My Passion Fruit Pitch

My passion Project idea/pitch us to get an old surfboard and reshape and glass it into a brand new board. I just got an old board that has the nose snapped off but it is perfect length so I will start. First I will strip the fibreglass off the old board, then I will reshape it to the Proportion I want. I will then take it in to a glasser to get glassed because it is very dangerous to glass so it's better to get an expert to do it Here is a photo of the board I have. 

Blink Blog Term 3 week 2

The past week I have been starting Correspondents Math. I really enjoy it because it is quite hard and I like being challenged. I have been also working on making a mini surfboard with my bro Harrison. We finished the table you use for shaping the board.  I am reading a really cool book about kiwis in the first world war.

I will put some photos of the surfboard shaping progress in a few days. Hope you enjoyed!

Blink Blog Week 10 Term 2

Here is some of the stuff I have been working on this week

Maths:

I have been working on a site called BestMaths which challenges me a bit more than some other stuff. If you click on the link you will see there are a bunch of topics. The topics I have been working on this week is Scales,Tables and Graphs, Length and Capacity.

Writing:

My piece of writing I am currently working on is about tsunamis: What creates them, how to stay safe etc etc. My goal is figurative language which means to use metaphors and personification and more stuff to make my writing more exciting. If you want to see my writing so far here it is


Reading: Ok, Here is where it get's cool

The book I am currently reading is a book called My Brother's Secret by Dan Smith. It is a story about a German boy called Karl who is in Germany when WWII is raging on.  At first he Believes that he is on the right side, but then his Papa dies and leaves him and his older Brother Stefan to care for their Mother. They Join a rebellion to stop Hitler and save peoples Father's and Brother's  lives. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes stories about rebellious boys, war and Tragedy.

That's everything I'm working on this week, hope you enjoyed.

A beginners guide to the wonderful world of surfing

Hey guys, It's Ethan again. Today I am going to be teaching you about surfing. So let's go drop in on some cool facts about surfing. Surfing is a sport that involves a surfboard:
You take the board to the beach and catch waves and stand up. Here is How to Surf. Once you have watched the presentation read on. One of the greatest surfers of all time is Kelly Slater. He has won 11 world titles which gives him his title:
"King Kelly" He is like a god to us Groms.  Here are some of Kelly's key tips to be a Successful surfer:  
1. Have joy in what your doing
2. Find Inspiration
3. Be competitive
4. Find Excitment.
5. Keep Getting Better and practise
Here is a video of me and some mates describing surfing and snowboarding

Here is a video/slideshow of me Surfing




Glossary

Grom- A Beginner or young surfer.

Surfing- A beach sport that this whole post is dedicated to

Substitution

This week in maths I have ben working on substitution. Substitution in maths means replacing a number with a letter. Kinda of like in rugby, number 9 comes off and is replaced by number 21.
Here is some of the practice work I have been doing

2. Substitute the values given in the following formulae to find the value of the unknown variable. Make sure that the correct units are given.

(a)	V = d/t	find the velocity v, when d = 80 km and t = 4 hours
(b)	A = l w	find the area A of a rectangle , when l = 20 cm and w = 5 cm
(c)	C = 2πr	find the circumference C, when π = 3 and r = 8 cm
(d)	V = 1/3Ah	find the volume V, when A = 21 cm2 and h = 6 cm

Commenting

You know how sometimes someone you don't know leaves a nice, friendly comment on your blog?
Today I am going to show you how to leave a quality comment.

• Be positive, don't say mean things like, i don't like how you did this or i can do better than that.
• If you can make a connection make one! e.g if Timmy wrote on a post on his blog and posted his story about breaking his arm and you read it you could say tell Timmy that once you broke your arm too!
• Have good grammar. People need to understand what you've written in your comment.
• Ask a question! People love being asked questions about their work so it would be great if you ask one

Happy commenting!

Is it Legal???

Hi Guys,

Today we are going to be looking at atributtion. Did you know that when you search up something on google images and take an image, you can get fined? This is because it is not your photo and you have to get permission from the owner of the photo. But there is another way that I am going to show you.

Go to google and search what you want to search e.g Pizza
See that settings in the top right corner? Click that

Next Click advanced search. It should take you to this page.

Go to the button that says usage rights. Click on it

It will give you some options click the bottom one that says free to use, share,modify even commercially. Then click advanced search and you can use any of the images!

Thanks and hope you can now use images safely!