Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

This afternoon we have been learning about a pepeha and the purpose of doing it. A Pepeha is simillar to a mihi it is a phrase of welcome and identity. My pepeha is about me and my mountain, river, name, country, and etc. I have these in Maori and in English, and have pictures on the side so that it becomes more understanding. I enjoyed doing this activity and learning about what a pepeha means and understanding what it is.

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

This week was the start of practicing doing SLJ activities for teaser week for Manaiakalani. Today I worked with Siale and Jaylee to help them with the teaser activities we got to do this week. Today's activity was about the famous New Zealander singer which was Lorde O'Connor. The activity we needed to do was make a profile page about lorde with information on it. We enjoyed doing this and helping each other do this DLO. 

Transformation

Today we were learning about the vocabulary of transformation. Transformation in Geometry describes the changes made to shapes when you rotate, translate, enlarge, and reflecting. We made DLO'S to help us understand what each transformation looks like.

Ban or Keep Fireworks

Today Taheesha and I did a provocation DLO on should we ban or keep fireworks. We did a DLO based on this and what we did was yes, no, and our own opinion. In yes we said why we should ban fireworks because its bad for pets and for no is we wanted to keep fireworks , because it has been around for many many years. Also taking fireworks from out of no where kids might get angry and doing that from coming out of the blues is just not good. And for our opinion we did remember of Guy Fawkes and banning something thats really fun to do, so why ban something that has been around for those many many years. We enjoyed doing this DLO and having fun doing this with Taheesha.

Pet Budgeting

This week for math's we did pet budgeting about buying a dog and doing how much everything we will need will cost. I was working with Joel, Nidhi, Eyaka, Ellenora, Angelene, Taheesha, Sakina, and I, we worked together as a group to get the cost of foods, grooming, leash, and etc. We all needed one role to do , so that this could be finished , we worked as a group and had roles on what were doing.

A want or a need | enterprise

This week for inquiry we did a research on enterprise and define what a want or need is about and added examples to it. I worked with Angela, Taheesha & I. We first needed to define what a want or a need was all about. After researching about it we added the definition to it and put 2 examples about a want or a need. On the other slides we had questions which were, how do we know or find out what other people want or need?, What is enterprise/an entrepreneur? that was the questions that we did for our DLO that needed to be answer. Our DLO is just based on enterprise and a want or a need. A need is when you need water, food, shelter, which are the most important things that could make a human being alive. A want is when I get older and I want to become a doctor or and artist since I enjoy art and helping people when I can. Sometimes something you want might not come true, and a need is something you really need in your life. 

Robotics

This week on friday we had another session of tech with Mr Krishna and we were trying to use codes to get our mbot to move into a circle or figure of eight. A mbot is a little robot that you use in robotics and connect to your device and go onto ide.mblock website to control and use codes to control the mbot to move what action you want it to do, everyone gets a mbot each to use and you use any codes for you to control the mbot from moving to point A to point B, or you could also ask students around you to help you or for you to ask for them if you can use there codes. Today we needed to try and make it go into figure of eight and circle using the code that was on the t.v. screen. The circle was hard to do at first I found it more easy to do the circle by changing half of the codes and that made it more easier for me to do it. I tried to do a figure of eight but it was hard to do because I used about more than 3 codes to make it easier for me to make it possible to do.

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.

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.

Phonics

Today I had another lesson of phonics. We did the words that had op and read riddles and find the words with op in it. We found 13 words and circled the words in the sentences. We also have to find 3 words from the dictionary, that had meanings to it. After we did the easy work we did the hard one which we did was paragraphs with the word with op words in it. 

Advertising

This week in writing to understand more about advertising, we created an advertising poster to sell a RWC (Rugby World Cup) item. I worked with Joel, Sakina, Miiana and I to create this advertising poster. The item we decided to sell were the RWC (Rugby World Cup) team jerseys. For this poster we tried to include different and convincing sentences to persuade others to buy this item.

Duffy Assembly

Today we had Duffy assembly, we had a special guest Jamie Wall. Jamie Wall is an author he wrote a book called Brothers in Black, Jamie Wall was inspired by Men in Black book of New Zealand rugby history. Jamie Wall came to P.B.S to talk about what he does for his job. Jamie Wall is a sports commentator, and hes leaving tomorrow to Japan to report on the rugby for Maori Television. Jamie Wall was talking to us about his job and what he does as a sport commentator. He showed us a video of him traveling around the world and watching rugby games in the best spot where you could sit. Then he gave us our Duffy books. Thank you Duffy for giving me my favorite comic books that I would really love and enjoy reading. And for Jamie Wall for coming to our school and showing us everything.

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Plastic straws are really harmful because it harms the sea animals. I think we should ban plastic straws because there are some toxic chemicals in these plastic straws which can poison sea animals, it can get stuck in turtles and birds noses so which is why we should ban plastic straws from New Zealand. Sea creatures and animals won’t be able to digest their food, if they eat plastic straws.

Plastic straws are known to have harmful chemicals in them. Would you let your family put harmful chemicals in their mouths? I think this is not only dangerous but also very unhealthy. This chemical can make these beautiful sea creatures passed away and their will be no more sea creatures surviving anymore, because of what people are dropping on the ground. There has been 65,000 plastic straws that has been wasted and not been reused again. Because these sea creatures won’t survive if there was still plastic straws around. Not only but plastic straws are really really dangerous to the sea creatures, which is not good for them.

We should ban plastic straws since all plastic does is never biodegrade and it causes problems. We should at least pick up rubbish that are plastic and put it into the bin because one day some sea creatures might see it in the water and might think that it’s food. Everyone could get off their bottoms and be picking up the plastic rubbish instead of having our sea creatures dying in the water with people having no brains, how would you feel if there was no sea creatures in the water? We should do this by picking up plastic rubbish and putting it into the rubbish bin. Because what would happen if someone passed away because of having a plastic straw to harm them, how would you feel?

Everyone in New Zealand and in other countries need to try and keep these marine animals alive and not dying because of plastic straws that are ruining their lives. And also think about all the harm these sea creatures are getting into. Its very sad for these creatures to die because of these harmful plastic straws.

I think this is why we should be picking up the waste of plastic that are on the ground and put it in the bin, cause if we don’t there’s gonna be a bigger problem going on with the sea creatures and we're gonna have no more sea animals to swim with.

Plastic Straws Opinion

This week for writing we did a DLO about should New Zealand ban plastic straws because its harming the marine and sea creatures. This DLO tells you about reasons to ban plastic straws and reasons why to keep plastic straws. On the top text box it tells you why we should ban plastic straws because on reason is because you can drink without a straw, it harms the sea animals, and it also takes 200 years to decompose in the landfill, also it has BPA which is the toxic chemical in it that can ruin your health. In the bottom text box it tells you why we should keep the plastic straws. This is my DLO about my opinion and facts why we should ban plastic straws and why we shouldn't ban plastic straws in New Zealand.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we learnt about trying to be focused on work instead of getting distracted. The topic and theme for Kiwi Can was resilience and it means trying your hardest and bouncing back. We first played a energizer before we started talking about the topic. The energizer we played was Mexican wave, its when you do the Mexican wave around the little circle we made, we also did it in our own version. After we played Mexican wave we talked about getting distracted. We talked about all the things that can make you get distracted and distracting. What stops us from focusing us on work, online games, youtube, email notifications, chatting with friends, socail media, distracted by others screens, not paying attention, different priorities, not focusing on what you need to do, and going on something bad and making a lie to your teachers. After we talked about focusing on a task we play a distracted circle game. Its when you have 5 people in your group and one is in the middle, one person is in the front of them, and one in the back and two people on the sides. The person that is in front you have to copy the person, and the person on your left is singing a song to you, and the person on the right has to tell you a story. And you have to remember what they were telling you.

Persuasive Speeches

LI: To write a speech that persuades others to think the way you do. In the past 3 weeks we wrote a persuasive speeches, for the school competition. My speech was about why we should wear mufti to school. We did this by watching a video and trying to get how to write a persuasive speech. After a few weeks we had to practice our speech on Que cards. I was in a small group to say our speeches, and the rest of everyone had to say it to the whole class if they wanted to be in the school competition. When it was the day for the school competition  the students from LS2 that was presenting was Mele, Marieta, and Jack. Out of them was first place, second place, and third place. Third place was Marieta, Second place was Jack and first place was Mele. I was so happy for the speech competition.


Title: Why we should wear mufti to school.

Malo e lelei, My name is Miiana and I really don’t like wearing school uniform. I have many clothes stuffed in my drawers so why can’t I just wear mufti to school, instead of wasting $140 dollars that can be spent on food for families and friends, instead of getting uniform that gets ripped and wrecked in the middle of the year? 

First of all, I think that it’s good to wear mufti to school, because some students might not be able to afford school uniforms. And yes, another reason is because some students like to pick what they wear, as they have many choices to choose from. I believe that we should wear mufti because parents can afford those types of mufti clothes and spending $140 dollars are just too much for them, just to get uniform.

Some people think uniforms are better as kids might feel embarrassed because other kids wear branded clothes and they might not be able to afford them. I disagree because it's cheaper than my mum having to find $560 because there are four of us at this school, but most importantly I don’t like looking the same as my friends.

Finally, I think that we should wear mufti because uniforms get dirty quickly and not all of us can afford to have more than one uniform.

Graphics

This week for graphics with Mrs Ferguson we were creating our little pieces for our games and measuring out what type of bored were gonna have for our game pieces to be on. The 3D game that I was doing was tic tac toe and other students did different games, also such as making clocks, and puzzles and other 3D games that you could make.

Tiny House

During our Math's lessons we have been learning about Area and Perimeter, To showcase the strategy of Area and Perimeter we designed and constructed tiny houses using paper templates and also using our prior knowledge to help us design small furniture for our home style living. For this task I worked well with Joel. We worked as a pair to get this finished and doned with. We thought that this was gonna be easy for us but then when we had to make 3d furniture for our tiny house I knew that it was gonna be hard.

Swimming

This was another time of having swimming lessons. I haven't been going to swimming lessons but today was the third lesson of having swimming lessons. Today when we were at swimming lessons we were doing some new things and trying to be safe while were in the water. The first thing we did was got onto the bus and the bus driver drove us to the Panmure lagoon to do swimming lessons with our instructors. When we got their we had to get off the bus and go to where the Panmure lagoon was. The instructor for the year 7's we had James. James was a fun instructor he taught us what we learnt in the past few weeks and what he came up with for session three.

The stuff we learnt today was diving so deep down to touch the ground, doing free style after three arm strokes we had to get up and breath, floating on our back and doing arm strokes, floating with boards and only kidding our legs with our head, floating and kicking our legs in the water with the board facing us. All that was what we did at swimming, it was a bit hard to do the ones with our heads up and also how we were doing free style because it was way to hard for me to breath, but for the one diving down into the water because its a little bit hard for us to be breathing.