Taha Wairua - Culture

Cultural Experiences	How is this celebrated?	Who is this celebrated with?	Why is this important to celebrate?
New Year	People gather up in one place and start celebrating new year with things like fireworks.	With family and friends	Because it gives people positivity about of lots of new beginnings
Christmas	People arrange meals, visit family friends and exchange gifts	With family and friends	To remember the birth of jesus

Taha Whanau - Bullying

1. Why do some people bully?

- To impress other people

- For fun

- They've been bullied

- Difficult life

2. Why are some people more likely to be bullied?

- They are better

- Jealousy

- Physical appearance

3. Why is bullying harmful?

- It could effect their health

4. What can you do if you are being bullied?

- Ask for help from someone you trust or know or from other people that you think might help

5. What can you if you see someone else getting bullied?

- Ask for help or help them yourself

Kiwifruit DNA

Result: Everything turned out really well and all went exactly as planned

 Aim: To extract and separate the DNA from the kiwifruit

Methods: Get the liquid out of the kiwifruit using a pestle, if you think there is more liquid left in the kiwifruit you can use a clothe to squeeze it in a plastic zip bag. When you're done you will then need to put the liquid you've made in a test tube along with ethanol. There you will see white thingies getting separated from the kiwifruit liquid.

Character Creation

1. Name:

2. Age: 15

3. Height:

4. Eye color: Blue

5. Physical appearance: 

6. Strange or unique physical attributes:

7. Favourite clothing style/outfit:

8. Where do they live? What is it like there? 

9. Defining gestures/movements (i.e., curling their lip when they speak, always keeping their eyes on the ground, etc.):

10. Things about their appearance they would most like to change:

11. Speaking style (fast, talkative, monotone, etc): talkative, sometimes taciturn

12. Pet peeves:

13. Fondest memory:

14. Hobbies/interest:

15. Special skills/abilities: 

16. Insecurities:

17. Quirks/eccentricities:

18. Temperament (easygoing, easily angered, etc.:)

19. Negative traits:

20. Things that upset them:

21. Things that embarrass them:

22. This character is highly opinionated about:

23. Any phobias? Big, poisonous spiders

24. Things that make them happy: Friends

25. Family (describe):

26. Deepest, darkest secret:

27. Reason they kept this secret for so long:

28. Other people’s opinions of this character (What do people like about this character? That he’s cool, polite and respectful to other people

What do they dislike about this character?):

29. Favourite bands/songs/type of music:

30. Favourite movies: Beauty and the beast

31. Favourite TV shows:

32. Favourite books:

33. Favourite foods: Chicken, pizza and burgers

34. Favourite sports/sports teams:

35. Political views:

36. Religion/philosophy of life:

37. Physical health:

38. Dream vacation:

39. Description of their house:

40. Description of their bedroom: Clean
41. Any pets? Dog

42. Best thing that has ever happened to this character:

43. Worst thing that has ever happened to this character:

44. Superstitions:

45. Three words to describe this character:
46. If a song played every time this character walked into the room, what song would it be?

Afghanistan - Child Soldiers

We have been learning about slavery for the past few weeks in Social Studies and then we got to choose one topic to do out of three (Child Labour, Child Soldiers and Child Trafficking) and then I picked Child Soldiers.

Respiration and combustion

Respiration is the chemical reaction in which energy is released from a reaction between Oxygen and Glucose. Respiration releases energy for cells from glucose. Combustion is essentially burning, fuels react with oxygen to releases energy.

The difference between them is that Respiration is the process where oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide is exhaled out and combustion means the burning of substances in the presence of oxygen.

Any substance which can burn leads to combustion while respiration uses glucose to give pyruvate and to carbon dioxide. Combustion produces oxides in the form of smoke in respiration, there is no smoke formation. The product of combustion is heat energy in respiration, it is the formation of ATP.

Athletics

What did I like?

I really like the part when my friends and I had a race at the 60-meter run

What could have been better?

It would have been better if we had a chance to run at the 100-meter run

The results over the term were really good