Potato Experiment

Today we did an experiment using potatoes. It's called a potato gun. We used straws, skewers and of course potato's. You poke the straw into the potato in to both the sides of the straw. Then you use the skewer to poke one of the potato's out and that makes the other bit of potato shoot out. It's all because of the air pressure. That's how it's supposed to work, but our guns didn't work. My gun didn't work because it wasn't air tight.  😞

Six60 Music Tour.

Today I did another poster to get points for my passport. I did another 50 point poster. It is a music tour for Six60. I made the tour into a poster and wrote where they went in the middle of the stage lights and wrote the times of the concerts at the bottom. I had to invent the tour myself. It started in Auckland and then went to Wellington then Picton then Queenstown. In total it was a 2 week tour.
I hope you like my poster.

Geometry Santa Hat

In maths we did geometry. We had to answer questions on shapes. Then we got to pick a shape to cut out and glue together to make. Me and my friend did a cone shape and turned it into a Santa hat.

Womens Rights

WALT: write a persuasive writing piece.

Did you know that for centuries women were the property of men?

It was the dad's job to look after their daughter until the daughter gets married and then she is the property of her husband. How unfair is that. I’m not telling you that women should take over. But I want there to be equal rights for both men and women.

If you didn’t know women in America only got the right to vote in the 1900s. Which if you think about it it was not that long ago. they could have given women the vote from the start of all the presidential elections. Luckily for the women in NZ the people thought women should have the vote in 1883. But that is still not long ago. saying this humans have been on earth for thousands of years. The women that fought for the vote were called Suffragettes. These women did walks around the world to let people know how serious they were. Suffragettes were around a long time ago and they are not called suffragettes now. But they were.

There are people that fight so hard to win the freedom for women. One of these people is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She fought to give women the freedom that would allow women to do more. She was the second woman on the Supreme Court of the USA. Ruth was one of the nine girls in the class of 500 men at her law school. The dean of the Harvard Law School asked all the women including Ruth a question. (how do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?). When I found out someone said that I was disgusted. But Ruth kept pushing until she got onto the Supreme Court.

There was another woman who was before RBG called Sojourner Truth. She was a slave because of her skin color. Sojourner Truth had two things to fight for. Freedom for women and also freedom for black people. She wanted to be free and marry a man who was a slave from the next farm over but she had to marry a man from the same farm she worked on. Sojourner had 5 children. But one of them was going to be sold. Sojourner went to court and won her case. Everyone was surprised that a black woman went to court and won against a white man. She fought for her life to save women and black people. She is my true hero.

Women still want more opportunities as men. Over time women have been given more experiences, but it isn’t fixed yet. There are still countries that don’t believe women are better than men and as smart as men which is preposterous. Therefore I stand by my point, join me in this never ending fight to overcome the unfairness towards women.

Athletics Eden Albert

Today it was the Eden Albert Athletics Day. I was in everything except shotput and long jump. I didn't come a place in anything but I never came last so that was good. I had lots of fun running and taking part in all the events and for me that is the most important thing. My favourite event was the 100m running race. I came second to last but I enjoyed it so much.

world war 1

Today in reading our teacher got a package of stuff from World War 1. The stuff she got was real papers that had been printed like the real thing. We got in pairs and each group got two souvenirs. Me and my pair got the mother of empire badge and a picture of a memorial stain glass window. We made a power point about it. I hope you like it.

Birds Beaks

In class today we did our first science experiment. The experiment was testing forceps. We were testing them to see how a bird picked up their food. We used skittles, gummy worms and paper. We made our predictions and then got to actually test them out. Our predictions weren't really accurate but Mrs Drummond told us that it is just a prediction. After the experiment we got to eat the lollies.

Athletics

Today it was Athletics Day at my school. The first thing we did was hop on a bus and went to the park that we were doing it at. The seniors started on running. The first event that I took part in was the 200m run, I came 2nd. The next thing I did was the 400m run, I came 1st. Another thing I did was the 100m run, I came 1st. Then the seniors were on field events (we had already done high jump at school and I came 1st). The first field event we did was discus and I came first. Then we did long jump and I came 2nd. Lastly we did shot put and I came 3rd. After all the events we did the relay races. My house came 2nd.

Comics

In class we got taught how to make comics by a really good artist. We got told that we could use a character from a movie or book and combine it with an animal or object. I chose to do half minion and half monkey and called him a Monyion. My comic was about the Monyion wanting a banana and drinking floating potion to reach the bananas. But he drinks to much and floats into space.

Reddish-Brown Caracal

This is my poster.

In Reading we read a book about different animals in different habitats. We had to make a poster about one of the animals in the book and add lots of facts and drawings. I chose to do the reddish-brown Caracal because they are cute and I wanted to know more about them.  I learnt that they only really come out at night.