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Thursday 24 September 2015

Blood On The Horizon

Blood Moon on the Horizon

Created on September 22, 2015
Screenshot 2015-09-24 at 10.26.40 AM.pngA Blood moon known as a ‘tetrad’ will take place on September 28th, which is just the fourth lunar eclipse in two years.
The rare event will make the moon look up to 14% larger because it is as close to the earth than it will ever be in its elliptical orbit. However there is a chance that the eclipse won’t be visible from New Zealand and as always viewing always depends on weather conditions.

So why will the moon be a ‘blood’ red colour? When the earth eclipses a full moon the direct sunlight is blocked, but the sun's rays still light up the moon. However this light has already travelled through the Earth's atmosphere first, and hence causing the totally eclipsed moon to look red or brownish.   
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Wednesday 23 September 2015

Rugby World Cup 2015

For the last two weeks we have been put into groups to create a presentation about the Rugby World Cup 2015. I am in a group with , Quros, Tyla, Sophie, Suliasi. I have learnt that the Webb Ellis cup is named after William Webb Ellis. I think that our presentation is going well and I can't wait to see the finish product.

Monday 21 September 2015

Cindy In The House



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Today we went to watch a play a Point England School, which is called Cindy In The House. There were four schools including Ruapotaka, Kura Kaupapa, Glenbrae and Pt England Preschool. When we got there we got and wait for about 10 minutes. My favourite part of the play was when Josh was dancing to the harlem shake. This play was based on Cinderella.

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Smart Media

Robin (Erithacus rubecula) Juvenile
Puketi Robins
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/658562 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
1. First you have to go to google images.
2. Then you click not filtered by licence. At the bottom of that you will see labeled for noncommercial. 
3. When you find the photo you want to go to the website.
4.Copy the photo and the author or illustrators name and paste them in your doc.
5. Paste the photo and underneath write the tittle of the photo and the author or illustrators name.
6. Copy the link of the website.
7. After that highlight the name and the photo title and link it (ctrl+k)

Thursday 10 September 2015

Wood Tech

                                                Wood Tech
For the last month I have been working on a jewelry holder for my mum. It is now done and it look’s good. I had to plan what I was going to do first. Then I worked my way from my plan. We had to do 10 to 15 designs on it then we could start on our project. It was a lot of work but I did it. I am so happy that I finished my project.

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Wednesday 9 September 2015

Myron Simpson

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Today the amazing Myron Simpson came to talk to us about reading and cycling.

Myron was born on July the 30th in 1990. He was inspired by his brothers to cycle. He started riding a bike when he was 3 years old with training wheels. By the time he was 3 and a half he took his training wheels off. When he was eight years old he competed in competitions. In 2007 he won a silver medal in Mexico. His cycling bike is worth $15,000 dollars. He has made his own company called Myron's Muesli.

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Thursday 3 September 2015

Jill McDondal

Jill McDonald

Jill McDonald was born in Wellington in 1927. She had a talent for drawing when she was in primary school and she also loved reading books. She drew a lot of illustrations for School Journals and she would use pens, pencils, crayons, stencils, inks, paints and dye. This was when there were no computers around so that meant it was done all by  hand. Sadly Jill died in 1982 and a lot of her art was put in trunk and sent to her mum Glen.