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.

Independent and Dependent Clauses

WALT - Identify independent and dependent clauses
                    - Identify the features of complex sentences

These are some dependent and independent clauses. We had to make dependent and independent sentences and highlight the subject and highlight the rest in blue.

These are my role models

My role models

My role models are going to be Dwayne Johnson and maria tutaia.

There my role models because I like to play netball and it's fun. Dwayne Johnson because I want to be a actor or have a voice actor for movies.

Maria-

I picked Maria because my favourite spot is netball and I want to be as good as her. I and my friends play netball all the time but we are not good shooters as her. She is my role model cause she is really good and inspiring to play netball.

Dwayne Johnson -

He acts on a lot of movies that I like like to watch and he can sing. He voices on cartoon animation movies. He is also good at fighting, he used to be on WWE.

I WOULD LIKE TO ACT OR VOICE OVER AND YOU GET TO MEET OTHER COOL PEOPLE. It will be fun to be a different person's voice. Have fun while playing and learning about where you are going to catch the ball.

I have explained my two role models and what I like about them.

WALT - Identify & write simple and compound sentences

Trip to the museum

We were going to the auckland museum have you been there befor? All Of the year 5s cam and a couple of the year 4s.  We went there for the end of the year trip we got there in a bus. We went there on thursday in the morning.

As we were going on the bus to the museum I Angels and my friends were playing games while we got there. We were playing game that was like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 with our hands. When we got told we weren't aloud to play because we were too nosiey. We got bored so my two friends were singing a mori song because there more and i'm not. I wanted to do something with them because i was bored so my friend said do you want to play sweet and sour and i said how do you play that and she said you have to wave to somebody outside the bus and if you wave to somebody and they wave back then that mean your sweet and if you wave to somebody outside the bus and they don't wave then you are sour.

As soon as we got into the museum we sat down on the ground. My group had to go back outside and had a little something to eat With my teacher which is in my group. We ate and ate like big fat pigs. I ate the whole  time until we went because I had something big to eat and it was to big to eat just in a copy o points. After everybody ate they got to play after they eat. We ate were there were two cannons on the side it was next to the steps. I also saw a man with a big camera taking photos or recording everybody thought that it was a camera that takes videos and puts it on TV and i thought the video goes on TV.

It is time to go inside first we had to put our bags into a cage because we're not allowed food or drink in the museum.  Then we first looked at some of the stuff that was back in the olden days. There was  a clock chairs even some plates and cool suites. The next thing we went to look at is the tree house and inside that tree house it had a scary gorilla. I didn't see the gorilla because we were in a hurry to look around the museum. i wish i could have seen the gorilla because Angel M siad it was scary.

This was our last stop to the minecraft area. I saw some pairs of weird glasses and i put them on and the glasses were on a little computer screen and there were buttons just like a game. When i put the glasses on it felt like i was inside the game and that was so cool. When i moved myself i fell in the ocean and i died. It was like when you're at somewhere but you're really not like the minecraft.

I hope to go to the museum again because it's really fun and we get to see some stuffs that we've never seen befor. For my next end of the year trip i hope to go to some were big like pariki pools because that's where our year 8s went too. Or something like rainbow end because thats were our year 7s went or at least somewhere big.

End of the year Reflections

Reading: For my reading goal next year my goal is to take the journal book home and read to get the answers right. I could also read every where i go like in the car i could read a book. My other goal for reading is to get my reading age which is 10.0 but next year my reading age will be 11.0 . For reading I am trying to get all of my reading activities right. Writing: My goal for writing is make the people read my writing more. I also want to put in excitement. I really want to use interesting words that they can read and some cool words. I want to write in paragraphs too. Maths: My goal for math is to learn faster learn the math problem just like that. I need to work on my fractions so my other goal is to learn fractions. I need to learn more problem solving ways to work out hard equations fast. I also need to learn is my divided bys. Inquiry: Trade and enterprise was in term 3 we had to choses a group it was out of Homeware, Accessories, Toys, Kitchen, musical instruments, Stainnairy. I picked kitchen my group made a chocolate bowls and we put putting inside but the pudding looked like yogurt and the flavors were chocolate and caramel strawberry pudding. On friday we sold it for 4pt if you don't know what a pt is then this is what it is it is fake money it is made out of counters with a whole in the middle. A few of people came and brought some then the price got lower and lower and lower and the lowest price was 2pt. Conclusion: I am looking forward to the holidays and getting free time at home. I am going to miss school because it is boring at home sometimes because of my friends aren't with me they are only with me at school.

Walt: Analyse and reflect on our learning this year

Diamante

Walt: Write a diamante poem using nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms and antonyms     

Eating worms

Walt: I am thinking about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

Room 8 literacy class had an experience about eating worms. Our teacher is so crazy because she let us eat worms. Our teacher gives us crazy things to eat.

We got raw worms from in a packet  we put the worms into a bowl. Then we put some chicken flavour onto the raw worms then we put hot water into the bowl then we all have to wait until it gets soggy. When the worms are soggy we started to mix the worms in the bowl.

Once the worms were ready our teacher got tongs and she put some worms into the tongs and she suddenly put it in our mouths. As soon as the worms dropped into our mouths and it wiggled everywhere. Everybody was looking at other people eating there worms.

I think worms are nice to eat. I also think that they are the most delicious thing to eat in the world. The worms are nice and warm and they are not dirty and ugly.

Hooking in

Walt: Write introductions that orientate and hook in my audience

First try

Team 4 is learning about Trade and Enterprise. We have to get into groups like kitchen if you are in kitchen then you have to make something that matches with your group so if you could make cakes or cupcakes. Then when it Friday we have a trade fair a trade fear is just selling a little bit of stuff to find out how much people will come and buy your stuff and if you sell all your things then next time you can make more.

Buy 1 get one free.

With a ?

Team 4 is learning about Trade and Enterprise have you heard about that! On friday we have a trade fair a trade fear is just selling a little bit of stuff to find out how much people will come and buy your stuff and if you sell all your things then next time you can make more. Come on down and buy lots of stuff.

With a !

We have to get into groups like kitchen if you are in kitchen then you have to make something that matches with your group so your could make cakes or cupcakes. Buy as many as you want because it will be. Half price!

With facts

1 pt is worth 1 dollar, 20 pieces is worth 20 cents,they are like real money. Spend them or you could save it up. There is six groups they are called Home ware,Jewelry and accessory,Kitchen,Musical instruments,Custom Stationery and Toys.

Grass to Glass

Walt: Add detail to the end of sentences.

They cows eat 70 kilograms per a day, it's hard to eat that's why they have four stomachs. The grass goes through the 2 stomachs where it gets broken down then squashed into a cud. Then they burp it up and chew for a minute.  

Cows get milked twice a day once in the morning and once in the evening. Now days, milking machines do all the hard work,and the farmers don't have to milk them by hand. They attach the cups to the cow's teats that suck up all their milk.

Living on a farm

Walt: Write paragraphs with a variety of sentence lengths and complexities

Favorite thing that I would like to do on a farm. I would like to do lots of things on the farm. I could play with the animals.

If I lived on a farm I would like to give the cows there medicine on there back. I would like to give the cow medicine, because it's like shooting a cow but I wouldn't shoot a cow. I will put some medicine in its mouth. Putting it in its mouth will be going to be hard work.

My second best thing that I could do on a farm is horse riding. I love riding a horse because you go fast. I could also make the cows go into the pen.

It has been interesting to learn about what it would be like to live on a dairy farm, all the jobs you get to help with and animals you care for. But living there full time? No thank you. I think I’ll stick to the city.

All about me

Walt: use similes to write a poem about ourselves.

Basketball

Walt: Write simple and complex sentences

“Hey

Do you play sports at school we do? This term we get to play basketball  my coaches name is coach Malik and coach yaran. We go basketball with my math teacher inside the hall and we go after lunch and we started playing basketball 7 weeks ago and my math class goes on a Thursday.  As soon as we arrived we have to go into our our groups and we also have leaders because we always play different teams in basketball and my leader is Judah.

When we first started basketball we learnt some skills about basketball. What we learnt is doing pocket pass  overhead pass and a V dribble and we also learnt BEEF and b stands  for balance  e stands for  eye on target and the other e stands  for elbow and last of all f stands is for focus and then shoot. Something else we did with coach Malik and coach Yaran was bouncing the ball with your right hand across and back then we had to do it again but this time we had to do it with our left hand. Then we had to do the same thing but this time we did a V dribble across and back. Then we played a game called traffic lights.

We are playing traffic lights. If you don't know how to play then this is how you play the game . So first you have to pick one person to turn around and look back . Then the peas to turn the other way so he or she can't see any of them and when she is facing the other way the other people  has to run and when the person turns back at the people you have to freeze but if the person sees you move you have to start all over again. Then you keep on repeating until a person gets past the boy or girl or you can just touch the person and then if you touch the person you have to turn around and back.

At the 3rd to last week we got put into groups and we also have leaders and I wasn't in a team because I wasn't here so I just sat down then coach Malik told me to go in Judah’s team. Then my team had to play basketball and we had to play a different team. The first game I was out but as I was out I was cheering for my team so we could win and on the 2end game I was on. When I was playing basketball it was very fun and when I got the ball I ran towards the basketball hope then I passed the ball to someone else and then they tried to shoot the ball into the hoop but he missed or I think he got it in the hope. When our team was off we had to sit on the stage and the team we played had to sit and watch while we were huffing and puffing.

As we were playing I felt like I was a real basketball player playing for New Zealand. I also enjoyed playing Basketball and it was very fun.

Winter in Auckland

WALT: Use interesting words and word groups to write simple and complex sentences

Your paragraph describes an Auckland winter

It’s Winter now oh no!!

In Auckland there is a season called  Winter. About winter in Auckland is very cold  and sometimes in Auckland we have thunder in Winter. When it rains it sounds like there's hail but it isn't hail it is just rains. In Auckland you have to wear your gumboots and wear a rain coat and sometimes you can wear gloves so your hands can be warm. The grass can look like ice at night when I went outside it was freezing cold. It is slippery like ice and I slipped once at a birthday but I didn't fall onto the ground I just fall half way.