Coding!

                                                       Coding !

   

For year 7 prorgamme we did coding. Here we had a bot and had to connect it to our chromebooks then test to see if it would do the actions we coded , here is a video of mine and Alrida's bot .

My Sculptor

                                                    My Sculptor 

                               

               My Sculptor represents the galaxy,  the colours I decided to choose was purple & blue, these colors were choosen because it reflects on the galaxy . As you can see I have a little sign in front and its a protest sign, the sign sign says "Use 5 R's , Refuse / Reduce / Reuse / Repurpose / Recycyle! . My sculptor was suppose to be holding the sign but I had a few difficulties due to the short small arms . 

                

Kiwi Kids News Read off!

                 Kiwi Kids News Read off!

 

WALT : locate and summarise ideas within a range of texts 

This week for reading our activity was a article question type , basically we had to go onto kiwi kids news and select 2 articles that interest us and fill out the questions .

Kiwiana Art!

  

                                                    Kiwiana Art!  

                This term for term 4 art alive in extension we had to make a art based off kiwiana/our culture , 

             For mine I chose a beach type of landscape , As you can see I have lots of things in this art , The Tui on the branch because it is a NZ bird . This shows all sorts of things about kiwiana . 

Understanding Probability

                             Understanding Probablility 

  

 

WALT : Investigate the probability of events 

                These few weeks we have been learning about prediction and probablity , This task was about understanding probability , This took less than a day to finish .

                               

Re-creating Art

                                                            Art              

  

                          Today Friday 13th of November we did art , Room 2 have been doing art rotations once again and today we re-create a art at room 1 Mrs Moala's class . This is how my re-created art looked , It took a bit of time to finish it off and in the end it turned out okay , I used lots of colors like green , blue , and more others . 

Georges Seurat : Poster

                                                       Georges Seurat 

    

                                 This Term we have been learning about Art since the theme is "Art Alive" These past few weeks we have been rotating around the classes on certain days/weeks and have been learning about different art styles and  different artists , Today at room 3 Miss Tele'a we learnt about this artist named "Georges Seurat" .

Loss of biodiversity : Explanation writing

           Loss of biodiversity :Explanation writing  

   

           WALT : to share imformation concisely on a topic .

Last week we have been learning about the loss of biodiversity , This slide show is about Explaining the causes/effects .

Reading Task : Loss of Biodiversity

                     Reading Task : Loss of Biodiversity 

               

                                    WALT : Identify the author's purpose .

This week we have been learning about biodiversity , Last week we were learning about the pollution and what it is doing to the earth which adds up to the loss of biodiversity if you are unsure or not quite positive about the meaning of biodiversity this slide can tell you a few information [ Including video's to understand]

How to Reduce Plastic Pollution -

 

    

                   Explanation writing - Plastic Pollution  

Hi-! This week & Last week Miss Tapuke's literacy group has been given a task about plastic pollution , basically we had to do a explanation writing about "Plastic Pollution" and a way to reduce the problem , Here I have made a explanation writing on my own on slide 3 .  

Alberto Giacometti

 

 

                  This is poster is about a sculptor named "Alberto Giacometti"A Famous sculptor , He has sold the most expensive sculptor ever and is very good at making sculptors .

The Rock

  

             

Niue ((The rock))
This week is Niuean language week , For this task we had to make a poster or slide\
and select one thing about Niuean's and make a poster about it , I chose Fun facts.
 

Term 4 week 1 reflection -

  Term 4 week 1 reflection .

This week was the first week of term 4 , we have been learning about

Art and about graphs , Yesterday the 15th of october it was the first week of term 4 and this week I learnt how to read and interpret graphs . The next step is learning how to do Algebra after learning  How to interpret and read graphs , I learnt how to read graphs and interpret them which will be really useful to use in tests in case we have to interpret and read graphs  . For art yesterday in room 2 Ms Tapuke taught the class about a famous sculptor named “Alberto Giacometti” He is known for his amazing sculptors and many great Inventions he has made . We learnt lots about him and are currently making a poster to write down facts about him  . One small fact I know about him that he sold the most expensive sculptor ever for 141.3 Million Dollars sold at an auction , I really enjoyed looking at all the information about him and it was really fun to learn about a famous sculptor . These were the two highlights this week for me and I enjoyed doing both of these activity’s . 

Interpreting Graphs

  Interpreting Graphs

   

WALT : interpret graphs using T.A.L.K

This week today we have been learning about Interpreting Graphs , Here we have learnt how to read graphs and how to interpret graphs since we will be having to do this in activitys or either tests , also we have been learning about T.A.L.K  .

Hinewehi Mohi

                           Hinewehi Mohi 

    

If you don't know Hinewehi Mohi , She is a woman who sang the NZ anthem in Maori 1999 at a rugby game , The purpose of this writing was to explain Hinewehi Mohi's brave decision about singing the NZ anthem in maori . 

Whare Tapa Wha : Taha Wairua

                                                   Taha Wairua           

 

                   This task was about Taha wairua ((Spiritual wellbeing/connections)) Here on the left I have colors ((Random colors not in order)) Then on the right I have them translated in Maori .

Whare Tapa Wha : Taha Hinengaro

                                                Taha Hinengaro

This task was about Taha Hinengaro , we had to find out what Hikitia Te Ha was , It has something to do with breathing slow and being calm . Here I listed 3 ways that it can help out Taha Hinengaro

Movie time : Part one

  Movie time : Part one

   

WALT : To work step by step on a solution 

This was a maths task I did with room 2 and it was about time , we all solved it together with Miss Tapuke . Some people were stuck but luckly we had other people who knew how to solve it which helped a lot of the figuring out .

Information Report

 Information Report

 

For this task all we had to do was first select a endangered animal and make a report about facts 

and basically fill out important information . ((This is a Task I forgot to finish off or post))

Valerie Adams

                                             Valerie Adams  

 

                    For this task all I had to do was write down 7 important connections about valerie adam's and her family .

Whare Tapa Wha - Taha Tinana

                                              Taha Tinana  

             

               This task was based on whare tapa wha , the part of whare tapa wha we were doing today was taha tinana ((Physical wellbeing)) for this task we had to put 5 different excercises for a routine .

TE REO MAORI

   TE REO MAORI

 

For this slide all we did was learn colors , and some things in maori for our
task at the end .

Whare tapa wha : Taha Hinengaro

 

             Here is a task we had to do today , Based on whare tapa wha the part we were doing was Taha hinengaro , basically for this we had to create a google drawing and put things around us that we're good at , I don't have much talents or much things I'm good at but here are a few things I can think of .

Getting creative with Myths & Legends

Getting creative with Myths & Legends ((Sorry this drawing is lazy qwq))

 Today for inquiry we had a task about getting creative with Myths & Legends , we had a few options to do but I went for option 3 , Creating a image of a mythical creature , I went for a villain and I picked a "Salamanders in folklore" ((I Got this idea from one of my favorite anime's)) 

Persuasive writing - Topic : Team 5 assembly tikanga

  Persuasive writing 

 

This task was about persuasive writing , This time the topic was about the team 5 assembly tikanga we do at school & online 

Inquiry T3: Ojibway

 Inquiry T3: Ojibway 

 

Last week we had a activity to do with social studies , we studied about the ojibwe .

Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing 

 

Last week we did another task about Persuasive Writing , this time it was about Rona , I had a choice to be supportive or un-supportive of Rona , I was supportive of Rona here is my 2 reasons why .

A Maori myth of creation

 A Maori Myth of creation

   

This was about the story of Papatuanuku and Ranginui , the task was about the story and we basically Just had to finish questions and read the story .

Year 7 Step up program- What we would keep & Stop

            Year 7 Step up program- What we would keep & Stop 

 

For This task we basically had to go back to last week and remember all the activity's we did

and decide which we should keep and which ones we should stop + add activities

Reflection from year 7 & Year 8 Leaders

 (( Year 8 & 7 Sharing (The Leaders basically sharing about the last 3 day))

  - Enjoyed stepping up as leaders (Year 7 Leaders)

-  talked about stepping up over the last 3 days (Year 7 Leaders)

- talking about the team's showing support to other (Year 7 Leaders)

- Stepping out of their comfort zone (Year 7 Leaders)

- Enjoyed the step up program (Year 7 Leaders)

- Supporting their Team (Year 8 Leaders)

- Encouraging their team mates  (Year 8 Leaders)

- Trying hard to do their best  (Year 8 Leaders)

-  Liked the dorms + The sleeps ( Year 8 Leaders )

-  Helping them step us in activities  (Year 8 Leaders)

(Top Photo = Year 8 Leadership Camp)

(Down photo = Year 7 Step up program)

 

Year 7 Step up program

                                        Year 7 Step up program 

                                             (My Experience)

         Last week on wednesday (5th of August) the year 8's all went to Year 8 Leadership ,  there was only year 7's for the last 3 days since the year 8's went off to year 8 leadership camp , we did a step up program to help year 7's step up and Jump out of their comfort zone , My Experience I had was pretty fun but at times I didn't really want to do some activity's because stepping out of my comfort zone gets me nervous , one activity I did participate in (without being too nervous about my comfort zone) was the stacking cups challenge . I had 2 goes and was pretty calm about the activity , My experience was pretty fun but my mood was pretty nervous Lots of times but besides that from my experience I learnt to step out of your comfort zone (Even If I didn't want to I still tried at some points) . 

(A Photo of the stacking cup games - my group was the right side)

 

Measuring up

 

                                     Measuring up 

[ For This task we had a basic problem , we had to find out which line was the longest , We first tried solving it with our finger spams , that didn't work so our next thing to do was use a ruler .

Persuasive writing

 Persuasive writing

 

This is a task about persuasive writing , Topic we had to write about : Maui and the Giant Ika 

Myth Summary

                                                   Myths Summary

 

For This I had to find a myth (Or Use The one we looked at last week) and look a key facts about them and write them down here .

Myth Locations

 

Myth Locations

For This Google drawing activity , we had to get a picture of the world (A Map) and we had to Mark The Countrys on the map where these 6 Myths/Legends are known (Made) at . I Have Marked all 6 and Put the text to show what Myth It was .

Whare Tapa Wha

                         Whare Tapa Wha

  

        For This Task we had to make a Google slide (Or Google Drawing) and pick which side of the whare tapa wha we will be focusing on (If You don't know what that is it's on Slide 2) and I picked 2 I will be focusing on , Taha Wairua & Taha Whanau . 

Myths & Legends

 Myth's & Legends

            Here Is a task we did about Myths & Legends , We First studied about The Myths/Legends (Last week) Next we made a google drawing and put all the information into this , The Keys are things that were included in the Myth/Legend .

The Little Demon Part 1

The Little Demon Part 1

(This will be finished soon or during the weekends Maybe :) also my ending was inspired by fnaf 4 . Sorry this isn't that good but I will make The next part better than this

Hi , My Name is Elizabeth .  . . ! I Live in a small little cottage deep in the forest with my mom and little brother Chris , I am 9 years old ,  My dad passed away 2 years ago Due to cancer , It was really sad but I knew he was in a better place , we don’t get to visit my dad often but we try . Everything was running pretty smooth for us in the afternoon , Me and Chris were outside on a pitch black night looking for our puppy Yuki . My Mum was sleeping in her room , we didn’t wanna wake her up  so we headed out ourself (8 Months ago) “Yuki-! Where are you-? Come out its not hide & seek time” I heard twitching noises and chris hung onto me shivering . “Aw chris are you okay buddy-?” As soon as Chris could reply we heard a little bark , Chris zoomed off yelling “YUKI!” he ran off and I chase after him . Suddenly he fell into a black portal my eyes widened I looked down at the portal and then I saw red glowing bright eyes staring at me . I couldn’t see who it was but it looked like a something instead of a somebody or someone . Then the wind slammed against me like it was pushing me in- 

 I then started having the vision of the red eyes in my head and I felt like something was moving through-out my body and I felt really dizzy and I then hit the ground . “What are you doing here-?!” my eye sight becomes blurry then my ears start ringing crazy , I faint and I have a little dream . My dream was me floating in the air with only blackness around me . I See chris floating in the air then crying , it looks like he was crying blood , I start yelling “Chris-! Where are we?!” then the blackness gets swirled up and it looks like he’s in a cellar in a corner then- I Pulled up from my sleep seeing Mariel staring at me with other people I say “ Where am I?! And where were you!” she pauses me then says “Calm down , its fine . . . Now how did you get here?” I reply “Err- My little brother fell down the portal I fell in . . . “ she says “You looked like you were struggling in your sleep “ Then again I got ringing noises blasting in my ear my hair suddenly turned deep black and my eyes turned red . I grew little horns on my head and I didn’t feel like . . . Myself . . . A little portal appeared and dragged me in it . I found myself in a cellar lying next to crates and chris standing there with tears dripping down his eyes . It looked like he was scared of me . 

I look around and see other people staring at him like he was a piece of gold or something . They start racing towards him and somehow I ran to him like in a blink of an eye . I start growling at them and then . . . they were all lying on the floor with blood , I turn back into myself and . . . I see bodies lying on the ground , chris grows little black wings and a little halo appear from the top of his head . I see monsters around us and we teleport into a little room and we have a little flashlight appear in our hand then little doors on  the side . a little voice says “You will have to survive a few nights or a week to get out of here” Chris says “They want to get me … they told me last night that they would kill Yuki “ Then I hear noises coming from the doors . . . Then chris starts running to the doors flashing lights .

To be continued . . .

(Should I make a part 2-? Maybe -w- also this was pretty rushed sorry if its bad)

In Training Problem One :

                                            In Training Problem One : 

         Today we me and my group (Jarreka & Phoenix) Had a problem to solve , The Problem was about laps at ptengland reserve . Each Laps equaled 800m so we had to find out how far would Kauri have to run if he did 3 Laps . Our Stratergie we used was Multiplication .

My Family Tree

 

                      Task : About my Family + Me + Culture

For Extension we has this little task to write about our Family and about out
culture , Here is what I did , This Includes My family and My Mom's family .
This Also Includes my childhood photos and about my siblings . 

Planning of forest schools

                                            Planning for forest school

Here was my planning for my activity about the difference of forest schools and public schools on the top there are the positives of the forest schools and public schools , down are the negatives .

Forest schools

                                        Forest school's 

For this week , we had a activitie to do , it was about forest schools! Here it had pictures of forest schools in denmark . We had to do a little writing about if we would go for forest schools or against them! 

Matariki Art

                                            Matariki fun day . . . !

               Today on Friday 26 of June it was matariki fun day and we were      about to see which activites we were about to do for the whole 6 hours of school! There was Cooking , arts and crafts , Sports , Movie making and I was put in arts and craft , My class I was in was room 7 and the teacher was Mr Goodwin For art we had to create a galaxy kind of art , Here is my art I made it didn't take long took maybe a hour or less to make this . 

Prac Decimal Pres

                           

                                                      Prac Decimal Pres

    For This Activity we had to find out which decimal number was bigger 0.056 or 0.506 For This we had to remember place Value , What I learned was there is always a decimal point between ones and tenth and as you can see , In The numbers I was given there was only a zero at the start , That Showed that I have to only find out which was bigger on the other side ( Remembering Place Value places )

                                           

Practising Decimals

   

                                                Practising Decimals

For This Task here , I had to get a Decimat and pretty much convert decimals into fractions My First Fraction I had to make was 0.909 I had big blocks  / Medium Block and Small blocks I had to Shade Them in the ways decimals are .

In The News

 
                                             Sky Tower Lights

For This Task We had to first read a article about the news of in the sky tower , After Reading the little article for 1-3 Minutes we had to record ourselves on screenCastify  Reading this little ariticle , We had to go to a small little place where it was quite quietand where we can hear our voice enough for the recording to get our voice , So Here is My recording of me reading the artice (Small little Mistakes of me Pausing)

Reading scales & thermometers Poster

                                            Reading scales & thermometers Poster

For this we had to make a thermometre and make measuring cups and write a little thing about 

a thermometre .

Reading scales & thermometers

Word of today

                                          Word of today  

[ For this we got a word from Miss IIaoa and we had to right things on a paper that relate to the word she gives us or / Things That pop up in our brain when we think of the word , The word she gave us was "Peace" I Suddenly thought of Flowers , flowing water , Soothing sounds when I thought of the word peace c: ]

Keep safe !

                                           Keep  safe everybody 

Their has been a new virus called Covid-19 it is  pretty serious and can affect a lot of people , a lot of people are staying inside locking themselves inside and reading updates from their Presidents + Prime - ministers , this Virus is pretty serious because a lot of dear people have passed which is a sad thing . What I suggest is by using a lot of hand sanitizer everyday and distant greetings like waves . Things you shouldn't be doing is Sharing food like biting pieces off and giving it to other people , even if its with your hands . You dont know what germs are on your hand and we don't want other people to catch this virus . Also something else you shouldn't be doing is drinking from other people's bottles because it can give you germs . Make sure to be listening to the news or any updates from the government and always make sure to wash yours hands after / before dinner and after you used the restroom . Also Covid-19 isn't the only virus you can catch their is a lot more so be careful and god bless you all and keep safe everybody .

Chinese Newzealanders

 
For this Activity we read a book called chinese newzealanders , it was about the
history of the chinese when they came to newzealand .

How to keep safe from Covid-19

For this Activity I did this all in my free time doing rules on how to stop the virus
from spreading! here are some rules that will help , Hope you enjoy!

Me

For this Activity We had to Make a google Drawing About things we love + Like for Tech at TC and I put a lot of Things I love , Like Corgis! Because they are so Adorable and one of my Favourite Dog Breed's! and Flowers (PINK FLOWERS) because I love the colour Pink :3 and Strawberries , Blueberries and Bubble Tea because I just Die at times for Bubble tea . The rainbow represents Colours because I love colours a LOT , Netflix because I Absolutely Love watching on Netflix! and in the corner Kawaii cause I love Kawaii Things!

Puaki

 
For this Reading Activity we had to Read a book Called Puaki , The reading Level ( Year 8 ) and it is a book about A guy who reviews people and things about Ta Moko's and tattoos that Maoris Get and
how important The traditions are .

Rubik's Cube

For tech we had to get a game (Not online Like a board game ) and we had
to talk a lot about it and Describe it and all the parts in the game , I chose a Rubik's cube
so heres  Things about a rubik's cube like : How to use a Rubik's cube .

An Admirable person (Explanation Writing)

 Here is another Explanation Writing , We had to write about a Job for me , Well we Actually had to choose a topic out of 3 Choices , Admirable person , A job for me , and celebrations , I choose Admirable person So come and take a look at my Practise of Explanation Writing ]

A Job for me (Explanation Writing)

[ For this here writing we had to plan + Read about explanation Writing and how to write a proper Explanation writing and the rules + Purpose of the writing ]

Adding Intergers

[ For this Activity , We had were learning how to subtract Intergers and we also learned the negative and the positives and how different they are ]
(Sorry If I got some Questions wrong)

Fast Talking PI

[ For this activity we had to Talk about poem's and how we can relate to it , Also we learned about Poetry and Different types ]

My Name

[For this Writing we had to write about what our name means and how we got

it] 

My name is a french name Choosen from a beautiful place in the world called Paris ,  I am named after My cousin Her name is Valessa like mine and she is a mother and finished university not long , how they choose my name was when I was a small little baby (Few months old) My mother asked her oldest sister (My aunty Mele)  that lives In USA . She was really honoured to pick me a name! she had a few suggestions but the name she really thought that would be beautiful and match me was the name Valessa , she thought it was a really great name . She thought the name was really perfect and my mother had few thoughts but she thought it would match too , to me my name means Lovely because my name is really lovely and because it match’s me quite well .  So thats how I got my name .

Visual Mihi Term 1

For this DLO we had to First Draw things that are important to us on Hyperstudio , Next we had to Take a photo of ourself on Photo Booth , Then we had to Trace ourselves (ONLY OUR FACE) After that we put the whole Project (Art) Together! the Cross and Bible Represents Church and That my Family always Prays , The Book shelf and books Represents My love for reading because at times I read LOTS of books at home (Chapter books Not Picture Books) and the tongan Flag represents me and my  family's culture , and the Word Friends and the sun Shows That my friends are important to me .

Adding & subbtracting Intergers

Today we were learning How to subbtract Intergers and we practised for a bit and me and my DMIC group learned how to do them and we also had to make posters of intergers and the rule of intrgers and subbtracting them .

Duffy assembly

                                             Duffy Assembly

Yesterday on Thursday 20th of  February Duffy came to our school to perfrom a play or put

on a show , We all went into the hall and their was a set up , as always and they sing songs and make shows about things , for example they were making a show about a mystical animal and how real it is . But this time they did a show about a animal mixed with 2 or 3 breed Half Cat Half chicken , The show was pretty entertaining if I do say so myself and of course their was singing and we all had to sing along . This show was pretty entertaining and I enjoyed it because it was funny at times and I liked the acting! The facial Exspressions , The Sounds , The acting and movements! . This show they did about the 2 breed animal was very cool and I enjoyed watching them prefrom a convincing Show , and what was even better was they had a book about the animal and it would be cool to read the book . 

Lazy Sneakers!

                                                Lazy sneakers

On wendnesday 19th of february a Caring Bussiness called Lazy sneakers came to Point England  school and gifted our school great Sneakers for the kids in Need and to help kids have other shoes , They came with over 100 sneakers for the kids here at Point England school whichfor kids here at Point England school to get great shoes which would be great because the shoes could be usefull like they could be used for sports if some kids didn't have fully covered or Sports shoes to run in , also children here at Point England school could gift them to other family/friends , I could tell kids did want the sneakers because I have been walking around the school seeing kids wearing the shoes and grabbing sneakers and trying them on! . This Caring Bussiness has helped a whole lot and now theirs a lot of kids running around the school looking after their Sneakers gifted from the wonderful Bussiness Lazy Sneakers! , our school is very grateful for such a lovely bussiness for gifting our school 

Lazy Sneakers! Thank you Lazy sneakers (: 

My letter about Myself

Kia ora , My name is Valessa . I am a year 7 in room 5 (Miss IIaoa’s class)
I am full- tongan and I was raised in auckland . I am named after my cousin ,
my name is a french name . I have three siblings , my big brother’s name is Sione . He is twenty-three years old and Goes to university in the city ,  my sister hilary
the second oldest is thirteen years old and just started college this year , my little brother Aisea is the youngest out of all of us which makes me the third oldest out of my siblings . Aisea is 8 years old turning 9 soon and is a year 4 , I enjoy drawing ,Writting , and playing with friends . I am a very shy girl and I dont often Talk to people much and im not very confident when it comes to speaking in front of people . I am not confident when it comes to swimming and speaking in front of 10 or more , I like to work idependantly at some times and perrfer to work alone at times so I can concentrate . My favourite food to eat is sushi and salmon because It tastes just amazing  ,my two hobbys I did when I was a little girl was Gymnastic , Ballet , and lastly . my favourite subject in school is probably writting because it lets me explore my imaginantion and have fun . When their are times where I dont really enjoy
things at school I try my best to find the bright side in it and I try just go
with it .

About me!

                         About me - 

Kia ora! My name is Valessa , Welcome to my blog  for 2020!

But first let me introduce myself for 2020 .  My name is Valessa. I am a year 7 learner in Room 5 Intermediate at Point England school In Miss IIaoa’s class , I am 11 years old turning 12 in a few more months and I'm pretty excited for this year and a lot nervous at the same time . My hobbies I usually do are writing and reading, at times I read, at times I write for fun . I am a bit too quiet and I don't really like raising my voice. I'm a very shy girl who isn’t very confident at speaking in front of more than 10 people or more! My favourite colours are pink , black , and white! , I enjoy painting and colouring and drawing even if I may not be the best at it but it's something I enjoy doing (: I also like to eat sushi because I love salmon and rice with soy sauce. Also I like tuna sushi! I have 2 brothers, one older that's 23 years old and one younger that is 8 years old. I also have 1 sister that's 13 years old that just started college this year in 2020 . 

              

My hero of the family

                                           The hero of My family 

[ First of all for this Writing We had to Write about who was the hero of our family for homework ]

 First of all , Welcome to my blog for 2020 and second of all Hello! I am here to tell you           about the hero of my family and why I think they're the hero of the family to me (: . He is

Kind and helps me with most of my problems I have and helps brighten up me and my other

siblings days at times . He's a great help and great support and does so much to help , He helps

me with work and helps support my siblings and me and me and my brother and sister just

can't thank him enough , he is really nice and just helps us all a lot and makes our days Great which helps us all a lot and he is a Great influence to us all and I love how supportive he is!