Athletics day

Malo e lelei and greetings to you all on Friday the 19th of November had our very own TPS athletics day.It was Nice and sunny we all had a amazing time.

The athletics day was being held at the TPS field were we had all shorts of games like Shot put, long jump, standing jump, discuss, other games. We also had races between each house. The different houses there was, was Tripoli,Alamein,Benghazi and Tobruk, The different houses had different colours:

Tripoli was: BLUE

Benghazi was: Green

Alamein was: yellow

&

Tobruk was: Red.

For Athletics this year we didn't have relays on the day because we didn't have that much time left, so they choose to do it some day on the week.

Here are some photos from the day:

Cybersmart

Seeing is believing story

This is a image about a town of ratties and mouses and in this image was about the town of the animals having a race and as you can see the rest of the mouse and ratties are having fun supporting and cheering them on.

Is seeing, Believing?

Is seeing really believing. When I see things I believe it but only if it's in real life. When thing are on photo I have really think if it's really. There are things that I don't have to think about if it's real or not because might be photos that I take that I am for sure aware that I made it.

Today we have been doing this for cybersmarts and what it is talking about is alternating photos to look different.

What photos do you think is real and which ones are fake?

Here is my presentation to present my work:

Every Child has Hopes and Dreams

Why do you think we invited Everyday Theatre in today to work with us?

I think this is a lesson to teach kids that when there are troubled stuff happening at home then it's alright to ask for help.

Why do you think the team used a computer game to work with us?

In my perspective I think it's because children these days play on there computer more and it seemed really fun.

Who could you ask for help if you ever felt like Jack and knew someone who needed help support?

What was the hardest part of the game and why?

The hardest part of the game was to freeze because I kept on laughing and it was hard to stay still.

What did you enjoy most about being a Games Master for a morning?

It was really fun and I really enjoyed being able to play.

How did we work as a team to win this game?

We participated and made sure that everyone was following the rules and trying to keep our lives.

What could we take from today to use in other classroom activities in the future?

We could use and tech other kids about situations like this.

What kinds of secrets are okay to break?

You can tell like who you like and stuff like that.

Cybersmart - Infographic

Here is my cybersmart infographic that I have created.

Current Events

WALT: blog about current events that have occured on the news.

Today we have been reading articles on current events that have happened in the news. I have been reading an article on fortnite. Some people believe different things with the thing that happened to fortnite.

Here my presentation I have created with the link down below:

Goals

Goals for Term 4:

-Learning Goal

Finish task on time

Be on task at all times.

-Behaviour goal

Listen to the teacher at all times

Don’t talk during class time

-Social goal

Spending as much time with my best friend before we go to highschool

Encourage my brother with his learning before he becomes year 8

Personal goal:

Lose weight so I have the energy and strength to get through high school with my best friend.

Accept failure

Reading - Conflict

WALA: conflicts and how people react to conflicts.

Today we have been doing reading and learning about conflict.We have been given a statement or situation in which we will react with conflict in, like for example: When someone steals my pencil or money, we have to right our absolute honesty and what I wrote was: I'll hit them and give them attitude.

I would feel mad and annoyed even it's as small as my pencil but there's a more simpler way of using my pencil and it doesn't involve stealing my pencil

Here's a picture of my work:
(it's a bit Blurry but at least you can see I have done work:)

Blog Commenting

Today we have been blog commenting on our buddie schools blog. I unfortunately haven't blog commented but I replied to someone's blog comment and here it is. Our buddie class is Rimu Class at Yaldhurst Model School.

Here is his my reply to his comment:

Tongan Language Week

🇹🇴 IALA: The culture of Tonga🇹🇴

5 Facts about Tongan language week:

-On Sunday ( also known as Sapathe) they close all the shops so that everyone can go to church.

-Monday - Monite

-Tuesday - Tusite

-Wednesday - Pulelulu

- Thursday - Tua Pulelulu

10 Tongan words I learnt:
Friday - Filaite
Saturday - Tokonaki
Sunday - Sapathe
Sio - See
Lele - Run
Mate Ma'a Tonga - Die for Tonga
Hiva - Sing or Nine
Alu - Go
Nofo - Stay
Mohe- Sleep

3 Things I enjoyed
I enjoyed Working with my fellow classmates.
I have enjoyed speaking my home language and others being able to als learn it.
I have enjoyed playing around but also being able to teach non - tongans how dance tongan ways.

Technology

For Technology we have been changed into another group. As you know I was in the graphics group but now I am in the hard materials group. In the hard materials group we make stuff with wood and we got to pick what were making we had to pick a specific thing to since the way we are cutting the wood is different. 

I have chosen to do a dresser but with a mirror but I don't really want to add the mirror because I don't really have anything to do with it. 

Blog commenting

Today I have been blog commenting on my buddie class and the person I picked for my buddie was a girl named Melissa. She has an amazing blog and has good detail and I'm pretty sure she has but a lot of effort in her work.

Here is my comment I left on her blog:

The Silent One

IALT: blog my summary on the book my group has been reading The Silent One.

So today I am going to be presenting my summary on the book that I am still trying to finish. My book that I have been reading is called "The Silent One" and it's a very good book, it's a chapter book and so far I'm on chapter 4. 

Anyways here my summary and it's just on the first chapter:

The Silent One is a book created by the author Joy cowley and she is an author that comes from New Zealand, she has about four kids and it 83 years old. I didn't know this until I learnt about her but me and my friend use to read her book when we were young like Mrs Wishy Washy and Greedy cat.

Blog commenting

Today we have been blog commenting on our buddie schools blog. I unfortunately haven't blog commented but I replied to someone's blog comment and here it is. Our buddie class is a school called Gisint School in Gisborne. It's a big class and full of big ideas.

Here is his my reply to his comment:

Here is his comment I replied on:

MATHS!

Here is the my presentation that I have been working on and it is about working out strategies and being able to tell if it's part unknown or whole unknown.

When a strategy is part unknown then it means that only part of the question is what you need to find and when it's whole unknown then it's the whole number that you need to find out.

Here is my presentation that I have created:

Here is only three of the slides that I have been working on because the strategies are one the side of these and the rest of the strategys I wrote in my book.

Bacteria

Bacteria is a topic that we have been working on and we have been working on a presentation that will be used in my blog today that will be talking about the acronym of Mrs Gren, Mrs Gren is a acronym that goes:

M- Movement

R- Respiration

S- Sensitivity

G- Growth

R- Reproduction

E- Excrution

N- Nutrition

Mrs Gren is the acronym that we have used to help us with bacteria, bacteria is something people think is bad but most bacteria is good, like for example - did you know that 90% of the cells that make your body are made of bacteria. Here is my presentation that I have made that includes the details that I have in Bacteria:

The Silent One

This is my summary about the silent one and I think it's an amazing story and it's interesting to read, Here is my summary and here is the link to google drawing if you can not really see the words.

Technology

IALT: blog about what I have done at technology

Today at technology we have been designing shapes that we will be using in our 3d designs of our games that we have chosen to make 3d and y game that I have chosen to make 3d is tic tac toe or else known as naughts and crosses. Technology is fun and boring and what I enjoy is being able to create fun and amazing stuff and what I find challenging is that in graphics your thinking skills are used every time your there. Our teacher in graphics at technology is Miss Ferguson.

Technology is tiring and hard working and I think that the only thing I would do next time is listen and try not talking because I find it distracting and I don't really get work done but I still try to get it done the next time I'm there.

Here is our 3d designs that we have created and we have been using a website called tinkercad were we use to make our 3d objects were we then send it to Miss Ferguson and then she prints it on the 3d printer:

These are three pieces were you can then choose out of the three and pick which one you want to play with. There can only be 2 players with tic tac toe and hopefully my 3d game will be done by next week and I will finally get to play it with my besties.

Writing a Quality Comment

WALT: create 8 sentence start to help us start our sentences in our blog comments.

Today for cybersmarts we have created a qualitie comment template. We have created it on a google drawing and I found this really easy. We had to find 8 simple sentence starters that would start our blog comment. If you were a year 7 you had to find 7 sentences starters and if you were a year 8 you had to find 8 sentence starters. We also had to come up with one fare well greeting that ends our blog comment.

Here is my DLO that I have created:

Smart footprint learning reflection

CYBERSMARTS

Yesterday we had cybersmarts with Miss collins and I found it enjoyable and neveracking. For cybersmarts we had to present our presentations that we did and the presentation includes us doing doing a infographic about a manaiakalani blogger. my infographic includes 3 ways to become a smart blogger. We also shared our criteria about our blogs and what we use for our criteria. In my criteria I added my private and public cybersmart work because it shows a template of what's public and whats private. Here is my presentation that I have created:

Here is my infographic that I have created and you cannot really see it on the screen so I'm putting it here on the bottom:

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Smart blogger

I have created a infographic that explains 3 ways to be a smart blogger. Here is my infographic, hope you enjoy and make sure to be cybersmart online and on your blogs.

Hope you enjoy and make sure to blog oftenly so others can see what you have been working and to be very cybersmart. THANK YOU!!!!

Plastic waste

Today I am going to be blogging about my why plastic is bad for seabirds. There are many different seabirds and because of pollution many of them are dying yearly. This is a bad habit and should be stopped in my opinion, if you want to argue with me in a good way, comment below. Here is my DLO that I have created:

Hope you enjoy and to remember that pollution is a thing and is bad for global warming. SO STOP!!!!

Matariki

Today I'm going to be blogging about my Matariki. Matariki is about the six sisters with their mother in the sky. Matariki is a bunch of stars in the sky that symbolises the Maori new year. Matariki means little eyes but Mata ariki  means eyes of God. Matariki is celebrated traditional with hangi and people waiting for the light of dawn to see the stars of Matariki. We watched of 2 videos and write statements of what the stories were about and how they were different from each other.

Here is My DLO:

I hope you enjoy and have a Happy Matariki!!

My Future Letter to Myself

MY FUTURE LETTER

Today I am going to be blogging a letter that I have made to my future self and hopefully I see this in the future. One thing I enjoyed about this task is that by doing this I am having a little conversation with my future self , well when I see it in 10 years.

Here is my DLO I have created, Hope you enjoy:

Smart footprint

Here is my work that I have done on my friend, It has her many strengths and what makes her a special person, They are divided in 4 squares and I find her to be one of the most active blogger in our school. Please make sure to look at her blog.

Here is my DLO hope you enjoy:

Who am I?

IALT: Make a Google drawing with Pictures to Discribe me

Today for Technology we have made a google drawing which has pictures that describe us. My group is now in Graphics and out teacher is Ms Ferguson. I have put in my favourite food, my favourite movie and other thing that you can see in my google drawing. Here is my work here that has all the different picture that describes my likes and others. 

Maths

WALT: add and subtract fractions working out the denominator to be the same.

Here is my DLO that I have made to explain how I solved a addition question involving fractions. My work is based on my explaining what I have done, what the question is and how I solved it. Here is my DLO that I have made, hope you enjoy and learn something.

Maths

IALT: blog about my maths work

In class we have been working on Maths and for maths we have been working on fraction problems. Here is my fraction problem and how I solved the problem.
Here is my DLO about explaining how I solved my question.

Here is the DLO and if you can't really read it here is the link:

Teens build amazing car chart

Today I have read a document that tell me about these tennagers that have created a car that can run for long for little bit of gas. I think this is an amazing job that they have done and if I had the opportunity to do this I would.

Teens build amazing car

LI - Identifying bias in text

Fill in the chart below to identify bias in the text you have just read.

POV - point of view

What might an alternative point of view be?

Person in text	Their POV	Alternative POV
Dellasa students	I think they were thinking about ways they can travel farer for little amount of Gas or Electricity	I think it’s a great Idea but I think the struggle is the design and finding the way they can travel faster and farer.
A use to be car race

With a partner look on line and find texts that have conflicting points of view. One text that tells the reader fluoride in drinking water is bad for you, and one that says it is good.

Add the links to this document.

IALT: blog about my kindness presentation

Today we made a google slide that shows the definition of kindness. It is here to help you show you stuff about kindness. So this is a presentation slide that shows you about kindness. It has words that represents the different meanings of kindness. Here is my google slide and there is a little definition there that sums up what I think kindness means:

Maths

WALT: use our multiplication thinking to solve unknown value

We have doing algebra and  for algebra we have been using multiplication to find the value of the letter. We have been given problems to solve and I find them interesting and fun to do. What I enjoyed was finding out a new way of maths and also working with my fellow students. What I found challenging was finding one of the answers but with my friend next to me I finally got the answer.

Manaiakalani Questioner

Today the student leaders were finishing of there Manaiakalani questioner. The questioner was about Learn, create, share and also what we use our device for in learning. The questions were interesting because they had some interesting questions for us and one of the questions that I was reading, I didn't really understand. This questionnaires were for us to see what type of things we learn on our netbooks and what type of affects we have on us. Here is my insert of my submission of my Manaikani questioners.

NYLD 2019

Today I attended the NYLD 2019 where student councils / leaders attend it from different places and schools. I got to see some familiar faces and some were new ones. I tried to get to know some people, but it was kind off hard because we had to stay in our seats. There were some students in the back were I started some conversations with.

We learnt many things and we got booklets which were very helpful and gave everyone there how to grow in becoming a student leader.

HAVE FUN - 

Don't wait for other people to start having fun. Other people will have more fun if you decide to have fun.

BE A LEADER -

What this means is that you can show people how to behave by how you behave. That's what being a leader is.

LISTEN UP - 

Leading others often start with listening to others. Make sure you listen up today so you don't miss out on being inspired and entertained by some incredible korero.

DON'T STEAL STUFF -

Stealing is bad but only when... nah - never steal.

There were  seven speakers and host, there was suppose to be eight but one couldn't make it. They host and speakers were:

- Ronnie Taulafo

- Christian Gallen

- Dr Lehan Stemmet

- Kings

Liz Alexander

- Hana Tapiata

-Phil Baker

These are my three favourite speakers.

Ronnie who was the host for what now and came from the island of Samoa. he old us about his life journey from being born in Samoa to going to Australia and then going back to Samoa and having to learn the proper language of Samoa.

Dr Lehan Stemmet is an amazing person because now he is one of my role models. He was a high achieving student at his school and had so many badges, that he had to get a second jacket and he is inspiring and hopefully someday you will meet him.

Christian Gallen is the funniest person I've meet and he would non stop talking with excitement on stage. He may have been sweating but he carried and from that I knew he had a strong and energized personality. He taught us that good student leaders are good at having conversations and talking and being able to be confident with who they talk with, but he also taught us that leaders are also good at listening and letting others share what's on there mind and see if there are anything we can help with.

My highlight of the day was seeing Kings perform, which was an amazing experience and I never thought I would ever have that experience and hopefully I have much more experiences like that.