100 Word Challenge - English

Drama Queen

She sat on her seat silently… for once. But not for long. “Oh my God!” She shrieked so loudly I think I went deaf. “What is it Nicole?” I asked. “Lily told Milly, that Cora, told Aiden and Caden, that Tate cheated on Kate!” She worried. What? “I didn’t catch ANY of that Nick.” I laughed. She rolled her eyes. “Of course you didn’t, you never listen, I told you the cat pooped on the mat, you needed to clean it up, but you didn’t want to go near that. The cat also dragged in a dead rat!" Whoops. Dang.

Short Story - Engllish - Show, Don't Tell

Creative Writing

I sat on my bed watching my shows, as my roommate played games in the living room with her friends. I heard them laughing. "I dare you to drink a mixture of different fizzy." They laughed. "Easy." I heard a deep voice chuckle. Suddenly the house shook. "O.M.G, EARTHQUAKE!" A girl shrieked. There were things falling around my room. My mirror dropped to the floor and shattered, I squealed and ran out to the living room. I looked out the window and saw houses being lifted by some force, being ripped out of the ground and floated to the sky. "O.M.G WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" The same girl screamed. "Shush!" I said. "Stop panicking!" I looked back out the window and saw pipes and wires sticking out of the ground, there was rubble and debris everywhere. "Oh my goodness."

"What do we do?" The deep voice asked. "How should I know?" I said. The powerlines were all pulled down and the destruction looked horrible. I looked up and saw the whole neighbourhood and further flying in the air. Suddenly there was a loud rumble above us. I looked out of the window and saw a plane zooming downwards. "OH, MY GOD!" I screamed. the plane hurtled towards the ground and crashed. It exploded. We all screamed. "H- How many people were- were on that thing?" My roommate stuttered.

Suddenly a bug flew up through the sink followed by two more. They landed on the table and a huge hologram appeared above them. There were men and woman sitting at a long table. "Greetings. We are coming to you live from the white house." A man said. "What the heck is going on? Why is this happening? Are you the cause?" I said. "Listen, listen, the reason this is happening is because an experiment we were working on has gone wrong and has caused things in the air to shoot downwards and things on the ground to dart upwards. We are working on it, and promise to have you all down soon. Every house up in the air is getting this message. Again, our apologies." And with that, the bugs flew back out through the sink. "They don't even sound sorry. Do they know how much it'll cost to get these houses fixed?" A guy said. "Forget about that! Did we all forget about that plane that just exploded?!" I said. I looked back down through the window and saw the ash and fire surrounding the planes remaining parts. "Are we going to be up here forever?" My roommate asked.

"I have no idea."

THE END.

Matariki - Drama 2018 Term 2

Matariki

What is Matariki?

Matariki is the Maori new year. It's also the Maori name for a group of seven stars/seven sisters. The names of the stars are Ururangi, Tupua-rangi, Tupua-nuku, Waita, Waiti, Matariki, and Wai-puna-rangi. Some people think that Matariki is the mother star and the other six are the daughters. Others think that Matariki are Tawhirimatea's (the god of wind) eyes. When Papatuanuku (earth mother) and Ranginui (sky father) were separated Tawhirimatea became angry and tore out his eyes throwing them up to the heavens. 

Matariki also means two things, Mata-Riki meaning tiny eyes, and Mata-Ariki meaning eyes of God.

Matariki is usually celebrated on the last few days of May. Some celebrate it the day the moon rises and some the day after. Celebrations can last up to three days.

Aotearoa - Stan Walker - ft, Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika 

Link to the song

This song, Aotearoa, is sung by the artists above. Stan Walker decided to release his first song completely in Maori to celebrate the Maori Language Week. I like this song because it's in Maori and I have Maori in me so it's a special song in my opinion. I like the music video too because people from all over Aotearoa are working together to spell out the word Aotearoa on the beach. 

Some lyrics from the song-

Chorus-

Nō tawhiti, nō tata
Nō te whenua o te Atua tātou
Ahakoa nō hea mai koe
Ka whawhai tonu mātou mōu

Translation-

No matter if you're near or far

We come from the land of God

No matter where you belong

We fight for your freedom.

Chromatography - Science 2018 - Term 2

Last term for science we were learning about a lot of things and one of those things was Chromatography.

Chromatography is when you separate the colours of the substance. Chroma means colour in greek, and graph means picture/photograph.

Below are two pictures of the Chromatography we did. The left one is a normal water-based marker and the right one is a permanent marker.

As you can see in the water-based marker the dot we made faded/disappeared. But in the permanent marker the dot faded slightly because, well, it's permanent.The pigments that dissolve easily dissolve faster, but the ones that don't dissolve very easily, dissolve slower.

What we did was cut up pieces of chromatography paper and draw a line two centimeters from the bottom in pencil. Because if we did it in pen the ink from the pen would mess it all up. We made a thick dot of the ink just on the line and sat it in a test tube. For the water-based pen, we used normal water and filled the test tube just below the line, and for the permanent marker we did the same but used acetone instead of water.

Drama/Music 2018

Drama

This term for drama we have been learning about musicals, we performed them after we learned the choreography on Wednesday. My class performed "The Time Warp".

I learned a lot about musicals and different choreography.
This work shows my learning because I practiced hard for the performance and got up on stage.
It was a challenge for me to get up on stage and perform. I was in the choir at my primary school for two years and we performed in front of hundreds of people, yet I was still a bit nervous to get up and perform. Mostly because I knew most of the people I performed in front of, it was nerve-racking because I was scared we'd mess it up.
If we performed again I would show more enthusiasm and get into it more like Nadia and Jessica.
I really enjoyed performing in front of everyone although I was nervous.
I am wondering if anyone else was as scared as I was or worse.
It was really fun performing that day, I loved it. We even got to wear party hats, blow party blowers and pop confetti.

Below is a link to the video of us performing The Time Warp.
Time Warp

9Bu performed "Revolting Children" from Matilda. Below is a link to the video of them performing.
Revolting Children

Distillation of CocaCola

Distillation of Coke

Aim- To get pure water from CocaCola.

Method- We set up the equipment like this:

Observations:

In the conical flask was the coke, after it was boiled there was a mucky gunk left at the bottom. In the boiling tube was the liquid condensation filling the tube up which was the pure water.

Drama - 2018 - Musicals

The Time Warp
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

We have been discovering musicals for the past few weeks in our class. We are learning The Time Warp from the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I really like doing the dance to it, it's fun. We've learned the main dance so far, we are also making funny glasses and masks to wear for the performance we are doing in front of the year sevens, eights, and nines soon. Here is a link to the song.

Greased Lightning
"Grease"

A weird musical I know is Greased Lighting from the movie Grease. I think it's weird because of the dances they do, they are grown men but the dances they do are more feminine. By feminine, I mean compared to haka it's very quiet and gentle, slow paced. But haka is really loud and they use a lot of body percussion. I like the song and I've seen the movie a few times when I was little.
Here is a link to the song.