C.A.R.E Value - Attitude - Task 7 - Google Geek.

Another care award attitude DLO I did was about a pay it forward task. I talked about some aspects in Google. Mainly in Google drive. The three I did was the create/new button, share button and the folder button as well.

C.A.R.E Value - Attitude - Task 4 - Tupac Shakur.

For one of our care values we had to write about someone who faced difficult struggles in life. But even though they had struggles they would still have a positive attitude. The person I did was Tupac Shakur. Some reasons are in the DLO.

Working with my critical friend.

In writing with room 5, we've been working with a critical friend. My critical friend today was Sebastian. To me, my critical friend helps me look at my writing and helps me work on what I need work on. We use the rubric to help us out if we're stuck. My critical friend also helps us edits our work and uses comments to reach to us. They add feedback and feed forward when they edit. I get a lot fixed when I work with my critical friend.

Digital Tech.

In tech today we were learning on how to make a good platformer game. First we had to notice the features in other platformer games and use them for an example. Afterwards we had to send ideas of a topic we would do for our platformer game. Most people voted for sleeping for mine. We are still developing skills we could add in the game. I am looking forward to making my platformer game and can't wait for people to play it.

Point Blanc.

This novel I'm currently reading is called Point Blanc. It is by Anthony Horowitz and is part of the Alex Rider series. For this book, I nominate Wiremu because he likes reading Alex Rider books.

Understanding Multiplication x8.

Today we did understanding multiplication. The times table I did 8 times tables. The equation I did was 8 x 4 = 32. The error I made was the product and factor, it was supposed to be the other way around. 

Shakeout drill.

Shakeout by Anthony Paula Peau Mapalei Tui on GoAnimate

Today we did the shakeout drill. Schools through out NZ did it as well, so it was pretty special. Joshua and I created an animated DLO to show the juniors what to do if an earthquake occurs.

Scammers.

When Miss Paton came today to teach us about scammers we learnt what kind of scammers are there. We also learnt about how to handle them in different situations. We created a DLO and listed how scammers can communicate and how to avoid them.

Term 4 Goal Settings.

For the first week of term 4 we decided to do goal settings. Here are my goals and how I can improve on them. Hopefully by the end of the term or testing my results can go up from last time.

Food for thought.

Today this time we learnt about food for thought. Adele, our teacher for this session taught us about how much meat we're supposed to have, and what we should eat occasionally. We ordered sugars in the drink from less to most, and sorted out which cereals have most and less sugars in them. Today I found out a lot about what we eat.

Flipsnack - Origami.

Our activity this week with Ms Paton was about FlipSnack and how to create it. We had to pick a presentation in our folders from this year. I did my one about my elective, origami.

Vending Machine Problem.

For this this problem I used multiplication and my fraction knowledge. I was working with Wiremu and we managed to do 2 strategies. The second strategy was the quickest. I came up with another problem you could try figure out - In 1 lollie there are bag 11 pieces of sour grape bubblegum. The other 1/2 of the bag are strawberry flavoured. How much strawberry flavoured bubblegum are there?

Cybersmart + Smart Relationships - Privacy.

This time for smart relationships we did privacy. I wrote about things you have to avoid before signing up for social media sites. When you sign up, make sure you ask your parents first, and also make sure your age is allowed.

Cybersmart + Smart Relationships - Smart Money.

Smart Money by Anthony Paula Peau Mapalei Tui on GoAnimate
Today Ms Paton talked to us about how to handle scamming. We watched a video from Paul Henry and how he busted a scammer. Scamming is dangerous because it can lead to viruses on your phone or computer. The number 1 rule is to not giveaway any personal information. e.g; Address, Credit card details, and don't giveaway your name.

Speech Plan.

For writing we had to plan for speeches that would be happening throughout the whole school. My speech is based on role models and my point of view of what we should think of them. I still need to finish off my opinion and need to give an one more explanation.

Chicken, Fox and Corn.

In maths we did a question sort of riddle. We had to take the chicken, fox and corn across the river but however you can only take one. If you take the chicken, then the fox, you can't because of the fox will   eat the chicken. But if you take the corn then chicken, that won't work either because the chicken will eat the corn. So that was the question we had to answer.

Hockey 2015.

In hockey I learnt how to juggle and dribble. The other thing I learnt was which side of the stick is the right way to hit and pass. Today was cool, but unfortunately was our last. We had a blast with Lidia and enjoyed it. Looking forward to next time.

Multiplication 7-9.

My times tables test was coming up and this was the photo I used to remind me of my 7-8 times tables. I know it well, it was just I was a bit rusty. Our next test will be 9 times tables.

Paul Cezanne artwork.

Here is my artwork I did in class. It's based on Paul Cezanne's copy. I don't know the name of the title but the original looks really good. The original was done on canvas and was an oiled painting. I thought this would be easy but it was harder then I thought.

Original

Current Events - Prisoner escapes from prison.

Here is an update on my current events. This is the last time we will be doing this kind of current events with the thinking hats. My current events presentation is about a prisoner escaping prison. The name of the person escaing was Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Right now he is being labeled one of Mexico's most dangerous criminals.

Cybersmart + Smart relationships - Positive Feedback.

Here is my tutorial on how to comment a positive comment. It shows how to be Cybersmart and how to give them positive feedback.

Healthy Portions.

My DLO I did with Tamim and Filimaea was about the amounts of food you should have on your plate. It also shows how it can be the perfect plate. Our perfects plate has 1/4 of fish for protein, rice/bread for minerals and you veggies for vitamins.

Matariki Story.

Here is my retell story of Matariki and how the seven stars separated their parents. My retell was supposed to be for the juniors but I think this is too complicated for them. Next time I need to work on who I'm writing this for.

Ordering Fractions.

For maths I played a fraction game and ordered the fractions in order. There were three levels and I still have two left. You had 5 lives and if you had a mistake you would lose one life. I lost no lives but the next level could be harder.

Character Analysis - Witch - Hansel and Gretel.

The Character Analysis I did was about the witch from Hansel and Gretel. I did the Witches aspects and highlighted the one's that she has.

Spelling test.

Today in spelling I learnt a new word that's called lodge. It means to a small house or shelter. As you can see I got my words and answered all of them right and on point.

3 comments in the Manaiakalani Cluster, School and Class.

Today we had to comment on 3 blogs, one in our class, one in the whole school and one in the Manaiakalani Cluster. I commented on Gozan from my class, Room 2 from my school and Glenbrae from the Cluster. We had to give feedback and feedforward. Go check out there blogs.

Problem Solving - Wk 5 - Making 100.

Here we are learning to add digits to equal 100. We had to make the number 1-9 equal 100 making sure we used multiplication, subtraction, adding, and division. I worked with Cyprus but we did our own separately. I started off with 9 x 9 to make it equal over 80. Then I added the rest and multiplied it by one.

Square 100.

This is our Maths for today. It was challenging at first but once I used my brain I was onto it. I worked it out but sorting out the shape of the patterns.

Hearing Impaired DLO with Sebastian and Wiremu.

It's been a long time since I haven't made a blog post but this DLO is about Mojo Mathers. Since it is Sign Language week we all did a DLO based on Hearing Impaired people, I teamed up with Sebastian and Wiremu.

Remembrance DLO.

Today on Friday we took part in remembrance day. We remember all those who had fallen. 

Spelling test for term two.

Here is my spelling test for this second term. It was kind of hard because of the new words.

ICC Cricket World Cup NZ info.

This is my DLO about NZ. I wrote about the New Zealand Capital and also listed some facts.

Through the door.

As time passed I enjoyed my experience in College, meeting friends, wagging, homework. But University was way better, I made just as much friends I did back in college. University I learnt a lot more as well. I plan to be a mechanic because of I like cars and fixing stuff, if that doesn’t work out I’ll just be a gamer because I’m into games. As days came to an end I forgot about college and enjoyed my time at uni.

My buddy said to add more detail on why I chose to be a mechanic. So I did just that.

Highlights from Term 1 Collage.

Here are some highlights from term 1. I had hanging out with my friends and having milk and fruit. I didn't like staying in and hot days.

Manaiakalani event.

This is my DLO about the event tat happened. Today on Wednesday the 25th of March 2015 the whole of Panmure Bridge School went to welcome our guest's from Hawaii at Pt. England's beachfront.. All Manaiakalani schools joined at Pt. England to introduce Aotearoa to them. It was a fun event and everybody had a good time.

My Ancestor Poem.

Here is my ancestor poem about my culture. I did the layout based on my thumb print

because everybody has a unique and a different kind of thumb.  

My mother and Stan Flip e-book.

Here is my flipsnack I made with Patrick. It's about the book we read in our reading groups. My group was Takahe. Enjoy!

Jonah Lomu.

Here are some facts about Jonah Lomu. I found my facts on Wikipedia and then I used the facts I knew.

Spelling Test.

As you can see I got one hundred. It was so challenging I had to retry like two times. The most difficult word for me was beauteous, the most easiest was piercing,

Tongan Brochure (Inside).

This is my cultural brochure that is about my country Tonga. This is just the inside of the brochure.

What is your favourite sport?

This pie chart shows how many people on my desk like sports. I surveyed four people, that includes me. There were more sport options but nobody chose those options. All three people liked one sport each.

What country were you born in.

Here is a pie chart of how much people were born in a country. As you can see New Zealand has more people who were born there. Eight people responded to my survey and four were born in New Zealand. Only one person was born in Tonga, Cook Islands, Aghanistan and China.

Fine and Anthony - Room 5 and 6 Comparision.

Here is the information poster Fine and I made. It's about a comparision between Room 5 and Room 6's mothers who were born overseas.

I am poem reflection.

Here is my own poem reflection I wrote based on me. I first wrote my draft poem on a sheet of paper and after I did a reflection.

Connective Writing.

Nana and Poppa lived in the countryside. Nana disliked living in the countryside, so she headed over to visit us in the city. Later, she didn’t want to return home after she came to our house. Poppa had to go home alone, and fetch her the next day. Poppa chatted to mum and they decided to let nana stay in the city. They soon sold their old countryside house and came to live with us. It took very long to settle in, but it was worth it. I was really glad that they came to live with us.

Here is my story about connective writing. In order to make this story more interesting we added some connective words like meanwhile, after, eventually. We also added some adjectives as well.

Identity Survey.

Here today with Miss Paton we learnt how to use Google Forms. We made a survey about where everyone's roots were from.

My Mihi.

Ko Anthony taku ingoa
Ko Salote taku mama
Ko Vea taku papa
Ko Panmure Bridge taku kura
No Tonga ahau

Ko Maungarei te mounga

Ko Tamaki River te awa

This is my mihi. It talks about my parents and school. 

3D Art.

- Ruler 

- Colour pencils

- Vivid 

- Your Hand

- Pencil

You have to trace around your hand with a pencil. After ruler a line with your rule then make a bump in your hand. Keep repeating that until you reach the top. Later pick two colours to colour in your hand. But before you colour in your hand outline the ruled lines in vivid. Then once you've done all those steps, your art should look like a 3D art.    

When I was young - Onomatopoeia.

Splash! As my friend sinked into the water. I just had leaped off the diving board. I was at the pools with my friends. The pools were downtown and it was packed. People were jamming on the diving boards and heaps of people on the slide. We wanted to go on both but it was too full, we would be waiting for ages. Later we just decided to kick back and relax inside.

We had just jumped in the kiddies pool inside. It was very warm. We had some fun in there like playing touch, volleyball or rugby. We were bored as the fun started to go away. We decided to go outside because one, it was warm, a little bit too warm. And two it was boring with kids around us. So we went outside. It was freezing cold. As we were shivering in the ice cold water we noticed that the slide and diving board didn’t have that much people there.We straight away rushed out and went to the slide first.

When we finally got there I saw a long set of stairs. I was horrified, I climbed up and eventually made it. We slid down like snakes four times. Our final time on the slide, we all decided to go down together. Even though we would get into trouble it would be cool because it was our final time anyways. After we got a warning from the lifeguard. Later we walked over to the diving board. My friend went first then me. There were seven of us. My friend went first, he made it Splash! Then me. I didn’t want to jump because I could belly flop. But, as soon as I jumped the alarm went off.

Name reflection.

Here is my name reflection. I drew my name in slope kind of writing. Once I had done the top part I reflected the same on bottom. When I had finished all those steps I coloured it in and made some things.

Plagiarism and Referencing.

Plagiarism and Referencing

Plagiarism definition - An act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne.

My definition - Taking someone else's work and stating it as your own without asking the creator.

Referencing definition - An act or instance of referring.

My definition - Using a source for your work and labeling it in your work.

What does this mean to me? Plagiarism and Referencing to me mean, having my work as an original. Without anyone complaining that I copied and pasted it. Also it means to not having the same work as anyone, because it would look silly.

Reference for definitions - Dictionary Reference

Why is it important to know this? It is important to know this because if you plagiarize you could get into some trouble. You can get sued as well and you get sent to jail. Also Plagiarism is stealing and copying someone's work.

Y-Chart - Attitude.

Today Jason and I did a Y-Chart based on Attitude. If you have a good attitude you will succeed in life. However, if you have a bad attitude you will not get any where in life and will not succeed.

All about me.

Today Miss Paton showed us some tips and tricks on Google Draw. Even though she showed us some, some of us knew what to do already. This is my poster, All about me.

Our art.

On Monday room 6 did some art. We had paper, a pencil, a compass, crayons and a ruler. We measured a square, 10cm each side. Later we got the compass and did a quarter of a circle in the square. Once we had finished that, we started drawing a design in the square. We all did one individually but put it all together to make it.

Waitangi Day Poster.

This is my Waitangi poster. It includes some facts from the signing as well.

I have learnt that there were a lot of people there to sign the Treaty.

Confidence Y-Chart.

Today in Room 6 we worked on a Y-Chart. We did it based on C.A.R.E, We did the Y-Chart based on then C from the C.A.R.E. Which meant Confidence.

Room 6 2015.

This year is going to be a new, exiting year. I have changed from a year 7 to a year 8, and I am feeling nervous for the things ahead. I would like meeting new people, and to make new friends.  I hope not to get in trouble this year. My goals are to focus on my reading and maths.