Camp @ KVCC

Task Description: Today we had to do a blog post of the things we would keep , take out and add to our camp. We also had to question ourselves "Why do we do these events"

Captains Speeches

Captains Speeches

These are 5 bullet points Of things that the year 7 captains said out in the street.

1. They liked how people in their team stood up to be a leader even when they were not a captain.
2. Most of the people in their group did not hang out much but they still got along.
3. Most of their highlights were doing the activities
4. They enjoyed their time at school by doing activities for three days straight.
5. They got to have a shared lunch and all the year 7’s loved it.

These are 5 bullet points Of things that the year 8 captains said out in the street.

1. They liked how everyone got along
2. One team learnt how to control a go kart and tried to beat the fast’s record.
3. When there were times that the captains struggled the rest of the team members helped out.
4. One of the captains said that they were proud to be their leader
5. When one of the captains was scared that there was a ghost his team members backed him up and supported him.

Fist day of camp and the highlights.

First day.





The year 8’s from Team 5 block got to experience something so spectacular, we got to travel by bus to Kauaeranga Valley christian camp (KVCC). In the morning for our first day we did a karakia in the hall, While sitting in our groups,The groups were Kauri,Kaueranga,Coromandel and Thames (tems). Zamera And Athur were the captains for Kauri, The Captains for Kaueranga were Caleb and Leilani, Jezekaia and Mamarei were the captains for Coromandel And lastly Chance and Sione. We boarded the bus and left at 9:20 and arrived at the camp around 10:00. After we unpacked the bus we were seated in our camp groups. Zach, who is one of the staff members at the camp, explained where the boundaries of the place was.When we were told about the boundaries we headed to the gym and played some cross games. The cross games involved leadership,Teamwork and friendship.Sometime around 11:00 we did our first rotation. My group Kauri A started with Paintball But instead of guns they were slingshots. And to end the day off we had a delicious dinner, we had garlic bread,salad,chilli sauce and mince. And our dessert was ice cream and apple crumble, Unfortunately I did not have any.






My Highlights from each day.





The cross games we had


Driving a go-kart


The special stop at the water garden.

Decimals

The million pound banknote pt2

The million pound banknote pt1

Goals for Term 3!

My goals for Term 3:

In my home class for term 3 is to finish my inquiry work faster.

My goal for maths class is to remember all my times table.

For literacy, my goals are to answer all the questions right with my reading tasks. for writing I want to improve my story telling, my punctuation, vocabulary and write more than 5 paragraphs (including intro and conclusion)

thank you for reading my blog post of what my goals are for term 3 2020.

Keep On Top Of My Well-Being

Introduction to DECIM!ALS

Task Description: in this slide show it shows my understanding to decimals and ways to write it. for my create task we had to create a dart board but instead of using whole numbers for the board we used decimals. Aaliyah helped me with the create task so don't forget to visit her blog.

Sam Bacon

Today we had to write a poster about Sam Bacon. This is what I came Up with and I learned a few things about him.

Understanding Decimals

Today our maths class is trying to understand how decimals work again.

The Watcher Of The South.

Today we learned the myth about The watcher of the south witch is the table mountain of south Africa.

Dragons Eye Lake

Today in room 3 with Mrs Tele'a we learned about the dragons eye lake and how it came to look like an eye of a dragon. In the myth they say that there were two brothers, one blind brother and one who could see. The brother that could see stole his blind brothers land, and he found out and cursed him the there would be nothing. When the brother went back to the land there was nothing but water. The land the the brother had stolen was a lake, an there was a dragon to protect it. The only condition the dragon had was that he was received a bride every year, apparently not a single bride has made it 'till the end of the wedding. Aristole came in to save the new bride and stabbed the dragons heart with a spear that had moon dust on it. The dragon was left in agony and gauged his eyes out and threw them, one landed somewhere and the other landed in the lake witch then sunk into the ground. Now that lake in Rogoznica look like a dragons eye from birds EYE view. (get it)

Cambodian myth of Lighting,Thunder and Rain.

Today Room 5  rotated to Room 11, and learned about the myth of how Lighting,Thunder and rain came about. In the beginning of the story The master Lok Ta told his three top student Moni Mekhala,Vorachhun and Ream Eyso to collect a full jar of Morning dew, And that the first to bring it to him would be the master of a mysterious gift. Vorachhun and Ream Eyso left early hours in the morning and left not one leaf wet of Morning Dew. When they got back They had seen Moni Mekhala relaxing in the room with Lok Ta with a full Jar of Morning dew. She had left out a scarf over night to collect the dew in the morning, and when it was reading she ringed the water out into her jar.

Greek Mythology

Today in inquiry we learnt about Greek mythology. We learnt about the different Greek gods, The Greek creation story about Hermes. When the Hermes was a baby he invented fire and a lyre (a harp). see my story.

Immersion Assembly

This morning right after we finished our team assembly team 5 headed to the school hall for the immersion assembly. Everyone had been seated and Marika started our morning off with a Karakia. Mr Burt had Told us what the topic was for term 3, witch is 'A World Of Diffrance'.

 Starting off Team 1 shared their movie to show the year 1's what they were learning this term.

The movie Was talking about what other kids from other countries do during school.

Onto the next team, Team 2's movie was about exploring New Zealand and their famous landmarks. They explained this to Team 2 by acting out Dora,Boots,Backpack and Map.

Team 3's Teachers did a movie of the Amazing race around the world and visiting all the famous places of the world.

• Sydney - Opera House

• New York - statue of librity

• Paris - Eiffle Tower

• China - The great wall of China

• Egypt - Pyramids

• Italy - Colosseum

Second to last we have Team 4, and this term team 4 is learning about the different foods around the glob, like Sushi witch is from japan, and Mr Goodwin's croissant is from Austria
Lastly we have TEAM 5. Team 5 is doing Myths And legends. The Team 5 Teachers acted out the story of Sina and the Eel. Mrs Tele'a was the Eel and Mrs Ilaoa was Sina. The other teachers were either siblings orthe other village members, AND of course Mrs Va'afusuaga and Mr Right were a big help and they were the water for the Eel> 

Blue Mountain

Today we are starting off our inquiry for the term and in room 5 we are learning about the blue mountain in Jamaica that grows coffee beans.

Bedmas

Animal Testing

Animal testing

Do you want your family pet to die from animal testing? it’s a tradedgy that over 2 million animals die from animal testing. This essay will explain why animal testing is used, why it should be band and why it is so cruel.

What is animal testing:

Animal testing is a cruel thing to do. Depending on the experiment, animals could be tortured by being injected with drugs, be forced to wear makeup or skin care and they could even be operated on! Imagine if this was being done on your beloved family pet! How would you feel if this happened to them?

Banning Animal Testing.

Is animal testing necessary? Not only is animal testing cruel but sometimes it dosen’t work. some animals have different allergies to us humans, so if the medicine is tried on the six different animals it might not work on people . this is such a waste, these animals don’t need to be tortured every year for our sake. Animal testing needs to be banned.

Why do we do animal testing.

Do you know why scientists experiment on animals? Well they need to test on animals to make sure that the products are safe. Every year scientists test Rabbits,rats,mice,monkeys,dogs and cats, surely we can find another way to examine things to make cure’s for us human’s.

To conclude animal testing is a bad thing not just for animals but for humans as well. Animal testing must be band forever. We must find something else to use to test our medicine on, and make our world safe again.

Do we really need school holidays?

Do we really need school holidays?

Do you enjoy your school holiday?Is your holiday long enough for you? This essay will explain why we need school holidays. Children need school holidays to Relax,Spend more time with their families and to get ready for school to start again.

Relaxation:

Children need holidays to relax.for example, young kids can have a break from all the stress and play with their toys,And the big kids can spend more time during the school holidays. If you at school for too long you could over work yourself. Holidays could also be used for more family time.

Family time:

The school holidays is a chance to spend time with your family. For example,In the holidays you can spend more time with your family and just take a break from the hard work at school. Even though you have weekends to spend time with your family that’s just 2 days, and we need more time with them, you could go on a trip overseas or go camping. After your trip you could come home a bit early and get ready for school.

Refresh:

After relaxing and coming home from a trip you could get ready and refreshed for school. For example after a two or three week break away from school you can come back to school all refreshed and ready to learn. After a full term of school you could get exhausted, but if you have a holiday break you could be more excited for school.

To conclude having holidays are important because children need to relax,spend time with their family and lastly to refresh before going to school.