Genetics

Dear Mrs Tofa

Monday, 3, February

Dear Mrs Tofa

Kamusta, my name is Dwyane I am 12 years old I am a year 8
student at Glenbrae School. I have two younger siblings.
I am the oldest of my siblings. I was born in the Philippines
then my family and I migrated to New Zealand. My hobbies
are playing sports and playing the guitar. 

My goals for 2020 is to be a great role model towards my classmates
and others.

I will to participate in every thing happening at school and I will show
hospitality to my classmates. The last thing I really want to achieve is
to be a house leader

I will achieve my goals by focusing, listening and participating. I will be
kind towards others. I will work hard achieving my goals, I will be confident,
I will show my classmates the right thing to do.

I see myself in learning

Genetics Respons

Genetics Reponse

Genetics is the study of…  Genes and heredity

What do we inherit from our parents? Hair color, eye color, height

What are genes? Genes are the basic units of heredity genes are what carries
your information and characteristics 

What is your understanding of chromosomes? Chromosomes are
tiny structures inside the cell, chromosomes are made from DNA and protein.
Chromosomes have information inside that acts like a commander telling the cells
how to function 

List down 5 facts about Gregor Mendel

1. The father of science of genetics and a plant biologist, he was also a teacher.
2. Gregor Mendel was a scientist during the 1800s
3. Gregor was a man who studied the inheritance by experiment with the peas at is garden 
4. From experimenting he was able to explain and show the patterns or inheritance
   and he proved any living thing has traits inherited from their parents. After years of

experimenting he published it to the world at 1866

5. He died at the age 61 years old (1822 - 1884)

Which animal are we closely related to with our genetics?

Chimpanzees, we are 90% different with the chimpanzees

How many chromosomes do we have altogether? How many are from our mother and father?

23 from our mother and 23 from our father altogether we have 46 chromosomes.

What are some diseases which can be inherited from genes?

Down syndrome

Alyheimer’s disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Diabetes

Heart disease

Swimming is Fun

Swimming is Fun

I dived into a world of blue

While I swam I felt like I flew

Stroke after stroke

I ran out of breath I couldn’t bear

1,2,3 up for air

I reached the end of the pool

I climbed up the ladder to get fuel

So cold, I couldn’t feel my bones

Got my towel on now I am dry

The water was freezing cold 

but It was fun I cannot lie.

WATER FUN Day 2020

Water Fun Day Recount

Glenbrae had Water Fun Day on Wednesday 12 February.

Water Fun Day is not just all about fun, it is also a competition

between four houses, the four houses are Nikau, Kauri, Rata

and Kowhai. Those houses have to fill up their buckets until

they are full and the most buckets are filled with water are the winners. 

The day started with our chant. Rata went first with their chant,

next was Kowhai, then Nikau and lastly Kauri. I was in Nikau.

We had six entertaining stations. Water bomb, Water slide,

Spongebob, Pool fun, Lava flow and Holey Moly. 

Room 7 first went to the pools for Pool fun. There we saw

Mrs Kelly and Miss Sangita. We all walked to the pool jumped into the pool.

We splashed, swam and lastly had fun. We

had toys to play with in the pool. Everybody swam and swam till we

got tired, but we can’t get tired yet because we had

to go to our next station.

Our next fun game was Water Bomb with Miss Smith and Miss Smith.

The aim of the game is to have a lot of water balloons inside your

teams bucket. The four teams went to line up to their cones.

One of your member

in your team have to pass the water balloons to you after you

passed back the

balloon go back to the back of the line, once your bucket had been filled and

your teams bucket had a lot of water balloons, you can pour that water into

the the large

bucket at the centre of the court. Afterwards we have to rotate to the next

station and that was the Lava flow with Miss Kyee.

Miss Kyee showed us how to play Lava Flow. The instructions were jump

inside the hula hoops the run to the court and fill our bucket. My team and

I were focused, as soon as the bell rang I filled the cup with water then I

dashed along the course while I was running I was beaming at the Nikau’s

bucket. It was splendid game. 

Afterwards, the next game was Holey Moly with Mr Nath.

The cups had holes so you had to block the water from draining out the holes.

I beamed to the buckets at the centre and I see that Nikau’s bucket is at the

second bucket, excitement gave me hope that Nikau will finally win. 

The bell rang and that means that its time for rotation. Room 7 next game is

Water Slide we had to line up and stroll up to the hill and grab a cup, fill it

with water and slide down to the court and put the water to their house bucket.

Everybody slip and slide down the hill.

Spongebob was our last game for Water Fun Day 2020.

This was my favourite game. The front person had to dip

the sponge and pass it back up and down when the last

person had the sponge, he or she have to run to their buckets

and give it a good squeeze. 

Now the rotations are done and we had to sit back on the courts

and wait for Mrs Tofa to announce the winner for Water Fun Day 2020.

She started with the last place, it was so tense,

Kowhai for last place, third place is for Kauri, second place is Rata

and first place is NIKAU. Shouting with laughter. But we were humble winners.

Fun lesson with Kiwican

Our theme for Kiwican is Positve Relationship and the topic is Fair Play

We started our lesson with an energiser. Our energiser was 21, it was boys vs girls a strategy game 

21 Rules:

You need say the number out loud

You can't help  

You can only say two numbers

Afterwards we played a game called Human Bowling, it sounded interesting.

We walked outside and made two teams, boys vs girls again. The boys started with the ball, then one of them have to hit us, it was like Bowling but instead its humans. 

Human Bowling Rules:

You can't flinch nor move when the ball is near you 

You need to be honest

Our last game was a competition between the boys and girl, the is called End of the Road.
The girls beats the boys for today's Kiwican lesson

Reflection Kiwican

Tuesday afternoon we had Kiwi can. Room 7 walked in silence to the Kiwican room there we saw Miss Grace and Mr Simanu. We sat in a circle next we started our energiser and our energiser was the Ice breaker. Miss Grace gave us cones. She told us to take one cone and pass it on, so we passed the cones around and put down the cone in front of us. Then the person with no cone has to stand in the middle and say something about his/her holiday. So one of my classmates had no cone so she had to say something about her holiday, if we can relate to that then we have to move to another cone but you can’t swap with the person next to you.

After we played the Ice breaker we turned around to the whiteboard, on the whiteboard we saw three words, it was Learn, Encourage and Share.

We had to think of one rule and decide where it goes, Miss Grace asked us if that rule goes to Learn, Encourage, Share then whoever got it right they get a point. My classmates were really happy they got one point.

Later that we played Defender. The rule of the game was to roll the ball through another persons legs, so we had to spread our legs apart and we had to only use one hand to push the ball away from getting in between your legs. We had so much fun playing Defender. 

What I learnt in Kiwi can is if there were no rules it would not be fair. I also learnt that you always need to have fun and not be a sore loser.