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The Water Expo

On the 20th of March 5 other people and I went to paengaroa to a water expo. It took us an hour and a half. We left school at 8:10 and went to go pick up two other schools. First we went to the edge of Te Puke to pick up Te Ranga school. It was 15km down the road! So that meant we went 30km to pick them up. After that we went to a māori school (sorry can;t remember name) and picked them up. When we got there I was so glad, but there was a long drop and a portaloo. On the long drop there was painted on barbed wire. When I first went in there I was so scared to sit down because at first glance it looks real. They didn't warn us about the mosquitos and I got bitten to death. My favourite activity was the lab, which is where you had to get into the water with Ritchy and test the water on it's clarity and bugs. I was the one that got to do that. When you first get in it hurts then it goes numb. Then you get out and your legs burn. Overall the day was good and enjoyable. We even got a magnet, a sticker and 2 drink bottles.  I am glad I went, even though I was glad to be home again.

Maths Homework week 7

This week we had to do more prototec maths. Here are my results.

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Music Tech last day

Today was our last day and also assessment day. Everyone got assessed on the guitar, ukulele and piano. In the guitar I needed help with my fingers. Ukulele went a bit better, I was able to play a chord the involved 3 fingers. Piano was my favourite thing to be assessed on because I knew how to play the chords and used the correct fingers to do so. Last but not least we had to do a reading comprehension thing about Beethoven. We had to do it in groups of 4. My group got to the second to last question when we ended. It was the best session yet.

Music tech day three (Day two I was Sick)

So today we wen tot music and we used garage band. Garage band is an application that you can use to create a jingle or a song. Our challenge today was to create a jingle for crunchie. It was challenging. My group did an ad that told you about the bar. Our one took the longest because we lent a headset to someone then they wouldn't give them back and then people kept interrupting us. In the end we finished. This session was very fun.

Maths-Homework

For homework we have to do this maths thing online that basically gives us a sheet and we have to complete it. We get 2 weeks to do this and we have to do 6 of them. 3 untimed and 3 timed.

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Music Technology day one

Today my tech group and I went to music. We started to learn 3 different instruments such as the piano, the guitar and the ukulele. I was much better at the piano than the guitar. We got split into 2 groups. I was with Daniel, Josh, Peter, Zach, Rachel, Keelin and Sophia. We played the guitar first. On the piano we had to learn chords like C, CM, G and GM. Also for Ukulele we learnt the chords for that. I was not very good at it. At the end of the lesson we played "guess the celebrity." It was fun. All of the people we chose were animated and more for kids like Diego from Dora, Patrick and many more. By the end of tech I want to be able to play the chords on the ukulele easier and be able to swap from one to the other.

Here is a photo of me at tech.

45 minute inquiry Possums

Did you know that possums are a danger to our native birds and that the reason that they were brought is for the fur industry.

Basically these creatures came to New Zealand in the year of 1837 for the fur industry. People didn't realise that they would eat our native birds and trees. They are nocturnal creatures, so they only come out at night. They are threats to our wildlife and trees.

More about them.
They are less likely to get rabies. They also have opposable thumbs which means that they have 1 more thumb than others. If they open their mouths you can see that they have 50 teeth! I would not like to be bitten by them. When threatened they act dead so that animals walk by them. Although this tactic will not always work because if an animal is hungry then they will eat them. In Australia they protect these animals!

The reason that they are here is because NZ wanted a fur industry. We managed to kill 20 million in one year, not that this had an effect because a female will have 1 baby a year.