Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a maths learning website that can teach you 

things in a wide range of areas and strategies.

Everything from volume to area to long multiplication.

The R.E. Contract

The R.E. Contract

Every fortnight, we have a set of tasks relating around religious 
education. This week, the theme was "God's Gifts/Taonga of Free 
Will".

My Holiday

My Holiday

AWESOME:

One thing I thought was AWESOME in my holiday was when I went to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. It was awesome to see all the history that went into the grounds and the country. 

INTERESTING:

One thing I thought was interesting in my holiday was when I saw four pages of my sketchbook ripped out. This was interesting because it took me a while to find out what had happened (My sister had ripped them out).

RELAXING:

One thing I thought was RELAXING in my holiday was all the days I spent lying around.

The Rosary
During the month of October, we celebrate the Rosary.
In the Rosary, there are four categories of "Mysteries". Mysteries 
are stories that recount important events in Jesus and Mary's lives.
The categories are the Joyful Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, 
the Glorious Mysteries, and Luminous Mysteries/Mysteries of the 
Light. 
Each category has a certain theme. We are currently on the Joyful
Mysteries.

For this task, we found a word and created an image based off of the word. I chose the word abstract. In the art sense, abstract means an image that conveys a picture using just shapes, colours or textures.

Who invented the bicycle

Who Invented the Bicycle?

For most people, the bicycle is the vehicle of choice if you can’t drive a car. Many people don’t know who invented this marvellous machine, though.

Most historians trace its origin back to 1817, when a German aristocrat called Karl von Drais invented a two-wheeled wooden machine that propelled riders with their feet. This invention became popular in England and France and became known as the velocipede. Unfortunately, the machine was soon banned as it became a hazard to pedestrians and was rarely seen after the early 1820s.

Things were quiet for decades, but the bicycle pedals were eventually introduced in 1963 in Paris by Pierre Michaux. It is unclear whether he or his employee, Pierre Lallement should be given credit for the innovation. Lallement moved to the United States, where he patented the idea in 1866. The machines started to be called bicycles by 1869, but many people referred to them as “bone shakers”, which described their clunky movement due to the fact that they had a heavy wooden frame and steel wheels.

In the 1870s brought about the new “ordinary” bicycles, with one big wheel at the front and a small one at the back. The main flaw with these was that they had bad breaking, as the rider could fly off the front with the momentum. Eventually, the English inventor John Kemp Starley designed a "safety bicycle" with two small wheels of equal size, a chain drive, and a set of gears. With the added in pneumatic tyres and better braking system, the bicycle sales and production skyrocketed. Over one million bicycles were created by 1899.

Scamming: it's bad!

We were tasked to create a poster which could teach someone about a certain area of net-safety. I chose scamming.