Carnivorous Plants.

For this weeks activity was Carnivorous Plants. We had to compare plants that we thought were similar. We also learnt more about Carnivorous Plants.
WALT - identify key information in a text

The Rat - (Reading)

For this weeks activity, Ms Tapuke gave the Kauri group The Rat. In this activity we got to learn more about the 4 sections of an Orchestra which are: The String family, Woodwind family, Brass Family, and the Percussion Family. 

Test Practice 3

WALT -  a. Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.  

For this weeks activity Mrs Tele'a gave us another activity to get ready for our Gloss test. A Gloss test is a test with only you and the teacher. While I was going through the slides it felt like the questions were getting easier, so I think that the other test practice was very helpful.

Equivalent Fractions

Learning About Equivalent fractions

Today we learnt about equivalent fractions. When we first started we had to get a piece of paper and our teacher cut the piece of paper in half. Next we had to fold the piece of paper in half and in the half we had to write 1/2 in each square. Next we had to fold it again and we had to write 1/4 and we folded the piece of paper again and we wrote 1/8. I wasn't sure about what our teacher was talking about but when started I understood a bit more of what she was talking about.

Equivalent is fractions that are the same amount but different numbers, for example 3/4 is the same as saying 6/8. Hope you now understand what equivalent fraction means.

Test Practice #2

WALT -  a. Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.  

For this weeks activity we had to get ready for our test so Mrs Tele'a gave us this task to finish off.

In this task there are a bunch of different slides with a bunch of different questions that we had to answer. This was also a warm up for the maths test. 

Test Practice 1

WALT -  a. Interpreting what word problems are asking me to work out.  

For this weeks activity we were doing a test practice to get prepared for our maths test that was coming up. It was  also like a warm up and I liked it because it kept me focus and ready for the test.

Extension Reflection

Last term for extension we had 3 choices to pick from and those choices were either to make a game that disabled people can play and also make a game show and to try and make a song but we had to make them with Makey - Makey. My group picked the game show because we wanted to entertain people with different questions and we wanted to see if they knew the answer.

In my group there was Sheena , Atareita , Danielle , Alisha. I loved the group that I was in we were focused on what we had to do and we worked together on the difficulties we had. We made our game show with the help of Scratch and we also made our buzzers with playdough.

Next we had to present our game show in front of the class. Then we grabbed two volunteers which was Talita and Simon. The seem to like our game. There where a bunch of different questions that were easy and also hard but they got through the hard and easy questions.

In our group we had different jobs to do. I had to make the buzzers and sounds and I also had to test them out when they were done. Next there was Danielle she also had to make the buzzers and she did some coding. Sheena was finding out where all the wires go to make the buzzers work. Alisha was helping Sheena with the wires. Atareita did the coding the scores and also the backdrops and also the buzzers.

Statistics and Probability

For this weeks activity is Statistics and Probability. Statistics and Probability is for example something that will possibly happen or is likely to happen.

Mission to Jupiter

WALT: Identify the Author's Purpose

Today I have finished my reading activity for week 5 and 6. This activity talks about how the space craft Galileo's mission to Jupiter and what happened along the way. The purpose of this reading activity was to find out what the author was trying to inform, entertain or persuade in the article.

Eye Spy

WALT -  Identify features of a non-fiction text

Today I have finished one my reading activity's for this week. This is about space and different constellation's. Hope you enjoy going through my activity.
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Elections 2017

WALT -  understand how leadership of groups in communities and societies.

Today I have finished my Reading activity for Week 7 and this activity was about the Elections that are happening in 2017. On this activity we had to insert images of different parties and also all the leaders of each party. We also had to create our own game and my group managed to come up with a game.

Inferring

WALT -  make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)

Today I have finished my reading activity for Week 3 and 4. This activity is about reading different texts and finding out Who, what and how the character was feeling and what kind of personality he or she had in the text.

Astrobiology

WALT -  make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)
SUCCESS CRITERIA

Today I have finished my reading activity for week 3&4. This activity was about finding hidden meanings in a text or two and write what we learnt about it on the presentation.

Film festival Manaiakalani

Have you ever got to film a movie or be in one? Well I am here to tell you about what I experienced. Yesterday my film festival group and I got to finish filming. In some scenes it was quite hard to look serious because I would always laugh during acting. If you are wondering what a film festival is, A film festival is a event that we have once a year. Basically film festival is when each class creates there own movie, then they present there movie at the cinemas. I have a few Ideas for 2018. One of my ideas would be Impressions Of Famous Actors, A day in the life of a year 7. Some things that i could include music and also different kinds of shots and angles from the camera. I hope you enjoyed reading and I hope to see many movies in the future.

My Multiplication Pyramid

WALT -  Explain or show the steps we took to solve each word problem (Ratios & Proportions)

Hello there. Here is one of my maths work for this week. So how you work this out is for example you grab the 1 and the 5 at the bottom of the pyramid which equals 5 so then you keep time sing until you get your final answer.

GEGNZ Student Summit at Ormiston Junior College

Today the Year 7 & 8 Extension class luckily got to go to the GEGNZ Student Summit. We got to show other schools how we create the news on PENN. We got to present our speech that got given to us and also we had to memorise it. There were so many different schools there. The first thing we did was we had to go into to their auditorium and they welcomed all schools that were there.

After the big welcoming we got to go and have a break and have morning tea. After having morning tea we had to prepare for presenting, we had to walk up the stairs and get to the room that we were presenting in. I was quite nervous because I didn't know how many people were going to be there. When it was presenting time we had a small audience that turned into a big audience.

It was really fun and some of our students got prizes and I was also one of them.

My maths word problems

Today we got to do word problems. In some stages it was hard working out the questions but then we got to the end and finally finished.

Education Speech

First of all I would like to say good morning to the class and also to the teachers. Today my speech is about why all education should be free. Education is very important in schools and it also plays a very important role in our lives. In some schools kids can't afford education so then different people pay for it.The more knowledge we get, we grow and learn more in our future life. Education doesn’t only mean being good and getting certificates it means more like the people that can’t afford education there probably just self taught and won’t have any friends or even a teacher to guide them through what they're learning. That’s why we need free education for people who need it most. So my question for you is Do you think that we need free education in our schools.

Space Technology

In extension I read an article about space technology and how it's helped us. I learnt that our satellite has helped us with a lot of things in so many different ways. it helps people travel and also go to different places. Satellites help us know whats going on around the world. So here is what I picked up when i read the article. Hope you enjoy reading.

Well I think that space technology has helped us with a lot of things such as TV’s, Telephones, Computers and many more. It even helps us with telephone calls and also it helps people find out what weather will be today and tomorrow. Some  satellites can help with Cars and also airplanes. This is why satellites are so important to us.  Space technology has helped us understand how Earth works and how we can keep it healthy.  

You probably wouldn’t know this but satellites have helped us understand what’s happening around our planet and it also shows and tells us how we can take care and protect our planet.                 Here is the link to the article

ABOUT MY FUN WEEK

On Tuesday we got to sort out our teams and we got to do our team chants and we also got to pick our team leaders which were Samoa and Javan. On Wednesday we got to make tasty truffles. We got to mix a lot of ingredients together and it was fun because it brought our team more closer and it was really really fun. On Thursday we got to do a lot of activities and sports our group got to play soccer and it was really fun because was building encouragement and sportsmanship in our team. I can see a lot of people in my group that can be team leaders one day. HOPE YOU ENJOYED READING MY BLOG POST.