What Should Be In a Quality Blog Post?

Kia ora, we have been learning about making a quality blog post. I learnt that I need to have better titles for my blog posts because most of them are pretty boring.  We had to read some things so that we fully understood what the six qualities were. When we had read about the things that should be in a quality blog post, we answered some questions about what we had learnt, and why the things were so important. The things that are important  are a title, an introduction, a DLO, a reflection, the sources and a question to top it all off. A title is important because it makes the reader want to read your post, but it has to be catchy.I think this helped me because I didn’t really think titles mattered as much as everything else but it’s one of the most important parts of a blog post. I hope you enjoyed my blog post. What is counted as a quality blog post at your school?

Beach Clean Up

Last Friday Te Ngahere did a beach clean up, because there are very ignorant people and they pollute our beach we also cleaned the beach up because the rubbish will most likely go into the ocean. My group stayed at the back, and we were only picking up all the tiny bits of rubbish. What I found a lot of, was pieces of timber with rusty nails on them; I found it very confusing how no one else had seen them. At one point I found two wooden stakes that were pretty old and they had grown Oysters on them, they also smelt very bad as if someone had chucked fish into a bin and the fish had been there for three months (I used my shirt as a sort of gas mask because it stunk so much). Apparently the most common thing people from the front picked up were cigarette butts, alcohol cans and beer bottles. In the end I learnt that there are a lot of lazy smokers who chuck their cigarette butts aside. How do you think we could stop smokers from chucking their smokes aside and polluting our beaches?

How to reuse and attribute an image

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to reuse and attribute images from the internet. We have been learning about this because when we make animations we take a lot of images off the internet but we don’t check if they’re copyrighted or not, which can get us sued. There are some people who are fine with you taking their image off the internet, but you might have to attribute the images, there are also some images that are only alright with you using them if it’s for educational purposes only. If a image has two white lines through the image it means you can’t use it because it’s copyright. To attribute an image you have to show what licence the people who took the photo use to find the licence and who took the photo you have to click the image and then there will be a link in the top left corner you will have to click it. There you will find if you have to attribute or not. Also you have to say who took the photo (sometimes it doesn’t say who took the photo or which licence they use).

Duffy Assembly

Kia ora bloggers. Today Paihia School had a Duffy Book Assembly. Paihia School is very fortunate to be a part of the Duffy Books programme. The Duffy Books programme is a company that gives books to schools for free. Our special guest for the assembly today was Rebecca Brothers. Rebecca Brothers was an Olympian and competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Her sport was swimming. Rebecca Brothers has now retired from swimming and is a police officer which she has been  for 10 years. Something I learnt from Rebecca Brothers is that becoming a Olympian isn’t easy and that I wouldn’t want to be one (because of how early I would have to wake up).

After Rebecca Brothers talked to us a bit about her life, gave out some books to a few students and then we had to sing the Duffy Kids song. Then the assembly ended, which meant we got our books. The two books I got was one about a New Zealand Army officer during D-Day and the other book I got was about a plane crash and something was on it that’s after a kid because he knows the truth. The books that I have got are sound very interesting so I look forward to reading  them.

Project Energize

Kia ora bloggers. Today we had Whaea Gina in. Today she taught us about healthy drinks and unhealthy drinks.. Whaea Gina put out  three cards (not literal playing cards). On the three cards there was one colour per card, they were green red and orange. The green card meant it was a drink you should consume 3 - 4 times a day (if not more) under the green card there was water and milk. The orange card meant only drink it about once a week or if you’re sick (I meant Powerade if you’re sick ) also under the orange card was chocolate milk and flavoured water. The red card meant only drink it once or twice a year some of the drinks under red was Monster, V, Coke, Coke Zero, Coke Diet and E2. The reason Whaea Gina is teaching us about this stuff is because there are a lot of families members that haven’t been educated about this and have ended up getting diabetes. By the time they have been educated or have got diabetes they’re already too addicted and say they’ve done the damage and keep on drinking it. That is all and unfortunately there are no photos.

Paihia School Cross Country

 Kia ora bloggers. Paihia School have just had Cross Country at Bledisloe Domain. I was excited for the Cross Country because I enjoy Cross Country. We didn’t start Cross Country straight away, it kicked off at about 11:30 so we were able to fit in some learning.  We all ran in our age groups and gender e.g 5 year old boys ran together then 5 year old girls etc. When it got to the 11 year olds they ran with the 12 and 13 year olds. Right before my race I was quite nervous. By the time I had finished running around the field my legs were already tired. After I had finished running the field there was a gate which slowed me down because I had to climb over it. I found the hill the hardest but easiest part (if that makes sense). What made the hill the hardest part was, there was a giant patch of mud mixed with Horse faeces mixed with water so when you ran through it, you got a bit stuck. What made the hill the easiest part though was my legs just got used to it. The race was very tiring for me because I had a cold. The entire track was approximately 1.5 km long. Overall I was very tired but I wanted to run the track again because I enjoyed it that much.

Here is a photo of me running up one of the hills. (I think).