Term TWO Overvew

Main events
Some main events this year was the cross country that was 3km long and rely fun to run if you had shoes on I came 138th out of all the year 8 boys in the school I think I cam 19th out of the Rimu house year 8 boys. Anther main event was the production which I didn't go to because my mum could't pay for it but people talked about it a lot.

Physical Activity and the Outdoors Homework challenge P1

Over a  period of time I did homework challenge  P1 Improve your fitness over a 12 week period.  Its about 1km to school and 1km back from school so in one week of school I had don about 10km it tock me six weeks to do this challenge and here are a capill of photos of me walking to school.

Daily Blog Post

1.Your mama so fat when she walked across the beech the wales started to sing we are family so so family.

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Bad product

A bad product would be a cat toy I got for my cat Niko. It looked like a type of ball that you put treats inside of it. So I brought that for $10 and when I got home I filled the hole and gave it to Niko and it only lasted for 1 minuet so I took it back and got a refund.

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Minecraft 

Minecraft is a game that you can play in single player or multiplayer there are different types of worlds, the types of worlds are super flat, large biomes and default.There are three game play modes the modes are survival, creative and adventure. In survival mode you have to hunt for your own food and materials you can starve from not eating food you can die from mobs and faling form high ground. Creative mode is when you have unlimited items you don't starve and and cant die you also can destroy items instantly

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My Weekend.

In the weekend I didn't do much except play on my laptop and build house's on Minecraft Because it was raining.On the world I created on Minecraft I first built a house then a castle it took me as long as 25 minutes to build my House and 25 minutes to build my castle so it only took me 50 minutes to build a house and a castle.

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Easy as pie or Pice of cake

Which is used to describe a task or experience as pursuable and simple.It means some think very easy.And can also be (pice of cake).

Where some one could use it. after winning a race by saying easy as pie or pice of cake.

how does a paintball gun work

 how does a paintball gun work

There are ten different tips of  functions inside the gun such as the Barrel, hammer the sear, trigger and bolt etc.

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I wonder how a laptop works.

I wonder how a gun works.

I wonder how a car works. 

How I wake up

In the morning you should wake up at 7:40am than get into you school uniform have breakfast (weetbix's and milk) and make you lunch (sandwich, rice crackers, apple and a mussily bar) then pack your bag and go to school.

short storys

As I was riding a long with my brother Edin in front I saw a bear steering at me like I was a late breakfast as he licked his lips I then fort it would be cool to pat in even thou he looked hungry. After i had pated him and tern around he started chasing me I ran as fast as I could Edin saw me running so he ternd arownd and started riding towers me as he got closer he the bear started to get slower and slower then he eventually stooped. He looked arond for ten minuets then started to walk back the way he came so I followed him after about twenty minuets he stopped at were my bike was I garbed it as fast as I could then he trend the way he came from out of the woods.

Heart rate

What is heart rate?
Heart rate is  by the number of heartbeats per minute of time.

What is the normal heart rate in for some one you're age show how the calculation is worked out.?
The half east heart rate is 64 for a 12 years of age.

How do you messier you heart rate?re is at
Heart rate is measured by finding the pulse of the body.The pulse can be found near the wrist or in the neck.

Meeting Room 43 Students

Yesterday we meet room 43 students next to our classroom. There've been put into a teperly classroom because there original classroom that court fire. When we whent there and Bobby showed us around he showed us his and all the other kids work spaces at the end Bobby said that we could come and see him when ever we wanted and said he'll be hiding in his work space.

What I did in the Weekend

In the weekend I played on my laptop at night but during the day I would be helping my mum packing up the house. The room first did me and my brothers room it was going rely well but half way thru unfortunately my mum found a caple of built's in my brothers draw after 6:00pm I was allowed to hop on my computer at 6pm after diner that was most of my weekend.

teenagers smoke

About 80% of teens start to smoke before the age of 18 thats 2/3 of teens a year.
About the number of teens that start smoking a day is 3,900.

periodic table

The periodic table is a table made of lots of different aliments. There are 118 different tipis of aliments that make up the world there are 18 tipis of aliments like

lithium family

beryllium family

scandium family

titanium family

vanadium family

chromium family

manganese family

iron family

Pluto Discovered

On February 18, 1930 the 9th planet Pluto was Discovered By a man named Clyde W. Tombaugh. while Tombaugh was carefully examining a set of photographic plates created by the telescope.He did want to tell the public his discovery  until more recherché was don on Mach 13 1930 he disci did to tell the public about his discovery.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in the Germany. he died on 18 April 1955 at the age of 76 and he died in Princeton, New Jersey.

Stream study

At camp we did a activity called stream study where you had to study. I had to test the temperature what the water was in the sun, shade and rapids it was 8 degrees in the sun 4 degrees in the shade and 9 degrees in the rapids.

On the 6th of may Rimu House year 8 students went to Ngamuwahine Camp.

I'm proud that I did high ropes because I don't like being really high of the ground.

Believe it or not but 8 students had to eat one dry wet buck with tomato sauce and crime with a 
drink that had popcorn, pumpkin, tomato sauce, crime, potato in it.

It made me laugh when I tripped up agin in the rabbit run in paint ball.

The biggest challenge was the vertical playpen because you have to get to the top of it by using your hands and legs.

The tastiest thing was spaghetti on toast.

The most rewarding thing was getting to do the camp sleep out in the bush.

Massive earthquake hits Iran

A massive earthquake has hit Iran the 7.8 magnetite earthquake was near the south-east city of Khash.There are 8 countries near iran Pakistan Turkey and Afghanistan.

G2. Give to your family:Prepare 3 formal three course meal.

On sunday the 14th of april I did G2. Give to your family:Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including a menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and comments from your guests. Homework challenge I started at 1:00pm for preps my first prep was lamb meatballs the ingredients in the meal where salt/pepper 
600 grams lamb mince 
one tablespoon of soy sauce 
one tablespoon tomato paste
1-11/2 cups fresh bred crumbs. 
Steps 1/2 onion find diced 1 egg lightly beaten and add fresh herbs I used rosemary finny and thume diced then put all ingredients in a bowl and mix with hands. 
Next I started on my pumpkin soup the ingredients where 1/2 onion finally diced 
6-7 cups of pumpkin 
3 med potatoes 
salt/pepper 
oil 
chicken stock 
water.
Steps rost pumkin & potatos at 180o bake for 40mins in the oven. simmer onion then add chicken stoke and roost pumpkin & potatos. Simmer for 30-45mins mule and severe with croutons.Croutons ingredients bread
cheese 
Steps cuate bread eveinly then pout on ovin tray cock for one minute then stick on cheese stik back in oven until cheese has melted.
next was one egg chocolate cake 
Ingredients 
50g butter
1 tablespoon of golden sirup
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon of cocoa
1 teaspoon backing soda
3/4 cup of milk

Melt butter and syrup in a small saucepan.Put melted ingredients into a bowl.Add egg and sugar and beat well.Sift cocoa,flower and baking powder together.fold shifted ingredients and vanilla into egg mixture . Dissolve baking soda in milk .Fold into egg mixture pour mixture into two grassed and lined 20 cm sponge sandwich tins bake at 190c for 20mins or until cake spring back when lightly touched.

Baby orangutans rescued in Borneo

A total of thirty baby orangutans have been saved from from the country of Borneo.Ourangutans are one of the world’s most endangered species – it’s thought that there are fewer than 50,000 left in the world today.

ANZ gives out fake money

The ANZ bank has acadentliy handed out fake money to a new Zealand woman before she went on holiday to Canada will she was there she went to a Canadian restraint and when she went to pay they would't take her money. The next day she went to the Canadian bank where the $220.00 was  remanning.

Man to tightrope cross Grand Canyon

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda plans to cross the Grand Canyon in June on a tightrope 500m in the air, without a safety harness.his will be his first major stunt since last year when he became the only person to walk on a wire over Niagara Falls.

“This is another one of my dreams coming true,” Wallenda, 34, told reporters in a brief telephone interview. “This is one that has been on my bucket list for some time.”

Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the “Flying Wallendas” acrobat family, said the tightrope walk across the famed gorge is higher than he has ever before attempted.

Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has died peacefully aged 87 she was PM of Britain for 11 years as leader of Conservative party since 1979and 1990.The union jack flags above the Houses of Parliament and Number 10 Downing Street have been lowered to half-mast as a mark of respect.

HOMEWORK EXPECTATIONS

Amount

We think that 30-45 minutes every weeknight is a reasonable expectation for homework. Per week that equals approximately 2.5 hours per week of homework.

2 terms = 20 weeks. Every homework task should take you 5 hours to do.

Quality

You need to work on each homework task for at least 2.5 to 5 hours. It should like it was done by a year 8 student. The product you make (if relevant) should look good quality.

Blog Post

- must be at least 2 paragraphs

- has to be punctuated correctly, spell checked and no errors

- you must include which category and task number in your post title so Miss C can sign you off.

Cat Video Festival returns to America

A second world wide festival dedicated to celebrating internet videos of cats is planned to take place in August.Last year the festival was the first of its kind and was a huge success attracting over 10,000 visitors.People who go are invited to vote for their favourite feline based videos with the most popular played out on a big screen during the event.The festival will start off in Minnesota and also travel to New York later in the year.

Balloon man floats for five miles

A South African man has floated 8km using 200 filled helium balloons.  The mans name was Matt Silver-Vallance and he was raising money to help build a children’s hospital in the city of 

Johannesburg South.

Swimming Sports

On Friday 22 of March Rimu house went to Memorial Pools for house swimming sports.  

I came last in all the activities I did. The activities we could do were breaststroke, freestyle, doggy paddle race, backstroke, dolphin dive and under water race.

RIMU Homework Challenges.

Giving.
G1.Give to children in need:Participate in the 20 Hour famine. Raise a minimum of $40.00
G2. Give to your family:Prepare 3 formal three course meals, including a menu, cooking and presenting, photographs of the meal and comments from your guests.

Excellence in the Arts
E2. Create an original art work using recycled materials.
E3. Visit an exhibition and review it. Present it on your blog.

Physical Activity and the Outdoors 
P1 Improve your fitness: over a 12 week period run or walk at least 60km or cycle 120km.
P3 Explore the outdoors: with a family member or family friend complete an 8 hour or overnight tramp.
Academic Excellence
A1. Improe your maths ability: Complete a random 10 x 10 grid in under 2min.
A8. Reading Challenge - Join and visit the Public Library regulary. Each time you visit, blog about one new service the Library offers.
Service in School and Community
S2. Ht be negotiatedelp with the assembly media team or some other area of responsibility for the year - mus
S4

My first month of this year has been good. I am in Room 42 with Miss Campbell as my teacher and enjoying it so far. We have done a bit of maths. I have learned BEDMAS which stands for Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction, and we did world maths day and world literacy day on world education games. We have read a story called All Summer In A Day as a class. We did a prologue, summarize and visual on the story.  We have started Technology and I'm in Food Technology with firarina and I’m doing alright. I am enjoying the year so far and I think this year is gonna be an awesome year.