👩Jacinda Ardern 👩

When was Jacinda Ardern born?

Jacinda Ardern was born on 26 of July 1980 in Hamilton
(But grew up in Morrinsville). So now she would be 39 years old.

Does she have children?

Yes, and the child is a girl and her name is Neve Te Aroha Gayford
and she was born on 24 of June 2018 at 4:55pm.

Why was Neve Gayford birth important?

Her birthday was important because Jacinda Ardern was the first Prime
Minister to have a baby in New Zealand during her first year in office.

What is her Partner's name?

Her partner’s name is Clarke Gayford and he was born in 24 of October
1977 so he would be 42 years old

What school did she Attend?

Jacinda Ardern attend Morrinsville college and the university of Waikato

When did Jacinda Ardern Become Prime Minister?

She Became Prime Minister on 26 of October 2017

Who is Jacinda Ardern’s family?

Her Father is Ross Ardern, Her Mother is Laurell Ardern and her sister is Louise Ardern

How did Jacinda Ardern become Prime Minister?

She became Prime Minister by getting the most votes from the election

Who is the Deputy Prime Minister?

The Deputy Prime Minister is Winston Peters

What did Jacinda Ardern do during the 2019 christchurch attack and the Covid - 19?

After the shooting she shut down all the rifles in New Zealand straight away
and when the covid - 19 happened she shut down the airport and put New
Zealand into Lockdown.

What Did Jacinda Ardern do after university?

After Jacinda Ardern graduated university she began her career by being a
researcher in the office of the other Prime Minister Helen Clark, Then later she
worked in London within the Cabinet office, and was elected president of the
International union of socialist youth.

🇼🇸SAMOAN LANGUAGE WEEK🇼🇸

Talofa Lava, Today My blog is about the what we did for Samoan language week. So for samoan language week we dicided to do a siapo, A siapo is kind of like a tapa but a samoan art. For my art I drew four different kind of flower patterns. So first I drew four flowers and then drew different types of patterns around it.   

📚Reading📚

NIWA - National Institute of cold water and Atmospheric research  

Artificially -  Faking it

Atmospheric - Relating to the atmosphere of the earth

High-resolution - Large amount of detail

Examined by scientists - Scientist look at something and start to study it

Submersible - Like a submarine but smaller

Enabled - You have power over that thing

Seabed -  The bottom of the ocean

• How do the scientists study the reef? They have to go to the water
• and get the corals by using a fishermen net or submersible then have a look at it then study it.
•  What are they trying to show or figure out? They are trying to figure out if
• the corals would die or live when they put it in acid.
• Why are the NZ scientists testing in an "artificially acidified sea water" - what
• does this mean? They were trying to figure out what would happen to the corals,
• and what will show how different species cope with changing conditions.

• Why does Australia have tropical coral and NZ have cold-water coral? Australia has
• tropical water because they are closer to the equator and NZ is further away from the equator.
• Where does NZ cold-water coral grow? It is found in the seabed in the deep ocean.
• How far down? It is around 1 kilometre deep.
• Why can't NZ have tropical coral? Because the water is not warm enough.
• How do scientists get the cold water coral so they can study it? They go to the
• bottom of the ocean by using the submersible

• Make a DLO showing 'before and after' type photos of coral reefs. Make a screencast
• and explain how coral reefs are damaged using your own words.

🐠🐟The Great Barrier Reef🐟🐠

Occurs - Happens

Explain How/Why corals go white:

They expel their symbiotic algae living in their tissues, causing them to turn completely white.

Explain what PH scale is:

This is a PH scale. A PH scale is something people use to tell what is deadly
and what is not deadly. The most deadly things are on 0 and 14 but the most
not deadly thing is on 7 such as blood and water

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Explain how acidification kills coral and sea life:

The climate change makes the water warmer and the zooxanthellae leaves the 

Coral and the coral dies.

Explain what layers of the ocean is:

This is the layers of the ocean.  The sunlight is the top of the ocean and that is
where the corals are. The bottom of the ocean is called Trenches zone and that
is where the sea creatures like planktons live.

Here is a photo of planktons in the dark and the layers of the ocean

 

Explain what would happen is plankton died:

If the planktons died then the sea creatures such as baleen whales would die
because there is no other food to eat.

🛠TECHNOLOGY🛠

Today my blog post is about what we did for technology.
So this week we swapped groups, The group that I was in last week was Control and Now I am in Hard Materials. So when we change classes we stay with the same people. First we had to join a hangout call so we could see our teacher but it was a bit confusing because there was two different hangout calls and we didn't know which one was the right one until we saw Mr Grundy on one of those calls.
For hard materials the first thing we had to do was watch a video about what we are going to do when we get to go to TC (Tamaki Collage). The next thing we did was, we had to go onto the site and click on a link that brought us to what we have to do before we make what we wanted to make. So for example We had to write about four people that we wanted to make a necklace or something for. The four people I chose was My Mum, My Dad, My older sister and Myself. after we wrote who we are doing all this for we had to write down four things that they love to do or they do. for example for myself I said that I love playing sports, I love sleeping, I love eating and I love to watch youtube. after we write those things down we add pictures that relate to those words. Later on we had to finish the call because it was nearly time for morning tea.

BUBBLE ART

Today my blog is about what we did on Tuesday. So on Tuesday Miss Ashley wanted us to do a relaxing and calm art that was not that hard to do so she chose to do bubbles. While we were drawing the bubbles there was music playing in the background.

⏲Telling The Time⏲

Today my blog is about the maths that Room 8 did on Thursday. The maths was about learning how to tell the time. So for example when the short hand is near the 2 and the long hand is on the 6 the time will be 2:30 because the short hand is the hour hand and the long hand is the minute hand.

🍫Baking chocolate biscuits🍫

Today Room 8 decided 

to bake something. We got split into three groups of four and each of the groups got given a recipefor what we had to bake, so for our recipe we had to bake chocolate fork biscuits, For the other groups they had to bake banana muffins one of the groups muffins over grew and were a little bit burnt but the other group and my groups one was okay, it was GREAT. 

📚Reading📚

Today Room 8 was doing reading. The reading was about the last bit of the book and it was when there was  gas leak happening and where the war started and 150 000 people died during the war. 

🏫PB4L🏫

Today Room 8 was learning about PB4L ( Positive behavior for learning).  PB4L is something the teachers do to teach all of the students about what we are supposed to do during school time.

🙏Hauora 🙏

Today Room 8 was learning about Hauora since we have been away 

from school for like about seven weeks and some students probaly forgot about it.

Hauora is a house that has four dimensions, the four dimensions are Taha Hinengaro (Emotional & Mental well being), Taha Tinana ( Physical Well being), Taha Whanau ( Social well being) and Taha Wairua (Spiritual well being) for every well being there are different things that you do, Like for example for Taha Wairua which is spiritual some people read the bible, For Taha Whanau which is social whcich is your family and friends, Taha Hinengaro which is Emotions and some people when they are sad they listen to music and with Taha Tinana which is Physical everyone does things like walk,run and other things like that.

📚Reading📚

Today Room 8 was doing reading, The reading was about the ww1 and what they thought, what they were eating during the war and like proprs that they wanted to build out of thin air. The props they wanted to do was they wanted to build tunnels and mining. 

📚Reading📚

Today for reading we learnt about the sky high and what they did nearly at the end of the 

war and what they did with the sandbags,miners and all the other things that they used to beat and kill the enemies.

🏫RETURNING TO SCHOOL 🏫

 

Today Some students are coming back to school and some students are still at home and have to follow the rules that have been set for everyone to do.

📚Reading📚

Underground soldiers page 36 and 37

Link to text: http://instructionalseries.tki.org.nz/content/download/
27600/292333/file/L4%20June%202014%20Underground%20Soldiers.pdf

New words: 

• Sleet - Rain containing ice
• Stalemate - a draw, a tie, two teams are even, nobody is winning 
• Canadian - soldiers from Canada
• German-held territory - 
• Boobytraps - 
• Landmine - 
• 
  

My summary: 

Hope - By early 1917 there were three massive piles of explosives. British and Canadian
moved in. There was an enormous explosion and the german people got caught. But then
later on the Germans fought back and the wounded  British and Canadian were carried back
down. Without the underground cave system many more would have died from the war. By
1918 the German troops left behind some boobytraps but then the tunnellers found them and
blew them up carefully.  The tunneling company returned to Auckland in 1919. Now Arras has
special visitors and has a lift that takes you to the underground museum. They also have a memorial
for the NZ tunnellers that died.

Extra source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_(1917)

https://web.archive.org/web/20081021084314/http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/media-rele
ases/20070412-mtbnzt.htm

Page 36

1. When did the battle of Arras happen? Who was involved?

On 9 of April 1917 to 16 of April 1917.

2. How long was the battle supposed to last?

Between 18 months and two years

3. Why was this battle so important to the war? 

To break the stalemate to get across no mans land.

4. How many Allied soldiers died in this battle? Nearly 40 thousand allies died
5. How were many Allied soldiers able to be saved? (hint: remember what else
6. they built in the caves..) the Allied  were saved because they built a
7. hospital in the caves to save some soldiers.
8. How many German soldiers died in this battle? 150,000

Page 37.

1. What was the new task the soldiers of the NZ Tunnelling company did?
2. Why was this task important? Havrincourt Bridge, they build roads, gun post 
3. How was this new job dangerous, in a way they hadn’t experienced before? 
4. Shooting, digging, mining, supporting, defending. They were above ground
5. instead of below ground.
6. Once the Germans started retreating, what was the NZ soldiers new job?
7. They had to find landmines there called boobytraps. 
8. Why did these soldiers stay in Europe much longer than other soldiers?

To check if the enemy might come back and guard. 

5. How is the work these soldiers did remembered in Arras? 

 Museum and memorial.  

📚Reading📚

Geophone

Inevitable

Distinguish

A geophone is a piece of equipment that the soldiers used to keep track of
the enemies, how they used it was then placed the geophone into their ears like earphones
to hear and tell how far away the noise was.

💻Typing Test - Speed Skills➕

Welcome back to my blog!

Today my blog is about what I did during online learning at home. 

Today I did the typing test again and I think I got a little bit better with the misspelt words and it 

was a littlt bit slower I think then before. The other screenshot is about another website maths game that I tried. It is called Speed Skills and I just wanted to do the easy one first and my best score was 36.

✖➗Maths➖➕

Number	Pull apart this number using place value	Round to nearest 10th	Round to nearest whole number (1)	Write as a fraction	Write as a percentage	Double of this number	Half of this number	30% of this number	This number x10
1.45	1 whole, 4 tenths and 5 hundredths	1.5	1	145/100	145%	2.90	0.725	0.435	14.5
0.18	0 whole, 1 tenths and 8 hundredths	0.2	0	18/100	18%	0.36	0.09	5.4	1.8
0.26	0 whole, 2 tenths and 6 hundredths	0.3	0	26/100	26%	0.52	0.13	7.8	2.6
0.56	0 whole, 5 tenths and 6 hundredths	0.6	1	56/100	56%	0.112	0.28	16.8	5.6
0.97	0 whole, 9 tenths and 7 hundredths	1.0	1	97/100	97%	0.194	48.5	29.1	9.7
1.23	1 whole, 2 tenths and 3 hundredths	1.2	0	123/100	123%	2.46	0.615	0.369	12.3
1.76	1 whole, 7 tenths and 6 hundredths	1.8	1	176/100	176%	3.52	0.88	0.528	17.6
3.91	3 ones, 9 tenths and 1 hundredth	3.0	3	391/100	391%	7.82	1.955	1.173	39.1
14.095	1 ten, 4 ones, 0 tenths, 9 hundredths and 5 thousandths	14.1	14	140.95/100	140.95%	28.19	7.0475	4.2285	140.95
1.0456	1 one/whole, 0 tenths, 4 hundredths,  5 thousandths and 6 tens-of- thousandths	1.0	1	104.56/100	104.56%	2.0912	0.5228	0.31368	10.456
0.0876	0 one/whole, 0 tenths, 8 hundredths,  7 thousandths and 6 tens-of-thousandths	0.1	0	008.76/100	008.76%	0.1752	0.0438	0.02628	00.876

Finding fractions (answer might be a whole number of a decimal)

1. ¾ of 50 = 37.5
2. 4/9 of 16 = 7.11
3. ⅔ of 60 = 40
4. 4/8 of 15 = 7.5
5. ⅕ of 18 = 3.6
6. ⅜ of 12 = 4.5
7. ¾ of an hour (answer in minutes) = 45 minutes
8. ⅚ of an hour (answer in minutes) = 50 minutes
9. 4/12 of 100 = 33.33
10. ⅗ of 15 = 9

Finding percentages

1. 10% of 50 = 50 ÷  100 x 10 = 5
2. 20% of $18 = 18 ÷  100 x 20 =  3.6
3. 5% of $199 = 199 ÷  100 x 5 = 9.95
4.  25% of 150 = 150÷ 100x25= 37.5
5.  10% of 56 = 56÷ 100x10= 5.6
6.  80% of $18.99 = 18.99÷ 100x80= 15.192
7.  50% of 120 = 60
8.  50% of 260 = 130
9.  50% of 32 = 16
10.  75% of 150 = 150÷ 100x75= 112.5

Finding decimals 

1.  0.55+0.45= 1.0
2.  1.45+1.65= 3.10
3.  0.99+0.45= 2.7
4.  1-.095= 0.05
5.  3.5-1.2= 2.3
6.  0.095+0.124= 0.219
7.  1.56+1.32= 2.88
8.  0.999+0.9= 1.989
9.  0.32+1.776= 2.096
10.  6.5-0.85= 5.65

Word problems

1. Lucy went for a walk with her family during lockdown. On Monday they walked 2.5km. On Tuesday

they walked 4.19km. How far did they walk altogether? 6.24km

Mele’s goal was to walk 20km in one

week during lockdown. The path from her house to the bottom of Mt Wellington is 1.9km one way. How

many times does she need to walk to the mountain and back to reach her goal? 

2.There are 30 students in Room 30. Three fifths of them are going to stay home during Level 2. How

many are staying home? How many are coming to school? 123. Miss Ashley estimates that 40% of the year 7/8s will turn up to technology on Thursday. If there are

70 year 7/8s altogether, how many will turn up? 4.4
4. Dad bought a 1.5kg bag of flour. He uses 3 cups of flour to make a cake. How much flour is left?

(You can express this in kg, percentage or fraction - you choose). 
5. Miss Ashley did a typing test online. The test is to get 10 words spelt accurate and as fast as

you can. On Monday she could do it in 12.7 seconds. On Tuesday she could do it in 9.9 seconds.

How much faster did she get? 2.8 seconds
6. Two families are having pizza for dinner on the same night. In the first family, Michael, Mariah,

Hope, Hevani and their mum and dad and 2 older brothers shared six pizzas equally between them.

In the other family, Davlyn, Jairus and Saryah shared three pizzas between them. In which family

would you get the most pizza? The second family

7. Miss Ashley is making lots of pancakes. She has 5.5kg of flour left. Each pancake uses

0.275kg of flour. How many pancakes can she make? 20
8. On speedskills, Tim got 24 questions correct out of 30. What is this as a percentage? 

9. Miss Ashley has $50 for petrol for her car. If petrol is $1.85 per litre, can she get enough

petrol to fill up her 30 litre tank?

Bonus: if she doesn’t have enough, how much more money does she need to fill it up?