Wig Wednesday

Wig Wednesday

Today it is wig Wednesday. We are wearing our wigs and raising money for child cancer. Some people look quite funny. Some kids are wearing mohawk wigs. Tulili is wearing a pretty purple wig. Israr doesn’t like wearing wigs because they ruin his hair. Mrs Ellis looks like she is Rapunzel.

Wig Wednesday is a fun day. We hope that we raised lots of money.

By Israr & Tulili

PREP - Young Enterprise Programme

In week 9 we have something called our PREP market day. So PREP is a part of the young enterprisers programme. The market day is where you sell things for example money tins, food etc. Instead of real money we use Noswads. Noswad is Dawson spelt backwards.

Before we could make something we had to fill out a CV which stands for Curriculum Vitae. A CV is what we used to apply for a job. We could apply for jobs as a CEO, marketer, accountant quality controller or a designer.

Once we had our jobs we decided on a product we would make. We are busy making our products now. Come back and see what we made!

By Leon

Ramadan

When it is Ramadan, I need to wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning. I have a shower and have something to eat then when it is 6 o’clock, I need to pray.

I put my prayer mat down on the ground. My prayer mat needs to face the direction of mecca. When I pray, I stand up and then I sit down with my head on the ground. I put my head on the picture of the Haj.

In the morning we do the prayer through twice.In the afternoon I do 4 prayers twice. Then I do another 2 prayers. I pray in pashto. During Ramadan I do not eat during the day. I eat when it is dark. I am not allowed to drink water either.

Mum makes us special food at Ramadan. She makes rice, chicken and a special chilli sauce. We also get to drink juice.

Ramadan lasts for one month. After Ramadan we have Eid. At Eid you go to the mosque and then you have special food. You also get presents and new clothes. Eid is a bit like Christmas. You go around wishing everyone a “Happy Eid”.  

When I lived in Pakistan, at Eid we used to set off firecrackers. In Pakistan most people are Muslim, so everyone celebrates Eid. I really miss Pakistan and want to go back there for Eid.

By Israr

Using Chromebooks

A chromebook is a small laptop that you can play with and do your work on. The reason why we got chromebooks is because our class is the e-learning class. We have made e-Portfolios than you can find our blog that shows what we are learning to do plus our news.When we are on a chromebook we had to sign in and use our password. We also have to take a picture so if we go of the chromebook you will see your picture and you can click it and add your password.

In Room 15 we have a cow that we put our chromebooks inside and  it  chargers  our chromebook for the next day if we use it.  You can lock them up safe so no one can steal it. But I forgot if someone steals our chromebooks won’t work out of school because it doesn’t have the code of dawson. In our class we also have a 3rd printer that make lot of different things that is made out of plastic.

By Rita

Eye on Nature Fashion Show

8/4/16

Last night, Timothy, Mele, Salarina and I went to the Botanical Gardens for the Eye on Nature fashion show. There were a lot of costumes! I went as a sparkly mermaid with scales on my tail

, Timothy went as Tangaroa the God of the sea, Salariana went as a beautiful jelly fish and Mele went as a plastic island, it had lots of rubbish on it. 

When we got there, we all got numbers. As we were getting dressed we saw amazing costumes and we all got very nervous. After a while, Salarina was first to go down the isle first out of us, my nan said that she was the coolest jelly fish out of all of them. 

After that, Timothy the fierce Tangaroa was going down the isle and when his parents saw him they were laughing as hard as they could. It took for ever for me and Mele to go on but then I got to finally go on and my heart was beating like a thunder storm. I felt like a princess when I went down the isle, Mele was up and she was nervous as well, but we all pulled it off and we were all stunning!!

By Sativa

Rongomai Stream Visit - Water Testing

Rongomai Stream Visit

31/03/16

Today Room 15 walked down to the Rongomai Stream to test the water.

Firstly we had Kate from Waicare who was showing Room 15 two posters, one said New Zealand’s Freshwater Fish and the other Freshwater  invertebrates.

As we were near the stream Kate asked Dontay if he could use the  thermometer to check the air temperature and it was 21.6 degrees.

Afterwards Kate Asked Altezza to check the water temperature and it was 18.8 degrees.

The next person Kate called was Israr, he was testing out Nitrite and Nitrate, both of them were 0% so that means the water is just right for the fish.

Then there was Reana who tested the dissolved oxygen and it was right level for the fish to breathe in.

It was my turn next, I had to check the phosphorous. First I had to get the exact amount of stream water in two containers. Once both of the containers were filled up me and Kate put one of the lids on one of the containers and the other one we put chemicals in. After that was finished we waited for 5 minutes and the one with the chemicals changed colour. As it changed colour I had to solve which colour matched the one with chemicals and it was 0.05.

At the end me and Fusi had to pour water into a tube. Before we screwed the lid on we put in a magnet. Me and Fusi got had to show everyone what to do, they had to look in one end and tell us when the magnet disappears, We measured the distance in centimeters and shows us the water clarity.

We thanked Kate for showing us some of the equipment they use for checking the stream. After that we came back to school. We will visit the stream again early next term.

By Salarina