Holiday Program

Create a 2 week long holiday programme for kids your age for this holidays.

The programme must have different morning and afternoon activities. i.e. 9.00 - 3.00pm

You must think of something to do different every day.

You can go out of town (parent transport).

Your total budget is $200 for the 10 days or $20 per day.

You can include out of town activities.

Do it as a table.

WEEK1	Mon	Tue	Wed	Th	Fri
Morning	Movies	Horse riding	Mclaren Falls	Water fight	Playing sport
Afternoon	Walking around town	Games with horses	Manic room	Making crafts	Baywave
You must bring	Money	Nothing	Nothing	Coloured paper,scissors and glue stick,  togs.	Togs
Total cost	$20	$20	$20	$10	$15

WEEK 2	Mon	Tue	Wed	Th	Fri
Morning	Manic Room	Going to the lakes	Go to the beach	Watch T.V	Card Making
Afternoon	Go up the mount	Biscuiting	Surfing	Play board games	Bayfair
You must bring	running shoes	Togs and towel	Togs and towel	nothing	nothing
Total cost	$20	$20	$10	FREE	$20

Christmas Crossword

Christmas Gifts

Mum and Dad - 

Mum -

I Love You to the Moon & Back Heart - $17.95 

Dad -

The BBQ...Daddy's Domain Apron - $19.95 

Brother -

Telescopic Selfie Snapper - $19.95  

Niece -

Ink-a-Do Tattoo Pens  - $8.95 

Nephew -

Glow Pen Set - $7.95 

Nephew -

LED Bubble Blowing Gun - $14.95 

Sister in law -

Save Water, Drink Champagne Apron - $49.95 

Total - $140

Tech 2013\2014

Technology

Fill in this table for each of the 7 techs for year 7 and year 8 tech

Year 7 Tech:

TECH	WHAT I MADE	SKILLS I LEARNED	HOW THIS TECH COULD BE IMPROVED
Food Tech	Jam tarts Muffins Sausage Roll Mini Pizza	How to use an oven	I could of improved if I had more time.
Soft Materials Tech	A bag thingy	How to sew	If I had more knowledge about sewing.
Music	We played the keyboard, guitar and ukulele.	How to play music	If I had not sore fingers.
Art	We made self portraits.	How to use ink	If I had more time.
Science	Lots of little experiments.	How to take my time.	If we had more experiments.
Hard Materials
Electronics

Year 8 Tech:

TECH	WHAT I MADE	SKILLS I LEARNED	HOW THIS TECH COULD BE IMPROVED
Food Tech
Soft Materials Tech
Music
Art
Science
Hard Materials	a box that holds tools of the trade.	How to nail wood together	If i nailed the nails in the right place
Electronics

Come up with 10 new names for 10 objects. Post the images with your new names as a blog post.

Little droppings

Cold fun

Fatty Things

Money Waster

Sweet Heaven 

Fairy Land

Virtual tour

Compile a list of as many places as you can which allow you to take a virtual tour.

Mansion

Virtual tour: http://www.woodlandsmansion.com/vt.html

Parliament NZ
Virtual tour: Parliament NZ Tour

London Tour 
Virtual tour: London Tour

National Museum 
Virtual tour: National Museum Tour

Oxford
Virtual tour: Oxford tour


A Virtual tour is a great way to learn online without moving. You can learn lots by a virtual tour. On a virtual tour you buy a ticket online and someone talks and you move your mouse over where you want to look at. A weakness is that you would get lazy and the tour might be outdated. A strength is that the tour might be cheaper that a normal tour because an actual tour is\would be more expensive. I have looked at the mansion tour, the tour of Oxford and more. If you would like to look at some virtual tour click the links above. One of the best virtual tours that I liked was the Oxford one because you can see how big the school is and how many student attend Oxford. The bad thing is that you can't go into and look inside the buildings.

Skyping a class from Japan

What time do you normally go to bed on a school night?

what is going on in Ferguson, USA?

What is going on in Ferguson, USA?

Try My Quiz:
http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1411261441474603&a=1&

TGC Visit

Today we went to Tauranga Girls College and we looked around the school. We got a pack where it tells us how much everything is. They showed us around the school  and we had to fill out a time capsule that we would see when we have finished Tauranga girls college in 2020. I like how TGC have a ton of choices and academic things that you can do. Also you stay with your tutor class for the hole 5 years in College which is pretty cool. At TGC there was a rubbish bin that was stuck into the ground. They also have their own pool and you can go into it in term 1 and term 4 in the summer time when it is hot, they heat to pool up to make it a little bit walmer.

Advice for years 7's Next Year

When you first start tauranga intermediate it is thrilling and exciting or you can be very nervous, there will probably someone in your class that you will know from you old school or something. Be sure that you be nice to everyone so you can make lots of new and lasting friendships. For the girls I suggest that you wear you P.E shorts on underneath you skirt. Be sure no the do anything that you are not allowed to do while in class time. If you do my ramsley will check you computer and you will get into a lot of trouble. Don't run to the canteen without a teacher because mr Diver might tell you off. Intermediate are some of you best schooling years. Make the most of everything and try your best. Make sure that you only use the Rimu toilets.

Life Ed Video

Sound quality: The sound was really good and there was not to much background noise.

Camera skill: The camera skills were good, especially the car part.

Acting: there acting was good and it looked real.

Editing: I liked the credit music at the end and the editing was good.

Poem: Timing for the poem was good and was the right speed.

Transformations.

Transformations mindmap

Internet forum

What is an internet forum?

It is an online discussion, people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

Have you ever posted on a forum? Explain.

Yes, Last year when we did class questions.

What is a thread?A grouping conversation amongst users.

What is the forum administrator’s job?
To make sure that things behind the scenes run smoothly.

What are some different names for forums?
?

Find a forum on and provide a link for:

• Minecraft http://www.minecraftforum.net/
• Rugby http://www.therugbyforum.com/
• Swimming http://www.swimsmoothforum.com/

What do you think the rules for posting on a forum are?
Not to swear and be mean.
Dont laugh at what other people say.
Dont post stupid things.

What do you think the consequences are for breaking the forum rules?

Go to our class forum. Register using your school email.

Post a response to the thread topic and vote on the poll.

Read the posts of 3 others and reply to their posts.

Social edit

Technology Hurt or Help

I think that technology has hurt us a lot as people are getting more and more overweight, less active and more anti - social.  Back in the day kids would make tree houses and play outside but now kids are inside playing on there devices. Kids as young as 2 have there own iPad, iPod and other devices.

Life Ed

In Life Ed Michael told us all about drugs and alcohol and that there were 7 steps of the ladder, and that you should wait till you get to the 7th stage of the ladder until you make your decision on weather or not to use drugs. Drugs can affect you a lot like, family violence, jail, not be able to travel, and the worst being dead. There are many types of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, wine, ecstasy, sprites, beer and tons more. There are about 3-5% alcohol, in beer, 12-15% alcohol in wine and 35-40% alcohol in sprites. It takes 1 hour for the body to consume a cup or glass of alcohol. Teenagers get drunk more easier\quicker because they have a faster absorption rate and that is when they do silly and stupid things.


We learnt that when\ before you go out to drink you should always have food before so that the process of digestion the alcohol can take a little longer. Class A drugs in New Zealand are: Methamphetamine, Magic Mushrooms, Cocaine, Heroin and LSD. If someone is caught with any of these drugs they can face up to 6 months in jail or if you are the supplier of the drug then you can face life in jail. Kids can start taking drugs at the age of 13 and do it for the rest of there life. Once you start it is really hard to quit but talking drugs can ruin your life make you go bankrupt and steal from family members. Taking drugs can make you look 20 years older then you already are and you also can get scabs on your face and make you ugly.

Web of Addiction Poem

Walking up the ladder year after year, waiting to make that big decision coming up somewhere.

Watching others take the drug, choose your decision wisely and don't become a addic thug.

But one night at a party you take the pill that makes you ill and raises your bill, You look at your reflection in the mirror and think to yourself I have to be a quitter. 

Day by day, night by night things are tough but get better in sight.

Finished?

Play Border Patrol.

Interactive Health Games

Look for other online games which help with drug and health education. Put the links on this doc.

RImu Logo

Wizard Of Oz Quiz

Use the 7 servants to write 7 questions for The Wizard of Oz movie we are watching for Availll.

Put the 7 questions onto a quiz: Quizyourfriends.com

Room 42 blog site.

Link: http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1411061449555244&a=1&

South Korea

Research South Korea.

Create a mind map on an app of your choice.

• start in the centre
• topic headings and subheadings
• VERY FEW words, single words only
• add pictures as prompts
• be ready to share
• colour code similar ideas.

Is the book disappearing?

I think that books are not disappearing because there are still tons of libraries,book shops and online book shops. people think that the "book book' will disappear in about 30 years, but i think that it will take at least another 50-60 years.

In America there are about 30,000,000 trees cut down each year for books to be printed on. And we need trees for oxygen. Books are expensive if you have a lot of them but I bet you would rather carry a lite kindle\ebook then carry a heavy book around. In room 42 there are 9 out of 31 students that have a kindle at home.

If you dropped an ebook then it would most likely break but it you had a book  it would be fine. Since 2005 a 25% drop has occurred where children don't read in there outside of school time. Ebooks are quite popular and tons of people are changing to then as they are light, portable and you can have hundreds of books on it at a time.

Magic Mushrooms

Research one illegal drug in depth.

Find out:

• class
• describe how the drug looks
• how it is made
• ways the drug is used
• how it affects the user
• streetnames
• negative health effects it has on the user
• dangers

Write a summary in paragraphs. No pictures.

 Magic mushrooms is a class A drug, the drug looks like a normal mushroom with a long white stem and a brown pointed top. The magic mushroom is not a plant witch means that it is grown from a spore. To make magic mushrooms you need to fill the kit with water, let the water absorb, remove the water. Put the kit in the plastic bag and place it in a good spot. Then wait. harvest, dry and then start over if you want.