Digital Dig: My shortcut

Today our Digital Teacher Mrs Shearing gave us a task to find a hidden shortcut that no one knows in our classroom. My hidden shortcut is opening the the Downloads page to open your download page you just push Ctrl J.

Digital Nations 2030 Trip

Guess what on Monday the 19th of February the year 8 and 7 extension group went to a Hotel in Auckland for a very important event called Digital Nations 2030.

When we arrived at out destination we were welcomed by our close friend Zoe from OMG Tech who showed us to a room filled with computers, 3D printers and Robots. The first place that I went to with my group was the Robot stand. We had to code onto a computer and then upload into the robot so that when we press the play button the robot will do what the code says. The last stand we went to was Code Avengers. All we had to do was get through the 5 levels to the last spinning wheel that you spin to get a prize. The prize that I got was two stickers.

Overall I really enjoyed my time at the Digital Nation 2030. It has helped me improve my critical thinking about coding and taught me how to code a robot. I hope in the future some other lucky extension students will get the chance to go on this amazing event like we did.

How much can you remember from 2017?

WALT: Recall our learning from 2017.
For week 1 to start of maths for 2018 our teachers made a presentation about how much we remembered from 2017. In the presentation we had to look at place value, work out word problems and put decimals from smallest to largest.

Escaping the Earth?

WALT: Consider the different perspectives presented in a text.Today in Literacy in Room 4 we read an article about Stephan Hawing saying we will need to leave Earth because of climate change and Disease.

Newton Maths Work

WALT: solve problems up to and beyond 1000 by using tidy number strategy and compensating
This Week my new maths group Newton had to solve problems by rounding it to the nearest 10 or 100. Above you can see my maths work from Room 3 this week.

Tech at Tamaki

Today at Tech at Tamaki college me and my group: Rua were in Kitchen and we made pizza!! The ingredients that we needed was Pizza Sauce, Cheese, Ham and Pineapple. We had to cut the ham and Pineapple and apply the Pizza Sauce on top of a Pizza Base. After that, we had to put on the pineapple, ham and cheese. Once we finished we had to put the Pizza into the oven to cook for about 2 minutes. Below is the result  of the pizza after it was cooked.

Exicting launch for SpaceX (Newspaper)

Today in Room 4's Literacy for our reading task we had to  learn more about what happened to the Rocket Falcon Heavy, and lastly make a newspaper with our idea's. Here on the left is my Newspaper about the launch.

My first week of School

It was time to go back to school and my first two days back was a blast!! My home room is Room 3
and my teacher is Mrs Tele’a, but unfortunately she had to look after her baby so we have two
georgeous teachers Mrs Sio and Mrs Salu filling in
for her for the first two terms of school.

The first day back from school me and the other prefects had to get ready for the first school
assembly as the new leaders of 2018. The first time standing up there in front of the school
was both scary and exciting. Once the school assembly was finished the Year 8’s went back
to the Team 5 block to welcome the Year 7’s.

The second day back, everybody just stayed in their home class and learned about the
Treaty of waitangi. Once we were finished with the Treaty of Waitangi our class made a Treaty or Rules
to care for our Classroom.

One thing that I learned this week was how to do many sort of artwork and I also learned some of my
classmates names. Some things I want to archive next week is to be a good role model and to do good
both in Maths and Reading.