Ratios & Proportion

WALT: Identify ratios and  proportions 

Task Description - I  finished off last weeks work that I never had the opportunity to  finished off. I learnt how to solve the ratios and proportion equations, and to work them out. 

*Week 8 - Term 4*   

Bedmas - Wk8 T4

WALT: Work collaboratively as a team 

Task Description - We are to solve BEDMAS equation and learn how to work them out using our heads. We have learn the different parts of BEDMAS and how they work in each question. 

*Week 8 - Term 4*  

Broken Hearted

Heartbroken is an emotion we can not handle physically in our lives. Being  heartbroken can contain many risk we can do wrong, or where we start to regret the things we have thought was right. Trying and stressfully putting the hard work for one person who never appreciated anything you have done is where you should let go of the consequences that has been stuck with you for over a decades. You may be heartbroken and depressed for some time but then honestly you will start to fell the happiness and freedom you have never felt. 

Ancestors

WALT: Read between the lines to understand the meaning of the text.

Task Description. I have to answer questions that are written on the slides. Most of them are mainly about ancestors and, things to do about our life. 

I wrote a poem that is contained about our ancestors.   

Word Problems

1. 

5  x 451 = ? 

     5 x 400 = 2000 

  5 x 51 = 255 

            2000 + 255 = 2255 

          

 2. 

$20,000 / 25 = $800 

   25 people will get $800 each and evenly 

3. 

$12,420 / 6 = 2070 

6 people will get 2070 each and evenly  

4. 

$55 for a hoodie and sells them for $95

$95 x 35 = 3325 

Task Description - There is not work up to date for this week so we ended up doing word problems with Mr. Huse 

Mixture Of Problems

WALT: Find more than one way of solving different word problems. 

Task Description - We are to solve equations using different strategies off solving each question. 

Poem: Loneliness & Regret

WALT: Use our sense to write a poem. 

Task Description - We are to write our poem using the 5 senses. For each topic we are to use different human emotions to write our poem using the 5 senses. For example, what does fear fell like? What does it taste like? What does it sound like? 

Manaiakalani 2019

This years Manaiakalani was definitely awesome! Thank you staff members for taking care of us through out the whole day! 

Athletics 2019

Hikianalia Boy - Kurtas 

Hikianalia Girl - Petesa 

Group Name - Hikianalia

Group Color - Yellow 

Te Aurere Boy - Villiami

Te Aurere Girl - Chastyti

Group Name - Te Aurere 

Group Color - Red 








                                                                                      Hokule'a Boy - Leiite 
                                                                                      Hokule'a Girl - Paikea                                                                                                   Group Name - Te Aurere
                                                                Group Color - Green 

           

*Blue didn't take a photo*

*Hine Moana Boy - Leonardy*

*Hine Moana Girl - Monika*

*Group Name - Hine Moana*

*Group Color - Green* 

Athletics 2019 has took of with a big hit! Hikianalia and all other house colors definitely did there best and made us house captions and staff members very proud. There are 4 groups that are apart of our school, Hikianalia, Hokule'a, Hine Moana, and Te Aurere. I sure did have fun and took some activity's seriously. What is your favorite athletics game? Let me tell you the awesome 2019 athletics Pt England School has aced on! 

We all got the chance to change into our colorful costumes and show them off. We only got to wear our house colors not any other. Us house captions had to go first to get the sports gears ready for the day. Once we were all done the whole of the school came together as one and said the prayer before we want on with our day! 

The year 8 girls first went off to do there first rotations and went on with the rotations. I went hard on shout put, and discus. I came first in shout put and came second in discus. I was proud of myself for pursuing through out the day. 

Thank you teachers for making this day possible, if it wan't for use then the day would definitely not be the same! Thank you to everyone who participated in all the activity's! 

Poem: Love & Fear

Express your feelings using a poem. Even though it could be hard, writing it down could be the best option. Love and Fear is something alot of people go through and it is a serious and a mentally hard affection. I personally like writing poems because when you start writing you just can't stop. It's a fun way of expressing hidden emotion in you, you never knew that was in you. 

Try it out and see what you have written!  

Complex Sentences

WALT: Use all the features of an explanation piece of writing. 

Task Description - We had to complex our writing, using commas and highlighters. It was challenging at first but now that I have understood it a bit then I did what I think was right.  

What Is A DNA?

What is a DNA? Look at this presentation and learn the many things the DNA can do and many awesome facts about them! 

Do you know the main 2 DNA'S? Do you know the full name of DNA? If you don't explore this presentation right now! 

Edge Slumps

WALT: Read between the line to understand the hidden meaning in the text.

Task Description - We read a book named the Edge Slump and we had to answer questions along with it. We also had to create our own poem of our own choose. 

Museum Trip

Our fun trip to the Museum was definitely a awesome day. We got to have the opportunity to go because of the awesome crew KPMG! We got to travel by buses that the wonderful crew KPMG has organized for us. What I am looking forward to is getting to know the KPMG volunteers and getting to explore the special treasures that where special to NZ. What such lucky students we are. 

In my small group I had Tupou, and Chastyti and our outstanding helper Shelly. We got to introduce ourselves to our helper to be respectful and become more of a team. For our first rotation we went to the first level of the Museum, and got to scout around it. One thing I liked about the first level was getting to go inside the volcano and earthquake exhibit, I like the fact how I got to go inside the little room and experiencing what a real volcano would fell like. 

Our second rotation was placed at the second floor of the Museum. That was where all the memorial names are, and all the things that where used in the war. It was a time where we all had to be respectful, and threat the special treasures with care. One thing I liked about that exhibit was getting to see all the names risking there lives for there country and knowing how much they want to save it. Lest We Forget!  

After those two special rotations we got to eat our morning tea, but what was lucky is that the awesome crew, KPMG. Prepared our morning tea for the day. We ate delicious cup cakes that was deliciously yummy. Thank You! After our sweet morning tea, we got to go straight into our third rotation. We went to the winter garden, and got to explore the different beautiful flowers. There where different types of plants that where very interesting. One thing I like about the winter garden was getting to see the many different plants and flowers. 

Although my group didn't get to see the under ground of the museum we all got to have fun and have a good day. Thanks to the KPMG crew and especially Shelly for taking care of us and being the best supporters ever! 

Probability

WALT: Work out the probability of something that might happen. 

Task Description - This week we have been learning about the probability's of something happening.  

In The Beginning / Reading Shadows

WALT: Read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning in the text. 

Task Description - This weeks focus is to understand the hidden meaning in different text. The group Mewburn got to read two different books, one was a poem and the other is a random book.   

Genomic Competition

This is our little group that did amazingly well, they have been working hard even though we didn't come or get placed. We had our laughs and get to introduce our selves to everyone. It was nice to meet and have the option to work as a team. 

This DNA was made by our two awesome team mates, Champion & Meliana who attends at Glen Ines School. They have taught us the different parts of a DNA and how they work. 

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What such amazing day we had. Team 5 got to have the opportunity to know the many things different school got to learn, and the special subject is Genomics. 2 different schools got to come and show off there different learning's they have done over the terms. 

The 2 schools that got to come and join Pt England School where, Glen Innes, and Glenbrae. We got to do a competition answering different questions and giving them out to the quizzer. It was definitely challenging and difficult but we still managed to get through some questions. 

The best part about this activity was getting to know one another and getting through hard questions together. We got to work as a team and do amazingly well in front of visitors. Thank you to our wonderful teacher for putting effort into this activity, if it wasn't for you then this day would not be the same. 

Well done to my group and the amazing effort you have put into our team. 

Tracking My Learning

Term 3 was a big hit and was amazingly and constantly a awesome term. Unlocking Life's Secret taught me many things about the human body and the different things they do. Including the different cells that help us from dangerous stuff.  

Word Problems

WALT: Map out our thinking process for each word problem. 

Task Description - This week was a bit to easy for me and some other students, we had word problems we had to solve, and once we answered them we had to solve them in front of the class. 

The Three Kete / The Scarf

WALT: Read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning not directly stated in the text. 

Task Description - This week we had to read a 2 different types of books and answer questions from the slide. The first book is called The Three Kete, and the second is called The scarf. 

Mixture Of Problems - Maths

WALT: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems 

A Special Time In Life

From my point of view, a special time in life is spending the most time possible with your family members, or perhaps get a long with those you haven't contacted for a while. Time likes to go randomly and get you thinking why you haven't spent time with those you love.

 Losing people who has vanished from this world and is living its life somewhere else can hurt you just as badly, and what hurts you the most is that for a fact you haven't been spending time with them on a daily. 

Life gets hard and harder and there is no way you can make things easier, well as long as you try. Special times can end up at being sad times. Why? Because you could be missing the memories, and the people you hanged out with. 

A special time in life is spending time with your parents. How often do you see your parents in a daily? Our busy calendars all taken up that we forget about the most important thing that brought us to this world. 

Making time for your parents is the best gift they could ever want. Researches from the university of California, San Francisco, found that loneliness can produce death to older people. Having adult conversations with your parents are the best moments you could ever have! 

So why don't you start making time with your parents or for those you love. It is definitely a special time in life.  

What Is A Good Leader?

From my perspective, I think that the role of a leader is very important and its a role that you should be committed to. Showing teamwork and motivation can really help the team out. A productive leader can be pointed out in many ways. Personally, I believe that being dependable, and working as a team can strongly interpret a successful leader.  

Being dependable is a sequence and a very simple way of showing your ability of being a adequate leader. You being quick on your feet and seeing the things that are coming unexpectedly is such a independent leader. This is hard work and it takes time for you to get use to it, but it does show off how much of a leader you want to be. 

Setting the right example. For instance you wearing your uniform correctly can cogent or signal others to do the same. Being a good role model can effect others to become just like you. Though people might not listen, it can still persuade the others to do things when your not around. Lead by example and set the right example!  

Humility in a leader is someone that takes charge of things that might not work in a distance. For example humble leaders like to show there skills and work hard for what they are going with. Leaders who know that are humility use there success for the best for the team. 

Before you know it, try and become a better leader everyone is looking for. A leader is someone that helps with other peoples success, and work as a team member. Personally, being dependable, setting the right example, and showing humility can really build up a better team. Like they say. "Team work, makes the dream work!"  

Anxiety Of Fake

Roses are like the blood of tears, and the green branches are like the nasty parts of your souls. 

You look kind but once the real personality of yours come, it hurts. You where there for my good moments but left me for my hardest ones. 

A fake friend is like a toxic drain that vanishes down the hole in a second. I hate the fact that people want to be friends with others and then replace them with out them knowing or even caring. 

You are fake, dead and bare. I fake smile to say that I am okay, but from all that it was a heart ache. The smile is to hide my pain, but the burden of emotions came.

 I watch as my "friends" leave, knowing that all along I never had a friend, but the fakeness they left.

They like to hurt you, but then they start to pretend that we hurt them. They like to talk to you but once they stop they talk about you. 

I have enough hardships about having fake friends, but now I would like to put myself first. As I noticed that fake friends only stay with you when they need something, but a real one is where they stay with you. 

Why become friends if you want to leave? There is no point...

Mixture Word Problems

WALT: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems.

This weeks focus is to try and solve many problems using many different strategies, and by doing that is to know what you are going to do. 

What Do I Know?

WALT: Explain what we know or see in a picture. 

This weeks writing task is to look at a picture and explain the things we think it could be. 

The Wind Swimming Through The Wheat

WALT: Read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning not directly stated in the text. 

This is the first reading task Mewburn had to do this week. We have learnt many things about a poem, and what it means, as we read the poem. "The Wind Swimming Through The Wheat." There where some mysterious parts we did not understand, like the part where that person asks if the mysterious thing was the wind or just some invisible thing. What do you think I could might be? 

Bus Stop/Hustle - Stage One

History Behind Bus Stop, or as you can say American Hustle. It is a choreographed dance with a duplicate steps of a square. It first started in the 1970's where it was most popular. The dance turns 180 degrees in a square, and can be repeated over and over. Have you ever experienced or tried out the American Hustle, well, if you haven't then I would suggest you trying it with your friend(s) or family!

(Link To Learn How To Dance To American Hustle/Bus Stop)

Let's Get Dramatic!

The sound of dramatic music coming through my ears gets really funky. Dancing our ways in was way to funny. Seeing the teachers wearing there most funkiest clothes made the students go way to insane. "Life's a stage" is our theme for this term, and what I really look forward to is acting and dancing to many traditional things around the world. Every year we would usually have a awesome start of the term by learning about the different types of themes. Now let me write down my two ideal performances that I have in fact liked.

 Team 2: I really liked the fact how they used different types of style and funk while they were dancing throughout the stage. I also liked how they used many individual types of music while they put on there best performance. As for this term, team 2 will be learning how to express different types of emotions using there face and there body, and will hopefully see some of there awesome learning on there blogs. 

Team 5: As always team 5 would always have some amusing parts in there performances. Team 5 teachers have obviously put on there best show, and there best smiles. I liked how the teachers used different types of colors to pop up the routine a bit more. I also liked how they did a very traditional dance from Hawaii. This term team 5 will be learning how to dance to many different traditions around the world. 

Pink Roses

Pink bubble gum down my throat and its a curse. Pink flowers through its aesthetic with different purls. Street lights gloom up the streets, and the pink and yellow sky with the grumpy old storm clouds. The flowers die one by one as it tells its story while it gets loud. The light wind takes one of the petals and goes on and on, surrounding the love around the community. The amazing sky brightening everyone's day, but does not last. Waking up at sundown seeing the sun waking up, the sunset blooms into many warm colors. 

The mind of a person thinks to much, but once it settles it sees the light that guard its way through its darkness. The dazzling hot sun burning our toes and drys out our washing, angels calling with our trueloves disasters, my people have been there for me. Kingdoms have fallen into very little pieces as it recreates itself. Looking into your eyes seeing my reflection knowing your all I need. 

You never go away but you always find a way, sometimes I fell like I wanna go. I need a place to hide my fears, but smile through the danger. Isn't it lovely that we get a person all to yourself but once they leave you, you regret it? I wanna fell alive, fell the freedom around me. Falling apart twice a day, I wish that you could fell what you have said. Tell the mirror what you know is right. My hands getting cold as you fell the ice turning into water. Losing all my hair as I get bold. 

Sorry...

Sorry, sorry for being me. Sorry for the things that I have said or have done. I am deeply and desperately feeling sad and hurt. You not accepting me for who I am or for who I stand for. I am sorry for being around you, and not making you proud. What have I done to make you hate me? Waking up at sundown, everybody's watching, the sun is up but is raining dangerously. The moon shinning brighter then the little stars, the trees flowing around with the windstorm.

I am happy when I am around you, but the sun has set, and everyone's faces has frowned. The words from your mouth kills me, the eyes you stare at blinds me, and the evil smirk of your's scare me. I am depressingly scared of losing you, losing all the clown in you. I have no where to go but except you. I am sorry for not being the person you wanted me to be, I am sorry for making you hate me, and I will make sure that I will not face the red and black of you.

Making the same mistakes, as your steps brake away. What is it about them? Are they intoxicated to be scared? People cry, not because they are weak but because they are hurt. The amount of sleep we get can not cure our tiredness for this world. Memories burn like forest trees, underwater and skin is paler then it should ever be, tears of rain dripping from the sea, we are not okay but smile with our agrees. 

Why Come To The Conclusion?

Why Come To The Conclusion? 

Do the things that I do hurt you?

Or are the things that I say traumatize you.

Are the things that I wear embarrassed you? 

Or the food that I eat disgust you. 

I hate the felling that you like too leave and fall for the fools,

and start playing like you are cool. 

I know that you know that I truly love you. 

But you need to stop being rude. 

Stop all your judging and all your crying.

Let's do a get together and start talking. 

De-Extinction

WALT: Use prior knowledge to extend. 
WALT: Extend our vocabulary by identify unknown words while reading. 

Candy Is Better Then Chocolate?

Candy is better then chocolate, huh? From my perspective I think that chocolate is way better and taster then candy. I really like how the taste of the chocolate develops inside your mouth, and then dissolves in just a second. If you think that candy is better or taste better then chocolate let me tell you the many things that I think that might change your mind about Chocolate!

Chocolate is one of the best things you could ever eat when you are angry, sad, depressed, or stressed. Did you know that chocolate comes from a fruit tree, it's made from a seed! It almost takes 400 pounds of coco just for 1 pound of chocolate. Dark chocolate is the healthiest chocolate of the 3 main flavors. 

Why do I like chocolate more then candy? Well, that is because the chocolate melts into your mouth before you even take a bite. I like how it just spread around your mouth then it just dissolves inside your stomach. Candy is what I think is a lot of jobs, you have to chew and chew and chew, and you guessed it, you chew. I personally don't like candy it just sometimes gets stuck on your teeth, and it gets annoying. 

Here are my thoughts about how I like and dislike candy and chocolate. What are your thoughts about these sweets? Like I said I diffidently think that you should like and eat more chocolate!! What are your favorite types of chocolate???

Cross Country!!

Running, running and running is just so much to do! Getting hot, and exhausted is what I am so out of the blue. Monday is our annual Cross Country and I am looking forward to cheering on Hikianalia! Goooo Yellow! This year is my very last year I would ever be doing a cross country at Pt England School, which will be very sad from my behalf. But what is so exciting is that we all got to participate in the 2019 cross country at Pt England School.

What have you placed in your cross country? Let’s just say that I tried my very best and I know that I am not a very good runner, but it helps out on our health and how active you are. As normal everyone is sitting down quietly in their bright house colors, Red - Te Aurere, Blue - Hine Moana, Green - Hokulea, and Yellow - Hikianalia. We all start with our house chants led by our house captains, Tupuia - Chastity, Leonardy - Monika, Leiite - Paikea, and Kurtas - Petesa. 

I first was very excited, but once the announcement was made for the year eights girls to run we all were nervous. Lining up getting ready to run. “On your marks, get set, goooo!” We first start to sprint the whole filed but once we got near the fence I stopped, my partner stopped but started running once we were able to run. As always the year sevens and eights would have to run 2 laps around the school filed and the Pt England Reserve.  

It was very tiring and difficult, but I managed to persevere through it. It was a very beautiful day to run outside, and I think that we were lucky enough to have the run. Although I didn’t get top 3 or even top 20, I was extremely proud of myself for pushing myself in a very difficult run. If you haven’t tried out cross country at your school then you should try it. It gives you a good feeling and makes you very pleased with yourself. Once you finish the run it is a big success!! 

Patterns & Relationships

WALT: Make patterns from a rule. 

"A Fair Argument"

WALT: I am able to read fluently and recognizing and understanding punctuation. I focus on meaning and phrasing. 

What's Inside A Cell?

Task Description - Today's session for Inquiry is about the things in a cell. The whole of room 3, is to watch a video clip about the different sections of the cell. Me , and my group, aka Chastity & Efe-Lata where to write down what are the different parts of the cell and write down what they do. In this presentation there will be separate photos of a cell, and we while write down what those parts do in our body.  

Words Into Sentences

WALT: Conduct a smart search to research a topic 

Task Description - Instead of a normal reading task, we had to read a book named. "Take a close look." And bring out some words we don't understand, or confused about. While we bring out some words, we had to deep dive into the words, and find out what the words mean. Once we understood the words we had to try and put the words into a paragraph. 

Good + Education = Good Future

Homework, Being Good At School, Finishing Off Work, Reading Books, Writing About Your Day, and Working Out Equations... Are these the things that you are straggling within your education? Believe it or not, education is the key to success or as you can say, "education." If you know that you are brawling through education then read some of these pursue tips to help out on your knowledge!

As you know everyone and every student is going through some rough time with education, and trust me it holds a huge position to being the best learner I could ever be! Subjects that can lead us to a good feature are: English, Numeracy, P.E, Science, and much more awesome thread. Why do they give us a good future?

 For example, when you are looking for a job, they would ask you a question on what are some things you are good at. If your good at English you can be a: Lawyer, Technical Writer, Librarian, and Teaching English. Good at math's you can be a: Mathematician, Actuary, Economist, Psychometrician, Statistician, or even teach Math. (You should know where I am taking this) 

You need to be able to have a good education because you never know what is coming for you in the future. It would assist you to get a good job, or even become a better person. Every turn you take in the future could become success or victory, you may never realize as long you take care of your education. 

 A good education takes time, knowledge, and intelligence. A good education is hard but once you persevere through it you can get pass anything, and everything. Remember, you need to depend on yourself if you want a good future. IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOU! 

  

Find Out The Circumference

WALT: Find the area and perimeter of shapes. 

Sports - Introduction

Rugby, Netball, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and many more! Various sports can help us get fit and more energetic! Is there a sport you participate in? Or experience playing? From my perspective, I think that sports are something that can assist us to develop into a better appearance to get healthier. Being physical in your eating can help you entertain your body to move or to exercise.

Volume

WALT: Calculate the volume of rectangular prisms 

F.R.I.E.N.DS - What Is A Good Friend?

Unpleasing, Disrespectful, Rude, Dreadful, and Wicked, are these the friends you want? "Well, I don't think so." Bad friends are just like a mouse trapped in a room. A true friend is someone who you trust, and know who won your ability and for who you are. So here is my recommendation to you, and on how to be a good friend and how to not be such a bad one.    

Loyal - Overall, being loyal is what you need in a friendship. Understanding if you can trust or be confident with what you say or do. A loyal friend is someone who you can rely on with your mysteries or something that is going on around you. Do you think being loyal is something you need in your friendship? If you think so do so.  

Honest - Furthermore, being honest is the key thing you need to be committed into your friendship. Saying things that are true, and honest is important to your friendship. If you are being honest to your friends then your are being honest to yourself. Being honest is a significant thing as long as it doesn't hurt others.  

Able To Listen - Needing to have a friend that can listen is a very essential way of showing that you can listen to what is formidable. If I where to have a friend I would want them to listen to our conversations, and know what is happening with that friend. 

 These are the main keys I think that would help out on what it would make a good friend. Loyal, Honest, Able To Listen, these are the tips that would help out and what a good friend would look like!  

Measuring Angles

WALT: Measure angles using a protractor 

"Switching Off The Lights"

WALT: I am able to read fluently and accurately recognizing and understanding punctuation. I focus on meaning and phrasing 

Task Description - This week we had to read a book and get answers through it. We have read a book named. " Switching Of The lights." And had to answer some absorbing questions. Go through the slides and see what we had to do this week. 

Should Kids Get Paid For Good Grades?

Should we, or would you! Let your child get paid for good grades? Well, from my perspective, I definitely don't think that is right. Getting good grades shouldn't give the fact for money. Because if money wasn't a reward for getting good grades then do you think they would work hard for the money? 

Firstly you are just motivating them with money just to get good grades and that is just wrong. Technically student have no idea what money bring into there lives. They should teach them the basics of saving and speeding money. It would be a waste of time giving out money to kids that don't know how to look after such a precious amount of money.

Teaching kids is the most important thing students need, and that would help them out in the future, and probably get a better pay. Instead of money as a reward, you should take them out, or give them a basic. "Well Done!" Wasn't that hard was it?

Students will start to get greedy with money and not face the real world of money. Do you think your kids are ready to get paid? Do you think that is responsible? Well, let's just say it isn't!  

"Help!" What Is Going To Happen!?

WALT: Read fluently and accurately recognizing and understanding punctuation. I focus on meaning and phrasing. 

Task Description: We are reading a book named "Help" It is a very good book and teaches you a lesson on how to stay safe, and risk things you need to do to survive.  

Book Review - Smile

Here is another book review for you! Hope you enjoy and get to read the book! 

Book Review - Amulet

Task Description - For this weeks focus, I am trying to read a book and do a book review once I have finished of my work, and that will last for the whole of the year!

Versatile Volume

WALT: Find the volume of 3D shapes and working with circles. 

Genomics

FACTS ABOUT ZEBRA FISH 

 FACTS ABOUT OCTOPUS