Technology - Vertebrate & Invertebrate

Today for technology we studied about vertebrates and invertebrates with Mrs Sharma. Vertebrates are animals that have backbones such as humans, horses and other animals. While invertebrates have no backbone this group of animals consists of insects, spiders, snails and more. After that we had a Kahoot game about invertebrates and vertebrates and we had fun learning with Mrs Sharma and we hope to learn some more with her.

Social Sciences - Quote

Social Sciences - Task 1B

 

Social Sciences - Arrival of European

 

Technology Task 2

 

PBL - Sciences

 

Technology Task 1

 

Science - Weather

Today for technology we learnt about weather. So first we answered questions about the weather and what is weather then we watched a short video about climate and weather. So climate is a long term pattern of weather in an area which typically averaged over a period of 30 years and most people think that the weather is changed by climate but really weather changes by time . Then we wrote down the weather from today to next week Wednesday. The temperature for today. During the day the temperature is 16° and at night the temperature is 14°. Finally the last activity we done was match the pictures of weather to the correct name of that weather.

And this was the question that our science teacher gave us.

Which is your favorite weather and why? - My favorite weather is sunny because I just like to play outside and have nice light from the sun.

Task 2 - Niue Language Week - Screencastify

 Today for Task 2 I did a Screencastify on how Niue Got its name.

Task 1 - Niue Language Week - Kahoot

Today for Task 1 of the work my Teacher gave my class and I was to make a Kahoot about Niue. We had to put 15 questions or more in the Kahoot and I also got to play some of my friends Kahoot which was fun and some of the question were hard like my friend Aj that didn't even make sense at all.

 

Toy - Homemade fidgets

This is my toy that I made out of paper and a glue stick. It was fun to make and it was also fun to play with and it can be folded and unfolded.

Link for video

Technology - States of matter

 Today for Technology we learnt about different types of matter and what they do is was fun learning about states of matter and I had fun.

List of objects

ToiToi Challenge-PWC

Today I did the Toitoi challenge and I had to answer and listen to the challenges. There were 9 stories that I could pick but I only picked the first 2 but I really enjoyed the story's and I have finished 2 challenge's and I also got a certificate at the end. 

Technology - Flower power

 Today for technology we learnt about parts of a flower and what they do and why 

So our task was to create a diagram about a flower and label the parts of the flower 

So this a picture of my diagram I tried my best to draw but anyways here my diagram.

After I played both of the games that was on the site and I got all of the answers right and my time was 19 seconds.

Link for the games - Flower game        Flower game

Current event

Today I read an article about a hedgehog in England that got trapped in a parking lot drain on the 29th August 2021. Heaps of crews that are in England came to help. WRAS crew and the firefighters were able to get the hedgehog safely out of the drain, the animal shop took the hedgehog for a check to see if the hedgehog is hurt but nope the hedgehog was alright, so they went back into the wild and tried to find a home of the hedgehog so he could be safe.

Current event

 Today I read an article about about a Cat named Arnold that got trained by the New Zealand Police. I also read that they had put a video out about their new recruit Arnold on Facebook and the video got 1M - views and 16,000 - comments. Arnold can jump through hoops and the Police said that they would keep people updated on Arnold's training on their Facebook page.

PBL - Manuka honey

 Today I done with my Manuka honey for English Task 3

Current event

Today I read an article about New Zealand has recorded its warmest winter on record.

For the three months from June, July, and August 2021, the average temperature was 9.8C, according to New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).

This is a huge 1.3C above the long-term average and higher than the previous record set in 2020.

Current event

Today I read an article about the Mars rover AKA Perseverance. It has a drilling system that drilled through a little Mars rock and collected a small finger finger sized sample of the rock and this is the first sample of Mars rock that NASA will get if it gets back to earth safely.

Current event

Today I read an article about Lisa Adams winning the gold medal in shot put for the Paralympics. Lisa has beaten her rival Mi Na from China with a throw of 15.12 meters. Valerie Adams and two time Olympics champion has coached Lisa.

Tongan Language Week - Learning how to count from 0 - 100 in Tongan

 Today for Tongan Language Week I learn't how to count from 13-20 in Tongan.

Link - https://www.digitaldialects.com/Tongan.htm - Tongan Language games

Current event

Today I read an article about The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games has ended with a moving ceremony at the Olympic Stadium. During the ceremony, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons and Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto gave speeches before the official closing of the Games. The closing ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympics took place on 5 September 2021 at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

Tongan Language Week - Learning how to count from 13 - 20 in Tongan

  Today for Tongan Language Week I learn't how to count from 13-20 in Tongan.

Link - https://www.digitaldialects.com/Tongan.htm - Tongan Language games

Current event

Today I read an article about Anna Grimaldi has jumped to the gold medal in the T47 long jump at the Tokyo Paralympics. She also had set a new Paralympic record with her first jump of 5.74 meters in wet conditions. She then extended her lead with a jump of 5.76m in her fourth jump and couldn’t better it on her fifth and sixth leaps. Grimaldi was the defending champion in this event after winning gold at the last Paralympics in Rio five years ago.

Tongan Language Week - Learning how to count from 1 - 12 in Tongan

 Today for Tongan Language Week I learn't how to count from 1-12 in Tongan.

Link - https://www.digitaldialects.com/Tongan.htm - Tongan Language games

Current event

Today I read an article about William Stedman who had won a silver medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Stedman was in fifth place with only one jump remaining. However, Stedman saved his best jump for last as he then leaped 5.64m to secure his medal in the T36 long jump. This final jump was a personal best and an Oceania record. Stedman now has three Paralympic medals after claiming the 400 and 800 meters at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Current Events

Today I read an article about Danielle Aitchison who had won New Zealand´s fourth medal in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Aitchison finished second in the women’s 200m T36 at the Olympics. Danielle was just seconds behind the current world record holder, Shi Yiting from China. Danielle Aitchison was overwhelmed with joy after the race and said that ¨she was very happy with her performance¨.

Snow planet - Recount

Excitement filled the air as we entered the Snow Planet building. Walking to the counter to receive our boots was exhilarating, as we put away our bags we then had put on our boots I realized it was really hard to slide my foot in. Then I got a size bigger and it was just right, My boots fitted like a glove.

After we put on our boots we had to get our helmets and then we all headed inside the snow area. It was really fun when we got our tubes and slid down the slide, bumping into the ice and spinning around in circles.

The other activity that was there were toboggans, we would jump in the toboggan and slide down another slide.
It was really fun at Snow Planet and I hope that we will go there again soon.

Mud run Trip

As I woke up we had already arrived at our destination at Helensville for the tough guy and tough gal mud run there were so many schools there and we were one of them. We all got a bib number with the color blue on it and everyone got a bib number but some of us had different colors than the rest than my classmates and I all got into a small circle and did some stretches, as we were done with the stretches the announcer call everyone that was wearing a bib number with the color blue on it to come down to the starting line as we were near the starting line I was excited and a bit nervous because it was my first time then all of a sudden "Bang!" then we were off me and my brother (Gideon) took off away from all of our friends and trying to catch up with the people that were in 1st place as we were running we seen kids getting muddy and falling over into the mud but me and my brother tried not to get too much mud on us we then had to cross a small little pond me thinking it was not that deep so I try to run across it but then all of a sudden I end up falling into the pond all soaking wet but still carried on and we have also seen a lot of kids shoe in the mud. Then we had to go up this steep hill while everyone was walking my brother and I ran past all of them as we made it up that difficult hill we can see everyone that attended the race and even the starting line we then had to climb over a way taller fence then me but my brother and I were up for any challenges so we climb that fence as fast as we could and made it over before some of them that were already there before me and my brother we then had to run down the hill while trying not to fall over. The next challenge was to crawl like you are in the army under a net that has spikes on it and through a small tunnel we then had to jump over some large trees that were cut down as we were getting closer to the finish line the mud was getting so sticky then my feet got stuck in the mud and that I couldn't get it out but after I gave it a little shake my feet were finally free then I just carried on running. As we got near the finish line we had to cross a bridge but we had to watch out cause it was slippery but as I crossed the bridge I could see the finish line I then started sprinting past all of the kids that were in front of me and crossed the finish line as I did I felt tired but happy that I made it with my brother. As everyone was done we all had a nice warm shower and ate lunch after that we also stayed for prize giving the sad thing was that not all of us could get a prize but two of my classmates did which they got them self a soccer ball and a rugby ball. As prize-giving was over we were all exhausted from all the running that we did we all then got into the car and drove off back to school.

It was very fun and I wish to do it again one day.

Gymnastics Kelly Sports

  Coach Zayde was teaching us gymnastics body positions and some of the positions that we explored were

• Tuck sit
• L sit
• Happy cat
• Angry cat
• Straddle sit 
• Motorbike landing 

We had lots of fun doing these "floor work" positions and the hardest one was the straddle sit. We made a circle and got into the tuck sit and tried to get the ball around the circle and when we did that two time and dropped the ball a few times we then split the circle through the middle and got into two equal groups and made two equal circles. We then had to pass the ball as many times as we could and which ever team got the most rounds without dropping it won and my team won. Finally we tried to do it with hand stands but no one could hold it for long except for the coach who could also walk while holding a hand stand and so we ended up just practicing our hand stands.

I felt so energized and excited and I had so much fun.

Maths

This what me and my group did for maths today.

Kiwi Can

Today for Kiwi Can we talked about emotions. We learned about what are emotions were and what kind of emotions we have like Sad, Mad, Happy, Excited, Lonely and many more. We also had an energizer where you had to find a partner. One of them will be a statue and the other one will be the creator. I partnered up with my buddy Soane, He wanted me to be the statue so i agreed we were told the instructions which was Miss B would call out an emotion and the creator had to make his statue look like the emotions. We had a few round and for the last round we got to pick an emotion for partner/statue to do.

For our activity we had to partner up in to groups of 5 or more, I was with Soane, Sione, Gideon, Taylor and AJ. We had to make a play/skit about the emotion Miss B gave us, the emotion we got was angry. The first two groups did their skit and then it was our turn and then another groups turn. It was funny and everyone laughed when the groups were doing there skits.

I really enjoyed Kiwi Can today and can't wait for next week.

Statistics

Today we learnt about statistics using mean median and mode. Mean stands for average, to find the mean you have to add all your numbers and divide the answer you got with how much numbers are there. Median is just like the middle and mode the most occurring number so like the number that appeasers the most. 

This is the data room 7 and I worked on.

Technology: Graphics

Mālō e lelei, for our first lesson in tech we started off by coding a dice on the Microbit labeled as Graphical Dice. Below is a screencastify of the simulated Dice in action.

 

Lesson 2: Step Counter 

The second code we coded on the Microbit was a step counter.To make this work we slipped the microbit into our shoe/pocket and the microbit would count our steps on the leg the microbit was in. Here was the code.

A similar code we coded measures your stride from our steps.

Architecture

WALT: We are learning to create accurate floor plans for building a house.                                                 We used floorplancreator.net to do this.                                                                        Here are my plans.

What I learnt from doing this activity is before building a house you need a 

• Floor plan.
• Where the rooms are going to be.
• The measurement of the house .
• And if the door goes in or out. 

If I joined the building industry I would like to be a engineer. 

My Pepeha

 

Kiwi can - Week 2 Discussion

Today room 7 went to Kiwi-can. We learned a lot of things and also played super cool games. We learned the importance of why you should tell the truth. If your friend tells you to cover for him, so he can go to a rugby game. You would want to back him up, but to do the right thing instead of lying, always tell the truth. No matter who the person is or what the situation is, still show integrity.

Coding the Microbit

Today for tech , Room 7 were learning how to code a Microbit. Every time I shake the microbit, it will randomly pick a number from 1 to 3. But the numbers are shown either as Rock , Paper or Scissors. Number one will be shown as Paper , Number Two will be shown as Rock and Number 3 will be shown as Scissors.

Mathematics

 

Plants & Animal

 

Animal Classifaction

Maori Migration

 

Maths

 

Today we learnt about how to solve the perimeter of rectangle.

Maths

 

Cybersmart challenge 4: Bookmark

 

Taha math group work

Reading - Word art

Today for reading one of our activity's was to create a word art on the words that we did not understand from the text.

Measurement task for Friday 5 March 2021

 Please make a copy of this document and save it to your maths folder

Try to solve the problems independently. 

You may use diagrams to explain your thinking.

We will discuss as a group what strategies you used to solve the problems

WALT: use multiplicative and/or additive strategies to solve  measurement problems.

1. A student measures her height with a 30 cm long ruler.

2. She finds that she is four and a half rulers high. How tall is

3. she in cm? 30cmx4=120cm    ½ of 30cm=15cm  120cm+15cm=135cm

2. A student is told that they are 1.45 m tall. How tall is this in cm? 145cm

3. If it takes 3 hours to drive 210 km, what was the average speed of the journey?

4. 210 divided by 3=70kph

4. A class of 28 is split into small groups. How big can those groups be?

5. Factors of 28 1 2 4 7 14

5. A car, travelling at an average speed of 70 km/ph is in a journey of 210 km. 

How long will the journey take? 70x3=210km so it will take 3 hours to get there.

6. A long distance swimmer takes 80 strokes to swim 100 metres.

7. He wants to swim across Lake Taupo, a distance of 4200 metres. 

a. How many strokes will it take for him to swim across the lake? 

b. If he can swim at a rate of 60 strokes per minute, how many

minutes could he swim across the lake in?

c. Can he expect to beat the 2015 champion swimmer who

crossed the lake in a time of 51 minutes and 48 seconds?

No because he did it in 56 minutes and the swimmer did it in 51 minutes.

What changes did the settlers brought to NZ

 What changes did the settlers brought to NZ

 

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840. The Treaty

of Waitangi is an agreement between the British and the Maori

and the precise date of of the signing can be found in the Treaty

itself or on websites as well as some books. The Treaty of Waitangi

got its name from a place called Waitangi which is in the Bay of Islands

 

The Bay of Islands is in the northern part of New Zealand. It was signed

in the Bay of Island  because there were a lot of settlers and missionaries

and Maori tribes. So the British came to negotiate a formal agreement with

the Maori. Called the “Treaty of Waitangi” There were two versions of the treaty one in English and one in Maori.

 

Because there were two versions of the Treaty one in English and one in

Maori it was easy for the British to to write  completely different things

on the treaty. Both the Treaty’s were written by William Hobson because

the Maori couldn’t understand English. Hone Heke Said that the Treaty

would be good for the Maori but little did he know that they were being tricked by the British.

 

The Maori were being tricked by the British because the Treaty was not

exact copies of each other but little did Hone Heke know that the Maori

were being tricked into signing the Treaty and being looted of their land.

Maori Migration Map

 

Maths

 

1. One third of the animals in the barn are chickens. The rest are pigs.

There are 20 legs in all.

How many pigs are there? There are four pigs.

If ⅓ are chickens then ⅔ are pigs. Each chicken has two legs and each pig has four legs.

2. I have three dogs of different ages.

If I add their ages together I get 15.

If I multiply their ages together I get 45.

How old are my dogs? The dogs ages are 1, 5, and 9

Because 1+5+9=15 and 9x5x1=45

3. Niko and Kaia buy their father a card for Fathers’ Day.

The card costs $5.90. Niko puts

in 40c more than Kaia.

How much do they each contribute

to the card?

Half of $5.90 is $2.95 Niko put 40c more

so Niko payed $3.15 and Kaia payed $2.75

4. I think that you’ll find a pattern in the numbers below.

8 x 8 + 13 =77

88 x 8 + 13 =717

888 x 8 + 13 =7117

8888 x 8 + 13 =71117

88888 x 8 + 13 =711117

Does the pattern extend indefinitely?

Yes Because 88888888888x8+13=

711111111117

Family Tree

 

Maths

My Dairy

Emoji Maths

In Room 7, we had to make out own Emoji Math like we did last year. Here is mine and I hope you enjoy it. 

William Hobson/Infographic

Name:William Hobson

Date of birth:26 September 1792 - Waterford

Died:10 September 1842 - Auckland

William Hobson was born in Waterford, Ireland, on 26 September 1792, the third of five sons of Samuel Hobson. William joined the Royal Navy before his 10th birthday.

Captain William Hobson was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first Governor of New Zealand. Hobson was the First Governor of New Zealand and the Co-author of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. 

He joined the Royal Navy in 1803, at the tender age of ten years, and was promoted to Commander in 1824.