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?