Writing challenge

The goal for this writing challenge was to write a 6 sentence story about the pictures above which were of a busy road, a gorilla and a pink tutu. We also had to use the word shock/shocked as well as speech marks and an exclamation mark. 

Me and my group - Simon, Alrida and Tahliyah - all wrote our own versions of the same idea we shared, this was the version we all agreed to present.

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Tutu, the most beautiful gorilla of them all, had been kicked out and left on the streets to starve. On the busy streets, Tutu had done multiple performances in his bright, hot pink, tutu to earn himself some money. 

There was this one expensive-looking car, with a rich-looking man exiting. The man walked up to Tutu giving him $10,000 while saying ‘nice tutu’ after the man said that he stole his tutu.

“I’M GONNA WEAR THIS TUTU FOREVER, IT MAKES ME MORE BEAUTIFUL!”

Tutu was shocked by his actions and cried for he was no longer Tutu if he didn’t have a tutu.. 

:(

Diorama design plan

 

Today's extension task was to create a plan for our space diorama. We kept the design plan simple and easy to follow. We've planned to basically make the solar system with a few facts and theories. I've been working on this with Aye and Valessa. 

Decimal Fractions

 

Today we have learned how fractions and decimals relate. I only did both levels 1 and 2 but I hope you enjoy :)

Fiafia Night

Last night the whole school had Fiafia night. I could see that everyone was having lots of fun - me included. I loved seeing every groups performance and performing myself. I was in choir so we sang. If I were to do something different last night I would have been louder and sang with my head up.

If I were to choose a favourite group performance I would pick the Samoan group. They did a great job - In fact everyone did a great job - and they finished off the night beautifully. 

Good job at Fiafia everyone!

Smashing Fractions

 

For today's maths we did fractions. We did equivalent fractions, improper fractions and mixed. The revision was a mix of the three and addition and subtraction. After doing the revision slide I moved onto level 2.5, I honestly found it quite easy but when I did the level 3 slide I struggled. But it was still fun and it made me realise what I could do. 

Y8 Reflection/Recount- Camp - Day 1

Day 1

Last week, Wednesday, the year 8’s headed off to camp. On the ride to camp there was chatting and singing from the back to the front of the bus. Everyone was happy, and even more when we arrived.

We were split into our groups - Thames, Coromandel, Kauri and Kauaeranga - and given face paint, a different colour for each group. I was in Thames and our colour was yellow. After everyone in the teams had paint on their face we went to the gymnasium, it was huge.

Inside the gym each group made a team chant, played fun games and we all came together to have a dance battle and show off our chants. Often Thames would place second, but it didn’t matter because we had lots of fun.

The games were like a warm up before we did our first rotation, again we were in our teams but just the girls in one and the boys in the other. Now the groups were Thames A and Thames B or Kauri A, Kauri B.

Our first rotation was Camp search. We got given a map and a sheet of paper with clues of where to go. The activity itself was quite fun and kept us active, running around and all. But our team wasn't working together properly. I feel like if we worked together more - instead of splitting up - we possibly could have broken the record time.

Fractions of a set

Today for maths we did fractions. We converted the improper fractions into mixed fractions. 

Streets For Everyone - Project done 🗸

On Wednesday the whole of the Extension group/class took a walk around Anderson Ave, and the area near by. On that walk we took a look at our projects we created throughout term 1. We got to test and try each others activity's. It was a lot of fun!

This is me, Kiarah and Valessa's activity, The Kiwiana Puzzle. If you want to know more about the process we went though to create it check out some of my previous posts or check out Kiarah and Valessa's blogs. 

Building a boat/raft

On Friday last week in Room 4 we did a challenge. We did it in groups of 4. I was with Kiarah, Lee and Jermaine. 

The challenge was to build a boat or raft using tape, straws and most importantly teamwork. We worked together giving each other different roles. Kiarah gave the idea to build the boat flat with walls so the animal doesn't fall, and Jermaine helped cutting the tape, while lee help cut the straws. I had the job of putting it all together, by the time we were done the boat/raft looked like this:

Barriers - Poem

Earlier this morning Miss West gave us each a sheet of paper. On the paper a was a poem called 'Barriers' by a well-known poet, Hinewirangi, and some questions beside it. Kiarah and Kalani read the poem aloud to us all. The poem was about barriers, a cultural/language barrier. 

Me and Aye also worked together for this task, where she answered the questions and I help mainly with the poster. I drew it very simply but I quite like it. This task was easy to do and fun. 

Provocation: Watch this Space

During today's extension lesson Miss West gave us all a scenario about Earth becoming uninhabitable in 12 months. We had to think about what and how we would do thing to leave the planet as soon as possible. On each slide was a question we had all answered in our own ways with the knowledge we have. The different colours represent a different person's answer. If you're looking for my answers they're in light purple with black highlights. 

On the last slide is our different project ideas. Me and Aye wanted to do theories on Mars and Earth, and possibly our own theory on what would happen to Earth if we were to leave.

Thinking Critically Online

We did some Cybersmart today on how to spot fake news. Watching the video (which is on slide 2) helped with the work. This is like a recap for us year 8's, because we did this last year. It was a simple but helpful task. :)

 

Streets for everyone project

This term for extension we've been working on a big project called Streets for everyone. We've been work with people of The Open Fort (Toby and Bahv), to help with the project. The reason we are doing this project is to make the streets we live on more safe and fun.

We are in different group and doing different things. I'm in a group with Valessa and Kiarah (you should check out their blogs). In our group are main idea is connect the dots. The slides below show how we've extended the simple activity into multiple ideas. 

Next week we hope to install some of our work onto the streets. It's been a lot of fun working with Open fort on the project along with my team mates, Valessa and Kiarah.

Here are a few photos we took on our walk around the neighbourhood, (there was a video I wanted to add but I can't so enjoy the photos).

Stonks, Robert, and Craig's 'Epic' fart fail

This is my piece of writing from a few weeks ago. In our writing group we all gave random idea's and had a vote to decide on the characters and the setting. The characters we had to use were Stonks guy, Craig and Robert, while the setting was in the KFC bathrooms. Majority voted to have the problem be an explosion caused by the groups farting challenge. It was difficult to think of an idea for this story but it was ton's of fun to write, I hope you enjoy it!  

NOTE : This is a piece of crack writing. This story is not serious at all and barely has logic. 

Also may contain memes and jokes, if you don’t understand such jokes, I’m sorry to say you are most likely a boomer. Do not take any of that seriously though.

So buckle up for this weird and wonderful crack piece of writing.

“Stonks! Challenge, follow me, now!” Craig yelled coming out of the KFC bathrooms. Stonks follows Craig to the toilets only to see Robert doing the loudest and longest fart he can. At first Stonks guy was confused until Craig followed Robert’s actions but much bigger.

“✨Y E S✨” Robert said with stars in his eyes like the emoji. 

“That’s the challenge?” Stonks guy said, his expression showed not much enthusiasm. Only a few seconds later he was laughing hard out, slapping his knee. Craig and Robert stare at each other saying he’s a mad man with just their eyes.

“Well it’s not very good is it? How about I try” Stonks guy says after his laughing fit. That’s where things went wrong. 

Stonks let out a fart so big, so loud and super stinky. The sentch of the fart could be smelt of outside the KFC toilets, possibly outside the KFC building itself. Everyone gagged at the horrid smell before bursting out in laughter. 

“Let’s do it again!” Craig yells. “I can’t lose to Stonks guy!”

They all had their turns again, this time Craig had won with a fart that they could have sworn lasted a minute. Then it happened, the most wonderful idea that Robert could think of.

“Guys… Let’s fart all at once! Let’s see how bad yet awesome it’ll be!” Robert said with a serious face at first, but as he continued his words the excitement became evident in his voice. Everyone agreed and they started counting down.

“3...2...1!”

“Let it rip boys!” With those four words they let everything out. 

The floor beneath them started shaking leaving them shooketh. The stall doors in the bathroom suddenly flung open - if they didn’t fling open then they probably broke off - at that moment, they knew, they messed up.

“GOTTA GO FAST” Craig exclaimed, running away.

“RuN LIkE tHe WInD, rUN LIKe ThE SKy” Robert yelled following behind Craig, and running almost as fast as Hinata a.k.a ✨l i g h t n i n g f a s t✨.

“These guys can’t just leave me” Stonks says, pouting like a child who wasn’t allowed to buy their favourite candy.

“Ahhh well… YEET” Stonks said, Naruto running out of the KFC toilets. 

The three boy's ran to the table they sat at before the fart challenge, grabbing their now cold food. They were out of KFC in an instint and nowhere to be found.

One of the workers noticed the loud sounds of the doors crashing to the ground, and the shattered shards of glass spread on the floor. He had no idea what was happening, but when he saw the three troublemakers exit the bathroom in a rush he knew something was up.

“That’s weird.. that’s suspicious” The worker said while walking over to the toilet. He peaks in and sees the biggest mess ever made.

“HOLY SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS” He shouts, it seems like he was too loud as one of his co-workers heard him.

“CHILE- CHILL” One of the female employees yelled back at him before walking over to the scene to see what happened. She continued to stare at the used-to-be clean bathroom which currently looks like a tornado hit it.

“WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT IS THAT?!” She said with a surprised pikachu face.

- The End -

My silhouette art

 In Room 4 we've been focusing on our art for a while. We had to choose what type of silhouettes to paint. Mine is based on an image of my favourite group, I wanted to do a different one but I like how this came out as a silhouette. For the background we could chose between shades of sunsets, red to yellow, or blue to pink. I decided to use white, pink, purple, blue and a tiny bit of black at the top. While the paint was drying I began cutting the silhouette out. The bits between the legs and the rocks made it difficult to cut out so it took awhile.

Once I had fully cut it out I glued it on. It wasn't necessary but I ended up cutting little birds out and a sign - I got the idea from their previous albums, so it wasn't just random details - then I was done.

Here is how my art turned out.

Purple day (Epilepsy awareness day)

 Today is a mufti day, we were told to try and dress in purple. Why? Well it's to help raise awareness for a medical condition called epilepsy. Epilepsy affects a persons brain, people with Epilepsy can have seizures / Epilepsy fits. We have a few people in our school who have Epilepsy.

3.3 He aha te Taima?

While the year 7's are at tech yesterday we - year 8's - did one of our rotations before having a camp meeting. I'm excited. My groups one rotation for the day was Te Reo, where we learn't how to say quarter past or quarter to.

Ratio Reconcilliation

For today's maths we did more ratios, I got confused at certain slides but I still enjoyed this task.

The Moa - Poster

This is my reading task about Moa's. It's quite simple but I hope you like it!

Delicious Division

Instead of doing more addition or subtraction today, we focused on division. Division is not my strongest point in maths so it was a tiny bit confusing at first, but I used my multiplication knowledge to help me, making it easier to finish it off.