Reflection Section Week 6 | Athletics Day

Reflection Section Week 6 | Athletics Day

Last week on Thursday we had athletics day. There were two things you could do competitive or social. Competitive was you chose 5 events that your good at and you got points and you could go to zones which is the big Christchurch competition. Social is the one I chose and it was basically just following a teacher around and doing some of the activities with your year group. In competitive you go to form and then you start but social you have period one and two. Period one and two we did no work and got to sit on our phones. I missed my first event which was long jump even though I was looking forward to it. When I found the group I was meant to be in our second event wasn't for a while so the said we should do  a paper scissors rock competition. I lost straight away and the teacher ended up winning the year 10 boys paper scissors rock competition. The next event was sprints which was a bit of a mess because there heaps of us running at once. Then it was high jump which I couldn't do then my last event was discuss which I didn't do good at either. At the end of the day there was the house sprints and my house came second in total. I liked athletics day because we did no work, it was fun and I got to hang out with my friends the whole day.

Atomic Science | Periodic Table

 This term we have been working on learning about atoms and the periodic table. 

An atom is made up of 3 things. The neutron, proton and electron. The electron is on the outside while the proton and neutron is in the middle which is called the nucleus. Every element has at least 1 atom in it. But the amount of electrons, protons or neutrons depends on the element. The number at the top of an element shows how many electrons there are and the bottom is the neutrons and protons. But the protons and electrons are the same so you take the top number off the bottom. The number left over is the number of neutrons. 

The first row on the periodic table is the alkali metals. The metals only have one electron  so they want to get rid of it. So they are very reactive. We did an experiment with alkali metals. The first one was lithium. When it got put in water it just spun around. Next we did sodium. It took a few attempts to get the right amount but eventually it set on fire and exploded

Parihaka

 Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the story of Pariaka. Which was about how the British soldiers took over Parihaka and arrested the leader because they were on there land. For this blog post we had to answer some questions from a song called Parihaka. Parihaka Song Link. The main message of this song is about Parihaka and Te Whiti. In the song "you can't pull out your roots" means you can't stop them from plowing and planting seeds. The song also says "His children's children wearing the white plume"  means they are wearing the white albatross feather which represents Te Whiti. Te Whiti will never be defeated means hell always be remembered and talked about so he will never be defeated.

Reflection Section W4 T1

This week we had to write about a book that we have read this week. My book is called Bone, The Great Cow Race. 

 At the start of the book the main character Fone Bone. Talks about the great cow race then some rat creatures that live in the forest. Then he starts walking around the market with his friend. They go to go buy some honey. They don't end up getting honey so Fone Bone goes and gets some. When e gets back he'd been stung a lot But his friend doesn't need it anymore. After that he goes to some of his friends which had made a cow suit and enters it into the race. Then Fone Bone goes to the go's to the forest while his friends go and open a betting table for the race. After that the race starts and Fone Bone gets chased by rat creatures and ran right to the race. The creatures started attacking the cows and the people in the suit. After that the people in the cow suit had to rebuild someone's barn.

Slaves

For past few weeks we have been learning about slaves, how they tried to escape and there lives. Slaves would sing songs called spirituals. Most of the time these songs would have secret meanings like escaping.These songs were sang at thing called bush meeting which were basically churches for the slave Harriet Tubman helped thousands of slaves escape through secret tunnels. She was an ex slave who used music to transmit messages.

Wade in the Water. God’s gonna trouble the water.

Who are those children all dressed in Red?

God’s gonna trouble the water.

Must be the ones that Moses led.

God’s gonna trouble the water.

This was a part of one of the songs she sung. The hidden message was go through rivers so dogs cant track your scent. This stuff is still significant today because of the black lives matter and black civil rights movements. They use slavery as points in their protests. This music also influenced just about all of the music genres.

Here is a map that I made showing the slave trade triangle, what happened to the slaves and the escape routes.

Cybersafe

 Today in ICT we had to make a poster about cyber showing what you should do to be safe on the internet.

Here is a video that could also help keep you safe: 

Art Photos

 In art we have been taking photos and editing them in photoshop. We had to choose a style of editing. I chose Mauren Brodbeck who is a artist born in Switzerland. She covers the main subject in a colour.

My favorite photo is the one that go's from purple to pink. What's your favorite one? But I like how they all turned out. I also liked taking the photos with the figures