Niuean Sport's Day Presentation - Reading

About Kendo

Kendo is a kind of Japanese martial art and it means the way of sword in english. There are also different martial arts similar to kendo, judo, kick boxing, karate, and taekwondo. Kendo is a typical sport that is made to build your inner strength, mental power, and also for self defence. Over 7.5 million people are practicing right now and are in a dojo. Showing respect is by taking off your shoes when you enter the dojo and gi is a type of kendo jacket you wear when you practice. Kiai is when you shout when you're about to hit your opponent. When you start kendo you're in the beginners level and the highest beginner level is 1st Kyu, but i wouldn’t want to do kendo because it looks hard and it also looks saw.

Vocabulary Practice

 This presentation is about Vocabulary practice. It is for our reading group. We had to see what each word means and list or fine the definition of each word!

Sound in Space

Sounds in Space

List 3 interesting facts that you learned from the article:

1. You can’t hear sound in space

2. When something vibrates, the air around it begins to vibrate.

3. Vibration travels through solid thing even air!

Why can’t we hear sound in space?

Because space is a place of silence and there is also no air and also nothing for the vibration to travel through!

Read this Article: The Sounds of Interstellar Space

How did NASA record the sounds of interstellar space?

The data was stored on an old-fashioned tape recorder

What does deep space sound like?

it’s like Dawn Chorus of birds singing in spring from super bass.

What does the plasma wave detector detect? How do they turn this into sound?

it senses waves of electrons. Play the data through a loudspeaker and listen!

About the Internet

Linking the World: The Internet

1. How does the internet work?

Cables, and wires

2. List 5 interesting facts that you have learned about how the internet is used:

(For example: 168 Million emails are sent all over the world every minute.)

1 ~ 600+ videos uploaded onto one video sharing site

2 ~ 11 000 000 conversations take place on instant messenger

3 ~ 70+ new websites created

4 ~ 1500 blogs posted

5 ~ 370 000+ minutes of voice call mode

All in sixty seconds (one minute)

3. Is there a cost to the internet? What are they and how do they impact us?

No and because its all for free!

4. When was the internet created? What was it’s main purpose at the time?

It was created in 1969! They developed the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), four large computers that could exchange information.

5. List 5 new words you have learned from this article.

Arpanet

Machinery

Megawatts

Hydroelectric

Shillings

Cochlear Implant - Reading

This was an article about a 4 year old boy named Dylan Vaughan. He was born deaf and got his first cochlear implant, funded from the health system. His parents (Neil and Jo) had to then raise over $50.000 for Dylan’s 2nd operation. Now the government will pay for children under six years of age for two operations! Cochlear Implant!

What does Waitagi mean to us

In the past week my friends and I created a Waitagi movie for the school. It was
to show what does Waitagi mean to me. I really hope you enjoy!!

Fiafia

I didn’t know what fiafia meant, but as soon as I came to this school I knew. It is all about celebrating, being happy and coming together just like a family. If this sounds interesting to you, come along at the end of this term on April 18th.

Come and see what we have practised by our professional teachers. They have amazed the kids with what they taught them. So be sure to come along on April 18th where a lot of talented kids perform.

Do you want to see some Pt Englanders show their talent? Then don’t miss the fun on April 18th. It is fiafia night and that is when kids dance, sing and do traditional items.

Omaru Creek and Poorman Stream

This is a vendiagram about Poorman stream which is a book we read and Omaru Creek

Marble Roll

This is a video of a ball that is rolling down a little rollercoaster. It was in a bag from 1990. A man got this from a long brake in finer-script in 91. Some people asked this man to film this in HD.