Tech reflections

This week for tech we have been focusing on creating/completing our video since it is our Final day. Our teacher for robotics was Ms Munizo. She taught us how to code robots to do certain things and also helped us gain our knowledge on what we know about Robots ect. For the last day of tech I found it very fun as we had the chance to present what we learned and also had the chance to compete against other people/ groups in my robotics group. I learnt how to put videos together and edit/animate. At the end of the day we all were given lollipops and chocolate and the winners were given gift cards ect. Out of all our tech teachers we have had My favourite teacher is Ms Munizo because she was fun and also gave us prizes for work we completed and it motivated me to finish my work.

Kiwi can

This week for Kiwi can our topic is resilience. Resilience means coping with challenges and bouncing back. Our first warm up game was a Mexican wave. As we went into a circle we had the chance to Mexican wave on time. Our next game we played was distraction. We went in groups of 5. One person in the middle, someone in front, sides, back of the person in the middle distracting the middle person. The front person has to dance while the middle person copy's. The side people tell a story and sing a song leaving the back person to write a letter on their back. Each of these distractions have to be remembered for when the teacher asks. Our main learning today was Distractions and how we can stay focused. I enjoyed kiwi can today as I had fun and also learnt alot.

Plastic Straw POV

This week for Inquiry Chavda and I have been using our researching skills to find out weather it’s necessary for plastic straws to be ban. In my opinion straws shouldn't be banned as it doesn't cause much problems then plastic bags. It helps us drink a drink instead of having it all over our face. Using this DLO we managed to find information/useful knowledge to back up not only our opinion but also to fill in facts for No/yes.

Tech Reflections

This week for tech we have been completing our editing for next weeks final competition. In my group we are doing a variety of different animations/ real life videos to edit and present next Friday. If we win we are given the prizes of chocolates, Sylvia park gift cards, lollipops and more! My work mates and I decided to have multiple topics and then put them all together to make one big topic based on coding and M-bots. Sadly next Friday is our last day in robotics tech and we will be moving onto our final sessions in food tech. This week for tech I found it not only fun but challenging in terms of wanting to win and creating a robotics video to share around with people.

Persuasive speech

In every corner of the world animal cruelty can take many different turns but the effect is always the same. A living animal capable of love and creating relationships experiences pain, fear, most sadly desperation and this needs to stop! Hi, Im Fui and it’s important that I speak for our helpless animals who suffer everyday and dont have a voice for themselves.

In 1793 circuses desired more attention so they collected a variety of different animals for what we call “entertainment”, but there's more to it than that! Have you ever wondered how the bear can balance on the rope? How tiger has no fear to jump through fire? You think its entertainment but all I see is suffering animals that can't live their happy wild life! Why should they lose their happiness, families and most importantly t
heir freedom.

Can't you see the pain in the tiger's eyes knowing he or she could get burnt or even die right then and there, or hear the bear cubs cries for help as the thin rope slitz against his wounded and bruised paws? And this is all for what? Entertainment? Is that really the only reason why these poor animals have to suffer? We have seen their pain, we have heard the cries, we have had our attempts on changing things but will that ever be enough to stop the suffer of our innocent animals?

Did you know that if you were to be caught harming any type of animal you are most likely to be put in jail for 2 years or in most cases 5. If your lucky you are given the chance to bail out earlier by paying the fee of 5,000 dollars. In my opinion all animal abusers should be put in jail for 10 years because that's a living creatures life your ruining let alone their health.

Animals who have been abused can be traumatised for the rest of their lives after they've been either taken care of or rescued. They become afraid to eat with people close by. Sometimes if they feel threatened, they usually bite or growl. Sadly most animals are put down because they will never be able to live a normal life. This shouldn’t be happening because no living thing should have to go through being put down because of behavioural health issues caused by their disgusting abusive owner.

In conclusion animal cruelty is never the answer and will never be the answer to discipline! All in all animal abuse happens every

In conclusion animal cruelty is never the answer and will never be the answer to discipline! All in all animal abuse happens every minute every hour and it needs to stop now! Thank you for listening, I hope you have enjoyed my speech on animal abuse :)

This week we had the fun opportunity to participate in a school speech competition. Each class had the chance to complete their persuasive speech on whatever topic they wanted it to be. In the first week of presenting our speeches in able to win we had to use expression, eye contact, confidence, hooking in the reader and persuasive language features. For our first speech off I started very well but as I stumbled on some words I stopped becoming confident. Thankfully enough we all had the chance to improve by saying our speech again on Monday. I improved on my confidence, Expression and also a lot of eye contact. After morning tea our teachers revealed the winners. Even though I did not make it I was happy to see my sisters place 1st and 3rd. Our winners for yr 7 and 8 was Mele, Jack and Marieta I enjoyed watching their speech because they used a lot of eye contact as well as expression. Here is my speech about animal cruelty and how it is never the way to discipline :)

Polynesian Panthers

h perspectives of the issue.

For the past week in reading, Rakino group has been reading a text that all revolves around the story of the dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers. If you did not know the Dawn Raids were evacuation protocols which involved the police going to Polynesian homes and forcing them to show their passports that stated whether they were allowed to live in the country. If demands were not met, they were locked up and later kicked out of the country. Our challenge was to read the text and answer questions. With this new found knowledge we needed to create a DLO that showed both perspectives of the issue. 

Kiwi sport Swimming

This week for Kiwi sport we learnt how to breast stroke, streamline, float & also dolphin/pencil diving. 

It was fun as we had the chance to get taught free lessons from the panmure pools ( YMCA lagoon ). Our goal was to do one of the things we learnt from the middle all the way to the other side without stopping. In the beginning I found it easy & a little challenging. Our swimming teacher James taught us the main things to do to float if we are deep in the water. We also learnt many other fun facts about swimming. All in all I had fun not only because it was a bit challenging but because I learnt fast I found it fun.