Kowhaiwhai for P.E.S

This year as our parting koha for Pt England School we have designed and painted our own kowhaiwhai. These will be mounted permanently as our koha as Year 8 of 2018. I've called my artwork 'Ko Au' - 'Me'. It has symbols that represent my Family, Myself and Also GOD.

The steps I took to produce this are :
1. Practising our Kowhaiwhai
2. Sketching/Drawing Korus
3. Darkening on Wood
4. Painting
5. Outlining product with Black Marker
6. Varnish product

When we were painting our boards we had to be extra careful. Trying not to smudge the paint was hard enough. It has been a fun journey Sketching/Drawing our product to actually painting it. I hope that these paintings will become memories to Pt England School forever.

The Tree

Underneath the huge tree

Feeling happy and feeling free

As I feel the breeze

I start to freeze

I move closer to the tree

As it’s harder to believe

I’m getting warmer and warmer

I start to dream

As I feel like an explorer

Colour Code

Colour Code

S = Statement = Yellow

E = Explanation = Green

E = Example = Blue

Introduction

Do you know what a good friend is? Well you have come to the

right place. You have probably had a lot of good friends

already but let me give you some tips that will help you become a good friend.

A good friend is someone you can trust and rely on.

A trustworthy friend is someone you can open up to. Trustworthy friends
are the best to rely on. By saying this I mean that you can tell a

trustworthy friend a lot of personal things you have never told

anyone before, and they will keep it a secret.

A good friend is someone that can entertain you and make you laugh.
Entertaining & Humorous friends are the best to call when you need to

have a little laugh. For example sometimes people can feel sad

 but you always seem to have a good friend that will make you

laugh and sometimes put on a show for when you are bored.

Furthermore, A good friend is someone who will Comfort you & Care for you.
Comforting & Caring friends are good to have around when you feel sick. For
example when you feel like you are having a bad day you have friends that
will care for you and make you feel better.

  Conclusion                                                   

So there you have it, a couple of ideas showing you how to be a good friend.
You could also use these ideas every time you make a new friend.

I would say everyone has a good friend. If you think about it we have teachers
as well. They are always there for us when we need help.

Do you think you are a good friend?

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We got the opportunity to mark our own work based on Statements, Explanations and also Examples. As you can see I got to highlight my writing test. The reason behind that is because we wanted to see what it would be like to mark our own work based on our opinions.

24-hour Time

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

For this weeks activity we have been focusing on 12 hour & 24 hour time. There were times where it was difficult to solve some questions but we managed to get through it and finish it. Overall thoughts were that it was good to know how 24 hour time works which most of us already knew about, it was also good to experience. 

Inference

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests.

For this weeks activity we were focusing on Inferring. We had to read the book in this presentation to answer all the questions. Some were difficult and some were easy but I and a few others managed to answer the questions. This presentation has got me ready for my upcoming test.

Kiwi Kids

Fart Proof Underwear!

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

U.K Company.

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Fart Proof Undies.

3. Where did this event take place?

United Kingdom.

4. When did this event take place?

September 19th 2018.

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

‘‘Millions Of People’’

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

This Company is trying to reduce bad smells from your behind.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information

about this place.

This Event took place in the U.K In the U.K is where the Queen lives

& her family.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in

the future.

September 19th 2018, This might be a number one selling product

for people that really need it!

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

I personally think that a lot of people were curious to see if this

product could help a lot of people so they put it to the test.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning

of 3 words from the article.

There was no Dictionary.

1. Combat - Trying to reduce.
   
   
2. Contain - Have or Hold/(Something or Someone) - With in.
   
   
3. Affects - Make a difference to...
   
   

Paula The Poet

Today we have learnt about Paula Green and her work in poetry. We will be writing poetry with guides from her site ''Poetry Box''
Heads Up, There will be more coming.

My Poem

Assembly Time!

Feeling the cold breeze

As it feels like 100 degrees

Playing with my friends

As we walk to class

Looking around I see the bright green grass

Walking to the hall

As we stand up nice and tall

Singing the national anthem

As I see kids throwing a tantrum

We continue singing

When I hear the bell ringing

STRIKE

More time to teach:

Our classes in NZ are struggling to cope with their teachers,
doing a lot of jobs for the school rather than teaching their students.  
From my perspective I think that teachers should spend more time to
teach their students than to write reports all day about our attitude and the
way we learn. The main focus is to actually have a full session to teach us.

Resourcing for Additional needs:

Classes in NZ are struggling to handle their rare student’s.

By rare I mean that one teacher in each class have a group

of students that have a hard time focusing on their learning,

while other student’s find it way easier.  I think that schools

need more teacher’s to help our students catch up with the

rest of the class.

Better Pay:

From my perspective I think that the money that teachers are

getting paid right now is not enough, because some teachers

have been teaching for more than ten years and their still

getting paid the same amount of money as new teachers.  

Teachers work everyday just to pay the bills and to teach

our students, but there’s other jobs like being a lawyer, you

only work for a few days but you still get paid more than teachers.

Conclusion:

So there you have it! I hope that these paragraphs have helped you.

I hope that people start making changes for the people

that work as teachers.

Statictics

For this weeks activity we have been Introduced to Statistics. One thing I knew about Statistics is that there were a bunch of different graphs. Isn't that cool! Knowing that there are a lot of different graphs you can put lot of Data into more than one graph. Going through this presentation was a good way to look at how Data can be used or how it is put into graphs.

Dancing with the Stars

For this week's activity we got to read a book based on ''Dancing with the stars" Our task was to create a poster that will help other's through their hard times and this is what I came up with. With this poster I think it means a lot of things to other's but to me this poster just give's me one topic and that's to not give up. This activity encouraged me by reading the book and answering the questions.

Welcome Back

Dear Mrs Tele’a,

My name is Ana Leisi and I am a Year 8 student at Pt England School. My ethnicity is tongan and I am the middle child of three in my family. In my spare time I like to spend time with Friends and Family.

My favourite sports are Rugby, Tag, Touch and also Softball.

This year will be my last year attending Pt England School. My favourite subjects are Reading, Writing and Maths. Right now I am currently looking at going to Tamaki College. I don’t know what other college fits me best. During my work time I don’t like getting distracted and I also don’t like it when I don’t finish my work.

Other then that I hope that as the year goes on you enjoy your time being a teacher in Room 3 and one of our leaders in Team 5. I hope that your class and your students treat you good and I hope you have a fun time in Room 3 for the next two terms.

WELCOME BACK!!!!

Yours Sincerely,

Ana Leisi

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. 

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.

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.

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.

My Word Problems ( Maths )

WALT:  I will collect, sort and count data  AND apply basic addition facts and knowledge of place value and symmetry to: - combine or partition whole numbers.

My Statistics

WALT:  I will collect, sort and count data  AND apply basic addition facts and knowledge of place value and symmetry to: - combine or partition whole numbers.