Light me up!

Understanding Electrical Circuits

After experimenting with the different conductors and equipment provided today - add your answers to the questions on the padlet below.  Make sure you write the name of your groups and the members before you answer.

NUMERACY TASK 29/5

Use the 'To be achieved' section of your e-asTTle test to work on your math skills.

The FFL Website has each of the Number tasks and their are Numeracy booklets at each curriculum level for you to practice.  

What you need to post on your blog:
1. What skill are you working on in this block.
2. What activities have you completed in this period.
3. Post any work you have completed if possible.
4. Email any questions you have for your next block or if their are skills you are struggling with that you need assistance with.

Literacy - 'Pay it Forward'

Literacy Braingym 3 - Apostrophes and homophones

https://docs.google.com/a/students.rghs.school.nz/presentation/d/1DWa5AoG48W_RaMgtm_9-SoKqa5DXr8uJkUQ-8Ot2Chc/edit?usp=sharing

Investigating - part 2

Ensure that you complete this and submit through the google classroom

Inquiry assessment Part Two - Investigating

Morena Ladies

We have posted up your assessment information on the Google Classroom this morning.  We are moving into the more challenging tasks where you will need to be researching and further investigating your inquiry topic.  Kia kaha tonu e hine mā!

Click here to go to the google classroom and view your work.  If you have any questions email your mentor!

Reading: Novels

Morena 10 FFL,

This morning we are going to start reading a novel in our library time. I have arranged 6 choices of novel which I feel will suit different interests and reading levels. Below I have listed the books by reading difficulty level and included a brief synopsis of each book so you can see if you like the sound of it.

• I find reading challenging

Kura Toa: Warrior School 

High-school student Haki needs to find the pounamu that was stolen from him after a car crash by a mysterious old man who seems to know a lot about him. Haki's search brings him into conflict with his family, his friends and his school. In the process he must confront his fears and find a way to answer the challenge to serve his people and his land, fight a taniwha, and grow into a warrior.

• I sometimes find reading challenging

The Whale Rider 

Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir, and the aging chief is desperate to find a successor. Kahu is his only great-grandchild--and Maori tradition has no use for a girl. But when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe, it is Kahu who saves the tribe when she reveals that she has the whale rider's ancient gift of communicating with whales.

• Most of the time I find reading easy 

Trash 

Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.

Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything.

Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking and fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong.

And now it's three street boys against the world...

• I find reading easy

The Bone Tiki

Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he stole from a tangi. His father's important new client wants it. Badly. And he has some very nasty friends. When Mat is forced to flee for his life, an unexpected meeting with a girl called Pania sets his world spinning. Suddenly he's running through the bush with a girl-clown, a dog who is way too human, and a long-dead warrior. Fearful creatures from legend are rising up around him, and Mat faces a terrifying ordeal. And there is nowhere left to hide ...not even in another world

• I find reading easy 

The Hunger Games

In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. District 12 Tribute Katniss Everdeen has little to rely on, other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love.

• I want more of a challenge

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Seen through the eyes of Christopher, a mathematical genius and Sherlock Holmes fan, who also has Asperger's syndrome, this bestselling novel opens with the discovery of a murdered dog on the neighbor's lawn.

In his search to discover the identity of the killer, Christopher uncovers some disturbing information about his own family, which throws his ordered world into chaos, and he embarks on a journey to London to find the mother he thought was dead.

QUESTIONS to set up on doc:

1. Title
2. Author and author bio (education, background, inspiration, successes)
3. Why did you select this novel?
4. What was your first impression, what have you learnt so far from the introduction?
5. How did you find the experience of reading for 20 min straight. Did you enjoy it? Find it challenging? Hard to focus? Relaxing? etc.....explain why!

Questions added for week 5:

6. Who is your favourite character in the novel so far? Explain why?
7. Find 3 new words from your book and list them below with their definitions.
8. Explain one important relationship in the novel so far. Why the relationship between these two characters significant?

Literacy: Pay it Forward 2

Literacy Braingym 2: Spelling

Everyone to complete

When they reeched France they were pakked into trians, which ​stoppped and started and crawled all day along the overcrowded ​tracks. ​The country didn’t look so diferent. Pepole worked the ​feilds just as the lads had done bac home. Some of the ​workeers unbent their backs and waveed as the trains went bye. ​ The solidiers finaly arrived at a small station that had ​grown into a vast supply depot. Trains and trucks were being ​shunted and unloaded. Moutains of stores, horse lines and mule ​liens were everywhere and ther was a babel of shouted ​commands. ​Then at lsat they were of the trains and marching. Will felt ​god to bee out in the fresh air and swinging along with his ​maets.​

During our spring break from school I plan to visit my grandmather. She lives in Indiana so it is a traet to be able to spend time with her. Granmather always has tons of activitys planned for us. We visit the Childrenn’s Museum and attend a play at the community center. Last year grandmother invited the neighborhood grils to a tea party at her home. We all dressd up in hats and furs. My week with grandmother is always very specail.

Extra for experts

George new that he shouldn't drink alchohol on a Wedsday night, especially since his govermnet proffesor had schedualed an important exam on Thrusday. However, he beleived he would loose his friends if he didn't go out with them. The pressure to fit in with his peers was worst then the fear of bad grades. To be popular among his friends, one had to be either a musclar athelete or a wild and crazy drinker. George realy could not concieve how it was posible for a student to consume huge quanities of liquor and still suceed in school. Maybe the drinkers were just more briliant than he was. He didn't even enjoy the passtime of spending ours in a bar trying to persue a temperary feeling of excitement and "fun." Somehow he expected the cheif of campus security to catch him and the university administration to expell him. But George didn't posses enough courage to express his opion to his friends. He was certian they would tell him to mind his own buisness. Also, he did't want to be seperated from his friends. So he planed to meet them at a local restaraunt, have a few drinks, leave early, take some asprin, and spend a few ours studing for the exam.

Inquiry - Noticing

Step one of your Inquiry is due to be submitted to the blog by the end of our inquiry block tomorrow:  16th May

To clarify - Submit through Classroom:
1.  Your Brainstorm of your Key point/issue that you will be studying this term
2.  Your three articles that you have selected that are relevant to your key point/issue
3.  The Noticing assessment google document

If you have any questions - make sure to email your mentor!

Kia kaha tonu koutou!

Reading - Short Stories

Today we are reading NZ short stories by Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace

If you find reading hard try these stories by Witi Ihimaera

The Seahorse and the Reef

The Beginning of the Tournament

If you want more of a challenge in your reading try these

It Used to be Green Once - Patricia Grace

Big Brother, Little Sister - Witi Ihimaera

These short stories are all written by respected NZ Authors. Once you have finished reading complete your reading response and also a short biography on the writer.