Jess in the UK

For week 4 and week 5 I was away in England to visit my family there. It was really fun although the plane flight was grueling. 

When we finally got there we stayed at Grandmas and Peters for a while before we set off to Sheffield.  When we got to Sheffield we drove around visiting a lot of friends, although there were too many to keep track of. 

For the first two days in Sheffield we stayed at David's and C.J's house.  During our time there, we went for a long, long walk all around Sheffield. For the rest of the week we stayed at Lou's, who is this wonderful lady and everybody's best friend. 

She introduced me to Howl's Moving Castle (I don't usually watch stuff like that).  On the last day at Lou's we went to Alton Towers, which was... quite an experience. When we finally went home I somehow fell asleep sitting up in the plane.

Look out for my next installment...

Jess

Alternative Ski-Trip

Our Day Out

On Friday 26th August we went on the alternative ski trip... We arrived at the Roxx and for the morning we had Matt & Steve teach us different aspects of climbing such as Be-laying, lowering and also bouldering.

There were lots of different climbing walls and the higher the number was, the more advanced/hard it was.  I managed at least one climb. The bouldering bay finally opened. The bouldering bay is where you don't have a harness or anything, so it is really challenging... 

We finally finished a great 2 hours at the Roxx and moved onto the art gallery.

We had an amazing look at all the great art. The piece of art that really caught my eye was the shiny black seal balancing a ball on his head .

What a great alternative to skiing! 

Ski Trip

Ski Trip

We went to porters heights for our school ski trip. 

It was a snowy day and cold. My friends and I went up to the top of the mountain and you could only see for two meters and was pretty dodgy. As Adam and I were skiing down, we came cross Iwan trying to put on his ski because he had fallen down, so we waited for him to put it on, then we carried on down the mountain . But as I was  coming down,  my goggles started to cover up with snow and I had to brush then off but it just got all smushed, but I carried on down the mountain.

After lunch we had our lesson but I don't think it was worth it because we were doing all this trust skiing, I would have liked to work on technique but just being with my mates was awesome.

The ski trip was lots of fun and i would like to be able to do it again next week. 

Skipping with my little buddy

Skipping with my little buddy!

Today I was skipping with my little buddy jack who is new to this school.When we were skipping he said he could do 2 skips in one jump I didn't believe him at first until he proved me wrong and did it.

Global Warming Jake and James

Global Warming

Central idea

" By understanding the factors that cause weather  people can predict and prepare for it "

Our Inquiry was about Global Warming . We made a slide show and a website and we will put the website address down below.We performed a slideshow in front of the class and also we have set up a website with facts and ways to slow down global warming if you would like to check that out click the link below.

By Jake and James

https://sites.google.com/a/magic.school.nz/climate-change-global-warming/

Global Warming Kaspar, Will Zach

Our inquiry about global warming.

For our inquiry, Zach, Will and I did a presentation, poster and website about Global Warming and how it is effecting us.Will did a Poster, Zach did a Website and I did a Pecha Kucha. Our central idea is BY UNDERSTANDING THE FACTORS THAT CAUSE WEATHER PEOPLE CAN PREDICT AN PREPARE FOR IT.The attitudes we had to cover where Independence and Commitment. We showed Independence by doing seperate presentation forms. For example I did a Pecha Kucha and Will did a Poster.We showed commitment by being committed to our tasks and getting them finished on time.

Kiera, Eliza and Olivia's Global Warming inquiry.

Over the past few weeks we have been working on creating a poster and a slide show/speech about the central idea 'By understanding the factors that cause weather people can predict and prepare for it', and how global warming is linked to that.

We decided to learn about global warming because we were all interested and curious about this inquiry.

Summary

Global warming is the 

heating of the earths surface, oceans and atmosphere. 

How you can show action and make a difference reduce reuse recycle, use less heat and air condition, change to energy efficient light bulb. Drive less and drive smart. use less hot water. save electricity plant a tree.

Overall it was a great inquiry.