This term Room7 Te Pahu school have been learning about energy. We wanted to learn a bit more energy so thats what  we made our inquiry .

We did heaps of experiments to show us how energy works like a slinky you rattle it and this line moves across it and comes back its kind of like sound waves and we put our ear against the desk and tapped it it sounded alot different than if you did it without your ear on the table.

Sound travels at 352 metres per second when light travels at 276 000 000 metres per second. there are lots of different types of energy like kinetic potential sound heat electricity light and magnetism.

Planting and Clearing Day

On friday the 18th of october room7 from te pahu school,year 7-8 from pirongia, and the lodge helped make an outdoor class room up on pirongia mountain where you get to learn about nature. of course its outside theres no building just you sit outside on seats that were hand made and learn but before all of that happens we had to plant trees! so that was our job planting hundreds of trees first we had to carry all the saplings down a hill we all carryed about 2 saplings each it was a very step hill and the parents sent us back up twice it was tiring after that we dug heaps of holes and planted heaps of trees like cabbage trees flax tea trees etc. there were heaps of blackberrys but i had gloves on so it didnt hurt much. over all it was a great day and i reaaly enjoyed it.

Ag day

Yesterday at our school we had an agricultural day where you either entered an animal or built a home challenge. For the animals you had to train look after and feed them and then when you got to school you did challenges like rearing and going round courses. For a home challenge you had to design and make a portable garden a 3D canvas a bird house a tree stump design or a sandpit toy. ANIMALS you got to choose between a lamb a goat or a calf my friend Ashton had a lamb this is what he said about it: "Smudge" didnt like the wind so she was scared but overall our best placing was fourth" We also had school challenges for the people that didnt have an animal there was clay modelling,cupcake decorating,photography and design a T-shirt. in clay modelling you designed three different designs and then make them out of homemade play-doh FIMO or just terracotta clay. and then there was T-shirt designing and making first you made patterns on the T-shirt which was white and then you coloured it with felts. then there was the cupcake decorating which you iced put lollies on and sprinkles and heaps of other stuff. photography is next and i interviewed Shawna another student in Rm 7 she had to take photos of people and there animals she came first place in her catogorie and this is what she said about it:" i really liked it i got to take a younger student round to see the animals".

Americas cup

you probably all know about the americas cup but if you dont it is sailing two cataramans go round a course and the person that comesn first wins (obviously) but they dont win the cup just yet its best out of 9.  the two teams that are competing are Oracle team USA and EMARITES team New Zealand we watched the racing this morning and the score was Oracle 8 New Zealand 8 it all came down to this race... Oracle go round make for and accelarate to the finish and they pass the line Oracle wins which is pretty stink

Holidays

we just got back from the third holidays of the year and it is now week one of term 4 we all had a great time in the  holidays  but im going to tell you about my holiday first we jumped in the car and travelled about an hour and a bit until we got to bullswool farms its a nice little place in the karangahake gorge area we had a look at all the animals and we also got to feed them i feed a duck which kept on wagging its tail when it saw food and the emu you couldnt feed by hand or it will bite your hand so you had to put in these stick things which had a staple on the end which you put under the staple and held it out so it could eat it after that we looked at other animals like pigs pheasants chickens and king charle spaniels which fell asleep on my sisters leg after that we hopped back in the car and drove for another 5 minutes until we got to the windows walk we went through heaps of caves and saw heaps of glow worms which was really cool and then we had a swim in the river and then we had lunch as we travelled home.

Market day

on friday the 13th of september we had a market day which theres a little society built in our school every body had a job like being a warehouse manager or running your own buisness i worked with aiden and we made toffee apples and doughnuts we kept the tofee apples in a chilli bin so they didnt melt and the doughnuts in a pie warmer so they were warm it started at 11:30 and we had 49 apples and 75 packets of 3 doughnuts to sell we did sell out at about 12:30 and we made 444 gongs (money) the money was called gongs 50 cents made up one gong there were heaps of buisness's and lots of people came we had fun and it was an exciting day.

The snow trip

on friday the 6th of september room 7 had a snow trip we had to be there at 6 am which wasnt to bad. first we were put into our travel groups and then we set off it was a little bit boring travelling that far but aidens dad brought us hot chocolates on the way. when we got there we hired everything and then we set off, it was fun exhausting and a little bit hard i got the hang of balancing but that was it at that time. at 11:00 us snowboarders had a lesson it was hard but not to hard, after the lesson i found snow boarding kind of easy but i fell over lots but then i just laughed. it was great fun, and thanks to aidens dad for transporting us.