Support Letter

Dear Waiau Family,

Hi my name is Alisha, I am a year 7 who attends Point England School. Which is located in Panmure, Auckland which is in New Zealand. I heard about your tragic story and written to show my support. 

I am truly sorry about both of your grandchildren. I hope that many memories of them will always be in your hearts.

 I hope you and your family are health and well. I also hope that your house gets rebuilt and is better than before. 

I hope you and your family are safe and happy wherever in your temporarily accommodation. May god bless you and your family to be happy and safe, and hope no more disaster strikes you and your family in the future. Amen ! 

Lighting the Way with Solar Energy

WALT: Identify the main ideas.

Matter and States of Matter Video

Mixture of Problems 2

WALT: solving problems using the most efficient strategies
 

This week in Miss Berry’s maths class, we tried doing a different classes maths. This presentation above is from Mr Wiseman’s maths class. During this presentation, I found it difficult at times but I complete it at the end. So hope you like. And while doing this presentation, our walt was to solve problems using the most efficient strategies, meaning we had to try using efficient strategies. Efficient meaning logical, well organised and many other words.

Mixture of Problems

WALT: solving problems using the most efficient strategies

This week in Miss Berry’s maths class, we tried doing a different classes maths. This presentation above is from Mr Wiseman’s maths class. During this presentation, I found it difficult at times but I complete it at the end. So hope you like. And while doing this presentation, our walt was to solve problems using the most efficient strategies, meaning we had to try using efficient strategies. Efficient meaning logical, well organised and many other words.

Science Investigation - Fair Testing

Science Investigation

Fair Testing

Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	We’re trying to find out if plants need light to grow ?
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	I think the result would be that the plant without light would stay the same.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	I would change the amount of planet spray.
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	I would change the measurement of soil.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The amount of plant seed.

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	What colour of bird feeders do birds preferred
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	I think the birds would pick the red bird feeder, because it’s not too bright colour or too dark.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	I would put different types of colours, like bright and dark, cold colours and hot as well.
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The amount of seeds in all the bird feeders.
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	I would put all the bird feeders in the same place.

Scientific Methods and Fair testing.

Title - Coke Cola and Mentos Experiment

Purpose: What do you want to learn/find out?

Which fizzy drink has the biggest reaction to the mentos?

Hypothesis: Try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is ‘educated guess’. This is usually stated like ” If I…(do something) then…(this will occur)

My hypothesis is the coke might have the biggest reaction to the mentos. Because the carbon dioxide in the drink wouldn’t have anywhere to go, except up.

Materials: List everything you will need to conduct your experiment.

Mentos Coke Pepsi 7up Fanta Diet Coke L&P

Experiment procedure: The fun part! Design a test or procedure to confirm or disprove your hypothesis. Write                      

1. First we stabbed a hole through the cap, and stuck some tap through the hole with mentos on it. 2.Then we opened the lid and pulled the tape, causing the mentos to fall into the liquid. 3. We stood away from the bottle and measured how high the liquid goes.

Analysis/Data: Record what happened during the experiment.

Fanta : The fanta didn’t reacted with the mentos, it’s reaction was nothing. Pepsi : The Pepsi had a little reaction with the mentos, it fizzed up a little.   7up : The 7up had the least reaction with the mentos, because it was really fizzed and it overflowed. Diet Coke : The diet coke had the least reaction with the mentos, it fizzed up only a tiny bit. Coke : The coke had the biggest reaction with the mentos. L&P : The L&P had the least reaction with the mentos.

Conclusion:Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct.

My hypothesis was correct, because when the mentos touches the carbon dioxide in the drink the carbon dioxide doesn’t have anywhere to go except up, which causes the drink to over flow.

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As you might have known, last week the team 5 girls conducted the coke cola and mentos experiment. This week in our home classes, we are looking at scientific methods and fair testing. 

TESTING WEEK !

This week is TESTING WEEK ! Testing week lasts two weeks, and is made of different types. At our school, we have our tests online, meaning that we use our Chromebooks. This week is the last week of testing. Last week, we had a reading star test, a writing test, and a NZCER test.

This morning we had an NZCER maths exam, which was held in our numeracy classes. When we have exams held in our numeracy classes, we set up our classrooms like American classrooms. If you don't know what a American class looks like, take a look :

If you want to have a great education or a great life, then you have to study and do well at all your test subjects before moving on with your life. If you do well in your test, then you can make it into a great university and have a job and a driving license.

• No talking to the person next to you/Don't try cheating because that means that you're not trying your best at the test.

• Try using these strategies to help you out when you have come across hard maths problems that you don't know how to solve?

1. Process of Elimination - Means that you read the question and you try looking at all your options that you have. Then you can cross out each option that you think doesn't suit the question.

     2. Identify Key Words - You have to try and search for all the keywords that you have found in the         question and try understanding what it means.

3. Read Question 3 Times - This means that you have to try and read the question 3 times before answering the question