Holiday Blog (Thank you)

The last chapter of my life at Pt England School as a Year 8 student has come to an end, and it's time to finally move on to my new chapter of my life which is, COLLEGE. I want to take this time to say thank you to my teachers who have taught me throughout my years at Intermediate and Primary, and especially thanks to the Year 8's and 7's of 2018 who made my last year at Pt England the most memorable time of my life. 

Even though tears were shred at the last day of school, I hope all my fellow Year 7's and Year 8's hopefully know that I may very grateful for their love and support they have shown me this past year. Including my teachers. Thank all for making me the person who I am today, I hope I see some of you over the holidays. 

Vincent Van Gogh

WALT: Justify our thinking using evidence from the text
Have you ever heard of a famous artist Vincent Van Gogh?? While this week for reading we were learning about the life of Van Gogh and his many artwork. I learned so much from this activity such as, Van Gogh's artwork wasn't valued that much when he was alive but 100 years later, a new museum was opened in honour of Vincent Van Goug in 1993 in Amsterdam where his artwork is displayed.

Communication to different audiences

WALT: write for a range of audiences
For writing this week we were learning about how we can communicate with different audiences. In the presentation above we had to find out what age group each book or advertisement was aimed at. The last two slides we had to write our own advert for ages 9-13 and 18-25.

Finding China

WALT: make sense of new information by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world
This week for reading we got to read and learn about China. In the presentation above it will show facts and other information about China that I found out about. And lastly the little google drawing above my learning presentation is my create task where I had to write some things people that are travelling to China might expect or need to know before going to China.

Paideia Seminar 2018 (Term 4)

Today the Year 7&8 extension crew had our Term 3 Paideia seminar where we came together and contributed what we learned about health and fitness from the previous term with our groups. I think I did much better job in this Paideia seminar because I contributed my ideas and my thoughts more clearly and I talked much more. One thing that stood out to me from the Paideia Seminar was that obesity(being overweight) can actually stop you from joining in sports and other active activities. 

Lady Pink

In Room 5 we learned about a famous graffiti artist named Lady Pink. For our create task we had to create a presentation or a google drawing and show what we learned about this specific artist.

State Housing New Zealand

This week for reading Mrs Stone gave the Dahl group the articale: State housing New Zealand. The article was mostly talking about how throughout the years new state houses have been built in New Zealand and how the housing crisis have changed.

24 hour time

WALT:  Agree on a solution that each can we can explain

Have you ever learned about 24 hour time?? Well this week Room 3 maths class was very lucky since we got to learn about how 24 hour time works. You can view my learning about 24 hour time in the presentation above.

Quirky Artist

This week for reading Mrs Stone gave my reading group Quirky artists we had to search up information about an artist and what makes them weird.

Converting 24 hour time

WALT:  use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking
This week for maths since it was the first day back from the holidays my math's teacher: Mrs Tele'a gave us an easy presentation on how to convert time into 24 hour time. Take a look and you will see I have now mastered the skill of knowing how to tell the time and how to convert time.

DMIC-Term 3

WALT:  use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking
Today I finished my maths work from Term 3 I haven't yet finished. This presentation we used was for our DMIC session with our teacher Mrs Tele'a on the mat. With the help of my teacher I managed to finish the slides.

Fornite BANNED or Not

WALT: Edit our writing so it can be easily understood
Today I have just finished my Fortnite banned!!! To be honest I really don't know if fortnite should be banned or not because fortnite is becoming to addictive BUT the game looks very fun to play. So right now I'm half-half. I hope you like my writing.

How to look after your body

WALT: strengthen our arguments

Today I decided to finish off some work from Term 3 above is a presentation from my writing work all about how we can look after our bodies. Take a look inside and you will find out many ways on how you can help keep your body fit and healthy.

My Camp Experience

I jumped out of bed excitedly and scurried off to the bathroom to get ready for my Youth Camp. It was 5:10 in the morning and I had to quickly get changed before Dee,my Youth Leader, came over to my house to pick me up. I had just finished getting ready and I was sitting in the Lounge room waiting for Dee along with my suitcase, Pillow, and sleeping bag. As I was waiting I started to think about what we would learn and do at camp as the theme was: Remember who you are. 

Dee soon arrived and picked me up along with her two kids. I was feeling a little sad waving goodbye to my parents because I knew I would miss them but that feeling soon got forgotten when we arrived at Robertson road Chapel to meet up with the other kids to get ready to depart. Soon after every kid in my Youth was munching a plate of hot doughnuts, cupcakes and drinking some nice warm Milo for Breakfast.

After Breakfast everybody got inside a vehicle and drove off to our destination which was Camp Tuhikaramea in Hamilton near the New Zealand Temple. The drive was going to be long so me and my friends spent time making jokes, taking pictures and singing karaoke, which made the long drive pass by real quick. Once we got there we got settled into our Cabin's and Tent's and soon after we headed back to the Pavilion for Morning Tea.

The first day at camp flew by and it was time for each Youth to preform their Dance or Item they have been working on for the past weeks or days. The performances was based on Disney movies and my Youth's movie was Beauty and the Beast. Our version of the Beauty of the Beast was a Samoan Version where instead of having Belle and Gaston we switched it so the names were Teuila and Zipso. I think my Youth had the best performance because we made everybody laugh and especially Fesili who played Zipso made everybody crack up even the adults, even some kids from the other Youth's came up to us and said we had the best item. I was so proud of our Youth.

It was time to leave and go back to Auckland but before all of that happened all of the Youth even Youth from different wards stopped at an ice cream place to eat some Lunch. Going to the camp was so much fun it helped me come out of my shell and it also helped me make new friends.

Holiday blogging 2018

It's school holidays once again. I thought I would be excited that school is out but to be honest I was having so much fun at school with my friends this term that I didn't want it to end, but I'm looking forward to what next term holds and who knows maybe I'll run into one of my classmates or friends somewhere.

Next Term I'm going to focus on getting good grades on my test and just have fun because next term is going to be my last term ever at Point England school before going off to college (One Tree Hill). There will be lot's of events happening next term like Athletics day, Manaiakalani Film Festival, Rainbows End, Parakai, The School Picnic, Prize Giving and Year 8 graduation making the Term look so hectic to some people but to me Term 4 is always the Term of Fun.

I'm really not looking forward to the last day of the year. That day marks the day I leave Point England School and move on into College. I still can't believe after seven years of attending Point England I'm leaving in a few months I didn't even realise how fast time flies by. But when I do go to College I hope to come back and visit the school.

Maths Work (24 hour time)

WALT:  use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking
Do you know who to tell 24 hour time? Well this week Group B was on the mat doing DMIC with Mrs Tele'a and we learned how to tell time and we also learned how to convert that into 24 hour time. Above is the presentation me and my group worked on together. I hope you learned something new from my maths work.

Sheena Move Ya body Reflection

What have you accomplished this week? It was finally time to show our siva samoa to Team 5. Me and my group managed to accomplish memorizing the dance of by heart.

What did you find challenging? Me and the girls (Daliz and Jayde) found it really challenging teaching the boys the dance because they would always laugh and play around which didn’t help because when we danced the boys didn’t know what to do.

What has helped you to overcome these challenges? Just a few minutes before we had to go into the hall the boys finally got it together and we managed to help them memorize some moves.

What did you enjoy about the performances? I really enjoyed watching the seven group from each class performing but Room 4 only had two group but either then that I had a great time watching and performing and I hope Team 5 does it again.

Move ya Body Reflection this week

What have you accomplished this week? This week our group got bigger our new members are Jayde, Mereana, Leonardy and Junior. And together we managed to accomplish teaching a boys dance and combine it together to make one big dance.

What did you find challenging? I found it hard when we were trying to teach the boys dance because we didn’t know any dance moves for them.

What has helped you to overcome these challenges? Our team got together and managed to make moves to show the boys.

What would you like to work on next week? Next week me and my group are going to sharpen up the dance and learn where each person is standing for our performance to show to the whole Team 5.

Independent work (T3W5)

WALT:  use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking
This week for our independent work we had to work on how to change decimals to percentages and fractions. This activity helped me increase and help me understand more about decimals, percentages and fractions.

The Slushy Drinkers

WALT:  make inferences from a text

Have you ever had a Slushy Drink? Well this week for literacy Mrs Stone gave the Dahl group: The Slushy Drinkers. I think the story is about kids in a space that is living on a space ship with robots, adults and their principal, I think they are also looking for a new planet to live on because probably a dangerous plague spread across planet earth. What do you think is happening in the story?

What happened today at assembly?

Every week on Friday Point England School has an assembly where we give out certificates and find out what happening around our school. But this week the assembly was very special because it was Tongan Language week.

Boys and girls from Year 1 to Year 8 preformed on the big stage in front of the whole school. The girls preformed their dance they did at Fiafia then was followed by their own dance their choreographed by themselves. Then lastly the Year 7 and 8 boys preformed a traditional boys dance then ended with a hip hop free-style dance. The Tongan group did a wonderful job representing their cultures. Below are some photo's of their performance.

Writing: Back to the future & New Zealand Essay

WALT: write for a specific purpose and audience

This week for writing in Room 4. We had to find what poems might mean and each student had to write an essay about what will change in New Zealand over the years. Below is my essay. Hope you enjoy my writing.

Have you ever wondered what New Zealand might be like in 2048? Well today in my essay I will be writing all about what will stay the same and what will change in New Zealand in the years to come.

The Population in New Zealand is growing, but very slowly. According to the net migration, New Zealand’s population won’t likely reach five million in the next few year. In 1984 New Zealand’s  population was 3,260,300, but in 2001 it grew to 3,846,100. But some people believe by 2021 the population would likely reach 4,375,000. That’s a lot of people in one country, right??


Is the Climate change impact in New Zealand irreversible? Climate Change may have already made a huge impact on New Zealand’s natural systems and the effects are likely to become worser. Soils in some areas have become drier and the temperature of the ocean has risen. Do you know Fox glacier in the South Island? Well from 2005 to 2011 it looked like a real glacier but ever since then the glaciers started shrinking which is a sign of Global warming.


So what do you think will change and what will stay the same in the years to come for New Zealand? I hope you learned something new from my writing about what New Zealand will be like in the future.

T3W4 acitvity

WALT:  to explain mathematical thinking using the context of the problem
This week for our weekly follow-up Mrs Tele'a gave my group a follow up about fractions, decimals, and percentage. Have a look at my maths activity and you can learn more about fraction, decimals and percentage.

Early Finishers: RMS Titanic

Since I finished all of my work for Week 5 I was allowed to do my own create task about anything that happened in the past and I decided to do a create task about the RMS Titanic.

How to be an Upstander

Today I am going to write about how to be an Upstander. What is an Upstander, you ask? An Upstander is about a person moving from being silent to taking action. Bystanders contribute to the problem. Upstanders stops the problem. So which one are you a Upstander or a Bystander?

Number one, Have courage to be an Upstander. It takes a lot of courage to be an Upstander. Upstanders are kids who prevent and stop the bullying they see, or comes to the aid of another kid who is being bullied by showing them kindness. Moving from being an Bystander to a Upstander doesn't just happen overnight, it takes time and it takes commit. It can start by becoming more aware of the bullying behaviour and how it affects the victim’s life. Upstanders are able to see the pain the victim is feeling and takes action.

What’s the difference between a Bystander and a Upstander? A bystander is someone that does not speak up or act to prevent problems from happening but contributes to it. But an Upstander takes action when they see something that is not right and takes charge by standing up to the problem.

How does being an upstander make a difference? When Upstanders speak out and their opinions are heard they will make a difference in their community’s and in the world. We all should be just like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela who made a change in the world by standing up and making their voices heard and not being scared to stand up for what they believe in.

So will you be a Upstander or a Bystander? I hoped you learned something from my writing on how to be an Upstander and making your voice and opinion heard.

Martin Luther King Jr.

WALT: Use information from the text to justify our answers

Do you know who Martin Luther King Jr. is? This week Room 4 Literacy and Writing class is learning about Martin Luther King and what made him known across the world.

Nelson Mandela

 
WALT: Use information from the text to justify our answers
Do you know a person Nelson Mandela? This week for reading my reading group: Dahl got an activity all about him. I know that Nelson Mandela was the first ever South African black president and every day on his birthday (July18) which is called Mandela Day is by celebrating the idea that each individual has the power to transform and make a big impact. (Below my work activity is my create task all about what I know about Nelson Mandela)

Sandwich Recipe

Title of Recipe: Combined Healthy Sandwich

Description of the sandwich (write after creation)

Today Mrs Stone’s writing class got an opportunity to make our sandwiches. I was the first 6 chosen to
make a sandwich and below is a picture of my sandwich. Some Ingredients I put in my sandwich are:
Lettuce, mayo, 3 pieces of cucumber and some pieces of tuna. And it’s very delicious and scrumptious.

Start Recipe here:

Equipments or tools:

• Lettuce Knife
• Butter Knife
• Measuring spoons
• Sandwich knife

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of bread
• 2 teaspoons of Margarine or Mayonnaise (Butter)
• 2 pieces of Lettuce
• 2-3 pieces of Tomato
• (Optional) 3 slices of cucumber
• 1 slice of Cheese (25g)
• 2 tablespoons of Tuna (canned)

What to do:

• Butter 2 slices of bread with 2 teaspoons of Margarine or Mayo
• Slice or cut two pieces of Lettuce and add to the sandwich
• Cut and add 2-3 pieces of Tomato
• And if you want you can add 4 slices of cucumber
• Add 1 slice of cheese (25g)
• And lastly add 2 tablespoons of Tuna to your sandwich
• Then enjoy your time eating your healthy sandwich

Multiplying whole numbers by decimals. (Part 2)

This week for maths Mrs Tele'a gave our maths group: Newton, an activity all about how to mulitply whole numbers by decimals but part 2. Thank to this activity it has helped me learn to multiply whole numbers.

The Promise

WALT: infer and make judgements about a text
This week for reading Mrs Stone gave my reading group The Promise bu Bernard Beckett. It was a story about 5 kids who trapped themselves in a bunker to protect themselves from a dangerous situation that happened. Below is my create where we had to create Tips on how to survive in a disaster.


                                          Create Task:

Tips to survive a dangerous situation!

1. If you are in open sea

• If you have no food, remember there is food in the sea you just need to get it.
• To get freshwater make a distillation machine
• Heat stroke can kill much faster than hunger

2. If you get lost in a desert

• Try to travel at night time
• Many people think that there is water in a cacti

3. If you are trapped under a building or in a cave

• Breathe deeply but exhale very slowly
• Don’t scream
• Take of your shirt and wrap your head with it

4. Guarding against a potential attack

• Don’t accept rides from strangers
• Make as much noise as possible if you are being attacked
• Don’t be afraid to fight back
• Trust your gut

Story of my Life (Cook Island language week)

“Come on Sheena come and join the Cook Island group with us” my friend
Mereana begged. My friends were trying to convince me to join the Cook
Island group to do a dance on Friday for Cook Island language week but I was
been very stubborn because I was scared I couldn’t shake my hips the right way.

Once the lunch time bell rang me and my friends all hurried to the creative
space where the Cook Island group were practising, and somehow my friends
managed to persuade me to join the Cook Island group. The teacher that would
be helping us prepare for the dance on Friday was no other then Mrs Langitupu.
The first dance that we were going to do was the Senior Girls dance followed
with the Group dance and to close off our item we would go out and pick a
student or teacher to dance freestyle with.

On Thursday the Cook Island group had to do a run-through on the stage but
unfortunately I had to go to a netball tournament so I couldn’t make it. After
we came back from the Netball tournament my friends informed me that all
we needed to do was bring a white t-shirt and a lavalava.

Friday finally arrived and I was excited but nervous at the same time. Once I
arrived at school I rushed to the creative space forgetting all about Prefects, all
I wanted was to get to the creative space to get ready. When I got there I quickly
got changed with my friends and hurried to the hall to do a quick run-through
before the real performance. I felt really weird because all the prefects were
watching which made me very uncomfortable, but I managed to push through
and just pretend there not there and continued dancing.

Once we finished performing our item I was feeling great inside because
I got to try a new cultural and it helped me build up my confidence.

Mata I Pusi

WALT: make inferences to understand the deeper meaning behind a text

This week for Reading Mrs Stone gave our reading group Dahl a story called Mata I Pusi (Eye's of a cat) The story was talking about that it's ok if you are different from everyone because everyone is different. As you can see on top of my presentation is my create activity where we had to create a word cloud art about what things we like.

Move your body activity

Learning about moving your body is not just by using your body it's also about your mind too. Today for inquiry Room 3 did an activity where we had to pick one person from our team to do a stacking cup competition with our other classmates. The four kids that were nominated to do the competition was Adrienne, Santana, Chastyi and Jayden. They were timed to see who is the fastest and Chastyi won. (Time: Chastyi-9.90s, Santana-14.96s, Jayden-15.76s, Adrienne- 21.32s.

I learned today that when someone is forced to do something they are not comfortable with I should encourage them so they have the confidence to do it. I also learned that when I fail I should keep on Preserving. 

Delicious Description

CAKE: Since the 13th century cake has been loved by people around the
world for it’s scrumptious flavour and exquisite textures. Many special
occasions are celebrated with a cake. Whether your throwing a birthday
party, getting married or celebrating a work anniversary, the cake is a
crowd-pleasing favourite.

Cake is one of the most all-round favourite desserts with a huge variety of
delicious flavour mixtures and it’s ewuist smell that made people fall in
love through the year to this present day. Cake’s has been around since the
13th century and ever since then people around the world just couldn’t resist.
You will find loads of delicious flavor combinations in the bakeries, shops and
food stalls to satisfy everyone’s taste buds.

DONUTS: Donuts are circles of happiness and everybody knows that. It’s a
never ending sugary path of deliciousness and every bite makes you feel
more alive inside. Besides the fact that donuts aren’t good of us, they’re
good for our hunger and soul.

Donut’s are very popular in some countries and is prepared and served in
many forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased at the
supermarket, food stalls or bakeries.

So what’s keeping you from getting a donut? Purchase a donut right now and
let your inner childness run free.

Word Problems (W1T3)

WALT: work collaboratively to solve word problems.

Hi and welcome to my blog. Have you ever wondered how to add and subtract decimals? Well take a look at the presenation above and see how I learned how to add and subtract decimals. In the presentation we got questions like: 4.26cm + 7.54cm + 3.90cm, and we had to find out the answer in groups of three or four.

Group maths workout

Today in Maths the Room 3 girls worked on a word problem that Mrs Tele'a. My group found out the answer but we found it hard to explain how we got the answer. Check out the picture to find out how me and my group found our answer.

Holiday blogging

Today is a very special day because my uncle Tanielu came to New Zealand for a funeral. I am excited to see him again but I'm also excited to go to the Funeral tonight so I can learn more about my family. The person that has passed away is my Aunty who I don't know very well but I hope this funeral will help me to learn more about her.

School Holiday blogging

It the last week of school holidays and I am very excited to start school again since Room 3 now has they rightful teacher for the rest of the year: Mrs Tele'a. I am very excited to go back to school but I am also sad because on the last day of school Team 5 had to say farewell to Mrs Salu who will be travelling to Abu Dhabi to teach in a new school. We will miss you very much Mrs Salu but we all know it's what you want and wish you good luck for you're future Mrs Salu. So are you excited to go back to school?

Fever Reading

This week I finished my literacy work. The book me and my group read was Fever. It was a story about a girl that got a fever and met a ghost girl. The presentation above shows all of my learning and my create task.