Persuasive Writing

   Students should choose their own seat

Choosing their own seat is one of the problems in school that needs a solution. A lot of

students are getting in trouble while sitting with their friends but the other think that

sitting with their friends can help them a lot.  All students have different opinions about

this situation, some of them think that choosing your own seat is not a good idea and some

of them think that this idea is really good and helpful. Also some teachers think that sitting

with your friends or to someone that you know is not a good idea but for me choosing your

own place or seat for class is really good and helpful.

Being able to sit with someone that you know can help you to be more active in class,

because you know your seatmates and you can communicate with them easily because you c

an share your ideas and your opinion to them. If you sit with someone that you don’t know

that much you will feel uncomfortable and feel shy and not able to share your ideas and

opinions with them. Being active in class is really important but how will you do this if you

were not able to share your ideas and opinions?

I also think that if you are sitting with you are able to choose your seat you can sit with

someone that you think can guide you and with some that you can ask for help. Having a

problem while learning is really normal and sometimes you really need to ask for help, some

students don’t have enough courage to ask the teachers so they prefer to ask their friends

for help. Imagine if the teacher let you sit with someone that you can’t ask for help do you

think you 're able to ask for help? I know that if you choose your own seat can also be the

reason to get you in trouble because you’re talking, but if you are doing the right thing I

think that you can have the freedom to sit wherever you like.

I believe that if you know that person that you are sitting with that can help you to learn

how to communicate to others. Not for the whole your friends is always present in school

and there’s a time that you will sit to someone that you don’t know that much but if the

teachers let you to choose your seat you can choose to sit with someone that you know that

can help and teach you to communicate to others so if you have enough courage are able to

sit and communicate with you other classmates.

I understand the teachers' concern about this but for me being able to sit with your

friends can help you a lot. Having the freedom to choose your seatmate is really fun and

helpful. I know that some of us can’t really focus if we are sitting with our friends but not

all of us can be distracted because of them. Trust me, just be responsible and you can have

the freedom that you want and just do the right thing.  But for me having a freedom and

chance to choose your seatmate can make your whole year really fun and help you to learn

properly.

Zombie Apocalypse

Last week we discussed about zombie apocalypse and some rules that w can do to survive to it. We also do some activities about this topic. We have a choice of what task we want to do, I decided to do the task that we need to pick the 10 best rules for us and make a poster about it. I picked the rules that I think will help me a lot and useful to survive in a zombie apocalypse.

Mindfulness Well being

Every day before we start our class we are spending 10 minutes to do the mindfulness time. Mindfulness time is a time that we can choose some activity t do for 10 minutes, we have a lot of choices to do and we are changing our choices every week. Mindfulness is helping the us to relax, calm and be ready to learn to the whole day. Listening to music, coloring, silent reading are some of the choices that you can do for your mindfulness time.


Doing mindfulness time every start of the day is helping me a lot. Even though we just spent 10 minutes every day for this is alright and helpful. Mindfulness time is helping to be ready to learn and helping me to set and think the goals that I want to achieve for that day.



While doing mindfulness you can feel a lot of emotions this emotions can calm, happy, sleepy and relaxed, you can feel this emotions by doing the mindfulness. Also all of us has different ways that we think can make us calm and relaxed. Some of us can feel relaxed while listening to music, painting, watching videos and                                                        reading we have a lot of choices and ways to do this.

P.E Hurumanu Athletics

Discus Techniques

1. Roll off your small finger.
2. Wrap 4 fingers around it.
3. Stand side on to the line.
4. 1 wind- up (Not 3).

Event	Athletics Practice Scores
Shot Put	7.5
Discus	16.8
High Jump	90 cm
Long Jump	1.8 m
100 and 200 m Sprints	16 43
Long Distance (400 m, 1500 m)	7:00

Athletics: High Jump

Fosbury Flop

1. Land with your arms  and your feet facing up. Land on your back.
2. When you take off it should be on 1 foot.
3. When you leave the ground you must spin around and use your knee to turn.

Long Jump

1. Run up is 21 steps.
2. Take off will be from the second marker.
3. Land will be measured from the back foot.
4. Land with both feet together.
5. If you are over the second marker when you jump it is a foul jump

Science Dissolving Experiment

Aim: We are gonna see and investigate the solubility of baking soda and table salt to see which of these two is most soluble in water.

Hypothesis: I think that baking soda is more soluble in water more than salt.

Equipment: A 250 ml beaker, 100 ml measuring cylinder, salt, baking soda , a string rod, a teaspoon and a ruler.

Method:

1. Put 100 ml of tap water into the beaker.
2. Add a level of teaspoon of baking soda. A level teaspoon is obtained by running your rules across the edges of the teaspoon. 
3. Mix and stir the solution unlit the baking soda has dissolved.
4. Keep doing the step 2 and 3 until no more baking soda will dissolved into the solution.
5. record how many teaspoon of baking soda we put into the solution.
6. Do the experiment again and do it with table salt instead of baking soda.

Result:

Solute	Number of teaspoon that dissolved in 100 ml of water
Baking Soda	15
Salt	22

Discussion:

This experiment is all about dissolving, we did two same experiment but two different solutes. We try to mix baking soda and salt into the water to see how many teaspoon of baking soda and salt that dissolved in water. After the experiment we put more salt because the salt dissolved faster that baking soda.

Conclusion:
At first I thought that baking soda is going to dissolved more faster compare in salt. But when we did the experiment the salt dissolved faster than baking soda. This experiment is really fun and helpful because it can help you to know more about science.

My Year 9 Goal Setting

On week 2 we started to do our goal setting for this year. For this blog we will share our goal and the achievements that we want to achieve this year. I have a lot of goal and achievements that I want to get for this year. I wanted to get a award in academic and non-academic award. I will do my best to achieve my goal and to get the awards that I want to get for this school year, and I will try my best to improve some of my learning that I learned last year.

 

    

I want to achieve academics award or non- academic award. I like to achieve a awards like First in Science, Best In Health because I really love those subjects. I want to be able to play in badminton competition this year and to win it . Also I want to improve some of my knowledge this year because I know that it can help me a l lot specially there few more years before I went in senor high school. I want to work on my confidence so I can present in front of the whole class and to have a confidence to do more work. Also I am willing to help my classmates and other student if they need help and be kind. I also want to participate in Badminton Competition this year to improve my skills and also I wanted to do badminton not just this year but the whole year that I'm spending here in Hornby High. I have a lot of goal for this year and I will try my best to reach them and I will try my best to achieve the awards that I want to get for this year.

Entrepreneurs

On Tuesday we start doing a research about entrepreneurs, we have our choice what kind of presentation we want to use for this activity. Also it's our choice whose entrepreneur we want to search about. For this research I decided to do some research about William Henry Gates because he is one of the famous entrepreneur and I know some facts about him, so I don't have to find so many facts about him. I used google slides to present my work.

 

The Best Day Of The Summer Holiday

On holiday I spent a lot of time with my family, we did so many fun things and we went to a lot of beautiful places in New Zealand. My grandparents from Philippines and my cousins from Auckland decided to celebrate their Christmas and New Year here with us, we enjoyed it a lot because we barely celebrate this kind of celebration with my whole family. We spend our New Year in Queenstown and we also ride the gondola and it's really fun specially when we saw the beautiful view while riding the gondola , we decided to celebrate there because we want to bring our grandparents to different places here in New Zealand before the went back to the Philippines. We also went to Lake Tekapu and spend one night there, I really enjoy it because that is my first time doing camping here in New Zealand.
             

After spending time with my family, my cousin and grandparents went back in Auckland. I spent the remaining days before the school start by watching movies, I watched some horror and romantic movies, I really love horror movie because for these kind of movies is really cool and interesting. Also I spent some of my time playing with my cousin because since the school year is coming I can't play with them everyday because we all need to study. I also spent a lot of my time playing online games, I played a lot of it some of them called Pubg, mobile legends and more. I really enjoyed my holiday because I have so many chances to went into different places and having a chance to spend my time with my family.