Poems

Immersion Assembly

It was team 4’s turn to present their topic for this term. Mr Goodwin stood up and made his way in the front of the hall, and told the audience that they have made a film showing some of the student in the green screen room and guessing what is in the background. Some had good reactions pretending that they know what is next to them and behind them. Now they had to guess where they are. Some of the students guessed right but the rest didn't, and that was the end of their film.

Next was team five, team five was a bit different to the other team. Due to that they did not have a video they had a show. 7 of the teachers made their way up to the stage. each of the 7 teachers received a plate filled with spaghetti with chopsticks. Mr Wisemen explained to the audience that the teachers are going to have an competition. The competition was, who can finish eating their spaghetti using the chopsticks. It was funny seeing the teachers trying to compete the other teachers. But their was only one winner and it was Miss Clark. After that the teachers told the crowd where they came from.

Following that, Mrs Tele’a and Mr Wiseman And Miss Peato showed superheroes drawn on canvases. The superhero’s were Superman, Captain America and Hulk. Afterwards Immersion assembly was finished.

How to set a goal

This presentation explains how to set a goal.

Spend, Share, Save

You can either spend, share or save money. But it is up to you whether which one you want to do. You can do anything with money, but you have got to remember is to spend, share and save money wisely.

Let’s begin with spending money.  Here are some things children my age could possibly spend money on.

Phone, Head phones, Food, A bag, shoes, A game, book, pencils, stationery, clothes.

Now we move into what would be worth saving your money for.  Here are some examples of what I think are worthy of saving money for.
Clothes, Shoes , house , laptop, car ,  Phone,  going overseas,  getting glasses if you can’t see, a bed, food.

Finally we come to explaining why people would share their money.  The first reason...

Why people share money is because that person they gave the money to did something for them, or it could be that person's birthday you gave the money too. You would also give people money to help them for example like homeless people, or people that have been kicked out of there house.

Another reason to share your money may be...

Because you care for that person or maybe because you haven’t seen that person in a while that you feel like giving them money. There is nothing wrong sharing your money with anyone, as long as you trust them spending it on things that you know that the money is worth spending on.

In spending, saving and sharing money it is important to set spending goals to guide yourself.  A goal helps you to

1. Achieve that goal that you have set for yourself
2. Accomplish things

3. Push yourself

When considering how you will spend, save and share your money it is important to decide...

What you are going to spend your money on? and what or who you are going to share it on, and last but not least, what are you going to save your money for?

What is the one thing you would spend your money on right now? Clothes and shoes.

What is the one thing (goal item) that you are going to try to save up for? A better house for my parents and for myself.

Term 3 Immersion Assembly

First day of term 3, so that means there's a new topic for this term. And for this term the topic is Trade and enterprise. I walked through the breeze and saw Mr Burt running an auction with the students. Some of the students received a paper that had a number on it, so that Mr Burt would be able to call out the number. Mr Burt gave out things like, a basketball, toys, rugby ball and  chocolate.

For immersion assembly team 1 did something that had to do with buying stuff. Team one did a video showing them going to a market and buying stuff. They were buying stuff like donuts, veges and bananas and fruits. It was funny at the end because they gave all their shopping bags to one person to carry.

Team two showed a video that had little kids, going to the dairy and looking at the ice blocks and acting desperate. After that they lined up with their ice blocks acting all happy that they have it, then they made their way to a bench and ate their ice block. After all the teachers of team two asked questions and gave out ice blocks, to all the students that have answered the questions.

For team three, Mrs King dressed up as a cowboy and grabbed a few student and asked them “ what do you want to be like when you grow up?” After they a film to show, and it was just showing the dancing, dressed up as a cop, soldier, nurse, cow girl, builder.

Team for did a show, Mr Goodwin was calm, Mr Somerville was sassy, Miss lavakula was extra happy and the other teacher was Rob.  When Rob found $50 bucks the other teachers came out and act out their character. It was funny watching the teachers doing their part.

For team 5 they did a show as well, all about being financially responsible. Meaning to use the money to buy the thing the need to be fixed or payed off instead of buying something that you want.

   

Zeal Zone

On Friday we had zeal zone for inquiry, in our home class.  The first thing that we were told was to get into groups.  Then we had to copy a presentation that our group will have to type our ideas on.  The presentation was asking questions like what would you want to change around the school and what are some of our ideas for changing the school. Listing some of the things that we wanted to change was a bit hard.

My group, Rawen, Meleia, Trinity and Mahana went around the school and see what we wanted to change. We came up with a lot of ideas, but we had to pick on of them that we will have to plan to make. My group chose to make an giant chess board. After that we had to plan how big and wide the chessboard was going to be. We had to research the length and size of the chessboard and what it was made out of.

We haven’t start making it yet but we are still researching for details for the chessboard. It’s a bit hard finding the size of the chessboard because everyone had different answers.

Future Aspiration

We had three guest coming to the year Eight and Seven block to share a story about their life, to help us know what we would want to be when we grow up. Mr Paddison shared quotes and stories about being awesome. Once he finished sharing his story he passed it on to Marcus Winter. Marcus Winter is a sand artist, he talked about how he was drawing in the streets and now he is performing in ships. We stood up and danced to the song Uptown Funk but we were only dancing to the part that says “ don’t believe me just watch.”

His story was an really inspiring story. It makes you feel, you want to try harder next time. He also mentioned that he performed for New Zealand got talent but he didn't make it through. Instead of us saying you got bombed we said “bounced” meaning of bounced means when you get bounced, bounce back. He also mentioned that when you're doing something your mind is always makes you think negative stuff like this is not good, how about if no one likes it. That’s why you always think positive.

The other person talked about how much he really loved basketball that he made a site called Glory Legend. Glory Legend is an site where you can watch yourself play with your team versing the other team. It is an iPad that records you playing, you just simply press start and then it will start recording, once you finish playing it will finish recording and then send it to everyone playing, so you can watch yourself playing basketball.

Once they finish sharing their story, three year 8 student went up and each person and shared a thank you speech to Mr Paddison, Marcus Winter and Louis. After that we sang a song, then we took a selfie together, and then we made our way back to class.   

Letter

Ramonadel

130 Pt England Rd

Pt England

Auckland 1072

13th of May 2105

Dear William,

I've listened to the letter you have wrote to your brother. You must really miss your family and they must really miss you. I’m sure they will pray for you and that the pain will go away, and that you will survive the pains you have gone through like how you got shot, it must have really hurt. Hopefully you will be better one day and that you will be able to walk one day, and that you will return back to your family safely and happy without being injured.

That is good that you are safe now and well looked after by the nurses, and have a roof on top of your head. You must have felt released and happy when it was over, no more hiding and no more shooting. Will you miss being in the war? Or will you be happy that it is over?

You must have learnt new strategies along the way to kill other people. Did you sometimes feel bad or guilty for killing people, even though you are doing it to save your country, but did you still feel bad inside?

Well all the best for next time.

Anzac assembly

We stood silently remembering the people who were in the army. The year 7 & 8 was at the back and the year 1's were in the front. Two if the prefects said a speech about the people who were in the Anzac army. Once we finished the year seven and eights were the first ones to leave.

WW1 graphic organiser

2015

Hi. My name is Ramonadel and this year I am a year eight. I am in room four and my teacher is Mrs Moala. I am 11 years old and I'm turning 12 on February the 5th. My goal for this year is to do better and try my hardest. My favourite thing to do at school is to animate.  

Manaiakalani

I Woke up knowing that it was the film festival day. I got up and got ready and went to school and made sure I got everything, once I arrived I went to the breeze and walked around slowly thinking when the bell was going to ring, as I was walking around I forgot to bring a gold coin for the film festival. I went outside the school gates and just waited until my mum came. When she arrived I opened the door and told her I forgot to bring a gold coin, so we went to the dairy and brought something and got one dollar each from the change. I came back to school and I almost forgot the gold coin in the car again, but luckily

I remembered.

I went to class and handed in the gold coin. We were told that we were going after morning tea and the juniors are going first. We had a early morning tea because it started at 11:30.

The school we partnered up with was Sommerville school. Once it was our turn we went to class and made sure we were all ready. We headed over to the bus and made our way to Sylvia Park to watch the film festival. Once we arrived we lined up in two lines and made our way into the Manaiakalani. It was really dark when we went in but luckily there were lights on the side, the other school was there before us. They were all sitting in the front so we sat at the back of them. I sat down and waited till it has started. Once everyone found a seat and was quiet it started. When it started I felt excited, each person from each school had to introduce what their film was about.

The first film that came on was our one, it was nice watching it on big screen as well. After our film it was the next school film and then our school so it was like a pattern. I thought it will take for ever but it was nice and short. I didn't have a favorite but all the films were nice. Once all of the films were played it was finished, so we stood up and made our way to the bus, and went to school.  

Immersion assembly

On the first day of school, term 4 team 1 to 5 each performed a show about art and facts about art as well. My favorite one was team five how they were painting Mr Burt, Mr Jacobson, and Mrs Jarmarn upside down. When it was upside down it was hard to tell what they were painting but once they flipped it over it was amazing. But all the other performances was cool as well.    

Sepak Takraw

Sepak Takraw

Sepak Takraw was designed by the royal family of malaysia 500 years ago. The name of the game is from to languages. Sepak is “kick” in Malaysia, and Takraw is “ball” in Thailand. Sepak Takraw is very similar game to the Japanese traditional game Kemari. The game is created with a volleyball style in it and international rules.

You can use your head, your back, legs, anywhere except for your arm from the shoulder to the point of your finger if you are a server and if you server you have to stand in the service circle.

When the ball comes to you instead of using your hands you have to use your legs to kick it over the net. You can’t keeping kicking the ball by your self your have to share it with your team. There are only three people in each teams.

Sepak Takraw is not played in New Zealand It is only played in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Laos.

   

Bats see with their ears

Introduction:

Bats don’t have to have eyes to see because they can see with their ears. The reason why they see with their ears is because they use echolocation to help them hunt for food and to avoid blocks in their way as they fly in the dark. Echolocation can be used differently because bats use echolocation to help them hunt for food and some other animals like wales use echolocation to communicate.

    

Bat use a special sound to help with their way in the dark.

For an example: The bats are flying and they accidentally bumped into something and then thats when bats use their special sound to find their way in the dark so they won’t bump into something again.

Bats are not the only ones that use this kind of way, there are also dolphins, rats and whales but they use it in a different way but they still see with their ears but use an different way of echolocation.                           

Conclusion:

Echolocation can be helpful with animals that use their ears to see. Bats use echolocation to help them avoid stuff in their way, Whales use echolocation to communicate with each other. Not like other animals like dogs they use their eyes to see and use their eyes to hear.

Trip to the science road show at Tamaki College

We went to Tamaki College for an science road show. The funny one was when we had to cover our ears just in case something might happen, they were going to blow up the balloon but when they did it, it wasn't even loud but it was just an practice. But for the real one mostly everyone didn’t want to cover their ears because they might just be joking around again, but when it blowed up it was loud as.

After that we got a card so we can achieve a gift. Mostly of the stuff I went to I didn’t get it but the one I like most was piano one when you stand on it, it makes a note. After when we finished looking at the other stuff we went back to see other stuff that the people were going to show us. The most cool one they showed us was when they puted a balloon dog into a bowl and then poured this kind of water in. After that when the lady went get the dog out it was all shrieked but when she blows it, it comes back to life. When the tall man came everyone was like “ WOW hes tall.”

At the end they were showing us what was in our body and it looked yuck and then the tall man pulled something out and it was poo and it was funny and yuck and then we pulled out a bigger pile of poo and everyone was laughing and then it was finish.    

     

Sound Explanation

Intro

Our inquiry topic for term two is about sound. You can make sound with your body by clapping, stomping and whistling with your lips. Sound happens quickly. When you hear something like a car door slam sound waves travels to your ear and goes to your brain and once you hear that same sound again you will be able to remember that sound.

Sound wave travels to our ear and then to our brain. Sound happens quickly. The sound that we hear will be in our brain, so when we hear it again we will be able to remember that sound. Vibration is made when something is moved. Sound makes the air move so the is sound wave.

Once something is hit, it vibrates through the air and so that is called sound wave, sound wave is something you can’t see but the sound wave travels to your ear so you will be able to hear. All sounds start with vibrations. The sounds I make begin with vibrations in my throat. Strong bands of power called vocal cords start shaking and moving.

Sound wave is move in all directions, bouncing off, moving through or being suck up by anything that gets in the way like trees, rocks anything. All the bouncing can change. The back and forth vibration create waves.  Vibration: sound is made once you hit something. Sound wave: sound wave begins once you talk or move. You can also make sound. You can make all kind of sound by moving your body and you can use your voice to sing, whisper or shout. You can also stomp your feet and clap your hand. The back and forth motion of the vibration create waves so that means the back and forth motion is creating sound wave.   

Conclusion

Imagine if nobody can hear what would it be like it will probably be really boring to me. My class and I had tried out a telephone cup experiment it was really phone and when we talk to each other the sound wave travels through the string and then to your ear, but with different strings and we were able to hear each other.

Goal setting

My goals for term 2

Blue Noise

A blue nose is a really adorable animal and they look really big, but some of them are really friendly but they just look scary, but they are really cute. Some people call them their baby and some of them are really spoid, but trained well. A blue nose can be your best friend and sometimes they can comfort you.

A blue noise has nice eyes they have grey and blackish eyes and they have blueish greyish skin colour, when they grow up they are really bulky and some of them when they are small they are still bulky and they do grow fast as well, a blue noise is like a red noise but different when a red nose is angry their eye color changes and if they are cold it changes, but for a blue noise if they angry their eye color doesn't change but some blue noses can.  

Blue noses lives with their owner so they live in their owner house or in their frontyard or their backyard but if they are not looked after the are basically living anywhere and if they are found they take them to the pet shop and get looked after and feed and then they have their own personal space to their self and when people buy the dog they get well trained. Some dogs can climb a tree but I don’t think so a blue noise can because they are a bit too big and I am sure they can’t lift their body up but they can run fast.

A Blue Noise can drag about 20 heavy bricks and a person on it but some of the Blue Noise can only drag a little. A blue Nose pitbull is a breed of dog that can run fast they can run 20 mph to about 35 mph. You can also call a dog an alarm because they always bark and they wake you up and then you try to sleep but you can’t.