Sun Spots

Who knows what a sunspot is? One interesting fact about the sun are the sunspots. Sunspots are areas where the magnetic fields are about 2,500 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field. These fields are much higher than anywhere else on the sun. Because of the strength of the magnetic field the magnetic pressure attracts when the surrounding atmospheric pressure decreases. Which to me says that the Sun pulls all the other magnetic fields towards it. Sunspots only last for a few days then burn out.

A sunspot is the size of planet earth so think of how big the sun is.


A photo of a sunspot

National Young Leaders Day 2011

On Monday our school attended the National Young Leaders 2011 Conference in Rotorua. There were loads of kids from other schools from around the Bay of Plenty and Waikato who were there with us. These are some words of wisdom that speakers shared.

Pat Buckley - a drug cousellor and St John's attendant. He and his wife started Amped4Life. His words of leadership wisdom were:

1. Enjoy life because when you grow up you stay as an adult

for the rest of your life

2. Don't be afraid to ask for help

3. Don't let your past shape your future - what you do now in your life could shape the way you live in the future4. You are influenced by the choices you make in life - make good decisions.

Nick Tuitasi is an ex-policeman. His leadership word was TRY.

- T is for truth - tell the truth all the time.

- R is for respect - you should be the one to respect others first.

- Y is for You - try something before anyone else does, step forward and give things a try.

Nick's message was to give anything a TRY, even if you think you're not going to be good at it.

Technicraft ! Its So Fun!

We arrived at Otorohanga South School at about 9:30am for Technicraft . We learnt in our lesson that you have to sew your seams together, and know how to use the sewing machine and over-locker correctly. If you aren't, your sewing will be uneven and crooked. Sometimes you can do a 'magic trick' when you are making a pencil case and make a mistake. For instance, you can make the zipper disappear by sewing right around the material edge, and then unpick it. In this lesson of fabric technology, we finished our beanies. This was the last time we go to Technicraft for this term. I like Technicraft because it teaches us about different crafts we can use at home or school.