Athletics Day 2020

 

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This task is about athletics. For this task, we had to create a poster, or write a writing, about athletics day. Here is my poster, which shows some writing talking about what happened on the day, and also some pictures about sports (just to show what I mean about sports.)

Art Alive Rotation: Andy Warhol T4W4

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This task is apart of the inquiry rotations. For this task, we learnt about Andy Warhol, a famous pop art artist.

Loss of Biodiversity Create Task T4W4

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This task is also apart of literacy this week. This is a create task about the causes and effects of the loss of biodiversity.

Reading Loss of Biodiversity T4W4

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This task was apart of literacy/reading this week. For this task, the focus was loss of biodiversity (and what biodiversity actually is.) Here is the reading part of the topic for literacy this week.

Guy Fawkes Story T4W4

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This task was about Guy Fawkes. For this task, we had to tell the story of Guy Fawkes. Here is the story of Guy Fawkes, and why we celebrate it.

Alphabet Multiplication T4W4

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This task was a warm up for the next presentation for maths this week. For this task, we had to find the letters from the words on the side, at the top and multiply the numbers.

Algebra Everywhere T4W4

Walt: graph a simple algebraic equation

 

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This task was about algebra. For this task, there were different tasks, some were for years 7's, and some were for year 8's. After finishing these slides, we did a algebra pop quiz.

Money and Decimals Warm-up Task

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This task was a warm up task for maths this week. For this task, we focused on money and decimals. For the next task for maths this week, we are going to be focusing on fractions. My strategies for most of these, was adding the big numbers first, in this case, the dollars. Then I added the cents, next I added them all together and ended up with the answer.

Year 8 Camp Questions

1. If you were to give ideas for the next year 7/8 camp what would you suggest? More time to practice for the concert ,and have great weather, and fun.
2. What would you keep? Go karts
3. What would you stop? Trampoline time
4. What would you add? Card games for free time?
5. Why do we have such events? To learn leadership skills, and have funTalk about whare tapa whā and key competencies

At camp we were taught four different phrases. 

1: O le ala i le pule, o le tatua which means, to serve

2. Awhi rito, which we learnt about in the lesson with mrs Tele’a at camp, and it means the love that surrounds you

3. Teu le vā, means keep your distance. We also used this phrase after lockdown

4. Fiafia, means happy

Overall, I really enjoyed camp, and would probably go again if I could.

Leaders Sharing Time

Leaders Sharing Time:

Year 7s:

• Sauma: was one of the leaders/captain of Skrikers, and her highlight was watching her team become leaders, aswell as her, and the other leaders
• Bradley: was also one of the leaders/captain of Skrikers, and his highlight was being a prefect
• Nina: was the leader/captain of Thunder, her highlight was the food
• Mohammed: was the other leader/captain of Thunder, and I think he enjoyed being a leader
• Simon: was one of the leaders/captain of duck life, and his highlight was being a leader
• Oalii: was the other leader of duck life, and her highlight was the stacking cup games, because she liked that the teams were cheering

Year 8s:

• Jezakaia: was the leader/captain of Coromandel, and his highlight was slepping with his mates in their cabin, because Pashel told them a myth/legend, and made them scared
• Mamarei: was the other leader/captain of Coromandel, and her highlight was seeing her team support each other
• Sione: was on of the team leaders/captain of Thames, and enjoyed watching this team work together
• Caleb: was the team leader/captain of Kauaranga, and his higlight was paintball, and archery
• Zamera: was the team leader/captain of Kauri and, her highlight was go carts
• Arther: was the other team leader/captain, and he enjoyed camp.

I thought that they all made great leaders, and am very gald that they were our leaders.

Year 8 Camp pt 1

                            Year 8 Camp
Last week, we had year 8 camp. It was supposed to be around the beggining of the year, but due to the virus, we had it last week. Camp was very fun, and I really enjoyed it. I found camp fun because of the fun activities, yum food, and the cool movie that played both nights. We stayed there for baically three days, and it was so much fun.

(:day 1, part 1:)

Firstly, it was 8:00 on a wednesday morning. Everyone was a mix of tired, and excited. We talked and ran around the hall, and waited for the frist teacher to give us our instuctions. When Mrs Tele'a came in, and we sat down. We had quite a long send off to camp, filled with prayers, songs, and introductions from the adults coming with us, and the camp leaders. While Mr Burt was telling us about camp, and to be respectful, the adults loaded up the busses, and we hopped onto the busses, and were on our way. I can't really remember much of the drive there, because I was asleep for most of it. When I woke up, we were at camp. I was quite excited, because I had heard good things about this camp.

Next, we got into our teams got face paint the color for our team, and headed to the gym, to play some games. This is basically what we did for a while, and then we went back to our cabins, and unloaded our stuff. Then we were off to our first rotations. My group was called Thames, and our first rotation was gym games. I found this activite quite fun because, for this rotation, we had to make the fun ourselfs. So me, and the people in my group played a lot of games like, hide and seek tag, getting the ball in the hoop, line tiggy, soccer, and more. The rest of the day was just meetings, and lessons. for dinner, we had nachos. These nacho were very delicous. On my plate, I found some crunchy chips, with warm mince, followed by a refreshing salad, with some salsa on the side, and some sour cream on the mince. For dessert (yes, there was dessert,) we had ice cream with apple crumble. After our meal, we headed upstairs into a secret room. There, Mrs Tele'a taught us about 1,2,3 and 4. 1 being the youngest, 2 being adults, and 3 & 4 being more adults, and grandparents. She taught us about leading with our role, and gave us paper, and pens, to write down what sometimes stops us from helpping with different roles. I found this both a tiny bit confusing, and lesson/leader-ful.

After that, we prepared ourselfs for either bed, or a movie. The movie was Nacho libre, and I am just now realizing that we watched Nacho Libre, and had Nachos for dinner! Anyways, after the ovie was bed for the year 8s, while the adults probably stayed up for a bit, to make sure that we didn't stay up for a bit. My sleep was alright, I think the girls in my cabin next to the wall had to listen to the banging on the wall for a while though.

Angles and Degrees Maths T2W4

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This task was based on degrees and angles. We answered questions about right angles, obtuse angles, and more. This was a pretty fun task, and I am glad that we got to learn about degrees and angles this week.

Adding Intergers

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For this task, we had to complete this presentation for maths. This is what I have done. Feel free to leave a comment!

New Years Celebrations

New Year's Celebrations:

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Does your Family celebrate new years? My Family normally celebrates with
my Dad’s Family because they live closer to us then my Mums side. But last
year (or should I say this year,) was quite different.

Firstly, how my Dad’s side celebrates is kind of like how other families would
celebrate, but anyways. We start off by preparing the food/snacks, seating/
stuff to sit on, shade and fans etc. Mum normally bakes something like
brownie, lemon cake, chocolate cake or more. We also bring drinks, cups,
and fans because we have it in summer when it’s really hot. We also bring
our mat. Anyways, enough telling you about what we normally bring, now
it’s time to explain what we do at these types of new year picnics. 

We start off by looking around for a place to set up, and we sit down and
wait for the rest of the family to come. Once they arrive, there’s normally
lots of little kids from my family running around, so I go and look after them
at the playground, in the water, and around the grass. After a while we start
eating, and we all share our food around with each other.

My Auntie brings sport gear every year, and we play different sports, it’s
pretty fun. The adults always talk a lot, so most of the kids end up going
onto the playground quite a lot.

My Mum’s families New year’s celebration last year was also very fun. For
my mum’s family celebration last year, we went and stayed at a bach (a New
Zealand holiday home) near Tauranga. We celebrated new years with
fireworks, glow sticks, a bonfire, and music. It was very fun. We were there
for quite a while, and did quite a lot of fun things.

Overall, I like celebrating new years with my family because there’s always
different ways to celebrate it. I wonder what you do to celebrate New Years?
I hope you enjoy celebrating new years. Have a nice day!

Admirable Person

  A person I admire:

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Who is someone you admire? Mum, Dad, sibling, grandma, grandpa, auntie, uncle, friend, celebrity? I admire all of the people who try their hardest, and do their best. But one person, one celebrity I admire, is Kylie Jenner, the famous Rize n shine star.

First of all Kylie Jenner, became the world’s youngest self made billionaire at the age of 21, now being a 22 year old billionaire, also a mother of 2 year old Stormi Webster, owns a business called “Kylie cosmetics” (you can kind of already tell by the name.) Helping her out with her business was Kris Jenner (Kylie’s mom) also known as “momager.” Together, they made a billion dollar company, (which is kind of how Kylie Jenner became a billionaire.)

Next, Kylie Jenner knows all about being on camera (seeing as she grew up filming keeping up with the kardashians, life of kylie and much more with her sisters.) Speaking of Kylie’s sisters (and brother,) and the Kardashians, Kylie and Kendall Jenner, are the youngest of all the sisters. Next age up comes Rob Kardashian-Jenner, then Khloe Kardashian-Jenner, Kim Kardashian-Jenner, and the oldest out of all of them, Kourtney Kardashian-Jenner. 

Also, Kourtney Kim and Khloe all have brands/companies as well. Kourtney’s Brand is Poosh Which is named after her daughter (Penelope’s) nickname. Kim’s Brand is K.K.W, a brand that sells Lip-sticks, Fragrances, and much more and if you didn’t know, also stands for Kim . Kardashian . west, as she is married to Kanye West. Khloe’s brand is called “Good American” Founded with Emma Grede, and lately, they have been selling jeans. It must be pretty cool having Sisters that own companies, but that could also sometimes mean less time spent with their family.

In conclusion Kylie Jenner is a celebrity that I admire for her hard work, owning a business as well as being a mother, and also being on a TV show. I'm sure her Family must be very proud of her, and her rising business.

The End

Museum Trip

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This task was about the trip team 5 went on last Friday, the 1st of November. Most of the information in this presentation explains more about the day! This task was done with a buddy. Here is her blog link: Tha Zin!

DNA, RNA, Amino Acids, Proteins, and more!

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For this task we had to explain what we learnt from a video that Mrs Ilaoa showed us. This task was done with a buddy. Here is her blog link: Tha Zin.

Zebra fish Research

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For this task, we had to write down what we learnt and picked up on this day about zebra fish, how they live, what they are, and what scientist are doing. This is what me and my buddy/classmate, Tha Zin, put into this presentation. Hope you enjoy!

K.P.M.G!

Today, we went to K.P.M.G, which stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler. First we took the pretty long bus ride there and then, when we got there, we had to walk around the corner and we saw the building. They welcomed us all into the building, and we all went into a cool room that had three TV's, an open space, a few table's, and some bean bags in it.

We all sat down and someone called Justine who works at K.P.M.G, explained a bit about what we were going to be doing today. After she told us about that, she invited all of the workers in the room to come and introduce themselves to us. They all did that, and we got to know them pretty well. And then two people called Susan and Lucy came up to the front, and told us a bit about their jobs, and ecology, and some information about water. 

Next, it was time for morning tea. For morning tea, we had some fruit sticks, and scones (which were really nice.) It was then time to walk about five minutes to Sustainable Coastlines, where a nice lady let us ask some questions and explained a bit more about water and more sea creatures. On the way back to K.P.M.G. I walked next to my friend Zaeeda, and we were at the front of the line, and got to talk to someone called Holly. She was very nice, and she even agreed on some of the things that me and Zaeeda said that we don't like! Then we went to the K.P.M.G. building, and we learnt a bit from Miro, who works at K.P.M.G. and we split up into different groups, and learnt about different Maori gods. Then it was time for lunch!! The lunch that we had was amazing and delicious. There were burgers, salad, fruit sticks, mini flat bread/pizza thingies, and it was just great! 

After that, every team got to build their own robot with the objects that K.P.M.G provided. My team built a pretty cool robot that was supposed to pick up the rubbish, and sort it into the right piles, and ask the owner for the right directions on how to do things as well. After that, sadly it was time to leave, so we all got ready to go, and we thanked them all, and walked back around the corner to the bus. Then we went back to school, and all wrote blog posts, and here is mine, so thank you very much for reading!

Mammal Writing

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For this task, I just wanted to write my own short writing relating to this week's learning, (or just what it's about.) Hope yo enjoy my writing!