Ilaivaha at Pt England School

Tagata Pasifika visit to our class

2011-12-07T12:30:00.002+13:00

Today was a very special day because Tagata Pasifika was coming to our class to have a look at budgeting and what we think Christmas means to us.

It was a Onner to get choosen out of 24 other classes. As they film snippets of us, some were doing there gifted cards and some were doing there Christmas decorations to give as a present for there family members.

As they went around our classroom Osone Okesene the presenter came and sat next to to Tule and I. he told us that he was going to interview us about what we think Christmas and how important it is to us also budgeting like buying expensive gifts or making our own kind of gifts.

The interview went on and I got to say it was pretty unexpected. He asked questions that I kinda had to think about before answering it. I answered all of the questions but to admit some were pretty hard but at least I answered.

It was really great to have them in our class and hope we get another opportunity like this again.

Netbook Reflection

2011-12-06T14:13:00.003+13:00

Something amazing happened this year at Pt England school. Students from year 5 to 8 were given their very own netbook to use through out the year. We were also allowed to take it during the holidays. We started taking them in the middle of the year, but first we had to attend meetings with our parents and sign contracts.

The thing I like about our netbooks is that we don't need to use books and pencil to write or to use for any other subject. Also to save us mucking around every morning looking for stuff to use instead we can just take out our net books and use anytime.

I also like taking it home because normally with out the netbook I'll will be watching tv all the time. But now I'm just in the room finishing homework and work from school. Which is cool because I won't get lecture from my teacher if I don't finish of work.

But one of the things I dislike about it is that sometimes the internet can be slow or stop working. Which can be frustrating sometimes because you really want to finish off some work.

But overall after having it from the begging of the year I felt like that my learning has improve and that it was very easier way to help us in learning.

What I have about Guy Fawks.

2011-11-18T10:15:00.001+13:00

Here some 8 facts about Guy Fawkes That I have learnt.

1: The another name given for Guy Fawkes is Bonfire and it is celebrated on the 5th of November.

2: Beverly Pentland was the “fireworks lady” and was largely responsible for securing these measures.

3: The Gunpowder was made too kill James King I and too blow up House of Parliament.

4: The night changes in recent years from “hold ons” Like Family gatherings to supervised letting off Bonfires and around community events.

5: The things that make up fireworks are potassium nitrate, (saltpetre) or chlorate, surplur and charcoal. The minerals to make up the colours are: Mental salt added to produce colours, calcium, strontium, sodium, copper, barium, arsinic, antimony, powdered or flaked aluminum and magnesium.

6: Some of the restrictions was to sell fireworks/bonfires for 10 days before the 5th.

7: The first people to make the fireworks were the Chinese country china and they were made for special events like the opening of a new sport, and for national days.

8: The British people celebrated there new year eves a the begging of November with bonfires and feast

Halloween

2011-11-01T14:35:00.006+13:00

What is Halloween?

I thought that Halloween was a American thing! I thought they only celebrate that kind of thing to be honest. Also I always hear rumours that Halloween is bad because u are celebrating Satins birthday, which I think is not true.

Yesterday was Halloween. But I didn't go Trick or Treating. I just stayed home like what some of my friends did. My younger brother went with some of his friends. They went trick or treating around our neighbourhood. When they came back they had arrived with no lollies because they had already eaten it when they were walking back home.

No one really came knocking on our doors. But I got to say I was kind of happy because we didn't really had any candy's because we weren't that organised. Also not that much people went trick or treating around our area.

I wished I went trick or treating to see how fun it is especially when you have to dress up in funky costume and go knocking on other people door saying "trick or treat"

Do you celebrate Halloween?

The most intence game ever

2011-10-27T09:41:00.005+13:00

“OMG” Aron cruden has injured his leg during the RWC final game against France.

I was sitting in front of the TV watching the game if excitement hoping that the All Blacks will win! But I new they were going too based on the game score they had before. It was a very intense game. but the relief thing was that the All Blacks had scored the first points. Now was time for Piri Weepu to kick the penalty kick. Unfortunately he missed which was a abit of a disappointing.

I got to say it was a pretty close game and the score was 8-7. The mighty All blacks have won the RWC for 2011.

Thinking skills

2011-10-26T10:25:00.005+13:00

This morning Room 22 did a thinking task. We were spit into groups of 3 and the people that were in mine was Kaiden and Lepa and I. We also got given a problem and five objects. With those objects we had to use it to solve the problem.

The problem was; there was a leak in our tent and we had to use the objects which was: a light bulb, pair of glasses, spade, rock and can opener to solve the problem. To do this we tried to think logical and creative.

To solve this we used the one of the lends on the glasses to cover the hole and than we cut a bit of string of the tent and than tied it over the lends so it won' t fall of. But than we ended but having 3 hole with only one hole covered.

I got to say this was abit challenging but our group did not succeed but I can say I cant wait to do this again. Hopefully we will try and succeed.

The last week of school

2011-10-05T09:06:00.003+13:00

"Oww its the last week of school already!" and it has also been a fast term.

For the last week it has been busy week because Production is on and our teacher is incharge of it and alot of other things. So the people that are not in it has to be splited up to other classes all the time.

I am one of those people that are not in it so I'm always going to other classes. when we got split up we were told by the teacher that we could finish off any work that we've done in the last couple of weeks. I kind of liked it but at the same time I missed the old routine in the classroom like writing and and reading.

It has been busy busy week and getting moved around alot was abit

Aussie Rules sessions

2011-09-25T10:43:00.003+13:00

Here is a little slide show that shows some captions and photos of our time at Aussie Rules sessions.

Maths Whizz

2011-09-21T14:13:00.002+12:00

On the starting of term 2 a teacher named Mrs Ouano introduced us to a maths site called Maths Whizz. Maths Whizz is a site that you can learn about fun numbers and alot of other stuff towards maths. Romm 22 has been on this site for a while and at the momment I am learning how to change the fractions into a equivelent fractions to see which one is the biggest!!

RWC fans!

2011-09-20T11:41:00.003+12:00

Has your country ever hosted the RWC? This was NZ first time hosting it. Before the RWC even started there was alot of RWC enthusiasim. Like alot of the tongan supporters were going around with flags on their cars and even beeping as they drive past some people. When the Tongan rugby team have landed at the Auckland airport there was alot of supporters that had swamp the airport. It was like a sea of red and white people. It was so amazing to see alot of supporters.

The rugby world cup had started and the first game was Tonga vs All Black. It was a pretty tough game. The overall score was 41-10.

New Zealand Champions

2011-09-05T14:08:00.011+12:00

Has your school entered your Rugby 7s team in the NZ Aims tournament? Our school has. This was the first time ever that our rugby 7's team went down to represent our school. They had left on the 28th of August and stayed there for a week and had came back on a Friday evening.

Also they trained very hard and won all there 12 games which was awesome. But the best thing was that they came back with the winning cup and had took out the whole competition. They became the New Zealand Champions. I was so happy for them and they made us proud. We even had a special assembly to welcome them back.

I was so proud of them and happy that I go to this school so I can say that we are the champions.

Global Community

2011-09-02T14:30:00.001+12:00

Learning about people in global community is really important because you need to understand how other people do things their way, for example how other cultures may have to cover up when they go out in public. You might even want to know how other cultures like to celebrate their traditions differently because you might celebrate it differently to how they do.

Team 5 fun challenge

2011-08-31T10:36:00.004+12:00

“Errrrrrrrr errrrrrrrrrr,” Mrs Nua pressed the button on the siren which was a sign for us to move on to another activity. What activity am I talking about you might ask? On Tuesday after Morning tea we had to get change into our PE gear because we were having a team 5 fun challenge down at the bottom field. Each teacher from team 5 had a activity ready for us.

The first activity was with my teacher. Her activity was that we had this long kind of sling shot that two people had to hold at each end. Then the whole class had to line up. When it is your turn you have to grab a ball and place it in the middle of the sling shot. After placing the ball you then have to try and aim it to land in one of the hula hoops that were place any where in the area that we were playing in. Also if a ball lands in one of the hula hoops you score points for your class and who ever has the most points gets to play water balloons after lunch time.

My Favourite activity was with Mrs Nua. We had to split into 4 groups and have two buckets each. One bucket of water at the front with a big lump of sponge in it and one at the back that was empty. After that we had to line up in between the two buckets. The front person has to try and soak the sponge and pass it to the person at the back and go over and side. Then the back person has to then run to the the bucket that was behind them and squeeze the sponge so that the water can come out. Also the bucket that has the most water wins.

I really had a fun day and was pretty excited for after lunch because my class won and we get to play water balloon fight. I am also hoping that we get more of these fun challenge during the year.

Multiple Intelligence

2011-08-30T14:46:00.004+12:00

This term we are learning about Multiple intelligence. There is difference kinds of intelligence which are I.C.T, Verbal/linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Body/Kinesthic, Visual/spacial, Musical, Natuarelistic and logical/Mathmatical intelligence. Thse are also like the smarts but different names.

These are my results that shows my strengths and the things that I need to improve on.

As you can see my top 2 strengths are interpersonal and intrapersonal.

Also the intelligence that I really want to improve on is Musical.

A awesome session of Badminton

2011-08-17T09:41:00.002+12:00

As soon as the second bell rang room 22 was lined up outside getting ready to have a session of badminton. Our instructor was a lady called Laureen who was from the Auckland Badminton Club.

We did lots of different activies. The first activity was to learn how to control the shuttle by hitting it gently with the badminton racket, which kind of looked just like a tennis racket. It was really hard at first but when I got the hang of it, it was starting to be easy to handle.

Out of all the activies that we did my favourite one was trying to hit the shuttle into the bin, which was in the middle of the hall. We had to grab 5 shuttles each and take five steps back from the bin which also formed a circle. After that we all had to hit it in. This was also helping us how to serve.

The session was really fun I also learned how to do cool tricks like trying to hit it under your legs. I look forward for the next sessions.

The design Process Furniture for the street

2011-07-12T09:03:00.003+12:00

As part of our topic Bigger Better Faster stronger, Ms Tito had given us a task and it was also about going through the design process. To start it off we had to identify a need within the senior block. Our need was about the student not respecting the street. So to fix it we had to come up with a solution to fix the problem. The solution that we came up with was to build furniture for our area so that the street becomes a place where the seniors will love and respect. Also that it won’t affect the stakeholders.

The next part to the design process was to research. We used our notebooks to get online to research some cool ideas with what we are building. Also we had to think about the important attribute such as Is it safe, innovative, practical, creative and size. As we researched our ideas we also reflect on the ideas that we research and by reflecting on it we did a P.M.I chart which stands for Positive Minus Interesting.

After all the research we did we than had to generate our ideas by taking our favourite designs and modifying it so that it becomes our own. We also had make sure that it was Creative, Innovated, Practical and if we wanted to we could also visualize some ideas that we wanted to design. As I was generating I was also evaluating at the same time.

The part that I’m up to now is Finding solution. I am making a prototype so that I can find the problems of making it and with the problems that I find I then change it so that it becomes practical to make.

This is where I am up to, I also feel good that I will get the things that needs to be done by the end of this term.

The design Process Furniture for the street

2011-07-11T14:28:00.005+12:00

The next part to the design process was to research. We used our netbooks to get online to reseach some cool ideas with what we are buliding. Also we had to think about the important atribute such as Is it safe, innovative, practical, creative and size. As we researched our ideas we also reflect on the ideas that we reseach and by reflecting on it we did a P.M.I chart which stands for Positive Minus Intersting.

After all the research we did we than had to generate our ideas by taking our favourite designs and modifying it so that it becomes our own. We also had make sure that it was Creative, Innovated, Practical and if we wanted to we could also visualize some ideas that we wanted to design. As I was generating I was also evaluating at the same time.

The part that I’m up to now is Finding solution. I am making a prototype so that I can find the problems of making it and with the problems that I find I then change it so that it becomes practical to make.

This is where I am up to, I also feel good that I will get the things that needs to be done by the end of this term.

League Session

2011-07-07T13:27:00.003+12:00

On Thursday we had a Rugby League Session with Sio Siua Taukeiaho and he plays for the 2011 Vodafone Junior squad. Here is a little slideshow with some captions created in picasa that shows some of the things that we did.

League Session

2011-06-23T10:01:00.007+12:00

On Thursday the 22nd of June 2011, room 22 had a opportunity to have a league session with Sio Siua Taukeiaho. He plays for the 2011 Vodafone Junior Warrior squad. We did alot of cool activity’s.

One of the activity that we did during the session was, Sio Siua split us up into 4 groups and each group had to line up on there own line of cones. After that the person in front of the line has to hold onto a league ball and then has to zig zag through the people that are lined up. Once they zig zag through all the people that person then has to sprint back to the yellow line and place the ball down like getting a try. This was also a competition against the other groups.

I had a go at doing it and I got to say it was fun and a bit hard at the same time trying to zig zag through people.

To finish off the session we had a fun game called kick tennis and it’s was also my favourite activity. One of the groups had to combine with one of the other group and that was the same for the other two groups. Then we ended up with 2 groups. We were given 3 balls each. With those 3 balls we had to kick the ball to the other team but above there shoulders. When the ball goes over to the other team they are meant to catch it and then kick it back to the opposite team. Not to mention there were also rules and they were if you don’t catch the ball you are out, If you move away from the ball when its coming towards you, you are out and also with you kick the ball to low you are also out.

I really enjoyed the league session and I hope we have another opportunity like this.

The science roadshow

2011-06-16T09:41:00.004+12:00

Last week on Thursday the 9th of June 2011 the year 7 & 8 walked down to Tamaki College for a science roadshow. This was meant to help us get a better understanding of our new topic for this term which is Bigger, Better, Faster and Stronger. There were lot of awesome exhibit to look at.

As I said before we were split into groups of six, I was also one the people that were leaders. The people that were in my group were Maree Michael, Rose and Ilalio. As we got there the leaders had to go and and choose a exhibit from the following area to report about. The exhibit that I chose to do was about Heat. One of the theme in the exhibit was about heat and colour and thats what my group chose to report about. The things that was included in this exhibit was that you had to push this button so that the lights turns and then you had to watch the sensitive panels and see what it does.

From this exhibit I found out that the light bounces of the colour that is heat sensitive. For example, Black grabs all the heat and nothing bounces off and colour says I grab some heat and bounce some off. Also I think that the science idea demonstrated that the different colour absorbs different amount of heat.

After studying the exhibit that we chose to report about, I decided then to go around and and experience some of the other science road show. My Favourite one was the Magic Hand. You had to Put your hand on one of the round theremin, then you had to move your hand around on the other round theremin and it will make a sound.

I really enjoyed the science roadshow and it also helped me get a better understanding of our topic. I also hope we get to do this kind of thing next year!

Swimming

2011-06-08T09:13:00.003+12:00

For the last two weeks during lunch times, the year 7 & 8 had swimming lessons, down at the Glen Innes YMCA pools. We would always walk because it wasn’t a long way to get there. Also the reason why we had swimming lessons is so that we know how to swim because the country that I live in is surrounded by water which is called New Zealand.

I didn’t go swimming because of some medical reasons. But I do know how important swimming lessons are. Swimming lessons are important because it helps builds your swimming skills and it’s also important for survival and emergency.

As I said before why I didn’t go swimming because of some medical reasons, but I still wanted to go swimming because every time I look at them swimming it looked fun and it also made want to go swimming next time we have swimming lessons.

I was a bit disappointed because I missed out all of the important swimming lessons. But there is still next time.

How to make Fabulous felt.

2011-05-31T10:51:00.007+12:00

In room22 the reading group that I am in is called Huia. We have been reading about fabulous felt. This book was about there experience of how to make fabulous felt. The task that our teacher had given us was to read the book again so we get a better understanding of how to make fabulous felt so that could we could create a storyboard that clearly explains in our own words of how to make fabulous felt.

Here the steps......

Geometry

2011-05-20T12:52:00.004+12:00

Imagine you are in a class, about to learn about geometry and you know nothing about it or even what it all about. Well You are in luck because room22 has has been learning all about geometry.

This term room22 has been learning all about geometry. Geometry is the study of size, shape and position of 2 dimensional shape and 3-D figures.

These last 2 weeks of geometry we did a whole lot of different activity. Some of the activity’s that were cool was drawing perfect circles using a compass and making tangrams. The activity that I mostly enjoyed was drawing perfect circles. I liked doing that activity because I love colouring.

I don’t really love geometry but when I did all the fun activity’s it made want to learn even more about geometry.

Taonga time

2011-05-18T14:14:00.005+12:00

Here is my taonga time teacher

Here is what we are learning how to use properly

Every Fridays for an hour and a half the year 7&8 has a special time called taonga time. If you don’t know what I mean by taonga time taonga is the Maori word for treasure. The reason why we have Taonga time so it gives students opportunity to learn new stuff of teachers passion. For example my teachers passion is ICT.

The group that I am in is with Mrs Tele’a and her passion is ICT. She is teaching us how to use Imovie 2011 properly and how to make our movie alot more interesting. The things that she has taught us already is how to make our audience watch some more of our movie by changing camera angles.

These last few weeks of taonga time has been fun. I enjoyed learning all about how to use Imovie 2011 and also about all the different ways of how you could film ( camera angles).

My Values DLO term one

2011-05-16T14:36:00.003+12:00

Last term Ms Tito gave us a task. The task that we got given was to create a digital learning object that explains or present one of the Pt England values. The value that I have chosen to share is about hope. Here is a little silde show that I have created in picasa and that also explains what I think hop[e feels like sounds and looks like.

1st netball session

2011-05-16T14:26:00.003+12:00

On Thursday the 5th room22 had there very first netball session with one of the netball helpers called Emma. We have it every Thursday after lunch from 2 o'clock to 2.40 at our school netball court outside the stuff room.

Our first netball session, we did a whole lot of dynamic stretches. We did bum flicks, high knees and also the grape vine. After learning all these dynamic stretches I can use them when I’m getting ready for my netball game or when I’m training.

To finsh of our session we had a good game of corner ball. Corner ball is smiliar to netball but instead of 7 players we split into two team of 16 players. Also to score a goal a player from each team had to jump into the corner that was surrounded by small cones and catch the ball. The game was fun and it also went well.

Our session went well and I also enjoyed it. I really can’t wait for our next session.

Creativity

2011-05-05T12:45:00.003+12:00

In room22 we have been learning about creativity. Creativity is a thinking skill. It also the ability to create new things in life with also the different form of imagination. For example you could create new ideas be inspired and have that vision.

Our teacher Ms Tito gave us a task to be creative. We had to design our name and make it look creative. With my name I just took screen shot of intersting letters of the internet and put my name together.

Term 1 reflection

2011-05-05T09:19:00.004+12:00

One of the things I was pleased with last term was my art. In my report I obtained 2 excellent for work habits and behaviour. I was shocked because I don’t like doing art and I’m also not good at art, but to see that I received 2 excellence comments It made me want to do more art.

The subject that I really want to improve on is my writing. In my report I gained a below expectation for academic progress. I felt disappointed but that made me want to improve more and not be distracted from my work.

Overall, I had a happy term1 and was also pleased with the result in my report.

These are my results for my DLO:

Surperb Sentence

2011-04-06T10:13:00.005+12:00

In Room 22 we are learining how to put Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs together.
Here is my sentence that I wrote that includes a noun, verbs, adjectives and Adverbs.

The fit netball player defended her opponent from shooting a goal

Method of getting to school

2011-03-02T14:18:00.004+13:00

Here is another chart that I have created In google spread sheet. This chart is called the line chart and it shows that 10 people walks to school and 1 person comes by car and also shows that 2 people comes by van.

Room22 Method of getting to school

2011-02-23T10:27:00.003+13:00

This term in maths we are learning about statistics. These last 2 weeks I've learnt that Statistics maths is about finding things out.

Last week we did a class survey. Here is a coloum graph that I have Created in google spread sheet. This coloum graph shows that 10 people walks to school, 1 person comes by car and 3 people comes by van.

All about me

2011-02-14T14:26:00.012+13:00

Malo i lelei. My name is Vaha and I am now a year 8 student at Pt England School. My favourite subject in school is Maths. My favourite hobbies are playing sport and hanging out with my friends. I love eating and my favourite food is Mac Donalds. I am also a full tongan. My teacher at Pt England School is called Ms Tito, she is a fantastic teacher. My favourite colours are Purple and black.

Beach surf Education!!

2010-11-23T10:17:00.004+13:00

“WOW! Mairangi Bay looks awesome” I said to my friend Rachael, she replied back and said “I know” “doesn’t it look cool”

Last week on Friday the year7 hop on a bus and was on there way down to Mairangi bay for a surf life Saving Education. We were learning about how to keep ourselfs safe in the water.

When we got there we were welcome by 3 lifeguard. There names were Rosie Relcow and and Megan . They were also wearing there lifeguard uniform.

The things that I have learn't thats imporant when you are at beach is to always swim between the flags and also don't go swimming when you are tired or cold. Also do not go swimming alone because something really cool might happen when you are alone and if you tell people they might not believe you.

Mairangi Bay was really cool I learn't alot about water safety and really hope we can go there some other time.

Our brand new netbooks! -My reflective!

2010-11-17T14:19:00.003+13:00

YaY our own netbooks or actually our loan netbooks have finally arrived here at PtEngland school! I couldn't wait when I heard that we were going to get them!

One of the only problem's that I had was that the airport didn't work properly. But ,to fix it I clicked on the airport sign and clicked on Team5netbooks and reconnected to the airport. But, on the other hand the great thing about our loan Netbooks is that they are fun and AWESOME!! I love just typing away!

Share the love!

2010-10-22T11:52:00.010+13:00

In room19 we are

learning how share the love

by linking screen shots that

we get from other websites

and putting it on our blog.

Just click on the picture

and it will you to the website

I took this shot from.

Giant Burrowing Corkroaches

2010-10-13T14:40:00.002+13:00

In Point England school our topic for the term is called Little critter. So in room19 we are learning about bugs. Here are some facts about a burrowing Corkroache that I have learnt. Take a look and you might learnt something new to!

All shipshape and ready to sail!! (reading task)

2010-09-08T09:53:00.006+12:00

In room 19 my group in reading Kiwi have been reading All shipshape and ready to sail. This was about getting ready to sail in a optimist dinghy and checking important things before sailing. Once we had read we than had a task to do. The task we had to do was to draw a optimist dinghy and label different parts of the boat. Also here is a little check list that you might need to check before sailing a optimist dinghy!

Is your Life jacket on and done up?
Remember to put the rudder blade down when you get going because it helps the boat to move.
Are the drains plugs in so the boat doesn't fill up with water.
Have you got the bailer tied in?
A last look at the weather.

Then you are ready to go!!

Netball prize giving!!

2010-08-30T14:08:00.005+12:00

On Saturday the the 28th of August 2010, we had our Netball prize giving. It happen at the AMI Auckland netball courts.

First of all we all met at school by 12.00 O'clock. Then we waited for Mrs Nua to arrive. After that we got change into our netball uniforms and got ready to go.

As we went up happily when our group name Pt England Crew 2 got called up for coming 1st (first) in our grade (c).

Then at the end we kind of celebrated if some Ice blocks, we got for free at the courts. But we still had some more celebrating to do!!

TONGA!!

2010-08-25T14:31:00.010+12:00

The Island I come from is Tonga. It is a great Island and we also have very nice people. We have beautiful beaches. Tonga is a very small Island that anyone can visit!!

Jesse martin quiz!!

2010-08-25T10:33:00.004+12:00

As part of our studies about ‘Mighty Teen Mariners’ our class is looking at the Multiple Intelligences. We used our interpersonal intelligence and we put together a little quiz for you. We are looking at Blooms Taxonomy also and have shown our understanding of what we have learnt by ‘Creating’ the quiz.
Why don’t you check it out because you might even learn something new from these questions. You can answer the questions in the comments box and we’ll let you know if you answered correctly.
ENJOY!

My Mihi

2010-08-25T09:12:00.004+12:00

Every morning Ms T chooses one person to stand up and share there Mihi. Here is my mihi that I share in the Morning. Have a read!!

Katanga te ti ti

katanga te ka ka

katanga hoki ahau

Tiheiwa maori ora

He Mihi Whanui e tenei kia tatau katoa kia koe te rangatira e name

Tena koe moto mahi whakamoemiti ki to tatau matua i te rangi

Kia Koutou,

Kua hui mai nei ki tenei kura ki te mihimihi I nga whakaaro pai ka nui te koa mo to koutou kaha ki te haere mai ki te ako I nga mahi e pa ana ki tenei wanaga

No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena ra tatau katoa.

Glee!!

2010-08-23T12:49:00.013+12:00

Have you heard about this amazing program called 'Glee'?!!

In this program has a group of young teenagers that particapate in group called Glee. Glee is all about loving music and putting on a show that makes you want to enjoy it.

When I first started watching 'Glee' I was so into it. I even started watching every episode.

One of my favourite song's that they performed on 'Glee' is when Rachael (Lea Michelle) and Jesse (Johnathan) first met and sang 'Hello' by Lionel Richie. I also like when Rachael (Lea Michelle) and her Mom sang 'Poker face' by Lady Gaga.

I'm sure if you watch 'Glee' you will love it and enjoy it as much as I do!!

'Spongebob Square pants'!!

2010-08-23T12:14:00.012+12:00

Have you heard of Spongebob Square Pants?

'Spongebob Square Pants' is a yellow sponge cartoon charcter. He has a pet snail named 'Gary' and his friends are 'Sandy',' Sqiudward', 'Mr Krabs' and his one and olny best friend 'Patrick Star'. His favourite stuff to is going Jelly fishing and cooking kraby patties at the Krusty Krabs. Mr 'Square Pants' also lives in a Pine Apple under the sea which is called the 'Bikini Bottom'!!

Do you know how fossils are formed?

2010-08-23T11:53:00.004+12:00

Dinosaurs lived on earth for 160 millons years ago. Suddenly all the Dinosaurs extinct 65 millons years ago. The bodies of some Dinosaurs were covered by sand and dirt, after they were extinct. The bones were hidden for millon's of years, water and minerals seep through the sand and slowly turned the bones into stones. Heavy wind and rain wash away part of the sand and dirt. Then part of the dinosaur can be seen. A scientist than finds the fossil of a Dinosaur and carefully, digs it out of the stone to take to a museum and study.

Awesome Immersion assemblies!!

2010-08-06T14:03:00.003+12:00

At Point England School at the beginning of each term we have immersions assemblies. If you don't know what they are here's your time to find out.

Immersion assemblies are when teachers dress up and perform little skits to show us what our theme for the term is.

Some of the theme I still remember is when we were learning about "Food Glorious food" "Under water world" ,"Light Fantastic" ,"The Art in storytelling" ,"Around the world in 80 day's and "Up Up and away".

If I had to choose one of my favourite theme's it would have to be "Up up and away". I loved it because some of the teachers were acting like planes and one teacher was the flight attendant.

I'm sure if your school held immersion assemblies, you would love them as much as I do!!

My BFFs rocks!

2010-07-23T14:31:00.004+12:00

My friends are the best.They always have your back when you are having a hard time. Friends are also loving and protecting people. If I had to describe them it will be very hard, I have still more friends to be named. They are also reliable, I hope when we go to college we will still be together and stay BFFL forever.

Thanks to Racheal for lending me her photos of us

(My best friends are Rachael, Tracey, Mauina, and Etta).

The Auckland Volcanic field

2010-06-29T14:24:00.003+12:00

The Auckland volcanic field is made up of 50 basalt volcanoes.

The volcanic field is a hot spot because it in the middle of a tectonic plate, not around the edge.

Some volcanoes in the volcanic field only erupt once which means it is a mono-genetic volcano. There are some other volcanoes such as Rangitoto that erupt more than once these are polygenetic volcanoes.

The Auckland Volacnic field is a 1/4 (quarter) of a million years old.

When One Tree hill erupted its lava flow reached the edge of Mount Smart which made Mount Smart erupt. The lava flow finally found its escape route into the Manukau River Valley. The result was a 4 metre drop in the water level.

Some day in the future I hope there will be no volcanic eruption.

I will hate to see one.

Rocks

2010-06-29T12:56:00.002+12:00

Rocks

Have you heard of these rocks before?

1) IGNEOUS ROCKS-

Igneous rocks are types of rocks that have crystals inside them.

When the molten magma rises to the earths surface it then cools down into Igneous rocks.

The Latin word for 'Igneous' is 'Ignis' which means fire. Pumice is an Igneous rock too.

2) SEDIMENTARY ROCKS-

Sedimentary rocks are made out of tiny grains of sand, clay, rock, plants, and animal skeletons. They fall down onto the ocean floor and over millions years, these are pressed together by the weight of water and layers of sediment on top to make Sedimentary rocks(the word 'sediment' means to 'settle in layers').

They also can have fossils inside them.

Limestone is a Sedimentary rock.

3) Metamorphic ROCKS-

Did you know deep in the earth's crust, rocks are crushed and 'cooked' into new rocks, that's why they are very hard. These rocks are called Metamophic('meta' means 'changed', and 'morph' means 'shape'). Marble is also a Metamorphic rock.

The Legend of Mt Taranaki

2010-06-11T10:20:00.004+12:00

How Active is Our earth?

This term we are learning about Active Earth. We were asked to retell the story about the Legend of Mt Taranaki. My group chose to do green screening because we thought it would be a great way to retell the story.

My team members were Mui, Tracey, Mauina Including myself. We worked well as a team. We also had different responsibility. Mauina and Mui did the voice-over and I gathered all the photo's and we all worked on editing the project.

I really enjoyed working on this project and I also loved working with my team. Our group was also pleased with the result that we had. YES! we had the top marks which was 23/25.

My assesment On my DLOMy Reflection!

Our trip down to Wood hill Forest!

2010-05-24T13:01:00.010+12:00

On Tuesday the 18th of May.

10 people were picked to go on this fabulous trip down to Wood hill Forest at Te Atatu. It's was scary becaused it involved highet but it was fun! On this trip we also went with 10 more other people in a school called Tamaki Intermidiate. Here is a movie that shows some highlight about Wood hill Forest.

Our DLO assessment for Term One

2010-04-22T09:51:00.003+12:00

Last term we were asked to make movies showing our understanding of some of the korero that helps our students remember the 'Pt England Way'. We worked in groups of 5 or 6 and were assessed on a number of things.
The post you are about to see is our DLO. We gained the top mark in the class. If you check the rubric (above), you will see our final assessment.

My Netball star Casey Williams!

2010-03-31T09:24:00.007+13:00

My favourite netball player is Casey Williams. She is an awesome player. Her position in netball is goal Keep and Goal Defence. She also plays for the Silver Ferns.

Casey Williams is a very good role model and a awesome team supporter. She is very talented and has her own passions in her sport. She also takes part in what she does.

One day I really like to meet her and tell her how awesome she is in netball. I also want to have her signature and a poster. You rock Casey Willams!

Log joust at camp kindness2010!

2010-03-29T12:08:00.014+13:00

Have you done log Joust before?

My favourite activity at camp Kindness was called the Log Joust. Log joust is a kind of activity that involves padded weapons. The kind of padded weapons we used were a shield and a bag with stuffing in it to try and knock them down.

The activity Log Joust was held at Pt England School at the bottom field. We had know idea that this was going to be at our school. Until we came down from technology it was all set up.

The person who was in charge of the Log Joust activity was Savannah. Savannah told us all the things that we needed to know. She also told us the rules for the activity.

The aim of the activity is to try and get the person down by hitting the person your versing. You have to use your padded weapons , and hit them on the lower body. There's only one important rule that you should know, when you hit, you can't hit the head because it will hurts and you will have no points.

One day you might want to experience Log Joust and see how awesome this activity is!

Still working to improve my goals!

2010-03-11T12:36:00.008+13:00

Yea! I was a bit happy once I beaten my time and score. My first time was 5.08 an my score was 95 out of 100. Well today I've beaten my time even more and my time was 3.49 and my score was 100 out of 100. I was very happy when I finally improved one of my goals this term. But now I am still working to improve my maths by moving up a level!

I hope I do much better in my maths during next year as a year 8.

My Goals for 2010

2010-02-16T10:57:00.000+13:00

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