Inclined Plane

This is my DLO on Inclined Planes. I have learnt that Inclined Planes are an easy way to get objects up hills/slopes. We are doing this work as part of our simple machines topic work.

Lever

This is my DLO on Levers.I have learnt that to make a lever work it needs to have weight on each side. This work is part of our simples machine topic.

Screw

This is my DLO on Screws. I have learnt that the thread keeps the screw from being pulled out. This is part of our simple machines topic work.

Jiwi's Machines

This is Latham, Haliano, Abdurrahman and my DLO on Jiwi's Machines episode 1: Crumbs.

Science at TC

On Friday for the last 2 weeks we have stayed back after Tech to do science with Tamaki college relating to our topic, which is simple machines. Our project/assignment is to make a rover that can scramble 3 metres using only the materials we were given.

Working with my critical friend

Today I worked with Latham to find out where my writing is at on the writing rubric. First we did Latham's one. The highest mark he got was a R6 for organisation. When we checked my one I got the same for organisation as him.

Diwali DLO

This is Gozan and my DLO that we made on how Diwali is celebrated and a few of its legends.

High jump collage

This is a collage on the high jump that the year 8's did today at lunch time. Congratulations to Wiremu who came 1st and Halatoa who came 2nd. These sessions have been happening at lunchtime as preparation for the PBS athletics.

ICAS maths result

This is Mengchun's and my Certificates that we got for getting Merit in the UNSW Global Test. We were the top 17 and 23 percent on students who took the ICAS test!

Steampunk

This is the activity that Room 6 did based on our topic: Steampunk.

Blog comment

This is my blog comment on Halaiano's DLO on what the Y7's have been doing at tech with Mr Grundy in hard materials.

Book review

This is my book review on the series Attack on Titan: Birth of Levi.

Understanding Multiplication DLO

This is my DLO with different ways of writing 8 x 12. I did it by using: T-chart, Groups of, Repeated addition, Array, Factor x Factor = Product and Skip counting.

Careers Popplet

http://popplet.com/app/#/2740436
This is our popplet that Gozan, Manu and I made to describe what skills you need to become a doctor and who they work with.

Positive Attitude

This is my animoto on how to have a positive attitude and what it does.

NZ ShakeOut Day

NZ ShakeOut Day by Thomas R6 on GoAnimate

This is my Goanimate that I did with Pote on NZ ShakeOut Day.

Popplet on being Cyber Smart

This is my Popplet on how to be Cyber Smart.

CARE award: Cyber Safety

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This is my DLO on how to be Cyber Safe and what happens when you aren't.

Term 4 Learning Goals

These are my Learning goals for this Term. I hope I can achieve the all before the end of the Term.

Holiday Reading Challenge: Sidekick

Title: Monkey Boy
Author of book: Donovan Bixley
Type of book: Fiction, Naval
How you're sidekick helped the main character:
"The French are coming!" The shout spread like wildfire. The sound of boots slamming against the boards was deafening. Jimmy walked towards his cannon station unworried. He knew Jake wouldn't disappoint. He  reached his cannon crew, and a furry object flew towards him, a bag of gunpowder clutched in one of its hands. His monkey handed it to him, and he gave it to the cannon loader, who rammed it down, quickly followed by a lead ball. Then he lit the fuse and a few seconds later the deafening BOOM! sounded, followed by a smashing sound and cheers from everyone on board.

Above decks later:
"Did you see that men! The French ship down and not a single casualty! We have this monkey and the monkey boy, Jimmy tom thank for that!" The crew cheered three times: "Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!" and hoisted him and Jake (his monkey, of course) on top of their shoulders. Right then he felt like the king of the world.

Holiday Reading Challenge: Retell

Title: Monkey Boy
Author: Donovan Bixley
Type of book: Fiction, Naval
Retell: Jimmy Grimholt is a kid who's dad has gone out to sea. He also joins a crew. You are in for a story with humour.

Holiday reading challenge: Book recomendation

The book I am recommending: White Fang

Who I am recommending it to: Mengchun

Why I am recommending it (3 reasons): I would recommend this book to Mengchun for these reasons:

• She likes books that are Non-Fiction
• She reads books that have animals in it
• It isn't too long (like Narnia) but it isn't like a year 3 length book either. This means that you cannot sit there for like, 1 second and be finished and yet you cannot sit there and read it for 24 hours straight, if you know what I mean.

This is my recommendation for the holiday reading challenge activity called: Make a recommendation. For this activity, as you see above, we have to choose a book, recommend it to someone and then explain why recommended it to that person in the form of three reasons.

Holiday reading challenge - Cover Design

This is my new design of the cover of the book: Time hunters: Cowboy showdown by Chris Blake. We can do this activity by choosing any book and making a new cover for it. We also have to include why our cover is better so here is my reason why: My cover is different by not showing cowboys. Instead, I show their mode of transportation back in time to get to the Wild West: A whirlwind. I did this because by looking at the title, you can tell there will be cowboys in it. It's kind of obvious there will be cowboys in it isn't it? This is why my cover is better.

Retelling: Holiday reading challenge

This is my recount of the book White Fang in 25 words or less. We have the opportunity to do these different challenges as a kind of side task to keep our blogs updated throughout the holidays.

Recount:
White Fang is a half wolf half dog, that has been through it all from living in forests then in the city. Here's his story.

Holiday reading task - Goanimate

Holiday Reading task by Thomas R6 on GoAnimate

This is my GoAnimate on the book White Fang. I chose to show the part when White fang and his mother Kiche get found by the Indians and taken in.

Holiday Reading Challenge: Setting

This is one of the activities for the holiday reading challenge given to the seniors of our school. For this activity, I had to choose a book (I chose Rick Riordans Heroes of Olympus: The house of Hades (Fiction, Mythology)). The setting in the story I chose was the lowest floor of the House of Hades. I drew: The doors of Death and the remains of a altar to Hades, of which was destroyed which explains the random pieces of rubble.

Idioms Flipsnack

This is my flipsnack on idioms.

Food for thought

This is my Flipsnack on Food For Thought.

Digestive system

This is my Flipping Ebook on the digestive system.

Tongan Language Week DLO

Tongan Letters and numbers:

Tongan letters:

• 17 letters in the Tongan alphabet.
• 5 vowels; a-e-i-o-u
• 12 consonants; f-h-k-l-m-n-ng-p-s-t-v- ‘
• pronouncing the consonants you add ʻaʼ to the end – Fa-Ha-Ka-La-Ma-Na-NGa-Pa-Sa-Ta-Va
• Fakaʻua (glottal stop) is considered a consonant and the last letter in the Tongan alphabet    Tongan alphabet song

Tongan numbers:

• numbers 0-9 noa, taha, ua, tolu, fā, nima, ono, fitu, valu, hiva
• the number for 10 is hongofulu (hoh-ngoh-foo-loo)
• the number for 100 is teau (teh-ah-oo)
• every other number is literally the words 0-9 combined: twenty becomes two zero – ua noa
• three exceptions to the rule 22, 55 and 99 words shortened to uo ua, nime nima, hive hiva19 (nineteen) – taha hiva
• 44 (fourty four) – fā fā
• 99 (ninety nine) – hive hiva
• 87 (eighty seven) – valu fitu

Since it is Tongan Language week we have to show some basic things in tongan such as the letters and the numbers.

What I am good at

These are the things that I am good at.

Maths Problem

This is my maths problem for today. I solved it using my knowledge of fractions.
Here is a problem for you to solve:
There are 12 kids in detention. they are 1/24 of the school. 1/4 of the kids at school have no lunch. How many kids have no lunch? And there are 84 just-in-case lunch boxes for the kids with no lunch. How many lunch boxes will be left over after the kids get one each?

Go Animate CyberSmart Smart Money

Scamming by Thomas R6 on GoAnimate

This is my Go Animate on Scamming. It shows an example of scamming and that you should delete anything saying you have won money. It could be real though! So here are some ways to know it is fake:

1. If you have not bought a lotto ticket then it is too good to be true.
2. If they ask for money ignore it.
3. Google who it says.
4. If they ask for details and you are sure they are a scammer, don't reply.

Maths Problem solving

For maths in problem solving we did a problem. Here is the problem and my solution.

Problem: You have gone to the store and bought a fox, a chicken and some corn. Now you are by the river. If you leave the corn with the chicken, the chicken will eat the corn. If you leave the chicken with the fox, the chicken's in big trouble. You have a boat but it can only take you and one other thing because if it has any more weight on board it will sink. How many trips in your boat can you make to get all three to the other side without the chicken eating the corn or the fox eating the chicken?

Solution: You take the chicken across first. This is trip 1. You come back with nothing. This is trip 2. You take the fox. This is trip 3. If you leave the chicken then it will get eaten so you take it back. This is trip 4. You take the corn across because otherwise the chicken will eat the corn. This is trip 5. You come back with nothing. This is trip 6. You take the chicken. This is trip 7. You have now taken everything!

I have done only one of the two ways of solving it. Comment on this if you figure out the other way.

Commenting on blogs DLO

This is my DLO on commenting on blogs.

Elective

This term we are doing electives. Electives are happening every Tuesday, where we do our chosen activity from 1:30 to 3:00 when we go home. My elective is riding. In riding is: Cyprus, Mya, Ofa, Paige, Oh Sen, Latham and me. We do it with Mr Johnston. We learn the basic rules of safety on the road such as: How to go around corners without flipping over, how to pass a parked car, How to avoid obstacles, how to turn and sometimes we do competitions such as who can go the fastest without going past a point as we were to imagine it was a brick wall. It is heaps of fun and I can't wait untill the next time we do electives.

Healthy Heart Animation

This is my and Shannon's presentation on healthy eating. Hope you enjoy it!

My food diary

My food diary:

Day:	Breakfast:	Lunch:	Dinner:	Nutrition Information:
Monday	Porridge	Sandwich	Bread	Porridge: Fibre Vegetables: Vitamins Bread: Fibre
Tuesday	Toast and Milo	Sandwich	Rice	Milo: Calcium Rice: Vitamin B
Wednesday	Banana Pancakes	Sandwich	Rice	Banana: Potassium
Thursday	Toast and Milo	Sandwich	Macaroni	Macaroni: Carbohydrates
Friday	Toast and Milo	Sandwich	Oven Baked Chip sandwich	Oven baked Chips give you: Potassium

This is my food diary for the week. I have included nutritional information to show what the food provides for your body.

Magic trick Procedural writing

This is another one of my DLOs on procedural writing. It is a simple trick that is easy to do and all you need are everyday items that you will have heaps of in your home.

Ice cream procedural writing

This is my DLO on procedural writing. I made this after we made Ice cream on Friday. If you follow these steps correctly you will be able to make your own ice cream, providing that you don't shake the bag too hard like I did and make the salt go into the ice cream.

Clauses

This is my presentation on clauses. It shows what Independent clauses and Dependent clauses are. A dependent clause is not grammatically correct even if you put a capital letter and a full stop on it. A independent clause only needs a capital letter and a full stop to be a simple sentence.

A Healthy Meal

This is Harry's and my DLO (Digital Learning Object) on A Healthy Meal. It shows Dinner, Dessert / Snack and Lunch

My favourite meal

This is my favourite dish, Palusami.

Maths problem

This is Patrick's and my strategy on what was the difference between 376 and 223.

Group movie

 Thomas.mov
This is the movie of my group.

100 code

This is my solving of the code problem. I had to crack it by trying to make it fit into the 100 slots.

Poster protesting the war

This is my poster protesting against the war.

Matariki Homework

This is my homework describing the legend of Matariki.

Cyprus, Abdurrahman and my ANZAC Digital Learning Object

This is what Abdurrahman, Cyprus and I learnt about ANZAC.

My review

This is my review of chapter 1 of the book: The hunger games: Catching fire.

Inferencing test

This is the result of my test on inferencing. I had to read a text and then guess the main idea.

Spelling results

This is the results of my spelling test. The new word I learnt is Connecticut. I learnt that it is a southerly state of England

Maths 6 times tables test

This is my score on a test of times tables. We had to answer 10 questions in 1 minute. I am impressed at how fast I answered the questions and got a perfect score. I think that all I need to do now is to try and answer the questions even faster for the IKAN test at the end of the year.

Bush Safety

This is a presentation I made giving advice on what to do when you're going on a hike or anything that involves going into the bush.

Maths problem

This is the maths problem my teacher set for us. It is based on soldiers because ANZAC is the focus this term.

Spelling and new word

Today I learnt the meaning of the word penitentary. The dictionary says that it is anther word for a American Prison, or a Roman Catholic Church. The word originates from Late Middle English, or Medieval Latin from between 1375 - 1425.

Blog Comments

These are my comments on other student's blogs.

Making 100

This is my DLO on Making 100. We had to add all the numbers and use all 4 symbols to make 100.

Current Events

This is Abdurrahman and my current events slideshow on the new Princess

ANZAC Day Padlet

This is my Padlet on ANZAC Day and why we celebrate it.

Private La Tour Mollet's beer

This is Latham and my Google presentation on Private La Tour Mollet who left his beer behind saying he would be back for it. He never returned. So the owner has kept it and it has been given a poppy each year, making 76 poppies this year.

Anzac rememberance

Today, at 11:30, right after the year seven and eight’s arrived back from Tech. We were told by Mrs Anderson to only eat our morning tea and not play. It was because of a special ceremony remembering the New Zealanders that died at Gallipoli 100 years ago all because of their Sergeants getting shot by Turkish snipers. Therefore, the orders weren’t passed on so every soldier didn’t know what to do, causing most of them to get killed or injured, and even then, because they were surrounded they couldn’t even get to the infirmary to get treated! When Abdurrahman and I arrived  to do the music, Miss Kirkpatrick said that she would do it because we didn’t have much time to practice and she wanted it to be perfect. So that meant that Abdurrahman and I had stayed up to about 12:00 writing what we were going to do down on a document for nothing! At least we wouldn’t have embarrassed ourselves by accidentally mucking it up. When we were all sitting down Mr Johnston and a woman in military clothes (Mr Johnston introduced her as Staff Sergeant Stacy). Patrick and Wiremu then put up the flag as Miss Kirkpatrick played the tune called The last stand. Mr Johnston and Staff Sergeant Stacy then gave speeches and then Miss Kirkpatrick then played rouse as Wiremu and Patrick put the flag up. Everybody went back to class but then Miss Kirkpatrick called us into Room 5 so Staff Sergeant Stacy could tell us about what she did. She explained that she was from Papatoetoe and she had joined when she was 19. She had then done missions to get her medals. Finally she left and everyone had lunch.

Spelling results

These are my spelling test results.

T2 Goals

These are my learning goals for this term.

ICC Cricket World Cup

This is my Google drawing on the cricket world cup design.

Samoan recipe

Cocoa Kopai

Ingredients:

Water

Flour

Cocoa

Sugar

Coconut cream

Lemon leaves

Utensils:

Bowl

Spoon

Stove

Steps:

1. Pour the water into the bowl and put on the stove to heat make sure it boils.
2. Sift three cups of flour and keep adding water until they reach a sticky texture.
3. Shape the flour with the spoon and add the balls to the water as it should have boiled by now
4. When the dough is cooked, which you can check by cutting a ball in half, add in the Cocoa, Sugar and Lemon leaves, stir and then finally add the coconut cream.

How to eat:

There is no specific way to eat Cocoa Kopai so you can eat it whichever way you want.

Through the door

This is my hook from my story Through the door. I think that it is the best part.

Spelling test

These are my spelling results for the test I just did. I did the Grade 7 test.

Sumdog rank up

II have ranked up to narwal on sumdog.

My special effect collage

This is a fotor using special effects.

My collage

This is my collage that I made on some highlights of this term. I enjoyed Tech the most because I got to learn how to make animations and mind maps. Next term the Year 7's will be cooking. I learnt all of the features of a recount and how to include them in my writing. I found Japanese hard because I had almost never even heard any Japanese words before  this year. My favourite subject was maths as always as I enjoy figuring out problems. In term 2 I would like to improve my writing as I think I am not as good at writing as the mother subjects. The thing I have enjoyed the most at tech was probably learning how to use scratch (A site where you can make animations).

My mind maps

These are some mind maps I made at tech.

Spelling

This is my result for the spelling test I just did.II got 18 right and 7 wrong.

A special day for Manaiakalani

This is my DLO (Digital Learning Object) that I made on Google Presentations. It was based on the trip that all the schools in the Manaiakalani cluster made too see a waka from Hawaii. It had embarked on its journey and travelled all the way to New Zealand. The schools had walked or come by bus to get to Pt England. Each school had its own spot for all it's students to sit in. We sang all the songs that we had been leaning for the past week. I think we did an awesome job. The people that had come from Hawaii then made speeches. Everyone except for the school leaders walked back or took a bus back to school. The people from Hawaii will soon travel on the same journey all the way back to their home country.

Spelling results

This is my percentage of the words that I spelt. I got 18 out of 25, giving me 72%.

Headcount

This is my score for the questions of Headcount. It had questions about head lice and nits.

Scratch

This is my animation that I remixed on Scratch.

Shavaughn Roimata

This is a picture of Room 5 and Room 6 after Shavaughn Roimata who has worked on television many times came to visit us for a special Duffy assembly. She was on the Shortland street set until the person she was acting as blew up. It was a privilege to have her coming to our school first.

Famous Samoans

This is my Google Drawing on The laughing Samoans.

Spelling test

These are my spelling test results.