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Life in the Netherlands

Hi blog its been a while, I hope all is well. I recently started this dutch school that is pretty great. I am learning how to speak dutch more and more. And I have done some pretty eventful stuff.

Lets start with my school. It is a small school with less than fifty kids. I am learning difficult division and subtraction but good for my level. I am in a group of kids that are younger than me because the learning level is higher in the Netherlands than it is in New Zealand. I am sitting next to a kid nammed {[CLASSIFIED]} he speaks the smallest amount of English and a lot of dutch. I haven’t made any friends yet but I will make them (probably?)

Because I left new zealand in a school holiday and came to the Netherlands in a school holiday I got one MONTH off of any school work I may have. I have gotten to do lots of cool stuff like sail a boat, visit dutch city’s and find cool people. And because today is a Wednesday we get three hours off school.

Also my progress in Fortnite is getting pretty good I got 3 victory royales in two days so I griddyed.

I’ll keep you all updated soon (ish) – Blake

 

Google comes to PBS

Today some of NZ Google came to panmure bridge.

They came to talk to us about our careers and telling us how technoligy has gotten better over the years.

They also came here to take questions we had for them. My question for them was ” How do you see technoligy growing in the future.”

Here are some pictures that shows what we did.

Magnetism

this week in inquiry I learned about magnetism. I learnt that magnets gets pulled to this rock called a lodestone.

The first thing I did was complete the sentences using the word bank at the bottom of the page.

The next thing I did was show which way the magnets went. For example the North pole will connect to a South Pole but not another North pole.

After that I had to find a picture for each word and copy and paste a definition of the word by the word.

Then I did a word search of all the words to do with magnetism.

Finally I made a poster explaining what I learnt and what Magnetism is.

Algorithm Addition

This week in math we learnt how to calculate a math problem using Algorithm Addition.

My teacher taught me that you always need to start on the right when calculate a problem. And If a number is higher than nine you have to add a 1 to the next column.

I also learnt that you should always align the 2 numbers you are plussing, minicing or dividing.

Here is how you calculate a difficult math equation.

Keke Pua’a

This week my teacher brought in some Keke pua’as to share in the class we all enjoyed them!

Our task was to eat and make as many adjectives of the Keke pua’a we can.

After that we needed to make a pruesasive on why you should eat a Keke pua’a and also what a Keke pua’a is: I think you should try a keke pua’a they are sweet, savoury and delicious. A keke pua’a is dough with pork/chicken/lamb and sauce as a stuffing.

HHV Picture Story

This week we went to the howick historical village.

First we got into our groups. My group was group 2. My adult helper was miss Tele’a.

Next my group went to make these trolly skateboards on the other side of the village. There we made, raced & broke trolly skatboard.

Then we went over to the other side of the village again to make butter. We had to churn cream heaps of times to make the butter and it was yum.

After that did a self guided tour. on the tour we went to houses, toilets, shops and a manor that was massive. That would be my house if I lived back then.

Gravity

This week for Inqury my class are learning about gravity. My table were tasked with answering the question: Why do you feel heavier on Earth than you would on the Moon.

Our answers were:

Blake: You feel lighter on the moon because the moon is smaller and if an object is small the the gravitational pull will be less powerful.

Kendric: because on the moon there is zero gravity but on earth there is gravity. 

Kaleb: Because moon is smaller it has a smaller gravitational pull than the earth because if something is smaller then it will have less of a gravitational pull

Jeremiah:You Weigh six times less on the moon because the moon has a gravitational pull of cause earth’s moon has less mass than earth has.

Roman: Because on the moon the gravitational force is different because the moon doesn’t have anything to do with the atmosphere. 

Donyal: The moon is smaller than the earth because the moon is weaker because the gravity pulls you.

The Landing at Gallipoli

This week for writing I learnt more about the ANZACs. I made a diary entry about what I would think a ANZAC soldier would have to face.

Here is what I thiught:

Date : 25, April 1915

Dear Diary, We just landed at Gallipoli and got the word from Corporal to jump out of the ship. As we ran to shore, I could see bullets flying past me as I rushed to stay alive. As I ran, salt water got in my eye so I couldn’t see. The startle of the water kept me on edge when suddenly I got shot in the shoulder.

A group of the higher ups were beginning to fire back as they hid behind rocks. I was scared to the bone as I saw more of my fellow soldiers getting killed. But I pushed myself to carry on.

I saw my friend who was with me in the training camp get shot 3 times. That’s when the reality of war struck me. The people that weren’t killed were making trenches and I joined them in the trench to stay there for the night.

Seargent Major Jones