Mosaic ...

This Term our year 8’s have been designing a mosaic to show at Pt England school when we leave for College. I have designed Elmo off Sesame Street because it looks like it saying welcome and that its red which is like our school color of our uniform. Before we put our tiles on we had to cut paper out we had no red so I practise with blue paper and take a picture to see what it may look like when we place the tiles on and glue them.

Day and Night....

This Presentation is brought to you by Reina. This is what we have been learning this term for our Topic is Outta This World. Hope you Enjoy. (:

Our Topic this term is Outta this World. Our class have been doing a Mnemonic to memorize the Order of the planets. Here is our presentation of our Mnemonic that Ocean and I have made. Hope you enjoy (:

My Conversation.

This Conversation that I made as a reflection on our inquiry learning this term . I have researched, and found some information about New Zealand
“Hi Jaarome”
“Hello Reina” she replied.
“I was wondering if you knew anything about New Zealand?”
“Well of course that’s what we have been learning this year.”
“Oh well this is a great time to ask you.”
“Yes it is, so what might you be asking me?” in reply by Ocean.
“Well Jaarome what is the Capital of New Zealand?”
Jaarome replied. “The capital of New Zealand is Wellington.”
“So what is the population in New Zealand?”
“Yes, the population in New Zealand is approximately 4.4million.”
“So Jaarome do you know one of the traditional dishes in New Zealand.” Replied Reina.
“Well one of the New Zealand traditional dishes a Hangi.”
“So Jaarome what might Hangi be?” Asked Reina
“The Hangi or earth oven is the best known traditional dish of cooking for Maori.”
“Wow, that’s unthinkable! So, what else do you know about New Zealand?”
“Well I know some All Black players and what position they play, name two of your favourite players?” said Jaarome.
“On form my favourite player is Dan Carter and Piri Weepu.” Reina said in are Releafed voice.
Jaarome says. “Dan Carters position is number 10 First five-eighths and started his All Blacks career at second five-eighths, he scored 21 points when they played against England 2004.” Jaarome replied in are big breath.
“Amazing! How about Piri Weepu?” replied Reina.
“Piri Weepu’s position is number 9 Halfback and started in 2004 season as Back up Halfback for the Hurricanes and ended it starting for the All Blacks at Millennium Stadium.”
“Oh Thank you that’s a lot of information on All Black players!” How about information about New Zealand Celebrations like Waitangi day or Matariki?”
“Waitangi day is a public holiday held on February 6th every year of the signing document- the treaty of waitangi -on 1840.”
“So what happened in 1841?”
“Well in 1841 Auckland Maori Chief's invited Governer Hobson who created the where the national day is celebrated at the city birthplace, Okahu bay Domain.”
“So I know a lot about Waitangi day, can you take me though Matariki and what it means?”
“Matariki is the Maori name for the group of stars also known as the Pleiades star cluster or The Seven Sisters and what is referred to as the traditional Maori New Year.”
“Awesome! A you in a happy mood to answer a few more questions?”
“I would be delighted to answer your intelligent questions, what might the next question be?”
“Well Jaarome what a the official languages in New Zealand?”
“There a Officially 3 languages in New Zealand, there is English, Maori and Sign Language.”
“I didn’t know one of the languages in New Zealand was Sign Language!”
“Who is a famous New Zealander, known all over the world?”
“Jane Campion, a film director, is known all over the world.”
"Thank you for sharing your information with me."

The Worst Job.

This is my slide that I made for Team Four reading tasks. I read a book, then summarised the text, found some graphics, explained some difficult words in glossary slide and included a bibliography. Hope you learn all about horrible jobs (and never have to do one!)

Silly Sports Day.

On Tuesday the 22nd of August Term 3. All the year 7's and 8's were ready and lined up to go out to the bottom field to play some Silly games. Our Class, Room 19 we didn't know we were going to be playing games on Tuesday so we didn't bring a change of clothes. We were lined up ready to head out to the field and play some really awesome games.

Once we got there we were the first ones to the field, some girls from our class were playing a game of soccer before we started all our games. While we were waiting Mr Harris was setting up his game. When he finished we all went to where he set the game up and sat on the grass listening to his instructions. While we were sitting there he had finished explaining what we had to do then we got straight to it.

Some people got in to pairs and lined up so they could start. We had to tie a thick string around our legs with your partner and hold a teaspoon with a ball on it. I didn't end up playing that game but I was encouraging other people to finish the whole game off. While we were playing we had about a minute to finish off then we moved on to our next activity.

YAY ! Our next activity had to do with Water, it was a COOL game to play. Room 19 went to Ms Nua's Activity and all the other classes went to the next game so it was going around in a circle. Anyway, we did the same thing again which was sit on the grass and listen to the instructions to find out how to play this game. The instructions were that there were 4 teams 1-4 and we all got put in to a team. I was put in group number 2. All the groups got a bucket each full of water and an empty bucket, we had to full it up with a sponge that had water soaked in to it. Team 2 and 1 were coming in a tie we were almost done and the team that WON was team 1, they had great leadership.

Our next activity was with Ms Lagitupu's, it was Ball Tiggy, a game we all have played before. The groups were Blue, Green, Yellow and Red, I got put into Green our team didn't end up winning but at least we played. We were playing against the Yellow team and we lost so we challenge the Red team, we took the plate. Yellow and Blue were some pretty good teams but there was only one winner.

YEAH! Our final game was with Ms Tito, I didn't know what it was called but it was really funny but most of our class didn't even do it. So Room 19 didn't Participate with this game so most of the boys ended up enjoying that game a lot because they kept on having turns. The game was fun and I had enjoyed watching but not good enough to play the game.

These were all the games we had to play and the winning class was going to play with the water balloons after lunch. Room 19 didn't mind because we had no change of clothes for us to play in the water with.

Botswana

Botswana is located in Southern Africa , north of south Africa.
The capital of Botswana is Gaborone. The population for Botswana is 2,065,398. Botswana’s sport’s they play for there country is Boxing and Football.

Monaco

This is the Monaco flag.Monaco is located in Western Europe. Bordering the Merditerranean Sea on the southern coast of France , near the border with Italy. Monaco is the Capital. Monaco population is 30.539. The two sport’s that Monaco doe’s is tennis

and

soccer.

Czech Republic

Czech Republic is in Central Europe, between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. Czech Republic capital is Prague. Czech Republic’s location is 10,190,213. Czech Republic sport in there country is Football and ice hockey.

Where the Heck is papakura.

“Where The Heck Is Papakura”

Papakura is located in the south east of Auckland 15-20min drive from Auckland international airport.

The Papakura Military Camp was established in town in 1940 and remain's an important army base for New Zealand , it is the New Zealand SAS training area.
The History of Papakura?
The Papakura radio club has been there every since 1960.

Keep your eye on the ball.

We are using the nations of the 2011 Rugby World Cup as our inquiry path.

For this unit we are in one of four teams: Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Stormers. My team is Rebels.

There will be a number of tasks for us to navigate to achieve our goal of an excellent result in this unit. There are a mixture of individual and team tasks to be completed. The main task that will show our learning in this unit will be a Hyperstudio presentation about one of the countries in the World Cup competition.

I think the Rugby World Cup will be boring but I hope All Blacks beat Australia. My favourite Rugby player is Sonny Bill , Richie Mccaw , Dan Crater.

My furniture design.

Last week I came back from my dad’s house up north and now I’m back in Auckland I started back at school on Monday the 4th of July.

A few days after I came back Room 19 had already started on their Prototype for the street it had to be Furniture. On Friday the 8th of July the same week I started on my prototype I looked online and tried to look for something to design. It was hard to choose, so I made my design up in my mind then I drew it on paper in my book.

It was our last week of school and it was a Monday. I started on my Model I had to figure out a way to make 4 box’s on cardboard I drew 2 Armrest , sitting place and the back of the chair.
Then Tuesday came and I masking taped my boxes together and it looked like the couch I wanted. After lunch I started on my gluing I used P.V.A glue and glued the newspaper to my Model.

On the 13th of July I finished paper-’mashieing’ my design and I’m just waiting for it to dry. Just when Interval was finished I got told to take three chair’s into the green screen room and I had to take photo’s with people on chair’s with a Green cloth over the top so you take a photo of there Prototype and get the people in the photo to look like there sitting on there Model. After Lunch it dried up and I started painting half of it then I finished painting the whole thing when the bell ring.

Today I had to finish off my writing for my blog to tell every how I made my prototype.

This term and last term

Term 1:

Last term was alright and I enjoyed it a bit. During last term I had done less last term because we hadn’t started our netball games yet.

During last term we had camp , we wrote our thoughts about camp and this is some of it. My thoughts about camp a unbelievable because I couldn’t wait. Camp was about having fun and taking charge of what you take care of. My group was called Responsiblez. When camp comes up I can’t wait till Concert night that is the best bit about camp. Until Camp comes we can have heaps of fun and watch a movie on the first night of Camp and wait till our Camp concert comes on Tuesday night , I wonder what it will be like? I reckon it is going to be Funny and exciting to watch. Till Camp arrives I will pack and get all my stuff sorted. Well that’s what I thought about camp.

We started up a Maths group last term and we went to different classrooms for it. We also started up a group called Taonga time we also go different class’s for that too.
On the Second week of school we had Technology I was in Electronics it was awesome. Also this term Ms Tito decided to make the Kapa Haka group happen so I can’t wait till we start performing.

Term 2:

This Term I hope it’s even better we are going to be starting up the games for Rugby and Netball the teams have been training really hard and a lot this term before the games come up! Our Netball games a starting up next week on Tuesday in the afternoon. Our Topic this Term is BIGGER , BETTER , FASTER , STRONGER.

We have been doing Immersion Rotation going to different classes. Our Kapa Haka is always on Fridays so we won’t be doing Taonga Time. The Netball girls have started up there games Team 2 have won all there games. Last week the Player of the day for Netball Ocean was Player of the day for team 2 was and April was the Player of the day for Team 1. I’m so happy because we might be able to take our Netbook’s home this term it will be really helpful.

Its a TAP not a KICK

In my Movie it is about a Korero called "Its a TAP not a KICK"Hope you enjoyed this?

RC Acrostic Poem

Responsibly
Enchanting
Incredible
Naughty
Annoying

Difficult

Statistics

1. Analyse:
2. Average:the total of all scores, divided by, how many scores there were.
3. bar graph:uses bars to show quantity or numbers so they can be easily compared.
4. Circle graph:
5. Classify:
6. Collection:
7. Column:
8. Column graph:
9. Compare:
10. data: Collection of Information, usually gathered by observation, questioning and measurement.
11. graph:drawing a diagram used to record information.
12. interpret:
13. mean:average of a number of different amounts.
14. median:Line that joins the vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
15. mode:a type of average-in a set of scores, the mode is the score that occurs the most
16. object:
17. represents:
18. row:items arranged in a horizontal line.
19. stem and leaf plot:a data display that shows groups of data arranged by place value.
20. table:mathematical information organised in columns and rows.
21. tally marks
22. title:the title of your Subject.

In praise of adverbs...

Adverbs describe verbs like walking or running.
On the side here is a dog that is sprinting furiously. As you can see this dog looks like it is chasing after its prey, but it is actually running a race.

Rugby Training

My Letter Home...??

Dear Auntie,

Hello Auntie How are you? Hope you are well. So hows life? Mine has been awesome. If you ask Mums been good. I play Netball, we started trials a few weeks ago. I also signed up for Rugby as well and we will be starting next week.

I really enjoy school it’s been great! We go to different classes for Maths. On Monday mornings year 7 and 8’s go to Tamaki for Tech, I’m in Electronics. There a heaps of other groups like Woodwork, Science, and other stuff like that.

Your Niece Reina.

Thoughts about Camp

YAY! Team 5 is having Camp next week and it is almost coming so we better get packed , it is called Camp “Take Charge”. We got into our groups yesterday the year 7 and 8’s we played a game where we had to use 8 chairs and 1 mat our whole group had to get over to the other side of the hall (at least half of the group) then we had to get across the hall without touching the ground , it was a Challenge that took a while till we got the hang of it.

My thoughts about camp a unbelievable because I couldn’t wait. Camp was about having fun and taking charge of what you take care of. My group was called Responsiblez. When camp comes up I can’t wait till Concert night that is the best bit about camp. Until Camp comes we can have heaps of fun and watch a movie on the first night of Camp and wait till our Camp concert comes on Tuesday night , I wonder what it will be like? I reckon it is going to be Funny and exciting to watch. Till Camp arrives I will pack and get all my stuff sorted!

Thoughts about Camp

Team 5 is having Camp next week and it is almost coming so we better get packed , it is called Camp “Take Charge”. We got into our groups yesterday the year 7 and 8’s we played a game where we had to use 8 chairs and 1 mat our whole group had to get over to the other side (at least half of the group) then we had to get across the hall without touching the ground , it was a Challenge that took a while till we got the hang of it.

My thoughts about camp a unbelievable because I couldn’t wait. Camp was about having fun and taking charge of what you take care of. My group was called Responsible’s. When camp comes up I can’t wait till Concert night that the best bit about camp. Until Camp comes we can have heaps of fun and watch a movie on the first night of Camp and wait till our Camp concert comes on Tuesday night , I wonder what it will be like? I reckon it is going to be Funny and exciting to watch.

Tech @ Tamaki 2011

On Monday , Our year 7 and 8’s went to Tamaki College for Technology I walked down by myself because I arrived to school late I came to the Office at our school and was told to meet Mrs Nua at the Tamaki Office to look for Mrs Nua then I went to Mrs Fergenson to ask where Electronics maybe then she said well we are going to have a look around for a will till we find Electronics soon we went around asking other classes

At Tamaki the area of learning that I am doing this term is Electronics our tech teacher is Mr Malhotra he teached me a lot for about 10 minutes for me to read what was on the broad.

I thought it was an exciting morning for me to have a new project to learn this year for technology and learn way more about Electronics and wait till next week I will learn more.

Honesty

In Room 19 we each put ourselfs in groups and also picked are word that we could edit for our wall in our class room. This is what we have came up with.