Week 1 activities / Summer learning Journey.

Activity 1 / Summer learning Journey:
First week / Activity
Choosing destination

I have chosen Japan because:

* It seems like a interesting country.
*I want to learn more about their culture.

Activity 2 / Summer learning journey:

Week 1:
Three interesting facts on Japan:


* The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon and Nippon which means sun origin.

* Japanese cuisine is now popular around the world. Some well known dishes are sushi, sashimi and tempura.

* Japan is an industrialized nation producing some of the most technologically motor vehicles, electronics, and machine tools. 


Bonus Activity / Summer learning journey:
Bonus Activity:

Dear Mum and Dad:
I am going to visit Japan. I am going to visit Tokyo which is a city in Japan. I am going to visit Japan because I want to find out more about their country. I'll be away for 2 weeks or i'll be homesick. You are welcome to join me if you want it will be a fun journey.

(New Zealand pupils below average in maths results- TIMSS)

(New Zealand pupils below average in maths results- TIMSS)

It is very shaming to know that the New Zealand students have below average results of their test. Maths should be apart of the school curriculum because students and New Zealand would be able to get an job and have an good education and would be able to get money.

Joseph Parker.

On saturday night at vector arena,  Joseph Parker won the WBO world heavyweight title in a tight battle over Andy Ruiz Jr. He is now the worlds heavyweight champion.

Captions

Figure me out.

Problem and solutions for Kaikoura October 2016

Chalk englargement

Today room8 and I were learning about enlargement. On friday we practice drawing our grid on sandpaper so that today we would know how to draw the grid outside. The image that I selected was a flower. We had to make a grid and put our picture in it.

When we went outside to do our chalk enlargement I had to wait for my turn to use the ruler. Once I got it, I drew my grid. It was really hard drawing my grid and picture because I am not really good at drawing. The picture I used was a flower. I thought it was going to be easy but it was challenging. My chalk enlargement was a disaster because I didn't use my grid or count the squares but then I fixed it by using another colour.

WALT: do enlargement activites

Today this morning room8 learned about enlargement. We learned about what scale factor and transformation means. We had to draw our picture on our grid and then colour it. It was easy for me because I chose an easy one to draw. Next time I will like to learn about multiplying harder numbers.

My why.

1. Identify your goal
2. Find your why - the purpose for your goal
3. Create an action plan to help you reach your goal and fulfil your why

My why:

If I knew I couldn’t fail I will try my hardest all the time and do everything that will help me achieve to do what I want to do. My passion and dream is to be a netball player.

The purpose of my goal is to prove people wrong like my dad. I want to show my dad that I can be a sportsperson and show him that I can do it. My motivation is my family because they support me when I play sports and they believe that I can be an sportsperson.

The steps to my goal is to attempt every netball game, try to get fit, practise some skills and try my hardest to do everything that will help me to play netball better. My values are good sportsmanship, excellence and respect these values will help me achieve to be a better netball player.

What's your why?

Haiku Lesson

Yesterday for our writing, our class had to write their own haiku poem. My group and I made a Haiku poem. We were also learning about the rules of a haiku. In a Haiku poem there are rules and they are:
- seasonal reference
- syllables
- cutting point
Also in a haiku poem it does not need to rhyme.

HAIKU POEM:

Clouds emptied the sky,
Waves gently hit the rocks
Blanketing the sand

Hurricane

Fractions and decimal.

This morning I played this math game and it is was got to do with fraction and decimals. I really enjoyed playing this game because it helped to know more about fraction and decimals. It was kind of hard because I was worrying about the time. Next time I will definitely play it again so that I really know it.

Brooke Neal

I was really excited when our teacher said that a New Zealand ambassador was coming to our school. Her name is Brooke Neal. Room 7 came into our class and then she walked in. Firstly she talked about the 3 olympic values and it was friendship, excellence and respect she talked about every single value and how it helps her team and also herself. I really enjoyed her coming and I hope she comes again.

Basketball

At basketball I had a great time because I learned lots of passing skills, the passing skills I learned was chest pass, bounce pass and overhead pass. I also learned that I have to catch in a diamond where your thumb and fingers touch. Our coaches Yaran and Malik played in and out with us and we enjoyed it. Last but not least we learned what Beef stand for and it is, balance, eyes o the ball, elbows and follow through.

Fractions and decimals.

Personification paragraph: Beach

WALT: write an personification paragraph.

The sun peaked happily from behind a cloud. Trees were dancing back and forth in the wind. Waves were clashing onto the sand. The sea tossed the shells again and again. The sea pulled the rocks into the water.

Sea shells poem

WALT: write a personification poem

Sea shells:

The sound rattled like dry peas in a can.

The sea tossed the shells again and again.

The silence followed it, it was like holding your breath.

Then rolling and tumbling like children in bed.

Looking like sweets in a sweet shop jar.

The colour and shapes made the shore line look bizarre.

Like carnival day the shells twisted and turned as the sea played them like some crazy dance.

Silver ferns

Yesterday year 6 & 7 students went to St Kentigern college to meet 4 members of the Silver Ferns . They taught us so many skills about passing and shooting. We also played a lot of games to warm up. For passing  I learned that you need to use your legs to help you make a strong pass. In shooting I learned how to hold the ball to shoot ,your left hand will be on the side and your right hand on top and then I was able to shoot. I had a great time playing netball with the Silver Ferns, I hope I get chosen next time again.

Kanoa Lloyd

Yesterday Kanoa Lloyd came to Glen Innes school to talk about her courier. Unfortunately we didn’t get to go to book assembly because we had to finish our work. We heard Mr Ramkolowan knock on the door and he came in our class with Kanoa Lloyd. We were all shocked and excited. She was kind enough to come and give out books to Heather and Huntah. She was also talking about what she does. We enjoyed meeting her and also talking to her too.

How has sports made a better person.

WALT: write an explanation.

Success criteria:

• Use time relationship
• Present tense
• Use action verbs
• Use correct of conjunctions

Sport has made me a better person because it helped me wake up early for sportcamp training and show commitment towards learning and playing sport.

Respect:

Respect has made me a better person work with my teammates and coach. And to take their advice willingly. It also taught me to learn to obey the rules of netball. Respect has also taught me to play and to share parts of netball with the team players .

Excellence:

Excellence has taught me to cooperate with your teammates and support them and encourage them as well. It has also taught me to listen so that when I want to do something or to be something I can achieve it.

Friendship:

In friendship it has taught me to get along with the other players and my teammates and share any victories and losses together. I need to have good communication skills and show empathy and humility with my teammates.

In conclusion sports has made me a better person because it helped me to know what respect is what excellence is and what friendship is and because of that I can succeed in life.

Division

In this game it was really easy because all you had to do was answer the division questions. Also in this game it you had to try and make it to another level but I made it to level 3 because some questions were a bit hard and I kept on getting them wrong.

Rangitoto- E-Book

Drag Race: division

In this game it was all about division. I really like this game because it is really interesting and fun to play. I like this game because it helped me answer and know my division really fast. I really enjoyed this game and I will definitely play this again.

Mr. Yamasaki

We were with our Japanese teacher  Mr. Yamasaki and he was teaching us how to make an origami and it was a lot of fun.

Guinea Pig table tennis.

Cook Island Language Week.

Today the Cook Island people came from the Auckland Museum. They came here to teach us a little about the Cook Island history and a little bit about there culture. I found their culture really interesting because they use things that they make to make things and that is really cool. They talked about the Tree of life and it was Coconut and also Vaka ara and also string niu. It was fun listening to all of that.

Mark Spitz

Athlete: Carl Lewis

Studying patterns in algebra.

WALT: Studying patterns in algebra.

In the morning my class was studying patterns in algebra. Our teachers made an challenge for us and it was to decorate a muffin with two fruits and three elements. After that Miss Donaldson picked five people that was good and then get Mr nick got to choose the bestest and they will win a bag of nuts and raisins and Ketura won.

Netball

Today was the last day of netball. Today everyone had an great time. Our coach name was Anne. She taught us new skills that we haven’t learned before. She also gave the netball girls some stuff and that was really generous for her to do that. I Had a lot of fun.

Thanks Anne!

Samoan Boy

This a Samoan boy who got chosen to compete in the olympics in New Zealand and he is very proud to repesent his country ( Samoa).

Composite patterns

WALT: create composite patterns.

BEDMAS

 WALHT: use the order of operations - BEDMAS to solve problems.

I needed to play this activity to practice with my times tables. I found the first five answers really easy because I got it right and because I followed the order of operations. But the rest was hard because I kept on getting it wrong because of my times tables. Next time I will still like to learn more about BEDMAS so that I know what it is.

Camp at Shakespeare:

WALT: Write a narrative:

Camp at Shakespeare:

One sunny morning Toli and her family went for a camp at shakespeare beach. She was very excited to go because she always loved the water, it had a beautiful colour of navy blue.

Once it started to get dark everyone was tired so they set up their tents and sleeping bags and fell off to sleep. Toli was the only one awake so she decided to go for a long walk on the sand. She squished her feet into the sand because that was one of the things she always loved to do.

A couple of minutes later she shook her shoes off her feet and started walking towards the water. Suddenly a huge wave pushed Toli down and she started to drown. She yelled help several times but no one could hear her. She then tried to swim but she couldńt. Toli thought that her life was ending. She didn't know what to do.

She thought to herself no matter what she does she will never be heard or seen. So as she was gonna let her life end she heard a boat coming close to her, so she yelled for help and the people heard her so they rescued her and took her to her family and she was safe.

In the morning Toli and her family had an wonderful breakfast they talked and talked until they felt like not talking anymore. After three hours they had a little picnic and then drove home safely.

Awarua the Taniwha of Porirua.

WALT: summarise a narrative.

A long time in Porirua Harbour Awarua the taniwha lived there and she wanted to know how to fly. Awarua had a friend and his name was Rereroa he taught her how to fly. After three attempts Awarua tried to fly over Mana island, Suddenly she crashed, but she didn’t get hurt. After that she practiced again and she finally knew how to fly.

Patterns.

This morning my group have been creating patterns with sticks. In my pattern I had two sticks that were straight two sticks that were facing side ways and two sticks that were diagonal it was fun creating patterns with sticks. It was really easy because all I had to do was continue someone else pattern. We Also have been learning about patterns this whole week we even did patterns with art.

Skipping

On 17 of June Glen Innes school went skipping at GI centre. At skipping I had an awesome time because I enjoyed all the classes skipping routine. It was our turn and I think that we did our routine better then the one we did at school.

Basic facts.

WALT: do a timed basic facts.

In my basic facts test I didn't do well because I was struggling. I have never tried it timed because I knew it will go fast and I will get a low score. Next time I am going to keep on learning my basic facts and tell someone to ask me basic facts questions so that I can learn to answer it faster.

Allergy

For the past 3 few days we have been working on things about allergy and how we get allergy reactions. Sometimes you can get allergy reactions from peanuts pollen and also from seasons of the year.

Fazed by a maze

(Mazes are puzzles that have been made for thousands of years).

Some mazes are made from living hedges and some from turf, stones and tiles. Big mazes are types that you can actually walk through.There is a famous maze of living hedge and at Hampton Court in England.

When entering a maze like this, place your hand on one wall and do not remove you hand so you can arrive at the centre. Some mazes are very difficult you can get easily lost.

In finland and sweden, mazes were once used in a unusual game. A young women would stand in the centre of a big maze. If a young man could find her he could carry her out and claim her as his girlfriend. Small mazes have been used as patterns on walls dishes and monuments.

Mazes are basically found in Europe and are usually found in very old large gardens of kings. To see mazes you have to look at them from a very high place. Today very few mazes are been created.

Allergie Poem:

Allergie Poem:

When you sneeze.

You start to wheeze.

Your nose turns red and get itchy.

Children get allergic reactions.

Which makes a huge distraction.

It makes parents worry

And they feel very sorry.

Explanation writing:

The weekend good egg.

In the weekend I have been a good egg because I helped
 this old lady pick up her food from the ground 
because her plastic bag ripped.

WALT: make 3D art.

WALT: make 3D art.

For past few weeks room 8 and I were making 3D art which is mug in cement. I really enjoyed making this art work even though it took a long time to dry. I have decided to hang my artwork in the corridor.

Tornado.

Walht: write a interesting and enjoyable narrative.

Success criteria:

1. Plan.
2. Write the words for the introduction.
3. Write a powerful introduction.

Jack was wondering on the streets to try and find his friends but then he couldn’t find them so he asked everyone he knew. Everyone said that they had gone on a road trip. Jack was so sad he went to his friends backyard. He climbed up the ladder into the tree house. He tried making a potion to make him the biggest boy on earth. Once he was finished he tested it on himself and it worked. He climbed over the fence and went for a walk.

 

As he was walking he noticed it was starting to get really loud he didn’t like because it was making his ears saw. He went to the shops and sat on the chairs. He wanted a drink of water. He bought one and drank it really fast after that he went and looked for his friend at the camping area. After the camping area he walked to town.

While he was going to the shops he noticed weather was changing. It was a terrible weather, it was a tornado. As he was running to his car something flew right where his head was and it was a big piece of metal. Then he rushed to the motel to call ambulance because people were bleeding and a lot of blood was on the floor. He ran to the market and tried to buy medical staff but he couldn’t because they were closing.

When the ambulance came, they came and helped people that were injured. It was sad for the rest of them because they past away. Jack saw a dog and claimed it because it was dying. Lot’s of help came and they brought medical staff and the rest of the people got took care of.

Basic facts: stage 7

In this basic facts practice it was really hard because I didn’t know lots of the questions. I kept on getting it wrong because I needed to practice percentages and fractions. Other than that I knew the rest which were multiplication, division, square roots and exponents it was really easy.

My Love For My Mum.

Comparison between my mum and nana.

Ice cream sandwich.

While touching it and feeling itś coldness made me want to eat it straightaway. It was so light but a bit hard. Tasting it was life being in heaven, it was scrumptious. The chocolate just melted away in my mouth and it felt like a chocolate water fountain .The topping was so crunchy and cold too. The whole thing was so delicious.

How animals are adapted to their habitat?

Lydia Ko

          

Amazing Player!

Easter egg hunt.

Walt: Write the long weekend.

In the afternoon we had

a easter egg hunt.

We were lining up and I was in front.

Now that the the whistle had been blown.

We all run over the grass that is freshly mowed.

I tried and tried to find the biggest easter egg.

Then my eyes started turned really red.

I finally found the big easter egg.

Then I ran and laid on my big fat bed.

I love Easter egg hunts !!!

My corn art.

This is my corn that I have been working on for the past few days and I am very happy now that I have finished it.  When I was working on this corn it was very hard because I had to draw the kernels and it was very hard too. Last but not least it wasn’t that hard to draw everything else so when I finished I dyed it then people helped to put it up on the wall.