Child tooth decay - New Zealand.

WALT: I am able to distinguish between fact and opinion by identifying relevant language features the author has subtly used.
 
 This week we've been learning about Tooth decay, around New Zealand the numbers have raised and hospitals have now struggle with keeping up with dental care. Here is a presentation above to see what I've been working towards.

Athletics Day - How to achieve your personal best in Athletics!

Your personal best, events like Cross country, Tests or maybe even getting up earlier than you did the day before. But today, Athletics is one main event that us Pt. Englander's achieved in our personal best!

In Athletics there are activities like Javelin, Shot put, Sprints, High Jump, Discus and etc. There are a lot of variety of events you could choose to do your best in, and you could possibly do outstanding in all but personally it's best to train for things you’re least good at it. Working your way up from least favorite events to the events you love the most. Not everything has to be perfect but you always need to try your best in events like these, to satisfy not only you but your family as well!

Another way to achieve your personal best is to always stay in track of your records, So you could obviously know what to work towards for the next event coming up. By keeping your records of the events you took place in, You could compare it to previous years and see if you improved or not. It's also good to keep in track of goals so you could accomplish that and your personal best, that’s a 2 in 1 winning goal. It’ll be easy to write down your record and underline all your goals/training's to see where you’re at.

Always stay calm whenever you’re in and out events, if you were to come last always end with a smile. It’s not always about the placing, it’s about how you did and felt. Not everyone will get what they want but if you simply train and focus on your goals you may have a better chance of coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

Well that’s my listing of how to achieve your personal best. Remember it doesn’t have to be Athletics or Cross country, It could simply be a test or grading. Never give up! Always continue on and strive to succeed.

Labour Day!

Working 10 or more hours in shifts, Having no break at all was such a pain to workers back in the day. October 28th 1890 was the day New Zealand decided to have a public holiday (labour day), It’s one of the day’s our people could take a day off from working. Amazingly Aotearoa was one of many countries to start an 8 hour working rate.

Every 4th Monday of October, Workers get to celebrate the right of working less than 12 hours. Way back in the days, Such as 1890 people didn’t have the option to work less or more than 12 hours and sadly some even worked for up to 18 hours. Samuel Parnell, A man who refused to work 8 hours or more as a carpenter in a shop he worked in.

Samuel Parnell. One of the most important people in New Zealand, most likely known to be a legend for being able to speak up and working only up to 8 hours in carpentry. Always explaining his rights in court, as to why he didn’t work for his normal 10 hour working day and it could and would affect his pay wage. Throughout his years of working, he did not care about a single thing of what a person had to say. He kept his ways and continued on to work his 8 hours.

It was fair enough, New Zealand had the right of claiming the right to have an 8 hour working day, but they decided to support Mr Parnell’s idea of working a full 8 hour day. Wellington judge decided for everyone in New Zealand and possibly other countries to have the right of being able to work 8 hours.

Now you know why Labour day is now here today, maybe consider a day to celebrate it yourself as it is a special day to remember. What does Labour day mean to you? Well you now know the reason so why not celebrate!

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!

Reflection - Speech.

WALT: Reflect on our given speech.

Today we had to reflect on our given speech, We basically just had to go through of explaining our feelings and thoughts towards our speech we gave last week. I really thought I could do better next time in doing my speech.

Let's start old school again!

WALT - I will identify the different places speeches/talks are given and how they are designed for delivery

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Over the years of attending Pt England school the technology we use digitally has grown bigger and better since 2010. Pencils and Paper to Ipads, Phones, Computers and etc. Don’t you think we need to start doing old school again? I mean have you seen our hand writing lately, It's hideous!

My point is. Year 8 students have two terms to come before heading off to college and with the writing we all have, The college teachers are going to be gobsmacked with our work. In college, Handwriting will become a common thing and you’ll definitely need it for the subjects you choose. So better start practicing now cause time does go by fast.

Also, I personally think in the future things may change especially our electronics we use everyday. Sooner or later our handwriting will no longer be as common as it is now but why not keep the old trend going? Start it all up again, It just takes a small group of children to start writing by hand.

You never know one day the power all around the world may go out in a flash. The electronics we use wouldn’t be any help, now would it? Except for a piece of paper and pencil, Now when you’re in this situation you have to know how to write/draw! Especially for it to at least look decent for others to understand from what you're trying to say.

Now you see what the consequences are if you don’t have decent handwriting? Don’t be ashamed of what it looks like, Just know that you’re not the only one. As you can see Handwriting is very important, Trust me. You’ll desperately need it during college.

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Over the past few weeks, Room 3 literacy have been focusing on writing our very own speech about thing's we think we should start doing. For me, I did "Let's start old school again." The reason why I did it is because I noticed that most of our pupils in Team 5 have well from what I would say Ugly hand writing, I mean even I do! So I list my reason of why we should. Check it out!

Sweet as poetry.

Here is my reading presentation, Our learning intention was on poems. We learnt new words, different ways we could present poems/speeches and we had to understand what each poem was about. Our group had to read four poems, So far my favorite is Embarrassment Expert cause I relate to it so much. I've had a lot of embarrassing moments in my life and so I could relate to the poem.

Staying Warm, Keeping cool.

WALT -  Evaluating - I gather, and synthesis to evaluate information across a range of texts


Last week our learning intention was to focus on Warming up and Cooling down. We had to explain the differences between certain animals to us humans of how to keep warm, For Sea mammals Blubber is what keeps sea animals warm such as Seals and Whales. Us humans have fat and clothes to keep us warm, See how many differences between the two. Wonder what will happen if it was the other way around.

The Three Kete

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

Do you know about the three kete story? About how Tane fought through battles to bring back down the three kete back to earth to the Whare Kura, Such an amazing story.

Connect these sites

Connects:

• Their all sites/links.
• They’re all experiments.
• They all at least have something to do with exploding stuff.
• They’re all chemical reactions.
• They all have something that you have to do by hand.
• All the experiments at least have paper or plastic involved.

Democrats and Republicans

This week we´ve been learning about Compare and contrast the differences between peoples views, for an example: Republicans and Democrats both have different views and believe in different things. Democrats want everyone to be the same, like they want everyone to have the same amount of environment, money and homes. Then the republicans think the poor should be left as poor because if they dropped out of school or lost all there money they deserve to stay poor cause thats what they done to themselves. For me I´d go for Democrats because Democrats seem more fair in ways and Republicans are just too harsh to people.

Giving the ocean a voice

WALT: Find the main ideas within the text

The Tui

Walt: gather and use information from a text
Today we are learning about birds and how they adapt to thrive through there lives. I chose the bird that represents the finest birds in New Zealand, I chose the tui. I had to research about the tui, find new facts, what was cool about it. We are doing this because for camp we are going to Kawau Island, this was to show us what we now about the birds.

Define Adaptation!!

WALT: Define the meaning of adaptation

San Diego Zoo.

WALT: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

A recount tells your reader what happened from your point of view.

A good recount is easy to read and tells the reader what it was like to be there.

Vocab to help my recount:

Animals San Diego Zoo Tour Impressive Fascinating Environment Experience

Purpose:

What message do I want my reader to have? (highlight)

San Deigo Zoo has lot’s of awesome animals. - Bungy Jumpers A virtual tour of a zoo is such a cool experience. - Hokey Pokeys I learnt a lot about animals from this website. - Paua Shells Virtual tours of a zoo isn’t as fun as a real zoo. - Whitebait fritters

Plan of my paragraph topics

1. Introduction	Orientates and hooks
2. Body Paragraph 1	Teacher gave us instructions- Virtual tour of San Diego website, What was on it, what did you do, List animals on the website and etc.
3. Body Paragraph 2	What was the animal I learnt, what does it do, what does it eat, how does it adapt. #1 animal
4. Body Paragraph 3	What was the animal I learnt, what does it do, what does it eat, how does it adapt. #2 animal
5. Conclusion	What I thought about the san diego zoo

Animals at the zoo are fun. On San Diego Zoo website, we learnt heaps about animals and their species. Have you ever explored on a website, with animals and their experience?

Fear factor Challenge!!

A recount tells your reader what happened from your point of view.

A good recount is easy to read and tells the reader what it was like to be there.

Vocab to help my recount:

interesting Disappointed Disgusting Terrible revolting nervous

Purpose:

What message do I want my reader to have? (highlight)

Disappointed that I wasn’t picked. Warning to audience: do not try at home. How disgusting it was Just another one of Mr Goodwin’s tricks

Plan of my paragraph topics

1. Introduction	Orientates and hooks the reader in.
2. Body Paragraph 1	The challengers who participated in the fear factor. Who, What they had to do, why they did it.
3. Body Paragraph 2	The food that they had to eat. (kiwifruit juice as pond scum, Beans as frog eggs)
4. Body Paragraph 3	Eating there food fast. Who won, No-one spewed. Everyone found it so easy. Almost everyone knew it was fake.
5. Conclusion	What I thought about fear factor challenge. My thinking and why I thought that.

Ewwww! Did they actually eat pond scum and frog eggs. Our teacher was crazy letting us eat that, was it fake or real. The smell was terrible, and the way it looked. They thought it was going to be easy like eating a pie, but they were wrong.

Egg Races!!!

WALT: think about my purpose and reader by planning my recount.

Cracks, Screaming, Racing!!We all did that with an egg on a spoon, lots of children thought they were going past with no sweat. They thought wrong, it was a super messy.

The whole of class six literacy class all started to walk to the senior playground. We either decided with our partner to run with our egg first or second. Our little eggs name was Venosa Goodwin,We then get handed our spoons, we carefully put the egg on the spoon. Already kids we cracking their eggs, it was already messy. Groups of us lined up behind the line waiting eagerly to pass the line, it was super crazy. We all panicked for our egg.

We then hear a voice beside us saying “go,” we all walked slowly but trying to beat one another. I climbed over the platform with no sweat, and then looked at the other activities that I needed to pass. Lots already lost their egg, and couldn’t go on. I finally passed the line and gave the spoon to my friend, some children from the other end were really disappointed because their partner didn’t come back with a perfect egg. Once everyone finished with their egg, I walk over to Venetia, the egg was perfect, no crack at all. We were amazed.

The egg race was the coolest activity that we had done so far. We all loved our egg and cared for it, some or our kids didn’t want to give our egg back. I thought that the egg was a good idea to car for one another, because some of us were careful of the egg and some just didn’t care about the egg at all.



Task: Today we learnt how to write purpose. To write our paragraph we did egg racing, we learnt how to write about our topic and don't write about something else.

Market Day!!

WALT: Write an interesting recount

Last week on Friday we had our team 4 market day for our topic trade and enterprise. Team 4 bought products, sold products, advertised products and did much more. We got the option to talk to our partner to buy first or sell second. Read on to find out more.

On our market day we had six groups buying and selling products. Our big groups are Musical Instruments, Homeware, Custom Stationery, Kitchen, Jewelry and Toys. Smaller groups were made so they can decide what products they want to make to sell. My group had a discussion and decided that we wanted to make maths book covers.

The whole of team four were split up into the year six block, the year five block and the porch. The groups that were in the year five block were Jewelry and Toys. In the year six block was Custom stationery, some of Jewellery and Musical Instruments. On the porch was Kitchen. Our group decided to hang our poster above us so our customers can see our amazing product. It was really crazy, because kids were wandering around  and buying products that they didn’t even need.

Kids got the option to talk to their partner if they wanted to buy or sell first. I got the opportunity to buy first, so what I bought was a candle for my mum, food, loom bands and much more. My partener and I had a turn to bowl down six cans with a ball, it was super fun buying. The products that I bought were very useful to use, and I was very impressed of what I could do with it. When we had to swap I didn’t want to go back I was stuck having way too much fun with my products.

Selling products was easy for a while. We sold up to 9 book covers and made 22pt and 50pcs, we also made 5 generic book covers which made 12pt and 50pcs. Our group was really impressed of how much we made, and we are really grateful that Mr Goodwin was there to help us. I was in custom stationery with my friends, we got the option to chose what math book we want. What I choose was a cool graffiti math book cover, that my friend Venetia made. It was super cool and fitted right onto my maths book.

The market day was like I was in the night market but in day time, I thought the market was going to be lame but it was actually really awesome. The most amazing part about the market day was that we got heaps of orders, my friends and I were really HAPPY!!

Task of description:

I have learnt how to make sense, and use proper English. I also had help with my friends, I learnt how to use language to make my recount more interesting. I made my story my interesting my using more new words. Please leave a comment or feedback.

Vocabulary!!!

WALT: use our inferencing skills to find meaning in the text.

Adjective- Friendly

Noun-Families

Verb- Forgive

Adverb- Forever

Description of task:

Today we learnt how to use Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs and adverbs, but there was a change of this we had to put them into order to make sense. We learnt how to use a range of language and use our inferencing skills, we did some heaps or learning today. Our whole class learnt this with a partner for help. This task was an good idea to put on our thinking caps for using top vocabulary for our poems, writing, reading answers and talk to the people we know or giving directions. Please leave a comment and some feedback of what I missed or I need to improve on.