Pt England School - Manaikalani

Manaiakalani-
Manaiakalani is a film festival celebrated every year with the Tamaki Schools. If you didn't know Manaiakalani is a film fest that most schools in the Glen Innes and Panmure communities celebrate each year. Every class from each school in the Manaiakalni cluster have to make a movie of what ever topic they would like. It is then screened at the Sylvia Park Hoyts cinema to the whole of there school. 

Last week on Friday Pt England School had our very own P.E.S film festival. We watched every class's movies in our hall and had loads of fun. Personally my favourite movie was Room 4's Taste Test movie because it was very funny and it was an interesting movie because they tasted new things I found out more about some food items.

The Hero Within!

Here is my literacy task was this week. This week we read a story about a girl who was bullied because she had a disease. We read the story and answered the questions given by our teacher. The story is linked onto the title so if you have free time check it out and read the story.

Maths Problems

Here is my weekly presentation from this week. This week our focus was on BEDMAS. We had a variety of questions ranging from simple like addition and subtraction to more difficult questions like division and multiplication. I have definitely learnt more from this presentation because sometimes I find BEDMAS quite difficult. At the end of this presentation on the last slide I have added 10 questions for you to answer so have a look and try out the questions.

What is a good role model?

What it means to be a good role model. Are you a good role model, do you show support, encourage and show respect to other people? In this explanation writing I am going to be explaining the reasons of what a good role model is and how a good role model sounds and acts.

Good role models are the types of people who encourage, motivate and respect other people. Good role models encourage others to never ever give up, they motivate people to strive and succeed, respect their peers and treat others the way they want to be treated. For example one of my role models is my mama. My mama has always encouraged and motivated me throughout my life at school. My mama has always encouraged me and told me that I should never give up with the things I do and achieve. 

To me being a good role model is someone who is positive all the way, confident with all things in life and someone who is bubbly and funny. Role models are people who are positive, being positive is a big thing in being a role model. Being a role model you have to be confident and face the challenges in life. You may not always be happy with the things you do but it’s best to be positive all the time. My mother is another role model of mine because she is very confident with the things she does, she is positive most of the time and always shows happiness towards others. 

A role model is someone who is hard-working, mature and self-talkative. Most of my role models are very hard-working and powerful women. They are very strong and mature and have believed in themselves all the way. My last two role models would have to be my teachers Mrs Ilaoa and Mrs Sio. The reasons why they are my two role models are because they are very hard-working. They work hard, never give up and always try to teach us new things at school. Our class can be a handful or more sometimes but my two role model teachers are always strong and push us until we succeed.

So now that you’ve read my story about “Role Models” are you strong, powerful and motivational enough to be a good role model? Everyone has the strength to be a role model. So use your strength and become a better role model then you already are!

Word Problems - Week 7

Task: This week we have been learning about finding strategies to solve word problems. Here I have filled out these questions. 

Musical Madness!!!

Musical Madness!!! Yay, the term has officially started. This terms topic is "Musical Madness". Today we had our whole school immersion assembly where each year level/team performed an item based around the topic "Musical Madness". This term the topic is going to be based around composing music, how it fits into story telling and how it affects our emotions and lots more.

The assembly started off by our senior management team performing there item/song called "Musical Madness". They sang their song about musical madness and talked to the school about our topic and what we are doing this term. My favourites teams by far were Team's 3 , 4 & 5. I found Team 3's item interesting because it was about story telling through music. Their aim this term was to tell stories using music and sounds.

Moving on to Team 4. Team 4's item was movie of their teachers in car lip-syncing to different songs. Their aim this term was to find out more about music and make there own instruments. Then the best team (Team 5). Team 5's item was a live item of the teachers watching a movie and how music affects the mood.   They played a series of different music sounds and to the same movie and chose which one fits in the best. Their aim this team is how music affects the mood and how it fits into movies. 

Overall I am looking forward to Term 4. I am so interested and excited to learn more about music and how it affects our lives. I enjoyed this terms immersion assembly and I can't wait to learn about "Musical Madness". 

Floundering Project!

FLOUNDERS!!! They caught more than twenty flounder's!!!!!!!!  Today the whole of Pt England School gathered together for our very first Floundering project. We started off at the hard courts where the whole school gathered to get ready to walk down to the Tamaki Estuary. Twelve Pt England students were chosen to go down to the beach and gather at least 4 baby flounders for our floundering project with Kauri Flats School. As we got to the place where we were watching the project we sang a few waiata's. We had a prayer in hope of catching flounders and staying safe in this weather. We then headed back to school. 

Flounder is a flatfish specie. In New Zealand most flounder live up to two years old with a few living up to five. According to fish scientists female flounder live more then male flounder. Flounder usually have an oval/flattened shaped body. If you didn't know flounder are actually carnivores meaning they are meat eaters. They eat things like smaller fish, crabs and shrimps. Here is a picture of baby and adult flounder.

Multiplication Pyramid

In todays math class I completed this Maths multiplication pyramid poster.

We had to multiply each number and we eventually ended up with 11664000.

I hope you enjoy and learn.

Reflecting Shapes

WALT:Rotate, Reflect & Translate shapes

In today's math class we started learning about shapes and seeing them from different perspectives. We talked about how it would look like if we rotated shapes or how it would look in a reflection. Carrying on from our maths learning I then did a 10 question quiz about resizing shapes. Here are two questions from the quiz I did. The first pictures is a question I found easy because I knew about it. The second picture I have is a question I found difficult

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Happy Sapate Tamai

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!
This Weekend I celebrated Fathers day with my family. We started our day off by having a delicious breakfast at home. Then we went for a drive to the cemetery to visit my beloved grandpa. After spending time with my pa we then headed to Sam Woos to celebrate fathers day. Last but not least after we ate we went to Carls Junior to have dessert. Overall I really enjoyed the fathers day weekend with my family. I was a good time for us to bond and spend time with one another. 

Happy Fathers day to all the fathers out there in the world. Also happy fathers day to the mothers who have to play the mother and father role in there child's life. I hope you all had an amazing day with your children and family. Happy Fathers Day! Ofa Atu xo

Geometry Rockets

  
In maths class today we focused on Geometry and seeing things from a variety of perspectives. We were given the task to create a rocket out of cubes and take various photos of the rocket from a side, front , top and perspective view. We then put our images into our presentation. Take a look through this presentation to find out more about views and perspectives. 

Advertisement

Today in Literacy class we were given the task to post our advertisement poster plan on to our blog. We were spilt into groups and given different posters. Our task was to state down the things that were good about the poster. Each group presented there work to the class and told stated what they all wrote down.

Geometry Work

WALT:1) Draw a 2D representation of a 3D model
2) Draw a plan for the side, front and top view of a 3D model.

In today's math class we started doing Geometry.  We were given the task to draw a 2D representation of a 3D rocket made out of cubes. A part of our task was to take pictures of the rocket from 3 different perspectives (Top, Front & Side) views. We then put our photos into our presentation and carried on with our work on Geometry.

While we were doing our geometry work Mrs Ilaoa took photos of the class doing there work so we had evidence to put on our blog. I look forward do doing geometry this week because it is something I have never done before and I am willing to learn about it. 

Here is a photo of my groups work and what we did.

GEGNZ Sudent Summit @ Ormiston junior College

Today the Yr 7 & 8 extension group got the oppurtunity to attend the GEGNZ Student Summit at Ormiston Junior College. More then 400 students from around Auckland attended this wonderful event. We did a variety of different workshops throughout the school that were based mostly on Technology. 

Our extension group was one of the very first schools to arrive so we got the chance to look around there amazing school. Once we arrived we entered the auditorium where the Ormisiton Junior College students gave us some house keeping rules. Then we got into our 2 groups. Our extension group was spilt into 2, we had a PENN group and a Scratch group. Each group got to present and also go to other workshops. 

The day started off at the school auditorium where we gathered with all schools to talk about the event and house-keeping rules. Once that was completed we then moved on to either present or do a workshop. It was time for my group (PENN) to present. In our presentation we taught the students about how we do our news network at school and how it operates. 

Meanwhile the other group (Scratch) were doing workshops taught by other students from different schools. Once both groups were done presenting we both we around to the workshops.

Overall I enjoyed the GEGNZ Student Summit. I enjoyed learning things from other schools. I think that the event was really enjoyable and it taught me a variety of things.  

Pacific Poly Pride

Have you ever been to Polyfest? Polyfest is a festival where  different schools perform in a variety of different cultural groups. There are many stages where you can perform such as Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island, Maori, Niuean and more.  Yesterday the Yr 7 & 8’s of P.E.S got the opportunity to go and explore the Polyfest Festival at Manukau Sports Bowl. The first thing we did was go to some of the cool workshops they had at Poly. The workshops were there to teach us and all the other schools about our culture and many more things.  I have to say it was pretty cool. There were some cool performances and delicious food.

One of my highlights would have to be eating all the food. The food was so nice it tasted like heaven. There were Island food, Cook Island donuts, Mango and Strawberry smoothies, ice cream in the pineapple and watermelon, panikeke, otai and many more.  The food was absolutely delicious.  

My second highlight was probably watching the Diversity stage with my group. The diversity stage was very entertaining because I got to see how other cultures perform and express their culture. It was cool seeing an ex-pt englander on the stage performing in the Fijian group.

I think it is important for students to go to Polyfest because they get to go and learn at the new workshops. I think it is important because they get to learn about all the different pacific islands and cultures. I think more schools should go to Polyfest and learn because it is really fun and you learn.

Overall I think the Polyfest was very enjoyable and fun. I learnt heaps from the different workshops and enjoyed every moment. I loved watching the different performances but my favorite part of the day was eating the lovely food. Thank you to Mrs Sio for buying us food!

Whats the difference between? DECIMALS

Walt:Find more than one way to solve a problem
Task Description: Our task was to complete the presentation given to us by our teacher. In our presentation we are learning about how we can solve problems with subtraction and addition.

Angles

WALT: Solve these various problems using the most efficient strategies.

Task Description:Our task was to create a poster for Year 4 students on what angles are. We had to name the angle, put an image of an angle and add a description of an angle too. Here I have created a poster showing what angles are. Hope you enjoy

Instruction Writing

Rewriting Instructions

Pick up an egg, gently hit it against the side of a bowl and empty the contents into a clean bowl.	Get your egg and crack it on the side of the bowl. Then put the egg into the 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 your butter out of the fridge. Get a knife and scoop up some butter then put the butter onto the toast and smoothen it out.
Hold the two shortest sides of paper and bend them together. Squeeze them so that the paper is now in half.	Get the two shortest sides of the paper and make a crease halfway, then squeeze the crease so it is now folded in half.
When you hear the sound of the whistle, move one leg in front of the other as quickly as you can.	When the whistle blows put one leg in front of the other as fast as you can.
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.	When the first player rolls the die they give it to the next player who then rolls the die again. The player who has the highest score moves their counter first.
If you want to turn on the computer, look for the round, lack power button and press it once.	When you are turning a computer on look for the button at the back and press once.
Hold the handles of the scissors and cut along the dotted line, making sure you don’t hurt yourself.	Hold the scissors carefully and cut on the dotted line. Don't hurt yourself.
Before you start mixing the ingredients, switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.	Before you combine the ingredients turn your oven onto 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.	Get the glue stick and take of the lid. Then rub some glue on the tab. Don't get any 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've planted the seed move the pot to a window so it can get lots of sunlight

Fizzy Drink and Mentos Experiment

Title - Fizzy Drink and Mentos Experiment

Purpose: What do you want to learn/find out?

Which drink has the biggest reaction with mentos?

Hypothesis: Try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is ‘educated guess’. This is usually stated like ” If I…(do something) then…(this will occur)

My group thought that L & P or Diet coke would have the best reactions of them all.

Materials: List everything you will need to conduct your experiment.

5 mentos for each drink. L & P, Diet coke, coke, pepsi, fanta, 7 up,

Experiment procedure: The fun part! Design a test or procedure to confirm or disprove your hypothesis. Write down each step so that someone else could do the same experiment.

1.Get a variety of fizzy drinks and a few packets of original mentos 2.Then you tape 5 pieces of mentos to each drink lid 3.Then pull the tape of. This makes the mentos fall into the drink.