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Wednesday 19 December 2018

Summer Learning Journey Wk 1 Day 1 Activity 3 - Ice, Ice Baby

Activity 3 - Ice, ice baby

Antarctica is the worlds coldest continent. Even though it is made up of ice, it also the driest continent in the world. In fact, it hasn't rained for nearly 2 million year! it is home to many animals such as whales, seals, birds and fish, There are so permanent human residents (people who there all the time) in Antarctica, however scientists do visit and stay in Antarctica for a while to study it.

This year the airline, Air New Zealand, filmed their safety video in Antarctica. They used some fabulous actors from Hornby Primary school in Christchurch. Just like aeroplanes, we also need to keep safe and be smart online. We need to think about the type of information we are sharing online, who we are sharing information with, and how to have a positive digital footprint.

On your blog, make a copy of this footprint and, in the foot print, explain how to create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?

Here is my Positive Digital Footprint


Tuesday 18 December 2018

Summer Learning Journey Wk 1 Day 1 Activity 2 - North and South

Activity 2 - North and South (4 points)

The country of New Zealand is made up of two main islands - the north and the South Island. Approximately 77% of the New Zealand population live in the North Island. Many of these people (including our Summer Learning journey design team) live in Auckland City. Auckland is a great place to live with lots of amazing parks, beautiful waterways and stunning scenery to enjoy. It is also a busy vibrant city with many cafes, museums, galleries and theatres to visit. I feel lucky to call Auckland my 'hometown'.

Now it is time to think about your hometown. What is special about where you live? On your blog, describe your hometown. Be sure to include lots of describing words (adjectives) in your post.

Auckland...

I have lived in Auckland my whole life. Whats so special about it? Well, I am proud to say that the most special thing about where I live, is the people and the beautiful scenery's which are all around Auckland city. No city is more supportive and active as Auckland is. I know it may seem like i'm bragging, but its true. Auckland is place where you are able to interact with different people also with the chance of seeing beautiful views along the way. *sky tower*

Words to describe Auckland:

Bubbly
Energetic
Alive
Supportive
Many more

I am very proud to call Auckland City my home.

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Monday 17 December 2018

Summer Learning Journey Wk 1 Day 1 Activity 1 - In the Beginning...

Activity 1 - The legend of New Zealand (4 points)

According to Maori methodology much of Aoeteroa NZ was formed when Maui, a powerful demigod, fished it out of the sea. Legend has it that Maui created a magical fish hook from jawbone of his grandmother and that one day he took his hook, boarded a boat, and rode out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Once at sea, he threw his magical hook into the water and caught a fish. The 'fish' was actually the North Island of New Zealand! In honour of this legend, the North Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Ika a Maui or 'Maui's Fish' and the South Island of New Zealand is sometime referred to a Te Waka a Maui or 'Maui's canoe'.


To learn more cool facts about New Zeland, check out the Tourism NZ Website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your 'Top 3'. On your blog, post your 'Top 3 Fun Facts' about NZ.

Here are my 'Top 3 Facts'

1. To become a New Zealand citizen, you must swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth

2. NZ is one of the 3 countries in the world that has 2 official national anthems of equal standing. The first is God Save the Queen and the other is God Defend New Zealand.

3. New Zealanders are called Kiwis but Kiwi is not a fruit. It is a NZ native flightless bird

Friday 30 November 2018

Food Tech

Sausages with cheese and chips

Ingredients
Cheese
Tomato 
Sausages
Chips

Method

Slice in half
Top off with cheese and tomato
Bake for 10 minutes
Serve with tomato sauce


Wednesday 28 November 2018

Act of Kindness from Glen Taylor School

Today, room 7 received goodies from the amazing Glen Taylor school. A group of students from their class came to room 7 explaining to us their project on giving back to their local community. The goodies we received were home made cookies, brownies and some lollies. As an act of kindness, we decided to give them a thank you letter as well as a plant that we planted during our trip to the botanical gardens. Room 7 were very grateful for their act of kindness and we appreciate the hard work they put into making the goodies specifically for us. Thank You!

 





Friday 23 November 2018

Responding to Current Events




Our class has focused a lot on the teachers strike this week. My presentation above includes tasks that our class has done about the teacher strike ( such as argument writing)  and ways I was able to share my learning with others.

Food Tech - Brownies

Brownies

Ingredients :
Brown sugar
Butter
Cocoa powder
Flour
Baking powder
Vanilla essence

Materials :
Bowl
Whisk
Scraper
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Microwave
Baking tin
Cooking rack

Method :
Dry ingredients -
Step 1 : Pour in 1 cup of plain flour, along with 1 tsp of baking powder
Step 2 : Add in 1/4 of cocoa and 2 tbsp of shredded coconut
Step 3 : Mix well


Wet ingredients -
Step 1 : Pour in 1/2 cup of brown sugar then add in 125g of melted butter into the bowl.
Step 2 : Mix the brown sugar and melted butter until it's perfectly combined.
Step 3 : Add in 1 egg and 1 tbsp of vanilla essence.
Step 4 : Mix well until u get a caramel texture.
Step 5 : add 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence and 1 egg

Mix your wet and dry ingredients together and place in cake tin. Spread with a plastic scraper


Place in oven at 180 degrees and bake for 10 mins! ENJOY!


Monday 19 November 2018

Vascular Plants


For room 7's inquiry, we were given different types of plants. My plant type was vascular plants. I have created a slide with information about my plant type! Enjoy!

Maths - Measurement

In this maths exercise, that we found in a figure it out book, we learnt the proper way of using measuring tapes. Myself, and two friends measured different parts of our bodies and wrote down the exact measurements. Our measurements are down below!

Measuring Up

Activity

Measure the following:

Around your head
Around your waist
The length of your arm
Around your neck
Around your fist
Your height
Your Index finger
Your arm span
The length of your arm


Telesia
Anita
Newsam
Head - 22.8
Wrist - 6
Arm - 26.7
Neck - 13
Fist - 10.6
Index finger - 3.7
Foot - 9.10
Waist - 30.15
Wrist - 7.6
Arm - 28.16
Fist - 11.2
Index finger - 3.8
Foot  - 12.7
Head - 22.8
Wrist - 6
Arm - 26.10
Neck - 13.
Fist - 10.3
Index finger - 3.7
Foot - 10.10
Waist - 30.0

Do teachers really need to strike?

For the past week, room 7 have been working on argument writing. Our topic was 'Do teachers really need to strike'. Our WALT was to express our thoughts to a specific audience. Here is my writing below!

Do teachers really need to strike?

Yes! Teachers do need to go on strike. It is a serious matter that the government should deal with. What is a school without teachers? What will students do? Here are some reasons why our teachers have every right to go on strike!

School resources are one of the many things which students need to be able to learn. Teachers need to ensure that their school is well equipped with acceptable resources. For example, special needs assistants for students who need it, from the ministry of education. Many students enter a classroom sad, hungry or not properly clothed. With proper resources, teachers can be able to provide those with food, clothing or even school stationery if needed. These will help students with all sorts of activities that can be done at school.

Many teachers are sick and tired of the amount of work they receive from their school and from the government. I hadn’t noticed this before, but, not only do teachers teach writing, reading and maths everyday, they have additional jobs which include making sure that every student is happy and that there are no problems such as cyber bullying or bullying. Students may not know it, but our teachers are full of stress that can be brought up upon others. Teachers need to have a say in how much work they receive so that our students are well taught. Well and better teachers mean a better outcome in our students learning.

Many schools around NZ have more than 30 students who attend their class room, which is way more than the average amount. Imagine this, 1 teacher 35 students. That's a lot right? Every student in a classroom deserves time with their teacher. But, as the the amount of students increase, that means the less time teachers have with their students. The most important key to a positive outcome in learning, is to have an opportunity to build a  positive relationship with your class teacher.

Teachers have every right to go on strike. With the amount of work they receive and the problems that they aren’t  even supposed to deal with, gives them every right to go on strike. Strike is the only way to grab the government's attention so that they can listen to the problems that have been brewing for a while now. The list of demands they’re asking for may sound a little crazy, but they’re stating the truth, and the truth needs to be spread.


The strike has nothing to with the pay (Although an increase in money would be okay) It’s about the students.

Friday 9 November 2018

Cooking - Mince Pasta



Step 1 = Boil pasta with 2 cups of boiled water until it is soft
Step 2 - Drain out the cold water using a colander
Step 3 - Slice and dice your onions and fry until soft (Add in mince)
Step 4 - When cooked, add in your baked beans and mix for a few seconds
Step 5 - Place baking paper onto the pin and add in your mince mixture
Step 6 - Top of with cheese and bake for 10 minutes.


Cooking - Fish Pie

Method


- Peel the potato, cut into cubes and boil until soft.
- Grab a cake tin and place baking paper into it
- Place baked potato cubes into tin and mash until smooth
- Next place tuna, mayonnaise and mushroom cream into a bowl and mix well.
- Pour mixture on top of the potatoes and top up with cheese


Next step - Take out and serve! Enjoy!








Monday 5 November 2018

Kiwi Can Week 3 Term 4

Kiwi can 

In Kiwi can today, we learnt about respect for our community and ways we can take care of it. We played a game called rubbish relay and 123. Both games were so fun and energetic. 

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Friday 26 October 2018

Food Tech - Mince Pie

Mince Pie

Ingredients:
1 Onion
Mince
Frozen Veges
1/2 Cup of Water
Beef Stock
Spices & Pepper


Steps:

1. Dice and slice onion. Then fry until soft

2.  Add the mince and fry until it's cooked

3. Add mix veges and 1/2c of water

4. Mix with pepper, beef stock and spices.




Friday 19 October 2018

Food Tech - Mince Gravy

In cooking today we decided to cook Mince Grave. Here are the steps and ingredients.

Step - Dice the onion and fry with the mince until it is cooked
Step 2 - Add vegetables and 1/2 of water with 1 ox
Step 3 - Then enjoy!


Friday 28 September 2018

Cooking - Quiche

In food tech this week, we cooked quiches. 
Step 1 - In one bowl whisk 4 eggs
Step 2 - Add cheese
Step 3 - Dice Ham
Step 3 - Add 1/2 cup of milk
Step 4 -  Mix altogether
Step 5 - Place pastry into muffin tray
Step 6 - Scoop in quiche mix

Finally bake for 15 minutes or more and enjoy!


Friday 21 September 2018

Cooking - Sweet Chilli Chicken

In food tech today, we baked/cooked sweet chilli chicken. 

Step 1 - Boil chicken for 15 minutes
Step 2 - Lay it out on baking tray
Step 3 - Top with salt, black pepper, white pepper and chilli sauce. 
Step 4 - Bake for 20 minutes

Enjoy!






Monday 17 September 2018

Kiwi Can Week 9 Term 3

In Kiwican today, our main topic that we spoke about was perseverance, which is trying your best in any activities or challenges that we may face everyday. We need perseverance so that we are able to succeed in life. We played 2 games which were pictionary and ball tag. In both games we had to show perseverance by not giving up until the  game was over. Both games were great fun. 

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Friday 14 September 2018

Cooking Nachos

Cooking Nachos

Today in food tech we made Nachos. 
We used mince, onions, cheese, and beans. 
We cooked the ingredients until nice and brown
We poured our mince and  beans on top of the nacho chips and began  our feast



Monday 10 September 2018

Music

Food Tech



For our first food tech lesson, Mrs Tuipuotu decided we should cook/bake hotcakes/pancakes. Because it was our first time, we were very nervous to cook around an oven. Our hot cakes didn't look the best but sure did taste fantastic.
Ingredients

Flour
Sugar
Milk
Butter
Eggs
Salt

Materials
Measuring Cups
Bowls
Spoons
Spatula
Whisking Spoon

Monday 3 September 2018

Kiwi Can

For this week’s kiwi can, our theme was resilience and our topic was perseverance. As always, we started off by introducing our new topic (perseverance) which was trying our best. Eg. ‘Have perseverance!’. It was time to play our energiser which was called perseverance challenge. There were four stations with 4 challenges. Each challenge had its own difficulties, and during the challenges we had to show perseverance. After our energiser we got straight into the purpose of perseverance and why we should show it. Last of not least we played our activity, which was called blind square. It was challenging but we got threw it with our teams. We then finished with our points. We had a total of 23.


Tuesday 28 August 2018

Gymnastics Week 6

For today's lesson, as usual, we started warming up by running around the hall 10 times. Because it was the last week our coach, Ethan, decided to test us on simple gymnastics skills that were taught to us throughout the past few weeks. (For example, a handstand, cartwheel etc.) The most difficult skill would definitely be the handstand. It was great to see other students participating and trying their best to master that skill. Lastly Ethan tallied up the points and gave us either a bronze, silver or gold rubber band based on the score we received. Most of the students received and silver rubber band which was great. It was time for Maya to say a small thank you speech to our coach for all the hard work he had done to teach us.

We had a fantastic 6 weeks learning gymnastics and we hope to get another opportunity again!

Thursday 23 August 2018

Information Points - Glow in the Dark

1. WALT :
Make connections between different sources of information.


Meaning of WALT - Make links between different websites or videos of information.


2. Collection of Information :
Glow in the Dark known as Luminescence simply requires chemicals that store energy into the light.
These special substances are called phosphors (Different wording - Phosphorescence).
Make sure the expose the item to a light for a while so that it could glow in the dark again.
Chemiluminescence makes the object glow in the dark because of the chemical reaction.
Phosphors found in glow-in-the-dark toys are zinc sulfide and strontium aluminate.  
Radioluminescence uses phosphors that are constantly charged by adding radioactive elements, such as radium, to them.
One from nature is Bioluminescence. Some creatures, such as fireflies and jellyfishes, contain chemicals within them the causes things to glow. Some creates glow for protection.


Glow in the dark - Also known as luminescence
Chemicals that restore energy when exposed to light
These special substances are called phosphors
Needs to be exposed to light (for energy) to be able to glow in the dark
They  restore their energy over time


3. Words :


Luminescence
Phosphors or Phosphorescence
Chemiluminescence
Zinc Sulfide
Strontium Aluminate
Radioluminescence
Radioactive Elements
Radium
Bio luminescence


4. Diagram (Glow in the Dark Experiment)


By the wonderful Newsam