Perspective and Opinions

Here is a short video, based on our own opinions about Louise. 

Perspective and Opinions

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion.
For the past two weeks we have been giving our own Opinions and Perspective.  This article was about a lady stealing $4000 from a rugby club.  We then had to make a short video, based on our own opinions about Louise.

Man and Sea

WALT: Test ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests.
For the past few weeks we have been given the task to read about a boy named Ioane, and him in the of getting a tatau tattoo.  It tells us how much pain hes in while getting the tattoo and so the dad helps him cool down, by explaining a story about a black octopus that damaged his island.

A few more chapters of Holes

WALT:  Inferring - I connect my prior knowledge to help me make meaning when I infer across several related clues in the text.

Stanley gets use to digging hole at camp green lake

WALT: Predicting - I form and test hypotheses as I confirm or refine my predictions during and after reading. 

The story continues about holes

Fragments and Complete Sentences

This Week we have been learning about Fragments and Complete Sentences. We also had to pick out one of our Wonder Writing, and Proof read it with a buddy. The first slide of my Wonder Writing is my draft Writing, and on the last slide shows what changes I made and how I changed my writing.

Letter to the Pak n Save Manager of Glen Innes

Samoa and Kerstein

130 Point England Road

Glen Innes

Auckland 1072

19th March 2018 Monday

Dear, Manager of glen Innes Pak N Save.

Malo e lelei Manager of Glen Innes Pak N Save,

Our name are Samoa and Kerstein we are both year 8 students at Pt England School. We are very excited to be writing this letter to you. we are writing this letter to let you know that you should think about getting rid of your plastic bags. Kerstein and I have a lot of reasons on why you should get rid of plastic bag, and why we think it is bad for our environment.

Why is it bad to have plastic bags in our environment? Yes why? Well one of our first reasons on why you should consider getting rid of you plastic bags is because plastic bags do not just pollute, but they also affect our water in this land. You might have noticed that plastic bags are not heavy, but they are lightweight so they can float anywhere in the world, which is not good. These plastic can also end up in the trees, fences and also the river!

The second reason why you should get rid of plastic bags is because it is not that easy to recycle. The reason why it is not easy to recycle plastic bags is like, what we just said in our first reason, because it is not heavy but they are lightweight, so they can travel anyway in the world. You never know where the paper might end up, it could end up in the river if you don’t recycle them. Fun fact, the recycling rate for the plastic bags is around 5%.

Last but not least our last reason on why you should ban plastic bags in your store is because, plastic bags are everywhere. For an example your walking to school and you see a bunch on plastic bags, just sitting there floating everywhere. If every store in New Zealand banned plastic bags, then we think it is easier for you managers, because plastic bags are not for free, so you will have to pay for it. If you banned having plastic bags in your stores then you wouldn’t have to worry about getting plastic bags every time you run out.

It has now come to an end to our letter, we are both glad to be writing this letter to the manager of Pak n Save. Kerstein and I have enjoyed writing this letter to you. We hope that our reasons to you were clear for you to read it, and possibly considering to banning the plastic bags.

Visual Mihi

As you can see this is my Visual Mihi, on the top left corner I am proud of who I am, and I am proud to be a Tongan. Next on the Right corner is my family, family is everything to me. And on top of Family, it shows that I love Music. In the bottom left corner is my bible and a little verse that I love reading. It says, "For I know the plans I have for you, Declares the lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"Jeremiah 29:11. Last of all in the right bottom it shows that I am a storms supporter. Hope you like my visual mihi. 

Treaty of Waitangi

Persuasive Word Cloud

This week we have been learning about persuasive writing and giving our own thoughts about what we think! First we had to make a doc and write all the ideas we think Persuasive means. Then we had to copy and paste all the words we have wrote and make a word cloud. And so this is what I have Created.

What it means to be a good role model?

Have you ever been recognised by someone as being a good role model? Or maybe you had someone in your life who has taught you how to become a really good role model? If you have absolutely no idea what i’m talking about, then follow my steps on how to become a good role model!

Well, being a good role model is someone who is always Confident in themselves and always positive. You wouldn’t want someone who always tries to put you down. For an example my friend Sabrina. She is always there for me even when i’m feeling sad. But most of the times she is always Encouraging me to do my personal best! Sabrina does anything to make me have a smile on my face everyday. A really good role model is somebody who is always there by your side even when things gets tough. And That is what a good role model should look like!

Another way to be a good role model is to always show respect to people around you. If your not showing respect then that’s just telling people that can not handle being a good role model. If you're stuck with an equation, but your teacher is talking to another student. What should you do? First you should wait for their conversation to finish and then you may ask your teacher for help. Treat others as you wanted to be treated! That is another way to be a good role model!

What I was trying to tell you is that a role model is somebody you would look up to forever. if you didn’t understand what I was trying to say then maybe read one more time to get the idea. And there you have it if you have followed my steps on how to become a good role model, then maybe one day you will be recognised a one.

Solar System

This terms theme is Guardians of the galaxy. And team 5 has been focusing on the moon and tides. My group and I have made a poster of a solar system, to show all the planets. 

I wonder....

I wonder from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

This Term We have been creating a I wonder Animation about the moon and also planets. My animation is based on the Planet called Mars. My animation was about is mars is a chocolate, we had to come up with a funny joke, and my funny joke was I wonder if Mars is actually a chocolate bar?

MMRM

WALT  Use Mean, Median, Mode and Range to describe data We have been learning about using Mode, Median, Range and mean to describe my data, that I have done. We watched a video and it really helped me and my group to understand what MMRM means. As I was watching the video it helped me alot with my work because it made me understood what MMRM means. Here is the video about the rapping. The MMRM Video

Basketball shelter plan

Hi today I was just working on our sketch for our basketball shelter plan first we thought of a ordinary shelter but….  We thought bigger and are trying to make a movable shelter for the weather.  For an example if it is raining you can pull it over and if it’s a beautiful day than

Back here is a bird's eye view.

Today I did a hyperstudio example drawing of the school basketball court with our design attached to it. For a design we are making a basketball shelter so while it rains students of pt england can still enjoy playing.

This is just an update about our basketball shelter. Today my group and I met with Mrs Tele’a to tell her what our group is called. And it’s call Technofreez, we also told her what we are doing and what material we need to make a basketball shelter. My group and I are very confident about our project.

Statistics

We are learning to Identify and interpret different graphs. 
This week for term 2, my group Kina had to complete this weeks task. Which is about Statistics, and about graphs and charts. We also had to make a line graph showing the temperature about Kaitaia and Tekapo. Which will be in the last slide. 

Cipher wheel

We are learning to learn about ciphers, and what technology is to you. Because our theme for this term is, Now That thinking! We are also learning about how to make your own cipher wheel. And making it with a buddy. 

Here I come Term 2

Who is excited for Term 2, to begin? I will be talking to you readers about our Immersion assembly and, what our Term focus is for Term 2. The theme for term 2 is, Now that's thinking! Every team has a something they will need to focus for a Term. And we also make animated movie about our Term focus. I will also be talking to you about What I would like to achieve for term 2. If your really enjoying our theme which is, Now that's thinking, then come along and read more about my amazing writing I am about to talk to you about.


As we all got to the hall, I was getting to pumped to see what Team 5's focus is for this term. As we all sat down, did the mihi and karakia. As Mr Burt was talking to us about technology, and talking to us about the old wireless and connections. Mr Burt was also talking to us about, what chrome book was invented and the first chrome book Pt England School was given. 

Furthermore, What I would like to achieve is too focus on my work and get better at finishing off my work. What I also like to achieve is too get better at playing netball. And the last thing, I would like to achieve for my goals are too Listen to the teachers introduction. Now that's thinking! Am I right guys! 

One of the old chrome book were, prod casting, Wireless connections, Samsung netbooks, then we upgraded to a, Acer C7, Acer C730, But their is other which I cannot remember. So Team 5 are learning about, How to build things between Pt England School.  Team 5, which is the year 7 & 8 block, are learning about how we could make our block tidier, by putting our bag on the selves.   

Favourite Pastime

Wait, wait, wait don’t scroll yet. What is your favourite pastime? What is one thing you loved to do, that has already happened. It is something you love to do in your spare time like, watching netflix while having a good laugh watching movies. Well you have come to the right person, I will be talking to you readers about what I loved to do in the past. So my favourite pastime is getting prepared for my aunt's restaurant that has just opened up last week on Monday. I was really looking forward to seeing customers coming in to sell some islander food.

Well My favourite past time is getting prepared for my family resturant. And it was pretty exciting preparing things for my families restaurant. The name of the restaurant is called, Melina Kitchen. Yesterday was a very busy day for us because, it was their first time opening the restaurant. I was really proud of my aunties even though they tell me to go to the back room, I would always eat the food that would be at the back.

You are probably wondering why am I talking about getting ready for my families Restaurant. And part of that is getting to spend heaps of time with my families and my aunties and uncles, and also my cousin’s. The reason why I am talking to you readers about getting prepared is because sometimes me and my aunties and mum don’t really get to spend some times together, and part of talking about it is because I get to spend some times with my families and also my cousin’s.

I have really enjoyed helping out with my cousin’s and aunties. And also seeing people coming in to order or even buy some food. One of my favourite things to do there is too serve customers. So I have a question for you, What is your favourite Pastime?