Flight Attendant's

This is what I would like to be in future other than a Silver Fern. I love playing netball, but I would also love to see what it would be like being a flight attendant for my job. It looks so fun and so amazing because you get to go on rides and you also meet new people.

How to make a water scooper

These are some steps that you could follow to make a water scooper. We have made them to do some studies on the creek water to see how clean it is and if there is any water bugs living in it. But if the water is too dirty from all of the rubbish that people has thrown around then they would all probably be dead. 

How you could be a Pharmacist

These are some ideas how you could become a pharmacist and how much you could earn in a month.

My collage

Well, room 9 has to make  collage of what we have been up to this year, and I chose to do one of the Howic Historical Village because I think that I had a great adventure at the Historical Village. 

My comment to Room 6

This is my comment that I have given to room 6 for their exciting art. It was really cool looking at them.

My comment to Room 2

This is my comment to Room 2 for their amazing job from their slide show.

Stormwater & wastewater

Compare and Contrast Chart

Stormwater

Wastewater

Collects rainwater from roofs, yards and driveways ✓ Goes down roadside drains or stormwater drains on roads, yards and car parks ✓ Collects wastewater from outside your house ✓ Flows into stormwater pipes which carries run-off into the nearest stream, harbour and beach ✓ Pollutants include rubbish, paint, animal faeces, garden rubbish, pesticides, air pollution, chemicals, soil, grass clippings, grease and oil, detergent, rubber, heavy metals from cars such as zinc and copper ✓

Collects wastewater from inside houses, offices, schools, factories etc ✓ Flows into sewage treatment plant before being dispersed into the environment ✓ Goes down pipes into sewage pipes ✓ Flows into sewage treatment plant before being dispersed into the environment ✓ Collects wastewater from inside houses, offices, schools, factories etc ✓ Pollutants include food scraps, detergents, paint, human faeces, grease and oil ✓

This is my chart for stormwater and wastewater. Room 9 is now learning about stormwater and wastewater.

6 thinking hats

This is Leila's and my six thinking hats. It is about how many cigarette butts get thrown down the drain.

Having a safe fireworks night.

These are my ways of telling everyone how to have a safe night every year for fireworks. So if you all stick to my words, then you might have a really great and a really fun night.

My fast fingers

This is my screenshot of my fast fingers. It was a mission to do this, but I have still baton my score.

Halloween

Well, yesterday was Halloween, and Room 9 had to do a slide show on The History of Halloween. Me and Candice were working on this for 2 days.

My Story about a fire

Fire!

From where I stood it looked like the flames were swallowing the house. I coughed and coughed until I could catch some breath. As I fell to the ground I thought to myself “Are my parents alright?! I have to do something!” So I climbed up the tree that was outside of my mum and dads window, as I took a look inside all I could see was my mum panicking while squeezing my dad’s hand. I yelled out to them, “Mum!, Dad!” 

They looked as I threw a rock through the window. I helped my mum and dad to get out safely. We ran around the back to have a look through the sliding door. But, we could only see one child. We grabbed the brick and smashed the door so we could get in, it was like we were stealing from our own house! But we weren't. 

I ran up stairs to have a look for him but he wasn’t here and then I thought about the hut that our family built in the garage. So I sprinted as fast as I could. There he was, fast asleep on the bed. I held him close to me and met my family outside. 

Me and my little brother ran to them and gave them a huge hug!Straight after we called the fire station and they came straight away. We all had to go to the hospital though to get a check up. We got out the next day and went straight home to clean it up. It was a frustrating journey but I was just thankful that my family was safe.

Everything went back to normal in no time, our family were as happy as we could ever be!

My writing toolkit

My 6 thinking hats.

I was learning about how to make people stop littering. Inside of mine and Candice's presentation is all of the consequences and how you can help by stop littering and how to solve all of our answers. We just found out that all of the rubbish that we throw down the drain goes into the sea.

My Thinking

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

1. Waitemata Harbour

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.

Use our skimming and scanning skills.

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.

What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour? The Waitemata Harbour is a drowned river valley. ✔

Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital? It was chosen because it had a deep water and sheltered bays. ✔

What does Waitemata mean? It means Auckland Harbour.

Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata:

Auckland’s chief port - Auckland’s port on the Waitemata was important to the progress of the city and region. ✔

Viaduct basin - The Viaduct Basin, was opened in the mid 1990s. ✔

Westhaven - The largest managed Marina. ✔

Harbour bridge - The Harbour Bridge is to be known as a bridge in Auckland City. The bridge is 1,020 m long, and also was opened in 1959. ✔

Greenhithe bridge - The Greenhithe bridge opened 1975. ✔

Natural features - The Pollen Island Marine Reserve (Motu Manawa) on the northern side of the north-west motorway is the best Auckland example of mangrove saltmarsh. ✔

This is what we had to do. I didn't need anybodies help. Oh no I did. From Kapri Haumaha.

My Keyboard skills

I have been practicing my key board skills, and I have been trying hard. I have put a lot of effort into my work and as you can see I have done 34 words per minute. 

Bidmas

YAY! I have gotten every one of my answers right. I had to do a maths quiz called Bidmas. Oh and her is my Trophy that I have won.

My comment to Raera and Claudia

This is my comment to Raera and Claudia from Room 1, because I admired how the drew their 3 bears.

My comment to Marie

This is my comment to Marie when she took a photo of herself but with her 8 black objects that she found.

Our visit from Tony Williams

Tony Williams visited our School and shared with us some of his own stories and how good it is to read.

My Fantasy Island

This is what I had to work on while most of the year 7/8 went on camp. Inside is what I had to do, like make up my own Fantasy Island, and make new stuff like a new National Anthem and a new flag. This activity was actually pretty fun for me.

This Land Poster

My Haiku

This is my Haiku about my made up Island, called Lala Land. A Haiku is a Japanese poem. 

My Pineapple poster

This is a pineapple poster that I have made to make people like pineapples. Now I hope that you like pineapples from reading my poster, because pineapples are the main ingredient of pineapple lumps.

Graphics: Tech

For our final rotation this year the Year 7 students will be doing Graphics at Tamaki College for Tech. Today we learnt about how guidelines help you with lettering and how to use pencils effectively.

My Coat of Arms

This is my Coat of Arms for my own Island. I have also put down my description.

My Inside Travel Brochure

This is my travel Brochure for my Island that I have made up. It tries to hook you in to come for a Holiday.

Popplet of Kokako birds

We have been learning about Kokako birds and how to organise our information in our own words. Plus we have a lot of fun while doing it.

Me running from a volcano

This is me. But I had a lot of help from Tienira. She is very helpful. I had a lot of fun working on this.

My cross section of a volcano

I have finally finished my volcano. I had to draw a volcano on google draw, and then I had to label them all. But I am finally finished. 

Our Story: Tongariro's sleep is over

Tongariro’s Sleep is Over

The last time this sleeping giant was awake was in 1897. Today just over a hundred years on I am standing in front of this volcano that local people call Mount Tongariro. The question the community is asking is why the mountain has suddenly woken up? Well it appears everyone is saying that Mt Tongariro looks depressed. The  other question I am trying to get out of my head is why is Mt Tongariro covering Pihangas mountain with all his ash?

From where I am standing now, I can see loose rocks still tumbling down Tongariro’s ash covered slopes. The eruption lasted only five minutes but for those near by, time stood still as the cloud of ash exploded out of the Te Maari crater. Although no one was injured, this morning many people are still afraid there is more to come.

The eruption took everyone by surprise. A heavy cloud now covers much of the North Island. Locals have awoken to a blanket of thick ash covering the ground. Farmers are worried about their animals as it will be hard for them to find clean food and water.

Flights have been delayed, truck drivers have been turned around and locals are faced with a massive clean up. Tourists are being advised to stay away from the area for their own safety.

In recent weeks there has been an increase in seismic activity but the eruption surprised everyone. Volcanologists have headed to the mountain in search of more information to help put minds at rest.

Locals are hoping that their sleeping giant will remain sleeping, allowing them to begin the big clean up ahead of them.

This is what Jazmine and I have been working on for the last few weeks. We have finally finished our work about Tongariro.

My Monthly Blog Posts

Here is my blog posts. I have made a goal for myself to do. It is to try and upload 5 posts a week.

My montly blog posts

 

This is how many blog post that I have put up onto my blog from, February-August. I have been setting some goals for me to achieve.   

My Rock Cycle

I have been working on this Rock Cycle for like, all day. Now I am finally finished my Rock Cycle.

My spelling

For spelling this week. We are focusing on our maths. Inside I have been working on my syllables.

My comment to Puke and Issac

This is my comment that I have sent to Puke and Issac for their great job on doing the Water Cycle.

My water cycle

Me and Dallas have been working on our water cycle. We have learnt how a water cycle works now.  

Auckland Volcanoes

This is what my group has been working on. We are proud of what we have managed to finish.

My slideshow

This is my slideshow of the battle of the mountains. Inside my slideshow I have described what they are like.

My keyboard skills

This is how my skills are at typing.

My Spelling for week 2

This is my spelling for week 2. I have put some sentences inside about the battle of the mountains.

My spelling

This week we had to learn our spelling. But this activity was really fun.

My letter that I wrote to the Historical Village

 

This is the letter that I wrote to the Historical Village. I had an awesome time there!

My Flipsnack

We went on a trip to the Historical Village, so I decided to make a Flipsnack about it.

Warm and cool colours

I have made a slideshow with Kyra. We are learning about warm and cool colours.  

My KWL chart

What’s Next
LI: To use a KWL chart help us think about how schooling has changed over time, and will

continue to change in the future

KWL charts help us to record the facts we know, the facts we want to find out and the -facts we have learnt

K                                    9/5/13	W             9/5/13	L
1900: Boys use to go to the toilets outside. You weren't allowed to be in a car without your brother or your dad. All the teachers were strict. Teachers also had to follow rules. Kids would be punished if they didn’t do what they were told. In some classes you were not aloud to smile. You weren’t aloud to wear a skirt that was two inches above your knees. You were not aloud to smoke Their schools were very small 2013: We have computers we do not get hit We are allowed in the car without being with your dad and brother Teachers skirts does not have to be 2 inches above your ankles. Our teachers are very nice and they do not swear at us We have white boards We have pens Our schools are very big The classes are warm and have light We learn many subjects Our schools now have lots of books Girls and boys work together 2100:	What happens now and why? How does this differ from the past and why? What is causing the changes and why? What might happen in the future?                                                                       What do you want to happen in the future and why? Why did they get punished? Why did they change during the future? Why were teachers strict? Did teachers ever swear at the children? Why were there so many punishments for the children? Why aren't you allowed to  wear bright clothes? What would happen if the teacher’s didn’t follow the rules? What was their reaction when  they heard about these punishments? Did any of these children’s parents complain about their injuries? How did the teachers feel when they were hitting the children?	If children were late for school they had to write a hundred of lines on the chalkboard. Children that were late to school were called tardy. Children weren't allowed to smile when they took pictures. If you wrote with your left hand you would get in trouble. You were not allowed to walk down to the ice-cream shop. You had to be home between 8:00pm-6:00am. Kids weren't allowed to wear bright clothes. The children’s biggest punishment was sitting girl, boy, girl, boy.