Art Expo

 Today was the day we were waiting for today we had our Art Expo. We travelled around our whole school to see some amazing art on display. Every child in our school had the opportunity to create and display an artwork. I kinda loved it because we were walking so slow like a cheater and we had to stay in one line for like an hour. 

The Unknown Banana

The Unknown Banana 

My inspiration for this artwork comes from Georges Seurat. 

Pointillism is painting a art project with using only tiny dots and various pure colors.

My artwork is called the *Unknown Banana*.  

Art Colouring Book

                                   Copied

      

                                    Real

              

I have chose these colors because I wanted to make it look real but I did the colors inside out. We had to make our art look creative. So what I did is colored the other side of the room another color which is pink then the other side of the room another color which is brown.                                          

Duffy books

 Thank you to the Dominion construcors for giving us these beautiful lovely books for our school. We really apprecate it and that we will injoy and look after our amazing books. We will look after it and take it with pride and love. Thank you once and again and may god bless you.

Open day at Tamaki Collage

 Yesterday the 25th of November 2020 our year 8s from Pt England School went to our open day at Tamaki College. Open day is when we go visit different classes and what it feels like to be in college. We had 4 periods and there was PE, Maths, English and Science. My favorite subject was PE because we got to play this game called Rocket League Soccer and there were 8 pc’s and all of them had either a ps4 controller or Xbox controller but most of us didn't want to use the keyboard and mouse.

Giant Pumpkin Grown in america

WALT - Locate and summarise ideas within a range of texts.

tokelau

 

He aha te taima

Task Description: Today we had maori class and for our task we had to write the right time and fill in the gaps. Then once we finished that we made a google drawing and made our own phrases. 

Veen Diagram

 Task Description: For this task we watched a video about the plastic pollution and we had to read this book about plastic plastic bags and pollution. Once we finished reading and watching the video we had to grab some infomation that are the same from the book and video and put it on this task.  

Here are 2 things I have learnt from it:

1. Always save your plastic bags and never litter.

2. I also learnt how to save plastic bags because in the future there might not be any plastic bags.

LINE IN ART

Parts of elements:

Line

Shape

Colour

Texture

Form

Value

Space

Term 4 / immersion assembly

 

Good morning everybody welcome back to my beautiful lovely look blog. On the 12th of october was our first day of school. In term 4 every first day of  the term at our school we always have an immersion assembly. Immersion assembly is when our whole school comes back together in the hall and each team explains what they are going to be working on this term. This theme for this term is Art Alive. 

Which means we are going to be doing art this whole term and to try and be creative and try to make it look alive. I am really excited to see what kind of art we are going to do. 

 

Team 1, Did a famous painting with our teachers faces, so all the teachers in Team 11 dressed up as famous artists from the past. And they showed us the teachers then they showed us the famous painters.

 

Team 2,  did different portraits of their teachers in their class but they used different methods, they used shapes,  first it was indian methods, then polynesian methods,  and england methods they did all sorts of different me

 

Team 3, Did paint guns tie dye on a cloth. After that they kept using all of the dye and painting the cloth then after that they used that cloth they used and put a painting over so the cloth they out the dye on was the background the picture they painted

 

Team 4, Team four forgot about our school immersion assembly and they had no movie but luckily Mr goodwin witch is the team leader for team 4 recorded the whole conversation with his teachers in his block they were on google meet discussing on what there going to do for the term and then they did a challenge their challenge was that they had to do a drawing challenge and miss tuia won by doing a maori design.

 

Team 5, Team 5 did a live stream act they were acting like statues and painted picture’s and status from the past in the past the teachers acted like they were different things like ms tele’a was a samoan warrior and miss tipene was someone they  created the tomato juice and  tyson was a statue that was wearing a vodafone warriors T-shirt and Miss Stone was a famous chilli pepper. Miss Moala was the lady that showed people around the art gallery. 

 

Task description: Kia ora everybody this is my writing from out first day back at school for term 4. This is a piece of my own writing of what happend on our immersion assembly.

Arthurs line graph

 

Nga tau

Swmming

 

This morning our teacher Mrs Tele’a was telling us about swimming. She said that we have 4 weeks of free swimming. That fun part is it's free, and you learn different things. You also get to get more experience on how to swim, it's just a good opportunity to learn about swimming. Mrs tele’a made a challange that whoever class has the most students swimming that means they get too take off the last period of school and get to eat and have fun with my class.

Plastic fantastic

Task description: today we were learning about environmental issue solution and this is my task to show you how bad it is. and how it could get worse. so today we found out that plastic is not fantastic 

Taha Tinana / Physical wellbeing

Task description: Today we have looked at how to do sport signs in sign language. Taha Tinana helps us with our physical wellbeing. If your are looking for some sports to play look at my work I have done. Me and my partner paige we have done videos in this presentation to help you know how to do sport signs in sign language. 

Ko wai ō hoa?

Rātā me te Rākau

Task description: Today we had a task to read and answer the questions. 

Taha Whanau / Sign

                             Sign Language Is For Everyone

Task discription: Today we are doing Taha whanau, We are learning how to do our names in sign language. This is a video of me doing my name in sign language. I have learnt that sign language is for everyone not just for people that are deaf it can be used for everything. For an exsample when the prime minister is talking there is always someone to translate real talking to sign language.

Batman film put on hold

Link to article: https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/batman-film-put-on-hold/
Website: https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Key Words

Website: https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

How old are they?

Task Description: Today our teacher gave us a challenge the challenge was a bit hard but everyone tried and pushed their brain to get this challenge right.

Oral Language

 

Task description: Here's a map that follows  set of instructions read out by our teacher. Here are 3 things I have learned about oral language:

1. Learning how to listen properly 

2. Learning how to speak english properly 

3. Learning how to understan and follow directions

 

Kei te pehea te ahua o te rangi

Task description: Today for our maori class we did a task that our teacher gave us. We got to answer what weather is it like today. Then we got to do a create task and this is my one I have done.

Maori stage

Taha Wairua

Task description: Today we started on Taha Wairua we got to translate english words to maori word. Then we got free images off google then put it next to the maori word that looks like the word.

Maori language moment 14/09/20

 

Today at 12pm the whole world are doing something to support the Maori Language week moment. So today we did something too, we sang a beautiful song that is in Maori. Room 3 had recorded what we did for the Maori Language week this week.

In 1972, 30,000 signatures were delivered to Parliament to safeguard the Maori Language.

Safe-guard means to protect The Maori language needed to be protected.

here are 3 reasons why I think it needed to be protected:

1. People were needed to be reminded to valueing it

2. Because the language will fade away

3. And so we can make sure it will be used in the future 

Ke e founga hono ma'u 'e tongan 'a hingoa

One day there was a big tongan musely man named Maui. He was a nice looking superhero. One day we went to a man named Tonga the epert fisherman. tonga was the best fisherman in the world. He went to this cave that had lots of fancy fishing hooks. Tonga said choose one and take one. But Maui saw an old look hook with spider webs and dirt on it. Maui wanted the old dirty one.



So maui grabbed it but before maui left Tonga asked maui to promise him that if maui finds an island could he name it tonga then maui said yes I promise. Once Maui threw his hook in the ocean he felt something pull the hook so he tried pulling it but it didn't feel like a fish, not even a whale. When he pulled it up there was this big island then he called it tonga like he promised tonga the expert fisherman.

This is a photo I have drawn to show you what the hook kinda looks like.

Lines of symmertry

Task description: Today we had to draw a half of a ngatu pattern and my friend next to me had to draw the other side of the ngatu pattern. This is a exsample of a symmertry that isn't drawn right.

He aha te tae? makawe

NGATU KEEPING THE TRADITION ALIVE

Making nagtu is very important because that's how they keep their traditional culture alive. If you don't know what a ngatu is it is a cloth made from bark. Ngatu is known as tapa in many
Pacific countries.

Tongan parents always make ngatu with their kids so when their kids are older they know what to do and teach other family members and it will roll in their family.

When tongan children are born they are wrapped in nagtu, When they die they also will be wrapped in nagtu.

Today it’s used mainly for special occasions such as royal
ceremonies, birthdays, weddings, and funerals.”

Parents can teach their Kid how to speak their culture and pass it on.

I have been performing everywhere in Auckland because I am in a cook island group and are a mixture culture dance group. We do Tongan, cook island, Samoan, Kiribati, Fiji, Niue, and other sorts of culture. Other people are scared to show their talent but I'm not because I'm used to performing in front of other people.

Task description: Today I've learnt how Tongan ngatu are made and why their tradition is important. If you wanna learn more how to make a ngatu click on this link to go to the book I got the information from. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1syqUzIINNPCRfNKE3iQ28DEdV9uTuUc6/view

KO HOKU FAMILI

Task description: This week is tongan language week we had to open a google draw from our drive and create a imiage of our family. We had to write what our family's names are in tongan like mother is fa'e and farther is Tamai.

FRIDAY FUN DAY @ PES

FRIDAY FUN DAY @ PES
* COOK ISLAND LANGUAGE
* WHEELS
* MUFTI
* WACKY HAIR
* GOLDCOIN
* TREAT
Today we are celebrating life, being at school, being alive, being well!
Congratulations to us all for pushing on in what has been an extraordinary year so far.

Thank you to my mum and dad for keeping me safe and fool during the lockdown, thank you to my siblings for being annoying but ill still love them and thank them. Thank you to Mrs Tele’a for helping me get on the right track for school during the lockdown and thank you Mrs tele’a for coming to school during level 2.5 and leaving your family at home for us. Thank you to all of my friends and family for everything.

Taha Wairua

Task description: Here are some reminders of what you should do at home and who you should obay. These are some of my ones I have picked up during the lockdown.

Taha Tinana

Task description: It is good to be active and ready for everything if you sit and be lazy thats not good for your brain and body. At least do 10 star jumps a day.

Oral language activity

Task description: Oral language activity how well did I listened? Today Mrs Tele'a read out instructions while we listened, labelled and drew

COMPOUND SENTENCE

Task discription: Today my class was learning how to write a compound sentences and conjunction. These are 5 compound sentences I wrote my self and picked the best 5.

HE HAKETE KIKORANGI

Task discription: Today I had maori class and I had to fill in the space and fill it with maori colour and that the colour matches the object. Then when we had to make our own phrases but with diffrent colours.

Taha Whanau

Task discription: for todays task I have told what me and my family do for our chores and what we do for our house and family.

5 things i'm grateful for

Task description: Today my class had to open a google drawing and write down 5 things you are grateful for. I have put down 5 things i’m grateful for.

Measurement

Task description: Today what i have done is learning what measurement is.

Building Maths Fitness

Sporting Success

Walt: Today I have been working on how to use fractions, decimals and percentages. Knowing how to use percentages is very not that hard its just like counting to 100.

He aha to hiahia

Task discription: Today for our rotation we went to our te reo maori class. Our teacher was teaching us how to say simple words in maori here is the list of words we learnt:
Moe-Sleep
Takaro-Play
Horoi-Shower
Tuhituhi-Write
Panui-Read
Mahi-Work
When we finished understanding what those meant we had to fill in the missing spots and write what they are doing in maori. Then we had to create a google drawing and made a person talking to a person in maori.

Fill in the missing numbers

WALT: Working co-operatively with others in small groups

Reflection

Yr 7 / 8 Leaders

Here are 10 points I heard what the year 7/8 leaders told us:
1. They came out of our comfort zone - Yr 7
2. Showing Our Talent - Yr 8
3.  Overcoming Fears - Yr 8
4. Trying activity we haven't tried before - Yr 8
5. Being respectful towards each other - Yr 7
6. Not being shy - Yr 7
7. Eating food we haven't tried before - Yr 8
8. Learning how to be a good leader - Yr 7
9. Paschal Talking about Myths / Legends - Yr 8
10. Make new friends - Yr 7

Year 8 camp

On the 5th of August the time and day everyone was waiting for. When we arrived to school everyone looked nice and ready we all had to go in the hall in our group lines and we had a little talk with our principal then we had to say our last goodbye to our parents. When the bus arrived away we went to kauaeranga valley christian camp.

Once we got there everyone was trying to look for there dorms and they were so existed to see what dorm they are in. We all unpacked the bus with our cloths and had morning tea. But before we all went to our dorm we had to chose our team colour I chose green. Because we were playing a existing game called cross games. Cross games is a multisport activity that we can play lots of games for an example like targ of war then moving onto another activity.

After that we all were tired then we went to our first activity for the day. there was 4 teams the names were Kauri, Kauaeranga, Thames, Coromandel and each person in each group participated in every activity.

These are the activity we played:
- Go cart
- Archery
- Air riffles
- Paint ball + sling shot
- BMX bike ride
- Railway jiggers
- Low Ropes
- games in the gym.

then after all of that we finally went to our cabin and we all got ready for dinner. For dinner we had Nachos and for desert we had apple crumble.

In training

WALT: Working co-operatively with others in small groups

FACTS ABOUT SAM BACON

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Introduction to DECIMALS

 

Learning New Words About Extraordinary

Learning new words everyday is important! Through finding out what extraordinary means we learned 7 new words.
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Increase your vocabulary daily!

Goal For This Term

Malo e lelei, Today we have returned to our literacy class. I'm in a group named Duff. This term my goal is to post 3 or 4 times a week. I will be trying to read everyday for at least 30 minutes. I'm looking forward to achieving in reading this term. 

 

Interesting facts about Cambodia

Cambodian Myth of Lightning, Thunder and Rain

The Watcher Of The South

Greek Mythology

Task Description: Today I have been reading and researching about Hercules. He diffident know that he was half and and half god he killed nemean lions. I have also learnt about gods and about the myths of Hermes.

Blue Mountain Coffee / Jamaica

Paul Bunyan

Dragon's eye

Welcome to term 3

Good morning everybody welcome back to my beautiful lovely look blog. Today was our first day of school in term 3 every first day of  the term our school we always have a immersion assembly. Immersion assembly is when our whole school comes back together in the hall and each team explains what they are going to work on this term.

Team 1, Team one shared a video to the whole school what they are working on they are working on what school from an other country eat for their lunch and morning tea and what they do after school. and what are life of students around the world.

Team 2, Team 2 did a acting video of Dora and her friends. Dora asked her map where they should go and he said to Queensland, Paris and all sorts of cool places so they are going to be working on this term about traveling and exploring around the country.

Team 3, Team 3 did a video name the amazing race. They had to fly and run around other city and country around the world. so they will be working on this term about travailing and exploring other country

Team 4, Team 4 made a video about food and where it came from the food they had was Sushi, Indian food, croissant bread and salad. they will be working on this term about food and what other food is there from other country.

Team 5, Team 5 always do a live stream they were acting about Sina and the Eal they did a act about sina diffident like the eal and told the uncles to cut the head off with a big sword. We are going to work on about Myths and Legends around the world.

What I have learnt from this is what its like around the world and that i appreciate what we do for the first day in different terms. and hearing what other teams are doing this term.

Things that have changed when we came back from lock down

Here is 5 awesome things i did during lock down:
1. I slept during the lock down
2. I played fortnite
3. I learnt how to clean the house
4. I learnt how to cook and bake
5. I watched a movie with my family

These are 3 favorite that have happened:
1. Everything is gone back to normal
2. I got my own desk next to my friend
3. I get to see my friends again

These are 5 things that have changed:
1. Our sitting place has changed
2. We are in a different class
3. We have a different teacher
4. We do fitness
5. We learn more writing and reading and maths

These are 3 things I am looking forward to
1. Year 8 camp
2.Going to college
3. learning more new things

These are 3 things I am proud of myself for
1. I have moved from 12 to 13 years old from reading
2. I post every day
3. I finish my work everyday

Land Biomes

Matariki fun day

                            MATARIKI
On Friday the 26 of June our school had a big matariki fun day. There was 3 different choices we could choose one was Cooking, the second one was Arts and crafts, and the last one was sports. We celebrate matariki because it was a time for remembering the dead, and celebrating new years.

The matariki fun day at our school I was in sport's we were playing ki o rahi it was a Maori game. New Zealand should celebrate this because this country is where Maori lived first and we should support them. 

I was so happy when I played it because it was interesting and it was a easy game to learn. We should do this like 2 days a week, so our teachers that supervises us can learn what kind of talent we have. So 
we learn more and more things 2 days a week and show our
families what talent we learnt and what we can do.
                            

5 awesome things about my bubble (Lockdown)

This is a pie graph of how many people in my class did during lock down. We all have to complete then share it with the class. Here is a list of 5 things I did during lock down:
1. I slept during the lock down
2. I played fortnite
3. I learnt how to clean the house
4. I learnt how to cook and bake
5. I watched a movie with my family
I also found out that most of my class spent most of their time with their family witch was 22.9%. Then the second most popular thing some of my class did is food/cooking witch was 19.3%. Then the 3 one was that people said they slept and rested witch was 15.6%.

A Game Of Cards

Mrs Tele'a was reading a book yesterday and these are some words we learned from the story call A Game Of Cards. The book was called Pounamu Pounamu by Witi Ihimaera.
Here are 4 words I understand:
1. Shoving means like pushing and bumping
2. Flecked means mark or dot with small patches of a colour
3.Blaring means Its a loud noise and harsh sounds
4. Mokopuna means used by an older person for a grandchild or a young child.

THE LOST HUNTER

Once upon a time there was a lady who was going out hunting. Her name was the catalyst. She looked so scary and freaky when she went out hunting she packed her bag, put her hunting rifle on her backpack then took off in her car. Once she got there she was not even scared she'd been hunting with her dad when she was 8 but 2 years later her dad passed away. But her dad had shown her lots of thing and told her lots of things to but he said never have fear there will always be someone there for you. 

It was so snowy she couldn't even see then once the snow stopped she didn't know where she was. She tried calling her family but there was no signal she tried everything she had but nothing worked but she remembered her dad said follow your steps through the snow then she saw a bit of her foot prints she tried following it but when she knew it it wasn't her footprints it was a small looking like a wolf’s footprint.

She knew what was coming. She tried running looking for help but there was know one. So there it was the wolf right behind her she didn't have time to run, not even take a step or look behind. But she saw this other thing she couldn't even recognize it but she was that thing holding a gun. That thing she didn't know shot his gun she saw the bullet coming towards the wolf then that thing came to her and told her his name in her mind she said he looks so handsome but his name was Arthur.

He took her to his camping place then made her a hot warm nice sweet coffee she kept on saying thank you thank you but he got annoyed with it and told her it’s alright so he graped his phone and told her to ring someone to pick you up. It's not safe here. Catalyst asked him how did you find me. He said he already knew what was happening. He could hear the wolf and he saw the wolf on his way for work. Catalyst asked what do you work for he said I’m a hunter so she told her the story about her hunting. Then she asked him if they could be hunting buddies and there it was just like that. And every Monday, wednesday, friday and saturday they suddenly became best friends. So she went in a happy mood home. But she was already late for dinner THE END.

Taha Tinana - Fitness & Hygiene

Our physical need to stay fit and clean.

Our families and homes are where we learn the basics BUT important steps for this.

Here are 5 examples of what happens in my family.

1. We always brush our teeth 

2. We always shower

3. My mum always tells me to out deodorant on

4. We eat nachos with veggies in it

5. We always have to clean our self everyday.

These are my 5 examples what happens in my family and hope you see this and write about what happens in your family.

Characters

GRATEFUL - TAHA HINENGARO

Being grateful to someone is like if a friend of your give you a block of chocolate you have to be grateful and say thank you and make sure you take the chocolate from him with respect and appreciate it. 

You may think when your friend gives you something you might think he's being kind he is but he is showing respect to you as a friend and showing he can be a friend.

HERE ARE 5 THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR TODAY.

1. MY PARENTS

2. MY FAMILY

3. MY SCHOOL

4. MY FRIENDS

5. OUR LORD AND SAVIOR   

These are 5 things i'm grateful for I hope you look at my 5 things and see if any of these things i'm grateful for is who your grateful for. 

Taha Whanau / Knowing My Role

So today we had to write what we did in the weekends with our family. This is what I did in the weekends with our family. I hope you can write what you did in the weekends with your family on your blog.

Friday fist day of the weekend: On Friday after school I went home and watched movies with my family and I went with my dad and mum to go to PAK'nSAVE to do shopping.

Next day witch is Saturday I helped my mum clean the whole house then we went to go and visit my grandma and grandpa. After we went to visit them me, my brother, my sister, my mum, and dad went to go to takanini to visit my other uncle. After that when the time hit 5:30 me my brother, my sister and my parents went to the night market to get some yum as food. Then we went home and watched a movie until we were tired.

The next day witch is Sunday: On Sunday when I woke up I had to wake my sister and brothers up to have a shower for church but on that Sunday it was an important day because our pastors sons birthday and everyone had to be there to support and help the church and her son. after the big as feast we went home and watched a movie and I had to change out of my church clothes and watch a movie.

Friday Assembly

 

 On Friday I thought our school assembly was gonna be a normal assembly but this awesome looking cool man named Joseph Parker we saw sitting down in front of the stage on the chairs with his sister.

It was longer and it was surprising because everyone always wanted to see him.

What I learnt when he was saying his speech is that he said nothing beats hard work and believe in yourself.

If I had a chance to ask him something I would like to ask him how long have you been boxing for.

My message to you is that I wish you come back to my school and this is not the first and last we see you. I give you all the best and luck for your next match and for the rest of your happy and fun life. 

Comparing stories

                                         Black Lives Matter         Keeping Promises
                                                               Link to articles
This week I have been working on these three things.
● I can skim and scan a text to find specific information
● I can be be flexible in finding information
● I can locate information in a variety of places within or across texts
I hope you can look and read my two articles I have done.