Three fun fact about NZ

1. Did you know that Aotearoa means the land of the long white clouds. 

2. Also did you know that  to become a New Zealand citizen, you have to swear to a oath of loyalty to Queen  Elizabeth.


3. Did you also know the New Zealanders are called kiwis, because of the native non flying bird in New Zealand.  

Art scrulpture

This term team 5 what been learning how to make sculptures for our art. This is what I made, three blue hearts.

The meaning behind my artwork is that the heart on the left represents my family. My family mean a lot to me that why i made a heart for them.  

The heart of the right represents Pt England School because Pt England School is the school i go to and Pt England helps me to with my learning.

And the heart is the middle represents me because the other two things that were mentioned above. Because the two thing mean a lot to me. 

                         

Bedmas

WALT: use the correct order of operations when solving algebraic equations. I am learning about the order of operations.   

Language Features

WALT: Poetry.  We are learning about the language features that are present in poetry.
 

Going to Rainbow Ends

These are the some of the feelings that i felt when I was at Rainbow Ends. I had a lot of fun with my group. These are some of the photos we took.   

The tree

The tree

As I sit under the tree I was watching people walk by. I found a book and opened the book, I started to read it. I kept on reading and it was very emotional. While I was reading tears kept running down my face. I stopped for a second and realized that this book was about a very sad someone that was hurting inside. While I was reading the book came to a end………. To be continued 

Walt: Creative writing - how to include my personal voice and imagination in creative - expressive writing.    

The Haunted House On Blood Hill

It was time. Time to the explore the haunted house on top of Blood hill. I've been told many scary story about this haunted house, but I never believed any of it. Until… I had enough. So then me and my friend Chastyit decided to plan a day to visit the so called ' Headless Horseman House' on top of Blood Hill.

Once we got to the Horseman’s House we already had felt the feel that everybody else had. A sad and angry feeling. It also felt like it didn’t want us to investigate the house.

To be continued... 

Extra Problems 2

     

This is one of my problem solving that I did. This side shows what problem I was solving. It shows me sorting out the 24 hour time from the 12 hour time.             

My Graffiti Art

This is one of the artworks I did in Room 5 and I room 5 we were learning about graffiti that Lady Pink does and different types of graffiti. I decided to draw my name and and the beginning letter of my last nae and PES which means Pt England School.   

What I would paint in a pool

WALT:Inferring - I can find clues within the text. I read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning to make a conclusion or an assumption.

This is my plan for what I would paint in a pool if I got to chose . I would paint this because I would want it to feel like I'm in the ocean or sea. . 

How to be a Leader

To my family they think that education is that key to a good future. If you want to know how you can get an good education then read the following paragraphs. 

    
Being a good learner means making it to school everyday and also it means to attending school can make you get prizes in the end of the year  when its prize giving. Therefore being present to school helps you with life.               



Another idea is that being organized is being prepared for what you have in your classes throughout the day. To be organized, make sure to be prepared for college if your in primary meaning have a pencil or other stationary to help you with your learning.



Being a good learner means you have to behave by not talking to other students. It also means to be ready to listen and sitting up straight. For example you can in the morning when the bell rings, you go to class and you sit up straight in your desk ready for learning.             


This is my explanation on how to be a good learner. I hope you've learnt something from these three ideas in my explanation. Make sure to always learn so you can be a good learner.

Problem solving

Walt: Agree on a solution that each can we can explain.

The Taniwha

Walt: Inferring - I can find clues within the text. I read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning to make a conclusion or an assumption.

Best Friends 👭❤

Best friends ❤
Best friends are the ones that are there for you and they are the ones that hold you back and that you hold back .
Best friends are the ones who show you good examples of
what's good and what's bad.
Best friends are the ones who always are helping you get through things.
Best friends are your best friends.👭

How our health & P.E preforms was

 

This is how we think our performance went for our move ya body health and P.E. We thought that the performance was really good. The one thing that we didn't do was that we didn't smile and we were too shy so we started forgetting the dance moves.  So that our reflection on our dance. 

What Room 3 Maths Class Does For Rotations

         

Everyday for maths in room 3 we have two groups for maths that everyone is in, group A which is the girls group and in group B is girls and boys. Group A and B take turns being with Mrs Tele'a everyday for DMIC. The group that goes away does rotations and in rotations we do 20 minutes of maths whizz, then 20 minutes of DLO and 20 minutes of basic facts or learning our times tables or follow up. So thats what we do in room 3 for maths and rotations.

Sorting Out Brainstorms

Walt: Write and sort words from our brainstorms

 This is my brainstorm and my brainstorm is about our school cross country. The brainstorm includes how I felt, the goals you were aiming, how you prepared and what you were doing in the race. It has some feelings that  are like satisfied, some of it is painful to feel. So that is my brainstorm on my school cross country.

Dmic Working Out

This is the maths working out that we did today for maths and in my group we were  trying to answer questions A and here is how we worked it out and I think that we got the question right because we explained it really while. The answer we think it is was 21:30 in the 24 hour time and the 12 hour time is 9:30 pm. 

Ferry disaster kills over 200 people

On Thursday last week an big ferry overturned and killed over 200 people and in the article they said that on the ferry was 300 people, so only about 100 people survived in the big  damage. Survivors said that they were able to jump out of the ferry before they could have died like the other passages.   

Move ya body Reflection Week 8

This is one of our reflections on what my group and I are doing for our health and P.E

The Dele Alli Move

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? The main person was Dele Alli


2. What was the key event from the news article?
The event is the dele alli created by dele alli the football player


3. Where did this event take place?
It took place at a football event


4. When did this event take place?
This event took place on September the 3th 2018. 

Drop, Drop Poem

About Paula Green

Today we are learning  about Paula green the a New Zealand poet , she makes poems for adults and children to read. She is 68 years old right now, some of her hobbies are cooking, watching movies also riding bikes. I think she is a very good poet and she makes very good poems. 

The Tongan Group Dance For Tongan Language Week

Today we had our Tongan language week assembly, I was in the Tongan group dance for the seniors girls and we danced to a song called Angi taulua . The boys did a kaka and they used sticks in the kaka, they were awesome and the girls were very good too. 

Leap Poem

Roses are red Violets are blue Poem

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Team 5 rocks what about you?

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Come to pt england we will love you
Don’t worry we don’t bite because we are here to make things right

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Come to pt england and you’ll have the best teachers too

With the help of Tatiana

My Hunger Of Food

              

 

          They looked at me with eyes hungry as sin. 

They all ate my starving eyes, and they hungrily swallowed me all. Yummy that was so good! I want to have it again.

WALT Read Fluently

We are learning to read fluently. We have spent time looking at phrasing - how we say words together. Having expression in our voices is important too!

Listen to audio recording. We did this to practice fluency and to hear ourselves.

I think I sounded like I wasn't fluent  because I feel like I  didn't have any expression in my voice. I’m good at using an different charter that cause I try and put expression in my voice. I need to work on my timing because I kept on making mistakes.  

Teachers Strike

This Wednesday all the  New Zealand teachers are going on strike.  One reason why they are going on strike is the need more  time to teach the students .They have in their classes Because they spend a lot of  time doing the student’s assessment but doesn't have time to teach. These things are very good but it’s hard for one teacher with thirty kids.

The second thing that the teachers want is more resources for  additional needs to help the students that need help. Because when the students doesn't have enough resources than what are we gonna do to help them?.  And the school’s need more teachers because one teacher can’t take care of thirty student’s.

The last thing that the teachers want is to have better pay because they always stay more than how long they have to stay at school for. Also to because they do two things at a time because they do teach and they write their reports to give to the students parents. So thats all of the reasons why all the teachers in New Zealand are on strike. Also Dliz and I agree with the teachers because they have good reasons why. We wish the teachers good luck.   

Ned Kindness Adventure Show 2018

Today on the 6th of August we had someone from kindness adventure came to show us some ways to be kind.

Cosmo and Ned were talking about how being different can be good by trying new things that you don't really like but when you try new things you are introducing yourself to new things that you’ve new been around. So it’s always good to be different.

Another think that Cosmo and Ned were talking about was that being kind is cool because when you are kind to other people you are showing other people how to be kind. Also you are showing them how kind you are to everyone when you are being kind.They were encouraging us to always be kind and no matter what just be nice and kind to them.

The third thing that Cosmo and Ned were talking about was to be a person that includes everyone in the group. Including others is about when someone is alone go and ask then if they want to join you and your friends. That also means that  you should always be a kind and caring person.

So that's the things that Cosmo and Ned were talking about and they were very nice and entertaining to watch act out the things they did in Kenya with the students in Kenya and in Kenya they don't even have clean water like we do so they were selling treasure from Kenya and who every buys one of the treasures the money will go to Kenya to make wiles for them to have clean water to drink, clean there close and to clean themselves.

So that's what they were talking about when they came to pt england school.

These Are What Raupotaka Students Are 👍

Ruapotaka Students Are....

1.  Fair to one another and agree to disagree in any situation.

2. Caring people who are there for you.

3. Honest to teachers and other students.

4. Cheerful and share happiness to others at all times.

5. Respectful and polite to all teachers and other students.

These are the key values that Ruapotaka students hold.

A Terrifying Storm Hits Auckland!!!

Link : Photo 

Yesterday Auckland got hit by a very big storm. The storm hit around eight o'clock at night. This morning power lines and trees were broken down and roads were blocked off. The storm was very powerful and it made peoples power go out. When it hit I was very scared and I heard unusal sounds.

Eddie Dawkins Win 🎉🎉🎉

 Today Eddie Dawkins has done an outstanding job in the sprint cylcing race in the Commonwealth Games. The New Zealand athletes and competitors from different countries were impressed with him for his fantastic achievement in the game. He did his best and tried his hardest to accomplish what he had wanted.  

Ruapotaka's Prefects For 2018 👍

This year we have three new prefects to keep our school enviorment safe and to keep everyone from harm. They are responsible for the things they do. They are also here to help solve problems and things that the students are concerned about. If you need to talk to them individually  or if you keep secrets that you need to get off your back,  they will  be there for you. So whenever you need them they will always there.

5 Ways That You Can Be Cybersmart

5 ways to be Cybersmart 

1. Whatever you do it will be able to be seen. Source: Smart Footprint
2. Always follow the copyright rules. Source: Smart and Legal
3. Know how to see if the information online is correct. Source: Smart Media
4. Think about who you interact with online. Source: Smart Relationships

5. Know your rights as online consumers. Source: Smart Money

Going To Tech

Today at Tech I finished cutting out my mould. Then Mr Grundy melted some metal and he poured it into the mould. Then I had to wait for it to cool down. It took about ten minutes to let it cool down. Meanwhile I went to go and help my friend from St Pius. They were so helpful and supportive. Then finally my piece cooled down. Then it was time to stop and I only just started filling.❤

Being In Mr Grundys Class For Tech

Today we went to tech and we were in Mr Grundy's class and he does wood work and making things out of metal.  We were collaborating with St. Pius. Today I just started cutting out my mould and it was a musica note. At first I was so apprehensive because I might  myself by hurt cutting off my finger. Because it's a very fast saw and I can chop off my finger. I only just finished cutting out half of it and Mr Grundy told us that our time was up.

Summer Learning Journy Awards

On the 23rd of February we had a special guest her name is Rachel Willams and she came to Room 11 to give the awards to the people that were participating for the Summer Learning  Jourany in the holidays. First she started with the people that participated and that was Katrina, Malia, Sione and Tupousini. Then I got a award for commenting and posting all of the time. Pupuke was in first place then in second place it was Frank and in third place was Riiana and Kotipi. 

Back To School

Welcome back to school! It has been a long holiday. I hope you were reading in the holidays. I look forward to learning new things every day. This year in our classroom we have two new students and their names are Robin and Storm and they are both year 7 students just like me. It is the third week of the first term. I am so glad to be blogging and learning because I've had enough relaxing time and I'm reading to get learning.

Chocolate Fudge 'box' Brownie Cheesecake

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F (180˚C).

 2.Prepare the brownie batter and pour into greased springform pan.

3.Bake until set, about 20-25 minutes.

4.Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese and sugar until incorporated. 5.Add beaten eggs and vanilla, and beat again until smooth.

6.Remove brownies and lower oven temperature to 325˚F (165˚C).

7.Pour cheesecake batter over brownie bottom, and bake for 50 minutes until set and slightly jiggly.

8.Remove cheesecake and refrigerate for 4 hours, or overnight.

9.Heat or microwave whipping cream to just before boiling and pour over chocolate chips. Stir continuously until the chocolate is melted and smooth.

10.Allow the ganache to sit for 10-15 minutes.

11.Transfer cheesecake to a baking pan with a wire rack. In a circular motion starting from the inside out, pour the ganache glaze over the cheesecake making sure to cover all sides.

12.Allow ganache to cool and set for 30 minutes.

13.Enjoy!