Monday 2 December 2013 45 min Inquiry

Indoor Curling has been known to many people around the world but mostly to the Scottish people. In 1511 Scotland created a sport called curling where you try to get a stone into a ring but there has been a huge difference since then to now.  Later down the track more people started to recognize this unique sport and thats when it really got popular. In the 19th Century the United States got hooked in and is now a olympic sport.

The most popular type of curling is indoor curling where you use a sheet. A sheet is 45.72m and has lots of different points on it, the goal of the game is to push a granite into the middle of the house.

The equipment that you need to play indoor curling are curling shoes, mops, pants, gloves and jackets. If you don't have a local curling rink you can go to a lake where the ice has formed, but make sure the ice is thick! The most needed equipment is a Granite and each one weighs around 20 kgs.

The rules of the game are 2 people hold a mop and one person hold the granite. The job for the people with the mops are to sweep the ice in front of the granite and to reduce friction. The person with the granite has to gently slide the granite into the house and try to get the closest.

Fact 1: When curling was created it was played on top of a frozen lake.
Fact 2: The NZ team won their first game in 1998.

Friday 29 November 2013 45 min Inquiry]\

At the Tauranga Port mrs Mills took a picture of logs that are stacked. These logs come from Asia and are shipped back to them for lots of different uses. The logs are mostly pine trees and we use them for paper, toys ETC. The logs are taken by truck to the port and then they can ship the logs to Asia. Most of the pine tree's come from the northern, east side of the North Island.


The logs are taken onto cargo ships where they are imported to Asia. The port of Tauranga sends about 5.6 million dollars worth of logs each year, thats 14% of their making! Once we collect the pine trees they come by logging trucks and take them into the port of Tauranga. When they get the pine tree's the port stacks them in triangles before taking them onto the cargo ships. The cargo ships take them to asian factories where they make paper ETC, but is is not that environmentally good.

Wednesday 27 November 2013 45 Min Inquiry

The four pictures are of a Totem Pole, Inuit Boots, Tiki and a Boomerang.

The Inuit boots are originated from greenland and are worn by Arctic aboriginal people. The are made from seal skin or reindeer hide, they wear them to be more warm and silent when hunting preys.  They look like very high boots and have art painted on them.

The other photo was of a Totem Pole. They are made by Native Americans with the trunk of a Thuja Plicata tree. They paint them with red and white paint and place them in forests.

The Tiki is a large wooden carving or by stone. They are made by Maori's in New Zealand and they are mostly named after the Maori gods. They are placed inside Whare's which are a traditional place where Maoris sleep and do kapahaka performances.

The last picture is of a Boomerang  that are a wooden throwing tool. They are made flat and designed to spin. Once you throw it it circles back around to the thrower. The Australian Aborigines use them for hunting but most of us use it for entertainment. It is one of the icons of Australia.

What all of these have in common are that they are indigenous to all these tribes.

27/11/13 Maths Problem Solving

Today we did maths problem solving but our team didn't finish. I am in green team and in green team are me Zane, Jacob, Lauren, Sharnae and Caitlin.
I contributed by quickly finishing our algae rhythm equations. I  learnt by watching other people that you do the X axis before the Y.

45 min Bow Hunting

Last Saturday Mrs Mills went to Huntly to bow hunt for koi carp. She was hunting them because they are a pest. They eat native fish and their eggs. They pollute the water by stirring up the mud and it kills native trees. Koi carp can grow up to 80cm and can weigh up to 10kg.

Mrs Mills went bow hunting last weekend because the koi carp were spawning (breeding) and they come into the shallows to do this.

Bow hunting is a sport that requires a bow and arrow. You also need a line attached to the arrow so you can retrieve the fish and arrow. You do not need a license in NZ to bow hunt. It has been around since the Victorian era.

Mrs Mills caught 6 koi carp. She didn’t throw them back into the water because you can receive a fine.  She left them on the side of the lake and they were taken by some fishermen.

Which Button Would you Push and Why?

I would push the grey button because of how easy life would be. I would wake up and pick up my toothbrush. Whenever I am lying down in my bed I would just fly my breakfast into the bed but there are some disadvantages. You would become really lazy and you would not take anything seriously.

Summer Sports P.E

We have started to play our summer sports. This week our class room played Tennis.
Me and Zane practiced tennis on tuesday block 3 and today we played a couple of games. One thing I learnt while I was playing was that to get your angle right and to move to the ball. I have improved my back hand and Zane and I won 6 games together.