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.  

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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 !!

The contribution of Mr and Mrs Gock to New Zealand - Brainstorm

Walking Marathon

Today's reading article was about A 103-year-old Belgian doctor walking a marathon around his garden to raise money for Covid-19 research. He started his 42.2 km journey in his home town on June 1 and decides to complete it on June the 30th. For every lap he would always put a stick in the bowl so he doesn't lose his count for his laps. This man has been supporting Covid-19. Sometimes he goes to the hospital and makes sure people the have Covid-19 are alright. 

Reading Rotation

Today Tusitala (My group) has a new topic for this week and next week. Our topic is basically about these two smart couples. They go by "The Gocks". The Lady's name is Fay and the Man's name is Joe. They got married in 1956 and started gardening for a living. These two couples really love Gardening. If anybody asks them to help with their garden they will always up for it. They don't really care about getting money they just love being around vegetables and fruits. One day Joe had a really great idea, He wanted to know how to keep a broccoli fresh and clean. Firstly he thought that putting the broccoli in the fridge for long was a great idea. But then he thought of another brilliant idea. He first put some ice in a big chilly bin and then he put the broccoli in the chilly bin while the ice is in it.

George Floyd's Funeral :(

Today I read a really sad article about George Floyd's Funeral being held in Houston. It's really sad to hear a really nice man past away.  George Floyd was an African American man who died because of racism. American flags lined the streets outside the church to pay their respect to George Floyd and his family. Flowers and bouquets were placed around the photograph of Floyd. Former Vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, Spoke via a video.  

  

Scientist find world's cleanest air

Today I read this really great article. Some really smart scientist people has found the most cleanest air in the whole world. The the discovery was made by a research group out of Colorado State university. The scientist found that a air layer was free from particles that humans create from burning fossil fuels and travelling in planes and cars. This air is really good for everybody because the air that is surrounding us right now is really bad and polluted. 

Harakeke quiz !!

Little Brainstorm

Today in class, All of our writing groups are writing stories about the topic our teacher gave us. For my group (Tusitala) our group topic is "The Harakeke has many uses in New Zealand"

Earthworms :)

Today the year 8's had another fun lesson at Tamaki College. Today's topic was Earthworms. I've learnt that Worm don't have Spines, Bones, Lungs and other things that humans have. It's really weird because nearly all these things are needed in the human body. Without soil worms wouldn't be alive right now. Some worms can live without soil but most of them can't. Earthworms are really interesting to study about. Worms are a big help to our world. These worms bring fresh soil for our plants to grow. it was really fun because we got to touch real worms and do amazing activities. Hopefully next week's lesson is fun as well. 

Plastic bags !!

Last week Friday, The year 8's from room seven had there first actual technology with our new Science teacher Mrs Sharma. Our topic for last week was about plastic bags are how it's used. It was really fun because we learnt heaps of information we didn't even know about. We had heaps of fun activities to do and we got given free science books to take home. I've learnt that plastics can kill sea creatures, and that they can do a lot of damage to their bodies. Anyways last week's lesson was very fun because we've learnt a lot. 

Maths :)

Do & Don't

Harakeke !!

Little quiz !!

Today in class we learnt how to make mini quiz's. It was really easy to make. This is my first time making it. Nearly all of these questions are really easy to solve, hope you guys enjoy my little quiz.