A Trip to Nikau Cave - Reading Wk2

For week 2 in reading, we read a book called 'A Trip to Nikau Cave' our WALT was to use evidence in the book to support answer a majority of the questions. In this book we learn't about all sorts of animals and how they have adapted and changed themselves to fit in with their surroundings. 

Immersion Assembly

Term 4 is once again over, and as always we have started term 4 with another Immersion Assembly. During Immersion Assembly each team ranging from years 1 to 8 perform a skit, movie or show, displaying what they will be learning for the rest of the term. This term our school wide topic is PES Survivor's  - outwit, outsmart, outlast.

We started the day with a pep talk from Team 1, this term they are focusing on zoo animals, and how they have adapted to their surrounding, to extend their knowledge on zoo animals, team 1 are taking a trip to the zoo, along with Marika who was a contestant in the karaoke sing off and took it out.

Team 2 & 3 are both learning about dinosaurs, but there's a catch. Team 2 are learning about the backgrounds of dinosaurs and how they didn’t adapt too well to their surroundings, causing them to become extinct. Team 3 on the other hand are creating there very own dinosaurs.

Animals are based everywhere, and to prove that, team 4 are going on a world wide safari. Team 4 are taking a world wide safari, visiting places they never knew about, not only to learn about it but to also explore the wild life.

Humans are what make up the earth and this term, team 5 are not only learning about animals, but always humans. Humans have been on earth for quite a while now, but not everyone of us are the same. Humans have also learn’t to adapt to their surroundings, like myself I have learnt that the weather changes a lot, so it is important to have the appropriate clothing.

I can’t wait to see what this term brings!

Cyber Smarts

Today for Maths we had Miss Kyla for the first half of the session. We talked about the many positive things about having a Mobile Phone, the Walt was to understand our rights and responsibilities with the use of mobile phones. 

Below was our task and Questions.

Make connections to student prior knowledge re: mobile phones:

Who has a mobile phone?

What is useful about having a mobile phone?

What information do you keep on your mobile phone? E.g. contacts, notes, photos, videos.

Bang On Time - Maths

Today in maths, our focus was to learn the Analogue time. We had question that were pretty straight forward, after our question we had a follow up activity this activity gave us 10 question and 8 seconds to answer. 

Smart Surfing - Ms Kyla

Today for maths, we had Ms Kyla in to learn about Smart Surfing. We were given the task to find information using key words. In the presentation above, we were give 10 question where we had the find the key words in searching. 

Ratio Practice - Week 5

This week, for maths we have been learning to Show what strategy we have used to solve each ratio problem. In the presentation above it shows the different question and the different ways we solve ratio problems. 

SmartFootprint - T3W5

Today in maths we had Miss Kyla in for the first half of the session. This weeks session was on cyber smart, and how everything online can be seen by everyone everywhere. Our hands on, project was to create a DLO, that explained one of the key things we picked up from a video we watched. Above is the poster I made.

My First Pay Packet Lino Nelis - Week 4

Worked hard to get money, just to come home to find you have to share it out within the family, I know the feeling sucks. This presentation was made, based on the book 'My First pay packet' it's about a young islander boy, who is seeking a job. The story is set in our very own community 'Glen Innes'. Our WALT was to make inferences.

Number of the Week - Week 5

Every week our Maths Class, get the opportunity to on the Number of the Week. Number of the week is when a number between 0 - 2000 is selected. Then we learn to use and think about this number in many different ways. The number for this week is : 1508.

Number of the week - Week 4

Every week our Maths Class, get the opportunity to on the Number of the Week. Number of the week is when a number between 0 - 2000 is selected. Then we learn to use and think about this number in many different ways. The number of the week for week 4 was - 791. 

Hobsonville Point Primary School - GEG NZ

On Wednesday the 12th of August, the Year 7 & 8 students of Extension got the opportunity to attend GEG NZ Sumit Group 2015 ( Google for Education Groups New Zealand ). This year marked the first year of it being held, and the students of Pt England Extension were lucky enough to be apart of this event.

The trip to Hobsonville was a 1hr drive, and it was pretty exhausting especially when there was no music. We arrived at HPPS (Hobsonville Point Primary School) at quarter to 9:00, just in time to collect our Swag Bags which included a map of the school, our own name tags and a bag of bagel chips, finally it was time to get GEG NZ for 2015 started.

We walked towards the school gym which was located down the hall, and we grabbed a seat. The HPPS ambassadors, lead the beginning with a Himene and a few words, they gave us house keeping rules and the day was started.

Our First session was located just down the hall 7B. We rushed down towards the classroom to find that it was packed with a whole range of people from different schools. Finally we were seated, the session started off with tips about ‘Stratch’ , how to work it, what the program features are and how the characters works.

Next, we moved onto the 2nd part of the session which was playing with the Makey Makey. The Makey Makey, was a little tool that had a lot of wires, firstly we were given a bag that included the Makey Makey, Play Dough and a whole bunch of wires.

The first thing we did was hook up the wires to the makey makey, then we made a object with the play dough, secondly my group and I plugged the black cord to the object that we made, which was a snow man, then once the the snow man was touched the sound that was put into scratch will play, and the commands that were given to the character will do what it was told to do.

Session two was just near, and we knew that our group was presenting. Our
group presentation was based on PENN (Pt England News Network), we told the audience what it was all about and how it worked. Then it was time to get the audience involved, making there very own PENN episode.

Firstly we spilt the crowd into 4 groups of 4, then it was time to put there acting skills to the test, each person had the chance to present each topic, everyone had a sentence to say. After recording the PENN made at GEG NZ was done, and was ready to be broadcasted.

In my group, there was Myself, Josephine, Stevenson, Jordan S, Ana V, Khaia, and Paige.

How I Require and Spend Money.

Money is a currency that is universal, in many countries there is what you call a national currency, for example in New Zealand our currency is the Dollar, in the islands such as Samoa and Tonga their currency is the Tala and Panga. Currencies vary all over the world, and so does the value of them. I acquire money in various ways however I prefer not to save.

There are numerous ways I obtain money, such as working, selling goods, receiving money from parents, or on special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, Christmas along with New Years. To get money for myself it is pretty straight forward, chores. Working around the house has always been a way to get hard and fast cash whether it’s $5 or $7 it still counts as money.

I find it really difficult to save and obtain money, because there a many things that I want. I usually spend most of my money on the latest fashion trend rather than the important things. But, I have learnt that it is very critical to save.

In conclusion saving money and budgeting is the best things to do with money.

Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa

For week 10 we have been working on the presentation above. In the presentation it shows Vocabulary from the Story and some of the advancement during the past few years. 

Volume of 3D Shapes -

Today in Maths Class we have been learning about the volume of 3D shapes, in the presentation there are a few questions about the Width , Height, and Length. Our formula that we used was L x W x H, which meant Length x Width x Height.

Volume of 3D Shapes.

Today in Maths Class we have been learning about the volume of 3D shapes, in the presentation there are a few questions about the Width , Height, and Length. Our formula that we used was L x W x H, which meant Length x Width x Height.

Future Thinkers - Pat Quinn

For reading in the past week, we were given an Artical to read. It was about the Future Thinkers, of our society. In the presentation above it states what some of the students answerers are and some of my own knowledge that I picked up while I was reading!

Miracle at Birth.

Miracle at Birth 

A women in Texas U.S.A has beaten one in a 50 million odds, by giving birth to triplets, however there is a catch, two are conjoined at the pelvis. ( lower stomach region ) Mrs Silvia Hernandez and her husband were thrilled to find out they were having triplets, but despite that their were health concerns for two of the girls that were conjoined at the pelvis.

The 3 baby girls all weighed approximately 3 pounds so therefore they are severely under weight.

It is extremely rare to give birth to triplets but more abnormal when they are identical the odds are 1 in 60,000 to 1 in 200 million.

Dr. Haroom Patel a surgeon at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christ, said, ‘It will be at least six months till the conjoined babies, who share one colon, will be separated’ but until then the girls will be one.

One in a million conjoined twins survive child birth which means that Silvia giving birth to triplets and them surviving is unusual. Silvia, her husband and their son welcomed the 3 baby girls, Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett were born Saturday at Corpus Christi Medical Center in South Texas.

Mrs Silvia stated on Facebook the truth of this horrific journey. 'The truth is I cried, not because of how the babies would look because we knew we would do our best to give them the best and most productive life possible,Mrs Silvia said “I cried because the doctor said we had to understand and accept the fact that once they were born they could die”

Funding pages have been set up for the family to help them pay for the triplets medical bills. The conjoined babies will be going through surgery before they can be separated

~ Lesieli Vala

Area of Polygons

LI :

Calculate perimeter and area - word problems.

Question :

If the height of a parallelogram is 11m and the

base is 6.9m, what is the area of the parallelogram?

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This week and last week our maths class has been focusing on the Area and Perimeter of shapes.

Cyber Smart Values.

On Wednesday our Maths group are privileged to have the lovely Miss Kyla in our block and teach us about what Cyber smarts is! Last week we viewed a video about the Spaghetti Farm, we realized that the movie was a whole lie.

 This week we had the task to create a drawing with the 3'Ps as a online value, in each column it states how we can Participate, how we can Partnership and protect other online! Above is what we all came up with!

Cyber Smarts - Maths

Today in class for maths, Miss Kyla came and took a Cyber Smarts lesson. We Learn't that most things on social media isn't true it may be false. We watched a video which was based back in the 80's about Spaghetti, in the beginning I stated that the Video is true, but as the video went further more into the story, I was false. The Video was false.