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.