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. 

Face to Face with a Tuatara

Q1 - The food Tuatara eat

Insects (beetle & Weta)

Eggs

Sea birds

Baby Tuatara

Lizards

Q2 - In which country can you find a Tuatara living in the wild

New Zealand

Q3 - creatures that can kill tuatara

People

Rats

Cats

Dogs

Pigs

Q4 - What tuatara look like

Soft and Scaly

Sharp claws

Long

How to prevent yourself from getting sick

We all know getting sick isn’t a great feeling right, and you know when you get sick the sickness that you have can spread around to other people. When you spread your sickness it can cause people to have pain.

A way that I know you could keep yourself from getting sick is to keep clean. Keeping clean means you have to have a shower twice a day one in the morning and one at night, cleaning you self is a very big deal because maybe you don’t know this but many people have had many things happen to them because of not keeping clean. 

Another way that could keep yourself  from getting sick is to eat more healthy food.If your the type of person that eats a lot of junk food it is necessary to stop and eat less junk food and eat more healthy food.if you eat junk food everyday for the past 2 or 3 months you may get a sickness called diabetes, and that’s why people eat Healthy food is mainly what people do to stop that from happening. 

One last way is to wear warmer clothes when it freezing cold. When it’s freezing cold everyone knows you can catch a cold, Catching a cold isn’t as bad as catching any other cold but I would prefer you to still keep yourself warm. When you catch a cold it doesn’t just go away like that you have to wait maybe 2 weeks or even more for it to disappear, to prevent to cold from going you could drink hot chocolate or soup, the soup and hot chocolate helps your insides to get more warmer and souths up all the coldness for you so that you could breathe better and be able to talk better if you’ve lost your voice.

Now that you’ve read through all the reasons how you could catch a sickness I hope that this has helped you if not much I hope even a little. The reason why I picked those three reasons was because I know that Eating healthy food, Keeping clean and wearing warm clothes is ways to not get sick.

How to save money

         How to save money

When you save your money it helps you even more. It could help with your family, it could help you go to expensive places to maybe buy your partner or friend dinner, it will honestly help you with a lot of things.

You know if you save your money by putting it in a bank you could have millions of coins and wouldn’t even know it,we all know that saving money is hard,but eventually you will start needing to save money for something that you wanna do but costs a lot of money.

Something that would help you the most is buying cheap groceries for home. E.G if you were at a grocery store and there were a pile of apples that cost $1.99 or another pile that cost $2.70 which pile of apples would you prefer. In my opinion I  think it would be best to go for the $1.99 pile because its more cheaper and it could help you to save more money.

Saving power is one of the most main reasons for saving money. E.G every time you have a shower or leave the light on at night the power runs out, power is the electricity in your house right and if you keep leaving your Tv or lights on during the night the power will start running and then eventually you will have to by new things which isn't helpful cause you wanna save money.

Now that you’ve read this hopefully it helped you to save money more often. Even if  your in a country that cant really afford  money you can always just save 10 cents or 20 cents it still does count as saving money.

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.

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.

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!!.

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.

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 

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.

Maui and the Sun

A Piece of Paradise

A whale child