Being A Citizen In The Community

Being a good citizen is looking after your community by picking up rubbish, raking the leaves, and helping your neighbours do jobs for nothing in return. Doing all these things in the community shows good citizenship to your locals and it also shows responsibility and that you care.

Cleaning in the community and helping others by doing jobs could make someone spot you and might think that you are being a leader and for being a citizenship. If everyone in the community contributes in being a good citizen everyone will be happy and like living in the community.

Showing citizenship doesn’t always mean picking garbage and cleaning, it also means a lot of things to people who are quite older than us. When you become a citizen in the community everyone will be happy and their homes will be looking very shiny.

Being a citizen in the community means you are proud to be flying the country's national flag.

Who Am I? Who Are You?

Personal Identity is what you do and who you are. But mostly about you associating and socialising with your communities and families.

Messaging, social media can make people's emotions and feeling change. Social media sometimes isn’t the true person you are talking too or friends with because some people can be tricking and change their name and picture.

Messaging can affect your social life and sometimes your social life can be affected by locals and your families. When you talk to people on social media you can also make new friends and it can impact your self esteem.

What you experience at school can affect your self esteem. for example if a teacher gives you a lot of jobs to do this shows that you are a responsible and reliable person and this can make you happy because you are being trusted by your teachers.

You can use and share your experiences with the communities.  Your character can influence others to help them contribute to their social self esteem. You can influence them by role modeling good behaviour and good character.

Some people I look up to like famous rugby league players such as Shaun Johnson, Manu Vatuvei, Tuimoala Lolohea inspire me to be just like them and to change my character.

Water Usage

Every life form needs water in order to live, survive and grow. Water is important to everything.

Humans need water for their household tasks like cleaning, gardening, washing, showering, bathing, cooking, drinking, eating and many more. Humans lose 2.4 litres of water each day that's why they have to keep hydrated everyday.

Like humans, animals need to use water. Some animals don’t need that much water because they store the water inside themselves. Animals need water to cool down their temperature because sometimes they will get hot. Animals need water because some live in the sea and if there were no water at all animals in the sea would die. Animals need water to drink, sometimes catching their prey and making their food.  

However animals don’t really use water in the same way as humans like using water for their washing, gardening, cleaning houses, using the toilet and going for a bath or shower.

Humans and Animals have similarities and differences for water usages. Without water there would be no life so water is very important.

Room 12 Year 8 Class Description

We are the senior students of Ruapotaka School. Room 12 has 11 girls 8 boys in total. Mrs. Golder is our teacher in our class. We are all year eight students who enjoy learning. When we work on our devices we always Learn, Create, Share our creations on our blogs.

Everyone in Room 12 is very kind and has a lot of good friends. We are very good leaders and we follow the rules. Our class has two prefects and another two to come. We enjoy laughing, smiling and having a good time with Mrs. Golder. We are all well presented students. We are all unique and special in different ways. We are a mixed cultural class. We are good volunteers. We have a positive attitude to most things.

Mrs. Golder teaches us the academic words which will be very useful in the future. We enjoy being a cybersmart class. We use our netbooks as a learning tool. Our netbooks are essential to our learning!

Written By The year eight students: Simon, Mika, Miria, Melelose and Damien.

Madd Messenger

On friday afternoon the Madd Messenger people came for a visit to tell us about making right choices. They started with talking about how people make good choices and bad choices. After that we all got up and played a little warm up game. The man from Madd Messenger drew Wonder Woman to finish off the lesson  and Damien thanked the Madd Messenger people for coming.

Click Here To Watch the Madd Messenger’s Drawing Of Wonder Women

Brushing Your Teeth

                                                                                                  

After rising in the morning and before retiring in the evening you should always brush your teeth. You should brush your teeth for a minimum of two minutes or a maximum of three minutes a day.

CAUSE:

Not brushing your teeth night and day can cause bad things to your body when you grow older. When you do brush your teeth night and day it will keep your teeth healthy and shiny.

EFFECTS:

Not brushing your teeth can lead to diseases such as heart diseases and dementia as your grow older. If you don’t clean and floss your teeth it increases your chances of suffering a heart attack or not being able to remember things.

You should always brush your teeth so you don’t catch any diseases and to keep your teeth clean, healthy and shiny. Remember when you brush your teeth use fluoride toothpaste because when you eat, plaque gets stuck on your teeth and it causes germs and bacteria in your teeth that’s why you should always use fluoride toothpaste.

Steps

• Brush your teeth twice a day and floss daily.
• Use a fluoride toothpaste to help protect your teeth from bacteria.
• Visit your dentist at least once in a few months.