Talking with Andrew Patterson

Today team 5 had a talk with Andrew Patterson, and this time he brought someone with him and it was a year 12 boy named Raenan. Raenan talked to us about his life at Tamaki College, when he was in intermediate his mum said that he was going to Tamaki College but he didn't want to go there but he wanted to go to other schools near his house but he figured that tamaki was the best for him. When Raenan was 12 years old he had set a goal for himself and that goal was to try and be a deputy boy and now in 2017 he is a deputy boy. After Raenan was talking about his life Andrew Patterson showed us a video of a boy saying a speech, his Dad was in prison for 7 years.
My goal for being a year 8 is being a role models for younger kids.

Goldie and Bear

Once upon a time there lived a Girl named Goldie and a bear named Bear.Goldie and Bear were best friends, they lived in a place called Fairy tale Forest.Everyday Goldie would go to Bears house, and together they would explore Fairy tale Forest.One day when Goldie went to bears house.Bears Mum made some cookies for Bear and Goldie.As Goldie was eating her cookie she asked Mr&Mrs bear How Her and Bear met.(And the story began).Once Goldie and her dad moved to Fairy Tale Forest,Goldie's Dad asked Goldie to go around to all the houses in Fairy tale forest and  hand out some housewarming envelopes. Once Goldie got to Bears house.She knocked on the door, But no one would answer, So she went inside. Once she was inside she could smell something very nice.And it was the smell of porridge.(now we all know how this bit goes) She went to the first bowl of porridge (TOO HOT) Next bowl (TOO COLD) and finally the last bowl (JUST RIGHT). So she ate that all up.Then she felt sleepy . So she went up stairs where the beds were.She tried the first bed,(TOO HARD) The next bed (TOO Soft) And the last bed(JUST RIGHT). When the bears got home they could see that the porridge was eating, The they heard a sound up stairs.So they went upstairs,and found Goldie sleeping in Bears bed.But instead of  scary Goldie off they woke her up. Goldie gave the invitation to the bear family and went home hoping to see them at the housewarming party.When the bear family got to the housewarming party Goldie was so surprised to see them.And after the housewarming was over Goldie and Bear became best friends. And that is the story of how Goldie and Bear Met.

WALT - Use interesting language in our writing

Word problems

WALT: Understand which 2 operations (+, -, x, /) can be used to solve each problem.

Inferencing

WALT - make inferences from a text

SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can: - use evidence from a text to explain hidden meaning

Spitting to Survive

WALT - improve comprehension and understanding of a text

SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can: - answer questions about the text using complete sentences

Reading Comprehension

WALT - improve comprehension and understanding of a text

SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can: - answer questions about the text using complete sentences I am learning about killer whales and cheetahs. I made a slide with 10 facts.

Math Problems

WALT solve maths problems

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I can:
- use BEDMAS to solve equations with more than one operation
- use basic facts knowledge to solve addition and multiplication problems

In these slide it shows there is different type of word problems. We also made 10 different bedmas Brackets.

School Athletics Day

WALT - write a recount

On Friday 10th of November, it was our annual School Athletics day. There were different types of sports and activities.  

The first thing we had to do, when we got to class was get changed into our house colors. When the bell went everybody lined up, outside on the netball courts. The principle talked to us,  then we were able to start off our day. The sports we played were softball, relays, dodge ball, extreme, volleyball, shot put, high jump, sprints, discus, javelin, and other type of sports. There were groups like year 7 girls or year 8 girls. All of the groups had one teacher to look after them and tell them where to go.

First game that my year 7 group played was softball. Since it was the first game of the day I was a bit nervous. As the day went on I got more and more nervous. I was so nervous, because of the sprints. I am not good at running. The day went on and I had to the sprints so when it was time to run I was scared. The principle got two kinds of wood and clapped them together. When he clapped the woods together, we had to run. So we ran. I came 4th or 5th in the sprints.

It was the end of the day and everybody went to class to mark the roll. Then  everyone would go back on the courts then the teachers would direct us to sit somewhere to sit on the field to watch the different house color people did the relay race. The team that came 1st was hikianalia in 2nd place was Hine moana in 3rd was Te Aurere and in fourth place was Hokulea. Then when that race was done the teacher and the kids and the volunteers did the relays, it was a bit funny in the beginning of the race because there was one teacher that fall over flat on her face but the winner was the kids team and they won by miles. But in second place was the volunteers and in third was the teachers. When that was finished we went back to the team 5 block and had a rest and some ice blocks.

At the end of the day I had a lot of fun and I can't wait until next year when I will be a year 8. Next year I am going to try really hard because it will be my last year.

Andrew patterson talking to yr 7 and 8

Today on the first of october this man called Andrew patterson came to the year 7 and 8 block to talk about the future and if we want to be a giver or if you want to be a taker when you grow up. The first thing he did with us is talking about what we want to be when we grow up and what we have to do, to get the job and what it takes. Like if you wanted to be a professional sports player you will only get a 1 percent. A + I = M. A stands for Aspiration, I stands for Insertion and M stands for Motivation.

Multiplication pyramid

5 x 15 =75

5 x 10 = 50

5 x 5 = 25

50 + 25 = 75

15 x 12 = 180

12 x 10 = 120

12 x 5 = 60

120 + 60 = 180

12 x 4 = 48

10 x 4 = 40

2 x 4 = 8

40 + 8 = 48

75 x 180 =

70 x 100 = 7000

70 x 80 = 5600

5 x 100 = 500

5 x 80 = 400

7000 + 5600 = 12600

500 + 400 = 900

12600 + 900 = 13500

180 x 48 =

40 x 100 = 4000

40 x 80 = 3200

8 x 100 = 800

8 x 80 = 640

4000 + 3200 = 7200

800 + 640 = 1440

7200 + 1440 = 8640

13500 x 8640 =

8640 x 10000 = 86400000

8640 x 3000 =25920000

8640 x 500 = 4320000

86400000 + 25920000 + 4320000 = 116640000

8 Phases of the moon

This presentation is about the 8 phases of the moon. If you dont know what any of the phases from the moon you should cheek out this presentation.

Transformation

There is a app on the slides that can or will help you with Rotate,Reflect, and translate.

Translate

Question - The rectangle slides to a new position.
Which of the following could be the new position of the rectangle?

This had to be the easiest because you had to slide the shape along and the other options were turned or something else

Question - The L-shape is translated at an angle of 60° and a distance of 4 units, then translated again at an angle of -10° and a distance of -3 units

Which one of the following shows the correct image?

This was the hard one because I didn't know what was going on and I just didn't get what was happening

Rotation

This was the Question - The square is rotated one complete turn about the point O.
Which of the following shows the new position of the square?

This was the easy Rotation I did because all you did was a full turn, you just had to leave it there because it was a full turn 180 degrees                   

This is my answer and it was wrong

The Question - Rectangle A′B′C′D′ is the image of rectangle ABCD after which of the following rotations?

This one was hard and confusing because I didn't know what to do . 

                  

Inferring

WALT -  make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when 
- I can use evidence in the text to support my inference
- I can use prior knowledge to support my inference

I learnt that you need to know what is happening in the story before you start inferring. In a story you write whats happening so you can find the information and you can find things that the author didn't write.

Message Received

WALT -  make inferences (find hidden meaning in a text)
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when 
- I can use evidence in the text to support my inference
- I can use prior knowledge to support my inference

For this presentation we had to answer some quetions from the book. We also had to choose 5 words that we dont know and put that word into a 
sentence. 
The Book HERE

Night Lights

WALT -  Identify features of a non-fiction text

SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when 
- I can locate information in the article using subheadings
- I can explain how paragraphs help the reader 
- I can name three types of visual images used in non-fiction texts

we learnt about space and what is going to happen in the futher. You can see that there is a diagram of the moon changes.

Geometry

This is our geometry work and we had to build rockets out of cuboids and draw a side view,front view, and top view.

Senior Speeches

On Friday the 25th August was the day for the speeches. Every class had to pick 3 people to stand up and say the speech. The people who was going to say the speech in front of our class was Sheena M, Eva H, David F. I am going to talk about Amelia . First up was Amelia she talked about her personal life and it was nice of here to say the speech. The speech was about why her nana was so happy cleaning up schools and Amelia just didnt get why she was so happy, She then realized her nana was smiling because she always saw Amelia. Her speech was really good and everybody claped for her.

Blast from the past

WALT -  identify the author's purpose
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when 
- I can explain if a text was written to persuade, entertain or inform


Blast from the past is about rockets made from the past. They also  show you how they are used in the past.