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Thursday 11 December 2014

Tech (Technology)

This whole year was so amazing because we did technology (tech). We take tech (technology) at Tamaki College. Tamaki College is a school/college in G.I (Glen Innes). It is the only college in our cluster.
The days my school goes to tech are Tuesdays and Thursdays. All the year 7’s from my school goes on Tuesdays and the year 8’s go on Thursdays.


The subjects at tech are Cooking, Graphics, and Hard Materials. The teachers for the subjects are Mrs Heka (Cooking), Mr Pineda (Graphics), and Mr Grundy (Hard Materials). All the subjects at tech are fun and cool because you get to make stuff in all 3 subjects.


My first subject at tech was Graphics, then Hard Materials and lucky last was COOKING! I saved the best for last because cooking is like my favourite home thing to do.
In Graphics, Mr Pineda taught us how to draw, how to be artistic, how to colour properly, and what lines are like and how to draw lines properly.
Hard Materials was pretty hard because we had to do a lot of adult stuff. In Hard Materials, we got to make aluminium stuff. The stuff was actually necklaces for somebody special. We had to saw, sandpaper, cut, measure and more. It was pretty hard but it was worth it because at the end we made a Taonga (Gift).
Cooking is so cool. Why? Because we got to COOK! What you do in cooking is cook, make mixture, and more. It is so fun because the teacher (Mrs Heka) is funny and chill.


My favourite subject at tech is Cooking because at cooking me and my friends (Keis), were her best and favourite students. Why? Because we do stuff that she doesn’t tell us to do, we sweep the floor better because we sweep the whole room plus the little rooms, we listen so much…

Tbh (To Be Honest), but I will miss doing Tech because i will miss the teachers and the fun stuff we get to do. I can’t wait until next year because we get to do it again. YAY!

Here are some links to our Tech subjects
Tamaki College
Cooking - Mrs Heka
Hard Materials - Mr Grundy
Graphics - Mr Pineda
(Don't have one anymore)

Wednesday 10 December 2014

Future Aspiration 2


So excited, I heard that we are having another Future Aspiration. I couldn't keep in the excitement because I know that we had Future Aspiration before but I was excited to meet the new people that was going to speak to us.


Future Aspiration is a thing where special visitors come and talk about what they do. They come to inspire and to help us through life. They come to help you reach your goal and stuff. It is really amazing what they can do to change your life.

When they arrived, I was so enthusiastic because I couldn't wait to meet the new people. The names of the speakers were Anthony Samuels, Paula Fakalata and Amelia. Andrew Patterson was the host for the whole thing and he knew the people so he introduced them to us.


About them:
Andrew Patterson:
He is a radio person. He works for himself. He was the host and he was the introducer for the visitors.


Anthony Samuels:
Anthony Samuels talked about how he was a actor and then became a producer on What Now for 10 years.
He is a father of 4 boys and has a wife whose name is Shannon.


Paula Fakalata:
Paula Fakalata, he was so funny that my laughing tears started dripping out of my eyes. He encourages kids to do what they want to do. And to be opportunity hungry.


Amelia: She is a Fashion designer… Well, she is studying Fashion. The school she went to is called mount roskill and the university she goes to is AUT (Auckland University of Technology)


The person that inspired me the most was Paula Fakalata because of the things he was talking about. My favourite thing that he told us was the story about when he nearly died.

What he said can help me through life and it really encourages me to do more stuff in life too.

Friday 28 November 2014

Avatar

This is my avatar that I had created on hyperstudio. I am in Tainui which is blue so I had to search up blue objects and i found these. I found Mordecai from Regular Show, Blues Clues, Blue M&M and a blue and black piano cause I like playing piano. I also like singing, eating M&M's and I like watching Regular Show and Blues Clues! So my avatar explains a little about me.

Tuesday 23 September 2014

Week 8 - Maths - Use an algorithm to solve subtraction questions


My presentation for maths. This is my presentation (D.L.O) for my maths that my maths group had to do. It is easy and quick. 
Strategy/W.A.L.T: Use an algorithm to solve subtraction questions.

Friday 12 September 2014

Warren Pohatu Art Inspiration


Jennifer - Art Inspiration from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
This is my movie about art. We got inspired by Warren Pohatu to do art. His arts are amazing and they look so real.
His biggest dream was to inspire younger generations.

Friday 5 September 2014

Using the 'Within' strategy on a double number line


 My Presentation about Maths.
Strategy: Solve word problems using the 'Within' strategy on a double number line.

Wednesday 3 September 2014

My Colours

relax his students andHaving colours in your life is amazing because of what they make your life look like. Colours brightens up your life and makes it better. If it wasn't for colours then our world wouldn’t be colourful. The flowers wouldn’t be the colours they are, the plants wouldn’t be the colours they are, the sun and the moon wouldn’t be the colours they are… If it wasn’t for colours, the world wouldn’t be the world and the colour it is right now… Everything would have been so ugly without colours. It would have been all white or black!.
A couple of weeks ago till now, we have been learning about colours. We have been learning about primary colours, secondary colours and tertiary colours. They were easy to make and learn. While we did that, we also painted the colours onto our art works.

The primary colours are yellow, blue and red. If you combine those three colours together then it will make another colour. For example, If you mix yellow with red it makes orange. If you mix red and blue together then it make violet. And if you mix yellow and blue together then it makes dark green.

Secondary colours is a colour that is made by mixing two primary colours. The secondary colours are orange, Green and violet. If you mix them together then it will make all sorts of colours. It is just the same as the primary colours but you are mixing the other three colours together.

Tertiary colours is when you mix one primary colour with one secondary colour. How you make tertiary colours is you combine primary colours with secondary colours. If you mix them then they will make the tertiary colours.

So if you mix all those colours together then it will make other colours like. BUt the main colour is brown. So now that you know what primary, secondary and tertiary colours are, you can try it for yourself. I know I didn’t put up what to mix to get a colour but, you can try mixing different colours together to see what it makes.

Thursday 21 August 2014

Pegball/Country Cricket


This is my Pegball/Country Cricket Presentation... It was for my Reading and I thought I would post it on my blog for all you people to see what Pegball/Country Cricket is!
Hope you like it and please leave some feedback when you finish!

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Algorithm Addition Questions - Maths


This is my maths D.L.O for Week 2 - Term 3!! Hope you like it!!

Wednesday 23 July 2014

Future Aspiration

FUTURE ASPIRATION!!
Surprisingly, we (Team 5) had some visitors come to the intermediate block today. They came to inspire us and encourage us to make our own choices and to stick to what we want to do not what your friends want to do. The visitors names were Andrew Patterson, Jason Sharma, Alfred Faireka and Arizona Leger.

About them and what they were talking about:
Andrew Patterson: He is a radio person. He works for himself. The name is Sunday Business with Andrew Patterson.
He talked about how he became a radio person and how it all started. He was also the Host and the introducer to the visitors.

Jason Sharma: He is a first year maths teacher at Tamaki College, he is Samoan and Indian, and he graduated Teach First NZ programme.
He talked about his parents and what he used to do before wanting to be a maths teacher…. He also said why he wanted to be a maths teacher…..

Alfred Faireka: He is a police officer at Auckland G.I!!!.... He is Cook Island and he plays sport. He used to play Rugby League but now he plays Tag (Ripper Rugby). He said that you can travel to return people back to their countries and that you can stay there for a while and check out somethings then come back. He talked to us about what it is like being a police and it sounded pretty. He also told us about the names of the things you can do being a police and the names were
Delta: Going around with the dogs
Eagles: Flying around in circles in a helicopter
Data: Going around in a boat
One of his quotes was “Don’t follow your friends to what their doing.

Arizona Leger: She is a journalist… Well, she is studying journalism. She was the school captain in primary, Head girl at E.G.G.s (Epsom. Girls. Grammar. School). She is a pacifica…. Samoan, Fijian, Tongan and Maori. She is a very talented girl and she also has a lot of energy in her. She talked about how she used to talk a lot in primary, intermediate, college and get in trouble. And she also talked about what happened in those years.

The person that inspired me the most was Arizona Leger because of the things she was talking about. My favorite thing that she talked to us about was the Handie 5!!!. Why?? Because they were good things to do in your life and it was funny too.
The Handie 5!!! were
1 - Tahi - Do the Mahi!! - Do the work!!
2 - Lua - “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ( Dr Seuss)
3 - San (San is in Japanese) - Go have some fun - go enjoy yourself
4 - Brake down the door - Bring out your confidence
5 - Strive to stay alive!! - Thrive to stay alive!!

What she said might help me some day when I get older. To be honest but she is a bit like me because I always talk during class and then I get in trouble and get moved into another desk.

A.F.L

On Wednesday, last week, my class went to A.F.L for the first time. We also had our second lesson this week on Wednesday.


What is A.F.L??
A.F.L is a sport. It stands for Australian. Football. League. You learn a lot of things and you have a lot of fun too.


What we did:
On the first time, we learnt the 4 rules on Drop punt.
1. Laces away from faces
2. X's up and down
3. Straight hands
4. Toes at the direction you want the ball to go


After that, we played a game and played kicks. The game we played, was a game how long hair people vs the short hair people. I was in the long hair team.
What we had to do was:
1. Kick the ball to the other team and make sure that no one catches it
2. Make sure that it doesn't go into the river
3. Don't go into the river


The game was awesome. Also when we played kicks, it was fun because we got to kick the ball anywhere we wanted it to go.


This week, our instructor was Tim. The lesson we did was the:
1. Ice cream scoop
2. Pirate dance


What you had to do on the Ice cream scoop was
1. Put your palm like a dinner plate
2. Put a ball on it
3. With other hand, grab an ice cream cone squeeze it in your hand
4. Then squash the ice cream onto the ball and the the ball will fly away


What you had to do on Pirate dance was
1. dance like a pirate and ARRR like a pirate too
2. Have the ball on one hand
3. Punch your other hand on the ball and the ball will go flying


After all the lessons, we had a game and it was fun. We had to have a partner and the game was a competition. we had to see how many Ice cream scoop and pirate dances we can do without the ball touching the floor.
Everyone was having fun and telling the truth about how many they got.
After all the fun we had, we had to go back to class and have lunch. It was awesome and we can’t wait till the next lesson next week.

Grandma's Birthday

In the holiday, it was my grandma's birthday!!! I never new it was her birthday until the day it happened... When I heard it was her birthday, I was so excited and couldn't wait for it. It was happening on a Sunday, in the afternoon and in a church.

On the day, I was supposed to go church but my mum said to stay and wait until the food was done and the church was set up. My mum was gone to set the the church and do the food. While she was gone, I was cleaning the house with my sisters, watching TV and listening to music. It was fun!!

Finally it was time to get ready and head to the church for the birthday... I quickly got ready because my mum called and said she was on her way. When we got there, It was full and there were a lot of people there. Inside, there were people with instruments on the side of the church.

Searching and searching, I finally found some seats for me and my sisters. This lady was telling us to come and sit down next to her because there were spare seats. I was looking around for my mum then, I finally found it. She was getting my grandma onto the stage so everyone and see her. After that, she was walking to the kitchen to get something... (The kitchen was across our table).

As she was walking back, she saw us and she came and asked us if we were alright and we said yes... Then she left back to my grandma and started talking into the microphone. She was saying things about my grandma (kind things) and she was also the presenter that calls people up to say something.

While they were talking, we began to eat, talk and listen (The food was Tongan traditional food). Sometimes, we would have to stand up and sing a song then sit back down and continue eating. And then the people with instruments, would have to play something and stop. I noticed that the instrument people were getting tired and hungry.

I was looking at these girls that were part of the people, and then they started asking me and my sisters to pass some food to them so they can eat because they are hungry... So we passed them some food and they ate in.

Near the end of the birthday, all the little kids had to come up to the stage and sing a song for my grandma. While we were, I looked at my grandma and she was crying with happy tears.

Sadly it was the end of the day and the birthday was finish and so we all had to go home. But, we had to stay, clean up the mess, clean the dishes and also pull down all the balloons that were put up. It was a lot of work but it was worth the day.

THE END!!

Thursday 3 July 2014

My Sound Animation


This is my animation about understanding sound. It is about how we hear sound, how does sound work, what is echolocation......
Hope you enjoy!!! please leave some feed back after watching!!!.

Friday 20 June 2014

Year 7 & 8 Social

Last Thursday, the yr 7 & 8 planned a social. It was happening at night..... (6pm - 8:30pm). Everyone was pumped, so excited and couldn't wait to go social. The theme was movie characters.

What is a Social??
Social is like a gathering, little party, a disco, dance and other things that you would like to call it.

During school, I couldn't stop thinking about the social. I even imagined it...(But in my head.) I couldn't wait till the social. At school, the talks were all about the social and the clothes. At morning tea and lunch, every where I go, I would here the word social or things about social..... It was freaking me out and annoying.

"WOW!!!" I said... "The day has gone fast. It is already after school." So I ran to my house, had a shower, chosen my clothes, did my hair and then ate. It was a lot to do. Suddenly, I just started getting hot, nervous and sort of excited. 

Before I left, my grandma did a prayer.. Right near the end, I could here someone calling my name... It was my friend. I forgot to tell you that my friend was picking me up to take me to the social. 
Well back to the story.... Straight after the prayer, I told my grandparents that I was going. Then my grandma asked "Who are you going with??" I said that I was going with my friend and she said.... "Where is she?" I said she was out side then she said "Ok.... have a good time!!!."

So I left and I asked her if she wants to go to the shops and she said yes so we went there before we went to the social. After that, we went to school. We had to hang out first because they hadn't open the hall yet..(Where we were having our social.)

Once we got in, It was dark, lights were shining and music was playing loud. I knew we were going to have a awesome time that night. As I was dancing with the other crew, more people started to show.... Even my cousin and the rest of my friends. While people were dancing, people were buying things like drinks and chips. 

It was wild and crazy in there because people were dancing hard out and having fun. During all the dancing, people were doing dance competitions and singing competitions.
Near the end, we had a slow dance and it was so romantic. People were dancing with each other.... As in people I mean girls and boys as partners.

OOHHH!! I was the end of social. At the end, the whole hall was messy so we had to clean it up and then go home. My mum picked me up and my uncle picked up his son... ( My cousin.)

THE END!!!

Monday 16 June 2014

Swimming

It was an incredible week last week... Why?? Because we had swimming. Everyone loves swimming right!!
I was so excited to go swimming because I love the water and because I want to learn how to swim properly. I missed out the first day because I couldn't find my togs but the next day, I found them and went to swimming.

Waiting and waiting, I was so pumped and ready for swimming lessons but I had to wait until 3:00pm. It was so frustrating having to wait.... So I watched the time ticking while I was doing my work.

YYAASS!!!... It was time to go swimming. Walking to the swimming pools, I was so excited, couldn't wait to smell the air in the swimming pool and couldn't wait to get into the water. The first pool I went to was the medium pool then, we went to the big pool. the big pool was a bit cold but I was alright with it.

The first thing we did was swimming with little boards. We had to swim with our hands on the top of the board then on the bottom on the board. After that, we swam with no board, we had to swim with our hands behind our ears, swim with our heads down, swim with arm circles, swim sideways and turn to the side and breath if you need to.

Sometimes when I swim I have to quickly breath because I'm not use to hold my breath for that long. While I was swimming I kept on swimming different directions and getting hit by people when they put their hands out.

Later after the lesson, we had free time and me and my friends were playing, tag, swimming race and finding the rings under water. It was hard to play because people some people were not playing and people were in the way.

Unfortunately,  we had to get out 10 mins after that because we were going to be late back to class... So he quickly hopped out and ran to the changing rooms and got change. Luckily I got out of the changing room quick enough before my class leaves.

Friday 13 June 2014

A.F.L Sport

On Wednesday, last week, my class went to A.F.L for the first time. We also had our second lesson this week on Wednesday.

What is A.F.L??
A.F.L is a sport. It stands for Australian. Football. League. You learn a lot of things and you have a lot of fun too.

What we did:
On the first time, we learnt the 4 rules on Drop punt.
1. Laces away from faces
2. X's up and down
3. Straight hands
4. Toes at the direction you want the ball to go

After that, we played a game and played kicks. The game we played, was a game how long hair people vs the short hair people. I was in the long hair team.
What we had to do was:
1. Kick the ball to the other team and make sure that no one catches it
2. Make sure that it doesn't go into the river
3. Don't go into the river

The game was awesome. Also when we played kicks, it was fun because we got to kick the ball anywhere we wanted it to go.

This week, our instructor was Tim. The lesson we did was the:
1. Ice cream scoop
2. Pirate dance

What you had to do on the Ice cream scoop was
1. Put your palm like a dinner plate
2. Put a ball on it
3. With other hand, grab a ice cream cone squeeze it in your hand
4. Then squash the ice cream onto the ball and the the ball will fly away

What you had to do on Pirate dance was
1. dance like a pirate and ARR like a pirate too
2. Have the ball on one hand
3. Punch your other hand on the ball and the ball will go flying

After all the lessons, we had a game and it was fun. We had to have a partner and the game was a competition. we had to see how many Ice cream scoop and pirate dances we can do without the ball touching the floor.
Everyone was having fun and telling the truth about how many they got.

After all the fun we had, we had to go back to class and have lunch. It was awesome and we can't wait till the next lesson next week.

Tuesday 10 June 2014

Mental Division Problems With Remainders - Maths


This is my presentation that I made for maths. It is a D.L.O!!! (Digital.Learning.Object)
The strategy that I am using in this D.L.O is Solving Mental Division problems with Remainders!!!
Hope you enjoy

Wednesday 4 June 2014

My Sound D.L.O


This is my Sound presentation... It is also my D.L.O!!! (Digital Learning Object)
Hope you enjoy!!!

Thursday 29 May 2014

Science Road Show Photos

 Here is some photos from the Science Road Show!!!








Science Road Show


The Science Road Show
O.M.G (Oh My Gosh).... It was awesome at the Science Road Show!!! It had lots of fun projects to play with and there were some explosion things too.

What is a Science Road Show?? 
Well a Science Road Show is when you look at scientific things and projects. There are cool things and awesome things. In the Science Road Show, they tell you about things and they do explosive stuff. It is crazy cool. 

What did we do??
Once we got there, a man came and his name is Shane. He told us to come in the hall and sit down on the seats... (By the way, It happened at Tamaki College.) When we sat down, there were 2 presenters standing there. There names were Ted and Anna...

What were they talking about??
On the first show, they were talking about our body's, oxygen explosions and science stuff. Ted and Anna showed us what happens to our food when it is in our body and what it turns into when it comes out of our body.... They also told us about a plants life and how they grow and more.

Another thing they were talking about was how our muscles work and our heights. Afterwards, we started looking around, looking at the projects, how they made it and how it works. There was a quiz thing that some of us tried.... It was tasting the 5 different Honey's and guess which one it is. I got all of the Honey guess's right.

There is another activity that people were playing... It was the big piano that you can play with your feet and your hands. Meanwhile people were playing that, other people were stamping letters onto these plastic things and they were also playing with the other projects and things.

After looking at all the projects, we had to go and sit down. When we went to sit down, we saw another school.... It was Glen Taylor Intermediate. They were the school after us at the Science Road Show.

On the second show, they were talking about flame, air and that. They blew up 2 balloons. The first once was loud and you can feel the ground shake, and the second one was powerfully loud and you could feel the air hit you when it popped.
That was my favourite part of the Show!!!....

Sadly after all that awesome, crazy and mad stuff, we had to go back to school.
THE END

Wednesday 14 May 2014

What I learnt about SOUND!!



I played these games that are about sound!! It had instruments in it. What you had to do is match the sound waves and you have to made the same sound. You have to change the pitch to make the same sound as they give you.

It is easy but sometimes annoying when you keep getting the wrong note.

I learnt how to change the notes and make them higher and lower on the guitar. I learnt that on a pipe it is not about the width it is about the length. I also learnt how to tune a guitar and a bongo.

If you want to play the games, here are the links
1st: Sound & Instrument exploration
2nd: Making Music Match the sound

Monday 12 May 2014

My Goal for this Term

Managing Myself
I am going talk about Managing Myself because sometimes I need to Manage
Managing Myself means keeping on task and doing the right things @ the right time with the right attitude. It also means, Taking charge of your self and listening to what the teacher tell you to do.

Lately, I haven’t been on the right things and at the right times. Sometimes in school, I haven’t been using the right attitude around people and to people. I think I need to change my attitude in class.

I sometimes be naughty and bad in all the subjects in class. When i'm bad, I sometimes get taken to my principal and then I hear the teachers saying that this is not me and they were shocked when they heard about me.

I hate having to go to my principal's office and I hate being bad and mean but sometimes it just happens.

That is my goal for this term!!!

Badminton

Badminton
Today, we had our first Badminton session….. It was awesome!!! We had a lot of fun and I mostly had a lot of fun because it was my first time playing Badminton. It was a bit tricky but I got it after all.

Once we got to the hall, we sat down and waited for our instructor to talk to us. He spoke and told us his name…. His name is Robby!!! After that, he told us the rules and then he handed out the Rackets and the Shuttlecocks. While we were holding our Rackets and Shuttlecock, he showed us 2 moves…. The moves were called Forehand and Back Hand!!!!.

We began playing with the moves he showed us and then after that, he told us to get a partner. My partner was one of my best friends Hannah. we played this game and this is how you play it…. So you and your partner stands across from each other, then you start playing and see whose partner is the last one standing. But you are competing with the other players too.

We played it a couple of times then we stopped. After all the fun, we returned the Rackets and Shuttlecocks back to Robby and said “good bye” and “see you next week” then we left.

We had an awesome day at Badminton and we can’t wait to go back next week.

Friday 9 May 2014

Immersion Assembly

Introduction
I cant believe that it is the first day of TERM 2.... I cant wait to see my friends at school!!!! I'm so excited..

On my way to school, I was so excited because I haven’t seen my friends in 2 weeks + 2 days.
At school, I couldn't hold it in any more so I went looking for my friends and once I found them, I gave them a big hug. “OHHH NNNOOO!!! Its is nearly time for Immersion Assembly!!!!” I moaned.

Running into the hall, I saw my class sitting down so I ran and sat down on the spare chair that was next to my friends. As I sat down, they started hugging me and they were so excited that I was there. Once I was on my seat, they started Assembly.

I couldn’t wait to see what we were learning about and I also couldn't wait to see the Teams perform what they are learning this term.
It started and my principal told us our topic for this term. The topic is “I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT!!!!.” After he said that, he introduced team 1 on to the stage.

Team 1
One of the team 1 teachers stood up and said that instead of performing they are going to show a movie. The movie was them at the zoo looking at some animals. It was a cool movie because there were animal statues & animals on their movie. The animal i liked on the movie was the giraffe because I liked how it came out of its house.
After the movie, it was time for team 2

Team 2
Team 2’s theme was Flying. Their theme song was Those magnificent men in the flying machines. When the team 2 teachers came on the stage, two of them had planes on them, one of them was a pilot and one was a Fairy with a wand. They were dancing and there was a video playing behind them. Suddenly, they stopped dancing and froze. When they froze, the fairy used her powers to unfreeze them and it worked.
Then it was team 3

Team 3
The theme that team 3 did was colours. The colours that were there was blue, orange, pink, purple, green. They were waving around and moving around too. I liked the colours that they used. Do you want to know what my favourite colour was…. Blue!!!. My favourite part in their performance was how Mr Jacobson was wearing a Green cat and all the colours got under it except for the Green colour.

Team 4
This term, team 4 is learning about how to float and how to sink and more things that you do in the water. The teachers in team 4 were wearing things that you would when you go out into the sea. Their item was cool because they had videos to show and had prizes to win. It was awesome!!!

Team 5
Team 5 is my team!!! what we are learning this term is sound. We are learning about how sound works, how to make sound, how to make sound high and how to make sound low. Team 5’s teachers made instruments and they also made a video of them playing instruments. There were lots of instruments they were playing……

After all those teams performed their items, my principal talked about more thing and after that we went to class and enjoyed the rest of our day.

THE END