Smart Relationship !

Home garden project bears fruit

 

SPRING IN THE GARDEN

Man Visits Disneyland

Today's reading enjoyment was about a man visiting Disneyland 3000 days in a row non stop. He tried keeping his streak but sadly Covid-19 ruined his mission. Jeff Reitz and his friend had originally planned to go every day of the year 2012. They were both unemployed at the time, and they wanted a project to get them out of the house. But after they made it through the year, they decided to keep going, The friend eventually stopped their streak in 2014, but frietz stuck at it until Friday March 13 which was the last day before the park's closure. 

Kiwican

 Today Room seven had their first Kiwican session for term 4. We had our usual teacher Mrs Mac and Lina. Our Theme for the first three weeks was Respect and our topic was Respect for our school. We played a quick game called heads up where we had to look at a different person and make sure we don’t have eye contact. If you and another person are looking at each other you are out. After we played our game we had a little chat about respecting our school. After talking about respecting our school we played GKQ which stands for General knowledge quiz. This week’s lesson was really fun !

Addition & Subtraction

 

We are finally back for term 4 ! Here are some of my working our problems. Enjoy :)

Argument writing !

 Bula Vinaka, my name is Ngakiri Amosa and I am a year 8 student currently at Glenbrae school in Glen innes. As you all know, Our community is a small community known for many things. Our class is now learning how to write arguments based on the topics our teacher has put for us. As you can see by the topic on my doc, we are arguing about Glenbrae students wearing what they want to wear at school. I am supporting the text, and I think it is best for our students to wear anything to school.

 

Firstly, students should wear anything to school ! Why ? because kids might only have one set of uniform to wear for the next five days without any washing or cleaning. Especially those students that play around a lot and get sweaty or dirty. Which isn’t very hygienic at all. 

Secondly, Some of the schools I've seen don’t really have thick sweaters, shorts, rain coats and many more things. Which makes the child more cold and sick. And during this time, getting sick is really bad for people because they might get sick as well. 

Thirdly, I know people have hard times finding their uniforms after the weekends. I mean, I even go through that all the time. But if we wore anything we wanted, we would’ve been ready right away. The clothes might be so delayed and still in the washing and you might have to wait for it to get  washed, dried and folded for you to use it again. Sometimes children are even late to school because they are trying to find their school uniform. 

Fourthly, Even if we had uniform children will still bring mufti to school anyways. Children bring mufti because the uniform is either thin or small for them. I think students should wear anything they want because some of the school uniforms are very expensive. I know parents go through hard times with money and jobs now. Some students don’t even have anything to eat for lunch. 

Lastly, Most of the students from other schools get into a lot of fights with other different schools which will bring shame to their school and community. Especially when they are wearing uniforms which represent their school.      

 

Kind regards 

Ngakiri 

  

Blood Vocabulary !

Reading response activities

 The above text was taken straight from the reading material. What is your response to these questions? 

Why did Maori fight in the war? Because they were fighting for New Zealand or their country. 

What changed when the Maori soldiers returned home ? Most of them were sad because some of the soldiers didn’t survive the war. 

What didn’t change when they returned home ? Some of the soldiers survived the war and they got home safely.

Do you agree with Maori going abroad to fight in the war ? I mean yeah, Maori people are one of the bravest people on earth.

Why was it easy for some of the younger boys to join the war ? Younger boys were able to join the war because they are strong and trustworthy.

Special guest !

 Today, Room 7 had a great opportunity to see a special guest. As you all know our class has been reading a great novel called Purple Heart. We had the greatest opportunity by meeting the writer Taafuli Andrew Fiu. He honestly made my day with his jokes. We were so lucky he told us so really amazing things about his life story. He is such a funny and amazing person to tell stories. His family and parents are hilarious as well. I loved how his dad was lying to the people and how he was supporting Andrew with his book writing. Most of his family didn’t even believe in him which is really sad. But he kept trying and trying. And look where he got. It was really nice meeting Andrew hopefully we see him next time. 

Four mini humans !

“Ding” goes the bell. We just finished our science class and it is now morning tea.
I accidentally left my phone in class and Mr Holakeituai was just about to close the
class but we all ran as fast as we could to the door. I went into the classroom and
tried looking for my phone. As we were walking around the classroom Tupou decided
to snoop around and touch the science materials. Suli kept telling him to stop touching
things but he didn’t listen. He found this little potion that looked very amazing, it was
glowing so bright.

Tupou kept tipping it on all of us because he thought he was funny. I finally found my
phone and went out of the classroom. We walked to the school tuck shop to get food
for us to eat. After getting our lunch we walked to the main area where the tables were.
We all sat down together eating our lunch. “Hey, the table is getting bigger,” I said. “I know
it sounds weird but the chairs are growing” Said Suli. Guess what was happening ?
We were shrinking ! we were so small, we looked like minions. 

Do you know what was more weird ? Tupou was still the same size. I was even more angry
because I had an English class after lunch. I was supposed to attend it or else I'll get in big
trouble with my parents. Harley had Gym class after lunch, he had to attend it because
he’s been wagging it a lot. Suli and Sika are the idiots of the group. They only come to
school to see their friends and make girlfriends. They were so happy being small because
they were gonna wag class anyways. 

Sika and Suli were laughing at Tupou because he looked so lost. He was trying to find us.
“Tupou !” shouted all of us. He finally looked down and we were so happy. He was so
confused so he tried bending down to our height. He asked “is it just me or are you guys
short as hell”, “Yeah, whatever” said Harley. “Why are you guys so small ?” Tupou asked.
“Maybe because you tipped that stupid science potion on all of us” I said angrily. 

“Well, what do I do ?” Said Tupou. “Maybe find a way to make us normal again,” Harley said.
“Here, jump in my bag” Said Tupou. It was so disgusting because Tupou had heaps of rubbish
and gum in his bag. He even had expired food in there. (ew yuck) I honestly couldn’t breathe
so I went to his shoulder. The boys also decided to follow me. I asked him “Where are you
going”, “To my car” Said Tupou. “Wait what ? You're not gonna help us” I said. “I’ll do it
tomorrow because I'm getting a bit tired,” Said Tupou. “Ew we don’t wanna see you sleep,
eat, change and shower” Said Sika. “ Yeah isn’t that weird” Said Suli. “Guys stop being rude”
Said Harley. 

“Don’t worry guys, I’m gonna get you guys food on my way home” Said Tupou. “Yayyy” I said
happily. We got to Tupou’s house and wow it was so big and nice. He had these fountains all
around his house. He had water and chocolate fountains around the house. We went into his
room and wow he had many more amazing things. He had his own toilet, Bathroom, Fridge
and even a cupboard. We tried opening his cupboard and wow he had everything in there.
“Okay, I'm sleeping here” I said. “You guys can all sleep here, make yourself at home. I’ll get
you guys some blankets, ``said Tupou.

It was finally the next day, and it was time for school. Obviously Tupou had to take us to
school so that we could be normal again. We got to school and obviously saw the same
people as usual. It was going onto morning tea time and we had our science class straight
after it. We got into the science class and didn’t find the potion. It was gone !! 

Rangatiratanga flag !

PB4L !

Today our class had a little PB4L class session. We talked about looking after ourselves or respecting ourselves and others. We had ideas from some of my classmates. People should be really careful with themselves during this time. With all this Covid happening around the world. We looked at the latest updates with the cases around the world. It is really shocking how many people have got it, died from it and recovered from it. Places like America, China and other places are really shocking with the cases they’ve had. 

Capacity & Volume :)

1) Capacity measures the amount something can hold. it usually means volume and can be measured in millilitres. litres and kilolitres.

Write the abbreviations for :

a) Millilitres = ML
b) Litres = L
c) Kilolitres = KL

- Capacity - From what i know,  Capacity is the amount of space that can fit inside a box or 3D shape. It is also the maximum amount something can contain or hold. 

Volume - I think volume is kinda similar to capacity. Volume is the amount of space that a substance or objects occupies.

Auckland Zoo has a new Rhino !

Today's reading enjoy enjoyment is about our public Auckland Zoo having a new Rhino. Auckland Zoo is celebrating the birth of it's first baby Rhino in 20 years. A healthy female delivered by first-time mum Jamila in a speedy one-hour labour 13 days ago. The birth follows a 16-month pregnancy. The birth of the southern white Rhino calf happened on the 14 of August 2020. The mother of the Rhino gave birth when she was about 30 years of age. The father Zambezi was very exited and happy !

King and Country !

Covid update !

Today's reading enjoyment was about what's been happening for the past days with the Covid-19. I didn't really read much but I saw this really important timeline of how much cases New Zealand. Apparently New Zealand has been ranked up to the second safest places during this Covid Pandemic. As you all know,  Auckland is now on level 2.5 which is kinda weird. Corona virus is something that anybody can get easily. Here is a little timeline I found. this was from the first lock down to now.  

Devastating floods hit Sudan

Today's article was about a really sad thing that happened in a place called Sudan. Many devastating floods has hit Sudan multiple times. These floods has been caused by heavy seasonal rains. These heavy rains have damaged more than 100,00 homes in the African country Sudan. Over the weekend, Sudan declared a three-month state of emergency after flooding that has sadly killed about 100 people. In addition to the deaths, the floods had affected more than half a million people. 

Act of kindness !

 Today our class had a little fun activity to do. Which is called act of kindness. So basically people had to pick names and whoever they get, they have to get them something. It's kinda like secret Santa but not Christmas. So I picked my friend Kue'a, I got him two Chocolate bars, Maltesers and M&M's. My friend Soane got me a packet of Snickers. It was so yummy !!

Fathers Day !!

September the 10th

Here is my pick a path !! Hope you enjoyed it :)

Wednesday - Certificate

Here is my Wednesday maths certificate. This one was a bit more challenging than the first one.  

Tuesday - Certificate

This is one of our other task we had to do today. I'm not gonna lie this was kinda challenging to do. I couldn't even do most of the questions. But I kept trying haha !!

Lockdown flowchart

Today this afternoon was my first time going onto our class hangout. It was a really nice and short one too. This was on of my task I had to do. Hope you enjoy !!

Cephalopods

Big bang theory !!

The Fragile Web of life

Charles Darwin

How to make mac and cheese

 

Mosaic Art !!

Nelson Mandela

Origin of life !!

Venn Diagram !!

Genomics :)

What is an ape ? From my understanding, I think an ape is a type of animal

that can climb trees and do more amazing things. Apparently apes are 90%

same as humans.  

What animals belong to the monkey family ? Apes, Gorillas, Monkey, Chimpanzees, Orangutan, Baboon, Mandrill, Gibbon  

Pizza Hut

New Law

Today I read a really great article about China's government passing on a new law that gives more power to Hong Kong. However many people in Hong Kong aren't very happy at all with the new laws. Over the last year there have been lots of protests in Hong Kong. This is the government in China has suggested several new laws for the region. It's sad to hear that people in Hong Kong don't really wanna obey anything the China government says. 

Figurative devices

Aotearoa ship joins the NZ navy

Today I read about one of the navy staff Davonport Base have welcomed their newest ship - the HMNZS of Aotearoa. This new boat measures 173 meters long. This boat also weighs around 24,000 tonnes. The ship has cost New Zealand more than $5000 dollars and was also built in Korea. This ship can hold thousands of people. I learnt something really mind blowing about this article. I've learnt that this ship can produce 100,000 litres of freshwater everyday from sea water. 

Matariki ball

Last Thursday, Glenbrae school had a really great ball to celebrate Matariki and the traditions. We had heaps and heaps of families from some of the students at our school. We also had some yummy food outside the hall. Such as, Lollies, Brownies, Sausages, Cakes, Drinks and much more delicious food. It was a really good experience for us year 8s because we got to see some of our ex students from Glenbrae. We were finally reunited with the year 8s from last year !!

Every 15 minutes two classes would perform a little tik tok dance they all came up with. All the dances were very outstanding and funny at the same time. Our Dj was cool, because he played some of my favourite songs haha. I really loved the dances I saw on the dance floor. Mrs Tofa was the mc so she picked people from the crowd to pick the best dancers.

We had one good girl dancer and another boy dancer. We had the Seniors, Juniors, parents and teacher. For the seniors Mason and Victoria F, For the Juniors it was Lini and Sivi, For the parents it was Alijohn’s dad and Kalo’s mum. All these dancers made my night. All there dancing was so funny and amazing. 

The Matariki ball was so fun and exciting. This was my first time at it. Sadly this is my last year here so I don’t think i’ll be coming to the next one. I really enjoyed the food and entertaining dancing last Thursday. I also loved the decorations around the hall, it was so beautiful and colourful. I also enjoyed the people there as well, All the great company. Finally reunited together again

Black lives matter !!

Racism is real, Racism is bad 

With all this killing, it’s getting more and more sad.

White cops shooting, black people dying

Families are out here lying and crying

What do we do to help our world ?

To me, it feels like this world is curled 

Black lives matter, there's no need to fight

Black, Dark, light or white

We’re all humans 

All the same 

Colour doesn’t matter so don’t

be ashamed

Measurement

12-year-old BLM protester signs record deal

For today's reading enjoyment I read an article about a 12-year-old that has been signed by the major US music, Warner Records. His name was Keedron Bryant and he performed a song, written by his mother, about the fears of being a young African American in this time of year. The song "I just wanna live" was posted online one day after George Floyd's death. The song will officially be released to coincide with June teeth, which marks the end of centuries. The song Keedron has already racked up the millions and thousands of likes. Racism is happening a lot nowadays, with all the killing and hitting happening.

Skeleton & Bones

Today we had technology, and our topic today was about Skeletons and Bones. We wrote questions on our project books. We had questions like How many bones do we have and much more interesting questions. We got to look at animal skeletons and also Human Skeletons. But don't worry it was all plastic. Only some of the bones were real. It felt so real though. We also learnt about some of the bones around in our body. I've learnt that when we were new born we had 300 Bones altogether. But when we start growing up our bones connect together and the number of bones go down to at least 206. Science today was really interesting and mind blowing because we learnt about things we didn't even know.  

Measuring

Today I worked on one of the manaiakalani maths from one of the student teachers. This was actually kinda easy for me to solve. When I finished I just noticed that I was doing a year 3 maths problem. At least I learnt some things. This maths was kinda fun and creative as well. Only some of these were challenging. Keep it up student teachers !!  

Loch Ness monster

Today I read a really interesting article which is about a animal called  Loch Ness Monster. Someone has posted a photo on Facebook that might show the  Loch Ness monster. People want to know if it's really the animal. While taking photo, Chalice spotted what he thought was a large fish swimming around in the water. Chalice said he he captured the creature on camera once. He said it was about 2.5 metres long and he was standing 9 metres from the lake when he took the photo. The photo has been shared online where he hopes someone will identify it. He believes it was something mundane like a catfish or seal.  

Photo Album

Education :)

Matariki Lesson !!

Today Room 7 & Room 9 had the opportunity to go to Te Oro for a Matariki Lesson with these really nice people. We left school around 9:00am and drove off, on a bus to Te Oro which is in Glen Innes. When we got to Te Oro we had to take off our shoes to show respect. Not gonna lie it was kinda stinky haha. After taking our shoes off we had a small Powhiri because we were the guest coming into their little Marae. The girls had to go in the front and the boys at the back. While we were walking in we saw these cool art and creative craft made from those people. After we all went in, We had to sit down on the mat. 

After that we had these beautiful teachers introducing themselves to us. There was about 14 of them. They were all so kind to us and some of them were funny as well. After introducing themselves, they talked about all the arts and crafts in the room and how they made it. They made all the carvings from the Kauri tree and the Totara tree as well. 

Most of the people there made all those creative things on the walls. 

A few minutes after, we all got into groups of eights and went our separate ways. There was three sections we had to split into. There was Weaving, Clay making and painting. I went to the weaving section which was really fun. We learnt have to make stars out of Harakeke. The boys and girls had to split into two groups so it would be easier. At first it was more harder but then our teacher made it easier for us to make. 

After making our products it was time to finish. Our teacher had to pick four sensible people to present what we made. Then we all showed our creations to the whole class. Then we had to thank the people for letting us have a great time at Te Oro. 

Te Oro today was a really great experience for Room 7 and Room 9 to learn and create heaps of things from back in the days. Hopefully we go again next time !!

World's heaviest aircraft

Today I read a really mind blowing article about the World's heaviest aircraft taking off. This airplane was full of medical supplies for hospitals and doctors. These supplies are mostly for the people that are positive with the Covid-19. Something really came out of this awful pandemic. Anyways this is all I read today. This article is really interesting to read !!

Walter's Math Activities

Today Tahi (My group) had to do independent working for today. Our teacher shared us a site with different types of sides with heaps of fun maths activites to do. My friends and I decied to do walter's maths slide. Some of these questions were kinda easy but then when I go to the last slides it was a bit challenging for me to solve. I'll say you did a great job with these questions. Even though it was a bit challeging I still got to learn something. I also learnt about a new shape today Parallelograms. I liked the first few questions but at the end it was challenging !! This was one of the questions that got me really confused.

Make a circuit

Last week's topic was about making a circuit. Last week and this week's topic basically connects. We did the same thing from last week but this was a bit challeging. The Equipments we used was Clip wires, Batteries, a Switch, Lamp station and a Voltmeter. We had to firstly make our light bulb shine, but then we also had to use the light switch as well. It was kinda easy at first but then when we added the Volmeter it was a bit challeging. We connected the wire from the battery to the sires from the light bulb. It worked again because we connected positive and negitive like last week. 

Saving energy in our homes

Two weeks ago we had another fun topic for tech which was about saving energy in out homes. We learnt how to work a little light bulb. We noted things that relates to energy. We also noted places that have a lot of energy. after noting everything, everybody went into groups of three to make our light bulbs shine. For some of us it was hard because we were all confused but then we got use to it. We got heaps of great support from our teacher Mrs Sharma. We used Wires, Batteries and a Lamp station. We connected positive with negitive and it worked.

Text & Pic

For two weeks we've been focusing on a really great article about Winning the Bledisloe cup. For every sentence we saw we had to find a photo that supports the text from the doc. 

Measurement !!

Mesurement DLO

Turning wine into hand sanitize

Today I read a really cool article about these french winemakers that have announced that they will be turning unsold wine into hand sanitizer. France has been in lock down for 2 months so the Government has given permission for 33 licensed wine makers to make hand sanitizer for everybody. Each winemaker has up to June 19 to indicate the amount he or she wishes to make. 

The Harakeke has many uses in New Zealand :)

What is Harakeke ? Harakeke (flax) is a type of plant that helps a lot. The Harakeke plant basically represents a family to maori people. The Rito is something they call the “child”. The Rito is the middle leaf right in the center. This leaf is protected by the Awhi Rito (the parents) and surrounding those leaves are the Tupuna (the grandparents and ancestors). Maori people believe that it’s not good to cut the Rito or the Awhi Rito because those are the leaves that help the plant grow more bigger. 

Harakeke is used for many things such as making Baskets, Costumes, Mats, Clothing, houses and many more amazing things. The properties of the Harakeke bushes are medicinal. These Harakeke leaves are really important and useful for things such as cuts and wounds. 

This plant is so important to the Maori people because they basically used it for everything. They built shelter, used baskets for their food and made ropes to hold their shelters up. They also use the mats for them to sit and sleep on. Harakeke is really useful and needed in a Maori life. Like I said before this plant helps a lot with cuts and wounds especially. 

Back in the days Europeans really wanted heaps of Harakekes because they needed it to make strong ropes to hold up their ships. But Maori people didn’t want to give it. This is one of the reasons why Europeans and Maoris signed that Treaty of Waitangi.  

Responding to the text :)

Yesterday we had a task to do for reading and we had to respond to the text that was given to our group (Tusitala) Each of these pictures represent something from the text we were reading.This is my work !!