I think Parkvale School should not have a Uniform.

I think Parkvale School should NOT have a uniform.

I think Parkvale School should not have a uniform. My Reasons: Its too expensive, People don't want to be the same and the Weight and and Weather effects others.

For Starters, the cost of our school uniform is too expensive. For families that are big, and they have to have a uniform for 5 children, thats a small fortune. Also, you have to buy new clothes every season, and you also have to buy a new uniform, thats heaps of money. New clothes and new uniform. This is too much  money for some families.

Further In, not all kids want to be the same. Some kids don't like to the the same as others, Some bullies will come to them and say “Why are you wearing the same as me?” and some people don't like being the same as their enemy. People can also get bullied because they have the older school uniform.  

Finally, Parkvale Schools uniform is heavy, the material used weighs down the student, and makes them warm. This makes it uncomfortable for sports and other activities, and when it comes to summer, The school pool is ideal because students just get too hot with the heavy top and heavy shorts, and badges weigh them down even more.

As you can see, its too expensive, People don't like to be the same and with weather and weight issues. I think school uniform should be banned at Parkvale.

 

Learning Priorities Term 2 Week 2

My Learning Priorities

Reading:

For reading I want to learn how to summarise better for my Literature Circles and make sure that my summary is good and true

Writing

I am learning  to make a recount of camp and I want to make them more interesting

Math

At Extension Math we are doing Dream Bedrooms and I want to make mine accurate and tidy.

Room 19 in a Robot (Picture Writing)

Over this week, Room 19 was given a picture and we had to write a story about it. It could be funny, sad and humorus. Here is my story. The Picture is Down below.

Parkvale School was quiet and silent but Room 19. We were building a robot to go to a competition that was being held in Windsor Park. Mrs Hardaker wasn’t in on this. We were gonna tell her, after we build the robot. We put heaps of doors for all of us to go in. The year was 2034 and everything was different. We made a password. Qwerty. Everybody had a job in the robot. The Eyes, to Claws, To feet and even scenic rides. It was a whole pile of fun. We just finished the Robot.

Mrs Hardaker came in and saw the masterpiece. As we could hear her coming into the cloak bay we all jumped into the  robot. “What The” she said. We all opened the doors and Mrs Hardakers mouth fell open. We all came out. “You guys are Ninjas” she said. “Hop In” Said Ethin. “We made a seat for you” added Corbyn. “It will be a blast” Zac yells.

Mrs Hardaker sits in her seat. We put here iPad on her seat to do whatever she does. We took the long way to Windsor Park. There was fewer cars and more and more miniature robots taking people around the city. The higher class people took teleporters everywhere. “So where are we going?” said Mrs Hardaker. “A robot competition in Windsor park. We want to win so badly.” Replied Ashley. He was in the scenic seat next to Mrs Hardaker.  

The road was so smooth and the robot was waddling like a duck. Before we knew it, Mrs Hardaker was a sleep. We were all older now. So all of Mrs Hardakers Children we much older. We went down the road and we went past a building. It said: Cutie Pies. It was a pie factory. Kayde worked there. He was grown out of his cute factor.

We got to Windsor Park. “MRS HARDAKER” yelles Jesse. “What What” said Mrs Hardaker. “He is still like his old self” said Ryleigh. Mrs Hardaker hopped out and directed it into a big hall where the competition was held. We all hopped back in and sat comfy deep into our seats. We waited for 5 minutes. A loud voice came booming from a microphone. “A BIT OF HUSH”. We were all looking around. “Thats Famillia” said Tyler.

We all looked out the window and there was Miss Hill. She was leaning on her walker and she had her milo in her hand. “Nothings Changed” Mrs Hardaker said.  I have been walking around and seeing all of the robots. But I have to say....... The Class of Rm 19 2014 won the competition. ” said Miss Hill. We were jumping for joy. MIss Hill Continued. “The reason why I chose that robot was because 1, Its from Parkvale School. 2, It has a good learning space and seat and 3. It has a Milo machine. Well Done.

That is the End. There is no more, but watch out because there might be another Rm 19 story coming out soon.

This is the Picture that the story is based on!!!

Becoming a Leader

On Friday the 8th of Parkvale School had there school assembly. This assembly was special because they were announcing the leaders for 2014. All of the Yr 6's were excited because they had all applied. This assembly was very long with all of the other stuff that gad to be done like Room 3's assembly item, PRIDE Awards and much much more.,

The assembly went on and on until the end. They announced the leaders. It took forever. They started with Digi Leaders.  Cameron O from our class got Digi Leader. Then the Bankers, P.E Monitors and  Sport PALS. Aidan from our class got Sport Pal as well. Then Young Leaders.

Miss Hill announced them 1 by 1.  Miss Hill announced Nikita then Me. Rani then Zac and last but not least, Mohit.  16 Young Leaders were standing up there waiting to see who is House Leaders. I had to wait to the end because my House was last. Miss Hill said really loud "Gerogia and" then she paused "Ethin". I was screaming in excitement from getting two things with badges. Now swimming sports. House comp. its my time to shine!!!!!!

Now I am a Young leader and House Leader. A blue badge and a Bright yellow one (Because I am in Yellow house) You can see me an mile away.

By Ethin

Cockroaches

Cockroaches.

What is the Cockroach? Are they Incredible? To find out it is all down below. We will be looking at Its Body, Food and Amazing facts about themselves. So come join me in this amazing journey of this amazing or creepy species.

The cockroaches body is incredible. For starters its brain is in it tummy. They start out as a ootheca. The Ootheca is a egg that baby cockroaches are born in. The female of the species  lays the ootheca. They have a large case quite like a Butterfly Chrysalis. There legs have little spikes the size of our hairs.

They have a wild source of food. They eat stuff to Paint to Wood to Glue. To be pacific they eat.

• Glue
• Wood
• Paint
• Shoe Polish
• Soap
• Plants
• Other Insects
• And  if they want to get drunk, They drink Beer

They are Amazing. Here are some general facts.

• Because their Brain is there tummy. They can live without their head for a week.
• If you squish a Cockroach, You will see all of this white stuff come out. This is all of the fat they store so they live for a little bit longer.

I hope I have given you a better idea on how Cockroaches really are. Yes they are incredible. They are amazing infact.   

By Ethin  

 

Learning Logs

Learning Logs

Learning logs or journals let students keep notes of their thoughts and feelings about their work. A log need be no more than a page.

Students will have some time in class to complete it.

. The most important thing I learned this week was: I learned how to write a Poem

. What I found most interesting this week was: I found interesting that Mrs Hardaker likes Valentines day

. What I enjoyed most about this week was: I enjoyed writing Love poems

. One thing that still puzzles me is: It puzzles me that I cant get my Writing Puch finished.

.What I need help with is: I need e help with making my poems more exciting

. What pleased me most was. Helping other people please me with there work

. This week might have been more helpful for me if I had time to write my Young Leaders and Digi Leaders application

Hearing Education

Hearing Education.

Today Room 19 went over to Room 21 and saw Caroline. She is from the Hawkes Bay Hearing Society. She came to Parkvale School to tell us about how importants or ears are. Here as some perfect examples why we should do these things.

What to Do

If there was a very loud sound (eg Music, Speeches) you need to either Walk Away, Wear Protection or turn down the volume.  If the music is too loud you can walk away and go to  a place that has less noise. If the music is loud. Your can wear earplugs or earmuffs. This makes the music quieter than is was before.  Last is turn down the volume. You cant do this  all the time because you might be at Assembly and the Mic might be too loud.

What makes you hear, What is sound.

Sound is little vibrations in the air that go to your ears. The vibrations vibrate your Eardrum, Cochlea and the three tiniest bones in your bodies. They tell the brain what the sound is. In the Cochlea is thousands of tiny hairs. That is what vibrates inside the Cochlea.

Here is a diagram the explains what is the ear.

Ear Wax.

Why do we have Earwax. We have Earwax to keep our Ears moist. It is not there to annoy us. If it was it wouldn’t be there. Ear wax is important and we should not taken out of our ears. If your cleaning device goes through your eardrum it would really hurt and can't work  as good as it was before.

These are very important steps on how to take care of your ears. I hope this helped you for your ears to be healthy.     

First blog post for 2014: Room 19

This year I am in Room 19 with Mrs Hardaker. I have had a great start to the year. We watched a video about Nemo's first day of school. This was cool because we we're all feeling the same way as Nemo. We also got some smarties from Mrs Hardaker because she said we are all a smart bunch of cookies! And we started swimming, the water was refreshing on a hot day. Here is the video and some pics.

Our Smarties sheets. 

Room 19 and 20 swimming!!

Final Blog Post 2013: Behind The Scenes of Room 17

Room 17 can be a good class sometimes.  Here is a walk thought at what Room 17 is really like. Normally at the start of the day after the roll we have Math. Math, A time that Mrs Roil teach's skills and when we go of  we talk a bucket full of rubbish. Sometimes I'm not in Room 17 because I go to extension maths. It is kinda the same there but we have Miss Hill.

Writing is up next. A subject that I like and get stuck into it well. No matter what we are writing I enjoy it. 40%  of the class talks and the other 60% gets on with there work. after that we do Reading. We use this website called Actively Learn. It has heaps of stories that Mrs Roil can monitor and marks us as we answer some questions.

So that is a day in Room 17 but it is not always like this. Sometimes it is a wonderful classroom.

Balloon in a Bottle

Balloon in a Bottle

Can you blow up a Balloon in a bottle? Is it possible. Maybe. In this experiment you will find how to do this.

Materials

1. 2 bottles
2. 2 balloons
3. 1 pin

What to do

1. First. Get a balloon inside 1 bottle and blow it up
2. Take the other bottle and put a hole in it with the pin. Just a small one
3. Noe do step 1 with the second bottle.
4. What Happened

What Happened????????

With the first bottle the balloon couldn’t work properly but the second one did because the air is been pushing. The big secret is that there is a hole in the bottom so the air is coming out. If you put your finger over the hole the balloon will stay up. This can work on any type of bottle just as long you have a hole in it.

ALWAYS HAVE ADULT SUPERVISION.    

Tragic

Tragic

Warning: This contains some Gross scenes.

It was a while ago (January 3rd 2011 to be precise) and there were 5 people biking along the Napier bike way. Their names were myself Ethin, my sister Sage, Justin my step brother and Mum and my step Dad Blair. We all just got new bikes for Christmas and we went to go try them out. We planned a 5 hour day of cycling excitement. We were going to bike down to Hot Chick for lunch.

It was a busy day and there were people everywhere. I was going to lead since I was the smallest. Everyone had to go at my pace. Justin hated it. Sage didn’t like biking so she wasn’t that bothered. Me and Mum always bike so I went fast. Justin and Sage didn’t see it coming. Sage was already puffing and  Blair didn’t know I was this good.

It was like a hurricane of people coming to me. I had to weave my way through them.  It was like I was making a bag out of wool and I was the needle. Suddenly, there was a lady the wasn’t looking anywhere  but back at her friend. BANG. She hit me. I was trapped in under my bike. I was screaming for help. I was in so much pain. Luckily, I was wearing a helmet. Blair pulled my bike off me. There was people going slow for me. The hurricane suddenly stopped. Mum walked me back to the car and Blair took Justin and Sage to bike down to the aquarium and bike back.  

Finally, we got back to the car and Mum had a proper look at my knee. It was oozing blood and plasma. “EWW”, screamed Mum. She put a plaster over it. That didn't do anything. The blood and plasma was oozing down my leg. Blair, Sage and Justin came back from their bike ride to the aquarium and they thought it was disgusting. Blair found a little cloth a wiped off all of the disgusting liquid. We waited for a little bit and then the liquid stopped pouring out.

So did you get the catastrophe? I fell off my bike and hurt myself. It was bad. Today I still have the scar on my right leg. The good thing was I was wearing a helmet like every cyclist should. I hope this changes your mind on how to cycle properly. Remember to wear a helmet at all times.  

The Force

The Force

Today at school. I did an experiment that makes a Ping pong ball float in the air. Why. In here it will tell you how to do the experiment and how it works.

What you will need: 

A Hairdryer

3 ping pong balls. 

How to do the experiment

1. Hold your hairdryer in midair turned on. It will need to be on a high setting. 
2. Put a ping pong ball on top of the hairdryer and it will float. 
3. If you will like to you can add on another ball and another

How and Why does it work. 

This works because the air that the dryer is making is pushing it up. Why cant it go high. The invisible force called Gravity is battling against the wind to pull it down. If you add another ball. They will bobble up and down and one of them will fall off. This is because the wind field if not wide enough to hold both balls inside its field. 

 

Can you blow up a balloon without your mouth? (Explanation)

How to blow up a balloon without your breath?

What you Need:

• 2 soda bottles
• 2 balloons
• 2 containers. 1 hot water, 1 cold water.
• An Adult or Tongs for hot water.

Preparation

1. Put one balloon on the Mouth of a bottle.
2. Repeat step 1 with the others.  
3. Get your water ready.
4. Get your parent on Standby or tongs right next to you.

How to do it

1. First put your one of your bottles in your cold water. Then the other in the hot water
2. Immerse the bottle in water and make sure that most of it is under.
3. Just sit and watch and see what happens to the two balloons. HINT After a while the balloon will go down because the water got cold.

What actually Happened???

All of the particles in the hotter bottle were whizzing around in the bottle and the hot air (That Rises) went into the balloon because the air has already taken up the room in the bottle.  While the other balloon was staying at the same rate as it was at the start because the water was cold.  It was in a state on an inertia while the other bottle was heating up.  As for the particles, after a while they will stop  and make the balloon go down because the water has gone cold and the air has come down from the balloon. From here you can tip out your water and pack up your experiment. 

Here is a Diagram on what happened.

Hot Water Cold Water
 

Can you blow up a balloon without your mouth?

Can you blow up a Balloon without blowing the air in? Maybe. In this you will find the instructions to do it and you can do it yourself to see if this works.  Be careful, You may  need an adult to help you with some parts.

To start your experiment you will need some things. 2 Plastic Bottles (Coca Cola, Lemonade etc) 2 ordinary balloons, hot and cold water and an adult or tongs. For starters put the balloons on the bottles. On where the lid was. Prepare the water to hot water and cold water in separated containers. Once you have done this you can get your adult to help you put the bottle into the hot water. If you have tongs, just hold it around the neck and dunk it in. With the cold  water one you can  just put it in slightly. You do not need some tongs or an adult to help you with this part.

Once you have put the bottles in the water, you need to press the bottle right down into the water. Make sure the whole entire bottle is underwater. This is called immersing. You are Immersing the bottle in water. Why do you have to do this? So the hot air can heat up to bottle in water. That is why you have  to do this. The heat that the hot water has is going around the bottle that is heating the air that is in the bottle and that is what creates hot air. You still have to do the same with the cold water.

The next step is really easy. All you do is sit and wait. This is called observing. This is the scientific word for sitting and watching. As you observe. Have a look at the two different boxes. You might see one of them moving. Why is this. It is because the air is becoming hotter and thinking that it can escape through the balloon si the balloon is expanding and blowing up. As you Observe you might want to take some notes to see if there are any changes in your time of doing this.

Now I am going to explain what actually happened. As the air heated, all of the particles was whizzing around in the bottle and being heated up. Hot air rises, so the air would want to get out the balloon thinking that is the open world. As the balloon expands because the hot air is going in the balloon, blowing it up. But after a short while, The balloon will go down because the water will get to cold and the hot air will turn into the other bottle in the cold water. The particles will get cold as well and the other bottle. This is because the water in the container is colder that it was 30 minutes ago.

So, can a balloon blow up without blowing in to it. Yes you can. After a while it will go down by itself. This has proven that balloons will go up by itself with the right gear. I hoped you have been careful and if it did not work for you. Maybe you did it wrong.  

Down below there is a diagram that explains how it works:

Hot Water Cold Water

Flexibility Test

On Monday. It was the first day of Term 4 and Mrs Roil thought that it was a good idea that we make a Flexibility Machine. We put our self's in groups of 5 and made our own machine. Yay it was time to test. I got 13 negative. Not to shabby for a boy like me. The other 4 people in my group got resealable results for them as well.

Over, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we have being doing some Flexibility stretches to improve. Over those days we did over 20 stretches to improve. It Worked. We could feel  it with all of the muscles in our body's.  Our teacher was doing these for fitness and we improved.

It came the day that we were doing the test that we did on Monday was here. We needed to bet our score. I got negative 10. I improved 3 centimeters. Most of the class improved  but some dropped. We know that it worked because a boy in our class improved by 20 centimeters. It was really fun doing this and I want to do it again next week.

Egg Drop Experiment

On Thursday My class did an science experiment and we wanted to know if it works and why. Here is the details.

It worked because when you pull it quick it goes straight down into the water but if you go slowly  it will go down into the cup slow and break. The motion of the plate and the toilet roll that goes under the egg is the reason that the egg can go into the cup when it is pulled.  It could also become unsteady and smash on your plate if you pull it slowly. The force of Gravity will pull down the egg but because there is not the much gravity in water the egg will go slower and not break. It also has to do with the speed of the egg  as well as Gravity has force to do with speed.   


Here is some pictures.

Basic Optimist Sailing

If you are wondering about sailing over these school holidays this just might be the report for you. I’m going to tell all about Optimist Sailing and all of the basics you need to know in order to make this trip as memorable as you want it.

The very first thing that you need is a safety check. You need to make sure that you are wearing the right clothing like warm thermals and togs. Make sure that you have a life jacket on and good, hard shoes so your feet don't get glass in them. You will also need to make sure that your tiller and rudder are on properly and your sail is completely on the top pole and on the bottom pole. They need as tight as they can be. There are two bungs in the side’s and front of the boat. Make sure they are in tightly. If you have too much water in your boat there is a bucket at the front of the boat. Scoop the water out with it.

Once you have done the safety check make sure that your boat has been put together correctly. There needs to be a sail on the top pole. There needs to be 2 ropes hanging from it . On to hold it in place and the other to tighten and loosen the sail This is called the mainsheet rope. On the back there will the the rudder. The handle attached to the rudder is called  the tiller. On the sides there will be  two bungs. If there is any major water unplugged the bungees and you boat will not sink. If the water is  not so major you can use the bucket at the front.

Now this is the real deal. This is how to sail the boat. First of all you need to hop in the boat the correct way. If you have one person (Adult) in the boat they need to be lying down and be able to reach the mainsheet rope and the tiller. If you are a child just make sure that you are balancing the boat properly.  If you have two people in the boat. (One for each job) you both need to be sitting up if you are a child. Two adults can not fit. If you want to go faster pull on the rope to get  more wind in your sail and if you would like less speed loosen the rope. You always need to hold on to the rope so your sail doesn't fly away and the Boom will turn so make sure that you duck down so you don’t get a sore head. How to steer your boat is quite easy. If you would like to go left turn the tiller right and if you want to go right turn the tiller left. As easy as that. You will need some simple commands. To duck say Boom because some people get confused if you are pointing to a Duck. If you are at the front and you see something that you could hit say left or right to tell the other person to steer out of the way.

Capsizing can be a fun thing if done on purpose but when it comes out of nowhere it can be freaky. If you would like to capsize you need to lean to one side of the boat and take your centreboard out. Then you can tip. To recover capsizing you need to lean on on your centreboard and try to lean to the other side of boat. Also you need to have some hand signals. If none of these techniques has worked you need to yell “Help” and wave your hand so they see where you are and what they can do to rescue you. Once you are up right sail slowly back to shore or get someone to tow you back if anyone else is in the water with you.

My overall experience of yacht was very exciting and challenging because I have never done it before. I had a really great time and thought it was fun to try something I have never done before. My favorite part was going in around the buoy that they out out. You need the right regulation of speed to get through and around right. The water that you sail in can't be that choppy so Pandora Pond can be the best place to go Optimist Yachting because on a slightly windy day the water is fine and you can go in a yacht with no problems at all. My overall rating is 10/10 the boats didn’t have holes in them and you just cruise around the pond and enjoy the pond waters as you sail away from shore.

I hope this guide helped you plan your trip for Optimist Sailing. This activity can be fun and you can also learn how to even become a pro sailer by starting on these. They are also very good for kids to learn how to sail a boat or even the first time in a boat.  I hope this guide will help you to have the most memorable boating trip of your life.          

       

Titanic Story

Back in 1912 when the Titanic was sailing along the voyage of New York, high winds were blowing which were making the boat go faster than it should be going and forcing it to fly at a whopping speed of 34 kilometers an hour. 1500 passengers onboard and flying at that speed meant a lot to slow down. People were yelling: “We have hit an Iceberg!” Lifeboats were traveling down the side to find another boat for help. “Help. Our boat hit an Iceberg” They all yelled as they were rowing away.

The next day the world woke up to the catastrophe of the unsinkable Titanic had sunk into an iceberg that popped out of the water by 1 meter while the boat was 14 meters in the air.  Heaps were saying that the boat that sunk was its sister Olympic but no one believed them.

People were going crazy when they heard their family members died. They discovered that the wind was blowing starboard and that is what blew it over into the water. The wind was blowing the boat fast and that was the catastrophe of the Titanic.

Trains: Question Writing

Trains

1.What type of train would you prefer steam trains or electric trains Paige

3..What do you know about trains Hayden

4.What kind of trains do you like and what is your favorite train.Crystal.

5. Why did you choose the train. Zayde

2.How many times have you been on a train. Ethan

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Psssssssss, goes the steam engine on my computer as I am watching it of previous Art Deco weekends. JA1271 coming through from paekakariki.  I have never been on a big Steam Locomotive like this one before and really want to go on one. I have been on one at Silverstream Railway and been in the cab but not one with a tender.  I want to go on one this Art Deco. weekend.  I have been on heaps of small and little ones millions of times. I know how to build them, drive them and look after them. I am one of the youngest members of Keirunga Park Railway. My Dad introduced me to the railway when I was 4 and  I went up almost every month. I would personally go with the steam engine and chug around the countryside and blow lose branches off trees with the whistle.  I have been down that line before and it was terrible as you would get  hit with branches everywhere.

Steam trains were first made in the 18th century and it was called Rocket. It is also known as Stephensons Rocket. It was a slow loco and the track took ages to build without all of the machinery that we have know to transport it. Every Labour Weekend and Easter Weekend Keirunga Park Railway(KPR) has a 4 day weekend when steam locomotives can come to the railway from all around the North Island.  Easter weekend KPR’s Open weekend as it celebrates its birthday and last year it had its 20th Birthday. They had up to 50 different locomotives from the North Island and even a loco from the South Locomotive. My favorite train from KPR is a locomotive from Levin and it has a named called: Aspen Southern RR. It is numbered 500 and it survived the crash the the railway had in 2011. Since then it has been fixed and runs around the railway like there is no tomorrow.

My Dad has made an deisel locomotive that is an 0-6-0 and it is an shunter in England. Now he is in the process of making a steam locomotive that is a hudson. 4-6-4 wheel alignment and I have helped him with main parts on both locomotives.  Dads locomotives have lots of problems. The governour always plays up and kills the motor whenever we want to start. KPR has a range of points and signals and I know how they work. I learnt when I was five and it is still in my head. The Railway has 3 tunnels that around the 842 meter track as it goes around Havelock Hill at Keirunga Gardens. I choose trains because they are my passion.