Summer learning Journey: Taj Mahal

Task Description:  For today task we had to repaint a famous painting on a site called Art Colouring book. This was a practice for the up coming summer learning journey. 

 

Te Reo: Kei hea a?

Poetry Recap

BEDMAS

Probability - Designing Sports Shoes

Introduction to Probability

Evard Munch: Scream

Task Description: Today we had art rotation's and room 2 went to room one and today we had to recreate the the scream originally crated  by Evard Munch.

 

Boycotting the bus

Tokelau facts

Water Worries

Te reo Maori: Wk 2

Climate Change

Edvard Munch

 

Nga tau te reo Maori week 1

Why do we need school?

 Why do we need school?

Have you ever wondered why you need to go to school? In NZ school is compulsory to attend school between the ages 5-16. We all need to go school to learn, to get a job, to socialise. 

To learn:

Why do you think  it is important to learn at school? At school we learn lots of things like math, reading, writing and alot more other things. Sometimes the things you learn at school could actually make your life much easier like going to the shops and being able to read all the things you buy, also being able to use math to keep up with the price. There are alot of reasons why it is important to learn at school. 

To get a Job:

Can school help you with getting a job? School can play a big part of your life. The subjects at school that you learn could help big time. Like if you wanted to become a builder you have your math that you learn at school. Also at college you can pick your subject’s from year 11-13, maybe that could help you get the job you’re looking for. Going to school can help you get a job.

Making long life friends:

Do you have friends from school? Many people have friends from school that they are still friends with till today. At school we are taught how to make friends and how to use our manners to make friends. Sometimes these friends become long life friends and stay friends for a long time.

So these are three reasons why school is important. They are to learn, to get a job, making friends.

Glass

Taha Wairua

Finding my place

Movie Time

Task Description: For today's task we had to work out the movie time.

A Thousand words

Te Reo Maori

Task Description: For this task I had to read the question's in Maori that were about the weather and had to answer the question's in Maori and for the last task we had to make up our own thing.

Idea's of what we want to do.

Year 7’s Step Up	Year 8’s camp
Keep: Keep it the same	Keep: Every-thing
Stop: Blurt’s, self management.	Stop: Going sleep early, people not coming camp
Add: Sport eg rugby, Basket ball	Add: we need to add more days to camp.

Task Description: For this task we had to write down what we wanted to keep,stop and add to both of the event's we had last week. 

Leader's of the year seven step up and leader's from camp

•  Jezakaia: Jezakaia's highlight was when him and his dorm put all there bed's together and slept together.
• Arthur: Arthur's highlight was when we had the concert night at camp. 
• Sauma : Sauma's highlight was talking to new people and meeting new people.
• Mohammed: Mohammed's highlight was stepping up to be a leader when the year 8's were at camp.
• Zamera: She said her highlight was learning how to control a go kart.
• Caleb: Caleb's highlight was playing paintball.
• Bradley: Bradley's highlight was being a sub prefect.
• Nina: Nina's highlight was having a big feed with all the year seven's and some of the year eight's.
• Sione: Sione's highlight was all the boys going into his dorm and singing song's. 

Year 8 leadership camp

 On August the 5th the year 8's from Pt England School went to a camp in Theam's and it was called Kauaranga Valley Christian Camp for short it was KVCC. One of my favourite highlight's was when me and the boys were just chilling on the trampoline singing before we left the camp ground's. The reason why it was one of my favourite highlight is because how we all stepped out of our comfort zone and having a special time with the friend's.

Measuring Up

Task Description: For today's task we had to measure the two line's and find out which line was longer and found out that they were the same length. Then  we had to measure five other objects which were the door frame, door latch, number two sign, width of the desk and our hand span.

The 1,000,000 pound note

Task Description: For this task we had to read a story about the million pound note by Mark Twain

Sam Bacon Poster

Task Description: Today we found out that kiwi Sailor Sam Bacon is donating. Clothes to our school to help us prepare for camp. We are really grateful and would like to thank Mr Bacon.

Spaghetti Tower

Today in writing we had to do a task as a group. The task was that we had to build a tower out of spaghetti, tape and strings. Their were four group and we were all trying to make the tallest tower, at the end of the challenge my group won with the height of 96cm. Our plan was to computerate with each other and talk to each other, and after every-thing we named our tower the leaning tower of spaghetti.

The Dragon's Eye Lake Myth

Task Description: For today room two went to room three to learn about a myth from a city in Croatia which is called Rogoznica the name of the myth was the dragon's eye lake. it is a romantic myth of about how the dragon eye lake was formed in Croatia.

Cambodia Poster

Task Description: For this task I had to make a poster about Cambodia.

Cambodian Myth of Lightning,thunder and Rain

Task Description: For today's task room 2 went to room 11 and learnt about a myth in Cambodia of how lightning, thunder and rain was made.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

Task Description: For todays task we learned about the coffee on the blue mountain at Jamaica.

The myth of Herme's

Task Description: Today for inquiry we learnt about Greek mythology. We learnt about the different Greek gods, the Greek creation story and about Hermies. When hermies was a baby he created fire and alyre ( a harp). See my story.

Zeus Poster

Task Description: For this task I made a poster about Zeus.

The Watcher of the South

Myth's and legend's

Writing Wk 10 - Nature

In the New's: Week 12

Task Description: For today's task I had to read a text call the therapy dog at Hamilton school proving to be a top teacher. it is about a do named Daisy who is 11 weeks old and is training her self at a school.  

3D Shapes (T2, W5 2020)

Which one doesn't belong?

Task Description: For this week's maths task I had to look at some shape and figure out which one doesn't belong in the photo and why it didn't.

Badge of honour

Task Description: For today's task I had to read a book called badge of honour, then I had to write down some question's I would ask the main character in the book. Then lastly, I had to write the question I would ask and answer them with what I think he would say.

Punctuation Practise Day 3

Task Description: For this task we had to fix this text and put punctuation in the text. We had to read and put capacities in the text also put comma's in as well to make this look like a year eight writing so our class put punctuation in the writing and this is what it turned out to look like.

Oakley Creek

Task Description: For this week's reading task we read Oakley creek, we had to read the book and get the evidence from the book to support our answer.

Punctuation Practise

Task Description: For today's task me and my class did some punctuation practise, we had to read this text then put some comma's if needed. Then when we put all the comma's there we had to highlight them to show where we put the comma's.

Punctuation Practice

Task Description: For todays task Me and my whole class worked on the same writing task we had to capitalise the words that were meant to be and highlight them when we were done.

Writing - Distance Learning

What’s your ‘BIG LEARNING’ from having to stay home during this lockdown?


The things I've learnt while staying at home in lockdown about my family culture and some more things are. Staying at home got me to do times two my chore's I do when I come back from school, another one I've learnt is that this lockdown has gotten me and my family's bond stronger and we got to know eachother better every-day. I've also learnt that we can learn online not just by going to school and learn but we can go on our device's and learn the same way we learn at school. My last one is I've learnt that we have to use all the time in school before learning like the way we are, because some people find it hard learning online so, one big think I've learnt is I need to use all the I got in school before it run's out.

Task Description: For this task I had to choose a activity to write about and I chose what is my big learning from this lockdown. Then I had to write down all the main things I've learnt during this lockdown.

Writing - Distance Learning

Prime Minister Jacinda says you can choose 2 places
you to visit outside your bubble.  

What would those places be? 

If Prime Minister Jacinda said I could go to two place's to visit outside my bubble. The first place I'll go to is visit my cousin's chill with with them for quite a long time then the second place I'll visit will be my other's cousin's house and do the exact same thing again. Because staying at home with my family it sometime's get's boring and going to my cousin's house during lock-down will be the first place i wanna go after this lock-down.

Task Description:For this task we had to choose a activty that out teacher has given to me and my class then we had to answer the question, For this one I had to say where I would go and why I would wanna go.

Mascots - Unpack and Infer vocab

Task Description: For today's task we had to read a poem about a Mascot then we had to find out the answer's to these question's.

Identify and sort 2D shapes

Task Description: For this task we had to identify all the 2D using geometric properties. we also had to label all the shapes in how many sides they have or how many angles they have.

Which one doesn't belong

Task Description: For today's task we had to look at the photo's on the slide and see which shape didn't belong and why it didn't belong.

Chunuk Bair Hexagon Quilt

Task Description: For this task we had to read a poem called Chunuk Bair then we had to draw what we visualised from what we were reading from the poem.

Extra Post: My Aiga

Task Description: At home my family was given a task to write about our family and who we have thing's in common with. So this is my one and check out my little sister's one http://pesselesau.blogspot.com/2020/04/about-my-aiga.html.

T2WK2:Maths

Task Description: For this task we had to take data from so graph and answer the question's. Then we had to collect the data and interpret the data

Coronavirus: Is NZ facing a repeat of the 1918 fu Pandemic

Task Description: For this task I had to read a article about New Zealand facing the repeat of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Then I had to write what they both had that was same and what was different.

Letter to the future me

Dear Future Me,





To the 21 year old Paschal





Today is April 15 2020 and right now we are in lock-down trying our hardest not to catch this Covid-19 also to stop spreading it. One of the questions I liked was the question that said did Covid-19 affect my learning and my final answer to that is no because I’m still learning online which is keeping my brain active, I am also reading books for example right now I’m reading bad guy’s also my family read the bible every single night so that keep my school learning up to date. Another one I really liked was what did I miss the most? The thing’s I miss are coming to school and playing touch before school starts, also saying sup or hi to my friend’s going up to them and doing our handshake like me and my friend’s have a really strong bond. It’s almost like we’re brother’s. The thing I worry about right now is my family catching this Carona-virus because my dad goes shopping every single day also some time with my older sister so that me and my family have food on the table and we never know who has this virus and plus we can’t even see this virus. Like for example chickenpox if you have chicken pox you would see that your face will react and have these red things on your face. Unlike Carona-virus it takes five to four-teen days for it to kick in and by then you’ve already been in contact with a lot of people so it’s pretty hard not to catch it. A lesson that I’ve learned is by staying home is a really good way to stop spreading the virus or catching the virus.





Regards 12 yr old Paschal






Task Description: For this week's task we had to write a letter to the future me, we had to write it in our own word and what we would say the the future me.

Pandemic of 1918 SYNTHESIS GRAPHIC ORGANISER

Pandemic of 1918 SYNTHESIS GRAPHIC ORGANISER

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE What I already know about a pandemic is
	NEW INFORMATION - use notes for key points
Text 1  TITLE:  Deadly Speed and Everyone Was Sick	The disease is called influenza  It was travelling at a deadly speed Soldier's catched it easily because they had weak immune system’s It was at a high death rate The ship that went to Auckland early October was never on quarantine Many people blamed it on the ship The prime minister and his deputy were on board Everyone was dying one after the other
Text 2 TITLE:  Viral Mutations	Type A affect other species not human’s If someone catch’s this disease their immune system will respond by creating antibodies It is a very simple micro-organism The next time they catch a flu their immune system will fight better because they have already fought it before.
Text 3 TITLE: Killer Strain	Other flu viruses hit young and old people hard In 1918 it became clear to everyone that the strain of the flu was not the common illness 20-40 year people were dying within 24 hours The illness was causing unusual symptoms There was also pneumonia which caused cyanosis Cyanosis is when your skin change’s colour because lack of oxygen in the blood
Text 4 TITLE: Untrained Volunteers	The flu hit New Zealand at the end of a war. The staff in New Zealand were often the first to catch the flu. People of all age’s were working because the doctor’s were ill. It wasn’t uncommon for kids help during the outbreak. The kids were helping prepare and deliver food. Lilla work throughout the epidemic
Text 5 TITLE: Fighting Back and The Aftermath	Back in 1918 there were no vaccines or medicine that could treat the complications from the flu. The cause of the flu was unknown. People were offered to breathe in a zinc sulphate gas. They thought that the sulphate gas would prevent the flu from spreading. The chamber’s were putting people at a high risk by going into close contact, The joyful occasions undoubtedly resulted in more deaths from the flu. Nation’s were devastated by war. In just a few month’s their death toll was at least nine-thousand  International air travel was spreading the disease much faster.
SYNTHESIS My new understanding of the 1918 pandemic is My understanding of the 1918 pandemic was a very bad thing that happened. But these people didn't know what it was caused by nether did they have a cure to this till a really long time. Also when almost the whole country was sick a lot of the doctor’s were overseas and this is something we are all experiencing right now we are all on lockdown with a sickness going all around the world which can relate to 2020’s pandemic and 1918’s pandemic, so we all know what’s happening with them can kinda seem like what’s happening with us today.

Task Description: For today's task we had to read a online book about 1918's pandemic. Then we had to write down some thing's that happen and in the end we had to write about our understanding of their pandemic.

Term 2 Wk 1: Maths

Task Description: For this task we had lot's of graph's too show us a result's or thing's that will help us answer these question's.

Home maths T1W8

Task Description: For this weeks task we had to get information from a site that showed us how many people are in New Zealand and a whole lot of information. So we had to use all that information to complete this task.

Writing with perspective

PUAKI SYNTHESIS GRAPHIC ORGANISER

PUAKI SYNTHESIS GRAPHIC ORGANISER

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE What I already know about Tā Moko is Ta moko is a maori tattoo
	NEW INFORMATION - use notes for key points
Text 1  TITLE:  The Tā Moko Tradition	That a lot of people say that it is under their skin  It's a important Maori tradition tattoo Maori call a tattoo on the body or face ta moko The tradition of tattooing is found across the pasific It is a sketch of a rangatira by sydney parkinson (1784).
Text 2 TITLE:  Kaanga Cooper Skipper	For most Maori it is important to prepare properly First she had to visit her ancestors and her grandmother. When she was getting her Moko she was feeling blessed The decision was up to the artist
Text 3 TITLE: Gary Te Ruki	He loved drawing Mokos It is a statement of who he is and who his people are He is from Waikato  A battle cry was heard from his marae Meaning (peace shall never be made) His Moko is apart of his rebellious nature
Text 4 TITLE: Priscilla Ruha	When she got her Moko she was at the age of 21 It was part of expressing her cultural identity She said ta Moko is not a foreign  A growing number are deciding for themselves and their families to wear this treasure
Text 5 TITLE: Rangi Mclean	His journey started when he was eight-teen He was a rebel once The Moko showed up in his dream The Moko was special It was a behalf of his iwi (tribe) A Pakhea help him with his Moko
SYNTHESIS My new understanding of the Tā Moko is  It is a very special tattoo for Maori. There is always a meaning behind the moko . It is a treasure to the Maori people. The sketching of it was found in 1784 The person who found it was named  Sydney Parkinson

Task Description: For this task I had to read a book about these people and what the moko meant to them. Then I had to write some facts down or things they said that interested me.