Hiwi the Kiwi

Hiwi the Kiwi

Saia and Gabe ( Silicon Valley)

Recently, Saia and Gabe visited us and told us about their journey to america and Silicon Valley. Saia and Gabe went to America to experience lots of different buildings that were from social media. They had told us that they were amazed with all the buildings they saw and they even had favourites, Gabe had told us about Alcatraz prison and that it was the top secured prison until three prisoners broke out. They told us lots of information about the buildings they had visited such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Xero, and many more, they have also visited Alcatraz and Stanford. They had came back from america and was amazed with all the things they had visited the food and whats the difference to NZ.

How our muscles work.

Whoa! My muscles are aching after all those running. To make your body healthier you need to exercise, eat the right food, sleep, and drink lots of water. I will be doing an explanation about our muscles and discuss how the muscles in the human body work . There are over 600 muscles in our body! So no matter what size you are were all the same.

There are about 6-8 muscles in our body, each of these muscles belong to a particular group. There are three types of our muscles in our body, I’ll start with the smooth muscle. Smooth muscle are found in our intestines, bladder, and lungs. They work by themselves and they also are called involuntary muscles. When a person is gonna throw up that’s when the smooth muscle comes in, they push the food up to the throat out the mouth. Cardiac muscle, Cardiac muscles also move by them self like the heart. The heart is also called a myocardium muscle, It contracts and relaxes and pumps blood through the rest of our body. The last muscle skeletal muscle. A skeletal muscle are called voluntary muscle, it is like involuntary muscle but you decide when and what muscle you’re going to move. This voluntary muscle is connected to your bones and tendons.

How you know when to move your muscles is your brain muscles. The muscles are called Cerebral motor cortex and cerebellum. How it moves your is, the motor cortex send an electrical signal through the body into the muscle you want to move causing them to contract. Muscles move body parts by contracting and memory laxing but they also work with flexor and  extensor, bicep muscle ( a flexor) in the front of your upper arm contracts to bend them while you flexor muscle relaxes. The triceps muscle is the extensor at the back of your upper arm contracts to extend. Deltoids is a muscle that helps move your shoulders, The muscle that is found on each side of your chest is called pectorals. Quadriceps are the muscles that are in your thighs, also the gluteus maximus those muscles are found in your bottom.

healthy and exercising a lot, the right sort of food and lots of water helps your muscle get healthier. Healthy food is great for your body and your muscles it makes it healthier and makes your muscles last longer periods. You will also need to drink lots of water and by lots I mean a lot, why? Because it helps stop your muscles from getting dehydrated. Exercising helps your muscle get bigger and make you get fitter and not just that even the other stuff I said and other things including.

My body is very important to me. I really learnt a lot information about muscles from this explanation. It helps me think about what i should be doing to keep my muscles healthier and it also helps me learn about the muscles in my body. This explanation was the best explanation I have ever done because i have learnt a lot from this and it had things that I did not know.

Sleep Sleuths

WALT: Apply the text

This week my group and I have been working on a presentation. My presentation is based on a book we are reading about sleep sleuths and that book is about how your sleeping time has changed when you get older and you get less sleep then you did when you were younger, I hope you like my blog post.

How the Olympics came to be'

Olympics are a  massive sporting event that takes part in different countries, where each country pick their best athletes to compete against other athletes from all over the world.  This event has a mixture of different sports. This is an explanation of how the olympics has changed,also how the Olympics came to be.

The Olympics begun 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece, Every four years around 50,000 people went to Olympia to either participate or watch the Olympics happening. The Ancient games were also a religious festival held in honours of Zeus, the kings of gods. The Greeks loved sport and thought they celebrated sports and made Olympics, Olympics was the biggest sporting event in the Ancient calendar.

Back then the sports that the athletes played were, 200m run, discus, javelin, long jump, wrestling or boxing, and horse racing. 200m run was the first sport that happened in the Olympics, each year a new sporting event started. At the ancient Olympics games only men were allowed to participate in the Olympics, nowadays women and men are allowed to join. Overtime, the ancient Olympic games has changed a lot.

The Olympic games has changed overtime because there are more games in the Ancient Olympics. Back then, the Olympics were only held at Greece when right now it takes part in different countries. In the Ancient Olympics if you won a sporting event you will receive a good welcome back or a wreath of leaves, nowadays you will be given either a gold, silver, or bronze medal.

I am really looking forward to the Olympics 2016, I can't wait to see it. I really hope New Zealand win a sporting event or makes it in the finals, My favourite of all time is Valerie Adams.  My favourite sport that happens to be in the Olympics is shot put or running, I am very excited to watch the Olympics.

Why do our muscles get tired?

WALT:  Identify the information that supports the main idea of the text.

This week my group and i have been working on this presentation
about our muscles. We had learn how to identify the information
that supports the important or main ideas in the text.

Muscle fatigue

My group and I have been learning about Muscle's and muscle fatigue. I have learnt what Muscle fatigue is, how to get rid of Muscle fatigue, or ways to beat muscle fatigue. This is connected to our book called Why do our muscles get tired.