Musical Madness! - Immersion Assembly.

Term 4 has arrived and our learning intention is now Musical Madness! As our usual start to the day for Pt England school we always host an immersion assembly, Explaining what each team is learning towards. Laughter was shown and everyone talking about what fun they’re going to have throughout the term. Well this is what I thought about it all!

Most Informative:

I reckon Team 5 had the most informative show. Throughout the whole item, they explained how they felt towards the movie that had either a song or tune to it. Weather it was scary, happy or sad they’d explain their thoughts to us audience. Showing us what Team 5 is learning towards Term 4

Most Entertaining:

The one show that caught my attention was Team 3! They were hilarious in their movie. It showed them having a conversation using songs they’d listen to on a normal day out, Not only they showed having a conversation but they also showed their emotions and feelings towards on what people had to say to them. It was as if they were actually talking to each other normally.

What do you want to find out more about this term?:

Throughout this term, I’d like to find out more about what song would affect me. Weather it would make my emotions change or will I still have the same feeling throughout the whole song, By the end of this term I would want to explain my feelings with the song I listened to and why it does.

Flounder catching at Pes!

Flounders, When that word comes to my mind I think of it as food. But not today, Pt England school is catching flounders not to eat but to farm for our own little flounder pack. In partnership with another school, Kauri Flats. As they only caught 4.

Today, The whole of Pt England school walked down to Riverside ave  to watch some of our students catch flounders. Of course, We had a limit to catch which was either 20 - 25 small baby flounders. We had up to 10 students participating down at the beach, Dragging nets and carrying big buckets to place the flounders in. As they were busy catching flounders, We were given a job to sing 3 of our school himene’s and end it with a karakia to basically show our support and Aroha.

We have just returned and according to one of our students who participated in the flounder fishing we’ve caught over 20 small baby flounders. They’re so tiny, Not even the size of my pinky yet. From my calculations I’ve got to say that they’re about 2 - 3 cm wide. Now from what I’m thinking it’ll take a lot of time for it to grow.

We look forward on seeing our baby flounder grow and hopefully some don’t pass out. Congratulations to those who did catch some, You were amazing!

Week 1&2: Decimals.

WALT:
- Add tenths and hundredths.
-  Use geometric language.


Throughout the two weeks of school, We learnt about decimals. How we could add tenths and hundredths, We also used fractions to compare with decimals. Our class learnt how to use word problems, For an example: Sixty two and five tenths.

Statistics - Maths

WALT -  Identify and uses tenths to make numbers

This weeks task was Statistics, We had to Identify the uses of tenths to make numbers. We used graphs, Percentages, Decimals and Fractions. I learnt that I do over think about the question instead of just thinking of the main topic, We learnt about the interpret and a range of graphs. Different graphs have different uses to them.

Water Cycle

WALT -   I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world.

This week we've been learning about Water cycle, Where have our water been?. How long has your glass of water actually lived? and How was it made?. All these question can be asked in the presentation above, You'll be amazed of how water is formed.

Letter of Support!

To whom it may concern:

As you may know from my blog, I´m Rosalina! I attend Pt England school and represent being a yr 7, Im located in Auckland, New Zealand and enjoy being here. Learning about different environments here at pt england school is soo fun! Recently an earthquake occurred in the south island of New Zealand and injured several people, to show our support we decided to write a letter on our behalves.

On behalf of Pt England School we would like to say sorry for your loss and hope to continue with your great lives soon, We pray that you all stay safe during this heartbreaking time. We pray that the lord will give you strength to push through this hard time, We pray that you all will have enough food and water to survive throughout the past few days and please accept our condolences that we've provided for you specially. I hope that all our prayers will be answered to help you adults and children, Please enjoy this and I hope this will fill your heart up with joyfulness.

Regards,

Rosalina  

Testing Practice: Maths

WALT: Highlight the best answer


Last week my maths group and I studied for our test this week, We were given question that would help us in the test, We learnt about fractions, measurements, multiplication and the biggest area. The presentation was meant for our knowledge in the test, So we wouldn´t get stuck on a question. It helped us to improve more in the test and making sure we know what we are doing in the test.

Where´s the baby?!

Where´s the baby?!

Once there lived a family of three, a beautiful blonde haired mom, A muscular tall dad and a regular cute little baby girl. They were a lovely family that lived in a multi million dollar home placed in Auckland, New Zealand. Emily the mom loved doing her work in the city and John the dad loved to stay home looking after his beautiful daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth was beautiful that everyone stopped by and admired her whenever the mum or dad took her to go shopping, but one person thought otherwise and decided to do something really dumb. This is where trouble came around and a lot of people tried to snatch Elizabeth. Emily and John had to be more careful with Elizabeth, has she could now crawl away.

One stormy night, Elizabeth was crying her head off. John and Emily ignored it like nothing was happening for a while but then couldn't take it in, John checked on Elizabeth but Elizabeth wasn't there! The window by her cot was smashed opened, John shouted ¨Emily, THE BABY´S GONE!¨ Emily rushed in the room and was shocked. Emily and John dialled the police, reporting a missing child. John was worried and felt guilty that he didn't check on Elizabeth any sooner. Emily ran to the car, and started the search for her daughter. While John called relatives for any help, this was an emergency. Emily and John were worried sick, and they couldn't think straight.The next day Emily came home, her face was pale as she did all her best to find Elizabeth. John looked like a walking Zombie up all night ringing relatives. They were both worried sick about Elizabeth, Emily and John did everything to find their daughter.

A loud BANG came from Elizabeth´s room, John ran in with Emily behind him. They found their daughters blanket on her cot with a note saying ¨If you want your daughter back, come to the alley way by your house tomorrow 7:00pm Only John can be present - E.¨ Emily did not want John to go by himself, but John just wanted to get Elizabeth back again. The next day, John thought about what he was going to do. Emily tried her hardest to talk John out of going by himself, but John didn't listen.

As time went by, it was nearly 7:00am, John got himself ready. Emily was feeling really nervous, John walked out the door and starting making his way to the alley way. As he walked down, John heard a cry, just like Elizabeth's one. John looked around but couldn't see anything in his site, John then saw someone standing by the gate in the alley-way. John yelled out ¨Who's there,¨ but no reply. At this time John was feeling a little scared, as he did not know who was there. John turned around and made his one down the alley - way, John kept on hearing Elizabeth's cry but didn't know where it was coming from. A loud BANG came from behind, John turned around and found footsteps in blood leading to a trolley. John was shocked.

John followed the footsteps to the trolley, and then found Elizabeth there lying dead not breathing. John was in tears, he then picked Elizabeth up and couldn't believe his eyes. John cried, he couldn't even say anything. He then got up and carried Elizabeth back home, John knocked on the door yelling out ¨Open the door¨. Emily opened it, and was in shock. John and Emily started crying there eyes out, Emily said ¨What did you do¨ John replied ¨Nothing, she was there dead.¨ Emily started crying with John, they were both broken. Emily dialled the police, saying that they have found the baby but she is dead. The police came over and analysed the alley - way, but nothing was there to find who killed  Elizabeth. The case was named ‘unsolved’.

Elizabeth had a beautiful funeral, she was dressed in a red bloomy dress and pretty flowers surrounding her in her brown shiny coffin. As her family relatives carry her to the grave family and friends sang a lovely song. A few weeks later Emily was pregnant with a baby boy, they named the Baby Ej, but that's another story.

THE END

Wool and Nail art of Hokulea!!

For the past few weeks the Wool and Nail art group have been tracing over a Hokulea with Nails, This is what we have done so far. We made a lot of progress in this past few weeks, and wish to finish off more for the next three weeks. Here is a picture on the left to see what we have done, this is basically what we done in the last 3-4 weeks. Please enjoy our work done by the Hokulea team.

Hokulea: Our Waka

WALT: Our waka

Today in our art group we were given instructions about our waka. Our group Hokulea had to find a perfect image for us to trace for our wool & nail art, we found this image on the right and sent it to Mr Wiseman. My partners and I helped each other to find this perfect image for us to trace, we had to do this as a team because we needed each others advice about what image to trace. We had to do this because we needed an image for us to trace. Our image was suppose to be clear, easy to trace with nail and big.

What does kindness mean?

What does kindness mean? Anything could mean Kindness, and it all starts with you. Kindness is shown very well but a few of us don´t  notice it. This presentation shows What kindness means, Why do we show Kindness and How do we show kindness. If you want to know more about Kindness look at my presentation and you will find ways to show kindness.

5 ways to show kindness to your Family

These are 5 ways to show kindness to your family. Actually it could be anyone, as long as your being kind in the holidays. Please comment what u think about my presentation, hope you enjoyed it.

Boys2Men Poster

Editing, Punctuation and Grammar

Walt: Correctly edit and punctuate sentences.

Shrinkage

Walt: Apply new Vocabulary

Return of the Moa

This week we have been learning about new vocab of what we already know and what we think it is, also learning about the extinct of the Moa. It is all about bringing the deadliest bird the moa back to life! How crazy is that, if you would like to know about bringing the Moa back feel free to look on this particular presentation!

Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa

Word Problems

WALT: I can identify the keywords in the word problem and show how I solved each step of the problem
 

Statistics Mix

WALT: Reading graphs

Fiafia

Next Month we have FiaFia. We do this every two years, we love choosing any groups that we can be in. We love performing, and love being applauded by a fabulous audience. I made this poster for you to know where it is, what is it and when is it. I hope you will come and enjoy our lovely performance, we would your company. Enjoy my Poster.