put
-Red petanque ball
-Green hockey ball
-Brown hockey ball
-Tennis ball
-Green petanque ball
-Sponge
-Foam softball
In all fair tests, the objects landed at the same time. This means that the force of gravity IS constant. All objects fall at the same rate!!!!
That is what we learned about gravity yesterday ... so we'll post some more tomorrow.
Elmoluva
slowest to fall fastest to fall
The flat paper fell slowly because it had the most area hitting the air. The air stopped the paper from falling.
The streamlined paper fell quickly because the air only hit a small area of the paper. The air could not push the paper.
The streamlined paper fell quickly because the air only hit a small area of the paper. The air could not push the paper.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
What do we know about Gravity?
Yesterday the class watched some videos about skydiving and the use of parachutes and discussed how and why things fall or sink. We had used a bus stop activity to explore some ideas about gravity and air. There were 7 statements written on card that each individual had to decide was true or false.
Some of the statements were "Air can push against things", "When an object is floating, it is not falling", and "We can speed up or slow down the rate at which an object falls through the air." Some of the results were very interesting.
Click on the pictures to get a better look at them.
At the end of our unit, we will revisit these and see if our opinions have changed at all.
Some of the statements were "Air can push against things", "When an object is floating, it is not falling", and "We can speed up or slow down the rate at which an object falls through the air." Some of the results were very interesting.
Click on the pictures to get a better look at them.
At the end of our unit, we will revisit these and see if our opinions have changed at all.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Cheyenne's Xmas Presentation
Here is Cheyenne's presentation about Xmas. She made it for her homework last week.
Each slide will show for 4 seconds, so you will need to pause the video to read all of the writing on some of the slides. Sorry that it's a bit hard to read in places.
Each slide will show for 4 seconds, so you will need to pause the video to read all of the writing on some of the slides. Sorry that it's a bit hard to read in places.
Recently...
Hi Bronte, and everybody else.
We have been very busy lately, and have been doing lots of different things. Unfortunately, we have not had the cow lately, so have not been able to make some posts on the blog. We should put something up this or maybe next week.
In art, we have been making some street art, which I will take photos of and post next week hopefully. We also designed a new logo for the school. I wonder if anybody from Pod 9 will win the school-wide competition. Hope so.
Did you know that next Friday (5th Dec) is National Jandal Day. This is to raise money for Surf Lifesaving NZ. We're going to have a competition at school, where you can win a battery powered motorboat.
Pod 9 won their Tapuwae semi-final yesterday against Pod 7 and will play either Pod 8 or Pod 10 in the final next week.
As for me (Mr B), I'm spend these 2 days at this year's TechQuest at Forum North. I'm taking a workshop on podcasting. I must say that I'm very impressed with what the students have been able to do. I'm sure the kids back at school would love to see the results.
Until next time, be safe.
Mr Buckland.
We have been very busy lately, and have been doing lots of different things. Unfortunately, we have not had the cow lately, so have not been able to make some posts on the blog. We should put something up this or maybe next week.
In art, we have been making some street art, which I will take photos of and post next week hopefully. We also designed a new logo for the school. I wonder if anybody from Pod 9 will win the school-wide competition. Hope so.
Did you know that next Friday (5th Dec) is National Jandal Day. This is to raise money for Surf Lifesaving NZ. We're going to have a competition at school, where you can win a battery powered motorboat.
Pod 9 won their Tapuwae semi-final yesterday against Pod 7 and will play either Pod 8 or Pod 10 in the final next week.
As for me (Mr B), I'm spend these 2 days at this year's TechQuest at Forum North. I'm taking a workshop on podcasting. I must say that I'm very impressed with what the students have been able to do. I'm sure the kids back at school would love to see the results.
Until next time, be safe.
Mr Buckland.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Hi everyone
Just seeing how you guys are, have you been doing any thing interesting? Well today we did word wall art if you are wondering what that is, when you get a tile a small one or you can use a big one and you need some paper tissue p.v.a glue and you use ribbons and you need to use rub on words like little sayings and what you do you get a picture hook and you hot glue gun it on the back. Then when you have done that you put p.v.a glue on the top of the tile and put the tussie paper on the tile and lightly push it down and press the air bubbles out then glue the tussie paper around the edges then you can decorate it with ribbon and stickers and whatever other stuff you want on it then you get a hair dryer and dry the glue then when the glue drys rub the little saying or word on that you want on it then that is pretty much it well better go.
Just seeing how you guys are, have you been doing any thing interesting? Well today we did word wall art if you are wondering what that is, when you get a tile a small one or you can use a big one and you need some paper tissue p.v.a glue and you use ribbons and you need to use rub on words like little sayings and what you do you get a picture hook and you hot glue gun it on the back. Then when you have done that you put p.v.a glue on the top of the tile and put the tussie paper on the tile and lightly push it down and press the air bubbles out then glue the tussie paper around the edges then you can decorate it with ribbon and stickers and whatever other stuff you want on it then you get a hair dryer and dry the glue then when the glue drys rub the little saying or word on that you want on it then that is pretty much it well better go.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Zion wildlife park
Hi everyone I went to the Zion wildlife park today and it was so fun there is over 40 lions in there and I saw I a monkey I thing it was a bamboo monkey (how ever you spell it) and I saw Zion and shia they are the lion mans babys they live right outside his house her isa pic of zion sorry that you can only see his back and here are some more pics BYE!!!!!! BRONTE 
Zion 
Zion 
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Update
Hi everyone,
How is it? Just giving you a little update on how things are going for me, this is what I'm up to.On Tuseday I went rock climbing with my sisters and today we were going to go horse riding but it started raining really hard so that was cancelled, then we went to Spotlight to buy some fabric so I can make a top with my Gran but when we were paying for the fabric the shop had a power cut (oh no) so in the morning we have to go back to get the gear to make my top. This is what I'm doing next week.On Tuesday I'm going rock climbing on Wednesday I am going to watch a show at the Form North on Thursday we are going to the lion park with the home educators group for a tour and then on Friday we are going to the pools for swimming practice so I am fully booked (heehee) ;-) I will give you guys another update later.
How is it? Just giving you a little update on how things are going for me, this is what I'm up to.On Tuseday I went rock climbing with my sisters and today we were going to go horse riding but it started raining really hard so that was cancelled, then we went to Spotlight to buy some fabric so I can make a top with my Gran but when we were paying for the fabric the shop had a power cut (oh no) so in the morning we have to go back to get the gear to make my top. This is what I'm doing next week.On Tuesday I'm going rock climbing on Wednesday I am going to watch a show at the Form North on Thursday we are going to the lion park with the home educators group for a tour and then on Friday we are going to the pools for swimming practice so I am fully booked (heehee) ;-) I will give you guys another update later.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Free Rice
Me donated 3000 grains of rice to homeless hungry people YAY ME!!! comment tel me if you can beat it!!
xoxElmolovaxox
xoxElmolovaxox
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