Te Reo: Te Tinana

Hi I'm Jamie and I am going to teach you names of body parts in Te Reo. Our inquiry topic has been "The Incredible Human Machine". In room 12B we have learnt lots about our body and also how to say them in Maori. Here is my video to show a bit about what I have learnt.

My Production Elective

This term every Thursday afternoon the whole school get's split up into groups to go to their chosen electives. I go to the production elective which is in media studies. We are creating a movie about the 40 years that have passed by of H.N.I. It will be screening in Cinema Gold Havelock North late term 3. We are all very excited! We have been split into three decades, 70's, 80's and 90's. I am in the 80's. At the moment we are contacting and interviewing people that have been to H.N.I or taught here in our decade. These interviews may go into our movie. We are coming up with ideas to link our movie together somehow. We are all very excited and having lots of fun!

Explanation Writing: The Skeletal System

Discovering the Skeletal System

The skeletal system is really an amazing thing. Did you know that you are born with 300 bones but as you grow you only have 206? Also that your bones are made up of four parts. Your skeletal system Allows you to grow, move and this is the reason.

Bones are made up of four parts. The centre of the bone is the bone marrow. This is a like thick blob of jelly, it’s job is to create new blood cells for the body. Over top of that is the cancellous. This looks a bit like a sponge but is much stronger. Next is the cancellous is the compact bone. This is the part you see when you look at skeletons, it is very smooth and very hard. Finally on the top is the Periosteum,  a thin dense layer that contains nerves and blood vessels that nourish the bone. That’s the ‘Bone’ as such but another thing is Cartilage. Cartilage is a softer more flexible ‘bone’ as such. Cartilage sits inside most of our joints and part of our nose is made from cartilage.

You are born with three hundred bones but as you grow into an adult you will have 206. No, you don’t lose any! It’s just that some of your smaller bones fuse or join together to create bigger bones. Bones are a network of calcium made up by cells. As we grow, these cells add new calcium to the network of bone. At the end of childrens’ bone they have layers of the cells in the shape of plates. These are called “growth plates” . When we get to full height these close up.

Your bones move by using joints. Joints are ways that two bones can ‘clip’ together to move around. There are two types of joints, hinge and ball and socket. The hinge joint works like a door hinge. With this joint the bone can only move side to side or up and down, like your knee. The ball and socket can move around. It works like a ball in a cup. The ball can move almost everywhere around.

Bones are flexible, but not that flexible! Once too much pressure is put on them, they will snap or crack. A bit like a wooden pencil. When a bone gets broken it is called a fracture. There are lots of different types of fractures. A complete fracture is when the bone has broken or snapped into two pieces. A greenstick fracture is when the bone cracks in one place only, not all the way through. A single fracture is when the bone is broken in one place. A comminuted fracture is when the bone is broken into more than two pieces, crushed or shattered. A bowing fracture, which only happens in children, is when the bone bends but doesn't break. An open fracture is when the bone sticks through the skin. When a bone gets fractured it heals all by itself. Bones heal like they grow. The cells add more calcium to where it is broken until it is all filled in.

Just like the whole human body, the skeletal system is amazing. Breaking a bone especially when you're young, is just part of human life. And to think that your bones are made up of a whole network, is really cool!

Maths: Fraction Problem

On June the 13th, Maddie R, Laura G, and I created a ShowMe to explain a maths problem.

P.E Large Ball Skills

Technology Cycle Two

Group K at Food Technology designed, created and evaluated our own Mama Mia Pizza. My cooking partner, Barney and I created a skull and cross bone pizza. We all made a electronic informative document weather it was a drawing, document or presentation. Here is my presentation.

Sock Puppets Explaining Muscles

Over the term we have been learning about the human machine. We decided that we would show our learning of a chosen system. Jesse, Sam and I chose muscles. We all used The app sock puppets to show our learning.