Knowledge, knowledge is good

I've been expecting you, whoever you are, for some time now. I also know why you have come. You have come seeking limitless knowledge. I have travelled long distances teaching my teaching sand fighting wrong doers. Now you have come to me seeking limitless knowledge about the past, present and future. You want to become strong beyond compare but what you must know is that before the battle of the fist comes the battle of the mind. There is much to teach and there is still much for you to learn. Yet there is not enough time. So instead of teaching you everything separately I will have to teach you the answer to everything my pupil. This will be my first but final teaching. But to prove you are worthy you must complete this final test. You must read what this amazing person had learnt during his first term in 2016.

Welcome my pupils. I am full of knowledge.

Hey guys!
That was the wise old ninja. You can call him Sensei. Do everything he says because he is wise and he is old. Trust me, the answer will be worth it.

So these are 3 things I learnt this term:

One thing that I learned was how to read a map. In camp Kieran (Our group's instructor) helped us navigate to read the map by telling us that you need to make the drawings on the map parallel to the real world. I'm not sure if I'll be able to use this skill later in life but it is still good to know. This skill will help me not to get lost as easily in the wild:)






Another thing I learnt was how to separate salt from sand after they are mixed together. In the process I have also learned that salt actually dissolves quickly after being exposed to water. The way you separate them is to pour water into the cup. This will dissolve the salt. Then you filter the sand from the water and you boil the water. This will leave you with the salt residue. At this point you should have separated the salt from the sand.



This is a diagram of what detergent molecules look like. 

The last of the three things that I learnt this term is that when you touch milk and different types of food colouring in a bowl with detergent the food colouring seems to avoid it. This happens because (as you see in the diagram) the water-loving body wants to connect to a water molecule while the grease-loving tail want to connect to a fat molecule. When eventually one end gets what it wants the other end still wants to find its desired molecule and goes 'crazy' while trying to do so. This is why the food colouring seems to try to avoid the detergent.

So these were 3 things I learned this term. Thanks for reading and see you next time!

I'll pass it on to the wise old ninja.

Well done my pupil you have pest my final test. You have now proven you are worthy of knowing the answer to everything:

The answer is............................................................................

Bye!



Easter!

Merry Easter everybody even though it's a bit late for that but never mind about that let's get on with this post.

What did I do for Easter you may ask?
Well...................
We drove up to New Plymouth with our family friends and stayed at Plymouth quality Hotel which was really nice. There was also a heated pool and a spa.

Easter Bro's

On the first day we went up a mountain which some of us climbed up and it was really fun. We also went to a modern art gallery where of course we saw some random and cool works of art. This is what some of the art was like:

Another thing I enjoyed was the Museum where you got to interact with almost everything in the bottom floor.

Well that's all for the peeps. Thank's for reading and see you next time!

Easter Bro's say hi!

I believe I can fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome back viewers of my blog. I have now returned from camp which was an amazing and fun experience. It is now time to share the wonder and amazingness of camp.

Our teams theme song

Some of the things I found most challenging was to try out all the activities when it came to the flying fox rock climbing, abseiling and bridge jumping. the hardest part was probably just starting myself off like letting goof the rail in the flying fox or getting the courage jumping of the bridge. The good thing is that I have defeated my rival: the Flying fox

I will return mwa, ha,ha! 

Some things that I found easy were having a good time and keeping a positive attitude especially when we were tramping. Actually I found it fin walking around in the bush and in the cave.

Was camp anything like you expected you may ask? Well thank you for asking. Let me think, the cabins were really cozy and warm, there was a lounge to hang around in with your friends, a shop. So in other words it was higher than  my expectations.

One of my favourite/proudest moments would probably be when I completed the flying fox or when I jumped off the bridge because those are not really things that I would usually do.

Once again it is the end of my blog post.
Thank you for reading and see you next time!

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OPC (Over Powered Children) Camp (in my eyes)

So.............................................................................................................................................................
It's almost the moment we've all been waiting for (or we've been dreading)!
Camp is almost here!

I for one think camp is going to be amazing as well as a little bit scary and also very fun!
Some of the things I'm looking forward to is spending time with my friends especially since in all of the groups I am with them. Another thing I am looking forward to is caving, I haven't gone caving before but to me it sounds fun. The low ropes are another thing I'll be keen on trying out as well since in year 6 camp I was frightened of it but now I think it will be way less scary than last time, fun maybe?!

Flying Fox

There aren't many things that I'm nervous about year 8 camp. The main thing really is the high ropes because I've seen pictures of how high it is even though that's obviously why it's called "the high ropes". There would be no point in having high ropes that were barely higher than the low ropes. The only other thing is the flying fox which I'm a bit nervous about, though I'm pretty sure it's safe. The thing is that I darted myself to go first to redeem myself from my experience in year 6 camp.

Some things I'll try my best to do to make camp as amazing and fun as it possibly can be is give a positive outlook on everything and to try my best in everything even when I'm tired or things are tough. I will also be very supportive in every activity knowing that I'm also not very confident in every activity and not to push them into something that they don't want to do but just to encourage them enough that they'll give it a go. I will also try to be the nicest I can be so that people will want to hang around me!

That's it for this week folks!
So long and happy camping!

Duolingo!

Que pasa?

Como estas?

This week I will be talking about how we've been doing in Duolingo.
A few weeks ago Ms Bolger introduced us to the website called Duolingo, to help us learn how to speak Spanish.

I have enjoyed doing Duolingo so far because I have learned lots of Spanish words and it is not too hard for me to understand either. I also like how the website tells you how fluent you are in Spanish and that they give you ingots( ingame spending money ) to buy stuff.

Spanish is also quite similar to Pilipino since the Spaniards colonised the Philippines for 300 years, hence the Spanish influence! This makes it easier for me to learn some of the words.

I feel that Duolingo has actually helped me to learn Spanish and this is good because we are also learning Spanish in class it also helps that it makes me revise what you learnt.

For those who are new or struggling in Duolingo, I advise you to do Duolingo as often as you can an to revise what you learnt. Also keep your streak going to keep your 'skill' up in activities.

That's all for the week peeps! See you next time and...........................yea!: