Weekly reflection

This week on Tuesday Finlay and I went to the Rotary Speech Competition to represent grey main school and The topic of my speech was HAPPINESS and some of the other topics were: Racism, child Abuse, My move to NZ, two speeches on Happiness, Disney, Pollution, My family, Junk Food, two gymnastic speeches. When we got there we all had a buffet for dinner and dessert.And once everyone had finished we started the speeches. To decide who went first the names were drawn out of a ballot and I was 2nd to last. After everyone had gone I have realised that I was the only person who didn't have note cards. Once all the speeches were done they took a minute to decide on the winner in 3rd place Was Alyssa who's speech was on her family. 2nd place went to finaly with his speech on happiness and 1st place went to me I won the competition.

Main Star

So one of my main stars this term is to make a maths game and I found this idea on pintrest and I have tried to make it as easy as possible so you lay them on a table picture side down and pick 2 up. Then you have to either add or subtract the numbers depending what you want to do and if you get it right you get 1 point and if you get it wrong you get 0 points and you can play with as many people as you want and do as many rounds as you want. Here are some pictures

Weekly reflection

This week I have been reading the book Percy Jackson and the lighting thief and I have already read the series but I decided that I would read it again I have done a book review on  it before but I am going to do a quick one now it is about a boy called Percy Jackson and he is a half blood if you dong know what a half blood it is half human half god Percy's mother is A human and his Dad is Poseidon God of the sea. But the only problem is that the Big three (Zeus Position ans Hades) have sworn not to have kids with mortals and Zeus's last child was turned into a pine tree. So he is already In danger but the Big problem is that Zeus's master bolt has been stolen and Zeus believes it was Percy so Percy along with Annabeth (daughter of Athena) And Grover the Sayter have set off to find the master bolt before the summer solstice or Zeus and Poseidon will have war upon each other.

In maths I have been working on Estimating problems on maths buddy and I have gotten really good at it My favourite questions are the ones that have 3 first names and 3 last names and by using the clues in the questions you have to find out what  name belongs to which person. Finaly and I even taught Mr Wood how to do them.

I have enterd the rotary speech competition along with Finaly and it is were you have to write a speech on the chosen topic and then present it at a dinner and the topic this year was happiness and I will be putting my speech up very soon.

It has been a all round great week and next week is the last week of school I am so excited!!!!!!!

Weekly revision

This week we have been getting ready for the Grey Main Art Soiree. Every student has to create a piece of art to show and hopefully get there parents to buy; Totara have been tie dying t shirts. Totara 1 and 2 have just been tidying them but Totara 3 have also been screen printing them. For the screen printing we had to first make a stencil I cut out a stencil of a Hawaiian flower and screen printed it on to the shirt that I tie dyed; in total I tie dyed 3 shirts. For the art soiree there at going to be lots of dancing and singing from the school choir which I am in and there is going to be lots of fun.
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Weekly Revision

This week we have been focusing on writing paragraphs. We learnt what a proper paragraph has to have and then we had to write an explanation. We read an article on how human have preserved bodies here is a link to the article Click here  here is my explanation so far.

Everything that is born has to die eventually No one can outlast death even  though many different cultures have tried for thousands of years. Humans have created many ways for people to  preserved bodies one of the most well known ways is mummification

Mummification

Mummification is one of the oldest ways to preserve a body. It’s not just the the Egyptians that used to mummify corpses, but other cultures such as Aztecs (Mexico) and Pacific Islands preserved bodies as well. The first thing they did was eviscerate the corpse, making sure to leave the heart behind because it is supposedly essential for the journey to the afterlife. To prevent bacterial decay the body was washed with palm wine and spices it was then covered in salt and left to dry out for about 40 days. Finally the corpse was washed again and then wrapped in many layers of cloth and then to stop the body  from getting wet it was covered in a layer of resin. The body was then carefully placed in a tomb with worldly goods along with their organs in jars.

Fantastic Plastic  

Turning corpses into plastic is not the ideal way to preserve them. To turn a cadaver into a real life action figure there is a four step plasticising procedure that must be done. To prevent tissue decomposition the corpse is first set in a  preserving solution called formaldehyde. After that the body is opened up to reveal any organs or tissue for  display by an anatomist. Then the cadaver is placed in a sub zero acetone bath to dehydrate; as the body freezes all the water and moisture is sucked out of it. Acetone at a freezing temperature of -95 degrees is pumped in to replace it. Finally once all the water is gone and the cadaver it completely filled with acetone it is then submerged in a liquid polymer, silicon rubber, polyester or epoxy resin bath. After the bath it’s time to remove  the acetone they do that by placing the corpse under vacuum conditions the acetone quickly dissipates  and as it leaves it draws liquid plastic into the cells. The cadaver is now reconfigured into its final resting position as its plastic packed organs and tissue are restored with gas, heat or UV lights.



I have also done a lot of work on my maths I have got a lot of work done from volume to order of operations but Mr Wood has been working a lot on year 9 stuff but mainly travel graphs and i got 100%

So that's some of the stuff I have done this week let me know what you think by commenting 

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