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.

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.