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walk where they want to walk and help them avoid from walking into something. guide dogs are extremely helpful to the blind not just for walking around and avoiding things but much much more. I don't think blind people could live without blind dogs. ||< Grayson || than other animals and they are more friendly. ||< The Guide dog foundation uses dogs because they are very friendly and some of the dogs are willing to work and become a guide dog. ||< Jay || cope and also how smart and trainable they are. ||< When they are just 12 months old, they go back to duide dog services for six months of intensive training. They are assessed on 65 personality and temperament traits, 13 health aspects and 21 guiding tasks. Around 70% of dogs go on to be matched with a blind, deafblind or vision-impaired person.Those that don't qualify become service dogs, or may become their puppy walker's pet. If not, they can be adopted by families. ||< Jay || where between $50 to $100. ||< It costs approximately $26,000 to raise and train each dog from a puppy to a fully trained guide dog. In NZ, many businesses and Trusts support the Guide Dog training program by sponsoring puppies and dogs. ||< Oliver || to indicate that they are guide dogs. ||< I found out that they do wear a specially logoed red jacket to indicate that they are guide dogs. They wear these red jackets when they are working ie: guiding a sight-impaired person or in training with an instructor from the Guide Dog training school or when they are being walked by a puppy walker. Other service dogs where different colour jackets eg:green for MAF dogs; blue for Hearing dogs. ||< Oliver ||
 * Question || Hypothesis || Answer || Name ||
 * < How are guide dogs helpful to blind people? ||< they walk in the right direction for them ||< Guide dogs help blind people by helping them
 * < Where are the main places for razing puppies? ||< all around the big cities in New Zealand ||< Near the guild dogs store's so its easier to contact the people razing the puppies and they are normaly around the small towns in Zealand ||< Grayson ||
 * < Why do you use dogs instead of other animals? ||< Because dogs are easier to train
 * < How do you make sure that a dog is able to train? ||< They use tests to see if a dog can
 * < How can they trust people that take the dogs to train? ||< I think that they have special people to train the dogs ||< The puppys stay at a special place until they are 8 weeks old, the work employs people to train the dogs. ||< Josh ||
 * < How long does it take to train a dog? ||< I think it takes around a year and a half. ||< It takes 8 weeks from born to start working. and takes around 3 to 9 months for first stage of training. ||< Josh ||
 * < How much does it cost to train a guide dog? ||< I think It will cost some
 * < How can you tell if they are guide dogs or not? ||< I think they wear a red jacket

=Daily reflection=

Josh fix up some things and researched my questions ||  || Today I wrote my hypothesis researched my questions. || Today I did some research on Service Dog programmes in NZ. I went on the NZ Blind Foundation swebite and read about the guide dog training programmes. || =Action Plan=
 * **Date** || **Grayson** || **Jay** || **Josh** || **Oli** ||
 * Write the date here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here ||
 * 17/9/09 || today I worked on your Wiki and rote some of the things we where going to say on the phone to the guide dod people || Today I fixed up the page and also helped make the script for when we ring the guide dog foundation. || today I started my questions and help with the script. || Today I finished writing my hypotheses for my questions. ||
 * 18/9/09 || Today I did my hypothesis and helped
 * 21/9/09 || Today I researched my answers and did our daily refection || Today I wrote down my answer for one of my questions. ||  || Today Jay and I finished writing the script which we will follow when we call them tomorrow. I prepared the answers to my questions using information off the website. I will edit these answers tomorrow when and ifI have any extra information following the phonecall. ||
 * 22/9/09 || Today I wrote our daily refection and fixed up the wiki abit ||  ||   || I upgraded the wikispace page. ||
 * 23/9/09 || I did some research on my topic || Today I couldn't do much because I wasn't able to find an answer for my first question. :'( || today i answered one of my questions || I upgraded the wikispace page again. ||
 * 12/10/09 || today I finished my second question and wrote my daily reflection. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 27/10/09 || today we wrote our scirpt. || Today Oli and I wrote our script. ||  ||   ||
 * 28/10/09 || today we rang the guide dog place to see if we could come. || Today we rung the guide dogs and we are going on Friday at 10:30am. ||  ||   ||
 * 29/10/09 || today I brought some toys for the guide dogs. || Today I bought cat food and toys for the animals at the guide dogs. ||  ||   ||
 * 30/10/09 || today we went to the guide dog centre we had tour of the place. || Today We went to the guide dog centre in Manurewa and donated Cat food and toys. ||  ||   ||
 * 1/11/09 || today we showed photos of our trip. || Today I put in a slide show with our photos we took at the guide dogs and I wrote up our Action Plan. ||  ||   ||
 * 4/11/09 || today fix up the wiki and di my daily reflection. || Today I wrote my individual reflection and also my peer reflection. ||  ||   ||
 * 6/11/09 || to day I did my daily reflection. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Issue || Guide dogs. ||
 * What we are going to do || To Help the guide dogs. ||
 * How we are going to do it || We are going to buy food & toys for the animals. ||
 * Who will beresponsibe for what || We will all be responsible to buy food and toys. ||

Our Trip In Photos!
media type="custom" key="4698413" =Peer Reflection=

donating loads of toys for the puppies and answered his answers with detail. Well Done! || Oli seemed to have done a lot of research to find the answers to his questions. Your dad also took us to the Guide Dog Foundation which was in Manurewa so we couldn't have gone without him. || =Individual Reflection=
 * Names || Jay || Josh || Grayson || Oliver ||
 * Jay ||  || Josh did well with this inquiry task. You worked hard and answered your questions on time which was great. || Grayson had made a great difference by
 * Josh || I liked that Jay worked on his daily reflection and helped a lot to fix things up. ||  || I liked that Grayson fixes spelling mistakes and answer his questions on time. || I liked that Oli worked hard on his question and solved the question, " Who is going to take us there." ||
 * Grayson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Oliver ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

their funding come from public donations. I made a positive difference to my community by donating cat food for the kennel cats which teach the dogs not to bark and also some tennis balls for the puppies to play with. I knew I made a difference because the lady that showed us around was very grateful that we had donated the cat food and toys.I feel very good that I had made a positive change in our community and I could make a positive difference in the future by donating more toys and if I see a donation service on the road I would donate some money. I really had fun going to the Guide Dogs and meeting the puppies! || The issue was guide dogs and i chose it because they only get public donations. We donated toys and cat food. I flet good about helping the community. I knew that i made a difference because the lady said "thank you." I liked it because she gave us a tour of the place i liked the puppys. i learnt a lot. ||  ||   ||
 * Jay || Josh || Grayson || Oliver ||
 * I chose this issue because the guide dogs always need help and mostly all

= = =Daily Group reflection (Write what progress you've made and how things are going)= E.g. Today we made our permission slip that will allow us to go and do our inquiry topic. We also answered all of our questions. Our next step is getting all of the materials that we need.** ||
 * **Date** || **Reflection:
 * 15/9/09 || We improved our Wiki by writing Question and writing hypothesis for your Questions. ||
 * 16/9/09 || today we were thinking of things to raise money for for the guide dogs. we think our group is going well ||
 * 17/9/09 || Today we wrote our script and desided our action plans we think that your group is going well an we are all working together and Mr Read put the daily group reflection chart on our Wiki ||
 * 21/9/09 || Today oli jay and grayson did some of there answers to there question and we improved the wiki. ||
 * 28/10/09 || Today we had rung the Guide dogs services in Manurewa and we are going to go on Friday the 30th of October at 10:30am ||

=Teacher Feedback/Feed Forward=


 * **Date** || **Mr Read's Feedback/ Feed Forward** || Josh**'s comment** || **Jay's** **comment** || **Oli****'s comment** || ** Grayson 's comment** ||
 * **17/9

21/9

11/10** || ** I'm glad you are being proactive with ways to raise money for the SPCA. I'm sure plenty of teachers would love a "slave" for the day. It's really important to reflect individually and as a group on a regular basis so that I can monitor your progress. It also helps us learn new "learning to learn" skills.

Hi boys. I'd like to encourage you to find out the answers to your questions. I'm looking forward to reading them soon.

Well done for finding out the answers to your questions and for donating the food and toys when you visited. I enjoyed reading your reflections except for Oli and Grayson......what happened to yours boys? Please finish that asap. I'm sure you realize that you can make a positive difference to the community that you live in. **
 * Overall I award your group a B for your work. Well done. ** ||  ||   || we are doing the guide dogs not the spca || I am onto my second Question now ||