Technicraft Term 4

Every Wednesday this term we went to Tamaki College for Tech. We had Mr Grundy as our teacher and he taught hard material. It was fun in his class. At the end this is how our objects turned out on our last session.

Book Week Poster

This week and last week we made a book week poster to hang up in our school library. Our book week poster was based on Elisabetta Dami and her famous books that she wrote are the Geronimo Stilton sreies. We all contributed in to it and it was kind of hard work. At the end we finished everything and this is how it turned out.   

Syndicate Assembly 29/11/15

On Monday Room 9 hosted syndicate assembly. Their assembly was so awesome because they had a Lip Sync Battle to see who was the best and who will win the LSB belt. Room 11 won it but in the end everyone had fun.

Being Sick On Touch Rugby Day At School

I’m sick. Looks like I’ll be sleeping, daydreaming and laying in bed all day. Oh wait, I’m missing out on touch rugby day at school.

Last Thursday early in the morning I felt sick so my mum told me to stay home but I wanted to go to school. I stayed home and remembered it was touch rugby day at school and I felt sad because I was going to miss out. 

When I was at home the only thing I could do was lay down in bed and just watch T.V.  I was so bored I started to get out of bed but I couldn’t because I just felt like I was going to fall so I layed back down.

Hours later I looked at the time and it was 12.30 in the afternoon.

“It’s lunchtime and I’m hungry bring me some lunch,” I yelled.

My mum brought me some lunch and I ate it. Afterwards I fell asleep and when I woke up it was 2.49 and school was already finished but I was still sick until that morning.

I was sad the I missed out on touch rugby but staying home was the right thing to do so I could get better for the next day.

School Maths Test

So hard, not knowing the answer,, thinking you are going to FAIL!

Last week we had a maths test in Room 12. It was only the year eight students who performed their test in room 12. Our whole school does tests every year for our standards in school and so we can improve from the tests in the past.

Firstly we opened our maths test booklet and our class had to sign our name and the and note what school we go to. Next we awaited for the signal from our teacher to start and we only had 45 minutes to do it. When our teacher gave us the signal we all raced away reading and acknowledge our test. Minutes later, I was stuck on a question and I did not know how to solve it, so I glared at the wall for about 3 minutes and then I estimated my answer on my scrap paper.

Afterwards there were only about 15 minutes left and I had 3 more pages to go. I looked around the class and then I looked at my booklet then started answering the question like I had no time left. I finished two pages and one to go I raced off and after 3 minutes I was finish. I looked at the time and I had 3 minutes to spare.

“You should being proofreading your work by now,” advised Mrs Golder.

I started proofreading and correcting my work until Mrs Golder said, “Pens and pencils down,  times up.”

I felt excited because I finished my test in time and I had 3 minutes to spare to proofread and fix my work.

 

 

Watching An Awesome Poetry Recital Presentation

Last week on Friday the whole school were in the multi purpose room to watch the three finalists from each class present their poetry. All the students who did a poetry presentation in front of the school and some parents sounded amazing and some were very funny.

Room 10 Syndicate Assembly

Yesterday afternoon we had syndicate assembly and the host of the assembly was room 10 year fives. Their assembly was interesting and all about being a champion because our country did well and came first in the Rugby World Cup 2015.

AMF Superbowl

12 strikes and you’re PERFECT!

In the 2 weeks holiday my Mum, and hard working Dad and I went to the  AMF Superbowl at Ellerslie-Panmure Highway, Mount Wellington. We went there for a family night out  before I returned to school.

My tall, fat, island dad wanted to go bowling so we went bowling. He is a kind and caring dad. He drove us to the bowling club. When we got out of our van the sun was shiny and the breeze was flowing away.

Firstly, we walked in the bowling club and it was dark. Very colourful dancing lights   surrounded the bowling area and lights were flickering to the beat of the song that was playing in the bowling club. Then we went to the counter to pay our lane and to get our bowling shoes but first the man asked us, “What size are you all?”

“Can we have sizes 10, 12 and 13,” replied my Mum.

Next, we finally had our flash shiny, white and red bowling shoes and then we started bowling. I got to start first so I got my bowling ball then I put my fingers through the holes of the ball then I bowled. My ball was travelling to the pins and then the pins CRASHED straight into 3 pins. 

Later it was my second turn so I bowled again and I then I got a strike.

“Good luck Mika but I am going to beat you,” challenged my dad.

Then it was my dad’s turn so when he bowled his bowling ball he got a strike straight away. Now it was my mum’s turn and when she bowled her bowling ball she got 11 down but 1 left.

Soon later the points were 87 to my mum, 93 to my dad and 93 to me. It was my last turn and I had a chance to beat my dad. I kept on getting my shots in the gutter ball so I kept trying to talk to my ball when it was on the edge of lane to stop it going into the gutter and I told it “Go right, go left,”

I got my bowling ball and I stood for a little while I felt happy because I had a chance to beat my dad. I bowled the bowling ball and it went straight out so at the end I was even more happier because me and my really cool dad were draw and my mum came second. When I saw the points I was happy because I have never got up to 93 points before.  

Finally we finished and we all had fun and I was ready to go back to school.

Hydro-Power System

Agent Apple Pie

Me, Don and Damien designed a picture for our story that was called Food Myths. Firstly we went on Google and got random pictures and put it on a Google drawing. Then we put the pictures together and we named it Agent Apple Pie.

Topic Study

doe our topic study we did three weeks ago we had to make a presentation about citizenship. Firstly we had to follow the instructions from the daily planner then when we finished we had to hand it in to get it marked.

My Visual Art

    
This is what I did in Term 1 for Visual Arts. I drew myself on sumo paint and then I did a painting of myself to put them together with my art. It turned out good because we look very similar.

Maths Square and Cube Roots

This week in Room 12 for maths we have been learning about square and cube roots. For our class to understand how to do it we used uni-link blocks. We built 2 Dimensional square and 3 Dimensional cube. Now the students understand what square and cube roots are and how to calculate them.

Origami

Every Friday for Visual Arts we have origami and we have been doing it for four weeks. Everyone in our classroom came up with different kinds of origami ideas from YouTube. We made dinosaurs, butterflies, dogs, cats, bow ties, dresses, air planes, dolphins, flowers, bunnies and hearts.

Origami is based on paper folding techniques and it originated in Japanese.

  

Our Reading Work

Walt:  Make a table to organise the different language features of this story. Decide on which features you wish to focus on. Discuss the author's purpose for choosing a particular language or phrase. Choose some examples in your discussion. Record your responses.

My Water Cycle

Staying Fit

Students exhausted and tired, and students active and energized.

Boys and girls who were tired and exhausted are the people who don’t keep fit but people who are active and energized are people who are fit and who exercise.

Every morning from Monday to Friday when the bell rings at 8.55am until 9.15am, the Senior Syndicate students which are the year fours, fives, sixes, sevens, and eights jog around the streets surrounding Ruapotaka. The whole circuit was approximately 2.49 kilometres.  

First, we lined up outside our classrooms ready for our fitness. After that we set off running out the back gates of our schools and Mrs Golder ordered us, “Take off your jumpers and give them to me.”

When we ran down Tripoli Road I could see the footpath lined with the trees and cars driving past and staring at us running and I felt like quitting at that time.

Two minutes later when I was jogging steadily I could see students just stopping and just talking. While they were walking I could even see some boys sprinting and after that they were exhausted and they just kept walking.

When we were jogging through Hinaki Street I jogged all the way to the end and then Mrs Buchanan, our year five teacher instructed me, “Take your hands off your hips.” After I took my hands off my hips and I was very thirsty but I carried on jogging.

When I made it to the finish line I achieved my running skills. I made an improvement and I built my stamina.

Staying fit is important in our school!

Syndicate Assembly

There are many people with wonderful talents in the senior syndicate so therefore we had a Talent Quest to display their unique talents.

Yesterday it was our class senior syndicate assembly and we decided to do a talent quest in our assembly. We had an awesome talent quest and our year 7 and year 6 class were tied for first place while the year 5 class came second and the year eight class came third. Everyone had an awesome time at our assembly.

Samoan Singing

From week 3 we had Samoan music every Friday and it carried on for 4 weeks. We learnt lots of Samoan music and even learnt some Samoan words that we didn't know. We had a new song every week to learn. Our tutor who taught us was our teacher aide. She was Samoan and her name was Mrs Folu. We all learnt the song in less than 15 minutes.    

WE HAD LOTS OF FUN LEARNING SAMOAN MUSIC!

Daffodil Day

What Was On The 28th of August? Daffodil Day!

Friday the 28th of August was Daffodil Day so we made some origami daffodils. We only needed yellow, green, and orange paper to make the origami daffodil. The first time we made it was alright but the second time we made it, it looked like a real daffodil. We were all proud of our daffodils and my daffodil was picked as the best daffodil.

These are all our daffodils we made  in our classroom and we even made the origami vase for the daffodils to sit in.