Stem and Leaf graphs

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This is one of my maths tasks! It's all about stem and leaf graphs. I hope you enjoy :)

The Man in The Painting

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This is one of my literacy tasks where we had to write a short story about an artwork coming alive and we could choose any picture for the story to be based off of. I chose the picture down below which I actually realised was Zach King.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this short little narrative! <3

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KATE HAD ALWAYS FOUND the art museum quite boring. Her definition of an art museum would be, “endless paintings of people and everyday objects.”

Her mother however, would believe the total opposite. Which is pretty much why they were at the new art museum in town. Kate dragged her feet across the floor, exhausted and dying of boredom. Her mother playfully rolled her eyes at Kate’s state. “Fine.” Her mother sighed. “We’ll look at a few portraits in the room ahead and then we’ll go.”

Kate happily claps her hands together and ecstatically nods. The room was empty, just the paintings, Kate, and her mother. Kate decides to do something she would’ve never expected she’d do: She was actually willingly looking at the art. Surprisingly, the portraits were actually very interesting. The contrast between each artists art style for human portraits varied.

Kate’s eyebrows knitted together as her eyes focused on a portrait of a man. The bottom half of his face was painted red, the nose was a mix between yellow and orange, and his forehead, white. Kate wondered why some artists did these sort of things in portraits. It was where they used colors that were quite an odd choice for a human in a portrait. She shrugged it off, turning her head to look at a different artwork.

As she turned her back on the portrait, she felt as if somebody's eyes were on her backside. In hopes of catching someone, or something off guard, she quickly spins back around only to be met with nothing out of the ordinary. She brushes the thought off, heading towards her mother. “Can we go home now, mother?” Kate asks, taking a glance at the portrait her mother was standing in front of. “In a bit.” Her mother replies, taking a picture of the artwork. Kate nods before turning her head back in the direction of the painting she was previously at.

“What the heck.” She mumbles, her eyes widening. She quickly made her way towards the portrait. She swore she had just seen the guy in the painting’s head peek outside of it’s frame, his right hand holding onto the bottom of the frame and his left hand, touching the wall. Much to her surprise, the man placed a finger on his lips indicating for her to keep quiet. But Kate did the total opposite. “Mother- This- The painting, it just moved!” She exclaims, keeping her eyes on the painting. The man silently freaks out, and tenses up as he returns to his original posture.

“It did no such thing, love.” Her mother responds, shaking her head and not turning to look. “But it literally-” Kate began. “Come on, we best be going now.” Her mother says, cutting Kate off. Kate sighed, following her mother out.

I am definitely checking that painting out next time.

Two way probability tables

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This is my maths task for today. It features graphs and is about probability!
This task was quite fun to complete.
Also, my exit ticket score ended up being 5/8 because I wrote "100 student's" instead of just "100" and I got the 'name the graph' question wrong, even though I thought it would've been somewhat correct.

But anyway, have a lovely rest of your day <3

Translating phrases into Tuvaluan

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This is one of my literacy tasks and it was to translate some phrases into Tuvaluan because it is
Tuvaluan language week!

Title it Monday! Week 7

Hi; Hope you are having an amazing day :)

As you may know I literally have done almost no work during this lockdown period so here we are.
This is a task room 1 literacy were given and it's quite easy so I completed it. It's basically like memes but they have kinda bad humour because I made them. Oh and basically all we had to do was add the captions, Mr Moran put the animal pictures there.

Have an lovely rest of your day/night <3

hi, aye here!

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if u watch mlb, (miraculous ladybug) and/or IT you would understand

and yes i have more than 30 fictional and celeb crushes, what about it? 🤨

Aloe vera drink advertisement

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Today for literacy, we had to make an advertisement for anything in our house. I chose to do this aloe vera drink in my house. I hope you enjoy, bye :)

Quirky writing challenge

Room 1 Literacy did another quirky writing challenge! I finished this one yesterday, it's kind of short and sort of repeats the same thing a few times? But anyway, the person is Jojo Siwa and the object is toilet paper :)

Jojo Siwa | toilet paper

Statement: why Jojo Siwa should have her own toilet paper brand

1) Jojo Siwa’s introduction, who she is, ect.
2) Why should she have her own toilet paper brand?
3) Why would it benefit the public as well?

Jojo Siwa, a famous Tiktoker, former dancer on Dance Moms, Youtuber, and a role model to many children. Her career all started off with Dance Moms and being apart of the Abby Lee Dance Company. Jojo is known for her unique and stereotypically ‘childish’ style: A tight side ponytail accompanied with a colourful bow, along with a neon and, (most of the time) glittery outfit.

Many children look up to Jojo and so a toilet paper brand would be ideal for them. Imagine having toilet paper imprinted with Jojo’s magnificent face on it. I’d be amazed and in love! We all know how amazing toilet paper is by itself, so add the thought of it being from Jojo’s own toilet paper brand? An amazing thought, that is.

The public would absolutely adore owning toilet paper from her brand. I can just see it now, Jojo’s bows and face imprinted over the soft and delicate pieces of toilet paper. It’d get many peoples’ attention and also benefit her. The hashtag would be trending on every social media platform, #jojostoiletpaperisthebest.

So in conclusion, Jojo Siwa should most definitely have her own toilet paper brand. It’d be unique, stylish, trendy, and adorable. It’d be easy to afford as well. Priced at only $10 at the minimum and $20 at the most. There’d be different sizes to include more rolls of toilet paper as well. So, I hope you enjoyed this piece of writing. Do take her getting her own toilet paper brand into consideration for the future or the present.

Cybersmart challenge - about me

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Room 4 did another cybersmart challenge today. We made some google drawings and added images of ourselves, about ourselves, and things we like. This is my one. It took a bit of time changing it to make me satisfied but overall, I think it turned out pretty decent.

Just so you know, '<3' is basically a heart. I think it's cute which is why it's on the drawing :)

(also, in the 'family friends' picture, yes, that is Mike

Wazowski with Harry Styles' hair and clothes on.

it was just edited onto the picture)

Simone Biles' Diet

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Room 4 had to choose an athlete who were in the olympics. I chose Simone Biles who is a gymnast that competed in the olympics. This task wasn't too hard, I searched up 'Simon Biles diet' and got these 4 images that consist of her regular diet. I'm not sure if this is a recent version and if she still follows this diet but I hope it's somewhat correct :)

Blog Commenting

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Mr Ferguson who works with Maniakalani, visited our classroom today! He said a short recap about how to make a positive comment on other peoples' blogs. We then went off to do our own commenting, even turning it into a little challenge.

I think this experience was really fun and I'd love to do it again. But, we already know how to comment on other peoples' blogs and we've done it many times before :)

Here's a few of the comment's I did:

Precious Mckenzie

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Yesterday we, (room 4) went to the Life Caravan so we didn't get to do the last rotation for health module. So today, we went to room 3 with Mrs Tele'a and learnt about Precious Mckenzie. Below is the short notes that were taken about him while we were watching the video :)

Mufti to school everyday?

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We have been looking at persuasive writing. We had to choose a topic to write about in persuasive writing style. I chose the topic, 'should students be allowed to wear mufti everyday?'. Here is my answer and writing. Maybe I was successful into persuading you into my opinion? :)

My answer: no, at least not everyday.

Three main points:

- Because of the many different school activities we have during the day, (sports, art etc), there would be a lot of washing and clothes going to waste.

- There would be dress code and nobody likes dress code.

- People might get teased for what they wear.

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A good amount of students would probably want to wear mufti to school everyday. Perhaps to show a new piece of clothing they got. Or maybe they would rather prefer to express themselves through clothes instead of being stuck to wearing uniform. But the point is, should they be allowed to wear mufti at school?

Many students have an interest in sports. Specifically, rugby and most of the time, things get quite intense and it would result in muddy uniform. Even paint can get on our uniforms. That could result in upsetti spaghetti moms. So if we were to allow students to wear mufti, could you imagine how much money would go to waste? And how much washing there’d be?

We rarely get dress coded because of the fact we wear uniform and every now and then, somebody has to get a dress pass because their not wearing the Pt England School polo shirt. If mufti was allowed everyday, some students could be quite immature and might wear something with something inappropriate on it. And I doubt anybody wants to get dress coded and have to wear somebody else's' clothes.

Let’s face the fact that there would probably be people teasing others for what they wear. Maybe it’s due to the difference in style, but some people find the opportunity to tease somebody for anything. The idea of mufti everyday could possibly lower somebody’s self esteem just because of them wearing clothes they enjoy being in. Nobody should have to deal with that.

In conclusion, students should not be able to wear mufti everyday. Of course when the occasional mufti day, wacky hair day, or wheels day comes up, it’s more than OK for somebody to wear mufti because that’s an exception.

Dame Valerie Adams Info graphic

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Today, my home class and I watched 2 videos about Valerie Adams. After watching them, we had to go off and create an info graphic about her. Specifically a value of hers, what we already knew about her, what we want to know, and some things we learnt. Oh and also, when I wrote 'plays shot put', I meant 'does shot put' :) 

The Olympics

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My class and I watched a short video about the Olympics. We went off and had to make our own presentation about what we learnt, knew before, and found out :)

Versatile Volume P1

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This is my maths task for today. It's about volume. I didn't get to finish it because we focused on volume only during the maths time. I'll try to edit it and do the maths at home :)

Term 3: Healthy Me, Healthy You

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Today is the first day back at school and it is now officially Term 3! This term's inquiry theme is, 'Healthy Me, Healthy You'. We are focusing on our health both mentally and physically. This inquiry theme was also probably inspired by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

An immersion assembly was held this morning and we were able to see each teams' movies and play.

I personally enjoyed Team 5's one, (which was a play of the Olympics), because it was quite entertaining. Miss Hall even did a cartwheel!

However I also quite enjoyed Team 3's movie. Miss Scanlan was the main character who was basically in a game. In the first round, she stayed up late playing games, didn't eat breakfast, and didn't have a healthy lunch. This resulted in her losing hearts, which sort of resembles her health.

But there was round 2 and in that round, she managed to earn hearts back by making the correct, (and better) choices.

It's been a great start to Term 3 so far. I can't wait to see what this term has in store for us :)

Team 3:

Team 5:

Watch This Space animation

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This is my Watch This Space animation for this term. It's kinda short so sorry about that but I still hope you enjoy! :)

 

1.7 E hia enei?

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This is my te reo task for te reo for rotations. Finau and I worked on it together. It's about how many there are. Check out Finau's blog here: here!

Adios amigo :)

Practical Percentages

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This is my maths task about percentages. I did just level one for this because the questions were kinda hard.

Adios amigo :)

The Moon

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This is my moon artwork I made along with Nadia, Rae Jae, and Madi. We all made our own moons though. You might wanna check out their moon's as well. We made them out of tissue paper, pva glue and paint.

Anyways, here are some of my favourite facts about the moon:

The space between the earth and the moon can fit around 30, (I think) earth sized planets!

The moon is earth's natural satellite meaning it orbits the earth.

The moon is also responsible for the tides/waves

The moon isn't made out of cheese, it's made out of a piece of the earth that broke off millions of years ago.

The moon is covered in craters caused by asteroids, some are kilometres deep. 

KPMG trip

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Yesterday the year 7 & 8 extension crew along with a few other selected students, Mr J, Rima, (Nadia's brother) and Miss West, went to KPMG! We left school at around 9 AM and came back at around 2:15 PM.

This blog post is a recount/summary of what we did during the time we spend at KPMG. But first, if you don't know what KPMG is, 'KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and territories and in FY20 had close to 227,000 people working in member firms around the world'.

An amount of the year 8's have already been to KPMG once before but for the majority of us, we haven't been. Once we walked into the KPMG building, everything looked so proper and fancy you could say.

Once we went inside the little 'hangout' room we'd be staying in for pretty much the whole day, the people working at KPMG that would be staying with us throughout the day, introduced themselves and told us what department they work in. 

From what I can remember, there was John, Jack, Christine, and Justine. There was also another man but I don't know how to spell his name. If I'm correct, his name is from the Indian culture.

Oh and also, there was this long comfy couch. Justine said that if there was no more space on the couch, you'd have to sit on the carpet. I was able to sit on the couch.

After the small introduction from them, we were told to split into four groups of eight, (I think). My group was Simon, Nadia, Yolanda, Lily-May, Finau, Adriana, and Valessa. I don't think there was anybody else in our group though.

But anyways, once we were split into these groups, we were passed around paper little tag things that had one out of the four element's on it for each group. Fire, water, air, and I can't remember the last one, (excuse my sucky memory). It had something to do with earth? The ground? I'm not sure.

But anyways, we wrote our names on the tags and my group was fire. Once we wrote our names on the papers, we were given out these pins/badges we'd put the paper in for the workers at KPMG to know what our names were.

To summarise what happened next, we separated with the others in our groups to take a tour of the KPMG offices etc. We went with a guy named John. We said hello to the mail lady that took care of the mail that KPMG received and even got to take a look inside the kitchen! We were given a good insight of their techniques of cooking- a good speed yet delicate and the food looked fantastic.

This made us even more excited for morning tea which would take place after the 30 minute tour. During the tour, we took the elevator, some stairs, said hello to a few workers and spotted some of the other groups.

But once we finished taking a look at the different parts of the KPMG building, we went back into the little 'hangout' area where we were able to have morning tea! I forgot what we had for morning tea but I do remember there were fruits however I don't know the name of the other foods, oop-

After eating, Christine gave us a more detailed 'about me' about her. She goes to university at Pennsylvania in America! Apparently, (if I heard correctly), Joe Biden used to be a professor at her university! That's so cool-

Mr J asked her how she's a student at an university at America but works at New Zealand, she said that due to the coronavirius pandemic, she was brought back to New Zealand. However, she said she'd go back to America after around 2 months.

She explained how she was passionate about how we can help planet earth. She handed out these foots, (paper foots might I add, 'foots' sounds weird), and she said we had to write/draw how we were going to help the earth.

Once we finished that, (I don't even know if this is the correct order), a guy named Jack helped us make some experiments that we had to do with our team. We had to make a spinner that spins without us touching it.

This is what the other groups' experiments were:

Air: Put these acidic and alkaline substances, (liquids such as baking soda) to blow up a balloon. I don't think that was what their literal challenge was, but that's how they figured it out.

Water: Put these substances like vinegar and baking soda in the trays. Then put ice cubes in them to see which one would met the fastest.

Earth: They made oobleck! Oobleck is a substance that's solid once pressure is applied and a liquid when poured- how cool! There was this long word for that sort of thing but I forgot it; Oops.

After our experiments, we had lunch! Lunch was sliders, chicken tenders, spring rolls, some fruit and something else I think.

After that we marked the quiz we did, (I seriously forgot the order we did this stuff in), we had to mark another groups quiz and they got 2nd place while we got third. We did good but it didn't really matter who was first or last. The winning team however, received a little bag prize thing. I'm not sure what was inside but it looked really cool! Good job to them :)

Towards the end of the day, we made up our own planets on these paper sheets they gave us. My planet was called 'Fauna' which is a planet with only animals. Kauri came and checked out my planet while also showing me his one which was planet Toes.

Its Kauri we're talking about anyways so I wasn't that surprised. Miss West chose me to say the 'thank you' and this is what I said:

"On behalf of this group, I'd like to say thank you for this wonderful learning opportunity and an insight on what goes on here at KPMG. I hope we can come back in the future and have just as much fun, if not, even more.. Um yeah."

THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT I SAID-

I sounded so awkward but anyways, Nadia helped me with that because Miss West told me earlier just so I could plan what I was gonna say.

But sadly our time at KPMG came to an end as we said our goodbyes but they gave us these cups that had a milky way chocolate, (now that I think of it, I get it now. Like 'milky-way'? The galaxy? Y'know?), candy sticks, paper with things that either said 'telescope', 'earth', 'moon', 'star' or something else. But the best part was these mini aliens!

There was green ones, (basic green screen looking dudes), yellow ones, (lemonade) blue ones, (mega mind), and orange ones, (orange juice). But like their eyes were painted red and the paint wasn't all neat making it look like the alien's were crying blood-

Anyways, that's the end of the KPMG trip! I hope you enjoyed what I thought was going to be a short recount that turned into a long one. Adios amigo :)

Topic 5- Flower Power

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This is topic 5 of science at tech. I worked with Autumn for this one, it was quite fun. Thank you for checking my blog out, adios amigo :)

Topic 4- Floating and Sinking

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This is topic 4 of science at tech. Adriana and I worked on this task together as well! Thank you for checking out my blog, adios amigo :)

Topic 3- Testing out Labortory Equipment

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This is one of my science tech lessons I didn't post before. Adriana and I worked together for this one! Thank you for looking on my long, adios amigo :)

Thinking Critically

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This is my reading task but I had to have a reading test so I didn't finish it. Hope you enjoy! :) 

Perfect Perimeter

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This is my maths task for today. It is about perimeter, area, and also volume :)

Information Report about Mars

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This is an information report on Mars. This was written a long time ago, I thought I posted it but apparently not so here it is. I hope you like it- I think I did it good enough :)

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Just like Earth, Venus and, Mercury, Mars is a Terrestrial planet meaning it has a rocky surface. Our “Red Planet” that is fourth away from the Sun is known to be the second most habitable planet, first being Earth.

Apparently, Scientists have found small traces of the Martian atmosphere within meteorites that have came from Mars onto Earth. This probably intrigued the Scientists to begin studying Mars and also to launch some space missions.

Mars actually has the largest dust storms in our solar system! They can last for months and they cover the entire planet. This is definitely something that we should know about the Red Planet before we try living on it. Living on Mars could have some pro’s and con’s and the dust storms are definitely one of the cons.

There are a few signs of liquid water on Mars although, for years Mars has been known to have water in the form of ice and not liquid. The first signs of water are dark stripes or stains on crater wall and cliffs which have been seen in satellite images! However, due to Mars’ atmosphere, this water would have to be salty to be able to prevent it from freezing or vaporising. So potentially from that fact, salty water may be able to stay liquid on Mars but we’d need fresh water to drink if we moved there.

Apparently one day Mars will have a ring! In the next 20-40 million years, Mars’ biggest moon, Phobos, will be torn apart by gravitational forces which’ll lead to the creation of a ring that could be able to last up to 100 million years! So maybe Mars will end up looking something like Saturn? This’ll also mean that Mars would be left with one moon after Phobos is torn apart!

Sunsets on Mars are blue! Imagine how pretty it’d look yet different from Earth’s sunsets. During the martian day, the sky is a pinkish-red, this is the opposite of the Earth’s skies. If we were to live on Mars, we’d have to get used to the new colours of the sky. The colour of the planets’ skies depend on that planets atmosphere and also the Solar Spectrum.

Mars, one of the 3 Terrestrial planets, will we be able to one day live on it?

Why does matter, matter?

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This morning we learnt a bit about the three matters. We were given paper sheets with the questions and had to answer them on a doc :)

The Jacket - Part 3

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This is my reading task. It's part 3 of The Jacket. I will be working on Part 4 now since Mr Moran isn't here and we have a reliever :)

The Seasons

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This is my science task from today about the four seasons. We didn't really do much science, we just did this task about the seasons and it includes subjects like the torrid zone :)

Space diorama plan- extension

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Today we had extension and my group, (Valessa and Nadia) drew a layout/brainstorm for our space diorama creation! We haven't started it yet but we will make a start on it soon.

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1.4 No hea koe?

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This is my Te Reo task for today. I did it with Finau, you should check out her blog here: http://pesfinauf.blogspot.com/

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Decimal Fractions

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This is my maths task for today and it's about decimals and fractions. One of the questions I didn't do because the denominator is different and since Mrs Stone is testing somebody, I couldn't ask her but I'll edit it once I find out.

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Topic 3- Testing out Laboratory Equipment

 Aim or Purpose: 

Measure an exact amount of sugar (10 grams) and dissolve in water to make a solution. 

-Thermometer

- Weighing Machine 

- Stop Watch 

- Spatula 

- Pipette 

Method: 

Measure the cold water and time how long it takes for the sugar to dissolve in the cold water. Then we measured the hot water’s temperature and timed how long it takes the sugar to be dissolved in the hot water. 

Temperatures and times- the results:

Cold water temperature- 23 to 24s

Time salt dissolves- 1:20

Hot water temperature: 80

Time salt dissolves: 15 to 16s

The Jacket - Part 2

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This here is part 2 of The Jacket after reading chapter 2! I hope you enjoy and I will do the create task at home. We also did a 'hot seat' thingy when our group was gathered together with Mr Moran at the table. I had to be Daniel and recount my perspective of the cafeteria situation as Daniel whilst the other people in my group asked me questions.

It was super fun and personally, I feel like I did amazing at being Daniel :)

The Jacket - Part 1

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This is part 1 of my reading task of The Jacket. We had to predict what we think was gonna happen in chapter 2 :)

Fiafia 2021

                

Wow, what a night! Last night we participated in our Pt England Fiafia or cultural festival. It was a huge success with a range of acts from Hip Hop to Kapa Haka. It was a huge success with a massive crowd and delicious foodstalls!

This is Aaron's reflection of the night: 

Yesterday was Fiafia day and there were so much food gathered in the table. There were drinks, and food. I don't know what kind of food there are because i didn't have time to try them but i didn't mind. When the big show started the crowd went WILD! They were excited to see our traditional moves.

My favourite dance was the year 7 and 8 Hip Hop, it made me kind of jealous and i want to join them so badly. My second favourite was the junior hip hop group and it was funny!. The way how Blessing's little brother danced was wild and he showed some moves that wasn't even in the dance!

This is Kiarah's reflection:

Last night was our 2 year annual FIA FIA, this is where the whole school is split into different culture groups. I was in the Tongan Girls group, and I had so much fun dressing up and dancing on the stage. Each group had their turn, but we were 5th to last! We got to see majority of the groups dance's, except for year 4-6 hip hop and the Myanmar group. My favourite groups were the Bollywood, because of the upbeat music and groovy dancing. My other favourite was the junior Jump Jam, because they had moves that put smiles on everyone's faces. It was overall a great night and we were cheering so loud that people lost their voices. Unfortunately this was our last FIA FIA, but maybe we can watch the others in the future. 

Fiafia 2021

Last night was Fiafia 2021 for the student's of Pt England School. The many practises we had before hand definitely came in handy for the night!

At 4:30, most of the student's, including me, came to get dressed into our costumes.

(Like that but blue).

It was quite nerve racking but in the end it was super fun and I loved all of the performances! My favourites probably being Bollywood, (as their jewellery, gems, and outfits were stunning), senior hip hop (their dance was very cool), and senior Samoan group because they were all in sync and it looked beautiful.

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Topic 2- Laboratory Information

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The year 7's had tech today with their new tech classes and teachers! My new group is STEM (science). We did 2 different tasks today, enjoy :)

Task 1: 

Look for any science equipment that is not in your classroom.

-Test tubes

-Measuring cylinders

-Stirring rods

-Funnels

-Human body chart (anterior and posterior chart of the human body)

Task 2:

Identify the different science equipment via showing us the equipment and then searching it online to get a picture.

Burette:

Bunsen Burner:

Microscope:

A watch glass:

Water bottles:

Thermometer: (Not the type you measure your temperature with when your sick etc)

Ammeter:

Tongs:

A spring balance:

Test tubes:

Litmus paper:

A spatula:

Pipette:

Brushes:

Crucible:

Beakers:

Funnels:

Tripod:

Volumetric flask:

Weighing machine: (Digital one, can’t find photo).

A magnifying glass:

Smashing Fractions

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This is my fractions task for today :) 

Theories on our Solar System

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This here is Nadia, Valessa and my solar system slides. Obviously they aren't finished but we'll definitely be working on it and adding to it. Maybe if you have any personal questions you want to know maybe we will answer them.

My group will also be making a space diorama for our 'create'! We can't wait, it'll be very fun.

:)

Fractions of a set

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This is my maths for today- it is about fractions of a set. I hope you enjoy, it was a bit hard.

Snorkelling Practice

On Friday last week, the Year 7's and I were able to practise snorkelling at the swimming pools. Although the water kept going into my snorkel, (because I kept diving too low) it was really fun to be able to have the experience. My highlight was having a race with Melissa and winning! Something I could've done better was probably to stop forgetting I have a snorkel on and to not dive too deep when I first start swimming but I'll get there.

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Whats in the Water?

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The Year 8's went to camp yesterday meaning it's just the Year 7's a couple Year 8's. For the next two days, they Year 7's will be stepping up and doing some fun rotations. Today we did science and this is the presentation.

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Equivalent Fractions

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This was yesterdays maths I forgot to blog. It's all about equivalent fractions!

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Water Worries Y7

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This is my water cycle task because while the Year 8's are at camp, the Year 7's and non campers will be going to Goat Island! For this trip, we are going to be learning a lot about Marine life this week and next week. Tomorrow we will be going to practise how to snorkel in the pools and the actual trip will be on Wednesday! 

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The sun: homelearning/homework

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For our homework, we had to list some facts about the sun. So I made a google drawing with facts about the sun, some are researched. I hope you like it and maybe learn something new!

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Streets For Everyone- finished !

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Last term, the Extension group have been working on the Streets For Everyone project and after planning, brainstorming, designing and everything else, the activities have been installed and we had the chance to check it out this morning with Toby and Dory from Streets For Everyone!

It was so much fun checking out how awesome our activities ended up and Finau and I really liked our Spot The Food! The drawings were very, very realistic and cool so thank you to the person who drew them! My favourite activities though was probably Austin's one. It was a race with 2 players with different small fitness tasks like "5x Star Jumps" and with a star icon and, "3x Push Up's" or something like that.

It was all very fun to look at, here are some pictures!

(The Race Track Thing)

(Spot The Food!)

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1.2 He tino pai

Good Afternoon ;)

And welcome or welcome back to my blog!

This here is my Te Reo task from today's rotations since the Year 8's went to tech. Last time we did Te Reo from rotations, we did "how are you?" and this time we are talking basically about answers to whether we like something or not. I don't know if I worded it correctly but check out the presentation and you might learn a few words in Te Reo.

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Building a Raft

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And welcome or welcome back to my blog!

Today, my class (Room 4) was split into groups of 4 on their table and we had to build a boat/raft for plastic animals to float on with straws, tape, scissors and these frilly green things that were from the straws.

Of course, my group and I (which by the way, was Madi, Nina and Finau), decided to give our plastic Rhino a fashionable raft and outfit. Finau added a skirt thing and I added a little wig/hat. Then I added a plastic cardboard cut out sword from the straws and taped it onto the Rhino.

Luckily for us, our raft was a total success and managed to float on the water!

Our group worked really well together and this little challenge was so fun! Although, I'm pretty sure everybody's raft/creation floated but oh well.

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