Evaluation (Tech)

1. How well did I do in completing all of the things that I needed to do for this project?   
In my opinion, I think that I did very good. I think this because, I was eager to finish this project and so I did everything I could, to finally complete it.

2. The design ideas? 
For my project I had come up with four ideas, a Train, Jeep, Truck and Automobile.

3. The final choice?
After some thinking I decided to build a Jeep.

4. The working drawing?
After I decided what I wanted to build I had to complete a working drawing. Since Mr. Grundy (teacher) has already made something like this before, I had to, or could copy his working drawing. I first had to trace the length of the wood and complete the rest.

5. The marking out? 
Now that I finished my working drawing I could now work on the wood.  I grabbed a piece of wood that would be the joint and marked out what I was going to cut. I had to mark out what looked like a ''U'' shape.

6. The sawing?
Along the lines that I marked out I had to saw all the way down to the line.

7. The chiselling?
Next I had to grab a chisel and mallet, to chisel the inside. We had to do it pointing upwards so that the joint wouldn't break.

8. The assembly?
Then I had to place the wood that I cut off into the joint. It couldn't fit so Mr. Grundy trimmed and sanded it so it could.

Human Sized Penguin Found In Waipara

The fossils of a human sized penguin that lived about 56 to 66 million years ago. The fossilised bones of Crossvallia waiparensis were found by an amateur palaeontologist named Leigh Love.

Evidence showed that this giant bird weighed about 80 kg and was about 1.6m tall. 

Unique Flag Taken Back To Kingitanga

In 1929 this, rare flag was taken to England. It appears that this flag was taken there in 1865 and had forgot that they had the flag for almost 100 years. Ross Bay said, It was about time the taonga, finally returned home.

The flag will be taken in next week with Waikato Tainui, now proceeding their role as kaitiaki of the taonga.

Our Kayaking Trip (Vero Whitewater Park)

On Friday the 9th of August my class, Diego's mum, Madisyn's dad and I went to the Vero Whitewater Park for kayaking. This was my first time kayaking and I was terrible at it. I struggled a lot with trying to keep the kayak straight and so did some of my classmates too.

My arms were so tired but we weren't even finished or close to finished. I was always so close to falling in the water but I found my balance in time, so I didn't.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

NZ Attempts Saving Yellow-Eyed Penguin

Conservation minister Eugenie Sage has announced a new plan to save the Yellow-Eyed Penguin. The plan is to find out the struggles that they face as in human activities.

 Breeding is a struggle and the minister is trying their best to help.