John key resigns as Prime Minister!!

WALT: research about our prime minister that has just resigned.

Today our task was based on John key's resignation, So John Key has resigned from his job as being a prime minister because he doesn't want to be a prime minister. So this task is about two questions (What do you think about his resignation? and What does this mean New Zealand?) We filled out the 2 columns with a serval amount of words.. based on our thoughts on the questions that were given to us to answer.

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Camp Raglan - Poem

Camp Raglan - Poem

This task is about our camp experience at camp Raglan, So this task basically means about phrases that relates to our camp experience and these phrases is like a acrostic poem...

Here is my acrostic poem:

C - communicating with each other.

A - aiming the targets.

M - meat for dinner.

P - People trying their best in the activities.

R - Reaching up for help in team building.

A - Achieving goals in the activities.

G - Going for gold.

L - Listening to camp rules

A - Amazed in your talents.

N - Never giving up.

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6 Hats - Camp Raglan

6 Hats - Camp Raglan

 Today this is one of our camp task that we had to finish and this task is basically about the 6 hats, It's just questions that we have to answer and what we did there.

White hat:

Who is here?

All year 7&8 students from tamaki primary, Teachers, Parents.

Where are we?

We are at camp Raglan.

Why did we come here?

To bond more and to experience ourselves out there.

How did we get here?

Red hat:

How are you feeling now that you are finally here? Why?

I am feeling sad because at camp Raglan it was just so fun and a cool place to be. Can Mrs Aireen take us back please?

Black Hat:

What do we need to be careful of while we are here?

We need to take care of the camp property and the camp equipments.

Yellow Hat:

What are you most excited to try?

I am most excited to try the flying fox because it's fun to go on.

Green Hat:

What fears/ goals are you determined to overcome this camp? 

How do you think you will do this?

I want to achieve being more supportive by cheering people on and encouraging people to do there best and also doing the right things.

Blue Hat:

What is one personal goal you have for yourself during this camp?

Being confident because that is my goal that I have been trying to every year but it comes out the same way like being shy all the time.

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A-Z Camp Vocabulary!

A-Z Camp vocabulary!

This is a task based on our camp experience at camp Raglan, Here are some words that may relate to our camp activities. We had a lot of fun at camp.

A-Z Vocabulary:

Archery, Air rifles, Achievements, All nighters 

Bedtime, Basketball, beach, bonfire, Bmx bikes

Cabins, cloths, clothes, confident course

Dishes, Dirty clothe

Eating, Energy, Exercise 

Flying fox, Fingers

Gate, Guitar

Hammack, High ropes

Insects, Involved

Jumping, Jogging

Kites, Kids, Knowledge

Littering, Lights,

Mattresses, Men's, Mysteries  

Night time, Night snacks

Ocean, Overnight

Park, People,

Quiet, 

Routine, Raining, Rock climbing

Sleeping bags, Sheeps, Showers, Swings, Sand

Towels, Trampoline, Team building

Unstoppable,

Victory, vacuum, Values

Whispering, Water, Weather, Woods

X - ray

Yawning, Yummy

Zone

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Technology

Technology!

Today for technology we made 'Rock cake'.

I was paired up with Ajani, So to make Rock cake we have dry ingredients and wet ingredients.

For the dry ingredients we have:

1 1/2 cup of self - rising flour

1/2 coconut

For the wet ingredients we have:

1 egg

1/2 sugar

1/2 milk

1/2 oil

So I was on the dry ingredients and my buddy Ajani was on the wet ingredients, Once we have finished mixing putting wet and dry ingredients to separate bowls, next we mixed it together and started mixing it again. Once we have finished that, we got out the baking tray in the oven. We scooped out 8 rock cakes onto the tray. Our teacher Mrs Tuipulotu told our group that it doesn't matter what shape the rock cake is because in real life it is hard to find rocks that look the same. After a while we took it into the oven to bake for 15 minutes, When the 15 minute was over we took the rock cake out and it was heaps of different types of shapes.

Today I have learnt how to make a rock cake, it tasted delicious and I am looking forward to what we are making next week.

At the moment I am focusing on timing because today was alright but we kind of took our rock cakes out late and it didn't really burn but the crumbs were black.

Here is a photo of the rock cake:

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Highlights - Camp Raglan 2016

WALT: reflect on our highlights at camp Raglan.

This is a presentation based on our trip to camp Raglan, We had to write down our highlights at  camp and answer some questions. So at camp the best highlight that I had there was shooting the air rifles. It was very exciting and fun at camp, we tried out heaps of different activities. The activities were Archery, Low ropes, Air rifles, Confident course, Bmx bikes, Team building, Rock climbing and Flying fox.

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Camp poetry!

Camp Poetry!

This is a camp poetry that we had created.

Title: Air rifles

Air rifles

Aiming, Shooting

Loud, Excited, Singing

Cheerful, Targeting

Bullseye

Title: Midnight at camp

Beds

Warm, Comfy

Talking, Laughing, Yawning

Exhausted, Excited

Mattresses

Title:Fia fia night

Hall

Loud,Excited

Screaming, Cheering, Laughing

Amazed, Shocked

Surprised

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Camp task - Before camp and After camp!

Camp task - Before camp and After camp!

Before I went to camp I wasn't very confident about going and doing all the activities there.

I was very nervous about attempting camp raglan and how I was sad leaving some of my family members and some friends here in Auckland.

After camp, I was very confident to be involved in many things and confident to do things on my own. I kept trying my best to show team and a good growth mindset, After I have showed these key points of mine I think that I have achieved more.

Same, I have been the same at helping hand, Teamwork, Encouraging and Excited ... This is what I haven't changed in myself.

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Tongan Poem!

Poem!

My tongan pride, I will not to hide,

We stand by each other as family, till we the day we die.

Traditional clothing is what we wear,

To honour the tongans with no fear.

A ta’ovala is what we wear, To funerals and birthdays,

Remember if you have one you don’t wear it always.

The Tongan flag, stands higher than the rest,

cause everyone knows tongans are truly the best.

Tongan blood flowing hot and true,

So step aside and let all the tongans through.

Sadly everyone dies, but if you're a tongan

You die with the Tongan pride.

In the Tongan culture Otai is a traditional drink,

Just drink and don’t think!

Questions:

What are you proud of about your culture?

I am proud that i'm from tonga, I'm proud to eat the tradition food and to show how special our culture is.

What makes your culture special?

The tradition things such as food and clothings are special to me because it is our own tradition things and our culture is just so special.

Why is it important to embrace your culture?

It is very important to embrace the tongan culture to show who you really are and to let people know what culture you're from.

This is a poem that I worked on with my buddy Losana, We both come from the tongan culture and we both know tradition things such as tradition food, Tradition clothes and many more.

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Math task!

WALT: answer questions that were given to us.

I worked with my buddy Jennifer tutuila, We worked together to get this presentation done.
Today for our maths task, we had to complete these questions by answering it. All of the questions were about Steven Adams the basketball player. Most of these questions were about Steven Adams weight, tall, year of birth and the rest is about the basketball court, money to get in to watch the basketball game and the perimeters.

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Celebrating me!

Celebrating me!

Today we learnt why it's important to celebrate me, We had to take a photo of of ourselves, Print it out, Stick on a A3 paper, Name as 5 keywords about you, Go around the class and write what you like about that person's personality.  

I am worthy to be celebrated so I know what people like about me, Know what I need to work on and no. Because I need to know what people think of me and why.

Classmates described my strengths as:

• I am a kind and very smart
• I am very smart and intelligent
• Awesome at making friends
• I am very funny
• Very talented at running
• Netball player
• Very tall 
• I always try my best
• Rugby player
• I like how you are a good friend
• I am  a good sport player
• Like that I'm your bestfriend - Ajani xo

I feel happy because I never knew that people would know so much about me and there comments were really awesome. 

Here is a photo of my poster:

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Camp Tasks - Room 9 & 10!

Camp Task

Today in room 10 we had room 9 for our friday morning, They were in our class to discuss with room 10 about 'Participating and contributing' and 'Relating to others'. Today was a day to communicate with each others and talk about alot of statements related to our to key points, Which is Participating and contributing and Relating to others. 

Our first key point that we had to work on was participating and contributing. We got into our groups and brained stormed some keywords related to our key points. Next, we presented our work in front of the classes.

Our second key point that we had to work on was relating to others. We made another brainstorm  about relating to others and then we got up and shared with the class.

Some key words that I know about Participating and contributing is:

Encouraging others

Being reliable
Team work
Reliable
Responsible
Communicating with others.


Some key words that I know about Relating to others is:
Sympathy
Making connections
Making friendship
Teamwork / Buildings
School values 
(Tukumarie - Tolerance)
(Rangimarie - Peace)
(Whanaungatanga - Caring for each other)
(Manaakitanga - Building relationship)
Many more...

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Science of food treats!

Science of food treats!

Today for our Tuesday afternoon, We had room 6 in our class for the rest of the day. My two buddies were Maryjane and Hope.T. We read a book called 'Science of food treats. 

In this book a food manufacturer opens their doors to reveal some of the secrets behind making these popular and yummy treats. You'll also learn the difference between natural and processed sugars, and how we can eat foods that satisfy our sweet tooth, but are healthy at the same time.

Food treats - We should always eat healthy foods, but sometimes we deserve a treat!

Hundreds and thousands science - Have you ever wondered how those tiny coloured balls are made?

Whipped cream science - Whipping cream for dessert is not only fun, it's science, too!

Science of dessert jelly - Dessert jellies are wobbly, delicious and the product of clever thinking.

Science of soft drinks - It's not the tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide in soft drinks you have to watch out for!

Good sugar or bad sugar? -  There are plenty of healthy foods that can give us all thee "good" sugar we need.

Crispy, chocolate chip cookie science - Make a delicious choc - nut chip cookie recipe. The best part of this scientific procedure is being able to eat the results.

Creative food chemistry - Some creative chefs combine their cooking and scientific skills to make fabulous fine food.

Questions:

Everyone has a favourite food treat, 

But what's the science being making them? 

How does jelly set? 

How does whipped cream stay so fluffy? 

And how are tiny hundreds and thousands created?

My opinion on this book is..

That this was a book based on sugar, and children sweet treats. This book caught myself and my buddies attention based on the yummy photo's that were shown while reading this book. 

Here is a photo of my buddies.

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Bloom's Taxonomy!

WALT: use Bloom’s Taxonomy to critically summarize a current event.

SC: I can;

- identify key words in a news article.  

- use critical thinking skills to analyse a current event.

This is my current events, based on an article that was mainly about a 6 year old pageant queen, which meant she had won the beauty pageant. She was sadly killed on christmas 1996, in her own home. 20 years of researching and investigating, but still no killer found, only evidence. The evidence that they found was a lot but not enough to lock someone up!

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Guy Fawkes

WALT: research about Guy Fawkes, Find questions and answer.

This is our group presentation that shows, the questions we came up with as a class, and answered in groups, pairs or even individually. I worked in a group of 3-4 people, we came up with interesting questions, along with exclusive answers. The main purpose of our research was to ask questions, and find answers based on Guy Fawkes, and Fireworks.. But mainly Guy Fawkes. In the presentation, provided for the specific audience to view.. there are questions based, and about Guy Fawkes being arrested, and also just facts about himself, and his past! Have you ever, thought about why the celebration of Guy Fawkes, or Fireworks, are important? Well if you would like to read about this.

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Technology!

Technology!

Today for technology my buddy was Paris Webster and we made nachos, we used many things such as ingredients and equipments. 

Ingredients for nachos:

• Meat
• Onion
• Pepper
• Ham
• Cheese
• Doritos

Equipment:

• Frypan
• Wooden spoon
• Plate
• Spoons
• Stove

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Celebrations - Venn diagram!

WALT: compare one subject to another subject and find out the similarities.

Today I was paired up with Ajani, we were paired up and we made this google drawing. This term our inquiry topic is all about celebrations so that's why most of these works is all about celebration tasks. This task is about birthdays and christmas, This is a venn diagram and we had to write down the similarities about christmas and birthdays.

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Best mates

WALT: identify and evaluate the author's purpose.

This is a presentation about best mates, This was a text about a book that we have read. We had to summarize the text, find key ideas and find precise vocabulary.

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Practice writing test!

My story is about the mystery forest, We have made stories about the photo's that our teacher has gave to us. This was a practice test because our real test was coming up so we kept practicing.

The mystery forest…

As I glanced to see what time it is my watch was gone, As I stood up to see where my friends were nobody was there, All I saw was a mystery forest with no sun shine to know where I’m going but a big dark shadowy place. I wondered where did all my friends disappeared too. Where is everybody? Where did they go? I Petra

was lonely by then and nobody was there. The forest was as scary as I thought there were spider webs every where and you couldn’t even  barely see anything. The trees looked like it was trying to tuck away.

I saw a very bright light which caught my attention I walked towards it with excitement wondering this is my way out of here. Once I took one step on the light a magical book appeared wondering where it came from….I opened the book then strange voices had got weirder and weirder it said “once you’ve opened this book you will never be able to get out of this land unless you’ve beaten and get rid of the creatures who own this land. I shutted the book and went for a walk around.  There was nothing but some creepy things that scared me of like skeletons, spiderwebs, scary statues and seriously many more.

I was so afraid to walk around but I still tried my best not to be afraid because I will never get out of this land. As I was walking someone screamed Ahhhhhhh! I ran towards the echoing sounds and there it was a big scary creature that looked so weird I was about to laugh, I didn’t laugh because he was trying to devour somebody up, Once he turned around I saw a little child it was a girl. I distracted the creature then I ran towards an grabbed the little girl by the hands and took off as fast as we could. Crazy creature constantly can't control!!!

We ran and ran until we caught a little cottage built in the trees. We opened the door and walked in we saw a comfy couch where we went and sat at and a little with fruits on top… I asked the little girl what her name was she said “Emma”. Where are you from Emma? She said I’m lost and I don’t where I’m from. I told her ‘Well if you are lost you could live with me but once we get out of this creepy place okay. She nods… I told her ‘Let’s have some rest before we go back out side okay. As I laid down it felt like I haven’t went through all these scary problems and it felt like I've just fainted and couldn’t get up.

When I woke up a bright sun shined through in my room and everything was clean. It looked just like my room, My room was clean and the Emma wasn’t there. I thought to myself this was just a silly dream of mines and that will never happen again. I walked out of the room went straight to the kitchen had a nice cup of milo and stayed safely ever after.

~The End~

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Spelling vocabulary!

~ Spelling vocabulary ~

This is a spelling vocabulary that was made by Ajani and I. This spelling vocabulary is about celebrations. For this we had to choose ten words and write down the meaning and add some photo's into our padlets.

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Halloween

Halloween!

To: Everyone

From: Amelia

Where: Everywhere

When: Monday 31th october 2016

Why: Because it is celebrating christmas feast of hallow day and to scare the spirits away.

What: Halloween is a day when kids dress up into their scary costumes and scary masks.

Today is a day to celebrate halloween, Halloween is one of the exciting upcoming celebrations ever. It is very fun and exciting seeing all these weird, funny, cool and costumes.

Everyone get dressed up and walk around and get treats.

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Celebrations

Celebrations!

The Celebration? (Pick your own or use the ones below)resent	Who celebrates? The number in your group that celebrate this occasion	A tradition for all? Something all members of your group do at these celebrations	A tradition for some? Something only one or two of your group does at these celebrations	The best part about this celebration?
Birthdays	In my group Amelia,Bruce,Falakiko and I celebrates a birthday.	Amelia:She likes to blow her cake and eat it all and she love sing happy birthday with her family. Falakiko: He like to eat all of the cake even doe it's not my birthday. Bruce:He likes to  eat cake,get presents eat and say a speech	Bruce,Amelia and October likes hanging out with there family and there friends as well.	Amelia: She likes to eat all of the nice food at her birthday party. Falakiko: He likes to open all of his presents. Bruce:He like his birthday because his friends always come over and and celebrate with him
Christmas	In my group October,Amelia,Falakiko and Bruce celebrate christmas	October: Design a christmas tree and buy presents to put under it. Falakiko:Make a christmas tree,Buy presents to give and receive.	Falakiko and Bruce light off fireworks,Pray and go to church.	Falakiko: He likes getting presents. October:Receiving presents. Amelia: Opening presents and eating treats. Bruce: Giving and receiving presents and also spending time with family.
New Year	In my group Bruce, Falakiko and october.	Falakiko & October: Go to restaurant and have a nice feed. Bruce: Stays up all night till 12:00 then light up heaps of fireworks.	Falakiko: Say a love card to my family. October: Hangs with families and friends. Bruce:	Falakiko: Going to church praying and singing. Bruce: Hanging out with my family and sleeping. October: Going to a restaurant with my family.
White Sunday	In my group Bruces,Amelia,Falakiko	Amelia:Wears a white dress and say a speech. Bruce:By wearing all white and going Church. Falakiko:By wearing all white too and going to church and pray.	Amelia:Going and have a nice feed and go to valentimes. Falakiko:Praying to god to help my family. Bruce:I go to church and have a festivities there.	Amelia:saying her speech and having a big feed after. Bruce:Having a feed. Falakiko:Going to church and having fun with my family.

WALT: answer these celebration questions.

This is a group task, This term our inquiry topic is about celebrations, So most of inquiry tasks is about inquiry. This is a table chart with questions that we have answered. In my group I had October, Bruce and falakiko.

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