Badminton Competition.

Hi everyone, for today's topic I will talk about our Badminton Indoor competition and it happen last Monday and Tuesday. Also there's Basketball team and Volleyball team, in those two days straight we have to go to school really early because we have to leave at school at 8:30 am. When we arrive there the manager of the "Zhu badminton center" have to check our shoes if it was "Non-Marking" shoes because we are not allowed to play if it is not "Non- Marking" and also if you don't have those kind of shoes we have to play barefoot. 

When we go inside the center we have to prepare for our game because the Hornby Girls team and the Mixed team are going to play first, and I am one of the Hornby Girls. I was kinda nervous because I have to verse Year 8 person and some Year 7 boys/girls. I found it kinda challenging because the people from the other team is very skilled and very good to do some tricks.On Monday, I think I really did a great job because I won all of my games and I really did try my best even though I was very nervous in each game. 

Each of us get a chance to umpire the people who is playing. There was a tall chair aside the net and that purpose of that is for the people who need to umpire. The next day, when I woke up my body is hurting a lot it was normal because I did a lot of running and move a lot. What happen the next day it's like the same but this time I gave my 100% best and try not lose because I don't want to disappoint my team and our coach. 

After a long day the Mixed team won third place, the Hornby Boys team was draw with the other team, and our team won first place.I was really proud of myself and the whole team because they did their best and not giving up even though they kinda keep losing, they still put a smile and keep trying until the end. 

  

 

                                                  

Hurumanu - Weather

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. You need 4 cups  
2.  You need to have 2 straw, and another 2 stick. 
3.   You need to get sale tape 
4.   Also one pencil that has rubber in the end of it.
5.   Also you need a pin.

STEPS

1.   The first thing you need to do was to was to get the 4 cups from the teacher because that's make's the project move.
2. After you get your 4 cups make a 2 holes in it to put the cups.
3.   After you have the 4 cups you have to get 4 straws because if there's only 2 straw s the cups will be ending up together.
4.   When you have does things make the straw and turn it to the shape of a cross.
5. Then get a pin and a sale tape so the shape of the cross will be stuck together and they will not move.  
6.   Go and get a pencil and stuck them all together and after that you will have anemometer.

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10	36 sec
2.	10	18 sec
3.	10	24 sec
4.	10

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 
• The first one was longest one because maybe because one of the person in my group didn't stop blowing into and also we are near the door, the second one was the 24 second one I think it was only like that because the person was running out of breath and also the anemometer didn't move fast at all, and the last one was only 18 because he was at the heat pump and also the problem is there's a lot of people in there so I think It was just only 18 seconds.

CONCLUSION:

My group and I did work well but the only problem is that some of the people in my group was playing and it was hard for me to listen. While where making the anemometer some of the cups were breaking because one of the people in  my group accidentally broke it and I think we try it a lot of times and always make a mistake.But I think it will work well if my group listen properly and the mistake that we did was when we're putting the straw together we didn't put some sale tape to make it strong that's why when we're blowing on the anemometer the cups always getting up together because we didn't do it properly.The point of making this anemometer was to know the how strong is the wind is or how calm is it but on that day the wind was not really strong because you can tell it if you look at the grass because grass was light and also some flags because it was also very light if you want to know the wind speed just looked at those things or using this anemometer.Doing this was very fun and I know that my group can do more better done that.

Cool to be kind - C.I.P

Hi everyone, last week in our C.I.P in cool to be kind we've been planning to have a mufti day at August 8 2019 and we also plan something what are we going to wear for our mufti day and what is the theme. The first thing we do was we get into a groups of 2 or 4 and our group there's 4 people in it, and after we have our group we plan for our theme but we have to make sure that it was based on our crazy kind of thing so we have to brainstorm something but we can't think for it because me and my friends don't usually wear something crazy and we come up with some ideas like Black and White, bright colours and pig tails (also about that the boys also need to tie they're hair into a crazy way), edgy, etc.

After we have done brainstorming we go to the mat and plan what is our theme going to be share what they brainstorm there's a lot of crazy ideas and interesting idea that the other group has and it  was cool, and one group say RADICAL RAINBOW and they voted for that  maybe they picked because they want to make the day brighter and also maybe each colours of rainbow has meaning on it ( maybe ), but when your going to wear that RADICAL RAINBOW you and your friends can pick each colour from the rainbow so it will be catchy to the other people eyes.

A few moments we have to go to our passion because it was period 3 so me and my friend go to our passion which is singing it was really fun it was kinda sad that we missed one period of our C.I.P but when we come back we have to make a poster or a DLO and in that poster it need to have WHEN, WHY, WHERE, so they have information about it. So me and my friends make a poster because we thought it was easy to make a poster than doing a DLO and when we make a poster it has to be colourful like colour it in a different colours to make it more fancy and interesting.

 We also need to have a donation for our mufti day and it will be donated to the Kids Can we have to bring a gold coin and donate it to the basics children, and I think the reason for that was to help the charities and also that's why our C.I.P is called " Cool to be kind". Tomorrow is the day where we have to bring gold coins and wear the theme of RADICAL RAINBOW also the teacher are going to pick 8 volunteers who is going to collect the gold coins.

 So here is the poster that I made: