English- Handwriting: corrections

Taite 9th Oketopa

Kia ora koutou katoa, In English, we did a Handwriting piece about these topics:

a: You move to a new house and discover a hidden room. What’s in it? Who made it? And why?

b: How did you discover your superpowers?

c: Recount: What did you do in the holidays

My topic was about: how did I discover my superpowers?,  Here’s the backstory.

My family and I moved from Auckland to Christchurch, because my mother and my dad were accepted to work at a new job. My brother and I were enrolled in a new school; my brother is a Year 5, and I was a Year 10. I was not ready to go back to school, but I was ready to make new friends. When I first arrived, I felt this tickle thing in my throat, but I thought it was just something else, so I ignored it. After my first day of school, I felt like I lifted something, and I did, I screamed, and my mum heard.

Something I noticed about my writing is that I need more time to finish and make sure it makes sense. I love writing stories about fantasy, romance, and other topics for writing, but I don’t read that often because it sometimes hurts my brain, and when I wear glasses, it helps me to understand more about the story, so I can get into a good university when I leave Hornby. I can be really good at my reading and spelling. Right now, I am still in high school as a year 9 {going into year 10 next year}, I am really nervous for my 4th year at Hornby High, but I am excited. I hope you enjoy reading my story!

Nga mihi nui,

Misty-Rose

Link to my story

 

Health; culture, death and coping with loss

Kia ora, today I am here with another blog post about my culture and how my culture copes with death.

I am New Zealand Maori. My family was born here in New Zealand. My mum was born in Kaikohe, Auckland, my dad was born in Murupara, Hawke’s Bay; my brother was born here in Christchurch, and I was born in Rotorua. My mum and dad moved here around 10 years ago. Me and my brother I have been living here in Hornby for a long time.

When a person passes away, this is what happens: we have a maori name called ‘Tangihana’, Tangihana is another name for a funeral.

A tangi runs for 3 days, and it is usually held on a marae. The family of the deceased person can stay overnight with the person who has passed away.

The body is welcomed on the marae or a private hall with the whanau pani {the bereaved}. Throughout the tangihanga, visitors are welcomed onto the marae and the traditional speech with songs or chants.

On the final day of the tangihanga, there is usually a service presided over by a minister or a tohunga, then the body is taken to the urupa for burial. Most urupa have a water container at the entry, and people wash their hands as they leave to remove tapu.

The traditional process is exhuming and reintering bones has been replaced by the ceremony of hura kohatu, which usually takes a year after the tangi.

In a ceremony called kawe mate (carry the dead), the memory person will take those who were unable to attend the tangihanga, and then the deceased person is represented by a photograph.

Thank you for looking at my blog.

 

Palaeolithic Tools

Kia ora koutou katoa, today I am here with another blog post about Paleolithic Tools. I have chosen Oldwan Tools from Kenya.

2. Where was the artifact from?- It was from Lokalalei, Kenya. So

3. When was it found?- It was founded in 1997.

4. How old is it? It is 2.3 million years old.

5. What did I notice about the artifact?- I noticed it looked like a pebble, and it also looked like a handaxe.

6. What type of tools did it use over the period?- Early humans used it to cut, pound, and crush.

Vantias Art

Kia ora kotou katoa, Today I am here with another blog post about Vantias art in my 2nd option called Painting.

I really like this painting because it has flowers and jewelry. The symbolic meanings are here.

The flowers are symbolic of the decade of the body

Rose- love, sensuality, vanity, and sex 

Poppy- mortal sin and laziness 

Tulip- irresponsibility

The jewelry is the temporal nature of beauty and the sin of narcissism. 

And the other reason is that I really love painting and drawing.

Cows Eye dissection

Kia ora, today I am here with another blog post about cow’s eye dissection.

Date: Friday, 6th, 2025

Aim: The aim of this experiment was to figure out which part of the cow’s eye we can see the different parts of the cow’s eye

Research: Find one funny picture and one helpful picture

Method: I wasn’t here for the experiment, so I didn’t know the method

Results: I wasn’t here for the experiment, so I don’t have any photos or results

Discussion: I really don’t know, but I think it would it would probably be disgusting and gross

Conclusion: I wasn’t here, so I really don’t know, but if I were here, then it would work because that dissection would work.

The names of the different parts of the eyes: 

 

Part Description Function
Cornea The front part of the eye. It is tough, transparent, and convex. Reflects light as it enters the eye.
Pupil The cow’s pupil is oval and horizontal  To regulate the amount of light entering the eye
Iris the iris is browned-colored eye, ciruclar sturcture that controls the size of the pupil.  by controlling the size of the pupil
Lens The lens is clear and very fleixble  to focus light onto the retina
Retina The rentina is a thin, cream-colored tissue linling the back of the eye  detect light and convert it into electrical signals
Optic Nerve The optic nerve is a bundle of nerve fibres that carries visual infomation  Carries messages from the retina to the brain

Thanks for looking at my blog, until next time, readers, I will so you soon!

 

Sportsmanship

Kia ora, Today I am here with another blog about Sportsmanship

1. How did players in the video show sportsmanship during intense moments?

They showed sportsmanship by helping other players on the opposite team, by not arguing with the referees, and by helping others around the court

2. What role does communication play in basketball?

They talk, communicate with the players on the team, listen to the coach, and also execute strategy execution with each other

3. Why is respecting your opponent important in basketball?

Because that is the way to show each other by encouraging open communication and teamwork

4. Describe a situation where a basketball player showed integrity

A basketball player had shown integrity by telling the referee that they had fouled the other player honestly

5. How can celebrating fairly encourage a better game environment?

Celebrating achievement fairly in the games communities

6. What would you do if a player from the other team fell?

I would help them by telling them if they are alright and move on

7. How did the players in the video react to mistakes by teammates?

They react by helping them  by not making mistakes

8. What does it mean to be a “good sport”?

Being a nice, respectful, and honest

9. Why is self-control important?

If you argue with the referee, they can get penalised

10. How does basketball

it helps you to be honest .

Heart Dissection Blog

Kia ora koutou katoa, Last Friday, we dissected a sheep heart.

My teammate for this group project was Alexis

This project is dedicated to (MRS GREN)

How many veins and artery holes did you find? We found 2 artery holes

What are the stringy things inside the heart? The stringy things are called ‘Chordnae tendinease’

Why do we think they are there? They provide the critical function of anchoring the mitral leaflets

Why is the muscle so thick? They reflect the need for different pumping forces

 

Chicken Wing Blog

Kia ora koutou katoa, today I am here with another blog about dissecting a chicken leg we did on Friday last week.

12/5/25- Friday

On Friday, we dissected a chicken leg in groups. I worked with Paula and Alexis

Anatomy of a chicken leg: 

The chicken wing resembles a human arm in the way that it is constructed, and a chicken leg resembles a human leg in a similar way. To produce a chicken quarter, you have to saw the hipbone from the rest of the body.

Methods/Materials:

Our method:

  1. We got into groups of 3
  2. Then we got our materials
  3. We find a table or a desk to work at
  4. Then we started to work on our chicken legs
  5. First, we had to put the gloves on so that we wouldn’t get our hands dirty
  6. With our gloves on, we first peeled the chicken skin off the chicken (it took about 4 minutes for us}
  7. Then we put the chicken skin back in the tray before pack-up time
  8. We peeled off the base of the chicken, which had white stuff on it
  9. We did that until pack-up time
  10. We packed up, making sure that the table was sprayed down and cleaned, and that was it

Materials

  1. newspaper
  2. gloves {optional}
  3. metal tray
  4. science scissors
  5. science tweers

Results: 

Discussions: 

Our main experiment was to look at the bones of a chicken. We looked at the bones of the chicken, although we didn’t get to see all of these bones, and my group was looking at the Tibia/Fibula.

Chicken bones: 

  1. Tibia
  2. Fibula
  3. Kneecaps
  4. Femur
  5. Hipbones

Conclusion: 

I think that it worked ok, because we have a lot of time to do everything, however we didn’t we didn’t quite finished it.

Thank you!! 

Ka kite ano!!

Badminton Bones

Kia ora, today we are here with another blog about badminton bones :

Badminton is played using the upper body for hitting the shuttlecock. The bones, muscles, joints that are affected are

Bones:

  1. Radius
  2. unla
  3. phalanges

Muscles:

  1. Legs
  2. core
  3. upper body

Joints:

  1. shoulder
  2. elbow
  3. wrist
  4. knee
  5. ankle

Ka kite!!

Effects of Heat

Kia ora koutou katoa, Today we are making a blog about science. Here are some experiments we  have done throughout the term of having science

The key experiment was to add thermal energy to the experiments

The 4 experiments that we will be telling you about are

The convection experiment we did for convection was potassium permanganate, where we put the potassium permanganate into a straw and let it fall into the boiling hot water

That experiment had a 50/50 chance of working for our group. It worked, but for some others, it didn’t work for reasons that probably didn’t work with their experiment. Maybe they didn’t boil it and just went for it, but it does work if you just have the patience for it

Conduction: For conduction, we did the dropping pins experiment. This was my favourite because I just got to stand there and wait for the pins to drop. We had to wait, wait, wait until every pin was of the metal rod.

Contraction- For contraction, we did the imploding can. The imploding can was a really hard experiment because I didn’t get it right the first time, didn’t get it the second time, and didn’t get it the third time, but I got there in the end because the heat wasn’t high enough.

Diffusion: For diffusion, we did a skittle experiment (don’t know what that is?) Basically, you get a bag of Skittles, you get cold water first, then the hot water, then you place the skittle in the middle of the dish, and you wait for the skittle to dissolve. Put a timer on.

 

 

Section – Instructions Your write up
Title – Your title should tell readers about your experiment Use of Hot and Cold Water. 
What is Diffusion?

Fill in the blanks of the definition using these words:

 Find a picture of diffusion and put it here:

Particles move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration until they are spread out evenly.
Aim – What was the goal of the experiment? The aim of this experiment was to obreve the skittles and to see if the skittle would move faster 
Hypothesis – What do you expect might happen?

Finish the sentences to complete your hypothesis. There is no “right” answer here.

 When the skitlles placed in the cold water it was moving slowly and it took a long time 

When it is placed in hot water it decided to move faster and it nearly worked 
Equipment – What equipment did we use? Label the images. The equipment I used was:
Method – What steps did you follow to complete this experiment?

Look at the 5 steps on slide 57, and re-write these steps with some of your own words.

Paste the diagram on this slide here too

 The step-by-step method for my experiment is as follows:

  1.  Grab a dish 
  2.  Grab a skittle 
  3.  Put the stopwatch on 
  4.  Put cold water in first 
  5. Put the skittle in the centre of the dish and time it 
  6. Repat the same thing again but with hot water

Here is the diagram of my experiment:
Results/Observations

With your group, record your times here. Make observations about what you see happen.
Time taken for the water to go purple
Cold Water 28 seconds
Hot Water 05:05seconds

When we added the Skittles into the water we saw that the color was  
Discussion

Fill in the blanks using the words below:

  • Quickly
  • Movement
  • Particles
  • Diffusion

List one way you would like to improve your experiment if you did it again.

Move the arrows to show which beaker is likely to be filled with hot water, and which is filled with cold water.

 The particles in hot water are moving about more movement than the particles in the cold water. This increased particle quickly increases the rate of diffusion.

I think I could make my experiment better by:

  •  By placing it in the centre of the dish 
Conclusion

Highlight one and re-state your hypothesis to conclude your science report.

 My results supported my hypothesis was to put the skittle in the dish and observe to see if it was diffusion, and this did not happen.