Statistical Maths

 

Today, Wednesday 30th June 2021. Mrs Tofa taught us what Statistical Maths is. This is my Example!

3 Important Buildings - Architecture

Project Based Learning - English - 10 Buildings

Jargon Word List - Project Based Learning

Information Report & How To Build a House

 Steps:

1) Your Plan & design 

2) Site-check imperfection 

3) Equipment/materials 

4) Foundation 

5) Frame

6) Final touches 

Conclusion final thoughts. 

 

Intro- What is a building? a building is a house or a workplace that construction workers build and houses a building made of wood,bricks and work buildings are made of glass.

 

Step 1: Your planning & designing:  For your Planning some people recommend  Wood, wood offers a smart natural advantage that comes to building a lot of houses. Wood provides a fresh scent but can damage this situation by cutting too many trees. Why is it good to use Wood for building a house? Well Wood is sustainable, renewable and generally less energy-intensive to process compared to other construction materials, including concrete & steel. 

 

Step 2: Your site checks imperfection: Now you will have to check your site to see if the building can fit on the ground and then make sure that the ground is stable for the house.

 

Step 3: Equipment/Materials: Your 3rd step is to get all the materials and equipment that you will be needing for the construction. After you have got all your materials you will need to start coming up with ideas.

 

Step 4: Foundation: Step 4, Foundation. Your Foundation will have to be cement to hold up your building or the house but it is made with concrete with the heat of 1450°c of the heat that will develop on the house.

 

Step 5: Frame: For your frame pieces of wood or glass will be recommended for the house and fitting also it will be structured and give you the support for the house/building.

 

Step 6: Final Touches: Your final touches will have to be decorating, gardening & a lot of other things you might want to add, it's your choice just as long as the house it beautiful and comfortable.

 

Conclusions & Final Thoughts: 

When I am older I want to be a Painter & a Builder !!

Kiwican :)

So today we had Kiwican with only Mrs.Mac, As she walked into class she asked us to sit on the mat in a circle, so we followed her commands. After we settled down she began to give us lessons & activities.

Our first activity was  " buddy up " we had to pair up with someone & she will call out "Buddy Up" which meant put your hands on your buddies shoulder & when she says "Buddy Down" we put our hands down, then she'll say "Buddy Sit" which meant sit on your buddies knee. After we had our little activity we had a discussion about our goals. She gave out pieces of paper to write down our Goals for this week & next Week. 

My Goals:

- Complete My Projects :)

- Take part in all class activity's !!

- Speak up in class discussions :) 

- Stay focused on school !!

- Try out new things :)

- & too not give up !!

Out off all lessons this was the best !! <3

 

Mathematics

Today we had Maths with Mrs Tofa. She gave us a warm up lesson that was " 6/4 = 2/4 " which i missed out on but never knew the answer to it. After sometime of the Warm up we then moved on to our actual maths question. The question was " You are making a fruit salad and need 2/3 of a cup of passion fruit. You have a 1/2, 1/4 and a ⅙ sized measuring cup. How will you measure the passion fruit? " For me & my group it was difficult because we didn't really get the problem so we struggled a little bit, then after 15 minutes Mrs Tofa called every in Tahi to the ground to explain their strategy & what they choose. Me & my group just sat their on the mat because we didn't get the Maths Problem that we were given. Me & my group thought about choosing ⅙ because it was the close to 2/3. So we never had anything written on our paper but here is the strategy the other groups did:

Strategy:

2/3 = ⅙

2 x 2= 4

2 x 3= 6

= 4/6

so we took it backwards to see if we are right so they did

4/6 ÷ 2 = 2/3

Technology

Technology!

Python  is a coding Language. 

This is my code for my Flashing Hearts!

Code:

def on_forever():

basic.show_icon(IconNames.HEART)

basic.clear_screen()

basic.pause(500)

basic.show_icon (IconNames.SMALL_HEART)

basic.clear_screen()

basic.pause(500)

basic.forever(on_forever)

Screenshot:

(I was supposed to do a screen-castify but the bell rung)

Architecture

WALT: We are learning to create accurate floor plans for building a house.

Malo e Lelei Everybody! Today we are working on our Project Based Learning/Architecture. Firstly we started with searching up a site called https://floorplancreator.net/# to do this Project!

What I learnt from doing this activity is before building a house you need a:

• How to create a Floor plan
• Where to put the rooms
• Accurate measurement of the house
• If the door opens
• How much space would be in the house
• Where the kitchen & Living Room is going to be
• How big the bathroom & toilet will be 

If I joined the building industry I would like to be a painter just like my dad!

Here is the building I created in 2D!

Here is the building I created in 3D!

Kiwican - Term 2 Week 2 2021

Today on the 12th of May 2021 Wednesday, we had our Kiwi can lesson. As we walked in to our school hall our Kiwi Can teachers had a smile on their faces. Our Kiwi Can Teachers names are Mrs Mac & Lina. As we sat on the floor Mrs Mac Greeted us with a Kon'nichiwa and asked where does Kon'nichiwa come from, we all raised our hands and said: Japan!

After we had our little talk we moved on to our energizer. Lina first asked us to get in to a big circle, secondly she told us the instruction for the game. The game was called Splash, the Main version of the game is called Bang but she changed the name. We all stood in a circle as she explained to us how the game works. So the game is simple but a little bit frustrating, but it was still worth it. As we stood in the circle she picked out a boy to come in to the middle as say our names, He then proceeded to start the game. The game was really fun and funny! it was really cool.

Sometime later everyone got down into a circle to answer some questions. Our questions were about some scenarios Mrs. Mack told us about. The questions were mostly about honesty, After we finished answering questions we went into our activity, Animal Farm. Lina split all of us into 4 groups and gave us an animal. She gave each group a specific animal and the beat went like: Doggy Doggy Woofff x2 Doggy Doggy wooff wooff wooff! After some games we sat down for a bit started our G.K.Q. The game went well until Mrs. Mack brought up all the winners. The question was "How many 10 fit into 1000?" After some time of guessing Arman got the answer correct. We then Proceeded to count up our points and we got a 45/50 we just needed 5 more points. The points were given to us by our Respect, Encouragement, Participation & Team Work!!

Big Topic:  Integrity 

Small Topic: Honesty

Thank you for Checking out my Blog!!

Hope You have an amazing day :) !!

My Pepeha

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Hope You eNjOy !!

Sky Tower

 SKY TOWER TRIP!

On Thursday 6th of May 2021 Room 7 went on an AMAZING trip!We went to the SKY TOWER! It was such an amazing experience seeing the New Zealand Auckland from up high, as we were getting prepared to go up we first watched a little movie at the ground level. The first movie was about when and how long it took the builders to build the Sky Tower. After we had watched the movies we then proceeded to go one by one to the toilets, after we went they handed us a booklet which had a bunch of questions about the movies that we watched before heading up. 

As we answered the questions that were given to us we then got prepared to go up the elevator to go up to level 51 which was very high but exciting

at the same time. As we were walking towards the

elevator our instructor told us one 10 people at

a time, so only ten people went in each elevator. I was getting very nervous because it was my first time going up the Sky Tower. As I stepped foot into the elevator i got goosebumps, it was frightening and exciting, As we went up the Sky Tower it went all black… then we saw light, it was the windows that show you how far you are going up high, I got so scared and closed my eyes as we went up I looked down and even worse, it showed the bottom of the elevator which sacred me so much I almost screamed! 

As we reached the top I walked out of the elevator with my eyes wide open, shocked at the beautiful view! I loved the view so much but what scared me the most was how high up I was, we then started walking around the Sky Tower but then the biggest thing that scared me the most was the thick glass that was 4cm thick which is very strong and thick. The view was breathtaking. I loved it! But didn’t fix the fact that we were so high up looking over Auckland New Zealand. We opened up our Booklets to locate where the mountains were, after we had located all the mountains we sat on the ground and ate our morning tea. Finally we finished our lunch and picked all our rubbish and got ready to go down a level. 

We used the stairs to go down to level 45 which was the refuge. The Refuge had no view, just metal everywhere, Maria, who was our instructor explained why they made the level 45 (refuge). After we had a discussion about the refuge we moved on to level 61. Level 61 had the best view out of all levels. We walked out the elevator and Maria told us that apparently we could lean on the glass which I was afraid that the glass would smash if i were to lean on it. But then our student teacher Ms Woodhall helped me boost my confidence and lean  on the window, IT WAS TERRIFYING but at the same time you have to face your fear.

After we had an adventure/exploring up at level 61 we had to go back to level 51. We walked into the elevator but this time there were no windows to look out of the elevator. It was just like a normal elevator. We went back to level 51 and had another adventure then had to take the elevator again to get back to the ground floor, we arrived at the ground floor and sat in 6 lines. Mrs Raj then asked Soane (Head Boy) to come up and say a little thank you to Maria & Cooper. Then we got on the bus and left. 

It was such an amazing experience going up high and seeing all the Buildings in Auckland. I loved it so much that I'm still scared to this day!

Thank you & Hope you Enjoyed reading my experience on the Sky Tower.

Project Based Learning - The Arts

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Vocabulary

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Project Based Learning - English

 

Project Based Learning - English

Health & P.E - Dogs

Project Based Learning - Mathematics

Today I have completed all my Mathematics tasks.

Animal Classification

 

Science - Task 3

On Monday Mrs Raj Gave us 3 Tasks and I have completed my first task which is about Vertebrates and Invertebrates and my second task is about Animals vs Plants. But I am Now Working on Task 3 about designing your own animals Here is my learning based on my project.

This Is my Animal, Her name is Diva. She is an mixed animal. She loves dark places and loves climbing trees, she loves to eat fish and honey, She loves going for runs and is really active. She loves to play around in the mud and loves to go for very long swims in water falls. Diva really enjoys laying in the sun and loves to relax in her spare time. 

Science - Task 2

 On Monday Mrs Raj Gave us 3 Tasks and I have completed my first task which is about Vertebrates and Invertebrates but my second task is about Animals vs Plants. Here is my learning based on my project.

Science - Task 1

On Monday we had Mrs Raj and she gave us 3 tasks to do for science which was about animals. Our First Task was about Vertebrates and Invertebrates. This is my work based on my learning.

Cybersmart Challenge - Bookmarks

 Challenge #4

Maths - Week 7 Term 1 - Finding the perimeter of Triangles?

 Today Me and my group ( Tahi ) were given a Maths task about Finding the perimeter of rectangles. This was a bit of a warm for us. is was to find the perimeter of the Triangles. Heres how i worked my problems out.

Cybersmart Challenge - Screenshots

 Challenge #3

Cybersmart Challenge

Challenge #2

Questions & Answers - Brown Brother

On Monday me and my reading group were given an activity which was question we had to answer about Brown Brother which was a poem made by Joshua Iosefo. Joshua is a 17 year old who is a prefect at Auckland's mount Roscoe grammar. He made a inspiring speech about brown brother, brown brother is his way of saying he loves being brown and there is nothing to be embarrassed about. so here are the questions me and my were given and my answers:

Questions & Answers:

Who is Iosefa’s main audience?

Answer: His main audience is the world.

What was the purpose of his speech?

Answer: His speech is about what racism does.

Was he successful in sending his message to his target audience?

Answer: Yes, He was very successful in getting his message to his target audience. 

What can we learn from his speech?

Answer: what i learned from that little speech was, to not be embarrassed by the colour of my skin and to be proud of being brown.

How many views has Iosefa had on his speech? Why do you think people have viewed his speech?

Answer: Joshua had gotten “216,753” views on his poem about brown brother. And I think people viewed his video because they wanted to help spread the word of being brown.

Is there evidence people do not agree with his speech? What are their arguments?

Answer: No, i don’t think that there is evidence that people disagree with him. If there is, I will never agree to what they say about the speech.

Finding out what is Pythagorean Theorem?

On Monday Mrs Tofa asked us to find out what Pythagorean Theorem is, so i went and peered up with Genevieve and we searched up what was the meaning of Pythagorean Theorem is, after reading all the information about Pythagorean Theorem we made up our own meaning about Pythagorean Theorem and here it is.

Kawa of Care - Cybersmart

Challenge #1

Proud of being Brown - Reading

 Today Mrs Tofa Asked me and my reading group to make up a poem about being brown, It took me awhile because i had to think alot about the words i had to use in this poem. Heres My Poem :)

Poem: 

I’m proud to be brown,

Like the table which me and my family eat on,

I’m brown like the mud which kids play and jump in,

I’m brown like the bark on the tree that kids climb on,

I’m brown like the colour of the wood which you see everywhere,

I’m brown like the smoke buds my parents smoke and throw on to the garden,

I am proud to be brown like all of my family members

I am proud to be brown and I am proud to be an average brown girl who has goals and dreams to chase after. I never listen to the stereotypes about what white people say about us islanders/Polynesians. 

I am proud to be brown because I was raised in a household with brown brothers and sisters. I'm proud to be brown because I was raised right with good, caring and loving parents and siblings.

I am proud to be brown people think im am just a brown kid with no goals, no future and no dreams

Maths - Finding the perimeter of rectangles

 Today Me and my group ( Tahi ) were given a Maths task about Finding the perimeter of rectangles. This was a bit of a warm for us. is was to find the perimeter of the rectangles. Heres how i worked my problems out.

Zones of Regulation

 

Mata i Pusi - Reading - Question & Answers

 Today and Yesterday we were given reading activities to discuss and finish with our group. I worked independently and manged to Finish all my question and Answers about this narrative/article our teacher (Mrs Tofa) had given to me and my group.

Here are the Questions we were given and the answers I had given:

1) Si’aula is struggling with her identity. Is this true or false?

Support your answer with evidence from the text. Answer: it is true, because Si’aula is getting teased about her identity.

2) Si’aula’s mother is proud of her brown skin. She is a confident woman. Answer: Yes she is, she loves the way she is and loves her cultural and being brown skin. She loves to embrace her cultural

3) Why does Si’aula think it is easier for her mother? Answer: She thinks it's easier for her mum because her mum is brown skin and she is white like her father with green eyes when she wishes she had brown eyes long black hair and brown skin.

4) Why do you think Si’aula didn’t want her Nana to sing when they were walking to school? Answer: because Ti’aula felt embarrassed about her grandmother singing and was afraid that the palangi girls might mock her for being a white samoan.

5) What does Mata i Pusi mean? Answer: Mata i Pusi - Eyes of a cat 

6) What cultural elements are included in this narrative. Discuss in your group and list these. Answer: The Cultural elements included in this narrative are: Samoan Language, Symbols, Values, Ideas and Definitions.

7) Looking at the images, what suggests Si’aula’s family are Pacific Islanders? Answer: The images that were uploaded on to the story explains and tells us that they are polynesians and are full Samoan/Palagi.

8) What nationality is dad? How do you know? Answer: Ti’aula’s dads is full palangi.

Maths Problem

 So today we had our Virtual maths and we were given a Problem and this is how I *tried Sovle it:

If Roimata allows 3 biscuits for each person and there are 12 biscuits in a packet, how many packets of biscuits does she need?

3 X 172 =

3 x 100 = 300 3 X 70 = 210 3 X 2 = 6 Total of Biscuits was= 516 516 / 12 = 43 So Roimata needs 43 packets of biscuits

ENJOY :/

Treaty of Waitangi group discussion

In our discussion with Mrs Tofa we talked about the Treaty of Waitangi. The things
we talked about was when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in the 1840’s and
the marriage they talked about was now a divorce. And about the freedom that
the Maoris wanted. We also talked about genocide. We also learned that
genocide means when someone takes the lifes of a large amount of people
from a certain nation or ethnic group. Another thing we also found out
was that they couldn’t speak Te Reo in schools because it was against the
rules. We also talked about how their language was suppressed by force
and how they were finally recognized in 1980 as a culture and how they
finally had a voice. Another thing we also found out is that it took them
140 years to be recognized as a culture and 32 years later they're still
fighting the system for retribution.

Water Fun Day - 2021

 On Friday 5th of February, was an interesting and fun day. We all had tons of fun, splashing water on each-other and spraying each-other with the hose and laughing and enjoying today.

First all the classes and students sat on the grass and the teachers started explaining to us the instructions for each and every activity. After the teacher explained to us the instructions we all got sent to our stations and waited for the bell to be rang. Room 7 got called and we all got up and went to our first game which was “ Lava Flow “ with Mrs Tofa (Our Teacher) and Mrs Raj (Deputy Principal). We waited for the bell to go so we could begin the games. 2 minutes later the bell rang and we ran on top of the bench, zig zagged around the cones and went through the hula hoop and ran and tipped the water into our buckets and waited for the bell to go so we could switch stations.

After the bell went again we switched and went to Mrs Atuahiva (Teacher Aid) and Mrs Pa’uvale (Teacher Aid) who were doing the water slide. As they were explaining the rules to us the bell went and the girls started while the boys waited in line. After we all had our turn of going down the slide the bell went and we all switched and we went to “SpongeBob” With Mrs Holmes and Mrs Ripata. The instructions were to wet the sponge and make the sponge over and under until it gets to the last person they have to run and squeeze the sponge into your house colouerd buckets and run back and redo what we just did.

After 5 rounds of running with the sponge the bell went and we had to go to the swimming pool with Whea Moana and Mrs Naidu. When we got there the teachers told us to find a partner so we could all have a race. I partnered up with Penelope and she got up on my back and we started running towards the other side and we had to swim back to the other side. After the race the teachers said we could have fun in the pool and just enjoy the swim. After 5 or 10 minutes of swimming the bell went and we went up to Mr Nath’s Station called “Holy Moly” the game is about running with a cup filled with water but had a lot of holes into which is why the game is called Holy Moly. We all had turns one by one and after the bell went we all got wet with the hose and then we finally got to our last activity which was with Mrs Maunel & Mrs Pome’e. Her one was to take a water balloon and walk across the benches and go over and under the desk and hop through the hula hoops and go through the hula hoop on the ground and walk around the bench and run to our house coloured bucket and pop the water balloon in the buckets and run back to our station.

After we finished our last activity, all the classes got called to the courts to present our house chants and to present the winning house. We all got to the courts and sat down in our house colours. I’m in blue ( Nikau ) and I am a house leader for the Nikau House and I really enjoy being a house leader and being a role model towards others. After Kauri (Green) and Kowhai (Yellow) had their turns with their chants it was our turn, me and Mason (The other House leader) got up and started our house chant, after we went it was Rata’s (Red’s) turn to do their chant. After every house had a turn with doing their chants it was time to say the winning house… We all waited for the teacher to present the winning house and 5 seconds after she shouted the winning house which was… KAURI !!!. It was an AMAZING day. On Friday I really enjoyed playing in the water and in the sun.

sewing

 Last Week we had our first lesson of sewing. The yr 8’s were split into two groups. Group one had Me, Uinita, Taijah, Maria , Soane, Jino, Gideon, and Ali-jon. First Wheae told us what we’ll be making during this term. We decided to make pencil cases for a start

We got straight into sewing and Whaea showed us how to cut out our fabric, pin and sew. After her lesson we got started. We cut our fabrics the size we wanted, *the smaller your size the harder to sew*.

After we got our fabrics we went onto our zips. Everyone found a zip that is the same length as their cut out fabric. We then pinned our zips onto the fabric. Then after we pinned, we started sewing. We sewed and sewed ‘til we finished sewing the zips on.

Whaea gave us instructions to step 2, pinning the sides. We pinned what was needed to be pinned and then got onto sewing. Whaea showed us what needed to be sewed. We sewed a lot of times and after so many mistakes we finally succeeded. Thank you Whaea for teaching us how to make a pencil case.

Maths - Term1 Week2 - February 2021

 Today Tahi was working with Mrs Tofa for maths and we learned a lot of interesting things like tidying up numbers and me and my group used place value partitioning to solve the maths question ' 923 - 587 '. It was hard but at the same time easy. When we all finished our maths problem each group got up and presented to everyone our math strategy and had to explain what we meant about the maths. Me and my group split up the numbers to try and make the math question easier to understand. And after we presented our maths strategy's that was the end of our maths!

Swimming - Term 1 Week 1 2021 - February

swimming.

Today Room 7 had swimming at 9:40am with our swimming instructor to learn how to stay safe in case of big waves while swimming at a beach.

Our first lesson she taught us was how to catch your breath while swimming. She said “when you need to catch your breath while swimming, you have to roll on your back then roll back on your stomach after you have caught your breath”. After she explained they all started following the instructions.

After lesson one she told us lesson two. The second lesson was: swimming on top of the water then diving down. She started explaining it to the class and demonstrated for them. She said “first youse start swimming slowly on the top then once youse hear the whistle get ready to dive in and pull yourself down while swimming”.

After she had finished explaining lesson two she moved on to lesson three: which was “hand signals”. She said “first you lay face down into the water then once you guys hear the whistle you have to roll onto you back and put one hand up and leave you other hand under and try to find me and swim to me”. After she explained everyone tried it out and a lot of people were struggling but then they started to understand.

For the last lesson she taught was about: waves. She said “the most dangerous thing about swimming at a beach is the waves, waves are big and scary so i’m going to ask the boys to line up on the wall of the pool and start pushing up and down to make big waves for the girls to swim through” all the boys started pushing up against the walls creating big waves. After the girls went it was the boys' turn to swim through the waves. The girls lined up against the wall and started pushing against the walls creating big waves for the boy to swim through. After every did their part it was time to get out and that was the end of swimming.