Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Monday, 10 April 2017
About Glasses!
What is a pair of glasses?
Glasses come in different shapes and sizes. They are used for many different reasons. There are sunglasses, prescription eyeglasses, accessory glasses or even safety glasses.
The sunglass is used to protect your eyes or prevent yourself from looking at the sun. Sunglasses can be worn as accessories on summer days. People like taking them to the beach or the swimming pool.
Reading glasses or prescription glasses are used for people who can't see very well. They are also used by people who have trouble seeing tiny and small pictures, words and small objects from afar.
Finally we have the safety glasses, something that builders, electricians or plumbers need to use when doing something that might hurt or go into someone's eyes. For example if a builder was sanding or cutting wood with a machine, wood shavings would fly everywhere and it would hurt someone's eyes painfully and it could cause a splinter to go through an eye.
Glasses have been around for a long, long time and it's still being used by people today for the exact same reason it was built for that is because it can keep us safe and keep us fashionable.
WALHT: write an explanation.
Friday, 10 March 2017
Signing the Chinese numbers!
We are learning to recognise the Chinese number system.
I know I can do this when I record myself saying the numbers 1-10 in Chinese.
Save the Poorman's stream!
WAHLT: persuade others to stop littering on the streams by making an infographic.
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Do you know anything about solids, liquids and gases?
It was a clear and sunny day when Room 8 went to Pakuranga Intermediate to attend our weekly classes. As usual the Year 7's took Science class with our clever and intelligent teacher, Miss Gawith.
To start of the lesson, Miss Gawith gave us a worksheet to test our science knowledge. The questions that were on the sheet were related to solids, liquids and gases. To answer some of the questions, we needed to know about evaporation and condensation.
After we finished the test, we were given chromebooks to participate in activity websites and test our knowledge of science interactively. We played quiz games that asked questions about how a solid turns to a liquid and how a liquid turns to a gas. I enjoyed the games and so did the rest of the class.
Sadly, it was time to leave. I had a ton of fun at tech and I hope that we learn more about solid, liquids and gases next week.
WAHLT: recall my day at Technicraft.
Friday, 3 March 2017
Low tide!
Low tide
I walk beside you
across mudflats in
my blue gumboots,
over crackling oyster
shells, green ribbed pipi,
the traces of raiding birds.
When the tide is out, what lies exposed:
river threads of mud, old brown stones,
tiny mussels yet to grow:
my soul prints left
on the ocean's
bones.
Sarah Penwarden
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