The talk from Andrew Patterson

This morning Andrew Patterson came to the year 8 block well he used to speak for radio live station. He talked to us how to be prepared for college and how to manage our time wisely. Do you remember when you first started college? Were you nervous?. Something he told us was about habits.Their can be good habits and sometimes bad habits.

He talked to us about what kind of college were going to. He also told us about our brain cells he that our brain grows it doesn't matter if you get the answer right it matters if you get it wrong. Because your brain is working the hard questions and getting them wrong because you learn more.

  

Thinkboard

Amazing Race

Time with friends

You have just had a time when you’ve done something special with your friends and classmates.

Write to recount that time.

Write about:

• when and where you did something special
• who was with you
• what you did (think about the order you did things)
• how you felt and why you felt this way.

Remember to:

• choose your words carefully
• write in full sentences
• take care with your spelling and punctuation
• give your writing a title if you want to
• check your work: read it through and fix any mistakes you find

To start of the day I quietly sat down in the street to get ready for a big day ahead. Hearing the notices getting called out but I heard something else Mrs Tele’a said we are going to be doing fun time.I thought to myself what is fun time but Mrs Tele’a didn’t tell us she just said that we have been doing a good job so we are going to do something fun.

The bell rang it was time to stop playing outside and go back to class me and my mates zoomed  back to class to get ready for fun time.We put on our P.E shirts and sat down to listen what is fun time.Mrs tele’a said that we have to go back to our home class to see what group we are in.I looked on the board to see what group I was in and I was in my friends group. In my group was me Kevine Elizabeth and Rave we were an all girls group.

I was still wondering what is fun time I asked my friend she said it was an amazing race. I thought  what kind of an amazing race. We had to get a paper to see what station we are going to first. We sat back down in the street to head of to our stations Mrs tele’a called out who is going to fear factor and it was my group.We all had to head of the the brees for our activity. We all sat down to hear what is fear factor I saw slimy spaghetti with fruit salad inside I said EW that don’t look nice but we didn’t eat the spaghetti we ate raw weet bix. I was the one out of my  group that had to eat the raw weet bix ready go Miss ingram said I straight away put the whole weet bix in mouth trying to chew it down but my mouth was so dry I couldn't even eat it I was still chewing but the finally I was almost finished I swallowed it quick but I came second.We had to sit back down to go to our next activity.Our next activity was brain bust.

Walking to room 2,to find out what brain bust is heading through the door about to take of my shoes Miss Clark said no it's fine leave your shoes on. So my group walked in through the door thinking what is brain bust all about.We sat down at a desk so Miss Clark can tell use all about brain bust. She said it is trying to solve out tricky maths questions our first question was what can you see through a wall and we answered a window and we got it right. but then we got a harder one we had to try and use numbers to make it up to 17 but we couldn't use the same number we had to try and make 17 in 3 different ways and you had to use a number between 9 and 1 we had to use 4 numbers to make 17 we only made 2 and our teacher helped use with one.

I think it was the best day that we have done at school next time I think we should do this more offley but different kind of ones.

Number knowledge

Decimals

Think board

Think-board

Think board

Word Problem

Multiplication & Division

Winter time

Netball team

I had the opportunity to represent Pt England school at a tournament for netball I was in team 2. We played many teams like Ruapotaka.Glen Innes, Glen Brae,Glen taylor,Panmure bridge, And others. On our first game we versed stone fields and gladly we won. In the first half I was GD (Goal Defense) and on the second half I was WA ( Wing attack).

I think that the most hardest team was Glen Innes they were really tall and fit  next time I think i will need to get more fitter.It was a really good day for me and we came 2nd out of our pool and game 4th out or the whole thing.I am really proud of my group

Concept Circle

Insistent-Making continual and persistent demands

Devastated- Means something or someone has ruin/destroyed something they liked

Intrigued-make secret plans to do something illicit or detrimental to someone.

Stubborn-Someone who doesn't listen to other people’s opinions.A stubborn person always thinks he or she is right.Often associated with arrogant and acting all knowing. Its the same as obstinate and kopping.

Spend Share Save

This after noon class 2 have been working on their inquiry.We have been ask if we have hear what this mean or why is it important to save money.

Mix netball team

I had the opportunity to represent Pt England school at a tournament for netball I was in team 2. We played many teams like Ruapotaka.Glen Innes, Glen Brae,Glen taylor,Panmure bridge, And others. On our first game we versed stone fields and gladly we won. In the first half I was GD (Goal Defense) and on the second half I was WA ( Wing attack).

I think that the most hardest team was Glen Innes they were really tall and vit  next time I think i will need to get more vitter.It was a really good day for me and we came 2nd out of our pool and game 4th out or the whole thing.I aam really proud of my group

A want vs a need

A Want:

Of course most people want things they can’t have either they can’t afford it or they're not allowed it.Need and want is totally different a want is something you want now but  you can’t have and a need it what thing you have to have Like food to keep you alive and fruit and vegetables to keep you healthy.But you can’t have the things you want like you don’t need a bike or ps4s.

A need

Everyone needs Food,Water,Power to cook their food and a need is something important a need is something that can last not a pair of shoes that can’t last. The main thing everyone need is oxygen to live on Earth.I might even go to a expensive place or say a night in a hotel . But what if we really need something but you wasted your money on something you don’t really need. You need something you really need not what you want.

What is more important a want of a need?

To me I reckon a need is more important than a want what would you rather want a iphone 6 plus of food to keep you alive. Even though I get branded shoes like converse but I didn’t really need them. When I just wasted 135 dollars on a pair of shoes when I could of bought something that I really need not want I wanted.Their is cheaper shoes at the warehouse like 15 to 30 dollars.

In conclusion we should be using our money wisely to keep our house looking beautiful instead of spending our money on expensive stuff where we can get more important stuff to buy.Like if you have your family come for a vist you would have food in you cupboard.

 

Addition Triangle

This week I have been working on my Triangle addition here is what I have been working on

Think board

Every week class 2 maths group have been working on our think board.This is my think board that I have been working on and I Finnish it.

Inferring

Explanation Writing Week 1

How do people receive and spend money

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Certain people get paid different amount of money either they are in a higher job or work more hours to get paid the government gives the job money to pay their workers. Some people get paid fortnightly or weekly.  I heard that people that work has to get paid at least $12.50 if they don’t the job is repping them off.

How do I get paid.

Well how I get paid is for helping my mum with the dishes and cleaning up the house. Sometimes I get paid for cleaning the bathroom and toilet.But most of the times I always get pocket money for always being helpful.

People should be saving their money not spending their money only on this they need not what they want.If you save up you could buy anything you want for example if you care gets broken into you can buy another car.

Triangle Addition

To start the term off class 2 maths class has been working on triangle addition.

Think board

Every week class 2 maths group have been working on our think board this is a image of my think board that I have done and I have completed it in one day.You can try answer the questions that I have given you it is called 10 other similar questions  

Thinkboard

Poetry

This week my reading group has been working on Poetry If you go on silde 15 then you will see my poetry i hope you like it please comment

Think board

Triangle Addition

 Today in my class 2 numeracy class had to work on a triangle addition we had to make all the numbers to reach up to 3.528. I really enjoyed doing this today it was interesting

Anzac Biscuits

Hello Today my Zeal Zone group did cooking with Mrs Tele'a we made some Anzac biscuits we had to get into groups of 6. It was so fun today I hope we can make Anzac biscuits again next time.Please Comment and help me if i got anything wrong.

Thinkboard

Miss clarks Numeracy group did their own think-board and how they solved the problem see if you can answer the ten questions that i asked you

My Letter to William

Dear (William

I am very glad the your out of danger  and in a safe place and sorry for you bad injured and I hope that you recover from that bad injury I can’t imagine how sore it is,A bullet going through your neck and came out of your right ear.So I heard that you were going to England for ¾ mouths and then they would bring you back to France. Its good that you're getting welled looked after from the nurses that are taking good care of you. I will send your love to Bella and my kids. I will always pray for you and hope you recover fast. Your brother Louis

Facts About Anzac

This is all kinds of Anzac facts that i have learned in zeal zone with Mrs Moala

Alphabet Multiplication

The letter to Gustav Guttenbeil,

The link to the letter we answerd tohttps://youtu.be/xnETI6t_MKQ               

NAME Shannon Williams

ADDRESS 34 Anderson

POSTCODE 1027

DATE  04/05/2015

Dear (Gustav Guttenbeil,

The story that you have told us was a very heart taking and sorry for your beloved lost of your father. We all know that he is in a better place now in a beautiful place called heaven.I don’t know what you’re going through  But you still pulled through from a tough situation.I really sorry that you can’t get back to Tonga and miss hanging out with your friends and family. Sorry that you had to live in Germany but could not talk a bit of German. And  yes you can go back to Tonga no one can hold you back from going back there to see your family and friends

A Day At High School

On the 28th of April the year 8s from Pt England school went down to Tamaki College to  experience the life of high school. As we got their 2 other school were there which was Glen Innes Glen Brae. When we were sitting down more school’s started arriving then one of the teachers from Tamaki college started telling us want we are about to do.

As most of the schools arrived Miss More told all the girls to go and get our name tags then he told the boys to get it. As we all got our name tags she told us to look at our tags and see what group we and then she told all of their house colors which was Rata Kowai Puriri Totara.

When she was finished talking she all called out the groups names and we had to go to our leader.Finally we got to do our first activity meanwhile our first activity which was social studies.What we did was that we had to try and answer as much questions as we can to beat the other people.I was in groups of 1 which was Rebekah then we had to swap groups.

The next activity we done was maths with Mr Jones we played battle ships it was a really fun game to play to play the game is to have 5 ships and a number line 1 to 9 and up 7 and you have to try and hide your ships away so they don’t sink your boat if they sink all your boats then you're out.

Then we had to go back to the hall to have our interval we had a juice and a yogurt as we were eating.

At the end of the day the leaders from each group got told to pick two people from their group for a prize the small prize was a bag and the big prize was a printer then we said our thank you and we sang our waita which was nga waka e.

 

Respect

RESPECT

Respect is all about having manners and showing each and others the right way at the right time with the right attitude. Plus by using the 3 P which means protection partnership and participation.

To show respect is to listen when someone is talking and not talking well the teacher is talking. Respect is about admiring someone about what they can do.If you want to be treated well then you will have to treat others the way you wanted be treated. And show what awesome looks like.

PolyFest

On Thursday the 19th of March Pt England School seniors went all the way to manukau to the pacifica polyfest for the day.So we had to wait for the bus so we can get there  as we where there we were just waiting for Mrs tele’a and her group but they took to long to come so we just went in.

When we got in we saw Mrs Tele’a and her group sitting down so we went to them and sat down with them and the other schools.As we were sitting the laddie told us what is a dance so someone said the wormbut she didn’t know how to  do it so she did her own dance move.

She told us to stand up and do the dance move she told us to do so we did.Then she told us to sit down and she told us that someone special was coming and it was the prime minister  of New Zealand we were so happy that we got to see him but then he left.

Ployfest

Kia Ora, talofa lava, malo e lelei, faakalofa lahi atu, kia orana, bula vinaka, namaste and greetings!! My name is DJ It’s Pasifika week in Aotearoa, this means it’s a week long celebration of all things Pacific.  This includes the birthday dance we had with Mrs Tele’a!  Part of the celebration is the Polyfest!  This Thursday we are planning to travel to Manukau to take part in some workshops and then visit stages.  The two stages we will be visiting will be the Maori and Diversity stages.  Did you know that this event - the Polyfest celebrates 40 years since it’s beginning?  Awesome isn’t it!  

Why do you think young people and their whanau participate in this event?

I think all of the people from other school and whanau participate in polyfest to show of their cultures. They show of their cultures so people can see how great they love their culture. So they give more harder dance moves. They show their family proud.

What things do you think the performers had to go through to get to having the items we will see? (Make a list)

• Practise
• getting told off
• making up the moves
• to learn new moves

How does this event promote our different cultures?

to promote others for joining in to other cultures is to help them out when their suck and to courage them for joining in. To promote others for learning their culture and their dance moves is to tell the that their doing well

Conclusion: Write a short paragraph about what you are looking forward to during our visit to the Polyfest.

I am really looking forward to visiting the ASB polyfest in manukau and watching all of the good performances and the people that is in the performances and seeing the people i know in it.

Multiplication and division

Proportion word problem on in every

Proportion Word problem: one in every.

    A. To make tins of purple paint you need to mix blue and red.        

1. If one tin in every seven is blue what proportion are red.
2. If there are 3 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed?
3. If you have 20 tins of blue paint how many red tins would you need?
4. Mary made 42 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use?

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

1. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates?
2. There are 10 toffees. How many chocolates?
3. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are chocolates?
4. Mary only likes toffees and Tim loves chocolate. If Mary eats all the toffees from a box containing 40 sweets. How many chocolates are left for Tim?

       C. The lions are fed 10kg of meat a day.

1. If the father lion eats 4kg and the mother eats 4 kg how much is left for the cub?
2. What proportion does the cub eat?
3. What proportion does the mother eat?
4. On Saturdays the lions are given 20kg so the keeper doesn’t need to work on Sundays. How much meat will the cub have?

         D. At the tennis club members are grouped in to adult and junior.

1. If one in every 6 is a junior what proportion are adult members?
2. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section?
3. In another section there are 36 members.
1. How many are juniors?
2. How many are adults?

   E. Barry is making a fruit cake which contains raisins, currants and cherries.

1. If one in every 10 pieces of fruit is a currant and two in every five is a cherry what proportion are raisins?
2. He decides that he will make some more cakes for the school summer fayre. If he has 30 raisins how many currants and cherries will he need?
3. Martha has made 40 cakes for the summer fayre. How many of each of the following does she need
1. Raisins?
2. Cherries?
3. Currants?

Proportion Word problem: one in every.

    A. To make tins of purple paint you need to mix blue and red.        

5. If one in every 3 is blue what proportion are red?
6. If there are 2 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed?
7. You need to make 15 tins of purple paint. How many blue tins do you need?
8. Mary made 18 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use?

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

5. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates?
6. There are 10 sweets. How many are toffees?
7. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are toffees?
8. Mary only likes toffees and Tim loves chocolate. If Mary eats all the toffees from a box containing 40 sweets. How many chocolates are left for Tim?

       C. The lions are fed 5 kg of meat a day.

5. If the father lion eats 3kg how much is left for the cub?
6. What proportion does the cub eat?
7. On Saturdays the lions are given 10kg so the keeper doesn’t need to work on Sundays. How much meat will the cub have?

         D. At the tennis club members are grouped in to adult and junior.

4. If one in every 4 is a junior what proportion are adult members?
5. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section?
6. In another section there are 24 members.
1. How many are juniors?
2. How many are adults?

Using commas 2

Using commas

The boy, who was very tall, was a great basketball player.  😍

In the sentence above, the words in between the two commas give us extra information.  These words could be left out and the sentence would still make sense.

In the story below there are some sentences that give extra information. Your task is to put commas (   ) around the extra information. The first pair of commas has been put in for you.

Old Mrs MacGinty  who had lived in her house for sixty-five years was having a garage sale. She wanted to clear out some of the clutter from her house. The sale which was being held on Saturday, had been advertised in the local paper. There was also a sign on Mrs MacGinty’s front gate.     On Friday night, Mrs MacGinty went down to the garage to check that everything was in order, for the next day. The blue and white dinner set was going for a bargain, she thought at fifty-five dollars. The grandfather clock, although running a little slow did still go. The vase which she had been given, as a twenty-first birthday present, had a small crack but you'd hardly notice it. When Mrs MacGinty looked at herself in the oak-framed mirror, which used to hang in the spare bedroom, she wondered how the years had flown by so quickly.     Mrs MacGinty who by this time was beginning to feel a little shaky sat down. She looked slowly around at all her things. She thought and she thought. Suddenly she got to her feet. A gleam came into her eyes. Mrs MacGinty marched as well as a little old lady, with wobbly knees can out to the front gate and took down the garage sale sign.     "After-all," Mrs MacGinty said to herself, "you can't sell your memories."