Miranda Jane Caird art

At school we have been talking to Miranda Jane Caird. She is a famous New Zealand artist and has made many different pieces of art over her career. Her art inspired us to try and mimic her style in our own art. We used pastel colour mixing and black dye to create our pictures. Here is my picture and one of Miranda's side by side.

Science Pendulum

Aim/Hypothesis: See how mass really affects the period of the pendulum. We could find
no evidence of this online but it goes against common sense so we decided to test it. Our
hypothesis is that it wouldn’t affect it at all. (Thomas thought that it would)

Method: 

1: String up two containers to a solid bar or similar object (we did it to the monkey bars)
Make sure they are the same length from the bar (you may need to do a control test with
no water to make sure you have got it right.

2: Fill one of them with some water (we put in 200ml). The first container weighed 84g
(without water) and the second weighed 284g

3: draw them both up to the same height and release at the same time.

4: record results.

Results: First of all we did it with two glass beakers on the end of the strings but then the one one with the water in it smashed after the string snapped. So then we got to plastic containers and some stronger strings. When we tested it they didn’t swing backward and forward at the same time like the control test. We thought that the period of the pendulum had changed because they weren't even any more and that google must have been wrong, but we were wrong and after extensive research and small scale testing we found that the period hadn’t changed but the more massive one kept its momentum better due to its mass and therefore swung for longer and faster. But they both crossed the middle at the same time. We were tricked by our eyes.

Gold Mining West Coast History

  This term we are on the topic of local history this our project on the Waiuta gold mining days

Te Kinga work interviews

In class recently we have been interviewing people in the local community about their work life. We have had four people so far and all have been as interesting as the last. Today we had Jarred (Zak and Cameron's Dad) and he talked about all his jobs and some of the skills he thought were important to have when going into work. The skills were technology skills, communication skills, leadership skills, a good attitude and being able to ask for help. Here is my reflection, I think it was interesting how Jarred has done lots of different jobs including blinking the eye of a puppet fish on a kids t.v show and helping people figure why their pot plant powered phone wouldn’t work. It was also interesting that he had worked in the air force as an I.T guy.

Roa Chimneys Local history topic

What really happened to Shirley's car

How To Show Integrity (NOT)

WARNING: May include graphic violence

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!!!!

Once upon a time there was a nice, caring principal named Shirley.

She lived in a cottage over a river which was sadly half burned down due to the high amount of murder cases in the area.

She has also been accused of witchcraft and has been a victim of multiple attempted murders herself.

There are also rumours going around that she has been accepted into Hogwarts School For Witchcraft And Wizardry.

This story is not about her house or the fact she might be a witch (she probably is though), it is about her trusty old 2004 Mazda 6 manual station wagon.



Our story starts on a cold misty morning with the ghost cloud covering the streets...

Shirley was speedily driving towards the school at which she worked.

As she was turning a blind corner a man in an orange Scamborghini was burning rubber and terrorizing tourists.

She pulled up beside him and looked through the window at the early 20’s aged man with dark shades and a bandana.

She thought that she should report him for dangerous driving…

but instead she decided she should show him who’s boss.

They shared a mighty death stare before coming to an agreement that they should have a drift-off which was cleverly hid from all emergency services and no one was arrested (we think, we really aren’t told anything).

They started their drift off and the smell of burned down tires filled the air around them (Skrt Skrt, Sorry meant to be telling you the story). It was beginning to look like Shirley would be the loser once again (yes, this has happened multiple times) until she pulled out her lucky gearstick and put her car into extreme drift mode (I didn’t think it was a thing either). She pulled ahead and was winning until the Scamborghini got the lead back. Shirley knew the only way she could win was to play dirty.

She nudged the back of the young mans sick ride causiong him to spin off the side of the road… He was left in a mangled burning car with two broken legs, one severed arm, a half sliced and burning face. An agonising, blood curdling scream filled the air “arrghrghrghrghrhggr…” It stopped suddenly as the blood in his throat began to clot and he died a slow painful death. Shirley then went to the panelbeaters and in the accident report she put

“Hit a pole getting groceries”. She never spoke a word of what had occurred that day. Shirley then used magic to remove all memories of that incident from her mind.

THE END… Or is it? DUH DUH DUH (It probably is.)

Imaginative story (Is it?) by Jakob & Tyler & Toby

Weekly Reflection Wk/1 Term 4

This week has felt very short but in that short amount of time I have wanted to get things done quickly so I have completed a lot of work. I have got through my personal inquiry quickly and am hoping to get that done in the 5th week. I have almost completed 3rd grade khan and have done 20 mins each day some days doing more than 45 mins. This has been a very confusing week because pet day has been and we had to prepare for that so there has not been as much time to do work but our timetable for our personal inquiry has helped clarify what we are doing and helped us work around pet day. This has been a good week for learning and working yourself.