Exercising is important.

Exercising every day is healthy for our wellbeing.

Exercising is very important it keeps you healthy and fit and prevents you from getting type two diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Personally, I don't do much exercise but I do dance and netball and walk around lots just like any other person. This is enough to keep you healthy you don't need to go to the gym every day just doing a sport and sticking with it or going outside and taking in the fresh air.

Your body is designed to move, dance, throw, skip, push-pull and move. Most people in the last century had to engage in exercise to perform active daily tasks. People now drive cars, work while sitting at a desk and sit still watching movies and playing video games. Exercise functions to fill the gap between our decreased exercise daily.

Here are some benefits of exercise. It can make you feel happier. It can help with weight loss. It is good for your muscles and bones. It can increase your energy levels.
It can reduce your risk of chronic disease. It can help skin health. It can help your brain health and memory.
It can help with relaxation and sleep quality. All of these are true facts about what exercise can do to help your body. Exercise can make you feel happier because it makes you lose weight and that makes you feel a lot better about your bodyweight.

These are all of my reasons why exercise is better for you. It helps you live a happier and healthier lifestyle and like I said before you don't need to go to the gym every day just walking and doing sport well be plenty. So get off the couch and enjoy walking around your neighbourhood.

By Anika Jellick.

What happens at cross contry.

What happens at cross country.

Cross country is a running event but what happens there? What group of runners do you get put into? How many different schools are there? I will tell you what happens today.

What is cross country: Cross country is a long-distance running event, it is for kids to help them get into running and sports instead of staying cooped up inside or playing on their technology. There are three schools that compete in our Western Zone  - Pukepoto, Pamapuria and Ahipara primary/intermediate schools. It is held at Pukepoto School every year as they have a good hill for us to run.

Who do you run with: when you are running in cross country you run with people who were the same age as you at the start of the year. I know that may be a bit confusing but just let me explain. If say you were ten at the start of the year you would run with other people who were ten at the start of the year (0n 1 January).

The places: of course all races have a winner, if you come in the top ten people to cross the finish line you will go through to a new race at Peria School. And I think that after that you go through to a new race in Dargaville if you get in the top few. Sometimes you have to dodge through cow poop or mud when running but no one really cares.

So that is what cross country is and what you do there.  Oh and they have food to buy there such as water bottles, sausages in bread, lollies cupcakes and more. That probably makes cross country a lot more appealing. So at cross country you run laps with your age and have fun with your friends and eat food, I think cross country is very good in the way it keeps your fitness up .

How make up is made.

 HOW MAKEUP IS MADE


I’m pretty sure that you will all know what makeup is but if you don't I'll tell you, makeup is something to cover up the ugliness of peoples faces.  So how is it made I'll tell you how most makeup is made.


Bareminerals Lipstick: Lipstick ingredients are made of three ingredients wax: beeswax, Conover, and candalayla. Pigment, and moisturizer: planter.  First, the wax and moisturizer are wayed, then the wax is melted down and put in a kettle. Than a moisturizer known as a planter is added for a creamy soft texture. Next, the pigment is made and put through rollers that grind the pigment it is rolled 3 times till the pigment is rolled to a thin sheet. Then added to the kettle till the mixture is thick, the liquid then goes into a filling machine that puts it in small round containers, it then goes on a covener through a 5 feet long tunnel were the lipstick is frozen, the lipstick is attached to containers some containers have mirrors and lights attached.


Colourpop Eye shadow: First ingredients are weighed, first is mica a mineral that acts as a filler. Then a zing steroid which acts as the binder for the eye shadow, next a combo of pigment is weighed till it meets the desired  , the pigments used are made with iron oxide and sometimes even diamond glitters.Once everything is weighed the pigment is taken and put into a blender jar till it is a dust, the man/woman who is doing the pigment has to wear a gas mask drew to all the chemicals. Next, the pigment is put into a big mixer and coconut oil is poured to the mix till it's got cake form, then more mica is added a lot more eye shadow is 80% mica. A lot of eyeshadows have a dark intense shine. Then plastic containers are prepared the is placed in the containers put on a metal plate and a thin magnet is placed in a container so the eyeshadow will stay in place, the clear lid is applied and done.


Bare Minerals Powder foundation: First of all a technician makes a blend of titanium, mica, and zinc, this blend is often mixed with red, yellow and black till the precise consistency and shade would you have guessed this was mixed in, once the pigment is perfect it is sent off to the factory to be produced on a much larger scale. A machine is used to replicate the exact pigment in the lab but the color does not come out right it is instead taken to a compounder who compounds the pigment. The mixture transforms into the perfect color instead of a bright white. Before it’s sent for packaging the workers test the foundation on their arms to match the colors. Once it's matched it can be sent off for packaging the powered is dumped into big drums and brought to the packaging room for distributing, each container is filled with the same amount of powder and sealed with plastic and labeled with the company name and shade. The packages are cleaned for any excess powder and know they're ready to ship.


Were you surprised by any of the way these makeups are made? I hope you enjoyed this was very fun and interesting thing to research. All of the products in this explanation are cruelty free and vegan, although it took awhile to find cruelty free brands. By Anika.

HOW MAKEUP IS MADE

 

This is an explanation of how makeup is made. All of these makeup brands i explained are cruelty-free.

HOW MAKEUP IS MADE

I’m pretty sure that you will all know what makeup is but if you don't I'll tell you, makeup is something to cover up the ugliness of peoples faces.  So how is it made I'll tell you how most makeup is made.

Bareminerals Lipstick: Lipstick ingredients are made of three ingredients wax: beeswax, Conover, and candalayla. Pigment, and moisturizer: planter.  First, the wax and moisturizer are wayed, then the wax is melted down and put in a kettle. Than a moisturizer known as a planter is added for a creamy soft texture. Next, the pigment is made and put through rollers that grind the pigment it is rolled 3 times till the pigment is rolled to a thin sheet. Then added to the kettle till the mixture is thick, the liquid then goes into a filling machine that puts it in small round containers, it then goes on a covener through a 5 feet long tunnel were the lipstick is frozen, the lipstick is attached to containers some containers have mirrors and lights attached.

Colourpop Eye shadow: First ingredients are weighed, first is mica a mineral that acts as a filler. Then a zing steroid which acts as the binder for the eye shadow, next a combo of pigment is weighed till it meets the desired  , the pigments used are made with iron oxide and sometimes even diamond glitters.Once everything is weighed the pigment is taken and put into a blender jar till it is a dust, the man/woman who is doing the pigment has to wear a gas mask drew to all the chemicals. Next, the pigment is put into a big mixer and coconut oil is poured to the mix till it's got cake form, then more mica is added a lot more eye shadow is 80% mica. A lot of eyeshadows have a dark intense shine. Then plastic containers are prepared the is placed in the containers put on a metal plate and a thin magnet is placed in a container so the eyeshadow will stay in place, the clear lid is applied and done.

Bare Minerals Powder foundation: First of all a technician makes a blend of titanium, mica, and zinc, this blend is often mixed with red, yellow and black till the precise consistency and shade would you have guessed this was mixed in, once the pigment is perfect it is sent off to the factory to be produced on a much larger scale. A machine is used to replicate the exact pigment in the lab but the color does not come out right it is instead taken to a compounder who compounds the pigment. The mixture transforms into the perfect color instead of a bright white. Before it’s sent for packaging the workers test the foundation on their arms to match the colors. Once it's matched it can be sent off for packaging the powered is dumped into big drums and brought to the packaging room for distributing, each container is filled with the same amount of powder and sealed with plastic and labeled with the company name and shade. The packages are cleaned for any excess powder and know they're ready to ship.

Were you surprised by any of the way these makeups are made? I hope you enjoyed this was very fun and interesting thing to research. All of the products in this explanation are cruelty free and vegan, although it took awhile to find cruelty free brands. By Anika.

What happens in athletics

We were writing explanations in class and this is one of the explanations I wrote.



What happens in athletics.

Athletics is a fun sports event. but what happens there? How many different sports things are there? Where is it held? Well if you are wondering all these questions you have come to the right place. Because this is what will be explained today.

Throwing: At athletics, there are different types of sports throwing ones running and jumping but this paragraph is focussing on the throwing sports. So the first sport to consider is discus so on discus you through a discuss as far as you can, and if you're wondering what is a discus it's like a frisbee just heavier much heavier. Shot put is the next throwing sport in this sport you throw a ball as small as a grapefruit with this sport you hold it by your shoulder and shoot it as far as possible and again this one is very heavy.

Jumping: For the jumping sports there is high jump and long jump lets start with high jump. For high jump it is set up like limbo a pole held up by two other poles, and the pole being held up can also move just like limbo but the pole moves up and not down. So back to the pint on the high jump, you jump over the pole with scissor legs and then you land on a big blue mat (don't worry it is very thock you won't sink down or anything) then the pole in the middle moves up and up till it cant or you can't anymore. The next jumping sport is long jump, for long jump, there is a pit of sand you stand back on a mark then you run as fast as you can jump right near the pit and land if you land on your butt and you hands land before your butt  you get marked on were your hands land.

Running: For running there is not much to say your run a 100metre run a 200metre run and a 400metre run. When you're running a 100-metre run you will go up against around 5-7 people there will be a person with a gun (that makes a loud noise and fires smoke up in the air), a whistle or just there voice to mark the start of the race. There will probably be a line to cross at the end and start of the race. It's basically the same as the other races. But when doing 200 and 100 metres you run straight and with 400metres you run in a circle a few times.

That is all that happens in athletics. Well more like sports that are at athletics because the other things are boring just bus rides there and things like that oh but you do if you bring money get super good food so, everyone will definitely want to come to athletics now. Athletics is really fun and` everyone would want to give it a shot it has got a lot of deferent sports in it to strengthen different parts of your body.

By Anika

How to write a good script.

We had to write 4 explanations in three weeks in term 3 and this is one of the explanations I wrote on how to write a good script for film making.

 How to write a good script

Have you ever wondered how some of your favourite movies are made? How they come up with the best one-liners? Well that all comes from a script but how do you write a good script? I will be explaining how to do this today.

Characters: The first thing about writing a good script is the characters you need main characters, sub-characters and possibly just other random characters but let's stick with the main and sub-characters. So you need to have the types of characters so let's have 4 main characters usually in a movie there is a person who is funny and stupid, there is a serious one, a hero big ego kind of person and the leader who is the real main character. So when you're making main characters you want to have a backstory on how they met or how they feel about each other. Also, it's always great to have the two characters who are at each other constantly.

The scene: When setting the scene you want to Make it clear that this is where it's happening and if you change the scene make it clear that you have changed the scene like this for example. A classroom. In the classroom, Tim was by the math corner and Jessica was in the library corner. And if I change the scene to in the nature walk in the nature walk, Jessica was by the flowers, Tim walked up to her. Make sure everyone reading/watching knows where the scene is and where everyone else is.

Speech: In a script, you need the characters to talk that is kind of the main thing in a script in fact probably just what the script is at all. So when adding speech you want it to be easy and clear to read you know the actors reading it don't ask this doesn't make sense. But you want to make some things funny and when you have a funny character you want to make sure they always have the best funny lines. Plus when it’s a serious situation try to make it serious but possibly a bit of sarcasm or jokes can be fine once the seriousness is established.


So when writing a script make sure you have good characters, a good scene, and great speech since that is the biggest part of a script. Writing scripts is really fun as you can create new worlds and explore many different things. I hope this explanation helped you.


By Anika

How to grow a plant.

We had to write 4 explanations in 3 weeks and this is one of the explanations I wrote.

How to grow a plant.

A plant, something that helps you breathe that you see everywhere and most likely know-how they grow unless you live in a dessert of course and don't know how it grows but that is why this explanation here, to explain how a plant grows.

The planting: So let's start with the origin of a plant, the seed. So you need to pick a seed ( it can be any seed) then depending on the size of the seed you need to dig a hole for the seed to go into. Here are the depths you should plant them in depending on the size if you have a small seed the size of a pea, plant it in about 5-6 centimetres in soil. If your seed is as big as a walnut shell then plant it about 10-15 centimetres in the soil. But if your seed is in between the sizes oi just said plant it about 7-8 or 9-12. When planting the seed make sure you plant it in moist soil where it can get enough sun.

The beginning: Through time the seed will develop roots. The roots will be small at first and not very strong so you need to be delicate with it because in time your seed will slowly rise out of the ground and become a living plant. Somewhere in the plant, there will be food which the seed needs so if you see something bulky don't chop it off or fiddle with it because that could stop the food from working there for making the plant die.

An Adult: it grows up so fast. Your plant will be in time a full-grown plant but this plant will not be moving out of the house you still need to take care of your plant making sure it gets the right amount of sun and water to survive. Also, some plants need a stick to hold them up you know if your plant needs this if it is drooping down if it has fruit and is drooping down don't add a stick that.

So to plant a plant you need to plant a seed at the proper depth, put in the proper amount of sunlight and gives it a nice amount of water then add any extra support and your plant should be a full-grown beautiful plant.

By Anika

Praying mantis.

      Praying mantis

Laying as if they were lifeless, the two talked through a language unknown. But no not all were like this. One jumped and played. She was like a kangaroo.

The two stopped speaking and watched, staring at her breaking the only known soul of the species. Her eyes bulged out of her head she lay next two them another lifeless shell.

But this is not a sad story, in fact, it is just life, shedding skin is natural. Somewhere, dancing around somewhere is a newborn praying mantis.

Attack a war-struck between praying mantis vs spiders, many dying, many running, many fighting. But the girl who jumped shed skin and made a new one, a soldier. Powerful and strong using the skills from her old life she took off for the big one.

Running through hordes of spiders she found the tarantula. They fought for years broth on an equal level.

By Anika

What is killing our earth?

For the last few days, we have been working on explanations on climate change and what it is doing for our planet and what we can do to stop it. I chose tree deforestation and ocean accidafication.

What is killing our earth

There are a lot of things killing our earth but two things are really threatening our air, and adding to the issue of climate change. Today I will be explaining why ocean acidification and tree deforestation are two of the things we should be talking about.

What is tree deforestation: Tree deforestation is trees being cut down, but not at the normal pace. Trees have been cut down for centuries but this time it is getting outrageous! People are cutting down trees but not bothering to plant new trees. If no one plants trees for the earth and they only take trees, we won’t have any left.  This is becoming a very big problem because trees give us a lot of oxygen but this source of oxygen is being cut down or burnt down at this very minute. Did you notice how I said burnt down, well if you think I put that there by mistake you would be very wrong, One of the biggest forests in the world that releases 20% of our oxygen is being burnt down that’s right the Amazon rainforest is being burnt to clear room for agriculture? This is adding to a lot of the oxygen disappearing and is also at the same time releasing more fossil fuels adding to the ever-increasing CO2 supply.

Ocean acidification: ocean acidification is the ocean is getting more acidic. The reason this is happening just because of more co2 coming into the air and going into the ocean. Why is that a bad thing? Well, this is what happens when too much co2 goes in the ocean co2+h2o=h2co3 and h2co3 and h2co3 makes hydrogen and hydrogen is acidifying the ocean. Plus shellfish, mollusks and corals are dying off because they are not getting enough calcium carbonates which they need to produce a skeleton without this skeleton they will die.  To make calcium carbonates you need to add co2 to ca+2=caco3 aka calcium carbonates3 and this formula cant be made drawn to all the co2 mixing with the h2o this way there is no co2 for the ca (calcium) to make calcium carbonates.  So shellfish, mollusks and corals cant produce a skeleton and their old skeletons are dissolving since there are no calcium carbonates this has a big impact on the world because corals produce oxygen, which we obviously need to live.

How do we resolve this: Well to resolve deforestation we need to stop taking trees for granted and chop them down like they’re nothing because they provide a very large supply of our oxygen and without them, we would be doomed so if you ever cut down a tree, plant a new tree. It is really easy to do. Now how do we stop ocean acidification this one is a bit harder to resolve, but a way to subdue the ocean acidifying is by reducing your carbon footprint a way of doing this is by using less single-use plastic, taking the bus instead of driving in a car everywhere and by taking strikes to show people we need to do something about these problems.

I hope this explanation showed you two things that are killing our earth and also showed you to be more careful with the things you do to the earth and will help you realise this problem and we need to resolve it before it becomes too big. We need to save the earth for future generations and if that means planting trees and taking the bus every once and a while then I don’t think it’s too much to ask.

By Anika