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.