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.