Technology

Merit evidence: Technology

On Tuesday we had our first technology session for 2015. We now have 5 subjects, hard materials, science, textiles, cooking, and design. Design is a new subject and for this term I'm am in that group. We do not travel to Lincoln but we work in the breakout hub of room 25. It's an interesting subject, but yet an awesome one because its all about architecture and designing furniture. The first lesson was a bit boring but it was cool to meet the new teacher and the other students in the group. It was good to work with the students it did not know quite well because I made some new friends. I learnt how to have a discussion with a client and ask them questions to adjust my thinking of their project. I had lots of ideas but I couldn't get all of them out because lots of other people had ideas to. The best thing about design is that we get to create model house (out of cardboard and paint and all that kind of stuff) and put our dream home into it! I'm so excited!!! It's going to be super cool. I can't wait to get started on making MY model!!!

Jubilee Writing

Oaklands School had their 50th jubilee on Labour Weekend this year. At the moment, (when I'm writing this of course) I am a Year 7 in room 8. In 50 years I will be 61 (a lot older then I am now!!) by that time, I think the school would have changed by...

Having a lot more classrooms because when this started, there was only a couple of classes. I also think we will have our own technology classes, at least 20 generation 103 iPads and iPods, and the classrooms will have there own iPad tables. There would be no such thing as books, pens, pencils, paper and a lot more I can't name. I bet that schoolwork and homework would be NO MORE and MineCraft would be a learning subject (like in Germany)!!!:) Lunchtimes and morning-tea's would have to be longer and everything would involve A LOT OF FUN!!!

School would still be a place where we can learn and play so I can't wait to see the fabulous improvements on this lovely, welcoming school in 50 years.

Mia😊

Leadership

Monday- Zones, went really well. I came 2nd in 100 m sprints and came 4th in high jump. So I'm going to Canterbury's!!!

Tuesday- Technology, learnt a lot in science, including how to get a bleeding nose really quickly. Dance, we learnt how to do a different version of line dancing. I keep practising because it's pretty tricky!

Wednesday- Guitar, I was the only one to remember my guitar and lyrics so we didn't get to learn any new songs but we practised a song that we are still struggling with. Dance, I'm a pro at line dancing now! Learnt how to do all he difficult moves. The practising must've paid off!!:)

Leadership

Monday- wasnt here:)

Tuesday- Production. we went over our show a couple of times and its been going great

Wednesday- Production. over and over the show, it keeps getting more and more nerve-racking every time we do it!

Thursday- Production. Biggest rehearsal yet! well, because it was our last rehearsal!!!!!!!I hope i'll survive till then!

The production rehearsals went really well!

The Magical Stalker

The Magical Stalker

Type, type, type, type, type!
That's probably all you hear around a phone-addict who's texting people 24/7.
But what if that person is texting Random People 24/7?...
Now I'll have to come to the conclusion that that person is a phone-addict 'panda'. That doesn't sound quite right does it? Well, let me tell you a little story of a 'phone-addict panda'.
He was quite naughty, and he had to pay for his mistakes...

H-E-L-L-O, send, resend, resend.
This is what Marty does all day, texting people: hello, hi, sup, yellow, hey, waz up and so on...
Marty had just signed up to a popular latest app called 'growl-stagram' to make some friends.
His username is pretty appropriate being 'panda_bear_101' and he only posts photos of photo-shopped photos of the news so that the humans that are speaking, their heads are animals(!). Pretty lame isn't it! So let me tell you something that will blow you away... he has 1564 followers the last time I checked and their still going up as we speak!!! So much for lame photos...

Anyway, the other day, Marty posted a photo of a magical flash that he spied out in the sky. Seconds later, this horse with a swirled horn like creature called 'XxUniCreamIceCornxX' commented about where he was exactly at that time and where he lives and all of the important stuff you don't tell strangers just to see if that was where she was at the time! Straight away, Marty replied (driven with desperation for a friend) that he lived at hf hfhfhfhfhfh hf,  hfhfhfhff, fhfhfhfhfhfhfh, hfh fhfhfhffh .

Instantaneously, they were constantly texting day and night, night and day about each themselves to learn more about each other. But there was one thing that Marty wasn't telling the so called 'unicorn'.
He never said what type of panda he was. The unicorn thought he was a red panda, not a black and white one. But the unicorn was hiding something even WORSE then what type she was. She wasn't even a she (!) but a he and he wasn't a unicorn, he was a DRAGON! That's when it gets tricky and super dangerous, because the dragon wants to meet up with Marty in the middle of the forest! You have to be a serious numbskull to fall for that trick! Well, that means the dumbo Marty needs to shift up his game to actually be good at social media! 

That very night, Marty took a stroll into the woods, searching for a glamerous horse, but all he saw was a blazing fire burning the forest! Then he had a faint glimpse of an arrow-like tail. the figure started to circle him. a voice came: "have you seen a red panda anywhere?"
The bear frozen from fright eventually gained his ground and squeezed out that he knew no red panda. In a flash, the scaled unicorn whisked away into the night.

Marty was scarred for life of nearly being eaten by a complete stranger. 

I will never forget.

My maths-how I went...

My maths goal was: devise a strategy to solve a whole number problem

We (my group) had to find a number strategy to solve the word problem.

For example:

When a number (n) is multiplied the answer is 15: n x 3=15 or n³=15

Here is the work I have done:

And...

Now I want to get a range of different strategies to solve my problem and I also want to understand the degrees of a circle.

My AMAZING Speech! (that won!!!!!!!!!!!)

Mia’s AMAZING Speech:

Old Wives Tales-Are They True?

“Darling, please eat the crusts off your sandwich”

“But Mum, I DON’T WANT TO!”

“It will make your hair grow curly…”

This is an example of an ‘Old Wives Tale’.

Old wives tales are little sentences or stories that adults tell us to encourage or discourage us from doing things.

What is you watch too much television or you sit too close to it? Will you get square eyes? Do my eyes look square to you?! Most of us know a TV or phone addict and if you look at their eyes, I bet you 100% that they won’t be square. And how could the visual ‘colour’ rays of a television possibly form, shape and mould your eyes to the shape of the TV’s border?! I’d have to say that’s impossible and so would everyone else who knows SOMETHING about science!

What about when you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for 7 years? If your stomach acid can dissolve a solid razor blade in 2 hours or so, why should it take 61,320 hours to dissolve a squishy piece of gum?!

Now carrots, those simple, bright orange vegetables that bunnies and rabbits eat, can help you see in the dark. Personally, carrots have been my favourite veggie ever since I could talk and they have been one of the main foods in my everyday diet but when i wake up in the middle of the night, i still get freaked out because i can’t see a darn thing! Carrots may have some sort of chemical (that I’ve never heard of) that might help you see better but from my experience they definitely don’t let you be able to see in the dark! But one thing i do know is that if you eat 5 carrots a day or 140 carrots a month, your skin will turn slightly orange but thats a different story…

You may think that milk makes mucus or ‘snot’, as we know it especially if you had a cold.

My mum and i recently found out that this is untrue, from my scientist like doctor. When my mum asked if this was true, she replied: “No, this is FALSE! If you eat or drink any dairy products, your body won’t make mucus for there is no horrible bacteria to create it. I refer to my calculations…” and she slowly trailed off.

So there you have it.

Most wives tales are FALSE (!), as my doctor would say and they all have scientific information to prove it.

And if you don’t believe me, drink milk if you have a cold or eat lots of carrots and go into a dark room and see if you can see, but I wouldn't take the risk of walking into a wall...

Thanks,
By Mia:)

My Pup, Milo

My Pup, Milo

Something fluffy rubs against my leg.
It's just Milo, my puppy who looks like a new-born lamb.
He gives me faith but when I look into his pure, brown eyes, I see fear and discomfort.
That sends a shiver down my spine.

The master shepherd strolls towards me.
I spin away, trying not to make eye-contact. But I can't help it.
He has that same smug grin on his pruned face.
Suddenly, it hits me.
He's going to try and take Milo away, again!

"That dog of yours, ready for sale yet?", he screeches in his croaky voice.

"No"

He hesitates.
"I'll by him off you for $200"

"Never"
Milo wriggles in my arms.

"You'll have to give him to me or..."


The hunched man snatches the pup away from me. He shoves him in his flour sack and runs off.
Sweat and tears dribbling all over my face, I sprint after him with pain anger swirling in my system.
I finally catch up to him but he suddenly stops and spins around.

"If you come any closer, I'll kill the damn dog!"

I knew he wouldn't if he begged for him so much.

"You wouldn't dare to"

"Who said so? I never keep my word!"

"So you would never kill milo"

"Givin' me lip, are ya?!"

I shuffle forwards, then backwards, then forwards again, unsure of what he'd do.
He gestgures the sack towards a sharp, nearby rock, threatning me.

That's when I do it, the loudest thing I'd ever do.
I scream my lungs out.
The old my cuffs his ears, dropping his sack. He starts howling with pain then shuffles off.
I cripple to the sack, desperate for a sign of life.
I draw the pup out, who's all covered in flour.
He shakes up and down, trying to get rid off all the white powder. But instead of shaking it on the ground, he pours it all over me.

Milo kisses me with happiness to still be alive and to still be mine.
Or just to lick the flour off my face...

Peer Mediation!

My Peer Mediation was on Monday (I forgot to put it in then) with Grace because Luke M didn't show up... anyway, Grace and I had a good lunchtime helping younger students solve their own problems and helping students who have hurt themselves, get to the sickbay safely. We didn't have much problems which was great and all the problems we did get, were sorted out quickly.
Overall, I enjoyed the rest of my lunchtime with Grace, helping younger students get along with their friends and organise some games for them to play.