Water filters

This week we were making Water filters l was working with Avalon, Karlos and Joel. We made a DLO that explained about water filters and people who don´t get clean water. We were creating our Water filters to find out how to turn dirty water into clean water by using our own ideas and things to make one so we can find out how we can make dirty turn into clean water. We created our own plan that had some ideas of what we could do then we draw what we wanted it to look like. We cut a whole bottle into half then we added chuxs cloth at the cap part where the water was going to come out of to stop the dirty and sand.

Rugby Pitch Sizes Challenge

This week for maths another challenge was to answer questions on rugby pitch sizes. Some of the other questions were: What is the perimeter of a maximum size of rugby pitch? And, what is the area of a maximum size rugby pitch? After finishing all of the other questions, my group needed to create a DLO on how we found our answer.

Rugby Advertisement

This week for writing, we were making Advertisement for Rugby. We had 2 choices, to either make a video or make a poster. We first planned to make a video, but as time sped up we chose to make a poster. We also chose to use a Rugby Ball as our advertisement. We tried to use some qualities that advertisement had so that it is really relatable. 

Rugby World Cup

This week for maths our theme was rugby world cup. We had seven question to do, our first question was about what is the different in seating capacity between the largest and the smallest stadiums in Japan. After we were done doing the seven question we made a DLO about one of the question we did.       

Pop-up globe

On Friday we were visited by the pop-up globe workers. They gave us information about William Shakespeare which was interesting. William Shakespeare would always try to make his sentence rhyme. The fourth wall is when the narrator includes the audience. One of Williams Shakespeare acts called Macbeth was extremely cursed. In William Shakespeare's tragedy acts, there is always a death.

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Today was Duffy role model assembly. We had a spacial guest that came to our school his name is Jamie Wall, he was the author who wrote bother In black. He came to talk us about how men in black book, about NZ rugby history inspired him to became a sports commentator. I hope he get a safe trip to the world cup in japan to report the rugby for Maori television.      

Ballet

This week a special guest form the New Zealand ballet came to our school to teach the year 7 and 8 ballet routine. She taught us a dance called black swan and white swan. It was based on a famous ballet routine called swan lake and the royal New Zealand ballet is currently doing a show about the black swan and white swan. The music we danced to was written by Tchaikovsky. I would like to say a big thank you to Chloe for showing us these awesome ballet moves and also I would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Fiona for bringing in Chloe to teach us ballet.       

Information Report - Emperor Penguins

Emperor Penguins

Did you know that penguins are a bird that have a special kind of oil . The special oil that they use is to keep the feathers nice and dry when they go hunting in the sea.  Did you know the female go hunting and the male stay and keep the eggs warm.

Penguins have white bellies, black backs ,a  long beak, short neck and blacks eyes. They have webbed feet to help them walk on the ice. Penguins don’t have wings, they have flippers instead for swimming in the ocean. The black and white colours on their front and back is called counter shading, which means they can camouflage in the water.

Did you know that penguins are carnivores that eat fish, krill, squid, crustaceans, amphipods, cephalopod and silverfish?  Penguins take turns hunting for food to feed their babies.

Emperor Penguins live in cold, icy places like Antarctica and the South Pole.They live next to the ice, snow and the water.

Did you know they live in large groups called colonies to keep them safe from predators?

Did you know that there are some dangerous threats for penguins? Some of the predators are leopard seals, eared seal, orcas, sharks, sea lion and killer whales.

There are 18 species of penguin in the world and they are found in different countries.

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This week for writing we made an information report about penguins. The structure we used was called TIPS. It stands for title, introduction, paragraph, and summary. We talked to our critical friends after each paragraph, so they could help us to check that what we had written made sense, and that we had used the right language features. 

Kiwi Can

This terms we are learning about integrity for our topic for kiwi can. Integrity is some who is it true and honest to people and owning up. A example of integrity is someone who is responsible for there own actions or there mistake. The thing that I found interesting was learning more about integrity.

This photo show a role play that show integrity because in this role play some boys was going to buy something but while there were walking there wallet drop on the floor and then there were there where some boys that went out of the shop and find a wallet on the floor and tries to find the owner.      

Tech - Graphics

This week for tech we were doing some design at graphics at Tamaki college, we were trying to draw what design we are doing for our clock to know what our clock are going to look like. My clock is going to be about a birds that called wooden woodpecker. 

Blog Analysis

We analysed our blog post data to find out how many blog post we have in each month. We learnt about what is average means in math. For 2015 I have 147 blog post, for 2016 I have 89 blog posts, for 2017 I have 148 blog posts, for 2018 I have 126 blog posts and for 2019 I have 16 blog posts so far. My goal for this year is to get 700 blog posts so I need 171 blog post to reach my goal. That means I need to do 19 blog post each month.