Creative Writing about Shoes

One day I was on my way home from school. I was walking with my siblings and my friend who lives next door to me. Their names are Warehouse and Stirling Sports. I got home and unpacked my bag and straight away went and asked my parents if I could go to my friends house. My parents names are Vans and Gumboots. They said "yes be home at 5:00".

I went out the door and ran to Stirling Sports house. I knocked on her door and waited until she let me in. Stirling Sports had finally answered and we started watching Youtube on her Tv and filmed some TikToks/Musically's. After that it was 4:20, we went outside and played a couple of games of Netball, Stirling Sports had 23 points and I only had 9. She was way a head of me.

Later on that day, it was 5:00. I said bye to Stirling Sports and said "see you tomorrow at school". I left to go home and had a shower. I put on my pyjamas and got comfortable and warm. I went and had dinner with my whole family and we had Pasta bake, it was delicious. After dinner, I went and brushed my teeth and grabbed my phone. I lied in bed with my phone and waited until I felt sleepy. I said good night to my family. The End

Here is a link to a video for you to watch about creative writing about shoes - The video       

   

  

PE Reflection about Topu Ae/The game

Aim	To know how to play Topu Ae and to try to knock of the Ki/tennis balls
Equipment	6 tennis balls in each team, 18 max of Cones, Netball ball/Dodge-ball and Bibs
Steps	Step 1: Get into 2 teams of seven people Step 2: Set up the cones at each end of the court and put the tennis balls on the three cones. Set up the Powero/the zone around the Ki. Set up three third of the court using the cones. Step 3: Find out what position you are playing and stand where you're supposed to be Step 4: Then start playing and try to learn new strategies and goals to improve.
Conclusion	Today in PE, we have been learning how to play this new game called Topu Ae. We had to get into groups and I was in a group with, Dominique, Faye, Kineka, Bianca, Zayd, Blake, Kyle and Ryan. Our groups name is The Panthers.   We played a couple of games outside on the courts and then we started writing about how to play and what were the equipment's, steps and Aim. The aim of the game is to try to knock off as many Ki/Tennis balls as possible to win and the first team who knocks off all of them wins. Overall, I have definitely learned some things from this and it was fun learning how to play a new game.

CIP Mindfulness Coloring

This week in CIP we are focusing on Mindfulness Coloring. We first watched a video of a girl singing and coloring in and then discussed about what was the video about and what does Mindfulness Coloring means. We had to get into groups of three and i'm with Keyana and Brianna, and we answered and discussed about some questions we had to answer.
7/8Sh, Tz and Bh is doing a Coloring competition.

How do you think we should organize this event?
I think we should email the schools that we are inviting to join our coloring competition and tell them what date we are starting our coloring competition and what is going to happen in the competition.  After that, we should sort out the coloring sheets for the day we are starting the event so we are already organized.

     

PE Blogging

What makes a good team player?
I believe that communicating, cheering, helping and trusting each other is being a good team player and that you will have support when playing a game.

Whats skills and attributes do you need to display/use?
Cheering my teams mates on with support, Respecting each other when sharing ideas and communicating with each other.

What is your role within your team? What does your role involve?
My role in my team is the scoring person. I write down the scores and pay my full attention to the game so I can keep track on who is winning.

How could you be a better team player?

• Passing the ball more / Involving others
• Calling out to my team mates for the ball / having a loud voice.
• Helping each other when needed / When someone is confused, give them advice

Skill - Attributes:

• Co-operation - communication
• Team work - Helping each other
• Integrity - Being honest and trustworthy of each other 

Digital Tech Reflection

What do we think Digital Technology Hurumanu will be about?

I thought that Digital Tech will be about Devices/Technology and that we were going to learn more things you could do on devices and learn the shortcuts.  

What do you already know about D.T?

I don't know much about Digital Tech, I just know the basic things. I know how to use some sites/apps.  

What are you hoping to learn during this Hurumanu?

I would want to learn how to use sites creatively and to learn more about sites and apps.  

Digital Tech / Issues

Individual Learning Log

Video	Analysis/ summary thoughts of video
Social:	Good - You get money and notice Bad - Getting stalked, hate, mobbed and having no privacy.
Environmental:	Good - Re planting new trees Bad - Cutting trees and Littering
Ethical:	Good- Power Olympics Bad - Bullying, Abortion, smoking around kids, Kidnapping and abusing kids / child abuse.
My Brainstorm for an issue I am interested in
Social: Instagram famous Environmental : Littering Ethical : Smoking around kids

Music Reflection

Introduction

Late upload from last term. My class and I have been doing Music with another class 7/8 Ds. We started off doing one minute movies in small groups and then did some others activities such as, writing story boards and creating movie scripts. We also talked about different kind of angles and did blog post about them. The story boards that we were doing was for us to think of ideas and for us to go back to and see what we were up to.

What we did in our one minute movie:

In my one minute movie, I was in a group with Keyana and Chloe. We filmed a short clip about a girl getting bullied from another girl and then someone comes and helps the girl who was getting bullied. I was the girl who was getting bullied form Keyana and then Chloe comes and backs me up. We went to the courts to film and it was really fun.

Film angles:

As we were filming our one minute clip, we had to include different kind of angles. Here are the angles we used.

• Up close
• Long distance
• Zoom up
• Lift up
• Side angles 
• Leg angles
• Vision angles

Movie script

For the movie scripts, I am in a group of six with Keyana, Chloe, Jaz, Brianna and Rory. We were doing the three little pigs. We have been writing our scripts on our Chromebooks in a document and we all have our own parts in the play. I am playing the first pig, Chloe is playing the second pig and Keyana is playing the third pig. Jaz is the narrator, Rory is the werewolf and Brianna is the filming person. Throughout making the movies, it was fun working in a groups and I enjoyed creating them. 

Food Technology Reflection

Late upload from last term. My class and 7/8Tz was doing Food technology. We had two teachers that were teaching us how to cook and their names are Mrs Hindson and Mrs Wheeler. We made 5 different kinds of foods and they were Wraps, Jiffy Snacks, Cheese rolls, Sushi and Healthy Burgers.
One of our foods we made were Healthy burgers and it was pretty easy to make for me. Here are the ingredients on how to make a healthy burger.

The ingredients to make the patty:

• Raw beef / Need to cook
• Eggs (Optional) 
• bread crumbs
• Herbs

The ingredients that we needed to complete the Burgers.

• Tomato sauce
• Mayo
• Lettuce
• Tomato
• Cheese
• Beetroot
• Pickles
• Pineapple 
• Onion

What I had in my burger was a patty, Cheese, lettuce, tomato sauce, egg free mayo and others that i can't remember. I really liked making the burgers and I enjoyed eating it as well. I enjoyed working in groups with different people and with another class. It was a fun experience learning how to cook. 

Reflection about Athletics Day

Late upload form last term. On the 7th of March, the whole school was doing Athletics. There was Social and Competitive and I chose Social because I wasn't feeling really confident to try out Competitive. We have been put into our house colours and I was in green which was Shelford. All of the houses, Shelford, Lewis, Turner and Setu had their own house meetings and was focusing on learning our chants.

This is the start of our chant but I don't remember the ending.

Shelford is green

Lewis is Blue

We are determine to beat you

Turner is Yellow

Setu is Red

We want to win for the houses are dead

These are the colours of the houses:

Shelford - Green 

Lewis - Blue

Setu - Red

Turner - Yellow 

We also had year 12 house leaders and they told us to dress up in our colours.  I am in the same house with my friends Keyana and Milan and we all dressed up in green. 

I wore a green tutu, a white blank shirt with green hand prints on it, leggings and a green flower necklace.

Later on that day at athletics, my first event was shotput and I think I did pretty good like last year. Unfortunately after we finished shotput, my friend and I missed out on our other event because we didn't know what was our event next and when it was going to start, but we still had a good time and enjoyed ourselves.     

     

The Household Ingredients

The HouseHold ingredients. 

Aim: To learn the names of 10 household chemicals and identify if they are a solid, liquid or a gas.

Equipment:
1.Soap
2.Lemon Juice
3.Salt
4.Sugar
5.Vinegar
6.Milk
7.Onion gas
8.Bleach
9.Baking Soda
10.Lemonade

Steps:
1. Search about the chemicals.
2. Upload the images of the chemicals.
3.Write down the if they are Solid/Liquid or a Gas.

Task 1: Put the 10 chemicals in a chart with the titles - name, chemical ingredient(s),image, Solid/Liquid,Gas.

Name	Chemical	Image	Solid/Liquid/Gas
Soap	Fatty Acid		Solid
Lemon Juice	Acidic		Liquid
Salt	Sodium Cholride		Solid
Sugar	Carbohydrates		Solid
Vinegar	Acetic Acid		Liquid
Milk	Phosphoolipids		Liquid
Onion gas	Syn-propanethial-s-oxide		Gas
Bleach	Sodium hypochlorite		Liquid
Baking Soda	Sodium bicarbonate		Solid
Lemonade	Citric Acid		Liquid

Revolution Tour Writing

On Tuesday the 28th of May, the Revolution team came and performed in our school. It was a junior assembly from year 7s to 10 and it was during period one/Form time. Last year they came and performed at my school so this was my second time seeing them.

Firstly, a group of girls in the revolution team went up and performed a hip hop dance, it was awesome. Then after they finished, two of the revolution members went up and sang a song for us called, I'm so Tired from Lauv and Troyes. Later on that day, Reggie played different kind of songs on his saxophone and we all sang along. It was one of his talents and he was amazing.

After Reggie playing songs on her saxophone, we played this game called, throw your friend underneath a bus. He asked some of our students and a teacher, Ricci, May, Lyan, a year 9 boy and Miss Tozer, to come up and play the game for us. But he got them up by asking everyone a question about who is the shyest, the smartest, the funniest, the athlete and the best teacher. It was hilarious. 

After having a lot of fun with Reggie, he started talking about is life experience when he was young. He was talking about how his mum was in a bad situation and that he got adopted to a foster family. He was also talking about bullying and that bullying isn't a good thing to do and that people should stop. I wish I got the opportunity to talk to him and to introduce myself to him and get to know him more. When he was telling us about his life, we all went dead silents and felt so miserable for him.

Overall I really enjoyed them coming to our school and performing to us and I would really want them to come back again soon or later.

 
   

Talking about Puberty - Drama

In Drama, 7/8Sh and 7/8Ds did a puberty talk with Mr Scott and two nurses. They had a slideshow ready for us to watch and it was about what happens to our body and what changes about our body. It was my third time talking about puberty, so it was easy for me to learn and listen about it. What I have learned in the puberty talk is that girls don't need to use tampons when they have there period .     

Hurumanu - Carnivorous Plants

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT THE NATURE OF PLANTS

Carnivorous Plants

Plants fall into two categories:

1. Evergreen

2. Deciduous

Deciduous

Evergreen

Find three examples of each:

Evergreen: 

1. Pine tree  

2. Eucalyptus tree

3. Kauri tree  

Deciduous;

1. Oak  

2. Maple  

3. Spruce 

LEAVES

Simple                                 Compound   

Choose a leaf and do a leaf rubbing.

Example: 
Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound
Leaf colour: Green
Photo of leaf: 

Plant drawing:

MY LEAF COLLECTION

1.

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Photo of leaf:

2. 

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Photo of leaf:

3.  

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Photo of leaf:

4. 

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Photo of leaf:

5.  

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Photo of leaf:

RESEARCH 4 TYPES OF PLANT GROUPS

1. Carnivorous plants
2. Pine trees 
3. Fruit trees
4. NZ Natives

You will need to do the following:

1. Title: NZ Natives
2. Examples: 

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Habitat: (select one from the list)

1. Desert / beach / mountains / swamp / plains / forest 

Climate (select one from the list)

1. Hot / warm / cold
2. Rainy / dry / 
3. Windy / still

Conclusion:

Today in Science we did a experiment called Carnivorous Plants. I was working together with Keyana. We had to find a leaf around the courts and then trace it over white paper with a crayon. After we have done that, we had to try and draw a simple leaf and a compound leaf and write down the three types of trees under evergreen and deciduous. 

It was a really fun experiment and I enjoyed learning about it.