NEW YEAR!!!!

New years is nearly here Yay!! the year may have gone past very fast but I still enjoyed the time I had with my friends back in Pt England I hope that the new year 8's come in better than how we did through out this year. No matter how different the day is you just Roll with it.I know that new year can be a day when somebody gives Birth or birthday there can be real struggle sometimes when it comes to special eccations but remember that no matter what you do or where you are you must have faith in yourself.
Secondly there can be people your worried about, people who your scared but remember this bible verse.


Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courages. Do not be afraid or terrified
because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will
never leave you nor forsake.

WATTA DAY!!!!!

TODAY'S CHRISTMAS YAY!!! me and my family had a really great chirstmas evening first we had church after we had some performances. It has been a long and buzzing day for me and my family especially my mom. To all people out there I just want to say merry christmas to all of yous, may god bless those indeed. If your a person who is going through a hard time, just relax your mind cause christmas is a day where family's come together and gather around and do everything they can to make their children happy, especially the whole family. My family had a really great time and there a saying in english(samoan) and that saying is.
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The revelation of Jesus Christ, which

God gave him to show his servants 

the things that must soon take place.

He made it known by sending his angels

to his servants john.

Rev 1:1

(Samoan)

O le faaaliga a Iesu Keriso, lea
Na tuu atu e le Atua ia te ia e faaali atu i ana auauna
o mea e le o toe mamao ona tupu.
Na ia faailoa atu i le auina mai o ana agelu
i ana auauna john.
Faaaliga 1: Everything is possible only if you try but everything is diffcult if you don't try it.

MERRY CHIRSTMAS FROM US

TO YOU!!

BEDMAS

This morning my class had to do a blog post about BEDMAS and the meaning of each letter and here is my post about BADMAS and the what each word stands for.

Being together!!

On Thursday year 7's had a fun trip to rainbow's end well year 8's stayed back and did some really fun activity's. Everything wasn't normal for year 8's and some of the school kids cause year 7's went to rainbow's end and year 6's went camping at Kawau Island. So the teachers said that we had to just roll with it. When the year 7's made their way to the buses we had some professional people come in with some clay and talked to us about what they do. But first of all, they told us their names and their favorite part of working as a professional clay person one of them says that their favorite part of working as a professional clay person is leaving working and going to work at schools and doing some really fun things with them. In the Middle block after morning tea, we had to try finish of our art for the end of the year. If you are wondering why we are doing Maori art patterns is because we year 8's are leaving very soon. We are going to be leaving intermediate and going to college but when we leave we have left behind some good memories for the school. After we did our artworks we packed up and put away all of our stuff getting ready for lunchtime. Then not long after lunchtime, we had some really cool games but then our teachers said that the year 7's were on their way back to school so we had to pack up and move back into our classes. It was a really fun being together but with just the year 8's. Thank you, teachers, for the effort that you put in just to make it fun for our year 8's I hope all of us enjoyed the day with you.

Don't Litter Rap

“Don’t Litter X3

Stop littering your rubbish

Or you’ll get trouble

There’s litter all around us

There's litter on the street

There's litter in the bushes

There's litter at your feet

You know where to stick it

Don’t throw it just bin it

Put your rubbish in the bin

Dropping litter is a sin

Now you know the drill

Do it and stay chill

Just Clean It x4

If you put your rubbish in

The bin there will be no

Problem

rubbish is dangerous

it can cause pollution

If you don’t want that

put your rubbish in

The bin

“Put it in the bin”

The Truth Hurts

Scandalous Satire

This week my class has beenlearning how to summarise the article, but also learning about weather it was factual(true) or it was satirical(false) go and look through my presentation about scandalous satire.

Adrienne- Inquiry Art / Kowhaiwhai Design

The artist I chose was the Suluape family they are famous for doing stuff like Pe'as(Tattoo) and Malu. They are so professional that they make sure that everything is perfect and also makes sure that all the lines are nice and straight. I bet you that most or nearly everybody trust people from the Suluape family for doing stuff like Malu's cause they are careful but also know what they are doing. I reckon that If was one of those girls who'd be dying to get a Malu at a young age I would be saving heaps of money just to get a Malu even tho it costs heaps of money. Many or some people celebrate after you get your malu or pe'a done.

DMIC Maths and Rotations

For the past weeks my maths class Rm3 has been doing DMIC. DMIC stands for Development Mathematical Inquiry Community. We have been doing this since the start of term 1. But in term 1 we had a different teacher so we had some changes we had a boys and a girls group normally everyday we would always switch and see who’s doing DMIC Maths and who’s doing Rotations.

What is Rotations?

Now I’ve already explained to you what DMIC is and now I’m going to explain to you what Rotations are. Rotations is what we do in class when you are not doing DMIC Maths with teachers. What we do for Rotations is DLO, Basic facts, or FIOP.

What is DLO, BASIC FACTS, AND FIOP?

If yous are wondering what DLO, BASIC FACTS, and FIOP is well I’m going to explain now.

No.1  DLO, DLO is what we call Hyperstudio once you get to year 7&8 the name will change and it will be a little different. DLO stands for Digital Learning Objects.

No.2  Basic facts, What is basic facts?...Basic facts is what you do if you can’t remember your Times table so then the teacher will tell you to learn it until you actually know them of by heart.

No.3  FIOP, What does FIOP stand for? FIOP stands for Finish it of properly our class always does FIOP our teacher always makes sure that all of our work has been upto date.

In our maths class we have a chart with all our names on it our teacher always makes sure that everyone is on the list and that nobody will miss out. So everyday my teacher will go on the random number generator and pick out who has to do their times tables. But there's only 1 rule and it is a very strict rule if you don’t learn your times tables and tell your teacher that you don’t know them you will be on Re-think.

What is rethink?

Rethink is what teachers in team 5 run it’s more like detention but you don’t really write down lines but you have to clean and rethink about what you did or why you didn’t do it.

So what do you say….Does your school do DMIC Maths or Rotations??

Read through my writing about DMIC Maths and Rotations and see if its a good idea for your school or not.  

Film review Template

• • Introduction

  What’s more perfect than singing?

  Having fun on a road trip is amazing….The movie ‘Carpool Karaoke’ was made by room 23 and Ms King at Pt England School. It is a comedy movie which took place in a car.

  
  

  • Summary of the story

  Carpool karaoke is a movie that is based on music and dancing. It has all kinds of music like….GUCCI GANG. It has students and teachers dancing and singing to music. Our favourite song that we picked out was Boo’d up by Ella Mai. During the Carpool Karaoke Keyana couldn’t stop singing, dancing and having heaps of fun with all her friends and teachers. In the movie the main character(s) is Keyana she is the who sits on the driver's seat.

  
  
  

  • Analysis of the plot/story elements
  • What we noticed was that there were heaps of kids coming in and out of the and joining the fun. Some teachers were wanted to join some fun to so Keyana invited some teachers from DA BLOCK like...Mr Moran, Ms King, and Ms Moran.

  
  
  
  

  • Creative elements used in the movie

  The camera was standing on the dash and there were heaps of kids and teachers swaping in and out but there was only one person that stayed in the driver's seat.
  

  
  
  

  • Your Opinion of the film

  Carpool karaoke was an enthusiastic movie. In the movie we thought that there were very good expressions and good actions. Watching this movie really encouraged us to get up and have some fun.

  What’s your story about having a ‘Carpool Karaoke’ in your car?

  Or more like...

  
  

  What would you do on a boring day?

Inference

Today my class had a practice before the real test started so my teacher decided to do us some poems for a practice. And he is a presentation to show what I have been working on.

What makes a good leader?

what makes a good leader?

T	Title - What you will be explaining?
I	Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I	Information - Explain your ideas or steps in a logical sequence
C	Conclusion - Final summarising statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title	What makes a good leader?
Introduction	Have you ever imagined what it feels like to become a leader?Leaders are really lucky because they know what the wrong and right is. A leader is a Hard Worker, Never gives up, Brave person
Information 1st idea	Hard Work Firstly, an awesome leader is a person who works hard to get the job done and dusted. Example: If your family needed for a funeral or wedding the person to stand up and find the answer to that problem.
Information 2nd idea	Never give up Secondly, A leader is a person who keeps going and never gives up no matter what happens to them. Example:Imagine being in a race and your coming last they will keep going and they will never give up until they are at the finish line.
Information 3rd idea	Brave No matter what a leader is forced or told to do they ain’t scared of anything. They have the right to stand up and speak out no matter what the person looks like. Example: When you see somebody been bullied a leader will always be the first one there to help that person.
Conclusion	Are leaders perfect? What do you think about leaders? I think that A leader may not be perfect but they still have become leaders for a good reason.

24 hour clock

Through out the past term including this week my group has been learning the 24 hour clock in room 3 maths.

CROSS COUNTRY DAY!!

YAY CROSS COUNTRY!! If you guessed that I just finished running, then your correct. Because it was week 8, which also meant that it was nearly cross country our school was getting ready for the day to come. But then the day was here on Friday the 21st of September 2018 our school had Cross Country it was a really exciting run but nervous for some people. Everyone were at the courts sitting at their year and gender groups.

When everybody was settled we got the prefects and house captains up but first of all we did Mihi and Karakia(Prayer). Mr Burt stood in the front of everyone and spoke for a few minutes. Then Ms V, our school sport teacher spoke for a few minutes too, about what we should be doing but my year didn’t really need a reminder it might have just been for the year 1 to 4. After a few minutes, we started getting up the kids and when the years 1 to 4 finished everyone from years 5 to 8 got to move up and see a better view.

At the end of the race I was really proud of myself because I tried my personal best even though I didn’t come the places I was hoping to come I thought that it wasn’t really about coming 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. But then I found out that it was all about trying.

TEAM 5 PERFORMANCES

Today was a special day for teams 5 and 3 my team. Team 5 had a performance for every class my class was 2nd to last which was room 3, it was actually kind of a nervous performance for my group in my group we wore Ie lavalava, Sei(Flower), school top, we decided to wear these for a reason we wore this because Our school represents our school, our lavalava represents our culture, and our sei(flower) represents our family at the end or during the dance it was actually pretty fun. I was proud of my group because they put heaps of effort to our dance that we were learning for the few weeks. The whole team might have been nervous to dance but still we kept going and none of us gave up. I hope that next time when we do these performance we are used to it and no one in the block is shy.

Maths rotation?

In team 5 at Pt England. Room 3 has been doing DMIC. If you don't know what DMIC stands for it stands for Developing Mathematical Inquiry Community's. for DMIC we always have 2 groups a Boys group and Girls group why we do that it's because it was easier for each student to learn and everybody feels much more comfortable the it is.

Move Ya'Body workbook

This terms theme is Move Ya'body and my group has been trying to learn a Samoan dance that goes with the name Ma'ulu'ulu Samoan dance and the that group decided to do was "Le Tausala Samoa" I was proud of my group because it only took us a few minutes and one day just to practice one dance.  the girls that were in my group were Anna Vaka, Petesa Setefano, and myself Adrienne Leitufia. WELL DONE TEAM!

Tongan language week!!! CHE-HOO!!

Malo e lelei it TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK! Today was a very special day for our school why I said special day was because we had 2 different Tongan groups perform at our school today. It was actually kind of weird cause every year we normally have only one group together performing but this time they decided to make it a bit intresting and have 2 different groups a Boys group and a Girls group. Team 5 was so glad to see the audience having fun.

Our theme for tongan language week was…

“FAKAKOLOA O AOTEAROA AKI A E OFA FONUA”

What’s your story about your tongan language week?

Show don't tell

This terms theme is "Move ya body" and my class has been doing show don't tell this week my group Waititi has been out learning how to unicycle but finally got to stay inside class to catch up on some writing and finally I managed to catch up to do this presentation and this presentation is about some athletes and we got to pick a athlete to write about and my athlete was Yohan Blake the reason to why I picked him was because we couldn't pick Usain Bolt cause my teacher knew that we would know a lot of information about Usain Bolt. Please read my paragraph about Yohan Blake and leave a comment for what I need to do better and what I need to fix on my paragraph.

Using our senses

This and last week my literacy class has been learning how to use our senses and why its important and here is a little slide show to show more about what senses are and what we use them for.

STATISTICS!!

This weeks activity we have been introduced to statistics. From this Presentation we know that there is more then one graph. ISN'T THAT COOL!! Knowing that there is more then one graph. You can put more Data into more then one graph. AMAZING!! Going through this presentation was a good way to know more about how data can be used.

Cup stacking

This terms Theme is "move ya body" and today my home class did cup stacking challenge 1 person per group and I was one of them I got 21.32. What I learnt was that not only your body movement are important to you but it is also about our mine controlling. Some new words I learnt was Role Model if you wanna be a role model then don't say it but show it. Encourage. Encourage means when you see your team mate is stuck then help or push them to do something that they want to do.

INTRODUCTION TO DECIMALS

WALT: work collaboratively to solve word problems.

From this term and last term I have now understood a bit more and have also learnt a bit more about decimals and what they are for and what you can also use them for. If you would like to learn more about decimals please check out my presentation about decimals.

EXPO

   EXPO

Team five decided to do an EXPO to show to Pt England School. The reason why is because we needed to teach the younger students about Force and Motion. Teaching makes you a better learner.

Our group had more than two ideas, our first idea was to do a catapult, another idea we had in mind was to do an egg in the water experiment.

For our project we wanted to do the egg in the water experiment. The reason why we wanted to do this experiment was because it looked fun, and we wanted to test it out, and that it concludes Force & Motion.

Our group failed because we didn’t have the equipment. But we really wanted to do the EXPO with the other Yr 7 & 8 so hopefully we can do it next time.

When we have another EXPO our group should have the right equipment, and to be ready to present what we have learned to the Pt England Students.

Three Laws Of Motion

A letter to Mr Van Horn

Dear Mr Van Horn,

My name is Adrienne and I am 12 years old. I was born in New Zealand and I have 6 siblings. I am the second to last youngest in my family. My brothers and sister names are mostly samoan names but you might get to know them, My oldest brother’s name is Solotai, The second oldest is Solomona, the third oldest is Feagaimaleata, my brother in college that is year 13 now his name is Kitiona, My sister in college taunese she is year 10 now, and my youngest brother john he is year 5 this year and attends Pt England school. My favourite sport I like to do at school is Netball, Basketball, Soccer, Tag, and Rugby. I enjoy playing with my friends at Morning tea and Lunchtime other stuff I enjoy is getting to know people like you. My favourite stuff to do out of school is going home doing chores and finish of my school work have some free time then of to sleep at 8:00 at night. At school what I enjoy is doing maths and literacy what I like more is on fridays when we go to swimming. I really like using the Imacs at school because I like doing my DLO. DLO stands for digital learning objects. Sometime I don’t enjoy doing work in class and sometime I lack of school time but not on sport times. I have some questions for you to answer.

Do you have any siblings? How long have you been living in Eugene for? Who are you named after? When were you born?

Best wishes,

[Adrienne]

Frictions

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This activity is about friction this from this presentation we have learnt that friction helps us at times and sometimes doesn't help us.


I have learnt that friction means Friction occurs two or more object rub together.


How friction helps us is our fingerprints create a friction when we pick up an object.

Less than one second

Weekly Blog

Through out this week I hav learned some stuff in maths not just maths, In maths I have learned that I could break down numbers and also today I learnt heaps of stuff in swimming like freestyle. I hope for you's a comment below check my blog for more infromation

Reflection

 Today for maths we played a game/activity so part of that games we had to get into groups of 4 and we had to take turns circling numbers from 1to100 it was pretty fun but then it got a little bit hard to find the numbers even though it was hard we still kept on going until we finished for the first round I was in a group of 3 not 4 but 3 that three was Me, Sheena, and Mereana, for my group for the second round was in a group of 4 which was Me, Faioso, Annav, and Tevarihi. We found the game fun and easy but a little bit hard.

Blog

Today we are going to stay at Tamaki for the whole and my second class was EP5 My Teachers name for EP5 is Ms Apelu she is awesome that she gave us a new game and we had to try and guess the city or country it is in.

Tech@Tamaki

Last week on Tuesday we went to tech and for tech I am in cooking in cooking we made some cupcakes our cooking teachers name is Miss Hecker

A letter to Pak N Save

130 Pt england Road

Pt England

Glen Innes

Date: 8 of March.

Kia ora pak N save,

My name is Adrienne and I am a year 8 student at pt england school. My classroom is wondering when plastic bags are going to stop. Our class think that it is not safe for our birds because then if birds see that it’s lying around then birds will think it's actually food but really it's not. So we reckon that we should stop giving away plastic bags and instead of plastic bags we should start using boxes or just using trolleys instead. And they are also killing our native animals.

Yours sincerely,

Adrienne.L

Adrienne's Visual Mihi

How to save money

How do you save money? Well there are heaps of money to save money me. I save money by putting it in a safe place
like my piggy bank so that no one in my family or my friends

can take away from me.

Saving Poorman's Stream

So today at school we were learning about people throwing rubbish into other peoples creek it is not a good idea to throw rubbish into creeks that you don't own or if you are going to throw rubbish in some one else's creek then you have to pick it back up it not fair for other people to pick up after you.

Dead Cars

   Today I have been learning a bit of dead cars
and a little bit about punaruku school. Punaruku
school is an amazing school it is a school who cares about their own environment they have taught me that we should care about our Community and especially around schools and also where your school are.

Making Pizza @ Tmaki college

Today we went to tech @ tamaki today I am in cooking for today we are making pizza till next week then we are going to start making some vegetarian food.

A letter to Ms Tapuke

     Make a copy of this letter and put it in your writing folder.
The red text is an example - DELETE the red text once you have read it and added YOUR OWN answers/information.

Dear Ms Tapuke,

Paragraph 1: Introduce who you are (things like your culture, family, age)

My name is Adrienne and I am from Samoa. At 11 years old, I am the second youngest of the seven children in my family. I only have four brothers and 2 sisters all my siblings were born in samoa but me and my youngest brother was born in new zealand at middle more hospital at samoa I come from the villages savaii, upolu, and laulii.                              

Paragraph 2: What are some of your interests or favourite things

1 of my favourite things that I like to do is play a lot of sports like Netball, Rugby, Basketball I have been forced by my dad to go and play netball for club but my choice is that I’d just rather play for school rather than for club I love to run around all the time when I have nothing to do.

Paragraph 3: What do you like and dislike at school? What are your goals for 2018?

My favourite subjects are Maths and reading. I really like working in groups when I learn and using a Chromebook. I don’t like typing a lot on my netbook but there is nothing else to do but typing.

Paragraph 4: What does a good teacher do? How can Ms Tapuke support you this year?

I really like it when teachers comment on my blog and they are also good with helping children towards home learning and also school work.

Is there anything else you would like Ms Tapuke know about you?

I would like Ms Tapuke to know that I have learnt many stuff from this past year. I am feeling proud to be a year 8 student at Pt England because I get to show the little kids how to respect one another.  

Closing:

Yours sincerely,

Adrienne Leitufia