Climate Change

This week, we learnt about Climate Change. We learnt more about the greenhouse effect and how it works too.

Niue Facts

This week is Niuean language week ! I have learnt some facts about the island that I am going to be sharing them with you! Fact 1. Niue is a tiny country in the pacific ocean, a free country, but still not a UN member. Just like the Cook Islands, Niue is in free association with New Zealand, so it's basically represented by it. Furthermore, since New Zealand's the head of state is Queen Elizabeth ll, she is also Niue's monarch. Fact 2. The entire country is just one island, with an area of 260 square km and a population of 1200 people. That means that the entire country is only around 6 times smaller than london. Even more suprising is that 90 to 95% of all niuean ethnics in the world live in New Zealand, not Niue. Fact 3. Despite it's small size, Niue does have a capital, but it's not exactly a city, but rather a village called Alofi. Alofi has a population of less than 1000 people and it consists of two villages: Alofi north and Alofi south. Alofi is the worlds smallest capital by population, after Palau's Capital Ngerulmud. Fact 4. The famous James Cook was the first European to site Niue, in 1774. He named the island "Savage Island" because the people didn't let him land and appeared to be painted in blood. His name stuck for centuries, until the original name was reinstated, a name which means "behold the coconut" Fact 5. In 1885 Niueans wrote to Queen Victoria of the UK to willingly join her empire. but it was only in 1901 that Niue was brought witing the boundaries of New Zealand. In 1974 New Zealand restored Niue's self goverance, after a referendum in which most people opted for it. Fact 6. In it's entire history, Niue had only one political party: The Niue people's party. but even this party didn't last long, as it was disbanded in 2003. As of 2017, there a no political parties in Niue, only independent MP's. Fact 7. because Niue is a raised coral attol, it has geograghy and coastline like few other Islands. The cave systems are among the most spectacular and intensive in the south pacific. It's not suprising that niue is one of the most appreciated destinations in the entire pacific. Here's the link to the video If you want to know which one I got these facts from.

Marvellous Measurement

This is my presentation showing some of my maths from this week.

As I saw...

I am a British flag. Captain Cook took me to places with a lot more flags so when he finds a place like an island to claim he can place the flag there. Cook had secret instructions to take possession of the country in the name of the king of Great Britain by setting up proper arks or inscriptions. He had King George’s flags on board for such a purpose.

Myth and Legends: Rata and the tree

Fabolous Fractions

WALT: convert between units of measurement

Measuring Tapa Cloth

Fun Fractions

WALT: Find fractions of a whole and set

Tongan Language week

Taha Whanau

This is what I did for my Taha Whanau. We were told to do this because being in auckland, we just got out of lockdown/level 3 and we are now level 2.5

Sir Newton Isaac

This week is maths week, so we are completing a series of maths challenges in our first challenge we learnt about famous mathematicians.

My opinion for our program

The Step Up Programme was fantastic! Over the three days the campers were gone, it was AMAZING to see how many of us could work with other people they have never worked before or haven't worked together in a while. The chance we were given to step up was a great thing to go through as a team together. And the moments we communicated made it more easier for our team. 

I feel like one thing we need to work on to improve is the cup stacking game is because when people go up they feel like they're going to get run down by others who are in their team and they don't feel comfortable going up because they might be too scared and their feelings will be hurt I guess...

Our stepping up program

 While the year 8’s were in camp, Miss Ilaoa planned a stepping up program for us while the yr 8’s were gone. There were three groups and my group was called “Duck life” the other 2 were called “Strikers” and “Thunder”. The leaders for my group were Oalii and Simon. 

My highlight was when we did the cookie challenge with Miss Ilaoa. That meant that we had to put the cookie on our forehead and we had to try to get it into our mouth without touching it. 1 Strategy that we used was moving our faces to get it to move down into our mouths.

This was really funny because the people who went and did it had really funny facial expressions and that made everyone wanna have a go.

Timeline

Fresh Fractions 1

So today we learn't more about fractions.

As I saw it...

So today, room 4 decided to investigate a cupcake that was given to Miss Stone that
disappeared somewhere. We found it then we lost it again so Miss has given us
this presentation to try and solve where it went.

The Croatian Myth

Today in our inquiry rotations, we learnt about the Croation myth. Of how the lake formed into a dragons eye shape

Cambodia - Myth of lightning, thunder and rain

Today we learnt about how the gods and goddess made lightning, thunder and rain

Greek mythology

This presentation Shows what we learnt from greek mythology, it was very fun and interesting to learn

Immersion Assembly

Today is the first day back at school for term 3. We started back the day with a immersion assembly. Each team presented what they will be focusing on, as part of our new topic: A world of difference.
My favourite performance/presentation was team 4 because they were learning about where their food comes from that they normally eat. I'm really looking forward to this team because we are learning about how other countries/cultures celebrate things in their own traditional way.

Mr Jacobsen came from Scotland. He is wearing his grandfathers kilt he wore when he was training for war.

My holiday highlight

My holiday highlight is ice skating because it was fun.

My fight

Fractions level 2.11

Factions level 2.21

boot camp

WALT: identify common themes from a range of texts

Spotting Fake News

Fake news can easily trick people to believe what they see online. You could be doing research and believe something that's been made up. Sometimes it's good to double check even on other sources for a
proper answer. Well if that doesn't work, make sure to look at the setting of where the picture has been
taken like look at the back round and the things around it or if it has no picture make sure to look at the
keywords they use and the emotions they are expressing in the writing. Make sure you can trust that
website, because you never know if it's a site made to hack your devices or made to make everyone
believe that their site is the one with all the facts but really... IT'S NOT!! it's really full of their own
opinions about things they believe.

Scandalous Satire

Walt: think critically about what we are reading
1 thing you can spot satire is to research things that relate to
that text. If nothing comes up then it's totally fake.
The 2nd thing to do is to take a better look at things
that they say, create and look at the pictures to see if
they look serious. the 3rd thing to do is to have a think about
if they will actually say something like that.

Facile Fractions

Today I learnt about fractions

Testing Transformation

Terrific Transformations

Joseph Parker

We started off with a normal assembly before they welcomed Joseph Parker. He started off by telling us quotes that'll help us later on in life.

Protest

Why do people protest? To keep everything quiet and going the right way,
also to keep people happy and so everything they’ve needed is happening
in life or when they see something going wrong, they can protest to fight for
their rights.

What is a protest?

A protest is when people get permission from the police and they block off
all the streets And they fight for their people and the people who are suffering
or going through the same thing they are going through. Also, it can be
supporting multiple families who have been left in the street homeless
and who haven’t been given any food. These aren’t the only causes
but everyone has an opportunity to stand up for people who are in need for
support beside them. Even helping the environment is a good thing to
protest about because there are heaps of people who walk past rubbish
and don’t pick it up. 

What causes people to protest?

Protests usually occur in response to an event. This could be a law
change or injustice. People get together to protest about what  has happened.

Do Protests actually work?

They can, depending on what is happening or what it’s about.
For example, Nelson Mandela had to speak out about what he
was going through for years. He even went to jail for 10,000 days
before things changed. That worked, but the protest took a long time.

They fought for justice

WALT: combine and condense ideas and information from a range of texts to form and synthesise a new idea.

Stand up

WALT: combine and condense ideas and information from a range of texts to form and synthesise a new idea
Today we learnt about lots of protests in NZ. I choose to learn more about Parihaka.

The Biosphere

If only

This is just to say...

Tech - Toys With Miss Ferguson

The journey

Cupcakes

So yesterday we planned on our cupcakes on our adverts. Mine turned out good enough and yea. We made them today on what we planned on yesterday. I tasted it and it taste REALLY GOOD!

U-turn

I am

Ko wai au? Ko wai tatou? Ko wai ratou

Ko te aha tenei ra?

Polygons

Literacy class activity - Term 2 Week 3

Inquiry - The geosphere

This is a task we got given for this weeks inquiry.

Kei te pehea koe?

So this is a task/activity we have been given for this weeks Te Reo lesson. This is our first activity for this term and this one shows us having conversations with others using positive words, Enjoy :)

bar graghs

Task Description:

This is our Maths work that I did for this week.
We have been given this task to complete. Since we are in lock down, we have to communicate online where we see and talk to our teachers and our classmates.

The seeing hawk

This is a reading task my group got given to go through and answer.

Te whareTapa wha

This is my whare tapa wha we had to write what you can or would do. this is the Mental, Physical, Social/ Family and spiritual Health. 

Wind chimes

Workshop

  Multiplication Magic

We are learning to use place value to solve multiplication problems using whole numbers.

Times table practice:

5 x 5 =  25                           7x7=49

4 x 4=   16                           8 x 8=64

3 x 3 =    9                     11x 11=121

6 x 6=     36                       5 x 4=20

9 x 9 =     81                   10 x 10=100

Factors of 16 =

Multiples of 8 =   ,80

A prime number is 

25 x 25 =625

20 x 25 =500

5 x 25 =125

25 x 245 =

200 x 25 =

40 x 25 =

5 x 25 =

267 x 250 =

200 x 267 =

50 x 267 =

    Show your working under each problem:

1.  Mrs Flavelle orders 15 boxes of cookies for camp. If each box contains 18 cookies.
How many are there altogether? 270

2. Mrs Tele’a orders 12 cans of beans for camp. Each tin contains 240 beans.
How many individual beans has she ordered? 2880

3. Room 4 are baking a rectangular cake for the garage sale. It is 22cm long and 16cm wide.
What is the area of the cake? 38

4. Marika has brought some lollies in to share with the class for her birthday. She has brought
14 packets which contain 32 lollies each. How many lollies are there altogether? 448

5. If each of the 160 students in team five paid 135 dollars for camp, how much money would
the camp make from our visit? 21600

Family health

The best thing I do for Te whare tapa wha.

I do best at family health because I get along quite well with most of my family as well as the ones who are the same age as me.  when I go up-north and there's  family meeting, I go inside and listen to what their saying so I know what's going on with my family. When I get sent to the kitchen for the dishes, i rinse them and put them in the dishwasher and wipe down the sink and organise it. When I get told to look after my younger cousins, I play with them and do what they wanna do. When we arrive up-north i help to unpack, like when we leave i help to pack the van with our stuff we took up.

How much time do you spend online

Today we did a statistical inquiry. We asked the class how much time they spent online. Most people spent 4 hours online a day. How much time do you spend?