Year 8 Dunedin Camp

This year at Rawhiti school we had been planning a trip to Dunedin for a lot of time and last week the year 8’s finally got to travel from Christchurch to Dunedin in 4 vans and 2 cars, I managed to get into a van with the adults being Talei and Stephen (not sure if Stephen right)  we travelled for 7 hour having many stops on the way. On the first day of activities we had to go to the Otago museum where we learnt about the history and founders after that we got the Chinese buildings and did a scavenger hunt. After that we went to the chemistry lab and played with different liquids like methanol oil, water and something I forgot I partnered with Lachlan and we managed to get 9 layers and they said something about this being a class record for our age or maybe our class i’m not that sure after that we messed around before getting to spraying liquid nitrogen at us and telling us not to pick up the little water droplets or have glasses on when we got our head under.

 

The next activity was Baldwin Street also called the steepest street and as we got out of the chemistry lab and we waited for 30 or so minutes then we packed up and left for it and travelled for 2 minutes as we arrived we could see the other group climbing it. I started to run up the hill but it was quite hard but still I did it twice.

 

Second Day Of Actives

 

We had an hour trip to one of two mainland Albatrosses nest in the world and looked at the military past of the place that they will never fire because of the birds. After that we went to the marine lab and they dissected a dog shark and we got to touch a few different marine animals like a hermit crab. After that we went onto a boat and saw 2 orca’s, 1 blue penguin, 1 dolphin, 1 southern Albatrosses unlike the northern Albatrosses that they were showing.

 

Third Day Of Actives

 

We went to the art gallery and did some art with paper and I did a bird after seeing all the bird pictures and after that we went to plantation and explored the universe then looked at butterfly’s.

 

That was all because the next day we left and came back to Christchurch.

 

Book Covers

Today we have been looking at book covers and making our own book I have done a book cover of a falling plane and called the novel ‘The Island’ by me. It is about this guy meeting a girl on the plane and becoming friends then a sudden turbulence happens making the plane drop out of the sky as a bolt fell loose and ending up on a unmarked island

Action station #1

For the first week of the term we have picked 3 action stations, I got my second choice which happened to be badminton so today (Friday) we have done it, I managed to win 2 out 4 games against some girls and boy and played a 4v4 which we won I was playing with Oskar for the most.

Duolingo

I have done Duolingo today and have completed the first stage of Duolingo called ordering food but have learnt that three lines in Japanese means 3 and two lines mean two and 1 line means one but not sure about above.

Franken stories

This is franken stories a site on writing stuff like this was a description, try it
His voice sounds as husky as the whole universe with the cold and emotionless making you want to shiver when you hear it.

Analogy

Low is to high as everything is to nothing – antonyms 

 

This means that opposites can be similar but are very different 

 

Leaf is to tree as finger is to hand – part of a whole

 

Fire is to smoke as sadness is to cry – cause and effect

 

Couch is to sofa as break is to fracture – synonyms 

 

Wolf is to dog as parrot is to bird – item in a category

Letter

Dear Christopher Luxon

 

Hello Mr Luxon I am trying to change your opinion in changing the finishing school time from 3pm to 5pm as I and many don’t agree with this, as this may bring the student’s and teacher’s stress and could make a student burn out with many schools having homework and if we can’t get it we would the the middle ground of 4pm as it might be a little less stressful for both the of them and having it at 5pm can be bad for the children that have to help out at home or do something and making it 4pm is a little better than 5pm as at 5pm they come back to home and in a hour they have dinner. It would be good if you make it an opinion and be free but otherwise it isn’t the best for some kids that live close that they can walk home in like 5 minutes. 

 

Sincerely Jed Millson

Feedback by Josaiah 8/10

Science Fair

This term we have been doing Science to plan for the Science Fair but in week 10 everyone finally finished what they were doing and I have to say that it wasn’t the most interesting thing. I enjoyed doing the games. Some weren’t working but a few that were quite fun and worked. What we did for the term was making elephant’s toothpaste where you can find in the hall by our group Angus, Max, and me (Jed) it doesn’t look the most interesting but try checking it out in your free time. On to the others, some people made a conductive thing were you can touch someone else to conduct the electricity so that was good and some people did it with ten other people and it still conducted and it can probably go up to infinity but I not sure and then there was a catapult which explains itself. There was also a wall that was covered in posters which is the periodic table just with a little more approachable than the actual one. I’m just saying a few so if you want to see more go check it out.

Matariki

Why are new year celebrations traditionally held in winter? – Matariki rises in the middle of winter.

 

How does Matariki compare to other celebrations? – Matariki was a time to acknowledge the dead and to release their spirits to become stars. It was also a time to reflect, to be thankful to the gods for the harvest, to feast and to share the bounty of the harvest with family and friends.

 

It is also our newest public holiday, why do you think we now celebrate it? – To honour the beginning of the Maori New Year, and in whānau celebrations to remember those who have died and to plan for the year ahead.

Moa Hunt

I made a fictionally story about someone hunting but I don’t know much about moa’s (I know they were real)

The sound of the birds singing was suddenly stopped by a man that was running under the dark trees making the birds rush into the air as quick as the wind but that didn’t stop the man who had his thoughts on something else.

 

It was his first hunt and he had found the moa but it managed to see him somehow and run off before he could get close to it. Right now he was running after the bird, the only good thing about this situation was that the bird couldn’t fly otherwise it might have escaped. Still he was slowly gaining ground on the turns (I don’t know how fast moa’s are). After 30 minutes of running he finally managed to catch up to the moa.

 

Throwing the spear with all his heart the spear glided through the air spinning it seemed like it was off but in the last second it changed course and hit the moa in the chest making it screech out in pain and blood started to flow out of its chest before falling to the ground lifeless.