Tech Challenge

Monday, 29th May

Today Room 5 had a Technology Challenge and we had to build a solid bridge with only 20 iceblock sticks NO glue, NO cellotape or anything!. We had to get into 5 groups of 4 or 5 so Sierra, Shontaya, Summer and I formed a group of 4. The aim was to span a 30cm gap and support a 500g weight. Sierra came up with an idea which was to weave the iceblock sticks in a stable position, so we tried it...the first time we tried it didnt seem to work so we tryed another idea which was to stack the sticks over to the other side of the desk, so we tried it. It didnt seem to work so we asked Mr Birnie for help and he suggested me weave the iceblock sticks but before you knew it we had to test them but ours was not stable.

 

Technology Challenge

Rocket Message Carrier

You are being held hostage in a room in a building on one side of a road. Across the road are people who can help you escape. You must get a plan of your building and a message across to them without alerting your captors, so you cannot yell out.

Your room has a small window. Beside it is an old telephone line which crosses the road. You have to get the map and the message across the road to the other building without being heard or seen.  You must also hurry- you only have 20 minutes until you are taken to a top-secret location which you know you will never escape from.

Fortunately, a party has recently taken place in the room you are held in and some materials have been left behind.

You wave to your friends and prepare to send the message. Speed and safe delivery are important, so they have to be able to quickly detach the message and plan and unfold it in one piece- there are no spare copies- you have one chance only!

Task

You have 20 minutes to build your message carrier which will take an A5 sized paper with map and message safely across to the building 7m away.

You will have

• One rubber balloon
• 1.5m of sticky tape
• Two paper clips
• Dowel 20mm long
• Two pieces A5 paper, one peice will have the messageon it.

My Best Edited Writing

The Haunted House….

“Olivia” my mother calls.

“Yes mother” I yell, running to her.

“Go get some fresh air outside and go for a little walk.”

I went outside and thought to myself “where should I go?” I went down the street skipping in happiness until.. “ I think i’m lost” I said. I started to shivering with fear. I was trying to find my way home but instead of finding my way home I found a house well should I say a haunted house. I was slowly walking up the pathway with wonder. I wondered does anyone live here? I walk up to the scary looking door trying to be quiet but the boards of wood started to creak. I got to the creepy scary looking door opening it as slow as I could. Creeeeak! The door slowly opened. When I got inside of the haunted house the lights flickered and flickered. I kept on hearing weird noises yelling at me…

“OLIVIA” I heard! “Its coming from the top of the stairs” I said “It sounds like a ghost” I was petrified! I was slowly walking up the old long creaky stairs shivering and shivering trying not to cry. But at that moment I then felt a tap on my back, I turned around quickly and ran down the stairs as fast as I could. I then looked at the top of the old long creaky stairs and said to myself “Is that a ghost or what?” I yelled “what’s up there!?” I walked up the old long creaky stairs terrified of what’s going on. I then  got to the top of the old long stairs. I keep hearing those noises again and again it really starting to irritate and scare me. I suddenly see a light shining through the door and a shadow passing through the room. I heard something saying my name over and over. Walking up to the scary door was a bad choice but I was wondering should I open it? I lightly touched the door handle with one finger and the door immediately opened. I walked in the room and heard a voice saying “follow me Olivia follow me”. I followed the voice as it kept getting louder and louder every step I took. I got to the end of the room and BANG!! The door slammed. The light flickered on and off. I was shivering even more the voice inside me was saying I need to get out of here quickly as I had tears rolling down my face. I tried to run but the doors kept slamming and slamming. I was yelling help but no one heard me so I yelled even louder. I was running out of every room I was in getting trapped over and over again. I was rushing and screaming as loud as I could… “HELP,HElP,HELP!!!” I yelled get me out of here!

I saw a light coming from a door so I run towards it getting ready to open the door and I was out of the house as quick as I could trying to find my way home again. I tripped over a rock as I got out of the haunted house and hit my head on another rock… not remembering anything “Olivia where are you?” my mother cried. I didn’t reply as I didn’t hear anything and my mother was freaking out “ Olivia!” my mother cried again “ this is not a joke or any game” she said! so she was looking every where for me trying to find me as fast as she could. It was getting dark and cold. She looked every where but nothing could be found ever since 1989 nothing or no one was found or seen….

TO BE CONTINUED............ 

Camp Letter #1

Monday 6th March 2017                                    

Room 5

Havelock North Intermediate

Dear Megan,

Thank you for coming to camp with room 5 and 7. You washed, dried and named all the dishes, it stopped room 5 and 7 not washing and drying as many dishes so thank you. Being at camp with you was amazing doing activities, sleeping in the same cabin and also laughing together on the way to camp and on the way back to school.

My favourite part of camp was doing the mud slide. I will always remember how I said I would never go down the mudslide but at the end I ended up going and that was funny. I also loved how we made deals on if I went on the flying fox you will go down the mudslide that was also funny. Being at camp with you was extra fun.

Once again thank you for coming to camp with us.

Yours Sincerely,

Olivia

Mihi

Ko te Rongokako te maunga                         

Ko Tuki Tuki  te awa                             

Ko Olivia ahau

Ko John toku matua

Ko Selena toku mama

Ko Olivia Jean Veerkamp toku ingoa

Ko Veerkamp toku ingoa whanau

Science Facts

Did You Know...

What makes popcorn pop?

Popcorn is a special kind of corn. Of all the types of corn popcorn is the only variety that pops. Inside each kernel of popcorn is a tiny droplet of water surrounded by a hard shell called a hull. As the popcorn is heated the water turns into steam which builds pressure inside the kernel.

What causes thunder?

Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending on the distance and nature of the lightning thunder can range from a sharp loud crack to a long low rumble. The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning.

What causes a rainbow?

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun.

Why does hair turn grey?

As we get older the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color like gray, silver or white as it grows.

Why do we feel dizzy when we spin?

As each hair bends it makes its nerve cell send a signal telling the brain about that movement. When we spin around the fluid starts spinning too. ... When we stop, the fluid keeps moving. That may make us feel that we are spinning backward.

Reflective Writing - Week 4 & 5 Term 4 - 31st Oct-11th Nov

My success this week is Athletics, becasue athletics day hasn't been my favourite day through out the years of Te Mata Primary but as I got to this year I really enjoyed it. This year for athletics I had fun doing all the events but I really enjoyed the sprints becasue in the 100m sprints I came 1st= with Rachel! When the gun went off I ran with fear, I was shaking with fear thinking I wasn't going to win but sprints is not about winning its about having fun so thats what I did.

My other success this week is Media studies, because the first media studies class I didn't know what media studies was until the next lesson becasue Mr Cottrell was telling us on the first lesson about a story. It was interesting! the next lesson we were learning about what media studies was and how it worked. The 3rd lesson was fun but it wasnt as fun as the last session. The last lesson was the best becasue we went live on peak tv!

My concerns this last week are I don't have any concerns

My goal for next week are to try and get my homework done in time, because latley I havent been presenting my homework to the class in time so hopefully this homework I present it to the class in time. I have set this goal because I am hoping to complete this goal before next week!

Electronics Emergency Light

I have started construction and so far I have done... So far on my Emergency Light I have Drilled my wholes, Put cooper tape on corflute, Put LED lights in the wholes of the corflute, Marked the VE- and VE+ and have soldered the VE+ side to the copper tape. The one thing I found most challenging was drilling the wholes in the corflute.

Olympic Art

Yesterday in class Room 2 had an art lesson. For our art we had to get an A3 piece of paper and draw a sketch of an olympic symbol, then we had to colour it in with oil pastel. The backround was geometric shapes made up with Dark Green, Light Green, Dark Blue, Light Blue and different mustard colours. In the torch I put Red, Orange and Yellow. Here is my piece of art...

Thank You Letters

During this week for writing Room 2 have been writing a letter to New World, H2go, Pure NZ, Mainfrieght and Ms Beamount, my group got New World... First we had to draft out our peace of writing, then we had to show Mrs Hurley and she will check it and give us a peace of yellow card and a peace of refil paper so that we could write our good copy. After we had finished our good copy we stuck the letter on the yellow card and we had to either take a picture or draw a picture and stick it on ur card, then once we had finished that we had to write Thankyou on the front and hand into the teacher. I had heaps of fun.Here is mine.....

First Day At Electronics

The Get Ready Get Thru website tells us there are three things we need to do to get ready for a disaster which are...
1. Have a household Emergency plan
2.Assemble Emergency survival items
3.Have a get away kit
It says I need a torch with spare batteries in my survival items. I am going to design and make an Emergency Light at Electronics. In my family we would need 90 litres of water all together because 3 litres per person and I have 10 people in my family so 3x10=30x3=90 litres.


                                           
                                             

Room 2 Magical Mintie Moment

In maths we are doing Statistics. We have had a competition on who can suck the mintie the longest and who can make the longest snake out of the mintie wrapper. So we made a data and graph google sheet that had room 2s names and the length and time we had it in our mouths and how long the wrapper was. There were 2 people that got there snakes over a meter which I thought was amazing. It was Summer and Mrs Hurley but Mrs Hurleys was the longest. There were also 2 people that sucked on their mintie for over 1 hour. One of them was me and the other was Kauri. Mrs Hurley won for the longest wrapper and Kauri won for sucking the mintie the longest. But he bet me by one second. I found it interesting that if you kept your mintie in the same place and don't move it it would last longer than the others that move it around in their mouths. I also found it interesting that if you take your time making your snake you will find in longer than the others that didn't. Here is my graph I made on google sheets... 

Idioms

An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally. We have been looking at idioms relating to the Human Machine.
Mine is A Pat On The Back.

Here is my idiom...

Scale Drawing

In Mathematics we have been studying Transformation. We have completed an enlargement which is called a Scale Drawing. My scale factor is 2:1.
Here is my Scale Drawing.

ANZAC Stamp

                                                               ANZAC Stamp

Here is my ANZAC stamp. I have drawn a white cross to represent the soldiers who died and fought for New Zealand. I have drawn Poppies to represent the flowers that grew on the battle field and blood from the soldiers and also put a sunrise to represent the dawn for the dawn parade.

ANZAC Diary Entry

                                         

                                         ANZAC Writing

In writing this week  we have been looking at diary writing while in the trenches during ANZAC campaing of World War 1...Here is my diary writing.

27th May 1917

Dear Mother,

Its freezing cold here as it just turned Winter. It’s constantly drizzling over night and throughout the day as I have been shooting through it. I've been badly injured but don’t worry about me i'll be fine.

Many biscuits have been eaten. We call them hard tack. All we have been eating is hard biscuits(hardtack) but they last a long time but eventually go rotten. We have had some men of ours break their teeth because some were to hard so he's lost one tooth now. The hardtack is harder than a normal biscuit because we only put in all the dry ingredients so they last longer as normal biscuits u put wet and dry ingredients. We have rats as big as cats living in our trenches which they have been taking our biscuits.

As you know it’s a war here so we have loud gun noises and bombs go off as the noise is surrounding us  as we fight through the war. When we are in our trenches we can hear all the turkish men yelling at us saying ‘Fight’ ‘Fight’ ‘Fight’ to us. So we did. I think in my head ‘hopefully we win the fight’.

When we are in the our trenches eating our biscuits we can smell dead rats that are as big as cats. Everywhere we walk and everywhere we talk we can smell dead rats even when we are out of our trenches. I will  be here for another year so hopefully i’ll get back to you as I am moving trenches now.

From your dearest son Rex

Whale Pot Bay Character Portrait

In class we have been reading Whale Pot Bay by Des Hunt. We Had to chose one of the main Characters Jake, Steph or Milton Summer and complete a charater portrait. I chose Steph and these are the descriptive words I used to describe her- Pretty, Long Blond Hair, Posh, Her Dad Died, Likes Being Perfect, Loves Milton Summer.

Room 2 Hillary House Banner Competittion

Today we designed a Room 2 Hillary house banner for Kotahitanga week. Here is my one. I hope you like it. It has a Whale for the Whale Pot BAy book by Des Hunt we are readng, A mountain for Mount Everest, a river for the Tuki tuki, A flag for New Zealand and heaps more.

My First Impressions of HNI

Yesterday we had Technology. For Technology I got put in 2b which is food Tech. For food Tech we made fruit kababs,we had to bring different veriatys of fruits like Apples,Pineapple,Melon,Oranges and more. I brought an Apple,three Plums and Melon. First Miss Bassett Showed us a google slide with Instructions on it. First you have to wash your hands,then you have to check your finger nails to see if they are dirty or not.Mine weren't.Then we have to whatch and listen to Miss Bassett. Miss Bassett showed us how to chop fruit and how to thread the fruit on to the kebab stick. Miss Bassett tought us about the different fruits,like what fruits worms can eat and what fruits worms can't eat. At HNI i have made heaps more friends. I have two friends that came from the same school as me but aren't in the same class as me.  Now i have plenty more. I have the whole class as my friends. At the start of the year when Mrs Hurley showed us the way to our class room,on the white board it said.There is no strangers in here they are just friends you have not meet yet. I think that HNI is an extrodanary school because we have P.E gear that we get changed into for P.E. I also like how HNI has nice teachers. The nicest teacher is Mrs Hurley.