Sheep Shearing Record Broken

A New Zealand-based Canadian shearer has set a new world shearing record. Pauline Bolay sheared 510 lambs in eight hours. Pauline Bolay was challenging a women strong record of 507 lambs sheared in eight hours. 

She was the first North American to attempt a shearing world record. 

   

End of Cooking Class

   

Today was very exciting because it was the last day of tech. I was working by myself to see if I was any better at cooking, we also made Nachos. There are instructions and ingredients to show you how to make it.   

Nacho

Ingredients

Onion
Chilli sauce
Herb
Doritos
Bake bean
Egg
Cheese

Tools:
Pan
Wooden spoon
Serving plate

Step 1: Dice the onion and fry until it is soft.

Step 2: Add egg and fry until it is cooked.

Step 3: Add bake bean, chili sauce, mix herb.

Step 4: Steam for 5 mins.

Step 5: Serve with chips.

Step 6: Done.

Air NZ Offer Flight Exercise Classes

Air NZ is working with a fitness company Les Mills to create a free flight exercise.

At the beginning of next month all Air New Zealand passengers will have access to exercises and techniques.

Les Mills said it's not about doing burpees and tuck jumps in the aisle.  

Cooking Class Week 9

   Ingredients

                                              

   Egg

   Vegetables

Step 1. Boil eggs

Step 2. Fry vegetables 

Step 3. Enjoy

Cybersmart Footprints

What is cybersmart footprints?  You have to make sure what you advertise such as yourself online and remember it has to be positive and people understand what your saying. If you share content you and your whanau, friends will be proud of.

Cooking Class Week 8

Ingredients
Onion
Red Pepper
Zucchini
Carrot
Cheese crater
Two Eggs
Pan

Step 1: Mash the bean using the mash potato masher.

Step 2: Dice the onion, red pepper.

Step 3: Crate the zucchini and carrot using the cheese crater.

Step 4: Combine all your vegetables bean and two eggs mix well.

Step 5: Fry into mini patties.

Step 6. Enjoy

Tech Cooking Class Week 7

Mini Pizza

Ingredients 

Mini pizza 

Red pepper

Onion 

Pineapple

Tomato

Tomato sauce

Shredded Cheese            

Step 1. Spread sauce on pizza bread.

Step 2. Slice the onion, red pepper, tomato, when your done spread it on the pizza bread.

Step 3. Put Cheese on top of the pizza bread.

Step 4. Put in oven.

Step 5. Take it out.

Step 6. Put pineapple on top.

Step 7. Enjoy

Draco Wins Penguin Of The Year Award

A little blue penguin with a terrible past has won the title as New Zealand’s penguin of the year. Twelve-year-old Draco destroyed the competition from Mo and Elmo to take the title in the second year of the National Aquarium’s competition. 

More than twelve thousand people from around the world cased their votes. Draco was it with a car when she was less than one year old.


Draco had been noticed for being a friendly penguin towards other penguins she  often visits other penguins burrows.

Fire breaks out in Sky City

Large flames began to rise on the top of the building just after 1pm this afternoon. The fire started on the  roof and it’s been difficult for firefighter’s to get inside the building and to the top. St John has sent one person to the Auckland City Hospital because of a serious condition. 

Sky City has exited out of all the Auckland area and everyone got forced to leave the Sky Tower and all the Sky City hotels and restaurants.

Tech Cooking Class Week 6

Ingredients
Egg
Potato
Salt

Steps

Step 1- Fry or boil egg

Step 2- Fry potato

Step 3- Add salt

Enjoy!

Can New Zealand Become The First Dark Sky Nation

New Zealand might be considering becoming the world’s first dark sky country. The dark sky nation idea will be discussed at the Zealand Starlight Conference. 

The conference will be held at Tekapo from Monday until Wednesday.
The International Dark Sky Association would need to sign off on any accreditation.

Tech Cooking Class Week 5

Ingredients
Colander
Pan
Eggs
Cup
Onion
Succini
Pasta
Vegetables
Cheese
Step 1.  Boil fettuccine wit 2 and a half cup of water until soft.

Step 2. Boil eggs.

Step 3. Scrape the succini and vegetables and put it in the pasta.

Step 4. Peel the shell off the eggs.

Step 5. Put pasta cream and cheese then boil

Step 6. Enjoy

Tech Cooking Class Week 4

Ingredients
Flour
Cocoa powder
Sugar
Milk
Oil


Step 1.  1 half c. S.R. flour

Step 2.  1 quarter of a cup of cocoa powder.

Step 3. 1 half of a cup of sugar.

Step 4. 1 egg.

Step 5. 1 half c of milk.

Step 6. Mix well.

Millions of Children Walk for Climate Change

Millions of children around the world have taken part in global climate change protest. The protest is probably one of the biggest protests to be held.

People from over 150 different countries have taken part in demonstrations to be in this event. 
Lots of children around the world think that the adults aren't trying enough to stop climate change.

Flight Delayed As Pilot Loses Passport

A flight from Vietnam was delayed for 11 hours after the pilot had lost his passport. 160 passengers had to wait for another pilot to come. The flight was late at night so the passengers had to wait until tomorrow for the replacement pilot come. 

The flight finally took off at 9:40am on Saturday but the flight was supposed to take of  at 10:35pm on Friday. The airline booked travellers hotels and provided them with breakfast and there investigating on how the pilot lost his passport.

Tech Cooking lass Week 3

How to make Lasagne

Ingredients

Pasta
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Mince
Sauce (Tomato)
Salt
Oil

Step 1. Boil pasta with two cups of water until it is soft.

Step 2. Drain water using colander.

Step 4 . Cook mince until it is cooked, add sauce, cheese.

Step 5. Add salt and spices. 

Tech Cooking lass Week 2

English Breakfast

Today we made English breakfast and if you want to make it yourself here are the steps for you make it.

Ingredients

2 bread
bake beans
egg
bacon

Step 1. Toast 2 pieces of bread

Step 2. Warm up the bake beans

Step 3. Fry the bacon

Step 4. Fry the egg

Step 5. Serve on plate

Tech Cooking Class Week 1

Today we made tuna salad and if you want to make it yourself here are the steps for you make it.

Ingredients:
Pasta
Onion 
Spring Onion
Red Pepper
Mayonnaise
Tuna

Step 1. Boil pasta with 2 one and a half cups of cold water until soft.

Step 2. Drain cold water using the colander.

Step 3. Dice onion, tomatoes,  spring onion and red peppers.

Step 4. Grate the carrot with a grater.

Step 5. Mix all with mayonnaise and tuna.

Step 6. Serve on to a plate.

Measles Outbreak Hits New Zealand

There has been a measles outbreak in New Zealand and the number of people that have measles is 778 while 937 have been reported nationwide.

 The measles have affected children younger than 5 years old and those aged between 15 and 29.

 Auckland Regional Public Health Service said ''That New Zealand has now lost the immunity against measles''.

   

Wood Works: Evaluation

1.  How well did I do in completing all of the things that I needed to do for this project ? considering I finish my project on time, I think I did great.

2. My design ideas were:
Pull Along Tray
Train Toy
Piano Toy
Candy Dispenser
Car Toy
Mirror

3. My final design was the piano toy.


4. For my working drawing, I used a pencil and a ruler.













5. After drawing had to mark out the joints on the piece of wood.

6.My next step was to cut out the joints with the backed saw.

7. When you're chiselling out the joints you have to use a bench hook, mallet and a backed saw.

8. I then put the joints all together .

9. Looking at what I have produced I found out that the piano doesn't work but at least it looks good.

I wouldn't change anything if I had to do the piano again.

103-Year-Old Skydiver Breaks Record

Kathryn Hodges is 103 years old and from Seattle. She is celebrating 103 years of her life going sky diving. 


 If the jump was successful she would have set a new world record for being the oldest female tandem skydiver. 

She jumped out of a plane 10,000 feet from the ground over Snohomish country.

Kayaking At Wero White Water Park

Today we went to Wero White Water Park to learn how to kayak. We had arrived and sat down and waited a couple of minutes for the tutor to tell us to change into our togs.

We had to put on the wet suits, life jackets and a helmets on after that, we finally got to kayak.

The tutor led us to the end of the river and made a challenge to go back to shore without falling of the boat... We lost the challenge.

We took the wet suits, life jackets and our  helmets of and went to shower. We waited for every one to come out so we can leave, then we went back to school.
It was fun and exciting.

Technology Wood Works / How To make a Piano

At technology wood works
I have chosen to make a piano for decorations.

I think this is the best choice because it looks interesting and you can pull the top off.

It will be used for storage.

For this project I will have to consider making my measurements correct.       

Step 1. I used a paper, ruler, and a pencil to make a full size drawing of my piano  because if I didn't I would unable to know the measurements.

Step 2. I used a pencil to copy the measurements from my drawing to a piece of wood.

Step 3. I marked square line (at 9 percent) across using a tri square to perfect it.

Step 4. I cut off the piece of wood into 3 using a bench hook and a backed saw.

Step 5. Then I marked out the joints using a bench hook, back saw, chizzle, and a hammer.

Step 6. I chiseled out the joints and put a long piece of wood into the joints so that the wood can get stuck to the longer piece of wood.

Step 7.  I put a piece of wood in front of the piano and glued it.

Step 8. I had to draw lines so it looks more like a piano.

Step 9.  Mr Grundy made me a lid to put on top of the piano so you can't see inside it. 

Lake Tekapo in for name change

Lake Tekapo is one of New Zealand most popular lakes. Lake Tekapo name might be changed into Lake Takapo.  Mackenzie District Deputy Mayor and James Leslie said that the name of Lake Tekapo is meaningless and need to be changed.


For them to make the Lake Tekapo name change official they have to have a proposal along with public consultation. The move that they are planing are supported by the council and the local businesses.

I think Lake Tekapo could use a name change because the name is a bit boring. 

Tamaki Estuary

On Monday our whole school went to the Tamaki Estuary to help the environment  so plants can grow and our animals don't die of illness. by collecting rubbish. Frazier and his team Hazel and Ashly came to our school to tell us that we need to clean our local river because it is polluted with rubbish.

When we got to the Tamaki Estuary we had to get into partner. My partner were Frank. We had to go on the field to collect rubbish. We found a alot of rubbish all over the field.
After we were done cleaning we ate our lunch and went on the playground.

I'm happy  that we did something great for our planet.

Technology Wood Works

The first day of technology, wood works we had to draw 8 main ideas of the things we wanted to make and the drawing must have a joint.

My first idea was a race car, my second idea was a school bus. I had drawn over 44 ideas and I disliked them all but the ones I really liked were the train, bird,  house, dispenser, helicopter, pull along tray, and a piano.

I chose to do a piano because it looked incredible and I feel happy that I finally finished drawing what I want to make. 

Having Fun at the Wero Whitewater Park

On Friday the 21st of June. We went to the Wero Whitewater Park in Manukau. We split into teams of 3
the people in my team are Alamoni, Diego, Musika, Frank, Winnie, and Ana.

We got onto the Kayaking boat and our instructor said "I need 2 students that are  confident  to be at the front so the other people can follow your paste of paddling" Alamoni and I were at the front.

The part I really disliked was the part where we had to jump in the river because it's really not safe because you can sink.

I think we need instructors to go in the river so they can help us but it was still fun. 


 

Samoan Language Week

 It is Samoan language week the first out of seven pacific languages to be held this year. For Samoan language week some people around the country are learning how to speak, dress, or  preform a dance like a Samoan.



These are some of the Samoan phrases 

Afio mai or Susu mai or Maliu mai – Welcome

Fa’afetai or Fa’afetai tele – Thank you

Malō, Malō soifua or Tālofa – Hello

 In Samoan Language week the pacific people are celebrating their culture by using traditional food or things . I  am happy that I know some of the phrases of Samoan and I think it is a good way of meeting people that are Samoan.

Technology Graphics

On Wednesday we went to technology. My tech class is graphics and my teacher name is Miss Ferguson. We had to make clocks out of wood. First we had to draw our clock design on a piece of paper and measure how wide and tall it is.

My clock design is Batman. The colours I used to paint the clocks are black, grey, white and in the middle I wrote D K it stands for Dark Night.

When my group and I  finished we sat down on a long desk with our teacher Miss Ferguson.
I felt happy that I finally finished my Batman clock and it looks incredible.

Kiwi Can

Today after morning tea at 11: 30 we went to Kiwi Can. When we got there we sat on the floor and remained silent for them to announce themselves.

They're names are Miss Tuia and Mrs Mac. They said they were our tutors for the term. They taught us what respect and integrity means. Integrity means to do the right thing.


We had activities. The first game was bang, the second game was changes and the last game that we played was GKQ also known as general knowledge questions.  I was enjoying it and I think it is a unique and fun way to learn.

     

Cyber Smart Keyboard Shortcuts

I'll explain the keyboard shortcuts on your chromebook.

 If you accidentally erase your work you can press ctrl z and your work will reappear. If you put three fingers on the touchpad and swipe, it will take you to a new tab.

To take a screenshot you have to press ctrl, shift and show windows and drag your fingers to what
you want to screenshot and then take your fingers off the touchpad and you will have your screenshot.

If you want see all the keyboards press ctrl, shift, alt ?.
I think this is very fascinating and knowing all the keyboard shortcuts makes me happy.

3D Oblique Sketching

At tech we did 3D sketching.
We learn new words like Oblique parallel and isometric.
We learned how to draw 3D making shadows and shading. After, we rub out the line and add colours.
I put the colour blue in my drawing and when we had finished we had to give to our teacher. 
I felt Happy and a little bit excited.

Road Patrols

Today after morning-tea we saw Mr Reid and a police officer. We went where the crossing was and the police officer told us what to do. After he explained everything we should know he put the signs out.
The police officer said we had to be in buddies. My buddy was Musika. He told me to look left and right and put my left hand up. Musika said, "Signs out, check."
I said, "Clear ."
Musika said, "Cross now, signs in."
Then it was my turn,  "Signs out, check."
Musika said, "Clear.  cross now, signs in."
Afterwards we went back to class and we learned about why students should make the rules. 

Me Technology lesson 1

 Today is a my first time going tech and it was fun my tech teacher is Miss Ferguson.
I was in graphic class.
In graphic class you have to make your own avatar and put images of what you like to eat what you like to watch  and what you like to put in your writing.