2020/Term 4 Highlights!

This term was packed full of events and was overall a very exciting term! There were many highlights and memories made this year.

I had the opportunity to be a film festival presenter and present our classroom film all about how to deal with your worries. It was based on a book "Ruby finds a worry" by Tom Percival. 

In term 3 the year 8s went off to Thames for the annual camp, year 8 camp was postponed due to Covid-19 and lockdowns so that was why we had it during term 3 instead of term 2. I made many memories there and had loads of fun with the rest of the year 8s. I'll definitely miss the camps that Pt England has for us.

 Cross country was also one of my highlights! this years cross country the year 8s had to run 3km. Although cross country was a very tiring day I enjoyed cheering for the rest of the year 8s! I also came 2nd for year 8 girls :D

I also enjoyed serving for Pt England School. Becoming a prefect for 2020 was both an interesting experience and I learnt a lot from it.

I'm also looking forward to prizegiving which is tomorrow evening (Thursday the 10th of December), and also excited for year 8 graduation which is next week Monday (Monday the 14th of December).

Te Reo Maori Lesson 8 Create Task

 

Volume Problem

"From a square piece of paper we can make a box without a lid by cutting a square from each corner and folding up the flaps.

Find the different volumes of box it is possible to make by changing the size of the cut-out squares.

What is the maximum possible volume?

What is the size of the square cut-out that produces it?"

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my 3 dimensions were...

Width = 11 squares

Length = 11 squares 

Height = 4 squares

and altogether thats 484cm³

 

Reo Changemaker, Hinewehi Mohi

 WALT: Evaluate information in a text

TASK DESCRIPTION: for this weeks reading task we took a look at Hinewehi Mohi, someone who changed the way we sung our New Zealand anthem! 

Hinewehi mohi's story

Hinewehi mohi’s father came from an era where if caught talking Maori they would be smacked, and so this led to many not knowing their language. His parents as well thought that it would be better for him to learn english as the rest of the world. At age 36 her father decided to do something about the language and so he taught himself and then taught his daughter, Hinewehi was also keen on learning more about the language and so she did.

Learning the language came to a point where it became important to learn Maori at school. Hinewhehi mohi went to St Joseph's Māori Girls' School in Napier and went onto the University of Waikato where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Māori in 1985.

Her first album being Oceania, it was released in 1999. While promoting her first album in London, she was asked to sing the New Zealand national anthem at a rugby game in Twickenham. 

Although singing the New Zealand anthem in Maori had been done multiple times, it had never been done at the nationals and so when Hinewehi sang it in Te Reo everyone was shocked. Singing it in this version was very controversial; she decided to go forward with singing it in Maori.

Taha Wairua

 

Create Task Lesson 7

  WALT: ask and answer questions about what things are.

TASK DESCRIPTION: this is just a create task from before's task!

2.6 Kei te pehea te ahua o te rangi?

 WALT: ask and answer questions about what things are.

TASK DESCRIPTION: for today's maori task we learnt some new words and then had a few questions to answer! Lastly we just had a short create task to complete that relates about today's task!

Maori Moment

Today at exactly 12 pm we had a moment where we all stood up and sang 2 songs! We did this to remember the protest that took place in 1972. In 1972 30,000 signatures were taken to the parliament because they decided that we needed to do something to keep the language (Maori) alive in Aotearoa. And now we did a week every year to dedicate it to learn more about the native language! (Maori).

1 Measurement + Decimals =

Things T Could Go

Things T could do....

Personal: since T likes basketball he could go out and play basketball, get his mind off of all the things that are stressing him out.

Interpersonal: He could talk with Jack or maybe try and open up with his mum?

Societal: Go talk to counsellors or teachers, etc. Find help within the community.  

What is the Biosphere?

Tha Zin Extreme Weather

Tha Zin Statistical Literacy

WALT: Interpret information from graphs