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.

Tech Reflections

This week for tech our robotics group was given a challenge based on coding and shapes. We had to make our M-bot follow the black line and sense the red boxes when its time to move. Unfortunately for this week we have not completed our challenge. Most people were close to completing it as their M-bots followed the black line but dident stop at red box as for others stopped at the red box but did not follow the lines. I found this challenge quite hard but really fun as we were give the opportunity to code M-bots using Make-block. I learnt what binary is and what 10, 15, 12 ect is called in binary.

HIIT

This week for HIIT we have been focusing on working our top half using each obstical set out for us to use. We first started of with stretches and then moved on to finding a partner. My partner chavda and I started of on doing push ups to mountain climbers & Pull ups. After we did each obstical we all stood in a circle and saw who could do the longest squats to the song big sally up. In the song as it says big sally up, big sally down we had to stay down till the song said big sally up again. As we started to ease into the song we were then being checked if we did it correctly or wrong. If we did it wrong we then was told to step out. Out of all the activities I found doing the squats a challenge because I felt the burn in my thighs and I was tempted to stay in for the whole song.

Maths || Division - Multiplication

This week we have been focusing on strengthening our knowledge in maths to help others learn using a presentation. In each presentation we had the chance to choose what maths we wanted to use in our game. In my game I chose to use Multiplication and Division as in the beginning I found it challenging. In the process of making my maths game I learnt new strategist to solve the equations I put in. I found This activity fun and useful as I had the chance to not only learn new things but help others to gain their knowledge in maths.