Budgeting

This week for math we were given a challenge to complete together as a group. We were given a budget of $200 to do a weekly grocery shop for our maths group. We used an abundance of money to provide our group with enough healthy food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for one week. The challenging part was trying to decide what dinner was going to be, because most of us thought of different ideas, but at the end we chose which one was the best and cheapest.  

Phonics

This week we did Phonics with Mrs Linda and Nidhi, Eyaka, Angelene, Johnathan and Neveah that was in my group that did phonics. We did "Ot" words and did a paragraph about it and put it into 3 sentences. After we did all that work we did Key into evaluation, and did a paragraph with using "Ot" words in our sentences. We also looked up the words of 3 "Ot" words in the dictionary and looked for the definition of the "Ot" words. 

Explanation Practice

Culture - Respect 

Would you show respect or bring such a mean attitude to someone that drinks alcohol and smokes, or having a traditional feast going on? In these cultures, you might venture to someone's house and find that they are smoking or drinking alcohol. It's not your problem to go to there house and mock them about it, because it's their life, don't like it get out or getting sick off it handle it. You just need to show respect for them. Like other cultures have a different well being than smoking and drinking.

Some other cultures don’t smoke or drink maybe because they quit smoking and moved on, sometimes other cultures will drink kava instead of drinking alcohol and smoking. These are other cultures that might be different from each other. Maybe some other cultures are just normal and has some other traditional things going on. For example India has Diwali, Tonga has kai bola/big feast, and some other cultures have different traditions or special things with their cultures. 

Other cultures might do nothing it’s not us telling them what to do. We must show respect to them. Other cultures might do nothing but maybe just have a feast with family and friends instead of doing traditional things. For those people that don’t do anything special about their culture, it's not our problem to be noisy about it. Because that’s not showing respect and empathy to those people who showed you respect. Some other cultures don’t celebrate or do something special.

Like my family we dislike celebrating very big events, but we enjoy having feasts and inviting friends and family over. But our family is all about showing respect and being what we are. Sometimes we might not agree with each other, but in reality we do stick up for each other and we respect each other.

Water filter DLO

These are what we did for inquiry last term. We did this by getting into groups and making the year 7's be leaders for there team. I was working with Nidhi, Jospeh, Chavda and I. We worked as a team to make a good water filter together. In this DLO it shows you pictures of what we did and how we could see what they turn out into. And in the text boxes it tells you what we did and us taking part in this.

Early Maori Enterprise

This week for inquiry we have been learning about enterprise and economics. We have been learning about the Maoris trading for food or items. We also need to write down notes about how the Maoris were trading for items, and how European and British people came and took there land and the Maoris having nothing. I was working with Taheesha, Sakina, Joel and I. We did these 5 sentences with symbols. We need to stomp our feet, tap , tap our hand onto our laps, and clap our hands 10 times to get 10 symbols of our 5 sentences. Maori were the first to exchange items. Maori traded with hapu and iwi. They also created markets of food. Whanau would also make kai-moana. Maori started exchanging years ago.

Phonics

Today we did Phonics with Mrs Linda. We did Ock words and wrote a paragraph using the words from the list of 20 or 30 words we wrote down. My short paragraph was about my family and I going to the beach and we forgot to lock the house, and also forgot to bring the sunblock. We also inference a story about rivers and we answered questions with a question dice, which was a fun way to answer the questions. We also used the dictionary to find the meanings of the 3 words with ock in them.