At school recently, as the 70th anniversary has recently been, we read a story about a young active girl living in Japan, who got leukaemia from the radiation 9 years after the bombing. Her friend folded her a golden crane, and told her how when a sick person folds a thousand cranes, they get a wish. She then proceeded to fold a thousand, before she died. She unfortunately only got to 694 before she passed away. But, her legacy lived on. Her friends and family folded the remaining cranes, and she got buried with 1000 cranes. They then set up a fundraiser, and made a statue with the girl holding a golden crane in her hand. In scripted into the base of the statue is the words,
" This is our prayer, this is our cry; peace to the world."
Which our whole class found touching. There is now a origami folding class by the statue, and there are now thousands of cranes under the statue.
So, we decided to fold a thousand cranes. By the first day we had almost 200, so we were pretty determined! We have now 999 and Mrs Hogg is folding the thousandth this evening in gold paper.
Click here for more information on Mrs Hogg's blog.
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Science Fair
Hello, sorry I haven't written a post in a while!
In class last term and the beginning of this term, my class have been working on our separate Science Fair projects. We have all spent most of last term, our holidays, and this first week to get our projects completed. Most of us are almost completed, all of us are busy cutting, gluing, backing and printing, finishing off our Science Fair boards to a high standard.
My project started off badly, as it didn't work at all. But once I changed my method, it started to work. (Which I was extremely grateful for!) I have now almost completed my board, I'm just cutting and gluing.
My aim was : To investigate whether you can play a simple tune by altering sound waves with coloured light."
My actual experiment was connecting a speaker to a solar panel through a parallel circuit. (click here for a good website that explains them well) I then shone a torch into a solar panel, and the light waves caused the vibrations in the speaker to change the pitch. I then shone different coloured lights, to see if this caused different pitches in note. This did work, however, I did not get a definite note for each colour. The colours I used were red, green, yellow and blue, as these are four of the colours that makes up white light.
While I'm here, I would like to say a few thank you's. Mrs Hogg, for keeping track of my work, proof-reading, and getting the guillotine for everyone in the class.
Mrs Dromgool, for helping me develop my initial idea, and letting me borrow some equipments.
My mum, for using your highlighting skills when proof-reading my work, and helping me with presenting my board.
And finally, my dad, with out you, my Science Fair would have been reduced to a baking soda and vinegar volcano. You helped me with all things technical, proof-read and proof-read again my work, and put up with hundreds upon thousands of questions, most of them repeated, because I had forgotten the answer.
Thank you to you all, I couldn't have done it without you!
Sunday, 21 June 2015
Japanese Quiz
Recently, my school entered two teams into a Japanese Trivia Quiz, and I was in one of the teams. The quiz we went to was out of the schools in Waikato who entered. The winner went to the New Zealand wide competition.
There were 6 rounds, 10 questions for each round. There was an interval in the middle with food and drink provided, which was yummy.
My team came 4th, which was surprise as we were the only middle school there, and we got 37 out of 60 points. The winner was St Peters Cambridge.
Overall it was an enjoyable evening, I definitely had fun, and learnt some interesting facts about Japan as well.
Monday, 15 June 2015
A Memior
In English at school we are focusing on memoirs. This is a snapshot in time of a memory, usually in present tense. We are writing ours on a childhood game we used to play. I am writing mine about a snowball fight, which we used to do when we lived in England. We have a success criteria we are required to follow.
Success Criteria:
- We have used strong verbs.
- We have used our senses. (appropiatly)
- We have written in present tense.
As soon as I have finished editing I will post it on my blog.
Sunday, 7 June 2015
Maths
At school, we are about to move on to our new maths subject, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, which I desperately need to improve on. We have just finished Geometry, which I know I learnt a lot in, including enlargement, centre of enlargement, and bisecting lines and angles.
I hope to get a better understanding of rates and ratios in this new topic, as well as converting fractions to percentages and decimals, as well other skills I need.
School Life
"So You Think You can Dance" Competition
Last Wednesday, my school hosted a dance competition, So you Think you Can Dance, which I was a part of. We performed twice, once during the day for the school to watch, and once in the evening, which was the actual performance. Altogether, there were around 20 groups who were part of the competition, and some special guest performers at the end.I was in a group 7 along with Rose (see blog) and Ellie (see blog). We danced to a mix of two songs, It's on from Camp Rock and We Go Together from Grease, so our dance was mainly musical theatre with a bit of hip hop. We were extremely surprised and grateful to come first place!
There was a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, as well as two audience response awards, which one of them was won by the teachers, The Tutu Crew. Altogether it was an amazing experience filled with laughter, fun, and of course, dancing.
While I'm here, I would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Allan, for organising the whole competition, and dealing with 20 groups of dancers. You coped amazingly, and we are all grateful.
To the two hosts, Brooke and Zoe, you did a fantastic job. You were funny, clever, and your script was appropriate for the occasion, and evidently well thought through.
To the technicians up in the box, for all the lighting, the slideshows, and basically anything that uses electricity.
And finally, the people in my group. You all put your best foot forward (literally!) and worked hard to complete the dance.
Thank you to all, and others that were a part of it, that I haven't listed here.
Monday, 1 June 2015
Visual Art
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For Tech Arts, at the very moment I am in Art. We are doing paintings in World War 1, painting either Gallipoli or Flanders Field. We had to have a foreground, a mid-ground, and a background, as well as a symbol to show which army was represented. In each level, there had to be action.
I decided to set mine at Gallipoli, on board a British hospital boat, facing the beach. Below are the details.
Foreground: A British nurse, holding a bowl and rag looking down.
Mid-ground: Stretchers with wounded soldiers on them, a doctor and another nurse moving between them, applying bandages and checking up on them.
Background: The sea, with boats coming across with more wounded. The actual beach, with boats being pushed off, and trenches.
Symbol: An armband on the nurse, with the Union Jack on it. The Union Jack flag being flown on the hospital boat, and the boats coming across. The red cross flag, to symbolise the hospital, also being flown and on the mid-ground nurse.
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