NZ Flag Getting Changed

I strongly disagree the NZ flag should get changed. Firstly, a lot of money is going into it and there are many better causes that need to be addressed. Secondly, our flag represents us as it has for many years. Finally, so many men have lost their lives serving under this flag.

Twenty six million dollars is a lot of money. How could the government justify spending that much money when there are children walking to school in the rain with no shoes, no rain coat and no lunch or homeless people and families with very little money.

We have had this flag for a very long time so this is a global icon. Children have been growing up knowing the flag as theirs. This flag now represents our history as a nation.

Many soldiers served and died serving under this flag. We have had this flag all through world war two. 12000 people lost their lives under this flag, changing it would be disrespectful to them.

 

I strongly disagree our flag should get changed.  We have had it for so long why change it now?  The first meeting about changing the flag was highly unsuccessful as very few people showed,  obviously it's unimportant.

Math In Our Class

                                                                     

Here in our class we have been learning how to use a standard written format to solve bigger multiplication problems.
Check out this video and see if you can do one.

Kea and Tui

In a forest deep in the centre of the South Island of New Zealand, there lived a Tui and a Kea. Tui was a beautiful show off who had marvelous wings. Kea was a cheeky bugger that loves stealing things especially when they are valuable and shiny. Kea recently broke one of his wings. One day Kea decided to search for something shiny to complete his great nest and his best friend Tui came along.

After searching for hours they decided to conclude their quest. Until Tui remembered the creek, “lets go,” he wailed Kea wasn't too sure but he went along with it. When they saw the creek a gulp of saliva went down Tui’s throat, stunned he was about to let out a sentence when Kea yelled “what, scared of a little height?” when out of the corner of his eye Kea spots a shiny bolt stuck into a branch. Kea pulled hard and eventually it comes free but at the same time down falls the tree. A chain reaction begins, the tree falls then the landscape starts falling suddenly they are on the run.

“Run Kea run!” calls Tui above. “Ohh na,” replies Kea. Suddenly Tui noticed a tree this was an old one too then a crack! It was going to hit Kea and he knew it. Tui swooped down and before he knew it he was out, Tui had totally misjudged it, he was falling.

Kea felt a tingle in his wing… It was healed Kea gave a slight smirk, he spread his wings and off he was he grasped onto Tui and took him home where he thinks he will be a hero. Well he thought wrong, Tui did not remember anything prior to that day. When he woke up he stood and cascading to the ground was a silver bolt. Kea let out a scream “YIPEE” it was his bolt.

CTC Aviation Day Out

All the students find a seat in the large room, Chris was about to give us a fascinating fact when I spot an astonishing sight through the corner of my eye a real plane motor. Chris now exclaimed how a plane flies, the wings on a plane  are curved in  such a way that air moves faster on the top and moves slower on the bottom which creates lift. He also talked to us about the parts on a plane. Then Miss Woulfe did a draw of two groups the first three names got to go on the first flight and the second three will go on the second flight my name was drawn on the second group.

Now the long and painful wait was over it was time for the flight simulator Kaleb and I were third. We had successfully completed four barrel rolls and so for amusement we deliberately crashed the simulator that was our turn. Several more pairs had a go, Kaleb and I were just about to go when the pilot came into the room  and announced he would take another flight out around raglan and the wind turbines. Adrenaline and excitement flowed through my body thinking about a real flight.

Slowly we walk over to the plane area, excitedly I step onto the  aircraft. The pilot showed us puke bags and some funky looking headsets. While we were warming up the engine lots of transmits came through the radio and the speakers in our head phones. Then it was time to take off, we rapidly drove in the direction of the fence when we lifted off the ground off we went being in the air was the most pleasant feeling in the world, we saw the waikato river, Hamilton lake, raglan harbor and finally the wind turbines it started to get ruff and the plain bumped and wobbled  a bit and back we went. The runway was right ahead and we started to go down, this was not the most pleasant feeling, in fact this was quite the opposite. We landed safely got out and went back to the simulator.

My Spelling Book

Here in Rm 20 we have been doing a spelling program. Our spelling books take two forms, a hard copy or digital. Here is a link to my spelling book.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11hMhQdT3ugkE-6PgYN1DC-35Pn9LxBeQcl0yIvZBsF8/edit#slide=id.ga450aaaea_0_0

What Causes the Spectacular Southern Lights?

Have you ever witnessed nature's light show dancing across the night sky? This colourful display is often referred to, and known as ‘The Southern Lights’.

The sun is always active with a constant flow of ions ejecting solar flares. A solar flare is a cloud of ions, electrons and atoms. These charged particles from the solar flare travel through space towards Earth.

Earth has a magnetic field. The magnetic field acts as an invisible shield. When particles from the solar flare collide with the shield, they follow it and accelerate until they reach the poles. When they hit other chemicals they get excited  and release light.

The spectacular Aurora Australis doesn't just occur in the South Pole it occurs in the North as well and is known as the Aurora Borealis or the Northern lights.

How is a Black Hole Formed?

Is it a bird,  is it a plane, is it a ham sandwich? You may have heard of it but wonder what causes this obscure phenomenon a Black Hole. Many people will just think it comes from a star exploding. But it  really is a bit more complicated than that.

It starts off with a star about twenty times the size of our own sun. When a star like that reaches the end of its life the core runs out of fuel and collapses in on itself, when this happens the gravity runs wild. It pulls inwards but at the same time it pumps energy outwards. For a few million years there is an extremely even  duel, but when the star completely runs out of energy fusion stops, the stalemate ends, and  gravity wins.

The remains turn cannibal and start eating away at the hydrogens provided by the dying star. The consuming baby black hole chews more than it can swallow. It chokes, coughs and spits off massive explosions. Finally there is an immense  explosion a star that was once a giant is now multan rubble.

In that one second it contains more energy than our sun will accommodate in its entire lifetime. What is left is a midsize destroyer. This new black hole shoots beams of energy across the universe. These beams are known as gamma rays they travel at the speed of light.

There is a black hole at the centre of every galaxy and many smaller ones spread across the universe. We don't quite know how the black holes at the centre of each  galaxy  are formed.  Supernovae are  similar to black holes with much the same process but they come from smaller stars.