WALT:Research about the origins of christmas.

Camp vision shield

WALT:Make a shield representing our camp vision TEAM.

We had a great time at camp all thanks to our camp vision TEAM(Together Everyone Achieves More)

Today we designed our own camp shield that represents what our camp vision means. 

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TPS Band 2016

TPS BAND 2016

WALT:Share some of the TPS band's performances.
These are two of many songs we have learnt during this year.
During this year we have learnt many skills and values in the time we spent practicing in our music room with our music specialist Caleb Strickland.Even when the year 8's leave for college next year I am sure that the year 8's to be will take over and make us proud.
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Steven Adams Maths

WALT:Use our math strategies that we have learnt this year in real life problems.
Today I worked with my friend Ajani solving math problems with many different strategies.
Thank you for reading my work.
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Celebrating me

Today we learnt why it's
important to celebrate me.
I am worthy to be celebrated because it helps me gain value in myself.
Classmates described my strengths as:Being smart, Having a growth mindset, Being funny, Being good at sports and also having a nice smile.It is important to recognize value in myself because you need to know what you deserve and how much your worth because if you don't know your worth you can let others put you down and take you away from your dreams.

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Guy Fawkes

WALT:Research questions about guy fawkes.
Today we had to make questions up about Guy fawkes and research them on google.
I got into a group with 3 other students(Jennifer,Losana and Amelia).
We wrote about his past what made him get arrested and why we celebrate guy fawkes.
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Celebrations-Venn Diagram

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WALT:Create a Venn-Diagram using two different types of celebrations.
Today I did an independent task.This task was to make a Venn diagram on two of my chosen celebrations.I chose birthdays and Christmas.
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Chubba Chubbs Adventure-Narrative Writing

Chubba Chubbs Adventure.

Swings soaring side to side.The ladders reaching from one tree to another monkey bars reaching over into treehouse to treehouse.A young monkey named Chubba Chub once lived in a village of monkeys up high inside of the trees.The trees were right next to a waterfall which was perfect for little monkeys like Chubba to play in and to get fresh water from.You could hear animals from this end of the forest to that end.If you listen to the left side of the jungle you can hear ¨Tweet tweet tweet¨.If you listen to the right side of the jungle you cand hear ¨Raaaawwwrrrrr¨.But if you listen right here you can hear something magnificent.¨CHUBBA! GET UP IT'S MIDDAY!¨Your mum yelling at you to get out of bed.¨Ahhhh yes mama¨ Says chubba rubbing his eyes as he swings of his bed.Chubba swings over to the kitchen to have some breakfast.¨I made your favorite chubba, Banana porridge!Says mummy monkey as she lays a bowl of her famous banana porridge on the table.¨Yayyyy, Thanks mum.¨ said chubba running to the table.¨Yumm,I wonder if billy bear is home¨Chubba said to himself.After breakfast chubba put his plate up on the bench and slid down to the waterfall where him and his friends usually met up.No one was there so he sat down with his feet in the water and closed his eyes and listen to the things around him.The trees sang beautiful melodys as the wind blew softly into the trees.The sun gazed down on chubba as if it was god himself.

Chubba got bored of waiting his friends to join him so he stood up and went for a walk down and around the trees up a hill and under three bridges.It started to get dark so chubba decided to go back home.He went through trees past a huge rock and over a long river.Chubba didn't know where he was.He was lost, ¨Ohh noo!Where do I go?¨ Chubba sobbed.He sat down right next to a tree and started to cry. Suddenly I hear something coming up behind me, “THUMP,THUMP, THUMP,THUMP”.”WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE”Growled a big dark shadow.”I..I..I’m L...Lost”Said chubba quivering from head to toe.   

TO BE CONTINUED.

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Persuasive writing -Its okay to be different

Being different is okay-Persuasive writing

my opinion everyone should be allowed to be different and not be put down because of their unique features.

My most important reason is if everyone was exactly the same the world would be boring.For example there would be no fun in the world because if you were to tell someone a joke they would already know the answer to it.It would be boring because when you have your own look it makes you proud to be yourself but when you have the same look as everyone else you might feel like it doesnt really matter and lose a passion.It would also be boring because everyone would get the same grades and there would be no surprises in the world because everyone would be doing the same thing.In my opinion I think that the world is funner different.

I think that it's fun to be different.For example when you travel the world you get to meet different kinds of people from places like Samoa or Tonga or even America.When everyone has different opinions and perspectives about things it makes you debate others and learn more about the subject.Another example of this is when youŕe competing in the olympics everyone has a different talent and different strengths, if we were all the same we wouldn't even have the olympics because everyone would come a tie.

My third and final reason is when you're different it makes you unique and unique is a good thing.For example being unique gives you your own sense of style and gives you the freedom to be who you want to be.When you're unique it means you're one of a kind and that's pretty awesome knowing that youŕe the only you you will ever meet.Another example is being different and being who you want to be attracts people that are similar to you and that could be great friends in the future.

I strongly believe that being different is a great thing because being different makes you unique and being unique is awesome.

My newspaper article-Petra

WALT:Read the newspaper and summarise and article from it.
Today I have found an article about a small girl showing so much bravery against a robber and I have summarised it and questioned it.
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The child-Narrative story

The child.


It was a cold dark night in London,England, Tuesday the 16th of February 1991.There was a tall white skinny woman, She had mental problems due to abuse from her father she got as a child.The woman had a 2 year old daughter that she loved dearly with all of her heart but one day some people from the township thought that her daughter should be taken away from her due to her mental problems but the mother did not want her child to be taken to the orphanage because they treated their children horrendously there.
So the mother left the child at a doorstep like every other mother or father would to abandon their child but as she left the child awoke and followed the mother until she could not see her anymore.The young child fell to the ground and started to cry, little did she know she was right outside the house her mother and father lived in.After a while the young child stopped crying and realized where she was.But something wasn't right, something was off about the house, the young girl slowly crawled into the house.There was a note on the ground with blood and tears smeared on the edge. “Dear Margaret, I'm so dearly sorry but I can not cope with your needs.You have become too much for me to handle.I have gone away and I am never coming back, look after our daughter. Love Scott,” The young girl thought to herself “I don't know what any of this means all I know are the names Margaret and Scott.My parents would call eachother those things all the time.I wonder what they mean”.The young child crawled up the narrow creaky stairs and into the bathroom, and saw her mother.The young girl thought to herself “Oh mummy is trying to learn to fly again”. The tall skinny woman was hanging from the ceiling with the rope tied around her neck.”I'll try find daddy,mummy stay right here don't go anywhere, I'll be right back” said the young girl.The young girl slowly crawled into her room where she found her stuffed rabbit, “His name was Carrot but for some reason on the side of Carrot was a name it said “Sophia” I think that's my name”Said Sophia.Sophia dragged her stuffed rabbit with her as she slowly crawled down the stairs into the kitchen.”DADDY!”Sophia yelled.No reply.”He masnt be home,well im just going to have a sleep” thought Sophia.Sophia slowly crawled up the stairs and back into her room and jumped into bed and slowly fell asleep.

Suddenly, young Sophia awoke to a cold breeze coming from the tall narrow doorway.She jumped out of her bed and started to follow the wind down into the living room.It was silent and the wind stopped blowing.It was just cold and silent.Suddenly a bang comingfrom the ground.Sophia almost had a heart attack but that wasnt what she was worried about. “Where did that come from?” thought young Sophia to herself.She layed down on the cold wooden floors and waited for the next bang.BANG!.Sophia moved closer to the bang, then again.BANG!.Then again Sophia moved closer.BANG!But this time Sophia moved closer and CRASH!She fell through the floor but she didn't fall onto the ground, something caught her.A tall white skinny figure.Sophia opened her eyes and looked at the figure and smiled.Somehow the figure was familiar to little Sophia.The spirit of some kind carried her down into the basement that was opened by Sophia and no one saw her again until years later, 25 years later to be exact.

TO BE CONTINUED....

Office Expectations

WALT:Make a poster about the expectations in our school.
Today we had to make posters about the expectations in our school.
This one is about the office/foyer.
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Bathroom Expectations

WALT:Make posters about the Tamaki Expectations.
I have made a poster that explains the expectations of the bathrooms in our school.
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Christmas Celebration Research

WALT:Research questions for your chosen celebration.
Today I worked in a group with three other students.We all got 1-2 questions to answer.
Here are the results we came up with.
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Monster mind-SSR

SSR:Monster Mind
My book was all about the start of horror themed things and monsters.
Throughout history, have been a feature of every culture around the world.Theyŕe gruesome a and scary.But despite their fearsome reputation, sometimes they just want to help out.Atleast that's what they believe.

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Kia ora .

What makes Tamaki special Relfection

WALT:Reflect on what makes tamaki special.
Today we got into groups of 4 and we brainstormed what makes tamaki special.

What does make Tamaki special?
I think that the mix of cultures and personalities make Tamaki special.
The teachers and all the staff members also make Tamaki that much more special because of all the work they put in.

• Our Achievements
• Our Talented students
• Our cultural groups
• Our new uniforms
• Our environment
• Our devices
• Our big hearts.

And more

 We also brainstormed on some things that can make Tamaki even better are.

• New Sports equipment
• A bigger hall
• If everyone looks after our environment
• Caring for each other
• Fences
• Cameras.
• Being kind to each other.
• Having a growth mindset.

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Kia ora.

Corridor Expectations

WALT:Make a poster about the corridor Expectations.
This term the student leaders had to make some posters relating to the expectations in my school here is my corridor expectations.
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Celebrations Vocabulary

WALT:Find the definitions for words that relate to celebrations.
Today I worked in a group with Losana, Willie and Maui.Please give feedback and feedforward.Thankyou for reading.

My personal goals-Term 4 2016

WALT:Make personal goals for ourselves to achieve this term.
Today I made a table that shows My goals, How i will achieve those goals, Who will help me and how and I also I found some very inspirational quotes to help me.
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Celebrations

WALT:List things down that have to do with Celebration.

What comes to mind when I think of celebrations are Birthday parties and new years with my family.Celebrations in my family are when everyone comes together and celebrates something like a birthday or a wedding.My family celebrates things by the kids getting to eat heaps of food and the adults stay outside and drink together.All the cousins play games together and eat food.Celebration means to celebrate something very important that has occured like graduating or achieving something very awesome.

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Holiday Poem

Shopping!!!!

Haiku-

Shopping is Heaven,

Gliding through all of the stores.

Shoes, shorts ,Tops and more

All the nerves set in,

All these dresses to choose from,

Hmm which should I choose?

I made up my mind,

A hoodie and cargo shorts,

No dresses for me,

I think I am done,

I walk over to the desk,

Oh wait No money.

What now?

The end!

Keydens Fairytale

Keydens Fairytale.
One night, A boy named Keyden went on a road trip with his Mum,Dad and his little sister. It was raining down hard onto the cold narrow road.The dad was telling the children about all the adventures he went on with his mum and dad as a child.When the father was a child they went around the whole of America from Mexico to all the to the top of North Dakota.The father forgot to focus on the road because he was so pulled into his stories.Suddenly they heard a truck. HONK! HONK!  The father looked at the road.There was a truck right in front of them, he took a sharp turn a swerved down a hill into a tree.CRASH!.Young Keyden crawled out of the car but when he looked in he could not see him parents just his little sister Luisa in the back.The car was about to explode so he had to act quickly.He tried to unbuckle her seatbelt but it wouldn't budge he looked everywhere for something to cut the belt with, it took him a little while but he grabbed a rock and through it at the windshield and grabbed a piece of glass he cut harder and harder into the belt.The fire was getting closer.The belt snapped, Keyden quickly grabbed her.He could feel his heart pounding. Boom. Boom. Boom. He sprinted as far as he could away from the car.BOOOOMMMM!!!.The car exploded sending the two children falling to the ground.They both got knocked out on the way to the ground.Darkness sets in.
He could hear crying all around him.He opened his eyes.Blurr.His eyes started to focus.It was his sister, he jumped up and started hugging her. “We got to find mum and dad”he said in a kind and sympathetic voice.He lifted Luisa up and onto his back. “Argh” Said Keyden in a quiet voice.He looked at his hands, the glass Keyden used to cut the belt cut into his hand almost to the bone.He ripped some cloth from his shirt and tied it around his hand.Luisa eventually fell asleep on his back.Keyden slowly creeped through the mists of the freezing cold forest.Looking far and wide for his parents.The sun creeped down to the other side of the earth and the moon came out to greet us.TO BE CONTINUED.

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Math

Today in math we had Mrs.Pine in our class.Each group got a problem and my group got the question " 8 chocolate bars between 5 children."In my group I had Andre, Bruce and Rosemary. We solved the problem by splitting the 8 chocolates into fifths because there are 5 children and then give 5 wholes to each of the children.Then there are 3 holes left over so we divided them and gave 3/5 to each child.
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Loud shirt day 2016

Loud shirt Day.. On Friday 23rd Of September it is Loud shirt day. Loud shirt day is about donating to the hearing house to help people with hearing disabilities. We have two people in my class who have hearing aids.Faith and Falakiko. On friday we have a mufti day where we either have to wear mexican clothing,An animal onesie or a loud shirt.

Peer Pressure

WALT:Make a poster that gives tips on how to deal with Peer Pressure.
Today I made a poster about Peer Pressure and I also gave some  tips on how to deal with it.
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Author's Purpose

Too much T.V!

Summary~

This story was about a young girl who loves to watch tv and hates to be active.In the first diary entry she talks about  how her mum always trys to find ways to get her off the couch and doing something more interesting.For example the mum gave her a book "The lion, The witch and the wardrobe" She promised the girl if she read for 30 minutes each day she would get her the movie.Her grandpa also tries to get her to play chess with him so he can teach her things like strategy and even get to learn more about eachother.Her bestfriend heather is also trying new things like netball and she encouraged her to join with her.

In the 2nd diary entry the girl said that her mum was right and the book was way better than the movie.She also said its hard to put the book down once you start reading.She kept playing with her grandpa too and she said that she thinks she has become more smarter and learnt a lot of new strategies.She plays with her best friend as well at netball their coach gives them tips to eat healthy and how to exercise better. 

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Jail for whistleblowers in spy law-Summarizing

Jail for whistleblowers in spy law.

WALT:Summarize a newspaper article.

This article is about the government making a new law stating that any whistleblowers(People that leak government information) would be jailed for the maximum of 5 years.Its said that this new law came about because of a man named Edward Snowden.He was a former contractor for the National Security Agency.He was a whistle blower.The government made up the law that all snitches would go to jail for 5 years to get rid of this problem.



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Life Education Reflection

Today was the last session with Life Education.
Today we learnt about decisions we are going to have to make in the future.We also learnt about our goals for the future and how we are going to achieve them.
The most interesting part of life education today was when we found out what everyone wanted to be when theyŕe older.
Something I would want to learn more about is what other kinda decisions do we have to make when we are older and will it be hard?
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Technology Reflection

WALT:Reflect on technology today.

Today in technology I made some final adjustments to my design and now all im doing is waiting for next week which is when my design is going to be printed on the 3D printer.

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Life education reflection

Today in Life Education,
We learnt about the human body,
We learnt about the circulatory system,
We learnt what the blood vessels in our body do and how they are very vital to our body.
The most interesting thing we learnt was the heart is called the heart because two hearts together makes the symbol a heart because in the old days people thought the heart was the boss of the body and all feelings came from the heart.
Something i'd like to know more about is the blood vessels and what else they do.