Marine wild life species!

                    Marine wild life species!

 

  For extension this term we'll be learning sustainability, biodiversity and marine life.

Picture and Tally Charts!

                  Picture and Tally Charts!

 

For this week one of my next choices were to do the picture and tally chart maths activity! Tally charts are something I enjoy doing, Tally charts are quite easy to understand and pretty fun to do!

Area and Volume of 2D and 3D shapes.

               Area and Volume of 2D and 3D shapes. 

 

This is the second maths activity I've done this week, this activity is about the volume of 2D and 3D shapes, first time doing the volume for 2D and 3D shapes.

Strip Graphs

                                 Strip Graphs. 

 

This week we've been given maths activities to choose from, for today I chose the strip graph activity. 

Koromiko poster

                                                Koromiko poster

                                                          

                            A poster about koromiko, a flowering plant, also known as willow-leaf hebe.

My two weeks holiday.

Two weeks break! 

For the past two weeks it had been the school holidays, a break from school, a bit of fresh air. 

Term 3 had just ended and so my 2 weeks holiday begun. I had planned to sleep through it all, similar to a bear in hibernation.That was what I had planned.What I intended to do. But most plans don’t go according to plan.

Sleep? ,Whats that? , never heard of it , well atleast I did ,but that was long before. PM to AM and AM to PM.Hearing the birds chirp was a sense of accomplishment .Slightly similar to the habits of those who binge watch. Long story short I stayed up and became sleep deprived. The End.

Or is it? …

Missing Lengths of Right Triangles!

                             Missing Lengths of Right Triangles! 1-

 

       Hello there! this week's work was a little challenging, but in other words after I got used to the problems it got easier for me to understand the solving and all that! Have you ever done this type of work before? 

if so, was it challenging?

 (Please ignore the fact it is 10pm and I am posting this)

Tonga explanation writing.

     Tonga

Have you ever heard of Tonga? Ever visited? If not this writing will surely help you understand the country Tonga!

What is Tonga? Tonga you ask, Tonga is a country located in the south pacific, an Island home to over 104,494 people, (The population in 2019, surely it’s grown bigger) The people there are very kind. The British explorer, navigator James Cook had landed on the Island on the 2nd of October 1773 and stated it as the “Friendly Island” due to the warm welcome he recieved. 

The people in Tonga are friendly, from my experience of going there once they were all very nice, the children are very lively. The people see each other as family. The beaches there are very beautiful, as a kid I enjoyed going down to the beach where the children had played with me and the adults watched as the children swam. 

You may have seen the flag before, the flag of Tonga consists of a red field with a white canton charged with a red couped cross. The flag symbolises purity. The red of the flag represents the crucifixion and the sacrifice of the blood of Christ. At Tonga Church is important, every saturday like other people at other countries the people go to Church including the children. They all sit in halls and sing songs, pray. At times there is usually feeds (Feasts) in a big hall where everyone gathers and eats. 

The food there is very different compared to the food from the city and towns. At Tonga there is usually always Lu, ever tried it? The drink I’ve drank many times as a kid there was Otai, a drink made from fruits, my favourite was the watermelon flavour and the mango. My favourite to eat was always Ota ika though. 

One day you should definitely visit! 

Te whare tapa wha : Taha Whanau

       

                       Taha Whanau

The coordinate plane

                                           The coordinate plane!

     This week for maths we've been learning about coordinates, check it out! Have you ever learnt about coordinates? in terms of how hard this was I'd give it a 3/10 it did take a little time but otherwise pretty easy.

Classifying Numbers :

                                     Classifying numbers 

  

                This week for maths class we were given a slides to complete, we were also given a 

        Edpuzzle video for us to get a little knowledge about how classifying numbers work.

How to be Normal?

 

Ever heard of bullying or anxiety? 

Athlete diet

                                              Athlete diet 

 

                     If you were an athlete what would your athlete diet be? this would probably be mine.

Yuzuru Hanyu diet

  

As you know or if you don't know, The Olympic games were held. Many people participated this year, this term the theme is "Healthy me Healthy you" and the Olympic games includes sports. We chose an Athlete to research their diet, I chose an Figure Skater, my favourite, which is Yuzuru Hanyu. A Japanese figure skater.

Controversial Topic : Tokyo Olympics

                                   Controversial Topic

  

The Tokyo Olympics have now ended, it ended not long ago. First of all, did you watch the Tokyo Olympics? if you haven't I suggest you take a little watch. Anyways, for today in year 7&8 extension (Creative space) this slide-show is about 'Controversial Topic' and the topic is about the Tokyo Olympics, I worked in a group with Aye, Simon and Nadia. 

Cybersmart challenge! : Comments.

                                 Cybersmart challenge! 

         Today in room four we did blog commenting, our goal was to do lots of blog comments, many of the students in the class did many quality blog comments, including me. As you can see this is a comment I left on Nadia, my classmate and a friend, you can check out the comment or her blog here Nadia's blog

Emma Twigg

                            Emma Twigg.

 

In literacy class earlier every group got an Olympic athlete, my group was given Emma Twigg, we were 

given articles/ videos to watch/read then do an activity based on her.

Chair Advertisement

                                                  Chair Advertisement. 

 

  Today in room one literacy we've been looking at ad's, we've even done one of our own based on the objects in our classroom. Mine is based off the teacher's chairs. There was a challenge to see who made the top ad for top three selected from Mr Moran and two that were voted the most. 

Kei te pehea koe? / How are you?

                                      Kei te pehea koe? 

  

   Today for te reo maori we did another activity, "kei te pehea koe?" how are you?

first lesson this term!

Should we have a longer school day?

  Should we have a longer school day?

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                     We all should know how exhausting school is right?..

But, what if school were longer? What if it had gone for longer than six hours? Today I’ll be discussing about why I disagree with school being longer, School is exhausting, parents can be worried, we all deserve a break!

School, a very exhausting place to learn, although it does teach us many new information we all need a break don’t we? School should at least give us hours off from school, I mean in primary we go to school for six years, that’s a lot. Next after that we have intermediate, add two more years which makes nine years, don’t forget college! school is very tiring for children/teens and people at university. I think that more than nine years learning should be lots. 

Staying away from school more than six hours? 

Many parents may be a little strict about how long their children can go somewhere without them, after three/two thirty it gets a little dark around four so that may worry parents, parents can be worried every easily which wouldn’t be very helpful for the school, and if the child gets way too exhausted it could worry their parents.

Relaxing after school, 

After a day of work kids are tired right? Don’t you just wanna flop onto your bed? Sleep or have a relaxing time at home doing what you want? School is very exhausting and stressful which can lead children to feeling anxious at some points, after school I usually feel a relieved. Getting a longer break after school helps children take their mind off of school for the past few hours until bed time, we all try our best at school for six hours on monday til friday, we all deserve to spend the rest of our hours at home relaxing. 

My point is, having a longer day at school can lead to other things and I disagree with the statement that we should have a longer school day.

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Today my reading group did persuasive writing, it was sort of like a little test for our literacy teacher to see what we need help us with, we were given statements to choose from and I chose "Should we have a longer day at school?"

Ki te aha poster

 

Ki te aha?

                  As you know we learnt about 'ki te aha' today, heres a little poster showing the information I already know, if you'd like you can learn this too, This'll help.

                                                                  

                                                          

                 

Ki te aha?

                                     Ki te aha?

     

Today in Te reo with Miss Tapuke we learnt about "Ki te aha" meaning, 'what for?' 

Speech - Oral presentations.

                               Speeches - Oral presentations. 

  

This week team five have been preparing speeches, in Mr Moran's literacy class 

we've been practising a speech just for a practice. We've been given topics to write about

for my practice speech I've choosen 'healthy lunches matter' its takes fifty-four seconds for me 

to present, I also have already prepared my own speech that I've choosen.

Practical Percentages

                        Practical Percenatges ((Repost))

Lately this week and past few weeks we've been working on fractions but now 

we've moved onto percentages which is said to be useful in the fututre/ tests.

Trip to KPMG

 The trip to KPMG!

Yesterday the  year 7 & 8 extension group and a few selected group of year 7’s and 8’s went on a trip to a building called ‘KPMG’ down at the city, we left at 9:00am on a bus to the city. This was however my first time here, each term the extension group and others go down to KPMG. At KPMG we do many things like have a tour around the big building and onto each floor. It was quite a sight, many busy busy people. After touring we ate lunch which was multiple delicious food and did lots of experiments in groups. 

Experiencing this was a fun experience, all the facts we learnt there and this was a great learning opportunity to learn different things about space, working and many more.

The KPMG workers were all very kind and hard workers.

I would love to take another visit next term or perhaps another time!

Quality blog post challenge

 Quality blog post challenge 

 

Today in room four we learnt about 'quality blog posts' and different ways how to edit and make a quality

blog post, if you're gonna post your work it would be nice to make it a quality post so it'll be worth you're readers/viewers time.

Thinking Critically

                              Thinking Critically

   

 

Today instead of maths we've been given a literacy task in room 4, this was about thinking 

critically and about the understanding of articles/what we read basically.

Perfect Perimeter

                                  Perfect Perimeter

  

  

For Maths today we learnt about Perimeter and Area, we're learning to calculate area and perimeter.

Egypt information report.

                                               Egypt information report.

• Tombs

                 People in egypt don’t Be put in graves and buried into the ground like usual Instead  they get put into tombs and wrapped in bandages, dead people are stored in tombs. Egyptians believed that once a person dies their spiritual body would continue to live in the afterlife, Tombs used to be dug in the dry desert but however this did not continue because Animals dug up the tombs. 

 

Since the people of  Egypt had many believes about the afterlife/ etc, in tombs there can be found things such as food, furniture and many other things a person would need in the afterlife.

 

Flat tombs that are made in Egypt are called mastabas, made out of mud brick or stone.

 

• Pyramids  

Pyramid, In egypt are made out of  limestone, pyramids are built by the egyptians and have been in egypt for centuries. Pyramids are also an tourist attraction and attract many tourists from all over the world. Pyramids are around 4,500 years ago.

Climbing pyramids are banned and dangerous and climbing an pyramid would give you around 3 years of prison.

Kiwi kids news read off

                           Kiwi kids news read off.     

  

Walt : Locate and summarise ideas within a range of text

Today for literacy we did a task about reading articles, Basically we went on a site called

'kiwi kids news' and found articles to read and then complete questions about the article we 

read. Feel free to check out articles in your own time if you'd like.

Dazzling Decimals

     Dazzling Decimals

We are learning to add and subtract up to three decimal places. We are learning to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.

What is 244/1000 as a decimal? 0.244

What is 55/100 as decimal? 0.55

What is 12/1000 as a decimal?  0.012

What is ½ as a decimal?  0.5

What is ¼ as a decimal? 0.25

What is ⅕  as a decimal?0.2

What is ⅛ as a decimal? 0.125

0.45 + 0.42 = 0.87

0.56 + 0.17 = 0.73

0.67 + 0.91 = 1.58

0.555 + 0.014 = 0.569

0.7 - 0.45 = 0.35

0.55 - 0.45 = 0.1

0.76 - 0.29 = 0.47

2.5 - 0.78 = 1.72

1.7 - 0.999 = 0.701

0.934 - 0. 244= 0.69

0.944 - 0. 119 = 0.825

50/100 = 50%

1/10 = 10% 

0.4 = 40%

0.05 =5%

0.9 = 90%

Write the following as a decimal, fraction and percentage

Fraction	Decimal	Percentage
1/4	0.25	25%
1/4	0.25	25%
1/5	0.2	20%
1/8	0.125	12.5%
	0.55	55%
5/1000/	0.005	0.5%
	0.06	6%
2/2
1/50
1/25

Why Does Matter Matter?

 Why Does Matter Matter?

1. The three basic properties of matter are : Volume, mass & Shape

2. All matter is made up of tiny particles called: atoms

3. Volume is the amount of : amount of the space 

4. Mass is the amount of :  amount of matter an object has

5. Liquid take the shape of their : Container

6. Gases do not have definite shape or volume.

7. Mass do not have a definite shape, but they have a definite volume.

8. Solids have a definite shape and volume.

9. A tree and a ice block are examples of solids 

10. Water and milk are examples of liquids 

11. Oxygen and helium are examples of gas. 

Solid ice is melting when it is changing into a liquid.

The jacket : Part 5

 The jacket : Part 5 

 

Note : Many predictions I have for the next chapter/chapters 

In this chapter, as you know Phil thinks he's prejudice, but today it couldn't get any worser.

He notices a little 'tension' between his father and Lucy. Could his father be perhaps prejudice?

The Jacket : Part 4

The Jacket : Part 4 

  

Note : This book is pretty enjoyable so far!

Part four has been completed, Reading the chapter was pretty easy and didn't take long to answer the questions. 

The Jacket : Part 3

   The Jacket : Part 3

  

Are you prejudice? This week and last week we've been reading a book called 'The jacket'

its a story between a light skinned coloured boy ((Lets say light skinned)) and a dark skinned boy ((Dark skinned to be more polite about it)) and this boy think's he's prejudice because of an conflict that happened earlier with him and an light skinned boy.

Watch this space diorama

                                                                    Watch this space!

                     In extension for this term the theme is 'Watch this space' In extension we're in groups of 2-3 people, I'm in a group with two of my classmates Aye & Nadia. We're planning on making a dioramama based on space, Planning on paper so far and this is what we have.

Watch This Space (Extension Presentation)

Roman colosseum

                                                       Roman colosseum

                           Heard of the colosseum?, haven’t? Well then..

The roman colosseum, located in Rome ((Capital of italy)) built in either 70 AD or 72 AD, built by a man named emperor vespasian. Sadly he died before it was built since it took around eight years to build but was opened by his son emperor titus. a construction used in the olden days for the entertainment of people.  The purpose of this  building was for entertainment, In this building battles between mankind and animals like tigers, lions, bears and brutal fights were held. This is a little  like a circus ((made for entertainment)) but more combat, fights and no funny business.

Its walls are built of stone , brick & Concrete!, I’ve heard its endured for two thousand years which Is a very long time, 50,000 seats for a big audience since it was popular back in rome centuries ago. Sturdy brick wall, 260 feet or 189 metres long, 512 feet or 156 metres wide. 158 feet or 50 metres tall. 

Would I like to vist myself? 

I would absolutely love to see or visit this colosseum in the future one day, that is if it’s still there. 

All the history filling that place would been great to experience. Just imagining all the events happening centuries ago and standing there now where others stood. But I wouldn’t like to see the horrors of the events happening with my own two eyes, It would truly be very terrifying.

“Does this seem familiar to you?” 

 

 

Decimal Fractions

                               Decimal Fractions 

The jacket

                                          The jacket.

  

a task about a book called "The jacket" In this activity its based off part one of 

The story.

Fia Fia Night!

 

Theories on our Solar System

                             Theories on our Solar System.

       

  

   For a task in Extension I worked with two of my classmates, Nadia & Aye. 

It's not quite finished but it's still a work in progress. Basically this is about our theories on planets in the solar system things like that.

My leadership goals.

                                         My leadership goals.

   

Last week while year 8's left to camp the year 7's had their step up program for the rest of the week. 

Year 8's who didn't go helped out with the activities. 

Fresh fractions

              Fresh Fractions

We are learning to find fractions of a whole and of a set.

We are learning to add and subtract fractions

What is 1/4 of 4?  4

What is ¼ of 8? 2

What is ⅓ of 6? 3

What is 2/6 of 12? 2

What is ¼ of 20? 4

What is 1/10 of 20 10

What is ⅔ of 30? 20

What is ⅕ of 25? 5

5 of my friends are sharing a large chocolate bar. What fraction of the bar would they get each? 25/25

4 of us are sharing a chocolate cake. What do we cut it up into? 

8/8

12 of us are sharing a chocolate cake. What do we cut it up into?

12/12

I have 5/16 of a cake at a birthday party. I keep going back for more and eat another  6/16 of a cake. What fraction of a cake have I eaten altogether? 

11/16 

I have 10/21 of a cake left over from the party. Then I give 6/21 of a cake to my sisters. What fraction of a cake do I have left over?

5/21

⅓ + ⅔ = 4

¾ + ¾ =2

⅕ + ⅗ = 6

⅘ - ⅗ = 6

5/10 - 1/10 = 6/14

55/60 - 40/60 = 30

12/20 + 17/20 = 11

Have a go at these!

½ + 3/4 = 2 

2/6 + ⅔ = 5

⅕ + 2/10 = 10

2/6 + 4/12 = 12

2/5 + 3/15 = 14

1/9 + 1/18 = 18

2/9 + 4/18 = 27

mathletics

                                                    Mathletics 

                    

                                  Today on Thursday, 6th of may room 4 did Mathletics, we were put into a group with people we haven't worked with before. I was put into a group with Nina, Rae-Jae, Chaun & kiarah. There were six groups, I was put in team five. Basically all six teams were competing against each other to see who gets the most points.