Facts about Germany

GERMANY

The name for Germany in the German language is Deutschland.

The capital of Germany is Berlin, it is also the largest city.

The president for Germany name is Joachim Gauck.

Germany is a member of the European union.

Germany has the largest economy in Europe.

    Germany is in the process of phasing out nuclear power plants.

Over 100 Germans have been awarded the Nobel prize in their field, including Albert Einstein, who was born in Germany.

Week 1 Activity- Summer Learning Journey

GERMANY

1.) I chose this country for my summer learning because i thought i would work better with this country 

2.) I will also think it will be easy picking facts about this country. 

Adv Multi Part Whole

WALT: Find more than one way of solving problems

Decimals

Rewriting

WALT: - Identify features of instructional writing

            - Create instructions that are concise and easy to follow 

Instructions should have clear, simple steps so you don’t confuse the person reading them.

Can you make these various instructions easier to understand?

Pick up an egg, gently hit it against the side of a bowl and empty the contents into a clean bowl.	Get any amount of eggs.Gently hit the eggs against the side of the bowl, empty all the eggs and Put it into a nice clean bowl
Open the fridge and take out the butter. Take off the lid. Get a knife and use it to scoop some butter. Rub the knife onto the toast.	Get a tub of butter out of the fridge, Take off the lid then get a clean knife and take a little scoop of butter,butter the toast  from side to side with the butter knife
Hold the two shortest sides of paper and bend them together. Squeeze them so that the paper is now in half.	Get a piece of paper, turn it landscape and hold the shortest sides. Gently squeeze the paper so the paper can go in half.
When you hear the sound of the whistle, move one leg in front of the other as quickly as you can.	When your start to hear the sound of a whistle, Quickly move one leg in front of the other as soon as possible
When player One had rolled the die, they should hand it to player Two, who should then roll it too. The person with the highest score moves their counter first.	Once player one had rolled the die he/she should hand it to player two that will then roll it. The person who gets the highest score has to move their counter first.
If you want to turn on the computer, look for the round, lack power button and press it once.	If you trying to turn off the computer, Look around your keyboard until you find a round, lack power button. After you had found the button press it once to turn the device off
Hold the handles of the scissors and cut along the dotted line, making sure you don’t hurt yourself.	Hold the handles of the scissors by putting your fingers in, Cut along the dotted line making sure you don't hurt yourself
Before you start mixing the ingredients, switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.	Before you manage to mix the ingredients, Switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.
Take the lid off the glue stick and rub the glue on the tab, being careful not to get any glue on your clothes.	Take off the lid of your glue stick, Rub the glue on the tab, As you do this be careful not to get it on your clothes
When you have planted your seed, pick up the pot and move it it near to a window where it will get lots of sunlight.	Once you planted the seed, pick up the pot and move it near a window where it can get lots of sunlight

This week my writing class have been learning to rewrite paragraphs or steps by making them easier to read or do and making it more sense. This doc help me with my writing because when I look back at my pass writing I can see the mistakes and rewrite it.

Testing practise

WALT: understand improper and mixed fractions fractions


Last week my group and I have been working on a presentation that has equations. This presentation will help us improve our maths and other things we have never heard of. The presentation is about my decimals, fractions, time tables, predictions,Measurements and heaps more. This google presentation has improve my maths for the past few weeks.

Word Problems

WALT: Solve Algebraic Equations



This presentation show my word problems such as divisions,or multiplications. This presentation helped me with my division and multiplications and other things. This presentation is about word problems and one slide will be full of multiplication problems and the other will be division .

My Math whizz Goal

This picture was from my Math whizz. This year math whizz will be my biggest goal because last year I was at 13 but now I have gone down to 11.  Math whizz is a site where there is a tutor that gives you math problems where we have to figure out the answer. This picture show how many minutes i have used this year which was 24 mins ( so disappointed) it also show your maths age.

States of matter

States of matter

Task

Work on this Doc together with a partner or in a 3.

Give three examples of each state of matter?

Solid	Liquid	Gas
linked together	Flowing	Cant see it
Densed	Watery	Smoke
Compressed	Runny	Steamy

What’s the difference between the three states of matter?

Solids	Liquids	Gases
Solids is hard	Liquids is runny or watery	Impossible to see

Write 3 sentences explaining something new you learned from this reading.

From this reading i have learned that matters can be in anything even if it’s small or big, also the galaxy, stars, and planets are made of matter. I have also learned that Matters can exist in three states Solids, Liquids, and Gases.

For the pass few days My group and I have been learning about different matters and how it is in everything. This reading helped me with my learning and it also gave me a lot of information about the three matters which is Liquid, Solids, and Gases.

Today is a very special day

20 years ago my mum and dad got married just the year before my eldest sister was born. Many years have past and they have now got 7 children including me. The reason why I picked this title was because.. It my mum and dads ANNIVERSARY!!!!  The best thing about it is they have been together for twenty years and they got married when they were about 17 or 18 very young. Now my parents are the best thing that ever happened to me if it weren't for them I wouldn't be here. My mum  is very special to me because shes always been there for me and always made me feel better when im down or im having drama with other girls, shes the best mum anyone could have. My dad is special to me also even if he will embarrass me with his dancing and singing but hes still good and he does make me laugh.. A LOT!! Whenever my  dad will call me its either massage his feet or do a job for him that goes for my mum too but I dont massage her foot i just do jobs like do a coffee or make her food. Sometimes I will just offer it to them because they deserve it I also clean up their room without them knowing.:P

Reflection of term three

Term three had been a amazing term  so far i have had great memories with all kinds of people mostly my friends. My friends helped me with a lot of stuff in term three, and its going to be very harsh saying goodbye next term. :(

Memories!!

I have a lot of memories to talk about in the previous term. 

Disco was one of my favourite memories because we had a lot of fun with the year eights such as dancing with each other, making up funny dances and heaps more.

My favourite memory will have to be making the year eights laugh and them telling that Vinolia and I is their favourite Yr sevens. 

It was so amazing getting to know the year eights and how we stood up for each other  either when they needed help with their work or someone was bullying them. The year eights were great brothers and sisters to me.The last day came very emotional to me hugging all my best yr eights and saying goodbye, and also having a laugh with Rowana and Vinolia in assembly because Vinolia was eating her food. 

Maths goal

My maths goal will be learning my fractions. The reason why I need to learn my fractions is because whenever I have a maths test I always get my fraction questions wrong and maybe some other ones. I don't really like fractions so I really need to learn them and maybe try and do them every week.

The Black death.

WALT: Compare and contrast.

Maths Problem Solving

WALT: Use a variety of strategies to solve mult/div problems.

Converting fractions

This math equation is called Conversion tester. Conversion tester helps us with our fractions,decimals and percentages. In this site, the computer gives us a number in any section which is the grey coloured. Me ( myself) or you  have to try to figure out the simplest fraction and the percentage for that number. The grey coloured number can change places when you press next question. Just like the picture below.

Math Whizz Learning

This picture shows what I just did in my math whizz. As you can see worded problems was the math problem I was learning. This helped me with my multiplication because in this math problems you are suppose to multiply thousand or millions with decimals. This Maths problem was easy to do because I know most of this and it was also fun.

Hiwi the Kiwi

Hiwi the Kiwi

Saia and Gabe ( Silicon Valley)

Recently, Saia and Gabe visited us and told us about their journey to america and Silicon Valley. Saia and Gabe went to America to experience lots of different buildings that were from social media. They had told us that they were amazed with all the buildings they saw and they even had favourites, Gabe had told us about Alcatraz prison and that it was the top secured prison until three prisoners broke out. They told us lots of information about the buildings they had visited such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Xero, and many more, they have also visited Alcatraz and Stanford. They had came back from america and was amazed with all the things they had visited the food and whats the difference to NZ.

How our muscles work.

Whoa! My muscles are aching after all those running. To make your body healthier you need to exercise, eat the right food, sleep, and drink lots of water. I will be doing an explanation about our muscles and discuss how the muscles in the human body work . There are over 600 muscles in our body! So no matter what size you are were all the same.

There are about 6-8 muscles in our body, each of these muscles belong to a particular group. There are three types of our muscles in our body, I’ll start with the smooth muscle. Smooth muscle are found in our intestines, bladder, and lungs. They work by themselves and they also are called involuntary muscles. When a person is gonna throw up that’s when the smooth muscle comes in, they push the food up to the throat out the mouth. Cardiac muscle, Cardiac muscles also move by them self like the heart. The heart is also called a myocardium muscle, It contracts and relaxes and pumps blood through the rest of our body. The last muscle skeletal muscle. A skeletal muscle are called voluntary muscle, it is like involuntary muscle but you decide when and what muscle you’re going to move. This voluntary muscle is connected to your bones and tendons.

How you know when to move your muscles is your brain muscles. The muscles are called Cerebral motor cortex and cerebellum. How it moves your is, the motor cortex send an electrical signal through the body into the muscle you want to move causing them to contract. Muscles move body parts by contracting and memory laxing but they also work with flexor and  extensor, bicep muscle ( a flexor) in the front of your upper arm contracts to bend them while you flexor muscle relaxes. The triceps muscle is the extensor at the back of your upper arm contracts to extend. Deltoids is a muscle that helps move your shoulders, The muscle that is found on each side of your chest is called pectorals. Quadriceps are the muscles that are in your thighs, also the gluteus maximus those muscles are found in your bottom.

healthy and exercising a lot, the right sort of food and lots of water helps your muscle get healthier. Healthy food is great for your body and your muscles it makes it healthier and makes your muscles last longer periods. You will also need to drink lots of water and by lots I mean a lot, why? Because it helps stop your muscles from getting dehydrated. Exercising helps your muscle get bigger and make you get fitter and not just that even the other stuff I said and other things including.

My body is very important to me. I really learnt a lot information about muscles from this explanation. It helps me think about what i should be doing to keep my muscles healthier and it also helps me learn about the muscles in my body. This explanation was the best explanation I have ever done because i have learnt a lot from this and it had things that I did not know.

Sleep Sleuths

WALT: Apply the text

This week my group and I have been working on a presentation. My presentation is based on a book we are reading about sleep sleuths and that book is about how your sleeping time has changed when you get older and you get less sleep then you did when you were younger, I hope you like my blog post.

How the Olympics came to be'

Olympics are a  massive sporting event that takes part in different countries, where each country pick their best athletes to compete against other athletes from all over the world.  This event has a mixture of different sports. This is an explanation of how the olympics has changed,also how the Olympics came to be.

The Olympics begun 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece, Every four years around 50,000 people went to Olympia to either participate or watch the Olympics happening. The Ancient games were also a religious festival held in honours of Zeus, the kings of gods. The Greeks loved sport and thought they celebrated sports and made Olympics, Olympics was the biggest sporting event in the Ancient calendar.

Back then the sports that the athletes played were, 200m run, discus, javelin, long jump, wrestling or boxing, and horse racing. 200m run was the first sport that happened in the Olympics, each year a new sporting event started. At the ancient Olympics games only men were allowed to participate in the Olympics, nowadays women and men are allowed to join. Overtime, the ancient Olympic games has changed a lot.

The Olympic games has changed overtime because there are more games in the Ancient Olympics. Back then, the Olympics were only held at Greece when right now it takes part in different countries. In the Ancient Olympics if you won a sporting event you will receive a good welcome back or a wreath of leaves, nowadays you will be given either a gold, silver, or bronze medal.

I am really looking forward to the Olympics 2016, I can't wait to see it. I really hope New Zealand win a sporting event or makes it in the finals, My favourite of all time is Valerie Adams.  My favourite sport that happens to be in the Olympics is shot put or running, I am very excited to watch the Olympics.

Why do our muscles get tired?

WALT:  Identify the information that supports the main idea of the text.

This week my group and i have been working on this presentation
about our muscles. We had learn how to identify the information
that supports the important or main ideas in the text.

Muscle fatigue

My group and I have been learning about Muscle's and muscle fatigue. I have learnt what Muscle fatigue is, how to get rid of Muscle fatigue, or ways to beat muscle fatigue. This is connected to our book called Why do our muscles get tired.

We Are The Champions - Human Body Inquiry

Walt: Introduction to the human body - 'My body parts and systems'


This week the yr 7/8 block inquiry is about the human body. We are learning all about the human body for our topic we are learning information about it for to keep fit. Our school term topic is We are the champions,  the topic is based on the Rio Olympics.

The class newspaper

WALT: Reflect on the text.



This week My group and I have been working on this presentation. This presentation was based on a journal we read, we used some of the answers that were in the text from the book. Reflecting on the text is what we are trying to achieve and learn, The book was about Tama and his family. That he and his family were having trouble finding fish and kahawai in the local beach and that they are trying to keep the local beach open.

Emma's Mum!

WALT: Respond to, Think critically about the information and ideas in the text

Hokulea Wool and nail art

For the pass few weeks wool and nail art class have been doing some art work. Weeks before i have done a art blog post about the same thing but we have added some more to our work. We basically got a picture of the Hokulea Waka and put nails around the picture to put detail in it. As u can see we already did the Hokulea and surrounded it with wool.

Three Poems

WALT: I can recognise and understand the connections between oral, written and visualise language.

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Hatters Gold

WALT: Predicting: I make, confirm and refine predictions before, during and after reading

Wk 6 maths work

Walt :  I can split numbers into ones and tens to solve addition and multiplication problems.



This week i learned how to split number into ones, here is a presentation to show wat we did.

Hokulea Waka

           Our Waka 
Today in our art group we researched our own Waka and what will suit being stencilled for our wool and nail. What we had to put on our wood was a side on picture so we can make it stencilled for our art. We also researched some words that was similar to boats and portage rd.

Chracater Description

This presentation the extension group was working on this week to help us on our writing. It was suppose to help us with our next writing.

Book Review

This is my book review about my book monkey boy, This just tell whats the book about and some information about what i think of it and my ratings of my book.

Paper Mache

Today is Friday the 20 of may what we did today was paper mache. In this blog i will do the steps for paper mache

You will need : Balloon, lolly, PVA Glue, and wool.

Step 1: First you will need to put the lolly inside the balloon then blow the balloon up.

Step 2: Once you have blown it up you will just rip 2 metres of wool and dip it in the glue.

Step 3 After you you dip it in you wrap the wool around the balloon and repeat that until you think that is enough.

Step 4: You will need to hang it up to dry.

Step 5: After it dries up u will need to pop the balloon and there you have it. 

Our Year 7 Fun Week

WALT: Use a variety of interesting vocabulary to keep our readers engaged  

Just as the morning went and the year 8’s left to Marsden,  the year 7’s fun week was just about to begin. I was getting happy about the fun week but without the year 8’s felt a bit boring, We just watched half of a movie which was called Boys 2 Men.

Half of the day was gone it was a good morning we started with but very busy, posters posting presentations and other stuff. I found it easy in maths but very loud and there was cool drawing, it was about to go home. Just before we were going to leave we received a notice about our shared lunch that happened on friday.

It was the second day of the fun week the 2nd to last day of school getting excited about the holidays with anzac day because that was a special day when my dad was born. Ms M and Miss Clark sorted out the groups for the people who wanted to be an helper.

Just as the last day is happening we are making some art that has to do with flower leis, We are doing this because we want to show that we missed the year 8’s.  It was fun doing the art, but now it is time to eat our shared lunch hmmm i can smell the tastiness of the mince and cheese pasta my mouth is watering, I just can’t wait.

Story of malaga

Boys2Men

WALT: Recount key points and facts from a film or trailer with detailed reflections:

My comparison of how i learn and how my parents learn.

What I learn from this comparison was a big difference from our days to our parents days and their days was a lot more harder than us.

Group MTV

What we have been doing for the last few weeks is a MTV. What our MTV was mainly about was our school and what we learn at school. Basically All our MTV is for our school Ambassadors, in my group that i worked with was Khaia, Ariana, and Heather. What did for our MTV was we used the instrumental from my house but changed the name to our school and we also changed the lyrics as a group.

Grammar

This week we are composing articles on current events in the news.While we are composing our articles, we are focussing on ensuring we correctly punctuating our sentences so that they are clear and concise.

Shrinkage

Walt:  Apply new Vocabulary

Presayus Watermelons Theives

WALT: Infer the character traits of different characters

Sub and Add Decimals

WALT: Add and subtract to solve problems with decimal fractions to two decimal places

Narrative Writing

WALT: Identify the features and structure of narrative writing

On a Saturday morning Lauren  thought her and Mary will go to a theme park for her birthday. As they walk into the theme park they see a lot of rides, “how about we try every single one of the rides” exclaimed Mary “sure” Lauren said with excitement. They only had one more ride to go before the whole things shuts down and closes, That ride was called the deadliest ride ever. Just when they hopped on they were very excited but they never knew what was in front of them, Riding right towards the broken space they could see that they were going very fast “ahhhhhhhh” Screamed  Mary and Lauren. When the operator heard them he didn't know what to do because it was his first day working at the theme park. Suddenly The operator saw a lever on a weird looking door but he didn't know what it does so he pulled it and the whole thing shutted down just in time. Helping The two best friends get down they both said “ That was the deadliest ride.”

Show Not Tell

Walt: add detail to our writing by using descriptive language

I saw Derek with a red face looking down I could tell his temperature for emotions are getting to the point of him getting irritated. Each day he gets bullied I always tried a way to stop it but nothing happened. With every small step he took he was getting angrier, people  with big  mouths shouting out words directly to him, Straight away I  knew Derek was getting bullied. He walked past me very frustrated I calmly talked to him but he didn't want my attention, so I tried telling them to stop it but it wasn't quite working. The people were getting louder and louder like there was a celebration happening, I suddenly saw Derek but he quickly ran so I waited until he was completely ok.

Oakley Creek

WALT: Connect my prior knowledge to help me make meaning when I infer.

Word Problems

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

Statistics

WALT: Read graphs, Analyse data, and report on statistical findings.

Presayus Waitangi

The Treaty Today.

With the signing of the Treaty in 1840, Maori and Pakeha began the long journey towards creating a nation together.

Throughout this time, the Treaty has never lost its importance. And today, perhaps more than ever, it is helping to forge productive working relationships between Maori and other New Zealanders.

The journey continues – and it involves everyone living in this country.

The Treaty up close

British representatives wrote the Treaty in a hurry, then spent seven months working to get as many Rangatira (chiefs) to sign it as possible. But the Treaty meant different things to different people.

Nearby you can find out exactly what the Treaty said, and see why it has caused so much debate – both in 1840 when it was signed and now

Maori and the British

Māori and British first met when Captain James Cook visited these shores in 1769. Over the next seventy years contact increased, until the two cultures were linked by complex personal, political, and business relationships.

In this part of the exhibition you can explore how this relationship built up and led to the signing of the Treaty in 1840.

Nga Pankanga O Aotearoa

WALT: Learn about Aotearoa around the time of the Treaty of Waitangi. Make inferences

Visual Mihi

My Visual Mihi is about me and four things that represent myself. The first picture is my culture that I am mostly Tongan, I have to go church every Sundays because my grandpa is the priest. My second one is Sports My favourite sports are basketball and rugby. I have two older sisters, two older brothers and two younger sisters, I am the third youngest. The last one is about my school and what we learn about, my favourite subject is maths.

Statistics

My 2015 reflection

WALT: Write a quality reflection that shares what you gained from 2015 and what you are looking forward to accomplishing in 2016.

Well now it is 2016 and thinking back in 2015 it was pretty cool but my favourite activity last year was going camp Bentzon. I think i did pretty good in maths moving up three years in Math Whizz and that is all i could think of but i also liked athletics and playing capture the flag.I think my learning in 2015 was good and very helpful with my learning and tinkering tools and toy was fun creating music instruments.   

In 2016 I am looking forward to make my writing and reading go in a higher level from last year and keep doing my best in maths. So my goals are writing and reading and i also need to focus more and don’t get distracted easily.