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.

The real story of Elsa and Anna

One day there was 2 girls named Elsa and Anna which are sisters and they lived in a castle, one day their parents were going to Rapunzel's wedding until they got shipwrecked, the reason why they were going is because Rapunzel's mum's sisters with Elsa and Anna mum which makes Elsa and Anna cousins . Their daughters thought that their parents had died but they have survived on the ship. This is when Ariel from the little mermaid comes in, the ship that Ariel explores is the ship that Elsa and Anna's parents gets shipwrecked on. Elsa and Anna's parents gets washed up on an island. When they are on the island Elsa and Anna's mum gets pregnant and has a baby boy named Tarzan but later that day Elsa,Anna and Tarzan's parents die. Elsa,Anna,Tarzan and Rapunzel is related and now Elsa and Anna have a little baby brother.

WALT - Use interesting language in our writing

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

Time word problems

WALT: Use our known strategies to work out time lapse problems

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

The Rules

WALT - generate questions  SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can: - make questions using Who, What, Where, When, Why and How

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

Multiplication Pyrimid

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

The Rules

WALT - generate questions 
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can:
- make questions using Who, What, Where, When, Why and How
In this presentation is information about some instruments and videos.

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.

Table Master

This was my fastest 12 time table time which was 34 seconds. We do table master for a warm up in the beginning of the math session.

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 . 

                  

Reflection

Answer - The y axis and it was wrong I didnt know how to do this and it was confusing/HARD

This was the easy one because all you had to do is put the square on the other side of the line then your done/EASY

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.

Geometry making rockets

For today's math session we were doing some geometry/math . First each person in the class had to have 10-12 cube blocks. We used the cube blocks to build a rocket. After we are done

 making the rockets we have to draw the ship on a math book from a birds eye view , side eye view and a front view.

Once we have finished drawing we have to get a buddy to look at the drawing and make the ship I have designed. They can only look at the drawing.

Nuber Knowledge

WALT -  Make estimates of lengths
                   -  convert between metres and centimetres

We also learn about problem solving and adding and subtracting negative numbers

Healing Honey

WALT -   Find and identify key information in a text

Finding key words & information, Notes and summary from a subheading. 

Sniff, Swing, Swipe

WALT -  Make links between different parts of a text.


We are trying to describe things about inventions made for animals.

Idea city

WALT - Condense ideas and paraphrase in my own words

Chunky chalk

WALT -   Evaluate information and form an opinion
We learnt what some word meant.

Decimal word problem - Early Finishers

WALT -  recognise and understand hundredths

Using decimals in word problems.

Statistical Literacy

WALT -  Interpret information from a pie graph and bar graph
Asking people some questions and record the data and put the data on a Pie Graph and a Bar Graph.

Statistics Diagrams and probiblity

WALT -  Interpret information from different graphs

Decimals fractions and percentage

WALT -  recognise and understand hundredths

For our learning we are doing number line  and putting decimals in the smallest to the largest order.

Early Finishers Data Usage

WALT -  Collect and organise data



Were learning to use probability,mean,median,mode and range.

Data usage

WALT -  Collect and organise data

We are learning what rang,probability, frequency, Median,mode,mean.

Probability/Key Competency

WALT -  Calculate the probability of an event happening

Talofa Bloggers

Today our class is focusing on our Key Competencies. Our aim was to stay on task and see how much progress we make for maths in one maths block. This should set the standard for how much work we complete each time we have numeracy.

Our two learning intentions were:

WALT: 1. Show how much progress we can make in one maths session

2. Articulate what we are learning about.

Here is my maths work I completed today

3 days without year 8

1st DAY

On the first day of the we got into our teach groups, mine was rua/2. Then we voted for a group name and group leaders and a group chant. Our leaders are Samoa and Javan our group name was don't worry then it was churries, the other teams names are fobaliscoius, and munchies. After morning tea Churries was doing cooking , we made truffles. After lunch time we played some sports.


2nd DAY


On the second day it was rush so we had to do 2 rotations. First the churies did art for the first rotation and the 2nd rotation was doing activities with Mrs Judd. The activates we did was who could build the talest tower without touching it, we had to use marshmallow and spaghetti sticks.We ate mornig tea and headed off to our new teach group.  After Lunch we did our run and did reading with the little kids.


3rd DAY

We went to assembly and went back to our groups and played stacking cups, and did blogging .

How To TRUFFLES / Churry group, cooking at school

Ingredients:

• 1x Super Wine Biscuits
• 1 x Can Condensed Milk
• 1/4 Cup Coco
• 3/4 Cup Choco Chips
• 1 Cup Desiccated Coconut

Materials:

• 1 Medium Bowl
• 1 Spoon
• 1 Medium Plate 
• measuring cups

1. You need to crush your Super Wine Biscuits, they don't have to be crushed really but they just need to be crushed
2. Next you will need to sift your 1/4 of Coco into your bowl
3. Put your crushed Biscuits into the bowl with Coco then mix them together  gently
4. Pour 3/4 cup of Choco Chips in the bowl
5. Add 1 cup of Desiccated coconut into the bowl and mix again
6. Pour the intire can of condensed milk ( Mix as you pour in )
7. Now your going to roll your Truffles in a shape of a ball and roll it in to another bowl of coconut
8. Your going to put your Truffles in the fridge overnight
9. Get your Truffles and put them inside a cellphone bag and tie it with a ribbon

These are the one that Churry group made at the bottom

Statistics 1

WALT -  Interpret information from different graphs

This is what i already know and things that I think I know.

Cooking at tech/ Custard Tart

When we had tech we made the dou then put it inside the foil plate. We had to leave it in for a while so we had to come back next week and finish it off.
We came back and then we made custard and put it inside the cooked dou. Then we put some fruits on top of the custard to make it look priceless.

12 by 12 grid

Unuseless Inventions

Learning Evidence

WALT -  Use our knowledge of place values, fractions and decimals to solve word problems

We are adding and subtracting decimals.

Math problems

WALT -  Use our knowledge of place values, fractions and decimals to solve word problems

I used adding, subtracting and number line to solve these questions.

Mixture of Problems

WALT -  Solve problems using various strategies

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.

2 Learning Evidence

WALT -  Summarise information in a text
SUCCESS CRITERIA:  I will know I can do this when I find key words/information and make notes

We learnt that 6 years ago there was a rena boat that crashed and all of the oil spilled out of the boat and ended up on the beach. 

My Special Place

My special place is the Otahuhu pools because I have been there with the family and with my Australian family. All sorts of things happen there with my family like my cousin's 1st birthday party and go there just to spend time with the family. The pools are indoor and a basketball court is outside and indoor and there is even a library connected as well.

Once you finish swimming and having fun you could go out the pools and then play some games on the grass where it looks like a field or you could go on the park. Some events happen there like the christmas party and more. The pools are great because they have a booming pool  a swimming pool a pool to play whatever you want in a spa pool and a kiddy pool and they have a water park but the water comes and goes.

I have fun memories from the Otahuhu pools and I even saw my cousin at the pools having a birthday party for his little brother or sister's party. The thing I like there is the booming area but don't boom I just jump and then swim out of the pool. The I like because it's fun for the whole family not just for kids.

I chose this place cause I have only been there with my family.

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My Special Place

My special place is the Otahuhu pools because I have been there with my Australian family. All sorts of things happened there with my family like my cousin's 1st birthday party, and to go there just to spend time with my family. The pools are indoor and a basketball court is outside and indoor and there is even a library connected as well.

Once you finish swimming and having fun you could go out the pools and then play some games on the grass where it looks like a field or you could go on the park. Some events happen there like the christmas party and more. The pools are great because they have a booming pool  a swimming pool a pool to play whatever you want in a spa pool and a kiddy pool and they have a water pbut the water comes and goes.

My Australian family came to NZ and we almost went to the Otahuhu pools everyday and to the beach. They had fun and all of our family went in the pools. Our house is near the pools so that’s cool too and we also  

I have fun memories from the Otahuhu pools and I even saw my cousin at the pools having a birthday party for his little brother or sister's party. The thing that I like there is that there is a booming pool, I don't boom I just jump and then swim out of the pool.I like it because it's fun for the whole family not just for kids.

I chose this place cause I have only been there with my family. I've also been there for birthdays and I see some of my family members and we never made a plan to meet.

WALT - Edit writing

We are editing my writing to make it better and make it more intresting.