Making Pizza @ Tamaki Tech!!!

Today @ Tech we made Pizza. This week my partner was Makayla. Our Pizza had many toppings on it. Those ingredients were tomato sauce, cheese, ham, capsicum, tomato, red onion and Pizza bread. First we diced all the vegetables and fruit (pineapple,
tomatoes, capsicum and the red onion) as well as the ham. After that we spread the tomato sauce around the base of the pizza, then added all the toppings onto the pizza. After we added all our toppings we put our pizza in the oven for 15 mins. After that we took it out of the oven. After a few minutes of cooling down the pizza was ready to eat.

Chicken Curry!!!

Last Tuesday @ Tamaki Tech we made Chicken Curry. The ingredients we used were:

- Chicken 

- Spices (Turmeric,garlic, curry, ginger)

- Onions

- Vegetables

- Potatoes 

First we diced the chicken and onion then cooked them both in oil. Then we added the spices in and also put the potatoes on at the same time. After we combine the spices with the chicken and onions we added 1 1/2 cups of water in the pan with the vegetables. We then added the potatoes when they were cooked and then dished it into a plate.  

Looking @ Cheek Cells

Chocolate MUFFINS!

Making Lasagna @ TECH

Anacondas

WALT: (it's included in the presentation )

7 Life Processes

Task description: For this task we had to write a rap/song/description or make a poster about  MRS GREN. If you don't know what that is, it stands for Movement, Respiration, Sense, Growth, Reproduction, Evolution and Nutrition. Scientist use the method to research and check to see if something is living or not. If that something does't show signs of any of MRS GREN then it is nonliving, if it does show then it exists as a living thing

Spray it... or not?

Task description: For this week's task we read a article about, Painted Apple Moth. This species of insects is a pest to NZ and is tourching our native bushes. The moths comes form Australia and is coursing a lot of damage to our forest bushes. 

In the article we read it told us that NZ have started spraying around a spray called anti - PAM ( PAM stands for Painted Apple Moth )  that will help get rid of and extinguish the PAM from NZ. But.. some people are saying its not a good idea because it does have the  disgusting and unpleasant smell to it . People also think it's not a good idea becasue if the mixer is not prepare probably it could do harm to everyone. 

So do you think still spraying the anti - PAM spray is a good idea?
Tell me what you think in the comment section. THANK YOU! ; )

Perfect Patterns

Cooking @ TC Tech! Yay!

Task description: Last week on Tuesday was our first cooking session for 2019. Yayyyyy! Our cooking teachers name is Miss Tuipulotu. She will be taking us for the next 12 - 14 weeks. At TC Tech we made TUNA SALAD! The ingredients and step are included in the presentation above.

Versatile Volume!

Measurement Madness!

KPMG Trip Term 3🤙🏻

Today the Extension Group + a few other Year 7 & 8 student, headed off to KPMG in the city. This is our 3rd trip to KPMG this year and we were all excited, for another awesome adventure of learning. We also had 2 representative from Tonkin and Taylor come in and talk to us about Aquatic Ecology. After that we had Morning Tea which was Scones and Fruit Kebabs with a cup of water. We also had the chance to take a 5 minute walk down the road from the KPMG building to Sustainable Coastlines, where we learnt what Sustainable Coastline do and why they do it. 

Immersion Assembly - T3 2019

Walt: write a recount

Have you ever wondered what your topic for term 3 was? Well here is my recount about our amazing start to Term 3. ‘ Something In The Water ’. 

Entering Assembly

Hearing the funky music and sniffing up a familiar smell made me wonder? If this term’s topic is something in the water does that mean SEAFOOD! Surely enough our Senior Management Team were cooking up a storm of seafood on the Barbeque grillers. As we walk in and take a seat, my stomach starts to growl. “ I need seafood, I need seafood, cos I love seafood ”. 

Introduction

Thinking about what each team had planned for there students, made me excited. I couldn't wait the hear and see what each team will be doing this term. Especially team 5. 

Team 1,3 and 4 - Movies

The first movie was shared but the Team 1 Teachers (aka: The S.O.F.A Team = Solutions for Animals) There movie was mostly targeted at the Year 1 students. The movie contained phone calls, underwater exploring and helping endangered animals. The S.O.F.A Team set on a quest the find out more about the sea life creatures and then study them. But they needed our help to help them solve the mystery?

Our next movie was put together by our Team 3 Teachers. This movie was aimed mostly at the Year 3 and 4’s, but also everyone else. In the movie the group of Team 3 Teacher's + Miss Ramona created include, all sorts of sea life creature and a Miss Romona. Their movie shows Miss Ramona ask a bunch of sea life creatures, such as eels, stingrays, sharks, and dolphins. Miss Ramona set on a quest to find the perfect buddy to pair up with the help keep all sea creatures happy and safe. Lucky she found the ideal sea creature, to help protect our moana and awa’s. 

Our next movie was shared  from the Team 4 Teachers. There movie was all about chain that goes on in the sea. First it starts off with spotting a plankton. The plankton gets eaten by the mussel, the mussel gets eaten by the crab, then the crab gets eaten by a seagull and the human eats the seagull. But...what do you think ate the human… If you guessed SHARK then you are right. 

Favourites

If you are wondering why I didn’t explain what Team 2 and 5’s act/movie was about is, because they were my 2 favourite teams. Team 2’s movie shared all the teachers at the Tahuna Torea Reserve, exploring the bush and rocky shores. They also got to feed the ducks that were in the small pond that is about 5-6 metres away from Wai O Taiki Bay. The funniest parts were all one Miss Moran. First she complains about going all the way to Tahuna Torea Reserve and then says she needed a scooter. At the very end of the video Miss Moran asks Mrs Carter for her phone to call UBER to KFC.

My next highlight was Team 5’s awesome act/song. The shared a song that talked about what’s in a Cell. It Starts off with Cell then, Nucleus in the Cell, the Chromosomes in the Nucleus that’s in the Cell, then DNA that’s in the Chromosomes that’s in the Nucleus that lives in a Cell. The Gene that’s in the DNA that lives in the Chromosomes that’s in the Nucleus that lives in the Cell. At the every end they say “ How are all living things connected? ”.

Overall I thought every team had created amazing videos and performances. I am really looking forward to this Term 3’s topic. I also hope we get to eat more seafood later on this term. ‘SOMETHING IN THE WATER!’. 

Measurement Reminiscence

Walt: calculate area and perimeter



Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above. The presentation included measurement questions the had cm, mm, ml, l, m, km and .ext. Slide 4 and 6 where all about finding the perimeter and area of all the following shapes. Slide 7 was also about find the area but using a special technique, called 'pi'. Really all we had to do was time the radius by itself then times it by pi. 

Fabulous Fractions

Decimal Fractions✊♊

Statistical Maths

Walt: calculate percentages

Task description: For this task we had to calculate all of the wealth points and the population. The steps to calculating all the numbers is first chose one continent to calculate. If you chose Oceania/Aust, first you need to divide 39 by 7,030 which will equal .00554765291. Next you times it by 100 and then you will get your answer which will be: .554765291.    

In Between Fractions❓

WALT: find fractions in between fractions

Task description: For this task we had to find out what the fractions are in between the 2 fractions. I used the easiest technique with was times both the denominator and numerator by 2. The answer for the first question was 2/31, and the answer to the second question is 2/7. 

HOME🏠

Term 2, Week 1

WALT: make and revise predictions about a text

Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above. It had to include fully answer questions and completed tasks. 

It used to be green once

Term 2, Week 2 & 3

WALT: identify and analyse key elements of a short story

Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above. It had to include fully answered questions and complete review and create task. At the end of the presentation we had to rate our work seriously. Also the teacher and a buddy had to rate our work. 

Informational Writing - Part 2

Task description: In the google presentation above tells you what Room 2 literacy class did for the week. This is Informational Writing which is a type of genre in writing. Informational Writing gives you factual and stable information. This week we had to chose 3 topics about a country. Along with that Ms Tapuke gave us helpful tips to making our Informational Writing at a Yr 7&8 level/High Quality. First tip: 

• Write the Country we're writing about. 
• Chose 3 topics within that country. e.g. food, music and dancing
• Write the subtitles so you know what topic you are reading
• Write out the INFORMATION about the topic you chose, that was within the country

You don't just ave to use country you can use any big topic you want.

Fairy Tales - Openings

Term 2, Week 1

WALT: create interesting openings/introductions

Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above. In the presentation had to include our story starters. This helped us to use different openings and sentence starters, instead of the same starting words over and over again. 

Fairy Tales - Homework and Letter📜

Term 2, Week 2

WALT: use striking words and phrases

Task Description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above. It include writing rephrasing the subject of I hate HOMEWORK. The other exercise in the presentation was to writing a email/letter to a well known fairy tale character about Coming To Dinner. In the letter it had to include juicy vocabulary, different sentence starters, different struct sentences and lots of different phrases.

Frozen - (with a twist)🔮

Term 2, Week 3 & 4

WALT: write Fractured Fairy tales

Task description: For this task we had to write a fractured fairy tale. But... We could only use a cartoon movie of any sort (obviously appropriate cartoon movies only). I chose the WALT Disney Movie FROZEN. More less all we had to do was use the movie but also add at least 1 or 2 twists in it. 

Fairy Tales

Formal Emails📜

Walt: writing a formal response on gmail

Task description: For this we had to write a formal response the the "GMAIL" we have received. In the gmail had to include suggestions on how to remember to put in the right folder, on our google drives. Also different lengths of sentences, sentence beginnings, greeting and outro's.

Informational Writing

💮About Tahiti💮

WALT: vary the start and length of sentences we write

Task description: For this task we had to write a informational writing about a country of our choice. We had to chose at least 3 topics to write about that country and then post it on our blogs.   

Compass!

WALT: use a compass

Task description: For this task we had to write a brief reflection and the process of today's extension activity. In the presentation says how to use a compass and parts of it. It also shows the reflection I wrote to tell you the process was and how it felt about the orientation. 

Facile Fraction

Task description: For this task i had to complete the presentation above in full answers. The presentation included questions about fractions. There were equivalent and addition fractions 

Bangkook - Tahiland - Asia

Task description: For this task we had to create a presentation about a country in the continent that we had to research about. I chose to create a presentation about Street Food in Bangkok Thailand. One meal that was originated in Thailand, Bangkok, is the crab omelette created by Raan Jay Fai the best street food cook in the world.

Concrete Coordinates

WALT: We are learning to use grid references and scale

Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above with full answered question and working out. The presentation also include giving us coordinates and finding coordinates. 

Tantalizing Transformations

Walt: transform shapes using reflection, rotation and translation


Task description: for this task we had to complete the presentation above that  was filled with reflecting, rotating and translating shapes or squares on a quad grid. Each target in the top right corner shows you what number the target it is. So if you don't know anything about symmetry then Target 1 will be for you if you know about symmetry about you don't know much about translation and rotation Target 2 is for you. Finally Target 3 is for the people that fully understand everything that is going on in the presentation and can do it all by them self. Also 

• Target 1 = Yr 6 beginning of Yr 7
• Target 2 is middle of Yr 7 and begging of Yr 8
• Target 3 is end of Yr 8 and middle of Yr 9/10

Coordinate Conundrums

Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation above with full answers. In the presentation it helps us to learn all about coordination and rotation. This presentation also links to our school topic for Term 2 2019.

Triangle Poster - Degrees

Task description: For this task I had to create a poster about angles on triangles and that no matter what kind of triangle you make the angles always add up to 180 degrees.

A Way Of Talking - Patricia Grace

Walt: think critically about a writer's style

A WAY OF TALKING - Review Imagine you are Rose/Rohe. Re-read page 3 of A WAY OF TALKING. Describe how Rose is feeling and what she is thinking after she hears Jane say ‘That’s Alan. He’s been down the road getting the Maoris for scrub cutting.’ I think that Rohe feels really flustered, but I think she is only trying to keep on the inside. She wanted to say something but I think she knew that she shouldn’t say anything, so she stayed focus on her cigarette. Task description: For this task we had to complete the presentation with full answers. As well as answering the question we also had to write down proof of what we are taking about and write it exactly how that author wrote it.  

Find the Latitude and Longitude of the following places!

WALT: to find the latitude and longitude of the following places


Task description: For this task we had to find the latitude and longitude of the following place. We also had to put in facts about that place.

Happy Birthday Lil Cuz!!!😀🎉🎁🎂🎈

Happy Birthday Lil Cuz!!!😀🎉🎁🎂🎈

Happy Birthday to this little 4 year old princess. God bless you lil cuz and have a good day.  🙏🙏🙏❤❤😀😀🎉🎉🎁🎁🎂🎂🎈🎈

(BTW) this cake was made by my mum and me. Churrrrrrrrr!!! 

 

End of Term 1 for 2019

Task description: For this task I decided to create a presentation about my highlights of term 1 and what I am looking forward to for next term. 

Our Guest Speakers

Our Guest Speakers

Today Team 5 was very fortunate to have 3 special quest speakers come in, to talk about their malaga (journey). Their names are Jason Young, Fiona Bakulich and Tanielu Tele’a. What was special about them is they all had a relation to Mrs Tele’a. As you might know Tanielu Tele’a is actually Mrs Tele’a son and Fiona is her younger sister. Josan is Mrs Tele’a husbands close friends, so it’s Mr Tele’a friend. 

The first speaker was Mr Jason Young, who was 48 yrs old and came to Pt England School when he was young. As I was brought up in Glen Innes he was to. He has been friends with Mr Tele’a ever since primary through to intermediate and college . Now Mr Jason Young is working at Dysart in Glen Innes and is a order for his company. His aspiration were his parents and his family. Before begin a builder we wanted to be a journalist.

The next speaker was Fiona Bakulich. When she was young she went to Grey Lynn Primary. She is one year, 1 month and 11 days apart from her older sister Andrea Tele’a. Fiona is a funeral director and graduated in Wellington last month. She is now a Senior funeral director for Tipene Funerals. She is also featured in a TV show program called The Casketeers. The series of The Casketeers started last year and next week is the first episode of season 3. 

Our last guest speaker was Mr Tanielu Tele’a. He is also one of Pt England Schools ex - students. Tanielu is now a current Auckland Blues Player and plays number 13 which is centre and 14 on winger. Tanielu is also the eldest of 4 children. He has 2 sisters and 1 brother. Toreka (2nd eldest), Justus (2nd youngest) and Little Miss Noelle (youngest). As Tanielu attended Pt England School he had been apart of a lot of speaking and PENN producing. 

I would like to thank all you speakers that came in today and talked to us about your malaga (journey) and also give us helpful advice. Thank you very much. 

How Many Hours Do I Spend On Screen?

Walt: collect data figure out what is a suitable graph for it to go in

Task description: For this task we had to find out how many hours we spend on screen time. After we invest in that we try to figure out what is a suitable graph for it to go in. I chose a line graph because it shows how many hours I spend on screen time at home and at school. Also because I shows how many hours I have improved on not spending to much time on screen and how I haven't improved and spent more time on screens.  

If you want to know about line graphs just click on this link and it will take you to a site and tell you heaps about line graphs

Attitude Talk

Today's was our first attitude talk of the year. We were so lucky to have Jannah from an amazing organization called Attitude . The first thing Jannah said when she talked to us about is a little bit about herself. One thing she said about forself is the meaning of her name, which meant Gracious Gift. Then she went into talking about the topic, which was called Friendship Factor.  Things that Jannah talked to us about were Girl Girl Friendship, Guy Guy Friendship and Girl Guy Friendship. She also talked about how girls can learn friendship skills from guys and guys can learn friendship skill from girls. She said that you could make friends by being yourself, don't be shy and Be Positive. Jannah said something that I had never heard in my life and it's about how many words guys and girls can say a day. Girls: 12,000 and Guys: 6,000.  

Changing Neighbourhoods

WALT: use details in my writing



Task Description: For this task we had to writing a short detailed writing, to explain what changes have happened to the people, Buildings and many more around our community.  

Multicultural Diversity

WALT: communicate ideas on a topic

A. Write a journal entry from the point of view of one of the people in the photographs. 

OR

b. If you were a judge for a photo contest that celebrates diversity, which of these images do you think would be the winning photograph?    Why? 

Click this link for my photo essay link.

Dear Diary,

Today was a lot of fun. I had to chance to be one of the people under the Massive foam Chinese dragon. I heard thousands of people in the crowd, going wild. This year's Chinese new year celebration was awesome. I can’t wait for next year. 

From Chastyti

                         

Dear Diary

Today I celebrated my culture it was so fun I can't wait for next year. One That day I heard lots of noises and shouting. It was crowded with lots of colourful colours. And had heaps of fun that night. I just can’t wait for next year.

From : Skye

Task description: For this task we had to write a journal entry or  be a judge of one of the photo essays in the multicultural Diversity.   

Percentages

WALT: calculate percentage



Task description: For this task we had to work out all the percentage problems in this presentations.

ASB Polyfest 2019!!!

Have you ever been to the ASB Polyfest before? Have you heard of it? Have You watched it on Television? If not now is the time to know about it and find out what me and my awesome POD/ Group did at Polyfest. 

For Polyfest I had the privilege to have the wonderful Whaea Kelly. The first thing we did when we got to Polyfest, was super fun activities. The activities were hosted be Blue Light, Ministry of Education, Westfield, SUPA, Vaimatina and Sport Waitakere. Each activity took 10 minutes. I think SUPA was my favourite activity, because they taught us to do a mix culture dance. 

After that we got to rome around the ASB Polyfest ground and visit different Stage do more activities and many more. Around 1:30 or 1:25 we started to head back to the entrance to get ready to head back to school on the buses. I got to say it was the best Polyfest ever!