Christmas Keys

Google Geek

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Marble Roll Experiment

Jiwi's Machines

Alan Duff

Diwali

Science in TC

For science, we designed a moon rover at Tamaki College.

Working with my Critical Friend

Today we partnered up with a critical friend, who's job is to spot the mistakes in your writing and helped us to see it and fix it. It was really helpful, because my critical friend found a few errors that I never realised was there. After commenting on the writing, we referenced the writing toolbox to see what level we are on and what we can do better. In the toolbox, there are many different sections of how to improve and score the text, along with things you can do to go to the next level.

Fireworks Safety

Guy Fawkes GoAnimate

(Trying to) Blow up the Parliment by Mengchun on GoAnimate

This is our modern interpretation of the Guy Fawkes story. It shows how Guy Fawkes felt when the King sent his men down into the cellar to capture him, and how the King(prime minister) reacted to the letter about someone's betrayal.

Wise Choices

Wise Choices by Mengchun on GoAnimate

Certificate

We both scored merit, me with a score of 28/40 and Thomas with a score of 25/40.

Problem Solving - x8

Digital Technology

At tech, year 8 are learning to program a plat-former game. We listed all the properties and special points of several examples on the website Scratch, then brainstormed ideas which we made into a survey. Currently, we're designing the themes and giving general ideas.

×8

We practised our multiplicative solutions, and gave two ways to solve the problem. We also recognized if the question is asking us to use division or multiplication.

Reading

x8

The Black Book of Colours

This is the book I recommended as Duffy in the school assembly.
Author: Menena Cottin

It’s about how a blind child perceive colours. Instead of seeing, he can feel, touch and smell them. This book is entirely made of black, except for the writing. It also includes Braille letters, which is a language made by using raised dots to represent each letter of the alphabet.

You can find this book in the library under sophisticated picture books in the fiction section.

Thanks for listening.

And remember it’s cool to read!

Xtramaths

I finished all four sections of Xtra-maths.
It took me around two weeks.

Earthquake Video

Earthquake Drill by Mengchun on GoAnimate

Understanding Multiplication

Shake Out

Types of Scams

T4 Goals

Holiday Reading #3 Recommendation

Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
I would recommend this book to Linda and Nesi.
1. Even though the language style is old, it is perfectly easy to understand.
2. The book is actually quite short. It took me just one day to finish it.
3. If you read the original version, it contains pictures to help understand the story better. Countless other retells have illustrations too.

Holiday Reading #2 Retell

Title: Allusions of Innocence
(A collection of short stories about children)
Editor: Jax Coss

Story: The Street Game
Author: Scanthe meic Beorh
Underneath an orange tree is an old table. Everyday, children gather around it to play the 'street game'. If you are chosen to play, you can put any item on the table. If you don't...

Story: Mr. Harris's door
Author: A.P. Sessler
Clifton was forced to knocked on Mr. Harris's door, who hanged himself a few years ago. He appeared and 'invited' the child in. Clifton's dead body was found the next day.

Story: The Cycle of Rebirth
Author: Mona Zutshi Opubor
Agnes is ill, and Ram attempts to cure her by bringing her to South India.
"What if I die?" the girl asked.
"Will I still be sick?"
And with that, Agnes flicked out a match.

Holiday Reading #1 Character Portrait

Title: Heroes of Olyumpus - The House of Hades
Author: Rick Riordan
Genre: Fantasy, Children's Fiction

Nico di Angelo

Pak N Safe Trip

This is an Animoto about the trip. The senior school in Panmure Bridge went to the supermarket, and figured out which food is healthy and which is not.

Flip eBook

We made a Flip eBook with Mrs Paton.

Tongan Assembly

This week is Tongan language week. So today in assembly, except for some parts of reports from head students, every other report (even Duffy's book recommendation) was spoken in Tongan.

Run Jump Throw

Recently, we started a new Kiwi Sport programme called Run, Jump, Throw. In RJT, we learnt the basics to sprinting, long jumping, high jumping, and more. We also tried new exercises and games

Shading

This is what I know about shading. It is hard to fit a picture in there, so I didn't attempt to.

Fraction Knowledge

I am learning to order fractions with different denominators within a short amount of time. This will help me on my test, and for more difficult problems later on.

Vending Machine Problem

I used my multiplication and division knowledge to solve this problem. A similar problem I came up with is 'if 8 pieces of candy is 2/9 of the entire bag of treats, and the other are pieces of chocolate, how many chocolate pieces are there'?

Cybersmart - Smart Relationships - Safety

Cybersmart - Safety

To be safe on the internet, you will:

• NOT give any important information about yourself, like
• Last name
• Address
• Phone Number
• Things you can talk about:
• Your hobbies
• Your favourite things
• NOT hurt others by saying something bad about them (cyberbullying)
• NOT click on advertisements that pops up, or anywhere on the web page. If you accidently did, close it quickly.
• NOT agree to meet up with someone you don’t know
• Report to an adult if you received a hurtful message
• Make sure that things you use(music, images etc.) are safe and free for using

Smart Money

Smart Money by Mengchun on GoAnimate
 Today we learnt how to created a GoAnimate video with Ms Paton. I can only make videos that are within 30 seconds, so it was really hard to fit all the information in.

Cook Island Food

Hockey

Today was our last session at hockey. We had a lot of fun, playing games and practising. Also a thank you to our instructor, Lydia, for teaching us.

The Promise - GoAnimate

The Promise
Click the link above.

Paul Cezanne Still Life

We tried to replicate Paul Cezanne's still life paintings. To the left is the original, and to the right is my version. I think that the colours that I used are too dark, and the brush is too thick to paint the details. The jar also looks crooked, and I will try to improve on that later. One thing I did learn is how to shade using darkening colours.

Current Events T3 W3

Cybersmart

We made a chart about what you should do if you want to comment on someone's blog.

Maori Food

For homework this week, we need to know about Maori food.

Hauora

Hauora is Maori philosophy on how to keep a person healthy, and at their best. Like a house with four walls, if one falls, the others will undoubtedly fall too.

How to Make Vanilla Ice-Cream

Independent & Dependent Clauses

We worked on a Google drawing about what makes independent and dependent clauses different from each other.

What does 2000 Calories look like?

Procedural Writing

A Healthy Plate

WeVideo Test

My Favourite Food

Maths

Animals in WW1

Prsuasive Writing

This is a Prezi made by me and Tim from room 5.

Current Events

A summary of an article on Kiwi Kids News.

Little Red Riding Hood

Press the green flag to start again.
References and music is at the end of the project.
I made this on Scratch for homework.

Term 2 Summary

Self-Management:
I do always have enough power for my netbook.
I also always finish homework.

Reading:
I achieved my goal of inferencing and understanding the author's message.
This is because I tried to think of how the author felt, and what the characters are implying.

Writing:
I achieved half of my goal of using more language feature.
I used more features this term, but not similes and metaphors.

Maths:
I now understand what a factor and a common multiple is.

Inquiry:
I learnt that in the first world war, people used pigeons to send messages.
Also, animals such as monkeys acted as mascots.

The Legend of Matariki

Spelling

Today's spelling was hard, since most of the words sound the same with the others. Like wood and would, aisle and isle.

Spelling

The new word I learnt was penicillin. I also know that mayonnaise is a type of sauce/dressing made with egg yolk and oil. This is my example of using penicillin: The nurse used some penicillin to treat the infection.

Math

LI-To quickly recall the 6 times tables.
We need to complete 10 questions about the 6 times tables in a span of 1 minute.
We practised first, and wrote the timetable(1-12) for 10 times in our numeracy book.

Maths

I practised putting fractions in order of largest to smallest.

Rangitoto Trip

Maths

This is a picture of me explaining how 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10=55.

WW1 Troops

This is a percentage of the known number of troops sent by countries on the right in WW1.

Spelling

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Letter Scramble

Spelling Bee

Word Search

Definition Match

Spelling Test

Today I learnt that Georgia is a state in the U.S. and a country.

Before I thought that it's only a country.

Rangitoto Trip

Rangitoto Island Trip (Part 1)

Rangitoto Island (Part 2)
This is a collection of photos that expressed how I experienced the walk to the summit of Rangitoto mountain. These videos are made by Animoto.

Blog Comments

I gave advice and improvable points to people in my class, the school and other Manaiakalani schools by commenting on their blog posts.

Make 100

I used strategy and trial and error to find the answer.

The goal: To use plus, minus, times and divide to make 100 using the numbers 1-9 in order.

Maths

Every Number is being represented by a symbol, and you need to put together a puzzle.

To Play the Game: http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/6554/JigSawC.swf

Maths

I got 92 smart score out of 20 questions.

Reading - The Anzac Button

Anzac Assembly

http://prezi.com/zpwiu1unf5in/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Go to this link to read.

Spelling

This week's spelling is the same as last week. I practised receiving, and got 100%.