2021 REFLECTION !!

 This year has been a crazy but fun year for us. However, we were able to do a lot of fun things and make a lot of memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives, such as year 8 camp, sports, vacations, Fiafia, and much more. Here are two of my favourite moments from this year.

Year 8 Camp:

As it was the last year, year 8 camp was a lot of fun and provided a lot of opportunities to bond with the other year 8s. During camp, I was able to gain a lot more confidence, as well as the ability to function as part of a team. It encouraged me and my friends to step up and out, and we learned a lot about each other as a result. Ax throwing was obviously one of my favourite activities. It was new to me, but I eventually got the hang of it:)

FiaFia:

FiaFia was undoubtedly fantastic. We were able to have our families watch us perform, and each of us students was able to demonstrate a few of the various traditional dances.  Like Tongan, Hip Hop, Fijian, Bollywood and many more.  I had the good fortune to be a member of the Tongan Girls. I was able to witness how others danced and learn a lot of new moves from all of the sessions, which was a lot of fun.

I had many memorable moments during my time at school, but these are the ones that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that Covid-19 disrupted several planned activities, we were able to complete the year with plenty of memories and friends.

Literacy Planet

Over the past few weeks we've been using Literacy planet. Literacy Planet provides a lot of fun things for us to enjoy. Literacy Planet is sort of like Maths whizz, we have to complete a decent amount of task and however much question we get right our prize is Gems and points. 

Gems + Points: Gems and points help us to do more tasks, and get a bit competitive aswell. Our teacher has access to see how many points we have and how well we did on our task. It's really cool because we all want to get first place, and to do that we need to do more task. 

Comprehension: Literacy provides us with heaps of tasks. Comprehensions being one of them. Literacy Planet will give us books for us to read, and 12 questions to answer. It really fun because we usually do is get one of our classmates to do the answers first, and submit answers that way we can see the right answers and get 100%.

Spelling:This site also gives us a decent amount of spelling tests along with a couple of games like Code Phrase, Battle Rocket and more. We each have to hear what word the person is saying and try to spell in correctly. I usually get it correct which is why its fun.

Grammar: Some of task gives us a focus for example Direct Speech, Metaphors, Question/Interrogation and more. It gives us questions like ' which is the only true statement ' & match the first part of each sentence with the second, its really fun.

More Task: These were just a few task Literacy Planet provides us with, theirs also Sight Words, Arcade Game, Phonics and we even get to design our characters which is fun. It also provides us with levels, for year 1's all the way up to year 11. Literacy has helped me with my grammar and more.

Attitude Talk !

 Today Team 5 were lucky enough to have a few people come and talk to us about Puberty. Jannah talked to the girls while Robbie and Charlie talked with all the boys. Jannah talked about how and when our body's develops and why it does. She also gave us a few tips on how we could prevent Bio and smelling weird. This was a very helpful talk as we are growing up and heading into our college years. We also played a few games, wrote questions on a piece of paper, just in case some of us were to shy to ask.  She also provided us a few things that may come in handy.

In The Zone

This is the school korero for the week. In The Zone. This includes, speak at the appropriate level, staying on task, my space my place, and in the zone online. And the Prefects and House Captains came of with this idea as well. Above this text and a few photos about each statement and piece of writing beside it.

Literacy Planet

This is what I've been upto during the past 2 or 3 weeks. Literacy Planet. This is a very fun educated site to go on, it helps with your reading, metaphors, punctuation etc. Already I've learnt a lot from this task. Basically you get your teacher or parent to set your account up. They then unlock task for you to master each day. If you get all the answer correct you get gems. In my class we see who is winning, so we make it to be like a competition which is fun but we do get competitive at times. I'm currently in 2nd place with 158 points and 234 gems. 

105 Year Old Running Breaks Record

This article was quite surprising, even the title "105-year-old runner sets world record" seemed strange. This was a fascinating essay to read. In a timing of 1 minute and 2 seconds, Julia Hawkins set a new world record in the 100m. This time was extremely nice to some people, like myself, but Julia was disappointed because she hoped to finish it in one minute.

If you're interested in reading more articles like this, click here for the LINK and have fun. Enjoy

New Zealand Couple Grow Worlds Biggest Potato

Because lately most of my blog posts have been about Te Reo and Maths, I decided to challenge myself and do a bit of literacy work. Because I wasn't able to join the literacy meets due to Extension classes, I chose to pick a few articles from Kiwi Kids News site. I got this article from the odd section of the site. This was about a couple in New Zealand who grew the worlds biggest potato in the world. I learnt that they weigh of there potato came up-to about 7.59kg. Enjoy

Here is the LINK to the site if you want to see more articles like this one.

TikTok Tipene

Today we had our Elective class. This is tiktok Tipene, this is a class where you get to show of your dance moves to everyone. We have heaps of laughs during these classes, and its very enjoyable. 

 

Ki Te aha ?

The question for this weeks Te Reo task is What for. In Maori each slide will say Im going to a place, in this case a beach. After that it said what for, and then for our task we had to figure out what word from our Kupu Hau would best fit in that sentence. We also had to this task Independently. Below is my comic strip that I have created for my create task, along with a voice over of me pronounce the phrases that I had learnt. You could find that on the last slide of the presentation.

Bryde's Whale: Extension Work

Because of this pandemic, we've been doing work online. Our theme is "Our Voice, Our Choice", but for our extension work we've been looking at endangered sea species, in this case the Bryde's whale. Above this text was our task for today. We had to list 3 facts about Bryde's Whales, and list 3 things on how we can help this specie not go extinct. Enjoy.

Fractions, Decimals, & Percentage.

If you were wondering why I've been posting heaps of maths slides, is because during our maths meets, our teacher put out a challenge, we had to finish all 17 maths task and had to finish is before Friday morning. After that I decided to just do all of it in one or two days just so I don't have to rush, and try and finish it last minute. Any ways in this task was all based around fractions, decimals, & percentages. Enjoy

Dot Plot

This is one my last maths task for today and the week. In this task I learnt a lot about Dot Plot graphs. One thing I learnt is that the Information about the data can be read off directly from the dot plot. Enjoy

Measurement and Statistics (Mr Jacobsen's Cycling journey).

This is a DMIC task based on Mr. Jacobsen's cycling ride from school to home and back, as well as measurement and statistics. To overcome this problem, I used multiplication. I also collaborated with my buddies on the math problem!

Strip Graph

We've been given a variety of maths exercises to pick from this week, and I choose the strip graph activity for today.

Area and Volume of 2D and 3D shapes.

This is one of the math assignments I needed to do, and it deals with the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes.

Stem & Leaf Graph

This is one of my few maths task for today. In this task I was able to gather alot more knowledge about the Stem and Leaf graph. The few things I learnt is that, Steam and leaf graph is probably the most easiest way to organise data, and it could only work with numbers. Enjoy

Tree Diagram

Our goal for this week is to complete all of the Math tasks. Today I completed the Tree Diagram task along with many other maths task.

Pie Graph

This is a pie graph presentation in math. In this presentation, I responded to a question about data in a pie chart. I also had to create some pie charts on my own. I also received some help with this task as well. Enjoy

Adding Rational Numbers

This is my task that I have completed today. Adding Rational Numbers is what I had to work on. I had to add minus fractions and decimals together to have a complete answer. Enjoy.

Time Series

This is my other maths task I've completed. Time series was what I had to work on. This was pretty challenging but I was able to complete it in time.