Idioms

Cybersmart: Pishing

Letter To Pak'n'Save

E-Waste Explanation

800,000 tonnes of E-waste is disposed of in New Zealand per year. This greatly affects the environment, but why? Why should we care about E-waste? E-waste has many effects. For example; poisoning which damages the health of citizens around the world. Pollution, a challenge that the world faces everyday. Pains and sickness that not every family can afford to cure or to pay for a visit to the doctor. We should all care about the E-waste and the effect it has on the environment. What about the people it is effecting?

Lead is a type of metal poisoning that can affect humans and vertebrate around the world to how much heavy metal is in the body. The issue however is how does Lead make itself evident or where does it come from? It is  a chemical placed inside of electronics devices such as computers, computers that children play on. Computers teenagers and adults use to interact with others around the world. This can trigger a negative chains of events inside the body. Why should we care? Would you like to pay money for a sickness that a relative had even though you could prevent? No one wants to writhe in agony while poison slithers through their body...right?

Illnesses come in a varied and a multitude of different forms, for instance headaches, cancer, pains and toxic smoke etc. Bills pile up leaving you to divert your attention to something that you could have helped protect yourself and others from.  You wouldn't want to take care of a sick person right? So why do we export e-waste to other countries such as Guiyu or Ghana? Is it because we do not physically stand beside them and receive the sickness directly? Is it because our bodies, our blood systems are not contaminated by such revolting chemicals? We must care even though it may not happen to us but still they are humans living in our world. A world we all share.

Dirty seas. Dirty land. Dirty air. Air that others breathe in.  Pollution is an issue majority of the world faces. Why encourage an issue that people are trying to bring to a halt? We can stop this if we simply just care but we live in a world where people must be provided with reason and tempted with persuasion. Dirty seas creatures live there, creatures that we consume so imagine if they all died out...leaving us to starve. Dirty land you’re eyes  a burned to death because of boring view, why torture your eyes further with a horrible section of land? Keep the land green. Dirty air, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to hear  someone gagging due to the lack of fresh air because the air that we all breathe in has been tainted by pollution.

We should care about the effects of E-waste because it is a very important matter that we push aside. Countries are suffering because of decisions made me billions of citizens located around the world. We should care because we spend half our live preaching about how we must be a “good, green and clean person” when we can’t even stop buying products “designed for the dump.” Don’t care about posting a photo of the new iphone 6 you got on instagram just  because you bought it. Think about it. Where has your previous phone gone?  Has it gone to a place where they can safely dispose of it with workers qualified to do so? or has it gone to a place where the smoke, blows over villages?

Malia,Jennifer and Alison- Cyber Smart Task

Jennifer, Malia and Alison- Current Events

Cyber Smart

As you can see, on the right we have the restricted sites.

The restricted sites are only for people who are 13 and over, for example: Snapchat, Facebook, Skype and many more. We were really engaged in our season and 

Alison & Malia - Plato Facts

Malia and Alison- 3d Shapes Geometry

Malia & Alison- General Knowledge

Malia and Alison- Current Events

Malia & Alison- Shapes in the world

Multiplication Triangle

Fishing Practices

Fishing practices have evolved with time and era. Co-operating with the needs of current businesses which have been providing them with many things in return.

Dredging is a method used for fishing practises. The dredge is usually constructed from a heavy steel frame in the form of a scoop. The frame is covered  with a chain mesh that is opened on the front side which is towed behind the boat. Dredge nets have a coarse mesh in order to let creatures smaller than the intended target through.This method hold multiple negatives and positives. It captures an abundant amount of scallops and oysters in contrast to this positive it scrapes along the ocean floor. Bringing up silt gives the water a dirty appearance. Sometimes as it scrapes the bottom of the ocean it bumps into coral breaking the homes of fish that live there sometime unintentionally catching the wrong fish.

Gillnetting is a common fishing method that has been used and still used for fishermens who do fishing practises.It is a method used by both commercial and artisinal fishermen. The gill nets are mostly used for vertical traps. The gill net seizes fish like sharks, sea turtles and swordfishes. The only problem with gill nets is that it kills the fish while they’re getting dragged by the net. However when using this method it   retrieves multiple fish in go while anchored in that one spot.

Longline fishing is a fishing technique we use. Longline can be set to hang near the ocean floor to capture fish such as tuna and swordfish. The issue about longline fishing is that it can damage the ocean floor. This techniques causes multiple issues . Such as the attraction it receives from  albatross flying over. The bait is seen by these creatures prompting them to dive underwater to retrieve the bait causing them to be hooked onto the hooks in comparison to this negative point this technique  does also, like other captures a lot of fish.

Trawling, another fishing method similar to dredging. On the high sea un-regulated bottom trawlers operating in waters well off the coast, are laying wastes to huge swaths of the ocean floor.  Sea Mountains and hills that rise from the ocean floor but do not come above the ocean surface are being damaged  by industrial fishing practises

Many rare and old even unknown species of creatures and underwater plants and corals are at danger.It was discovered in small sand habitats where the plaice prefer polychaetes trawling does have a small positive effect of trawling. In comparison to this negative scientist have found evidence that trawling can be productive. It can remove competing species underwater fishermen observed this in coastal locations with natural with natural sea bed disturbances.

There are multiple fishing practises or industrial fishing techniques. They each bring a fair amount of negative and positive effects  to the ocean. There are even some people trying to prevent these practises from continuing. What do you think?

Alphabetical Order

casting

coral

interdependence

leviathan

long line

netting 

plankton 

school (of fish) 

taniwha 

trawling 

surf 

Spelling words T3W8

coral

 long line

 trawling 

plankton 

school (of fish) 

netting 

surf 

casting

interdependence

taniwha 

leviathan

T3W8- Student Lead Maths

Multiplication Triangle

Genera Knowledge- Indonesia

Waitangi Movie Experience

Round and Compensate Numbers

IKAN Test

Multiplication Triangle

Whats hiding inside

appearance- app,pear,ran,nana,nan,are,ear,pea,

Kiwi Can

Today, 20 August 2014, we went to Kiwi Can and I enjoyed it because it has helped me developed my team work skills and it also helped me a lot. To those who don't know what Kiwi Can is, Kiwi can is people that go around schools and they talk to us about what being HONEST,INTEGRITY,RESPECT,TRUST and many more but this is what we have learned so far with the lessons we have done.

In the last few weeks we talked about HONEST and INTEGRITY. I have learnt that being honest is when you tell the truth and its always good to tell the truth because if you tell the truth and you do the right thing then your teachers,parents and others will trust you and then you won't get in trouble. I also learnt what Integrity means and it means doing the right thing even when know one is looking. So that means, if you know you done something wrong then it will be a good idea if you step up to it and be honest, then you won't have to focus the consequences and then the teacher won't need to worry about anything.


We now are focusing on what responsibility means and we had an good lesson. First we done some team work activity and then the talking came in about what responsibility means and I have learnt that it means doing something even when you don't get told to do it. So that means being helpful and walking people that need help walking across the road or it also means helping your mum do the chores around the house. It also means being on to something your mean't to do and making sure you do stuff that are sensible and reliable.


Once we finish our lesson we then took a look at where we are on our scores. It was based on our Listening Positive Attitude,Participation,Respect and Team Work. We got a 9/10 for Respect, a 10/10  for participation and we got it form these lovely visitors I think just from the Kiwi Can Staff Participation and a 10/10 for listening. We also got a 10/10 for team work and Positive Attitude and we got a 10/10 for listening and we were really happy.

Room 8 was proud because we were coming 4th place but I think we manged to come first because we got 4 10/10 and I think all we need to work on is our respect bit but I think Room 8 can do much better and we are all looking forward for the next lesson because we want to get that 9 to be a 10 and to always remain like that. Thank you Kiwi Can!!! Your the best

Whanau Conference

Syllabification

per-cen-tage

da-ta

de-tec-tive

so-rt

patt-ern

a-ppear-ance

de-tri-men-tal

con-clu-sion

com-mu-ni-ca-tion

sea-bed

Spelling Words T3W5

percentage

data

detective

sort

pattern

appearance

detrimental

conclusion

communication

seabed

Current Events

a

Syllabication Order

rig-hts

ga-ther

e-vi-dence

e-va-lu-ate

sta-tis-tics

me-an

me-di-an

mo-de

ave-ra-ge

sp-re-ad

Kelly Tarltons

Spelling Words T3W4

rights

gather

evidence

evaluate

statistics

mean

median

mode

average

spread

Syllabication

stream=0

fish-ing=1

e-ffect=1

a-ffect=1

ta-o-nga=2

mo-a-na=2

ta-ga-ta=2

kai-ti-a-ki=3

gua-rd-ian2

pro-t-ect=2

Hangman

Alphabetical Order

affect

effect

fishing

guardian

kaitiaki

moana

protect

stream

tagata

taonga

Spelling Words T3W3

stream

fishing

effect

affect

taonga

moana

tagata

kaitiaki

guardian

protect

Cyber Smarts- Using a Phone

Hangman

Syllabification

ex-tin-ct

res-pon-si-bil-ity

po-ach-ing

wha-ling

de-fen-ding

oc-ean

co-ral re-ef

est-uary

ri-ver

la-ke

New faces for Superheroes

Current Events

Alphabetical Order

coral reef

defending

estuary

extinct

lake

ocean

poaching

responsibility

river

whaling

100 Questions- Monday 28th

5 + 2 = 7	32 ÷ 8 = 4	4 ÷ 1 = 4	1 - 1 = 0
1 x 3 = 3	12 - 6 = 6	5 + 11 = 16	6 x 8 = 48
6 + 11 = 17	8 x 3 = 24	10 + 10 = 20	19 - 10 = 9
11 + 6 = 17	6 x 6 = 36	1 x 3 = 3	3 - 3 =0
13 - 7 = 6	5 x 0 = 0	11 - 9 = 2	5 x 9 = 45
6 x 8 = 48	35 ÷ 7 = 5	2 + 9 = 11	14 ÷ 7 = 2
8 + 1 = 9	15 - 5 = 10	5 x 9 = 45	0 x 7 = 0
9 ÷ 9 = 1	6 + 10 = 16	18 ÷ 2 = 6	5 x 0 = 0
9 + 11 = 20	6 - 2 = 4	49 ÷ 7 = 7	7 x 5 = 35
7 x 0 = 0	5 x 9 = 45	7 x 6 = 42	8 + 3 = 11
10 + 8 = 18	10 + 8 = 18	16 ÷ 8 = 2	25 ÷ 5 = 5
2 + 6 = 8	5 + 12 = 17	8 - 0 = 8	42 ÷ 6 = 7
36 ÷ 4 = 9	3 + 4 = 7	14 - 9 = 5	9 ÷ 3 = 3
16 - 6 = 10	5 + 0 = 5	7 + 9 = 16	1 x 0 = 0
0 + 1 = 1	56 ÷ 8 = 7	17 - 7 = 10	1 ÷ 1 = 1
36 ÷ 9 = 4	2 x 1 = 2	8 ÷ 2 = 4	12 ÷ 4 = 3
1 + 11 = 12	1 x 5 = 5	7 ÷ 7 = 1	10 + 11 = 21
1 - 0 = 1	9 ÷ 3 = 3	1 x 5 = 5	6 x 8 = 48
12 ÷ 6 = 2	8 x 9 = 72	35 ÷ 7 = 5	6 + 11 = 17

2 + 12 = 14	11 - 10 = 1	5 + 1 = 6	11 + 7 = 18
7 + 10 = 17	9 + 0 = 9	32 ÷ 4 = 8	0 + 12 = 12
9 - 7 = 2	7 + 8 = 15	8 x 9 = 72	7 + 8 = 15
81 ÷ 9 = 9	9 - 1 = 8	8 x 7 = 56	1 x 3 = 3
7 - 4 = 3	0 + 1 = 1	9 x 9 = 81	7 - 4 = 3
9 + 0 = 9	12 ÷ 2 = 6	9 - 2 = 7	14 - 8 = 6