My Hard Materials Reflection

 On Monday the 28th of May 2012 in the afternoon I went to Hard Materials. We had to draw a creative design that I would make with wood. Firstly I was a bit blank with ideas until  it was about 2:30 p.m then I finally had an idea which was a book having pages flipping over. What we were  planning in technology was to make a Automata Frame where we had to use a handle to make the project work.

My Speech

Kaisara's speech

The tsunami as it struck Japan 

Ko Maungarei te maunga
Ko Tamaki te awa
Ko Waitemata te moana
Ko Ruapotaka te marae
Ko Mahuhu i te rangi te waka
Ko Ngati Whatua te iwi
Ko te kura takawaenga o Tamaki toku kura
Ko Tamaki te waahi
Ko Mr Horan te tumuaki
Ko Mrs Raj ko Mrs Parker Tofa toku kaiako
Ko Vaea te matua
Ko Atauloma te whaea
Ko Kaisara toku ingoa

 
When I say DI - you say SASTER, DI-SASTER, DI-SASTER. When I say DI wait, wait, wait  hold on did you feel the ground shake? Whoa! Did you hear the waves crashing? It must be a disaster. Yes it is, the Japanese Earthquake.
 
On March the 11th last year a massive earthquake hit the coast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 at about quarter to six in the afternoon. It was approximately 70 kilometres of Tohoku.
 
Did you know that this earthquake was the fifth largest in the world and the most powerful earthquake to ever have hit Japan? Well this earthquake was so powerful that it killed 2,000 people and over 10,000 missing people in Northeastern Japan. It was also confirmed that about 5,100 people died and almost 2,000 were injured in Tohoku.
 
People said that during the quake roads were waving up and down causing buildings and houses on fire. They also said that about three to five nuclear power plants were badly damaged and were quickly taken down because of the tsunami.

Minutes after the earthquake a powerful tsunami was triggered in Tohoku making buildings collapse in a blink of an eye and sending off violent terrifying noises. The tsunami soon travelled as fast as a jet to about 10 metres inland to a city called Sendai. The tsunami began to grow quickly to the height of 40 metres which is about three quarters of a tree!!!
 
At the schools, teachers and students were shielded under their desks and tables. They screamed and screamed. The teachers quickly assembled the students in the playground and started to call the roll. While they were waiting for response the teachers noticed that seventy students were missing and ten teachers too. They heard the bad news the next day that those seventy students died including the teachers in this terrible tragedy.
 
How would you feel if your family had no water or power to survive? Well one million homes had no water and a massive five million homes without any power. How devastating is that?
 
You might be thinking what happened to the elderly people? Well did you know that the elderly were abandoned to go into the hospital? Did you know that fourteen of them died shortly after? Do you think you can help them make a better future and a better life? Do you think you should donate them money to make a memorial stone for those who have lost their lives? Yes? So why can’t you stand up for them and help. Please this is your chance to help Japan because maybe they can help you someday.

My preparation for my speech.
I went to different websites to research facts about my chosen topic. From these websites I collected a lot of information about the Japanese Tsunami. After that I started to draft my speech on my own. After I wrote my draft, I took a closer look at it and started to edit. I enjoyed writing my speech and I learnt so much from this sad tragedy. The next stage is to present my speech to my class and teacher.

My Personal Disaster

On a Sunday morning when I was about two and a half years old I was crawling around the sitting room playing with my toys while my mother was ironing my church clothes to wear. While my mum was ironing she was also waiting for the food she was cooking.

Later she heard the food bubbling in the kitchen and so she left the room leaving the iron on. I started to crawl near the iron table ignoring my toys and trying to stand up to touch the iron, but instead I moved the table. While I was moving the table I put my hand near the iron and all of a sudden the iron fell onto my hand. I screamed and screamed.


My parents came rushing inside the room, they saw me and my dad quickly grabbed a wet cloth to put onto my hand. My parents quickly hopped in the car and drove to the Glen Innes shopping centre. Once we arrived my parents started to run and minutes later my parents were in the dressing room at the medical clinic.

Quickly the doctors started to put something on my hand to calm the hotness that was stinging me. For the next few hours the doctors were in the room while my parents were waiting outside in the waiting room worrying about what is going to happen to me. Finally the doctors came out of the room to my parents saying that I was very lucky.. They also said to be very careful when there is something hot on in front of the kids.


So now I have learnt  to be very careful around hot stuff and that I won’t have anything happen to me because I have learnt my lesson. From  that day I haven’t had anything happen to me since.

L.I - we are learning to write explanations about natural disasters

Tsunamis

A tsunami is a series of water made in an ocean or other parts of the water by an earthquake, landslide or a volcanic eruption. It is formed when a destructive wave of water is caused by a shift in the Earth’s tectonic plates. These waves are present when movement occurs and a wall of water is to be forced outwards to the shore, making a wave to produce  mass destruction .

Tsunami waves are different from the waves you can usually find rolling into the coast of a lake or an ocean. Those waves are made by wind offshore and are quite small compared with tsunami waves. A tsunami wave is  about the length of one thousand American football fields and it travels about seven hundred kilometres per hour, but are only one metre high in the open ocean.

Once a tsunami reaches land and  forms a giant wave it crashes down and destroys much of the coastline. The waves of a tsunami are very powerful and can eliminate everything that is close enough to the coastline. 

A tsunami can cause a lot of damage by crushing buildings, sweeping people off land and consequently causing diseases. Every time a tsunami occurs there are a lot of lives lost.

In December 2004 an earthquake in the Indian Ocean of Indonesia caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in fourteen countries.In March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor of over 15000 deaths.

Recycling

My Favourite Subject

My favourite subject in the whole school is art. Why I like it? Hmmmmm, the reason why I like it is because in art I like to make paper mache and also I like to play with glue and get my fingers sticky. The difference between art in my school and art in the world or other schools, is that we go to technology classes instead of having our own home teacher. Some of you have an art teacher come to your class. and others have your own teacher teach you art.

Learning Google Presentation

Today I learned about how to make a presentation on Google Docs.
What we had to do was click on the word that says Create new on your Google and then we saw the word presentation. We had to click on it.

After we saw a box that says add title we found out how to make a presentation.

After we went on to presentation we had to do a one Quiz Question. Then we had to do an answer to the question. After we posted it on our blog for any one to see