Lady Esme & the stolen fire gems

WALT: manage myself to complete tasks to the best of my ability.

In this story there was a thief that had stolen 12 fire gems from the king and once again Lady Esme figured out the mystery.

Emotions

This weeks activity was to create a presentation of different emotions and sounds that go together and also colour that match the emotion. I was in a group with Ana.l and Anna.V, we all had a task, Anna.v was doing the colours, Ana.l did the emoji's and did the music with me.

Seat belts

WALT: finding evidence in a text.

In this text it talks about how seat belts can save a life and even if you feel like wearing a seat belt it's uncool, make a decision between life or death!If I was in a car I would make a decision and wear a seat belt whether people think its uncool or cool,because little do you know seat belts can save your life.

The prince who gave up everything

WALT: Find evidence in a text and inference
In this text it is telling us about the prince who gave up everything. It talks about Buddhism, if you didn't know Buddhism is a religion. This prince self tutored his self but then he realised that self tutor is not the way.

Athletics Day!!

                         Athletics Day!!

On the 10th of Friday we had athletics. In athletics there are different sports activity, like Discus, shot put, softball throw, and many more. The house colours are Hikianalia (Yellow), Hine Moana (Blue), Hokule'a(Green) and Te Aurere(Red) and of course I was In the best team of all time HIKIANALIA.

The year 7 girls first went to softball throw. Softball throw is just one of the fun activities.We all split up into lines of our colours, the serious main sports was Shot put, Discus and 100m sprints. In softball It didn't really matter what I came I was going for my personal best weather I came 1st, 2nd, 3rd,or even last.

Most people know if you come 1st to 4th in anything you go to inter zones, where you compete against other athletes. Every year when we have athletics we all dress up as our house colours, like this year everyone was so coloured it was awesome even the teachers dressed up. There were heaps of current student helping it was fun. 

Year 7 boys was always behind us. there activity they were at was our current activity which was softball throw, the aim of the game was technically just trying to see how far you could through the ball, if you came one of the top three then you would compete against each other to really see who came 1st, 2nd or 3rd. The top three throwers out of the year 7 boys were Javan, Tevita and Richard.

My favourite highlight of this years athletics was Volley, because we were all laughing and having a good time. Even though our yellow team lost most of our games we never gave up, and that's what makes a good sports team.

The Rat

WALT: Use the text to generate questions for others to answer.

Your probably wondering why our presentation is called rat, well this presentation is called the rat because there was a man in the story that made an instrument that you could play but it kinda looked like a rat with holes along its back.

Equivalent Fractions

Learning about Equivalent Fractions

Today Tapawha learnt about Equivalent fractions. first we had to fold up a piece of paper into half and write what the fraction was, then we folded another half and kept folding until we got to 4 folded squares. The fractions we used were 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8, as we were going through with the fractions we knew that 1/2 = 2/4, 3/4 = 6/8 and 2/4 = 4/8.

AIM for Success

This morning we had a very special guest that came in named Mr Patterson. He came in to talk to us about aim for success, A + I = M ( aspiration + inspiration = motivation ). Another thing we were told by Mr Patterson was that being a giver can lead to a happy path, yesterday Mr Patterson had to wait in a line with about 200 people. And in that line there were a young couple that had 3 younger children under 5 years, so Mr Patterson offered to let them stand in front of him and then suddenly a person came over and said they could come to the front of the line and the end everybody was happy and agreed that the would stay in the front.  

Did you know that that a 11 year old boy named Willie changed an older gentle mans life? Well we were shown a video that showed a 11 year old boy helping out an older man, one day Willie was walking to school and saw that man crying which made Willie go over to him and give him his lunch money. For about 2 weeks Willie would give his lunch and his lunch money to that poor homeless man, then another day that man walked with Willie to school and told everyone what Willie had done then Willie had gotten a gold certificate, and his school only hands a golden certificate probably once a year. 

and lastly we were shown a Quote that had said *if you do what you want, you'll never work a day in your life*. If you do what you love and work hard at doing things important you'll never work a day in your life even if it means a lot at least you did what you loved first. 

It was inspiring hearing Mr Patterson talk to us about all of this. the most inspiring part was when he told us about Willie, helping a homeless man can change a life, being a giver can make people happy, and doing what you love can lead to a good education.

Floundering Time

                                                FLOUNDER TIME!!!

This Morning our whole school went down to the beach ( Wai o Taiki bay ) to watch a few students and teachers catch some baby flounder. When we made it down to the Wai o Taiki bay we sang a few songs, The songs were, Tai Aroha, Ko te Whaea and Whakataka te hau. Our school partner Kauri flats school caught 4 flounder so our goal is to catch more than 4 flounder to set the high score out of our two schools. We are catching baby flounder to put in our fish tank so that the baby flounder can grow to bigger flounder and then we will release them back into the sea. 

Mr Vogt provided the flounder students and teachers with flounder catching tools. You can find flounder in any sea but when you are trying to look for one it may take ages because some flounder blend in with the sand or the water witch means it is hard to catch some. Our people that went down to catch our flounder haven't really found any yet, because of how flounder blend in with the things in the sea or it is just because the baby flounder may not be where they are looking, so maybe they have to move out further or in closer.  But we all hope they catch a lot for our school. When the flounder is fried its DELICIOUS!!.

Statistics M.M.M - Mean Median Mode

                 MEAN    MEDIAN     MODE

Statistics                                                           Name: Myztique

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 = 5.1

2. Find the mean in the set of numbers

4,12,5,6,11,9,5 = 7.3

3. 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 = 12

4. Find the mean in this set of numbers

24,12,16,18 = 17.5

5. Find the mean in this set of numbers

5,9,12,4,10,7 = 7.5

6. 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 = 3.5

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 = 14

2. 34,42,37,31,40  = 37

3. 101, 167,138,124,198,149 = 143.5

4. 54, 58,52,57,53,60 = 52 + 57 = 55.5

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

10,7,4,8,2 = 8

Persuasive writing - what is it?

WALT: plan out a persuasive piece of writing.
Today for our writing we had to write what we THINK, FEEL, BELIEVE in our activity table our teacher had plan for us.

Making fruit salad at cooking/Tech

Today is Thursday the 8th of June witch is the year 7's tech day. Today at tech we went to cooking and made fruit salad with chocolate chips, yogurt, passion fruit, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and sprinkles. The first thing we had to do was cut up the fruit that was given to us in a bowl from our cooking teacher Miss Heka. when we finish cutting the fruits up we had to mix the yogurt and the passion fruit syrup together and make it smooth and nice, soon after that we had to poor the mixture of the yogurt and passion fruit into our cup then add our fruits in as well. when our cups were near the top we put chocolate syrup on the inside of the cups and added whipped cream with sprinkles on the top.

Home Learning

For home learning out teacher has given us maths problems that we have to figure out and explain in a text box how you got your answer.

Complex Sentences

WALT: Identify the features of complex sentences

In class we did complex sentence. Complex sentences is when you use two different highlights to highlight a sentence that you think is independent and what you think is dependent.When you read the sentence you colour them in with the two highlights. Blue is for independent and red is for Dependent.

Talking Points 1

WALT: Participate in group discussions by actively speaking and listening, Success Criteria -

 On this presentation our teacher Mrs Ilaoa wrote a agree or disagree question and we had to put a x in the disagree or agree box and write why we think that. we had to use these four bullet points.

1. Focus Fully
2. Avoid Interrupting
3.Avoid seeming Judgemental
4. Show Interest 

Out Water

WALT: to reflect on learning so far around water care.  Use this learning to be problem solvers of water issues in our home, community and city. 

This presentation is about the use of water and how we take care of our water. This presentation has quotes that have different sentences about water.

De Bono's Thinking hats

Walt: use De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Kiwi kids news

WALT: use De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Why people borrow books from the library

Why do we borrow books from the library.

T	Title - What you will be explaining
I	Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I	Information - Explain the elements or steps in a logical sequence
C	Conclusion - Final summarising statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title	Why do you borrow books
Introduction	These are reasons why people borrow books
Information 1st element	People borrow books from the library because it helps keep their brain going. They also borrow books because it can be very interesting to read. There are different types of books like, adventure,fantasy,romance,history,our days and excitement. There are also chapter books, comics,short books,novels and ordinary books.
Information 2nd element	People borrow books from the library because it helps them in their general knowledge. They also borrow books because it helps build up their vocabulary. People borrow books from the library because they enjoy reading and it’s free. The can borrow books from different author’s. Also because the library has many books to choose from. The nice thing about borrowing books from a library is that you can get as many books as you like for no cost (free) as long as you are a member of that library.
Information 3rd element	It’s good to get books because you can learn new words from it. The main thing about a book is that you have to understand it and you have to know the meaning of the words. When you are getting a  book from the library you have to make sure that you can read
Conclusion	Sometimes people don’t know what they are reading so that means that they could be reading it too fast, they can’t read it, they don’t know what the words mean and they don’t understand the whole meaning of the book.

A Piece of Paradise