Team 14 2007

Matt's Reflections

2007-12-19T12:26:00.000+13:00

You bin's Video Reflections

2007-12-19T11:28:00.001+13:00

This is my Video Reflections.

Alvins video reflection

2007-12-19T11:27:00.000+13:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eM9Hg31b-g

Jason vidio refriction

2007-12-19T11:25:00.000+13:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-girpV3yrUQ

Sams Reflection

2007-12-19T11:23:00.000+13:00

My Video Reflection.

2007-12-19T11:21:00.000+13:00

This is my video reflection about my year and my time at Fendalton School.
This is my last year at fendalton and I am the last person in my family to leave Fendalton school.
I will miss all of my friends and I wil miss the school and all of the teachers.

Lucy's video reflection

2007-12-19T11:15:00.000+13:00

On my time at Fendalton School

Sheldons video Ref

2007-12-19T11:13:00.000+13:00

Here is my video Ref.

2007-12-19T11:12:00.000+13:00

Here's My Reflection On 2007 Check It Out On You
Tube & The Team 14 Blog As Well Here's The Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeD1Vt7Z62I

And Here It Is:

Daniel C's Video Reflection

2007-12-19T11:11:00.001+13:00

Here is the video reflection that I made about my years at Fendalton and what the hightlights have been, please leave your comments.

Thanks

Bertie's Reflection

2007-12-18T14:27:00.000+13:00

Here is my reflection on 2007 I hope you like

Video Reflection

2007-12-18T14:26:00.001+13:00

This is my video reflection for 2007

2007-12-18T14:26:00.000+13:00

This is my video reflection for 2007

Amelia's Video Reflection

2007-12-18T14:18:00.000+13:00

This is my Video reflection from 2007 in Team 14 It was filmed by Juliette.

Video Reflection

2007-12-18T14:15:00.002+13:00

This is my video reflection on 2007 in team 14. Filmed by Amelia Lay.

Video Reflection-Daniel kang

2007-12-18T14:15:00.001+13:00

Nicky's Reflection

2007-12-18T14:12:00.000+13:00

Here is my reflection hope you like it

Elise's Reflection on 2007

2007-12-18T14:08:00.001+13:00

Joe's Reflection on 2007

2007-12-18T14:08:00.000+13:00

Tues Poem

2007-12-14T11:12:00.001+13:00

-Rainbow-

Red is the color of sparkling noisy fire works making us surprise.
Orange is the color of fatty sweet orange.
Yellow is the color of the shiny glowing sun.
Green is the color of the softly playing grass.
Blue is the color of the cold salty sea.
Dark blue is the color of the sky when it's dinner time.
Purple is the last color of the rainbow!

Nicks year 6 reflection 07

2007-12-13T12:08:00.000+13:00

Plus

Becoming a tech wizard
Becoming a mediator
Wearable arts 07 #
making new friends
coming to Fendalton school
moving to new houses (twice)
Swimming
Cross country
Disco
Jigsaw of learning (jol)
Camp

Minus

Athletics (I busted my hand blood everywhere)
Mrs Duncan

Interesting

I.C.T use

Instructions

2007-12-13T11:38:00.000+13:00

How to get to Room 14's Sissors
1.Start at the front door
2. Walk foward 1 big step
3. Turn 90degrees anti-clockwise
4. Walk foward 7 big steps
5. Turn 90degrees anti-clockwise
6. Take 1 big step foward
YOU HAVE NOW REACHED THE SISSORSIN ROOM 14!!

How to get to Room 14's Teacher's Desk
1.Start at the front door
2. Take 6 steps foward
3.Turn 90degrees clockwise
YOU HAVE NOW REACHED THE TEACHERS DESK

My Inquiry Evaluation

2007-12-12T14:22:00.000+13:00

I Think Our Team (Elsie, Penny, Anna & Emma) Did Really
Well We Worked Well Together But We Got A Bit Stressed
Out With The Filming We Were Having Teacnical Difficulties
But We Got There And It Was Fun Creating A Movie Together
But We Still Need To Do A Bit More Editing.

Next Steps:
Maybe Next Time We Could Be A Bit More Organised
Because We Went To Go Get Started With Filming And We
Didn't Even Know How To Work The Camera And It Wasn't
Even Charged So We Need To Be More Organised Next Time

Team Work:
Again I Think We Worked Well As A Team But We
Need To Learn To Just Keep It Simple Because
We Got Stressed Out With The Fact That We Had Put
All Our Costumes And We Couldn't End Up Filming!

So That's How Our Inquiry Went!
By Elsie

Sams inquiry evaluation

2007-12-12T14:05:00.001+13:00

I think our inquiry went really well because we got lots of our information into the movie and it is really easy to understand. But some of the bad things are that when we first started filming we were been silly and not that serious but then we improved and its now much better.

Yeaer 6 reflection

2007-12-12T13:56:00.000+13:00

1. Math because I am good at it and I learn lot of strategies some time I even bit other people up a lot at it.
2. Home work because when I was in Taiwan I've got lot of home work and now here's home work is less so I love it but some time I miss home work.

3. Computer because when I was in Taiwan I doesn't get so much time on computer after Teach wizard Teach me I know lot of thing about sometime even better than Teach Wizard.

4. Friend because when I was at home I got lot of home work from my mum and I doesn't get time to play and now I get my friend I can play with them even go or com to my/his house.
5. English because now I learn some English now I can talk to my friend and in Taiwan I always bad at English now I got my English friend to talk to me and got home work to write English so I got lot and lot of improve in English.

Inquiry Evaluation

2007-12-12T13:53:00.000+13:00

Create our create went well because we planed and then we took action on doing it and we recorded everything smoothly.
Organised I think my group could of been more organised because we didn't really plan until we got stuck up to one point.
quality I think our work was very quality becuae I got people to check everything were doing and to get things checked.
your role My role was to write a letter to the Board of Trustys and tell them to not use a cole boiler and I told them the reasons why and also to finish my recordings.

Next steps would be to.
Co-operation better because Emma did most of the work and when it came to the create I thought I did most of the work so next time I think to keep working not matter what and not have lots of fights with Emma.
And Not to get distracted with my friends by skipping or something else like pretend to do other work.

Persuasive Writing Rubric

2007-12-11T14:32:00.000+13:00

Honestly,we really need to have hard laws for drunk drivers.
Last year, there was a girl who across the road then the drunk driver hit the girl.
Luckily, that girl was concerned.The worst thing was that drunk driver has to pay just 200 box!!
My opinion is " We need to have hard laws for drunk drivers."
Drunk drivers don't go to the jail and drunk drivers don't pay much money!! I couldn't believe it!
If we let go of drunk drivers,they would drunk and hit someone again.
That someone's family would be so sad.
Why we have laws? for nothing? NO,we have laws for make people happy and make things became fair to every one, however,like this problem people are not happy and things are not fair to every one.
These are reasons of why we should make hard laws for drunk drivers.
PLEASE! MAKE HARD LAWS FOR DRUNK DRIVERS!!

Angles- Group 4

2007-12-11T11:41:00.000+13:00

A. 100 degrees
B.80degrees
C. 100 degrees
D. 80degrees
Total 360 degrees

Maths Today

2007-12-11T11:34:00.000+13:00

My group found out what an angle it was hard to start but then Adam and Emma M found out that we were meant to use prodrogram and in the middle there is a line and it is really easy and you line it up and then you see by adding and then we can see.
It is really easy and I think you should have ago. I think you should have ago its hard to work it out but you wll find it easy

Angles- How to mesure them

2007-12-11T11:32:00.000+13:00

Angles- How to mesure them
Place the Protractor on in the middle of the line and and follow the line you want to mesure from the outside and follow the angle you are mesuring to the protractor. The number that lines up with the protractor is the angle.
To check that they are right add up the angles and they should equal 360

Angles

2007-12-11T11:07:00.000+13:00

Angles

Triangles must have 180 degrees in it
squares have 360

An angle is the measurement between to joining lines
It is also something that is on an angle (E.G a line on a 90 degree angle)

10 December Reflection

2007-12-10T14:29:00.000+13:00

Today we had Mrs R and It was a full on day e had WiFlS (What ever i feel like saying) And then we had Swimming but most of Team 14 forgot there togs because it was raining and we were expecting it to be off But I Did a crossword that Mrs R let me do and It was quite easy for me it would be a very very easy.
Jump rope for heart and it was quite fun we had ago on one that was called "The Egg Beater" which is a interesting name. And It was real fun trying to get in and out.
The rest of the day was fun in the afternoon Evaluation on Inquiry and Reflection and Pack up.

Today I learn't how to do are maths 80 decresse which I didn't understand but in the end i got a bit more confident.
Next steps:
Practice every couple of days

Nick & Jasons inquiry reflection.

2007-12-10T14:19:00.000+13:00

http://global-warmingtruth.blogspot.com/

We think that our inquiry went well but nobody knows about it so we need to get it out into the open that is our goal at the moment.

We think that our inquiry went well because it has lots of gadgets on it that have to do with global warming and how it is a threat to us it has info on G.W too.
We had a few problems as well but they were solved in a matter of time !

We did a blog

Nick & Jason.

Boys Group Reflection

2007-12-10T13:56:00.001+13:00

n this evaluation I will be talking about the good facts and about the bad facts. In the inqury group there were seven people they were.
Matt, Sam, Jun, Samuel, Joe, Chris and Daniel K.

Now I will talk about the good facts.

One of of the good things was that all seven of us wanted to make a movie and we all wanted to do the same stuff such as making a news about global warming and we will have some interviews.

We decided things really fast. The things are who will be who and where we will do all the filming.

Most of the filming was done very well and was done really fast so it only took one week.

The start of the movie and all the music was good.

Some bits were so funny!

There are bloppers.

This is some of the bad parts!!!

Sometimes we were mumbleing.

Sometimes we had to do lots of things over and over again.

There was lots of backgroud noise.

Some bits were very boring.

The music could have beeen better.

Student Council News

2007-12-07T19:13:00.000+13:00

Jun's Reflections on 2007

2007-12-06T23:32:00.000+13:00

Samuel's Reflections on 2007

2007-12-06T22:54:00.000+13:00

Bertie's Reflections on 2007

2007-12-06T22:53:00.000+13:00

Daniel's Reflections on 2007

2007-12-06T22:26:00.000+13:00

Movember shots

2007-12-06T22:21:00.000+13:00

Year 6 Leavers Events

2007-12-06T21:43:00.000+13:00

Here is a link to download the details of all Team 14 and Year 6 Leavers Events.

Claire Abseiling

2007-12-06T18:36:00.000+13:00

Key Competency Reflection-Jason

2007-12-05T13:10:00.000+13:00

Dream maker idea because you have to have dream maker to do stuff. on create you have to make dream to make stuff. building stuff because you have to think of some thing to do on building.
team player PE because on PE like t-ball soccer... all of them need to work as a team. game like the rich list team tag.... all need team player.
Thinker idea because you have to think to make idea. even talking you have to think about what are you going to talk. every thing because you have to think to do every thing.
communicator language because I know lot of language like Taiwan, English...... and lot of stuff. to know some thing because on defiant language you have to communicator them.

Knowing your programmes feedback/comments

2007-12-04T20:40:00.000+13:00

Below on the comments zone you can put your comments there and we will see them !!!!

Today Daily Report

2007-12-04T14:33:00.000+13:00

First off today we had Team time and guess how many children we had at the start of the day we had 10 people because centrals people were away all day competing for Fendalton School and Extention writing people went for half and hour
Then we were planning on what we were going to say for this recording for the end of the year.
swimming lots of people went but I stayed behind because I forgot my togs and I wasn't really finished what I was going to say for my recording.
Then some people started recording for what they were going to say
Then there was my recording and lots of people kept it going.
reading/N.N was next but as I said before we kept going with that
perswausive writing rubric was after lunch and I was in a group with Bertie and Elsie and then we were doing my recording
pack up was next and then
girls group showing movie for inquiry
End of day/wearables arts Dvd handed out

Buying Jun's Under Water House

2007-12-04T11:54:00.000+13:00

Dear Editor

Hi, my name is Jun and I’m going to convince you why people can live underwater.

Imagine living under water in a very advanced under water house because there is no room to live on land. People can swim around the ocean whenever you want. Robots will do the chores so you can sit back and relax.

Now I’ll tell you everything about how you’ll live under water. You’ll have an under water house that is waterproof forever with out any support. When you what to move to another place you don’t have to look for another under water house because the house can move. When the house gets damaged, the robots will fix it.

I’ll tell you how the house gets air, the house has an special machine called an AT (Air Turbine) that gets air from the surface, but if the machine sucks up polluted air there is a machine called an APC (Air Pollution Cleaner) which will make polluted air into clean air.

Now I’ll tell you how the house gets one of the most important things, water. First the sea water goes into the WC (water cleaner) and the WC gets salt from the water and puts it into the salt storage and puts the water into the water storage.

The house has a machine that sucks energy from the sun for electricity and heat. The house has a fishing machine that has a fishing rod, a net and gun. When it catches a fish it puts the fish into a small tunnel and the fish goes into the food storage, also the robots go shopping to the surface and get cheese and vegetables and all sorts of stuff.

You may be wondering how the house gets fire. Well the house is waterproof also the house makes fire by using the machine that sucks energy from the sun.

In conclusion the house is great to live in it and this is why people can live under water. ~<(^^)>

BY JUN (안준혁)

Sam N- Essay

2007-12-04T11:43:00.001+13:00

Living On The Ocean
By Sam Nossiter
Team 14 October 2007

I think that in the year 3000 we should live in and on top of the sea. Most things we do will not pollute and we would be helping with the demand for land usage.

There are lots of fun things you can do just out your door like when you live on top of the water you can just walk out your door and go for a swim and there could be something to stop the sea creatures like sharks and lots more.

How would we get our electricity we would be able to get electricity from the seawater with a hydro plant. We would need more hydroelectricity for under water we could just make more hydro plants on top of the water for it to travel to this people underwater.

They would get there air from oxygen tanks and plant trees all over the town for oxygen.

Back on top of the water there are going to have helicopters and boats will take loads of stuff like food and mail and more to and from land.

We would get gas from land and it could travel ****through tubes under water. There could be different towns and cities and different kind of foods and sources.

We would get oil from under the ground just like everyone dose.

Years after the people start to live in and on top of the water there would start to have to build on it it and onto it so more people can live there. But if there is no more room. Still leaving space for the animals in the sea lots of space. We could start to build somewhere else like space, clouds and underground. The city on top of the water and under the towns will be like normal towns like chch with universities, parks, zoos, supermarkets, libraries, hotels, markets, banks, newspaper companies, movies, bike tracks, paintball, go-carts, cars and ships, cruises, farms, forests, lakes, rivers, skate parks, gyms, sports areas, stadiums, studios, pet shops, music lessens, restaurants, neighbourhoods, churches, camping sights.

Nicky's Persuasive Writing-Evauluation

2007-12-03T13:44:00.001+13:00

I think my Persuasive writing about "Why the all blacks why not France instead" I think It went really well because I hooked in a couple of people in and the were interested and I got some information about what happened the reasons why... and My opinion and what I thought I thought that having 3oo words max was quite hard because I had to keep counting and I got distracted by counting which then put me off.
Next time I would Improve on:
I would improve on get some more descriptive words

Dear New Zealand Rugby Union.

GO THE ALL BLACKS
Hello my name is Nicky Bowler and I think the ALL BLACKS should of won the world cup. Here is some information you might want to know 55% think it was the refferee's fault 7% think it was the coach 17% was the all blacks players.

First of all the ref kept giving out penalties to the All Blacks Then there was the send off thing when they send you off for no reason THEN there’s the ford pass from the French and they score when they should of called it up for a ford pass but of course they let it go.

Most people were getting ready to leave on the plane to go and watch the finals because the knew we would get in of course the ref spoils everything and loads of people canceled there trip to Paris France to watch our champions many people were angry and disappointed that the refs were cheating but of course French won.

I think the All blacks should of won because Graham Henry may no longer be your hero but to me he always is. When the All Blacks arrived back everyone was still happy with them for getting this far well it least I am So many people turned out to Christchurch Airport for congrautulating them and getting there signatures. I think the are still my number 1 fans even if the loose a game.

So in conclusion I think the ref should pay next time the ref will suffer no So now we will be ready to win in 4 years time and we will ring the cup home were it belongs in New Zealand so I’m ready my friends are ready everybody’s ready so the ref will pay new Zealand meet the cup in 4 years.

Sincerely Nicky

Elise's Persuasive Writing

2007-12-03T12:03:00.000+13:00

Why the England Referee was unfair

By Elise
Team 14, Fendalton School
November 2007

When the All Blacks lost to France in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal the New Zealand supporters were watching in shock as the French celebrated. The players, supporters and coaches were all gutted and disappointed with our loss. No other country would have been as disappointed as we were. This is the earliest the All Blacks have ever been out of the Rugby World Cup.

I think the England referee was unfair because he was on the side of the French team so that the English team would get to play an easier team in the semi-final.
In the first half Luke Macalister got sent off for 10 minutes for what looked like a high tackle but wasn't. The referee was definitely on the French side because a fair referee wouldn't pull up one side for nothing.

During the second half the referee didn't see a forward pass from the French that scored a try, which was also converted. If the referee had seen this forward pass, then the All Blacks would have won and had a chance of getting through to the finals.

Everybody is blaming the loss all on the All blacks and the coaches but it was partly the All blacks bad team work but most of it was unfair refereeing. The final score was 18-20 to France. The All Blacks now have to wait another 4 years to have another try at getting the title of the Rugby World Cup. All we can do now is hope that the refereeing is fair unlike this year’s quarterfinal.

Global Warming as a myth - excellent video

2007-11-29T12:13:00.001+13:00

This video is extremely thought-provoking.

What do people think?

Poppy has gone!!!!!

2007-11-28T18:45:00.001+13:00

My pet cat Poppy has gone!!!!!! if you have seen her please call me,she is small, shy, quick, cuddly and likely to be very scared, if you see her try to catch her please

I would love to have her back

Matt

How can we be involved?

2007-11-28T15:59:00.001+13:00

Hi

I'm writing to let you know about a new, nationwide, campaign called Be The Change, which has been set up by Greenpeace, Oxfam and Forest & Bird. It aims to inspire New Zealanders to take action on climate change in their own lives, communities, and of course, schools!

Schools around the country are doing some great things to reduce their carbon footprint, and we're visiting a few during our nationwide "climate rescue tour", as we travel from Bluff to Northland in the Be the Change bus.? You can find out more about Be the Change and the bus tour at our website www.bethechange.org.nz

I'm writing specifically because we have an exciting event planned for December 8th, which we hope schools across New Zealand will get involved in.

It's called the Global Day of Action (GDA) on climate change, and it's timed to coincide with an important meeting on climate in Bali, Indonesia.

We need to send a message to the global decision makers at the meeting, that we want to see action on climate change now.

We are keen to see as many young people involved as possible.? It is their future that hangs in the balance.

The idea is simple, fun and easy to organise.? We're getting people to spell out what they want to say to our leaders on climate change, to take a digital photo of it, and upload it to the Be The Change website at [ http://www.bethechange.org.nz/gda ]http://www.bethechange.org.nz/gda.

We'd love to see hundreds of photos from schools around the country.?

We're trying to keep the messages positive and focused on what we expect our leaders to deliver.?

Some ideas of things to spell out include:
Save the climate!

Climate action now!

Climate heroes please!

NZ climate leaders

Be The Change. Stop climate change.

Climate friendly future

It could involve making a "human sign" with a group of students (see attached photo from an activity involving some Australian schools earlier this year), it could involve spelling out a message using something iconically Kiwi (e.g. chocolate fish, jandals) or something linked to saving the climate (bicycles, energy efficient lightbulbs).

However you choose to do it, the more messages the better!? Check out [ http://www.bethechange.org.nz/ ]www.bethechange.org.nz for instructions on uploading photos and more examples of messages people have already spelt out.

Let's make the 8th of December a day to remember!

Kind regards,

Lesa Lomas

Greenpeace NZ on behalf of Be The Change

Environmental Expo - Thank You

2007-11-28T10:14:00.001+13:00

Here is a message Sue received from the organiser of this event:

Dear Sue,

Thank you so much for making Ecoexpo New Zealand's inaugural event such a success. We were quite overwhelmed to see so many children take part in The Wearable Art show and also the quality of the garments, you really were the stars of the weekend. We are already planning the next event and the creative juices are flowing once again to see how we can make the next one even more spectacular. I will be in touch with you when those thoughts have been formalised. I would love the opportunity to come and visit your school and see some of the other initiatives you have under taken with regards to "saving our planet".

We have now calculated that slightly more than 4,000 people attended the Expo over the 2 days. And from the information we gathered through our survey we now know that over 90% of the survey respondents felt the event was either very good or good and that 74% have said they would attend the next Eco Expo.

We will have a series of photo's of the Expo appearing on our website shortly, also we are just getting some copies of The Wearable Art show made - they are not professional, Kim videoed it for our personal record but I will get a copy to you when they are completed.

Thank you once again Sue, you must be very proud of your students.

Kind regards

Anita Ritchie

For the EcoExpo New Zealand Team of Kim, Anita, Glen and Deryn.

Photos of Fendalton School

2007-11-26T14:01:00.000+13:00

Here are some of the photos around our school to give you a sense for what it is like.

The first is a photo of one of our 'open-air' classrooms:

The second images are of our playgrounds:

Judging how your CREATE has made a difference

2007-11-26T09:47:00.001+13:00

How will you know your CREATE has made a difference?

Think of three or four aspects your group could use to help judge whether or not your create has made a difference.

Record your ideas as comments to this post.

When thinking of 'making a difference', think about these aspects:

A 'create' may just be encouraging others to change their behaviour.
It could involve you making something to be shared.
It could make a difference to your learning, or a larger group's learning (ie. our class, your family, the school, a business, your local community, etc.).

Filming Tips

2007-11-24T16:01:00.001+13:00

Here is an excellent video from youtube to show you a range of various filming tips. If your create involves making a film you should see this movie to help you in your preparation.

China's pollution crisis

2007-11-22T07:18:00.001+13:00

Here's a fascinating article with video and interactive graphics about the issues China is facing in the area of pollution.

This article is about a huge hydro-power project and the effects on the local population. It is well worth a look.

Decline in reading - NYT

2007-11-22T07:11:00.001+13:00

Here's an interesting article from the New York Times that may interest parents.

It illustrates the relationship between reading and success in life.

Feedback for Sheldon and Alvin

2007-11-21T14:44:00.000+13:00

We think that you have found some good information. Next time you could summarise the main points because it got kinda bouring. They needed to be more descriptive with the google searches that they did. next time you need to sort out who is going to say what. They really consintrated on their question on the subject of pollution.

Elise, Penny And Christie's Maths Game

2007-11-21T10:24:00.000+13:00

What you will need:
One whole deci pipe
10 tenths of a deci pipe
10 hundredths of a deci pipe
One bead chain

Instructions:

1. Player 1 gives player 2 some deci pipes including at least 1 tenth, 1 hundredth and 1 thousandth to make a three place decimal

2. Player 2 uses the pipes that player 1 gave them and puts them on the whole pipe and shows player one what the decimal number is on the number fan.Remember to explain why. eg: 0.537 because there is 5 tenths on the deci pipe so you put the 5 straight after the point. There are 3 hundredths on the pipe so I put the 3 in the hundredths column. There are 7 thousandths on the pipe so the 7 goes in the thousandths column.

3. Using the beads player 2 shows the decimal number. Remember the beads will not show the thousandths. Take away the thousandths from the number. Eg. .256 will turn into .25.

Maths Nicky and Emma How to play our game

2007-11-21T10:19:00.000+13:00

How to play our maths game.
What you will need:
Red beads (20 of them)
Yellow beads (20 beads of them)
Blue beads (20 beads of them)
Green beads (20 beads of them)
or any other beads that you can find. And make a number with it like... 18..
Wire
And yourself brain ready to count

How to set up the game with your 80 beads mix them up randomly and try not putting them in a certain order then when your finished putting them on you are almost ready to start.
Now the numbers
Red=1
Yellow=6
Blue=10
Green=20
Or any colours you put in make a number that you think would be good

How to start the game:
The leader puts her finger on the beads on just say yellow yellow red green then you would add them up which would because you add it up in total as I said before it has yellow=6 red=1 blue=10 green=20 so that's how I would get it. =33

Then it's first to 3 and then who every wins three times gets to have a go being the leader then when it's someone else's go and when it is there turn you have to pick it and it is really fun when you all have a go.
Hope you enjoy our game!
By Nicky and Emma

Lucys & Berties inquiry sharing

2007-11-20T14:11:00.000+13:00

Lucy: Should practice the words a bit more. Nice and loud. Try not to read the whole page, summarise a bit.

Bertie: Well practice/spoken. Maybe next time use a bit more expression. Nice and loud.

Overall feedback: It was good how they had interesting facts that still was about their question. Easy to follow with columns that are well spread out. Try to change the words into your own. Quality info. You presented it well.

How they organised their work:
It was easy to follow with the columns. It was good use of google docs.

Feedback for Lucy and Bertie's Inquiry presentation

2007-11-20T13:42:00.000+13:00

Is Global Warming really happening or is it just a myth?

I think that you have presented your information very well. And you have recorded where you got the information from. Your question is a very tough question and I think you have got most of the information you will need. You have also made links to the words so we can find out more information on that idea. I also think it is good how you put in some weird and interesting facts in there to. Maybe next time I think you could you could say the most important points and not say the things that we already know. You could also put some of the facts that you got into your own words to make sure you understand what you are reading. You could also summarise the long parts into different words that we understand. You should contact some different experts or scientists for some more information because you have lots of websites. I think that you have put a lot of work and effort into this and you have found some very good information. You have used your time very effectively.

Feedback from the audience.

Christie- I liked the question and it was a challenging question. You could put some of the text in your own words.

Amelia- You presented your information very well.

Penny- I think your question is hard and I also think you could put the websites ideas into your own words.

Clare- It was easy to follow

Daniel you had lots of info and backup your ideas with fact. And you should

By Elise and Nicky

Senior Leavers Event 20 December - 90 kids

2007-11-20T12:07:00.000+13:00

Paint ball.(its fun, Helps you get fit, lots of people can play at once, you play on teams)(You get hurt, Costs lots of money)
Obstacle course ''the Beast''(lots of people can do it)
Camp at Spencer park (not practical)
Go bowling
Disco (not happening)
The rocks(You can get lots of people)(you don't get to long)
Go karting (lots of people can go)cost:$15.00 Time:30 min of 15 min
Qe2 hydroslides(no limit to time or people )(won't get many turns because of so many people)
Movies(You can book the whole theatre )(you just sit in front of a screen, not enough seats,)
adrenalen forest (fun, four hours)
Orientaring and stuff like that
Bbq
Own fear factor
mountian biking(Everybody can do it) (Accidents)
Antarctic centre (not practical)
Ice scating(at least 2 hours)(It is cold some people don't like ice scating, accidents)
Beach party

Feedback

2007-11-19T12:24:00.000+13:00

Feed back On emma and Nicky's power point

Interesting pictures

Good information they can understand some of the hard words need to change some of the words so they understand it better and know what there talking about.

Liked your presentation
Easy to understand

Didn’t explain why it is bad

Needed to search what temperatures they were talking about.

Nicky and Emma's Powerpoint

2007-11-19T12:13:00.000+13:00

Once they had already read it out because people were talking they did a really good summary of what they had already talked about.
they talked really clearly.
they explained what things were just incase we didn't understand what it was so they explained what it was in a good way that we could understand what it was.

My opinions:
I think it was really good because the PowerPoint that they made they had done in their spare time.

Maths

2007-11-19T10:29:00.000+13:00

You need:
At least two Number fans
100 Beads
At least 3 people

How to play:
1. You need to choose a leader and at least two people with the Number Fans.
2. The leader turns there back around so noone can see and makes a decimal number, then quickly shows them the number and people with fans have to make the number with Number Fans and tell them the number quickly.
3. The people with the fans have to try and get as many right as they can, then the first person who has got 3 right gets to be the leader.

Inquiry Sharing Feedabck

2007-11-19T09:53:00.000+13:00

Sheldon & Alvin

Question: What Causes Global Warming

Was Their Info Useful My Opinion: I Think
They Did Well But 1 Of Them Was Being Silly
But They Werent Owning Up to it but they did
well apart from that but yes they should read
their information before sharing it.
Their Opinion:
They think that some of their info was useful
but not most of it because they didn't read
over it so they are still going to find out some
more info so they did quite well.

Feedback:
When You Put An information source
instead of copying the website copy
the exact URL of the page
I think that they were mucking around
a lot and they were being silly with wording
but they also had some good information
but maybe next time they should
read over what they have done before
they share in front of an audience

TED Talk - Solving Climate Change

2007-11-16T10:14:00.001+13:00

Here is a really interesting podcast from TED. Environmental scientist David Keith talks about a cheap, effective, shocking solution to climate change.

This scientist would be worth contacting. I wonder if any of you are interested in dong this and setting up a video conference with him?

Some of you may be very interested in this - both the idea but also in how it is communicated.

Key competency Reflection 2007

2007-11-15T12:04:00.001+13:00

Dream maker: When I had Gymnastic, I couldn't do anytings in the Gymnastic but I practiced and I practiced now I could do most things and I became healthy.

Team Player: When we share our inquiry works we needed to listen to each other.

Communicator: I learnt diffrent languages and using diffrent languages so I could do two diffrent languages!!!

Thinker:I think that I created many things and I searched things for inquiry information with Clare.

Video - bullying

2007-11-13T20:11:00.001+13:00

Here is a interesting video about bullying.

For those of you thinking about creating a movie or podcast, what can you take from this movie?

Is it quality? How would you know?

Lates notes about G.W

2007-11-13T19:26:00.000+13:00

It is - 18 -20 Degrees at the moment
At the top of the mountain it is - 26 Degrees
Storms come through it can come and crack the ice.
When they drill there is a certain place they have to do it
They started planning for the trip 8 years ago
Drilling prepration never stops
The bases are much more comfortable then 20 years ago
The Comunaction is better than 30 years ago
They are not alloud 2 leave anything in Antractia
Temprature difference quite drammitic
They can have -10 deggress at the most
There are four nations involved in the progect.
Everyone gets on very well together.
They put big air bags under the sea ice and send divers down to see all the lines down then they blow the bags up, it is quite risky for the divers.
Only two people get to rest at the same time and when they have reached there goal the can pack up and go home.
He misses his wife and kids but they get used to him being away for long periods of time.
There are people against drilling.
Each year that they drill they get better and better at drilling so they get better teknects

Clare's reflection

2007-11-13T19:18:00.000+13:00

Today I learned how to add 2 negetive numbers together today in maths.
From this learning I can now help others about negetive problems if they dont know how to do it.
The next step in my learning is to help others when they have problems.

G.W

2007-11-13T19:13:00.000+13:00

does anyone know where everybodys Global warming feedback went because i would like to see Youbins and I's? And are we making a website?

Making a Label Cloud

2007-11-13T16:37:00.001+13:00

This is a technical tip and requires you go into the Template > Edit HTML area of your blog. It allows you to put a label cloud on your blog. Here is the link with detailed instructions for how to do this (be warned, this is technical!!!!!):

http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html

A label cloud is really cool because you can make it so that the more posts are shown, the larger the label becomes!

Be warned, export and BACKUP your template BEFORE following these instructions!!!

If you want to change the colour of the labels, use this RGB reference as a guide.

MOvember

2007-11-13T15:21:00.000+13:00

I'm wondering if anyone of the T14 parents would sponsor me for MOvember??

Every year in New Zealand 2,656 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 600 die of the disease, making prostate cancer the second largest cause of male deaths, after lung cancer. The average life expectancy of a man in New Zealand is 4 years less than a woman.

To sponsor my MO please go to http://www.movember.com/nz/donate, enter my registration number which is 88616 and your credit card details.

Or you can sponsor me by cheque made payable to the "Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand" clearly marking the donation as being for my Registration Number: 88616 . Please mail cheques to: Movember, PO Box 87 150, Meadowbank 1742, Auckland. All donations over $5 are tax deductible.

All donations are made directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand who will use the funds to create awareness, increase support networks for those men who suffer from prostate cancer, fund research and scholarship programs.

All classes are invited to a Mo Day assembly and a performance by the Boys' Choir on Thursday 29 Movember at 10.00am in the Hall. There will be a shave off auction and the Boys' Choir will perform

Elise & Daniel's Inquiry Creation Plan Link

2007-11-13T14:18:00.000+13:00

This is the link for Daniel and my Inquiry Creation Plan. it is stored on a Google Doc.

Hi guys did you miss me?

2007-11-13T13:08:00.000+13:00

Hay guys!
I missed you soooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What are you up to?
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Mum said that I'm going to study here!!!!!
Not only that, I have to study till collage so I probabally won't ever see you guys again or we can keep in touch.
IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DIFFERENT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL NEVER FORGET NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Create Plan - Chris and Joe

2007-11-12T14:05:00.000+13:00

A.Our audiance will be people in varios countries.

B.We will make a movie to warn people about the future if we don't act now.

C.We will put it on youtube and sent it to friends in different countries and put it on at the school assembly.

Title of Inquiry:
Name(s):
Date: November 2007
Idea:
Invention Tool Used:
Things to think about before I start:
Is it something that will make a difference? yes/no
How will it make a difference?
Who is my audience?
How will I share this learning with others?
Other things to think about:
Costs: $
Time needed:
Environment Friendly:

Jason and Nick feedback for Global warming

2007-11-12T13:42:00.000+13:00

It was very good because of:

how they have they have good info to use when they answer the qestion.
how they showed the websites that they found.
how they had the links set up beside the info that they found from that websites

Next steps would probably to let Jason have a go at talking a saying what they are up to, and spread your information out more so it is easier to read and sort out. Plus start by sharing your question to show what you were looking for.

Alvin and Sheldons Create

2007-11-12T12:11:00.000+13:00

Things I should do before we start………
Get the right stuff to use.

How?

We are going to try and tell them the causes of globel warming and how they can make a difference to globel warming. And if globel warming true or not.

How will I share this learning with others.

Youtube because most people will look at youtube

Costs

Maybe some cash for props and plants.

Time: 3 weeks

Music fresh

Inquiry CREATE Guidance

2007-11-12T11:55:00.000+13:00

Click here to view everyone else's create plans...

Click here to view our ideas (click the comments) about how we will know our creates have made a difference...

Here are the questions to help guide inquiry create planning. Please make sure you give it a label of create so it can be found again.

Inquiry Creation Plan

Title of Inquiry:
Name(s):
Date: November 2007

Idea:

Invention Tool Used:

Things to think about before I start:

Is it something that will make a difference? yes/no

How will it make a difference?

Who is my audience?

How will I share this learning with others?

Other things to think about:

Costs: $
Time needed:
Environment Friendly:

Understanding Decimal Numbers

2007-11-12T09:51:00.000+13:00

Answer these questions:

What is a decimal number?
Where are they used and how are they useful? Give at least 5 examples of decimal numbers in everyday use.

Game:

Collect some maths equipment and invent a game which challenges people how to do one of the following: put decimal numbers into order, add/subtract, multiply or divide decimal numbers.
Write instructions for your game, making sure you explain how the game develops your mathematical understanding.
Include in your instructions how to make the game more challenging or interesting, as well as how to simplify the game to make it easier.
Post it to the Team 14 blog with a label of Maths. If you are not from Team 14, get one of these people to log you in so you can publish.

These games will be used again for the benefit of others.

Team Meeting Minutes - 9 MOvember

2007-11-12T09:49:00.000+13:00

Class Meeting Minutes 9/11/07
Leaders- Amelia and Clare

Class Meeting Starts at (11:47)

The password by nick (Postponed)

Someone used Christie's hat in the morning and then someone put it back.
Just if you did then don’t do it because it is very annoying and it can move lice.

Labeling when you are putting stuff on the blog always label it.

Blue take is gone so don’t take it home Anna had lots so she could give us some. And other people.

Reminder You have lot to look after peoples things if have token them because they most of the time come back broken or they don’t return it at all.

Maths

2007-11-09T09:19:00.000+13:00

By Elise and Chris

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Elise and Daniel C

2007-11-08T09:53:00.000+13:00

Elise: she did not say all of one of the sub question she just went blah blah blah instead of saying it all out.

Both: they wrote out all of there information really well and they talked really clearly. For each sub question they have made a separate chart for it so that you know that it is a new sub question, they have a box for the changes form the past and another one for now.

Things that they need to do better=
Elise: next time I think Elise should make sure that she says all of the sub question so that we don’t have to read it ourselves because that wasn’t what the sharing was for.

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Matt, Daniel K & Sam

2007-11-08T09:50:00.001+13:00

Sam: he read and spoke really clearly. He made sure that the whole class was listening before he talked.

Matt: He fixed the mistakes that he made, he read and spoke really clearly

Daniel K: he needs to tell the other people in his group that he needs to have a time to talk.

All: they made sure that they showed us all of the websites. It was good that they organized it in a google doc. They showed us what we might lose by caring on how we are. They made it sound like a good thing that the world is going to warm up.

Things that they need to do better=
All: they need to make sure that they make sure that everyone gets the same amount of time to talk in the group because Daniel K didn’t get to talk that much at all.

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Clare

2007-11-08T09:50:00.000+13:00

Both: They got a lot of information in their information organizer. They made sure that they .

Things that they need to do better=
Both: they didn’t change some of the words we could tell that they hadn’t changed it because they couldn’t pronounce them very well.

Clare: you need to make sure that you know how to pronounce the words so that we all know what she is talking about. I know that you-bin didn’t want to talk you need to make sure that she talks to get her English better.

Global Warming

2007-11-08T09:15:00.000+13:00

Daniel and Elise are very organised with there feedback to the class and I think they have found out alot of information nd looks like they are very wanting to get out there and go for it looks like they searched up/found out alot of this Well Done Elise and Daniel.

Blue Skies Abseiling - Nov 9

2007-11-07T16:53:00.000+13:00

Here is a link to download the notice for Blue Skies abseiling night!

CO2 clock

2007-11-07T12:28:00.000+13:00

sam is find called CO2 clock it really cool.

web video

2007-11-07T12:22:00.000+13:00

look i find vedeo somewhere go to click this site

http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/whatsimportant/globalwarming_movie01.htm

Key Competency Reflection

2007-11-07T11:41:00.000+13:00

I think I am flexible because I take in everyones ideas to make a bigger idea.
I think I am a creator because I love to create new things and create stories an example of this is when Bertie and I created a story about a boy who was taken to an island an held captive..
I think I am a Responsible risk taker because I like to take risks and try new things but I make sure they are safe and responsible first, an example of this is when I decided to do the highest abseiling wall because I new it was safe and I was trying something new.
I think I am passionate because if I get into something I like I keep practising or trying new ways to do it.
I think I am positive because I always try to look on the bright side even if something bad happens like when I have to go to swimming lessons (which I don't like) I just think that it will be another whole week before I have to go again.
I think I am self responsible because because I don't do anything without checking that I am allowed and I don't let anyone do anything that they are not allowed to do.
Transfer ideas because I can get two ideas and transfer them to make a better idea.
Respects because I respect others and there ideas and i try and use everyones ideas.
Relates to others because I understand what other people are thinking and I relate to their ideas.
Considers because I consider everyones ideas.

Key Competency Reflection - Christie

2007-11-07T10:21:00.000+13:00

Key Comps Reflection.
perserveres
because i have become more perservering to stuff that I have been very nervous and frightened but i still did it, and I felt great after it.

using language, symbols and text.
I think I have become more neater in my school books.

Respects.
Because I share, im freiendly, i never give up, respects other peoples property.

The arts language,
Im really proud of myself because i was the alian in our wearable arts.

Inquiry
because
ive been doing inquiry and I have found some useful info.

team 14 maths

2007-11-06T11:52:00.000+13:00

1. What do you do when the first numbers can't be subtracted from one another?

2. When it doesn't work how do you get the negative number?

team 14 writing

2007-11-06T11:16:00.000+13:00

1. Process

analyse every paragraph

- summarise it

-rate strength of each argument (1-5)

2. Change order according to the "Art of Persuasion" sheet.

BUFFY has gone!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-11-04T17:48:00.000+13:00

My pet bird buffy has gone!!!!!!!!!!!

On Sunday he flew away and we could not catch him, if he turns up in your backyard - can you try to cattch him. If you do, please call me (Sam), use our contacts list to find the number, he is yellow and has red cheaks and is still pretty small.

I'd love to have him back!

Thanks!!!

Energy saving tips video

2007-11-03T15:38:00.001+13:00

Here is another movie from youtube with tips for saving energy and therefore reducing global warming.

It has a political bent to it which is also quite interesting.

How could you influence others?

I wonder if you could find anything else out about the presenter?

Global Warming Video

2007-11-03T15:35:00.001+13:00

Here is a video from youtube I just found which may interest some of you.

I don't think the quality of it is very high, but do wonder if you could make a better job of something like this?

The Cat Burglar

2007-11-03T15:25:00.000+13:00

Here is a shot of Zypheryzoodle trying (in vain) to break into my car.

...a good distraction from writing reports on a Saturday afternoon!