Cyber Khalie

This week I decided to choose my Exaggeration poem.
The reason I chose my poem is because I liked how I added things that would be handy but also cool in the shoes. Unfortunately my blog won’t cooperate with me and I can’t get the poem up so, sorry.

This week I decided to choose my Spelling test.
The reason I chose my test is because I improved by 5 correct answers and got second best in the class. Another reason I chose it is since I got second best in the class Laura (who got the most correct) and I are going to a sort of spelling bee in Mania on Monday.

This week I decided to choose my theme.
The reason I chose my theme is because Alesha and I came up with a really good idea to stop our P.E gear going missing. I also liked how we added minor humor in our email with attatched presentation.

Welcome to the case of – The missing P.E gear

” The crime scene ”

Matapu School seems to loose a lot of P.E gear, we find it in trees, in
bushes, on roofs and under the school. We have tried a series of solutions
but they keep having problems like
* Stalling
* Blaming others
and
* Being leniet towards friends.
But to solve all of these problems we’ve come up with the no. 1 answer

A La System

” The Process ”

A La System works like this

1.) Groups of 2-3 people to go out after they’ve finished their interval
and lunch and take the P.E gear that we’re allowed to use and put them in bins outside the P.E shed.

2.) Then taping a sheet with all the P.E on it to the door leaving a vivid so students can’t rub their name off if they lose P.E.

3.) Throughout Interval and Lunch students take and return their P.E at anytime they like.

4.) At the end of the break periods groups pack up, check and take sheet down.

” The Honour court ”

As a pair we gave ourselves

* Quick to organise: 2/2
* Way of checking who has gear: 2/2
* Easy to return gear during lunch: 2/2
* No class time taken up: 2/2
* Gives responsibility: 2/2
* People who use P.E gear properly don’t get punished: 2/2
* Whole Interval and Lunchtime not taken up being monitors: 2/2

” Back up Info ”

* Quick to organise because: 2-3 people are organising it.

* Way of checking who has gear: The sheet will give us proof.

* Easy to return gear during lunch: Just pop the gear into the bins

* No class time taken up: Just take P.E out after you’ve finished lunch
and just before bell rings.

* Gives responsibility because: Monitors have to remember to do their job

* People who use P.E gear properly don’t get punished because:          The sheet will give us proof.

* Whole Interval and Lunchtime taken up being monitors:                  No. Just at break times.

Case closed.

This week I chose my Theme.
The reason I chose my theme is because I liked how we did a talk show outside and, even though we couldn’t have a few parts in that we wanted eg: balls thrown in as the moon and earth, I still think it turned out well for the amount of time we did it in.

This week I chose my Flash facts.
The reason I chose my Flash facts is because I’ve been on book 5 for a long time and only getting scores of 12 – 14 and the other day I got the highest I’ve ever got – 17. I know it’s not that much but I was really happy when I got over 15.

For theme this term we are doing Astronomy.
We had to do a power point, video or just a post about our star sign.
My star sign is Virgo so take a look of what I’ve found.                    Please press F5

Virgo

My Work of the week this week is my astle reading test.
The reason I chose my astle test is because I’ve gone up by 92 since last time which is a great difference.

This week I chose my Young Writers.
The reason I chose my Young Writers is because I have completed 90 % of the work and that will give me time to go over it and double check that it makes sense.

Overview…                                                                                                              My groups experiment was to see if plants could survive with different water.
My prediction was that they would all grow but the dye would be a browny colour.
Below is a picture of the boiled, hot tap, cold tap, refrigerated and dyed water.

Results…                                                                                                                                               As you can see only the tap watered plants grew with the others still at seed stage. My prediction in this case was wrong as they did not all grow, so I think we can say that plants don’t like boiled, dyed or refrigerated water.

Closer observations…                                                                                                                              Both plants that grew did not grow the same with the cold tap at 9cm and the hot tap at 4 cm.As the pictures show, the lupin that has cold tap water grew a lot more than the hot tap water so I can assume that cold tap water works faster and better. 

Problems…                                                                                                            These are some other things that also may have affected our results such as,                                                                                                                               * The dye colour and product being changed half way through the experiment.                                                                                                                                                  * The plants being moved at some time during the process.                                                                                                                                                       * And the dye not being exact every time.

Things I’d do differently next time… 

A few things I’d like change would be to have the plants be watered on the weekends, measure the plants at the end of each week so we can see the difference and who’s winning, and include more interesting thing to water the plants eg, rain water, tea, coffee, mabye even juice.  

Possible further studies…

A couple of things I could study based on my results are                                                                                                                                                                 * Why the cold tap water worked better than hot tap water.                                                                                                                                                            * To see if a plant that doesn’t get disturbed will grow better.                                                                                                                                                              * To trial different seed varieties.

Style – The style raises the stigma away from the Ovary to decrease the likelihood of pollen contamination.

Stigma – Is covered in a sticky substance that the pollen grains will adhere to.
                                                                                                                                   Anther – The Anthers contain pollen sacs. The sacs release pollen on to the outside of the anthers that brush against insects on entering the flowers. The pollen once deposited on the insect is transferred to the stigma of another flower or the same flower. The ovule is then able to be fertilised.

Filament – This is the stalk of the anther     

Sepal – Sepals protect the flower whilst the flower is developing from a bud.                                                                                                                                  

Petals – Petals are used to attract insects into the flower, they may have guidelines on them and be scented