Holes

Holes - Louis Sachar 

Stanley Yelnats isn't surprised to find himself at Camp Green Lake, digging holes in the dried-up lake bed, day after scorching day. After all, his family has a history or Bad luck.

The boys a Camp Green Lake must dig one hole each day, five feet deep and five feet across. But what are they digging for? Why did Green Lake dry up? And what do onions and lizards have to do with it all? The answers a lie in Stanley Yelnsats own past.

Tamaki College

Hi everyone I am now a year 9 student at Tamaki College I look forward to sharing my learning with you over the next five years.

Credit & Debt/Lets be creditworthy

Today with Raphael we were learning about how to be creditworthy and how to look after peoples stuff we did a sheet about credit and debt we had to fill up the missing words for the sheet and try and solve it out then we did another sheet called Let's be creditworthy and it makes you learn how to save money and the right choices to buy rather then spend the whole thing and then we had to do skits about a $5 magazine and a friend doesn't look after his/her friends DVD then we had to talk about like looking after money and stuff
and how to pay the bills and make more frequent payments and talk about other stuff but now i can learn how to save money

Stop Child Abuse

1. An intention to harm: intention suggests that the harm caused by bullying is deliberate, not accidental.[2]
2. Victimization distress: bullying causes the victim to suffer mild to severe psychological, social or physical trauma.[2]
3. Repetition: bullying is persistent; it happens more than once or has the potential to occur multiple times.[2]
4. Power inequity: definitions of bullying often state that bullying includes a real or perceived imbalance of power between the bully and the victim. This characteristic is disputed, as both bullies and victims have reported that the conflict and/or behaviors most commonly occur
   1. Approximately 5 children die every day because of child abuse.
   2. 1 out of 3 girls and 1 out of 5 boys will be sexually abused before they reach age 18.
   3. 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way. 68% are abused by a family member.

Science

Today at room 8 room we learnt how stuff dissolves and stuff turn into gas and Miss Ravi showed us what happens when she tips baking soda into lemon juice and then it fizzed up and gas was coming out it was like a mini volcano but then it stopped then we had to sit at the tables into our house groups only one writer had to write a little recount about what happen when Miss Ravi  tipped the baking soda into the lemon juice and give that person some information and details.
 
Then we had to go back down to the mat into our house colour groups lines and then had to do a competition each house group had to have one paper and write about Liquid,Solid,Gas 1 runner from each group had to run outside the corridor and read the paper about Liquid,Solid,Gas the runner was me and I  had to remember the paragraphs and had to run back to my  group and tell them then the writer had to  write it down on the piece of paper and if your group comes first then you get 100 point for you house colour group  and the second group gets 50 then the third group get 15 then last group gets 10
and then who ever writes it down on the paper first wins and then rata came first and we got extra 100 points. And then the bell rang and we had to go for morning tea.

          

Technology

Today at Technology I went to cooking tech at cooking tech you get to cook stuff you never taste before seen before and cook before and you get to cook all sort of things it's fun and at tech.

 Today Me and the whole year 8's was cooking Dutch apple pie It was simple all you have to do is he gave us caster sugar in a measuring cup and we had to put it in a bowl and stir it around until its white and then she told us to add an egg in one by one me and Lennyx took turns at stirring and  then  we went and showed Miss Tuipolotu she said to oil up the tray so that nothing sticks to it and that it is easier to wash.Then we showed Mrs Tuipolotu and she said to slice the apple and place them nicely on the caster sugar in 3 single line and then show it to her and then she will put cinnamon salt on it then you have to put 200 time on the oven and wait for it until it's hot then put your cake in and put 15 mins on the timer and wait for it until it's cooked don't go walking around because it might get brunted and then take it out when it's gold or brown then slice it into whatever it depends on how much people you go in your group casually it's 2 people in one group but some people have 3 in a group and then eat it for 10 mins then clean up for an other 10 mins.

Kiwi Can

Today Room 10 sat down in 2 single lines and outside of kiwi can and we had to sit down and inform a circle and talk about reliability. Reliability means when someone can trust you doing the right thing and and others counting on you to be there or doing something done and after that.

 We had to do our energiser our energiser was body beat in body beat you have 4 groups of people and someone will come around and say your number like say 1234 then 1234 until the last person and then if your number 1 you go to that corner if your number 2 you go to that corner if your number 3 you go to that corner if your number 4 you go to that corner then you have to come with a beat like someone claps and you make and other beat then you keep carry on until the person at the end has the last beat then you have to performer the beat to the hole class and then have to wait till the other group finish.

 Then we had to go into our activity and Mr Numia will pick the numbers again and then have to go outside and do 4 square and there were two groups and played hand ball this hand ball was just one hit and next person turn like one hit and run back to the back of the line and then we walked back to kiwi can room and sat down in a circle and then talked about what we did today then did our kiwi can fraze then stand up and went back to class.