Water Cycle Writing

Editing My Own Work:

Title

- My title explains what I am going to be talking about.

- My title is interesting.

Opening Statement

- My first sentence tells my reader what my explanation is about

- My opening statement HOOKS the reader in - it is engaging.

Paragraphs

- I have written in paragraphs

- My ideas are in order

- Each paragraph is a new idea

Conclusion

- My writing has a clear ending

- My ending relates to my topic

- “good bye” or “the end” is not Year 8 quality work.

• My writing is in present tense.

After you have edited your work, post to your blog! Include your answers to these questions...

• Something that I did well: I did well on the research because I knew some facts about it

from the years before.

• Something I can improve for next time: Using some more scientific words to make my

writing more interesting.

• Something that I need more help with: I need more help with the editing side of writing.

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The cycle of water (how water rises and falls)

The water cycle. The water cycle concludes of 3 parts. Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation. Here is some more facts about the 3 parts of the water cycle.

Evaporation:

The first part of the cycle is evaporation. Evaporation happens when the sun’s heat is over water in oceans, lakes, rivers and even puddles! Evaporation is where the sun produces heat and it turns water into a gas. The evaporated water is that light that it floats up too the are and it starts the second part of the cycle.

Condensation:

Condensation is where the evaporated water converts into a cloud by combining with gases and dust. As all of them substances combine, that are forming clouds. When the clouds are formed, as more and more of the substances gather the clouds get bigger and the water drops inside get larger and larger until they get to heavy that the next stage starts.

Precipitation:

Precipitation is where it all falls down.  No literally, Precipitation is the stage where the cloud breaks open and it starts to rain. But is isn’t always rain, it can also be hail and snow. The rain, hail or snow will end up in the ocean, lake and river but some can proceed and become groundwater, but from here on this is the end of the cycle and this is where it starts all over again.

This is the water cycle and how the water cycle works. The water cycle is really cool, the way it Evaporates into the air and then Condensates into a cloud and then precipitates as it all falls out of the sky and starts again.

Kete Screencastify

For the end of our kete project we had to make a screencastify the reflected on one of the natural disasters. As you can see David and I Did our one on blizzards. It was really fun to learn about all of the natural disasters and i would love to do it again!!!!!

Reading Task For Week 5

Things that i learnt from the reading that we did: "Fishy Looking Robot SoFi is helping Scientists Spy on Life Under The Sea. <-Title of the Reading

1. I learnt that scientists have made an under water robot called SoFi to examine marine life.
2. I learnt that most of Sofi is 3d printed so then it is whiten budget / cost like nothing.
3. I learnt that the battery that is used to power SoFi is a battery that you would find in a smart phone. 

That are the things that i have learnt in this weeks reading!!!

Science

What is bone made of?

Aim  To investigate the effect of acid on bone.

Method

1. Got the bones, Acid, Water and Cola
2. Got containers for the bones and the liquids
3. Cleaned off the bones
4. Placed them in the Containers and then filled them with the liquid that we were testing with
5. Closed containers and waited two weeks for the liquids to take effect
6. Two weeks later, We got the containers and a scale to test how much the weight had changed. Then we weighed and listed them on a chart.

Results

	Bone in Water	Bone in Acid	Bone in Coca Cola
Observation	Smelly	Bendy	Black
Mass (g) Before	8 grams	9 grams	8 grams / 8 grams
Mass (g) After	12 grams	8.8 grams	9.8 grams / 8.8 grams
Difference in Mass	4g	0.2g	1.8g / 0.8g

Conclusion

Acid had eaten away at the bone and it made it bendy.

Cola Coloured the bone black

And the water made the bone really smelly.

Buddhist Temple Trip

On the 22nd of may, HHS Year 7-8 went on a trip to the Christchurch Buddhist Temple. This is a recount about the trip and what we did.

All the year 8 students went in the first part of the day, and we started with a bus trip to the temple. As we arrived to the temple, there we all the people and volunteers standing in front to welcome us. We got off the bus and lined up in our two separate groups that we were put into at school. The leader got to hold a sign with the number on it. We started off by learning the Lotus sign. We eventually went off and started the journey around the temple.

We started off in the art gallery, were we learnt about some of the art and what it is about. Some of the art was really cool and really creative. Now it was time to take a trip up stairs and through the tunnel of time and to the library. At the library there were lots of books written in a different language so I didn’t know what they said, But there was one shelf that was fill of english books. Now my group were going down stairs to get a water tattoo. They were all different but my one had a red flower at the bottom of it and it was really cool.

The water tattoo’s were cool but I’m not a big fan on them. We now walked to a room that had two table’s and they had card pop outs to make a lotus flower, and in that room it also had a place where you could bathe a buddha. Most of my group did it but I didn’t want too so I sat at that back. Now it was time to build the lotus flower from the card pop outs. The different layers of the lotus had different numbers so then we could order them in size and then staple it together with a rubber band connected it. I had the rubber band around my head so then the flower was as well.

We then moved onto having a snack. It was water and cookies. Both of the groups met up for this stage so then we could move onto the final stage together which was the meditation and the police talk. The meditation was really relaxing and it was really fun as well. The police talk was also really fun because there were little acts that we could do. At the end we were able to dress up in police gear. It was really cool and it was a really fun day.

Sadly it was time to go back to school, but it was a really fun time and i would love to do more things like that.

Art Planing Page

Here is my planing page for my lino cutting.

Reading Screencastify

For my reading task i had to make a screencastify about what i learnt in the reading that we did.
Here it is Hope you enjoy!

Kete Work

Writing

What is a pantomime?

What is a Pantomime?

A pantomime is a theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas.

The difference Between a Pantomime and a normal musical is the during a Pantomime the actors interact with the audience and it is made for children. The Pantomime is really funny. 

What Does Slapstick Mean? comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events. 
We can use slapstick in our play by some of the dancers falling over when they are dancing.


Link to a Pantomime.

Logo Reserch

I Like this logo because it is a
dog shadow puppet.
 

I like this one because it looks like a circus
                                                      And a magazine.

This one as well because it is a weight
and a movie strip down the middle

Lino Cutting

This term we are going to be doing lino cutting.

Lino cutting

Writing

Today My teacher Miss Birtch was away from school. so we had a writing task that we had to write about what we think she would be doing today, but we had to make it exciting. here is my Toondoo that i made of the subject. My idea was that she was asked by a special organization to kill an alien that they had found traces of.

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Reading Task

“Although the technology is almost here, bringing back the moa would

be a huge venture. It would take a large team of scientists and cost a

lot of money. There would also be no guarantee of success – and many

embryos and even live chicks would die during the process.”

- Return of the Moa (Berentson)

Your task is to write a persuasive paragraph telling the reader whether you think it would be a good idea
or a bad idea to bring back the moa based on the quote above.

What is your opinion?

In my opinion, i think we shouldn’t bring back the moa because it would cost way
too much and it is too dangerous for our environment. People would think that they
can destroy animals habitats because we can bring the species of animals and they can
adapt to the new environment. Also if there is no guarantee of success if they fail they
have just wasted a lot of money and time and the have killed a lot of embryos and live
chicks. So I disagree with bringing back the moa because we need to save the
endangered animals first.

Thank you for looking at this post!!