My Kowhaiwhai Design

This years topic is Te wa toi, and we have designed and painted our own kowhaiwhai. I've called my artwork 'Ko au' - 'me', My piece of artwork represents my family. The two red korus represents my mum and dad, The blue korus at the bottom represents my oldest brother, me and my younger sister. The black ngutu-kaka also represents one of my cultures (maori). the patiki I coloured green is a bridge to keep us protected. and last one is the yellow upside down triangle, that represents my older sister watching over us. 

Bedmas

Here is the BEDMAS challenge.

BEDMAS - Order to operation

WALT: use the correct order of operations solving algebraic equations.

This week we are learning about BEDMAS, if you go to the next slide you will see the meanings to each of the letters. My partner that I worked with was Anna.v.

Perspectives and Opinion video

Here is Perspectives and Opinion video. On my other post (Perspectives and Opinions) it will tell you why we made this short film.

Perspectives and Opinion

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion.

For the past few weeks my group has been learning about Perspectives and Opinions. This article was about a lady that stole $400,000 from a rugby club, and we had to make a video on what our opinions were about this.

Sprint track

WALT: Agree on a solution that each member can explain.

Today we are leaning about are and perimeter. Here is our working out on slide 1.

Lady Pink

Today we will be talking about a graffiti artist, lady pink and how she uses Texture,Colour and shape in her artwork to show that women can do anything. As you can see Lady Pink uses a lot of colours to express how she feels about empowering women.  She also uses Texture to bring the colours together by using the spray paint in different artwork. Our last element shows she uses different shapes to express different kinds of faces in her artwork. Her message towards all her artwork, to men especially is that women can do anything, weather its graffitti or different kind of arts.

Strike day!

this week we've been focusing on fact and opinions based on the strike day, held on monday. Heres a short film to show our facts and our own opinions about the day.

Fact or Opinion

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion on the current teacher strikes.


For this weeks topic we have been focusing on the strike day, which was held on Monday. For this activity we had to give facts and our own opinions on the strike day.

Maths

WALT: agree on a solution that each member can

This week we have been focusing on perimeters and area of the field. but first we had to get into a group of 4 or 3, in my group I had Bryana and Tata. our strategy was to double both 26 and 14 to get our final answer, and we did that because it is done Side plus Side plus Side.

Beneath the green wood tree

Leaves falling off the tree

Feeling unhappy

As the wind blows by  

I look up into the sky

And I think to myself

Who am I.......

Colour Code

My friends are very important to me. Each and every one of them have been a
great friend to me even when things are not good. So let me explain to you in
the next 3 paragraphs what being a good friend means.

Being a good friend values you to care for one another. That means showing
respect or aroha to show that you care for them even when something is hard.
For example when your friend is going through a rough time you should always
be there to show aroha and be kind-hearted towards them so they can feel
better and know that you will always care for her/him.

Another way of being a good friend is having trust in your friendship.
Yes, that means having trust between you and your friends whether its a boy or
girl. That shows you know that if you tell them something personal you can trust
that they won’t apprise anyone.

Encouraging your friend is another way of being a good friend. Meaning you are
always there to encourage them in doing something they’ve never tried before
or when they are in a game. E.g if you are at their rugby game you will be on the
sideline encouraging him/her to either do a big tackle , score a try or get the kick
over the goal post.

And there you go, 3 ways of being a good friend. I know that my friends care
and trust me. They also encourage me, especially to try something new. Even
if it was me trying to play a sport like football and I fail the first couple of times
there still there to help me out and encourage me to keep going. I hope you are
one of those people.

Colour Code:

Yellow - Key: Statement

Green - Key: Explanation

Blue - Key: Example

Today we got the opportunity to mark our own writing test ( the writing above). as part of me marking my writing we did colour coding. As you can see yellow represents you statement , green is your explanation, and blue is for your example.

Measurement: Time

WALT: agree on a solution that each we can explain.

Man and Sea

WALT: Test ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests.

In this activity, it tells us how a  boy named Ioane gets a tatau tattoo. In this process hes in so much pain, during this his papa tells him a story about a black octopus that ravaged island.

WALT: reading between the lines. lets be ready for our test


This term we are having a lot of tests that are coming up and our teacher made a practice test presentation for us to prepare ourselves for the test that are coming up. So here is one practice test presentation the I completed with my group . Samoa, kerstein and myself.

Lady Pink

For todays activity our focus was based on a graffiti artist, Lady Pink. First we watched a video about her then had to find out facts about her career/life.She's been a graffiti artist almost her whole life, in her teenage years she had trouble studying to be a architecture but struggled because there were to many numbers that had to be added. 

24-hour Times

WALT: use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking.


first day back at school, we're learning about our 24-hour time. during this activity I had a group of 3 girls, Ana.l Anna.V and myself.  there are three slides and each of us got one slide each to work, I had the first one, Anna.V had the second and Ana.l Had the third one. for e.g if it says 10 minutes to  (before) 12 , that's 11:50.

Kiwi KIds News #2

Fart proof underwear

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

U.K company

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Fart proof undies

3. Where did this event take place?

United kingdom

4. When did this event take place?

September 19 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

“Millions of people”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

This company is trying to reduce bad smells coming from your behind

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This event took place in the U.K , in the U.K is where the queen and her family live

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

September 19 2018, this might be a number 1 selling product for people that really need it

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

I personally think that a lot of people would wear this product because some people fart a lot and it really smells but they also wanna put it to the test

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Combat - fighting between armed forces.

Spokesperson - a spokesman or spokeswoman (used as a neutral alternative).

Warfare -  engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict.

Poetry Box - Paula Green

WALT: Writing Poetry For the audience of my whanau.


This week we got the task to write down what we knew about Paula green , and we also had to write a poetry about a parents childhood.

Deli Ali - Kiwi Kids News

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

    Dele Ali

2. What was the key event from the news article?

   Can you do Dele Ali ?

3. Where did this event take place?

 It can take place anywhere in the world

4. When did this event take place?

This event took place on the 3rd of September 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

 There is no quote shown in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

All over the world people have discovered the weird hand gesture that Dele Ali did after
every goal he got, and started trying to do it. Now it is popular to people and became the
new trend.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

 It doesn’t have any information about where the event took place.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

This Dele Ali trend is popular right now but in the future I don’t think it will be as popular
as it is right now.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

It started from the Football Player, Dele Ali. After he scored goals he did this hand gesture,
and suddenly it became more popular.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from
the article.

Craze -  An Enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which achieves widespread but short-lived
popularity

Gesture -  a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.

Viral - circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.

Missing Someone

There was a time in life when I used to have a older sister, Her name
was lyric Kendall-Stephens. I wasn’t quite born yet to see how my
sister looked when she was just a beautiful baby. As time went past
I got older and older, when I had turn 12 I found photos of my sister
when she was a baby.

I was so happy that I got to see what she had looked like, She was so
beautiful. Some days I just wish she was here right now sitting by my
side. I really loved seeing her photos. She was the second oldest in our
family out of us 4 kids, It went My brother Kayden, My sister Lyric, Me
Myztique, and my little sister Leigharna.

It would have been great if she was with us here today, but she’s in a
better place in “heaven” with GOD.

Rhyming Poems

WALT: Rhyming Poetry

This week we've been doing Rhyming poems. we were give in the task to make up poems about what we do in our Senior Block,We learnt that all poems don't need to rhyme as long as they have rhythm.

Muddy Fields Poetry

MUDDY FIELDS

Playing in the morning

As it feels a little boring

Running around the field

Muddy places all around

With my foot stuck in the ground

Having pins and needles

I see a black poodle

Get a bowl

I want some noodles.

Dancing with the Stars

WALT: connecting - I make sense of new information before , during and after reading by connecting it to myself , texts I know and my world

This week we've been on the roll to learn about "Dancing with the Stars" our task was to create a poster that will help others with what ever their going through, weather its good or bad. and this is what I came up with for people to Conquer their goals and to never give up.

Not Nice Stories - Podcast

For the past few weeks, we have been learning how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book is about. We then had to pick partners to work with, so that they could interview us. Lately My partner samoa has been reading about a book called, Not Nice Stories by John Parker. This book talks about a boy who is smart, he wants to get smarter, so he decides to eat sheep brains. Overall I found this book really interesting to read, and we suggest that you read it for yourself.

This is my first time making a podcast. It was a really good experience to understand, more about what this book is talking about. we really hope you try this out, because it was really fun to read about this book.

Rugby for Rosie - Podcast

For the past few weeks me and my buddy having been working on how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book was about. We then had to pick a partner to work with, so they could interview us for this podcast. I've been reading about a book called "Rugby for Rosie" , this book was written by a New Zealand author named Frances Adlam and illustrated by jenny cooper. This book was about a girl named rosie that wanted to play rugby for school but the only available team was the boys team , and in order for her to qualify she needed to bring along three other girls. But none of the other girls wanted to play, then the coach said she could trial an during the trial she scored a lot more try's then the boys did.  Then after all of this she was happy to say to everyone that she made the team

Laziness

Another day in the life of laziness, I myself had to wake up early in the morning to get ready for school.

As you can see on the top of this paragraph is photos of the morning sunrise and tired animals, and
they pretty much shows was I looked like when I woke up this morning. The first photo is revealing you
how comfy I was lying down nice and warm in bed, the second photo shows the sun rising behind the
big old trees. The third photo manifests how hard it was for me to open my eyes and how lazy I was to
get up, and lastly the last photo presents me getting up out of my warm comfy bed to get ready for
school.

M.M.M - Mean, Median, Mode

Statistics                                                   name: Myztique and Anna

WALT- Identify the mean, median and mode within a collection of data

Activity One

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the mean in a statistical investigation is commonly referred to as the average.
It is the total of all the data divided by the amount of data shown.

For example: if we have this range of data 3,5,7,1,2,3,6,8

3+5+7+1+2+3+6+5  = 32  = 4

             8         8

1. Find the mean in this set of numbers

3+7+8 +4+2+6+5+4+3+9 = 51 ➗ 10 = 5 r 1

                                               

           Find the mean in the set of numbers

4+12+5+6+11+9+5 = 52  ➗ 7 =  7 r 3

2. Find the mean in this tally chart

Pets owned by students	Number of students
Dogs	IIIII IIIII
Cats	IIIII IIIII II
Fish	IIII
Rabbits	II

  10 + 12 + 4 + 2 = 28 ➗ 4 =  7

3. Find the mean in this set of numbers

24+12+16+18 = 70 ➗ 4 = 17 r 2

4. Find the mean in this set of numbers

5+9+12+4+10+7= 47 ➗ 6 = 7 r 5

5. CHALLENGE QUESTION: Find the mean within this data, use the frequency table to help you

1+5+5+2+1+2+5+5+5+5+1+2+1+5+5 = 50 ➗ 15 = 3 r 5

Score	Frequency
1	4
2	3
5	8
Total	15

Activity Two

Answer the questions in a different colour

The definition of the median is the middle number within a set of numbers that have been put in order
from size (biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest)

For example: 2,6,4,1,9 = 1,2,4,6,9 and the middle number is 4.

BUT say if there is more than one middle number…
the median is found by taking the number midway between the middle pair of numbers:

3,6,1,4,9,2 = 1,2,3,4,6,9 → 3 + 4 = 3.5

                                             2

Find the median in these sets of numbers

1. 10,14,17,12,19,11,16

10,11,12,14,16,17,19 - the middle number is 14

2. 34,42,37,31,40  

31, 34,37,40,42 - the middle number is 37

3. 101, 167,138,124,198,149

101, 124, 138,149, 167, 198 - the middle number is 143.5

4. 54, 58,52,57,53,60

53,53,54,57,58,60 - the middle number is 55.5

5. 1001, 1094, 1023, 1065, 1038, 1027, 1042

1001, 1023, 1027, 1038, 1042, 1065, 1094 - the middle number is 1038

6. Find the median within this tally chart

Pets owned by students	Number of students
Dogs	IIIII IIIII
Cats	IIIII II
Fish	IIII
Rabbits	IIIII III
Hamsters	II

2 ,4, 7, 8 , 10 = 7

Activity Three

The mode is the most frequent number in a set of data. The number that occurs most often.

For example: In a set of numbers 3, 7, 8, 4, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 9 there is two modes, 3 and 4 because they appear twice in the data set.

Note- There can either be 0, 1 or 2 modes. If there are 3 or more numbers occur the same
number of times, there is no mode.

Find the mode in these sets of numbers

1. 2, 1, 5, 3, 7, 8, 5, 3 ,9 = 3 and 5
2. 1, 5, 3, 2, 9 ,4, 1, 6, 8, 0 = 1
3. 23, 45, 78, 12, 45, 67, 32, 46, 93, 12 = 12 and 45
4. 101, 121, 123, 145, 167, 121, 139, 145, 176 = 121 and 145
5. 394, 273, 219, 294, 183, 291, 273, 288, 271 = 273