Measurement!!

WALT: ESTIMATE MEASUREMENTS AND READ DIFFERENT SCALES

Today for our maths task, we are focusing on our Measurements and what they are:  kg, g, mm, cm etc. To start us off first we had to check the measurements in the story Mrs Tele'a wrote. The measurements in the story were purposely wrong, so it is up to us to make it correct. After that, there are 3 different slides that are about estimating the measurements that were given, we had to try and guess it's measurement. Now my favourite activity of the maths slides, which was Ordering Measurements. First we had to guess the length and mass of each one then we had to order it from shortest to longest (1-4) and lightest to heaviest (1-4). For the last slide we had to go on this link that takes us to this reading scale quiz. There are 6 levels in total which is all about reading different types of scales. Doing this really helped me practice reading scales, ones I knew already and many different ones. Thank you Mrs Tele'a for another wonderful and fun Maths Slides today!

Taha Whanau!!

TAHA WHANAU!!!

Today Room 3 decided to reflect back into our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, the one we were focusing on is Taha Whanau. If you forgot what Taha Whanau is, it is all about your family and friend relationships. The task today was using Avatar Creator we had to create our members of our family or our bubble. Once we finished our avatars we had to write next to them things they do in our bubble. It could be their roles, chores or the things they do, in my family we all get a share of chores we have to do each day. There is no one that does nothing in my bubble, we all do important things. ENJOY!

5 Things I'm Grateful for during Level 3 Lockdown

Task Description: It is the first Monday back to school YAY!!, We had the decision to stay home or come back to school, of course I came to school which is the best. Coming back to school makes the teachers happy and me too, I love coming back to play with my friends and learning heaps of fun things at school. For our 1st task today we had to create a google drawing of 5 things I'm grateful for during lockdown. ENJOY!!

Mythical Creature: Option 3

Getting Creative with Myths and Legends

Option 3:

Task Description- For the 3rd option of the Myths and Legends task we had to create an image of a mythical creature, hero or villain. I chose to make a mythical creature which is a dragon I made up on my own. Her name is Mystic,  Mystic is a rainbow breathing dragon that has the power to turn things into gold with her special eyes. Mystic's symbol is the 4 leaf clover, she has a rainbow tummy and blue mixed with purple scaly body. I got this idea from the leprechauns, ENJOY!

Recipe Book: Option 2

Getting Creative with Myths and Legends

Option 2:

Task Description- For our second option for the Myths and Legends Task this week, it was about  Recipe Book. For this activity we had to design a recipe for a mythical creature. The mythical creature I chose were Baby Dragons (Whelps). My recipe was about Dragon Fruit Smoothie, I once drank it before ages ago. So I decided to do that recipe. Hope you enjoy!

Myths & Legends: Option 1

Getting Creative with Myths & Legends

Option 1:

Task Description- For our social study task this week Mrs Tele'a gave us heaps of options to work on that all relate to Myths and Legends. For option 1 we had to write an epic tale, myth or legend. We have to create the bad guy, hero and the plot. It could be short or long, here is the tale I wrote. It is a tale about dragons, sisters, royalty and much more. This tale also teaches a moral that every person must remember. I know what it is like to not be jealous of other people and their stuff but we all have to do the right thing. 

I'll be posting more of the different options for this soon.

ENJOY!!

He aha to hiahia?

WALT: Ask and answer questions about what you like

Today we had our Te Reo Maori lesson on google meets. My teacher was Ms Tapuke and the question we learnt about was 

'He aha to hiahia' which means 'What do you want'. The answer to this question would be 'He ___ taku hiahia, which mean I want a __ in that space you would put in one of these new vocabulary we learnt...

1. Moe- Sleep
2. Takaro- Play
3. Horoi- Shower
4. Tuhituhi- Write
5. Panui- Read
6. Mahi-Work

We starting asking each other answers and questions which was really fun. For the creative task we had to create a comic strip or poster dealing with the new things we learnt today. Thank you Ms Tapuke for another wonderful and fun Te Reo Maori lesson. 

He aha to hiahia?

Building Maths Fitness!

Building Maths Fitness!

Maths Warm up

Task Description: Before starting our maths task about measurement Mrs Tele'a gave us a warm up activity. First was addition, we had to +7  on each number, e.g 7+2=9 . Second was mixed math operations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication). Last but not least some extra math problems like was is the prefix (start of a word) for kilogram, kilometre, etc. Square room perimeter problems and math riddles. The thing I like about maths warm ups is that it gives our brains enough energy and boost for the real things. Thank you Mrs Tele'a for making this for us.

Roland Fish Rises Up by Mary- Jane Stewart

Roland Fish Rises Up

by Mary-Jane Stewart

Today's new reading text is called Roland Fish Rises Up. This book was very fun and interesting to read. It was about a school boy named Roland Fish who is not popular, smart or fits in. He gets picked on a lot by Tim O'malley (School's big bully), but Roland doesn't let that take over him. We did our regular stuff like our grammer work, highlighting subjects, verbs and identifying what sentences are Independent and Dependent and how many clauses are there in a sentence. For our paragraph writing we had to explain a moment on what we have to do if someone picks on you. ENJOY!!!

Monday Mornings By Marco Fazzi

Task Description: Today we have a new reading book called Monday Mornings by Marco Fazzi. This book is really interesting to read. We are also reflecting back on Subjects, verbs, clauses and types of sentences. For our last activity we had to write a paragraph that describes ONE MOMENT in a teacher's life outside of school.

Social Studies Task 2

WALT: We are learning about a country in our world

Task Description: Task 2

Share 4 interesting facts about you selected myths country. I chose Brazil which is in South America, I also added Famous Landmarks and Dishes from Brazil. Did you know that Brazil is actually the largest country in South America?

Social Studies Task 1

WALT: We are learning about a country in our world

Task Description: Task 1

1.  Find a Myth from either South America or North America
2. Mark in the country onto a Map
3. Create a poster that shows

- The Name of the Myth

- Key people/beings/objects from myth

- The population of this country today

- The languages spoken in this country

- Flag of Country

Myths and Legends Passport

Over the past few weeks in Term 3 our Topic in Team 5 is Myths and Legends. We have been doing rotations and going to each class learning new Myths and Legends by each Teacher. To show our learning we had this passport that holds key learning from each class. My favourite myth so far is the Cambodian one: Thunder, Lightning and Rain. Learning myths from different countries is something I really enjoy doing, learning different and new things each day at school is really fun. Thank You Teachers!

Maths Meet Special

MATHS MEET SPECIAL

Today at our Maths Google Meet, my Maths Teacher/Home Teacher, Mrs Tele'a gave us 4 questions about finding discount percentages out of whole numbers. This is great practice for us to improve in our Percentages, Decimals and Fraction learning. Here is a screenshot of the questions and a photo of my answers and working out.

A Brush with the Dark Side!

WALT: Use correct sentence structure

For our next Literacy task, the book we read was A Brush with the Dark side. This book was about these two boys (Jeremy and Sam) who suspect that their teacher (Mr Foster) is from the dark side. They spy on Mr Foster to catch him on the spot but to find out he was just setting up an Aquarium. Or was he?...

Decimals and Fractions

Decimals and Fractions!
For our second maths task this week, it also focused on Decimals, Fractions and Percentages. For this task is was like the other one we had to work out which subject marks were the highest. We also had to explain and show our working out. Enjoy!

Fraction, Decimals and Percentages- Sporting Success

Maths: Fraction, Decimals, Percentages.

Over the past few weeks we have been learning a lot about Fractions, decimals and Percentages in our maths lessons. The topic for these maths slides were Sporting Success. the questions were asking us what the proportions of games they had won this season. We had to work out which team won the greatest and least proportion of games. 

Time for Decimals

Maths: Time for Decimals

Today for our maths task, we had to finish off these maths slides based on adding and subtracting decimals. We practiced decimal places from 1- 3, I had fun doing the 1's places because it's more easier. ENJOY :)

TEEL- Writing Construction!

WALT: Use correct paragraph structure

Here is our writing task for week 4. This week we have been learning how to use correct paragraph structures. Here is the paragraph structure we have been using:

TEEL

- Topic Sentence

- Example/Evidence

- Explanation

- Link

If only by Hilton Ayrey

WALT: Use correct sentence structure.

Today I had just finished my google meet with my Literacy class. We reviewed back on what we learnt last lockdown which was about Subjects, Verbs, Sentences and clauses. This reading task was based on the story: If Only by Hilton Ayrey.

Downriver

Year 7's next year

 

Task description: Today for our last blog post about our Yr 7's Step up programme we had to create a poster about what we want to keep, add, stop for the Yr 7's next year. We also had to include at the bottom what part of Te Whare Tapa Wha did we strengthen  on these 3 days. ENJOY! :)

Yr 7 and Yr 8's team captain's Highlights

 This morning we heard from our year 7 and year 8 leaders. Here are some of their highlights...

Yr 7's

- We came out of our comfort zone

- We worked together on activities

- Thunder were very shy at first but after the second day we gained more and more confidence

- Nina's highlight was the food

- Bradley's highlight was being a prefect while the Yr'8 were gone

Yr 8's

- That some boys were scared so they slept together

- Some of their highlights were the Go- Carts 

- They had a great time working together

- They had heaps of fun

- Paschal joked that there were ghosts which made Jez scared

Yr 7 Step Up Programme 2020

 Yr 7 Step Up Programme

Last week while the Yr 8's went to Kauaeranga Valley Camp the Yr 7's held a step up programme at school. This programme was to help the Yr 7's to step up and be leaders like our Yr 8's. We had heaps of fun doing this amazing programme, here is what we did on the 1st day....

Once the Yr 8's left, we had to meet in the streets for the teachers to tell us what we are doing and our time schedules. After that we got splitted into three groups 1- Mrs Moala, 2- Mrs Illaoa, 3- Ms Tipene, I was in Mrs Moala's Class. Once we sorted our groups we had to come up with a team name, posters, chants and a girl and boy team captain. Our team name was Thunder and our team captains were Nina and Mohammed. Once we came up with our chants we had to present it to the other teams which were Duck Life and Strikers.

After presenting our chants to everyone we had to go back into our classes and start eating our morning tea. After morning tea play time we came back into the street and started our rotations with our teachers. After doing that it was time to eat our Lunch, after play time we had to come back into the street and start our sports rotation. Each class had to split into A's and B's groups. I was in 1B and we played 3A in bull rush and that was our 1st day of the step up programme