Algebra

This is one of our weeks tasks.

WALT: Solve and learn about algebra.

Snowy Times

As Jim a Pro Snowboarder walked to the half pipe with his friends, Gail and Loui he shouted out to his friend. “Jamal!” shouted Jim. As Jamal looked to see who was calling out, he lost control and went sliding towards his friends. “Thanks Jim” Jamal sarcastically said while he was getting to his feet. “No problem” replied Jim. As they all welcomed each other they decided what their day was going to be like. They ended up with practice, eat, practice, have fun then go home for some Xbox. That meant that their day was going to be fun filled and tiring, they got the gears they needed and let the ski lift take them up the hill.

They got to the top of the hill and looked down they were a little scared but luckily it wasn't there first time. Gail surprisingly went first and challenged the others, the rest of them went down after him. As they were getting closer and closer to Gail he pulled a sharp turn and went down another path Loui followed him but Jim and Jamal kept going straight know that the two paths collide again. Jim and Jamal were going so fast no one could catch them, they go back into one path and they got ahead of Loui and Gail and had to brake a while before they reached the end. As they drift back to the Ski Lift to go again they see some people following them but they thought nothing of it. But it was weird they were always following them, as they went back down again they just tried to do cool tricks but Jim failed and went fumbling down the hill. Luckily he was tough but that one left a big bruise.

After coming back from lunch they were standing in front of what they wanted, the half pipe. They all smiled at each other and off they went. Everyone was doing awesome skills and tricks but when they got to the bottom they were all puffed out and luckily they didn't have to walk all the way back up. They were constantly going down and back up so many times until it started getting dark. As they went for their last run down the half pipe they realized that they couldn't find Jamal. Only his goggles were found. They thought that he was playing a trick on them but after they looked around the half pipe, cafe and the area, they knew he was missing.

They called the cops reporting a missing person. Soon there were police at the half pipe looking around and asking them questions. After that they all went out looking for Jamal but they only came back with his snowboard. After hours of looking they stood at the half pipe and saw Jamal. He was limping towards the ski lift and was dripping in blood. They raced down as fast as they could to see what happened and tried to help him.

Once they made it down the hill, they found out that he had been attacked by wolves. Luckily he had escaped with his life. As the ambulance began to go up the mountain, loud rumbles could be heard.  Seconds later tons and tons of snow came racing down the mountain towards the ambulance.  They were racing a real avalanche. Luckily the ambulance turned a corner and managed to avoid the avalanche. What a day!

Wool And Nail art Inquiry

This is our ending product with the paper on it, and we are proud. We are up to the stage of ripping off the paper, we have worked pretty well and hard on this piece of art.

Hakaraia

This was one of our weeks reading tasks.

Maths Fractions

This was our maths task, this week we were given a certain work.

WALT: Improve our fraction skills.

Intro To Fractions

This was our maths task we were learning about fractions and groups.

Wool And Nail Art Inquiry

This is our progress that we have made in our Wool and Nail art Project we started off just from the name and now we are up to nailing the Waka, because i'm in the Hikianalia house group (Yellow) we will be nailing the shape of the awesome Waka.

Mata I Pusi, The Eyes of the Cat

Our Intro To Poetry

This was our task and it was very interesting for me because i haven't learnt about poetry this much.

Giving The Ocean A Voice

This was one of our week reading tasks we learnt about how the ocean is doing and how we can help the coral.

Gestapos Most Wanted

We learnt about Nancy wake and about the french revolution and the Nazi war.

Algebra

This is our weeks math presentation, we got to learn about algebra and it was really interesting.

Y8 Camp Reflection

Y8 CAMP

At the end of term 1 most of the year 8s went to Marsden Bay Christian Bay Camp for a school trip.

After the 2-3 hour drive in the bus we finally reached our destination and it felt good. When we hopped off the bus we were all told to grab some bags and put them on the deck and with 10 seconds of reaching the camp it started raining. After managing to take all the bags inside we sat down and ate our lunch. After lunch we go inside to the meeting room where we talk about our activities.

After we finished getting all the bags in we sat down in our groups, And then we had to learn about friendship, Teamwork and Kindness. One way they taught us how to learn teamwork was by tying our hands together and made us make fruit Kebabs.

After that we went to our cabins and set up our rooms and beds, three people from my cabin were unable to come. So as we set up our room we noticed that we only had five people and that there were ten beds. Not long after were called in to get ready for dinner. After we finished dinner the teachers asked if we wanted to stay up to stay and watch Johnny English, some people went back to their cabins to get there sleeping bag and pillow and some went back to sleep in their cabins. Halfway thru the movie it decided to crash so everyone ended up going to sleep or staying up talking.

Day #2

Today started off with breakfast, then we went to our meeting room to find out what activities we were going to do. But because it was raining we had to turn to plan B, so first we just had fun while we were suppose to be on kayaks in the water but we had fun. While we were drawing we were asked if we wanted to go on the kayaks me and Te Mauri were lucky enough to go on them for a little and then we chucked everyone in. Our next activity was the waterslide the best thing about the camp it was so fun. It was a huge slide that was awesome one kid even went and got his soap. After we finished our time on the slide we went to have a shower and change our clothes for our last activity. Our last activity was archery and it was awesome while the other boys left and played around that meant I was able to have more shots.

After we finished all our activities we went back into the meeting room to get told we were allowed free time, everyone ran outside but me and my cousin (Josh) went straight to the soccer gladiator cage. But not long after that I was told from a teacher to go to the Flying Fox because my mum wanted me to (My mum was working the on the Flying Fox). After I got to the flying fox I got to go up, and I was so scared but as soon as I hit the top I was amazed, at the awesome view amazed, Mind Blown. Still a little bit scared i decided to get this over and done with as I step over the edge I instantly forgot the fear and felt the pain of the harness.

After the free time was over we went to the meeting room to discuss how much time we would have to prepare our team item we ended up getting 1 hour to prepare our item. After we finished preparing our item we were told to head back inside for dinner. We finished dinner and went back in the meeting room to do our items.

Some were smart, funny, cool and weird in the end we came last. Once we finished that we were aloud to stay up and watch Johnny English 2 or go to sleep I decided to stay up and watch it, but again it crashed half way thru.

Day #3

Today was the day we were cleaning, clearing and preparing after 1-2 hours of cleaning we got ready to leave. As we got back to school we had to unload everything and then we got to leave.

Division Maths Week 1

This was our Week one maths task teaching us about divisions.

The Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly

Early monday morning was the school Immersion assembly, meaning that today was the first day back at school. All of the teachers either made a movie or a live performance.

As I walked into the hall I was excited to find out what our topic for the term was going to be. Playing in the hall on repeat a song that resembled the following “All i do is art”. Some teachers were wearing some creative costumes like a pallet of paint and a hat as a brush.

Team one talked about doing their favourite things, Chocolate and more, they made a video and said all of their favorite things. Team two talked about seasons and how they were going to draw all different things.

Team three are doing Architecture they made a funny video like Grand Designs but it was just a tent.

Out of all 5 performances my favourite was Team 4, their topic is Comics they made a humorous video with super heroes, Bat Guy, Team Leader America, Wondering woman and the Villain Bear Baxendine..

As the team 5 teachers walked up to the stage they were dressed in colors of our House Teams Red(Te Aurere), Blue ( Hine Moana), Green ( Hokulea) and Yellow ( Hikianalia). They all lined up for a race, in the end Hokulea won.

6 Hats Reading

This is our reading task explaining all the main details.

WW1 Mascots

Connecting to what I read - I use evidence in the text to support and make an inference. Reading between the lines.

Future Thinkers

Walt: To apply text to our understanding and knowledge.

Maths Problems

Walt: Learning to add decimals.

Thinkboard #2

This is my thinkboard we are learning about Perimeters and Area.