Soldering

Today I learned the skill of soldering. Here is my first sample.

Tin foil sculptures!

    This week in room 12 we have been creating tin foil sculptures. We learned how to measure the foil out properly and sculpt it into something sporty, that links to our inquiry ( The human machine ). I love to do gymnastics so I decided to sculpt it into a gym pose. After that we went into a sunny spot outside to find a shadow that we could outline, then colour in with marker. Here is the link to the video we used : clip

Orienteering

We have been learning about co-ordinates, reading maps, compass bearings, directions and using an atlas.

On Tuesday afternoon we had the opportunity to partake in orienteering with the Hawkes Bay Orienteering club.  They set up two courses around the school.  

The first course was fun but hard at the same time as it was my first time orienteering. I think I enjoyed it!

The second course was more challenging and had more to complete, it was definitely a lot more fun because I knew most of the locations from the last course!
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The dragon slayer

The dragon slayer

In a time when dragons threatened mankind, there was only one man who fought against them all.  His name is Tarragon. He and his brave battle horse Black Bull, roamed the desert in search of these terrifying monsters. But things don't always turn out as they should…

Being a dragon slayer wasn’t always easy, that was his job of course. Fighting them day in day out, a bit tiring really. How does he do it! maybe it was time for a change. Could he be someone else than just brave, fearless, heroic, muscular, I think i've said enough.. But anyways I’ll get back on track, maybe there was more to him. Who knows?

I mean, probably not. Well, he looks terrifying and heroic at the same time. Let me describe his looks to you, see what you think.

Firstly Tarragon has restless, beady eyes. He also has pretty pointy eyebrows which makes it hard to tell if he is mad or not.

Lastly, the biggest feature I could possibly describe about his facials would be his huge pointy chin. Just wow. Now, His body is extremely muscular with a few bruises and scratches that look like scars but that's about it.

His personalities? Hmm, how do I put this.. I think he has two sides of personalities, If that made any sense at all. Ok well I’ll try to put it in better english. Tarragons first side is what I like to call Fearless, Heroic, Scary, Brave, Adventurous,

But I still think he could be... Kind, Compassionate and so much more!

I don't know for sure though, we need more information for that to be solved!

- By jazz

ANZAC Art

This is my ANZAC logo art that I created during reading time. It represents all the soldiers who went and fought in war and possibly passed. Lest we forget

Jamie Mcdell

This is my presentation about Jamie McDell. I had to research her during reading time and find out as much about her as possible so I could put it into this slide.

Instafood

 The delightful sushi and  starbucks frappe.

I gaze out into the store. Right next to the machine where “magic happens”, As my friend lara likes to say. We both love starbucks. I clap my hands silently and clench my teeth making a weird face. Of course A heap of people stare at me but I don't care. All I want is the drink.

At last. the drink was ready and lara has full hands carrying our drinks and a surprise food I didn't know about. We sit down on a bench and she reveals the food. “SUSHI!!”. Lara takes a close look at the food. DE-lish! We think to ourselves. The food looked so satisfying and we were desperately holding on to take a bite and have a sip of our starbucks.

Before we get right into it we are delighted by the wonderful smell of the sushi. Not too fishy and freshly cooked sushi rise. Mmmmmm…

Now. The greatest part of getting the whole mean is to eat it. I bite into the juicy sushi and sip  my delish frappe.

within a few seconds the meal is gone. Yummmy!

By Jasmine

ANZAC Silhouette art!

    This is my anzac silhouette art. I did it black on white and white

    on black and I like how it turned out!!

    How we made it :

 -  Found an image online and printed it out

  -   Cut the silhouette and glued it onto black paper   

       - Cut it out carefully again and glue white paper behind it          

                                  - Use the cut out silhouette and put it onto white paper                  

         Image below :  

   

Flag debate - which side are you on?

Between the 3rd and 24th March 2016 there will be a referendum held in New Zealand as to whether we should officially change the flag. A referendum is when the public (over 18) are asked to vote on a question from the government about our nation. The public will be deciding between the current NZ flag and the Silver Fern Flag.

New zealand has an unique flag history. In 1902, New Zealand's flag we have today became official. Did you know that some of the history in the flag is from the blue union jack which is symbolized on the flag itself. A very popular subject related to new zealand's history is the Treaty of Waitangi there was also the White disk which was going to be on one of the 3-4 official flags we have had in the past.f

One side of the referendum is to keep the flag. Also one of the only reasons we should change our flag is because it is similar to australia's. We should also keep it as it could be hard for some, ( mainly older people ) as they have lived with it either their whole lives or have just really liked it in general. Remember, it costs $26 million dollars for a little thing like changing the flag when it’s fine how it is!

John key and the national party would like to change the flag, do you?. It is wayyy too close to Australia’s and what if we copied them in the first place on accident or even on purpose. Come on, we need to be recognisable. Of course the current flag made history but with a new flag we could all have a new beginning, an opportunity to start fresh!

Well, I have made two sides on the flag change, what side are you on? I personally don’t mind either way, as long as we have a flag! Really deep inside of me says that I don’t want to change it for all its history  but both ways work and I will be happy if it does get changed and even if it doesn’t. Now all I have to do is wait for results on what's going to happen next.

Author's purpose

This is my powtoon on the author's purpose. It explains how you find out why an author wrote a piece of text and will help you in situations where you need to find out why they wrote it.

Flag referendum and Search tips

 

1. Don’t use wikipedia!
2. Use site:url to find a specific website!
3. Can’t find a website anymore? use cache:url!
4. Use * for missing/unknown words in a sentence.
5. Searching for particular file type use : file type:pdf
6. Only use key words!
7. Copy and paste an image in google images url for similar images

 8.     To find something that is close to another subject use eg. -fishing

 9.     Needing similar sites/images to what you have? related:url

 10.   Use minus signs to disclude things you don't want  

We then used a table to answer questions and ensure we had three sources of information for each question.  From this we placed the information into our own words.

My questions and answers :

Why does it cost so much to change the flag?

• It costs so much because the people who send out all the voting papers have to play for it to be shipped out to everyone and for them to actually be made

Why are we changing the flag in the first place?

• Because it Needs to be instantly recognisable as it is very close to Australia's

I think we should keep the flag for all the history it has made and is making today. I also don’t really mind if it gets changed or not but that is just my opinion.

• Jazz

Kei te pehea koe?

for the past few days/weeks room 12 have been learning how to greet each other in te reo. Here is my video I created with Billie and Abby. This is our script that we acted out together

NZ Flag Referendum

Between the 3rd and 24th March 2016 there will be a referendum held in New Zealand as to whether we should officially change the flag. A referendum is when the public (over 18) are asked to vote on a question from the government about our nation. The public will be deciding between the current NZ flag and the Silver Fern Flag.

New Zealand has an unique flag history. In 1902, New Zealand's flag we have today became official. Did you know that some of the history in the flag is from the blue union jack which is symbolized on the flag itself. A very popular subject related to N Zealand's history is the Treaty of Waitangi there was also the White disk which was going to be on one of the 3-4 official flags we have had in the past.

One side of the referendum is to keep the flag. Also one of the only reasons we should change our flag is because it is similar to Australia's. We should also keep it as it could be hard for some, ( mainly older people ) as they have lived with it either their whole lives or have just really liked it in general. Remember, it costs $26 million dollars for a little thing like changing the flag when it’s fine how it is!

There is also another side to this referendum. John key and the national party would like to change the flag, do you? It is way too close to Australia’s and what if we copied them in the first place on accident or even on purpose. Come on, we need to be recognisable. Of course the current flag made history but with a new flag we could all have a new beginning, an opportunity to start fresh!

Well, I have made two sides on the flag change, what side are you on? I personally don’t mind either way, as long as we have a flag! Really deep inside of me says that I don’t want to change it for all its history  but both ways work and I will be happy if it does get changed and even if it doesn’t. Now all I have to do is wait for results on what's going to happen next.

Artwork

This is my artwork I had created during the start of this week and last week. We were instructed to cut a photo of us in half and draw the other half symmetrically. It was really fun to do and i like how it turned out in the end. - Jazz

House chant

          In class we made up a house chant that we would like to chant during HNI house events

                                          ★   This is me, Emma and Anielas chant and lyrics!  ★

                                                      Sheppard is mighty, sheppard is strong!

                                                         Sheppard is working all day long!

                                                   Sheppard is the best, better than the rest!

                                                         We'll work hard, we will not rest! 

                                           GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sheppard!

Swimming Sports

The day of swimming sports.Thursday the 11th of february. I had a really good time! It was hot and I only did one length but i tried my best and that's what matters. It was also fun because we were racing and just had a good time.The options for swimming were freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breath-stroke! overall I think it was awesome! 
- Jazz

~ sheppard house