States of matter and Water cycle!

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This term in extension we learned about the the 3 states of matter and the water cycle. We were given the task to create an animation about these things and this is my finishing product! I hope you enjoy and learn something from this movie! ENJOY!!!

Scandals and Technology Movie

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This is my extension movie I have made about the technology and scandals of the Olympics. Last term we were learning about the Olympics and we were given the task to create a movie and presentation and pick two subjects to research about. I chose Technology and Scandals. I hope you learn something from my movie!

ENJOY

Scandals and Technology Extension

This is my extension work for term 3. We were learning about the Olympics and we were given a choice to pick two subject that relate to the Olympics. I chose Scandals and technology.

The 100m mens sprint London Olympics

The atmosphere was filled with excitement from thousands of thrilled people sitting in the Olympic stadium in London 2012. Everyone was watching with anticipation as the nine competitors were preparing themselves to run. It was the finals for the 100m men's sprint. All the competitors had been training themselves for this very day, and now it was time for them to give it their all.  As the nine runners got ready to run everything went dead silent. Suddenly a voice called out “On your mark... set...”.

BANG! The runners ran as fast as their legs could take them.The crowd went wild, cheering on the runners! You could see on the sprinters faces that all of them were trying to push themselves.The race was only 10 seconds long and in that 10 seconds, the famous Usain Bolt took the lead. In the crowd people were holding up all sorts of flags to show there support to the runners. One of the runners fell behind the rest but the rest carried on strong to the end!

Out came Usain Bolt coming first. He was filled with so much pride and happiness he continued to run around the stadium. Then the media crew arrived, taking photos and filming Usain Bolt. He carried on running around the stadium non stop, The rest of the runners were no where to be seen as the camera’s were mostly focusing on the winners of the race. In third place was Justin Gatlin from USA, in second place was Yohan Blake from Jamaica and lastly in first place Usain Bolt from Jamaica! It was a very short but very exciting!

THE GREAT ADVENTURE!

Inside a small house filled with happiness and light, there was one room that was dark and very messy. This room was complete mayhem and the owner of this room was Noah. Today he would travel over to his best friend’s house, where they would play part four of the most well known game series in the world - ‘The Great Adventure!’ This game included magic, fighting and exciting quests. They loved the game ever since it came out and playing the game made them closer as friends! “Noah hurry up! You don’t want to be late!!” called Noah's mother all the way from the kitchen. It was time to go so Noah quickly grabbed his backpack and sprinted down the wooden stairs. Noah and his mother quickly drove to his best friends house!

As Noah’s mum stopped in front of Thomas’s house, Noah excitedly hopped out of the car and sprinted to the lime green wooden front door! Thomas’s parents loved colors and that’s why their house was so colorful. Noah knocked loudly on the door, then Thomas came down and let him in. They greeted each other and then headed upstairs, Thomas’s room was very tidy and just at the end of his bed there was a big t.v with chips, drinks and two controllers. Full of silent excitement they took a seat and started the game. As soon as they clicked on the start button the room started to spin! What was happening? The t.v began to glow a blood red and the boys began to panic as they tried to run to the door. But they fell into the big black hole, which was growing bigger and bigger consuming the whole room!

It seemed as if they would never stop falling until... BOOM! They finally crashed into a giant bush which cushioned their landing. “Urggggh what happened?” groaned Thomas. The two boys looked around and they both could slightly recognize their surroundings. “WOW!” exclaimed Noah. They were surrounded by trees and up above them was the bright blue sky. Right in front of them was a shining gold title screen of ‘The Great Adventure!’ The two boys slowly got to their feet and started to walk around. Noah began to search around the forest. “Everything seems so real… but it can’t be or can it?” said Noah as he glanced over at Thomas who said nothing. Then suddenly a loud booming voice called from somewhere above.  The voice spoke “Welcome to The Great adventure! We have chosen you both to compete in today's games! it said

Noah and Thomas were very confused but the voice carried on talking it said “You are here to compete in an obstacle course! For we are testing a new system to be in one of our levels. If you pass you can go home” Showing them a long path way to a door surrounded by trees. “but if you don’t you have to stay here forever!!” said the voice. Noah and Thomas took one look at each other when an orange bubble started to surround them. Noah and Thomas tried to escape but it was too late! When they were completely surrounded the bubble began too spin and spin, until POP! They had been teleported to a giant arena. Neither of them said a word, until they were taken inside the arena by medieval soldiers and put at the start of the obstacle course. They both looked at each other with determination. “We can do this” said Noah as he got ready to sprint.

Thomas looked at the race ahead of him. They heard the voice and it shouted “Ready… get set … GOO!”. The two boys ran for their lives and the first obstacle was to climb over a giant pile of boulders, Thomas struggled at first but carried on. Next was the type rope walk. Noah was in the lead and tried to rush his way across but ended up nearly falling off. While Thomas took his time and made it across. Coming up third was the Spike Canyon where they had to drink a potion of jump boost, to jump over the canyon! It’s more difficult than it sounded! Thomas ran to the table where two bottles sat on top, panicking Thomas chugged down the potion and jumped as far as he could.  Luckily he landed on his feet and carried on running. Meanwhile Noah was desperately trying to catch up and when he did he made a terrible mistake! As Noah sprinted to the table next to the Spike canyon, he grabbed the last potion and took one big gulp. He then jumped as high as he could, but he jumped so high that he went up into the cloud’s.

Noah had no idea where going to land and hoped it was on the other side of the canyon. But he was wrong! He was going to fall in the hole right near the other side. Noah screamed his head off. As he was falling Thomas heard him and stared, his face full of horror. He witnessed his best friend fall to his doom. Noah was terrified and the only thing he could see around him was a pitch black darkness. But as he was falling he decided that this was it, the end of his life until he heard a faint voice call to him. “Noah wake up! Come on Noah get up!” the voice whispered and to Noah it sounded like his mum! Just then Noah started to open his eyes and he looked around and saw he was in his room safe and sound. It must have all been a wild dream. Noah got up and looked around. He still felt the shock from falling, but he also felt safe to be back in his bed. “Man that was one weird dream” said Noah as he hoped out of bed getting ready for the day.

40 hour famine

Today I am participating in the 40 hour famine! Where we will not eat anything for 40 hours and we have to collect money to help with something, like this year we are supporting the Syrian refuges. We all get put in groups and this year I am in YELLOW!!!!!!! It's really cool to be part of this and I hope that we can raise enough money to help everyone! 

Well be sleeping at my school Point England!

This is my team YELLOW! ----->

Character Descriptions Task

Today's task was all about showing not tell and we had to describe three characters and this is what I came up with!

Book review

Compare and contrast map

This term in extension we had to show the differences to how our parents learnt and how we learnt. I talked with my mum and she explained to me how she learnt in Samoa.

BIOENGINEERING - Khaia & Lucy

This is my extension work I did with Khaia. We were learning about Bioengineering and what it means. We had a task to create our own super human. You can check out what we made in this presentation.

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And check out Khaia's blog!

KHAIAS BLOG

GEG Student summit

Last week on Wednesday the Year 8 and 7 extension group went to Hobsonville school for the Google educator group student summit (or GEG for short) where we had to present something to the other students that came. There were lots of other students presenting they all had there own stations. We traveled a long way to get there.

Hobsonville school is a really flash looking school and is really big. First we went inside and there was a woman who told us to follow the boys outside where we got goody bags with name tags, note books, pens and a small bag of chips. We got to decorate our name tags with stickers and markers after that we went into the Mobile Learning center which was full of technology stuff like computers and Ipads that you can draw on with a pen.

The first presentation we went to was the play dough and makey makey were we all had wires, a Computer and play dough each where we had to go on Scratch were you can make stuff like video game.Next we had to make sounds on scratch and then we got to make something with play dough  and I made a snowman named Willy then we got the wires and the makey makey and connected the wires to the makey makey which was connected to the computer and when we connected the wire to Willy the snowman it made the sound we made on Scratch play. It had to be my favorite presentation I had lots of fun.




Morning tea was next and after that we went  to a presentation about what are some of the google apps. They told us to write what was those google apps for. While we did that the other group was presenting what was P.E.N.N which stands for Point England News Network. We had lunch after that and we got to play tag on the on park it was really fun and when it was time to go inside it was our turn to present. our presentation was about how to use google apps like google docs and google slides. It was really nerve wreaking but I did it. 


The last thing we did was see a presentation about How to use Blend space. Which is  a site where you can create digital lessons. They also made presentations about all sorts of subjects that they made on blend space. Over all I had I great time at Hobsonville school it so cool I learnt some very interesting stuff and when after everything we did on that day we went into the gym where we had to put our name tags in the bags and take a seat. They started to do a raffle and there was lots of prizes to win and as peoples names were being called out for prizes name was called out and I got a 20 dollar voucher for Dextech! I so was excited and I just loved every moment that I spent at the summit. I hope I get to go again.