45 minute inquiry - Logs

The logs came from mostly asia then from coastal new zealand. They are pine trees the latin name is pinus. A total of 8,545 come from asia. Logs are transported to Mount Maunganui by boat in crates and trains.

Then they get the logs they clean and cut them into paper. Some of the logs they send to othet ports like auckland or they send them back to where they come from. 

The life cycale of the log is. First it grows from a sapling. Then it becomes a adult pine tree. It starts growing pine trees and dropping them. Then when someone wants a section to be cleared the forestry people come and chop the trees down. Then log trucks come and pick up the logs and take them to a port or train station. Then they are put on a train and sent to the port of Tauranga.

45 min inquiry

The Things that these things have in common is the are all indigenous to there country.

Totem Pole
1. Where were they made? Northern America
2. What are they carved from? Wood from large trees.
3. What are they made for? To represent legends from the area they were made in

Boomerang?
1. What do you use them for? To throw and hunt for animals.
2. Who used them? The aboriginal people of australia.

Maori Carvings
1. What is there real name? Whakairo
2. What are they carved from? Wood, stone or bone.

Inuit Whaling Boots?
1. Who wore them? Inuit families
2. Where are they from? Northern alaska
3. What are they made of? Whale

Koi Caro Bow Fishing

Last Saturday Mrs Mills went to Huntly to bow hunt for koi carp. She was hunting them because they are a pest. They eat native fish and their eggs. They pollute the water by stirring up the mud and it kills native trees. Koi carp can grow up to 80cm and can weigh up to 10kg.

Mrs Mills went bow hunting last weekend because the koi carp were spawning (breeding) and they come into the shallows to do this.

Bow hunting is a sport that requires a bow and arrow. You also need a line attached to the arrow so you can retrieve the fish and arrow. You do not need a license in NZ to bow hunt. It has been around since the Victorian era.

Mrs Mills caught 6 koi carp. She didn’t throw them back into the water because you can receive a fine.  She left them on the side of the lake and they were taken by some fishermen.

Tennis

Today for P.E we did tennis and we had a doubles tournament. I was with jesse and we won one game and lost two. It was fun hitting the ball back and forth. It was hard serving from the back. What I did wrong was not moving into the ball when hitting it. I improved on my forearm hitting it back. However got 3 points first won the game and whoever won the most games in a row won overall.
Here are some pictures of it

Beyond The Story

Click! Click! I lock my car ready for another boring day at work and catch the elevator up to floor 95. I email my clients and then. I hear this roar of a jumbo jet. I hear a huge smashing coming towards me. I see the nose of a huge plane charging at me. Everyone is screaming. I fall through the floor and land on the floor below. The room is starting to catch fire so I decide to go to the stairs but the door is locked. I punch it open with my bare fists. I race down the stairwell and find a gaping hole in the floor. I jump as far as I can and grab onto the floor. I just make it and struggle up to my feet.

I look out the window and see a another plane accelerating towards the South Tower. SMASH! Some debris breaks through the window and just misses my head. I keep running down the stairs to find a raging fire burning at the floor beneath me. I see a couple of burnt bodies on the ground and don’t know what to do. This is really bad! Smoke on top of me; fire beneath me. What should I do? I decide to just wait there. I slowly fall asleep.

I awaken to the crackling of fire. Ohh! I decide to climb out of the building and cling on to the window for my life. I climb down and look at all the destruction below me. Hmm... I need to get down safely. I look above me and see dozens of people jumping off the building, one almost knocks me down. I guess I would rather jump and die instantly then get burnt or die of suffocation. I continue climbing down the building carefully. Then I hear a firefighter yelling through a speaker saying, “Be careful don’t fall.”

“Ok!!” I yell back.  I'm not giving up yet but my feet start slipping and I FALL!!! I grab onto the ledge of the window. That was a close one. Another wave of jumpers come by, this time none came close. I'm about halfway down now and I can see lots of black dots on the ground. Some aren't moving; I guess they are dead. My feet are getting really tired now and I'm starting to think about jumping. Just as I think that I see a jumper land on a firefighter and they both die.

I break through the window I am clinging onto and jump in and see live people panicking. They are screaming. I should be too.  Some of them jump! I look at the door to the stairwell and its locked. I smash it open to find another roaring fire beneath me. I’m not going that way for sure. Now theres only one choice. I fly like I've never flown before. The wind makes me feel the best I’ve felt in years. This is the end.

Life Ed

I learnt to delay the decision to drink alcohol
I will use this new learning by not taking drugs and not drinking alcohol until im 18
I could help other people by telling them what I learnt at life ed like mr jm ice and reach wits
M=Memory
R=Reason

J=Judgement
M=Mechanical Skills

I=Intellect
C=Concentrate
E= Emotions

R=Give a Reason
E=Give An Excuse
A=Assertive
C=Change The Subject
H=Humor

W=Walk Away
I= Ignore
T=Tell Someone/Toughen Up
S=Say No

We also learnt gib gap and far

G=Greater
I=Impact On
B=Brain

G=Greater
A=Addiction
P=Potencial

F=Faster
A=Absorption
R=Rate

We need to delay the decision until we have climbed the ladder of puberty

Waimarino

I think other schools should go to waimarino because its really nice on a hot day. Its also lots of fun because you can fight people on the gladiator pole and kayak around. You can also jump of the high dive or low dive, do the blob, Jump high into the water on the U.F.O.

I learnt how to kayak and raft up. Also a new game called seal and shark where the sharks try and tag the seals and the last seal left wins.

Key Competencies:
I learnt how to manage myself by keeping all my stuff in my bag so I didn't lose it.

I related to others by waiting in line for the high diving board and not pushing in.

I was thinking by waiting until the person had swum away below me before I jumped.

I was using signs symbols and text by reading instruction signs on the slip N slide.

I was participating and contributing by doing all the activities accept the U.F.O because we ran out of time.

Homework

This week for homework we did the drugs webquest this is the link to the doc. The drug webquest is where we answer questions and need to research about different kinds of drugs
Drug Webquest

This is a screenshot of my khan academy

You only needed 50,000

12 Hour Relay

On Friday it was the 12 hour relay. First in the morning we had the fun run and I did 14 laps, it was really hard because you had to run for 1 hour and 30 minutes. I over laped lots of people.

In second block we had Toptown. Our team won all of the games accept the horizontal bungy. We had a really good team.

Then in the third block we went and watched the talent quest, it was very entertaining.