Ngaina @ Pt England School

Thinking Skills

2011-10-26T10:23:00.004+13:00

Nine Thirty this morning.

This morning Room 22 took on the thinking skills challenge using our logical thinking, in groups of three we were given a problem and five objects to solve it , my problem was to look after a wounded seagull until it was well enough to be released . My group came up with a non successful idea to help our Seagull.

Listening and looking at other peoples problems really got me thinking logically but not enough for our idea to be successful I think this challenge could help me a lot in my thinking skills.

The last week or so

2011-10-05T09:14:00.003+13:00

Week 10 has been full on busy for some of us, can you image how hard we have been working?.

It's the end of the term and a lot of our students have been very busy we have had ,production practise,volley ball training, rehearsals. The start of this week is when all of the students as well as staff members were starting to get exhausted .

Throughout this week I have been called back to the hall over and over again to position my self in a place on the stage for our performance , moving around a lot, boxes placed on my head, my mask has been braking, moving to different holding rooms and I have just had enough of all of these rehearsals it's about time we had holidays .

This week I have felt so excited but exhausted at the same time two more nights of 2011 Webzidazical production.

2011-09-29T09:58:00.001+13:00

We all had confidence dancing in front of Our classroom.t week on Friday room 22 had a Friday fun day. For Friday fun day we came together as one and danced in groups of 4 some were in 5's .

To the music of could you be loved by Bob Marley us students in our groups had to come up with a short dance Our Wonderful Teacher Ms T said to us Whoever wins this dance off will get hot chips for lunch.

David , Ngametua,Awhina and I came up with a different groove and out out of all the groups we won but we still shared with Lesley one of our Classmates. I felt that room 22 has built

confidence to perform in front of any body and I have too I cant wait until the next Friday Fun day

Friday Fun day .

2011-09-29T09:34:00.005+13:00

We all had confidence dancing in front of Our classroom.

Last week on Friday room 22 had a Friday fun day. For Friday fun day we came together as one and danced in groups of 4 some were in 5's . To the music of could you be loved by Bob Marley us students in our groups had to come up with a short dance .

Our Wonderful Teacher Ms T said to us Whoever wins this dance off will get hot chips for lunch ,

so David , Ngametua,Awhina and I came up with a different groove and out out of all the groups we won but we still shared with Lesley one of our Classmates.

I felt that room 22 has built confidence to perform in front of any body and I have too I cant wait until the next Friday Fun day

Maths whizz .com

2011-09-21T09:55:00.003+12:00

On maths whizz this week I have been learning how to partition numbers and split numbers into different section to get the number it equals to.

Go the Mighty all blacks

2011-09-13T10:14:00.007+12:00

I am loving the rugby world cup spirit but I am so sick of seeing so many flags here and there and everywhere I see some mini flags ,medium flags and big flags covering their whole entire car but I guess it's just being supportive for their country. All I have to say about the rugby world cup this year is Go! the mighty All Blacks .

New Zealand Champs

2011-09-07T10:36:00.006+12:00

" Misson Accomplished" has your school entered the Aims games and brought back a Trophy Our school has.

Last week on Sunday Our rugby 7's boys went down to Tauranga to represent our school at the Aims game .

Our Boys won all 12 games that they played including the semi finals to become New Zealand Rugby 7's champs . On Friday evening the rugby 7's boys came home proud and knowing that they played well on and off the field .

I felt speechless when I heard they won the competition and brought home the one and only trophy for New Zealand Rugby 7's champs

Multiple intellegence

2011-08-30T14:35:00.002+12:00

This week we have been learning about our multiple intelligences which is to show Our weaknesses and Our strengths.

My top three strengths are verbal/ Linguistic,intrapersonal and naturalistic

These are my results.

The Multiple intelligences are :

. Bodily Knstetic

. Mathematical logical

.verbal/Linguistic

.Interpersonal

.intrapersonal

.Musical/intelligence

.ICT

.Visual spacial

Design process

2011-07-12T09:21:00.002+12:00

This term our topic is bigger better faster and stronger so for the previous weeks we have been focusing or identifying a need that needs to be solved which was to design some furniture for our year 7 and 8 students .

David and I have been researching on the internet looking for creative ideas for furniture. We decided to create some shelves that appared on the net,
we then drew the design on hyperstudio to get a idea what some design we could make.

First of all Through the generating process we had to modify and change the design that we had decided to use, and then tick the one we were sure about and what would be better to make .

Rugby league session

2011-06-23T10:39:00.003+12:00

rugby league session

2011-06-23T10:04:00.008+12:00

During this week on Wednesday 22 of June room 22 had a rugby league session on our school courts with one of the 2011 Vodafone Junior Warriors known as Sio Siua Taukeiaho.

There were 3 drills that we played which were called in and out ,zig zag and Rugby tennis. We were split into 4 teams I was in team 1. we only had 7 players so one us had to run twice which was Junior .

Our first lesson was in and out were all four teams had to run individually Zig zagging in and out of the cones placed in front, we would score a point for the first team to sit down my group won the first time.

I’m not sure what this drill was called so our second drill of the day was we had to weave through our team and then sprint back to the start to score a try.

Last drill of the day was called kick tennis, were the four teams had to combine as two teams , we had one even side of the court and so did the other team , we had to kick the ball to the other players but trying not to get out or kick the ball too short or kick it out side of the cones we had three games ‘I felt like continuing.

Rugby league can help in a way like fitness thats what I like the most about it. I can’t wait unti next time if there is a next time.

The Fonterra science Roadshow

2011-06-16T10:27:00.003+12:00

On the 9th of June room 22 and the rest of the year 7 and 8’s walked down to Tamaki College to learn about the science at the Fonterra roadshow. The Fonterra science roadshow travels around Aotearoa teaching children about science, technology and innovation.

When we arrived we were greeted by two scientists Paul and Jane giving a presentation on fire. It was exciting because one of the scientist used thrilling things like flames, blow torches, candles and acids.

There were six themes in the exhibits which were detection, heat, communication, leavers, gears and inclined planes, sound and quirky curiosities.

In detection exhibits some if the substances were radiation, bird songs, fluorescence's, mass spectrometer and a lot more. These were about electricity, identifying and analysing. This was my favourite exhibit.

My overall higlight for the road show was having to look arpund at different exhibits and learning new things.One thing that I would change would have to be the talking 'That was the worst'.

20 Hour famine sleepover

2011-05-27T18:48:00.006+12:00

A variety of people all around the world have been participating in this event known as the 20 hour famine. But in some parts of the world there are children and adults who are suffering without food,healthy water,energy and saftey. Us students here at Pt England School collect sponcers to help out these people without,so we have a sleepover to experience what it feels like for children and adults in different parts of the world.

geometry

2011-05-19T12:32:00.002+12:00

Geometry is the study of size,shapes and position of a 2D shape or a 3D figure . Room22 have been on a mission this week drawing ,writing and creating 3D and 2D shapes .

Last week we were given a cool activity called Tanagrams it was all to do with Geometry . All we had to do was create the picture shown on the a4 paper. I liked this activity because we could use all the cut up paper to create a swan,a cat,a horse and rider,arrow,a arrow in the box and more different pictures.

This week we started a new piece of art work we had to combine circles together to create it,but I made mine squares because it was different to everyone Else's using different colours.

Taonga time

2011-05-17T14:25:00.004+12:00

Introduction
Every Friday Team 5 syndicate has the opportunity to rotate around classes for 1 hour and a half to learn about our teachers different passions, its called Taonga time . if you are wondering what Taonga time is it means treasure or special in Maori.

There are a number of groups taken by different teachers. Some of the groups are Science,Art,Sports,Music,Team Building and Kapa Haka. Kapa Haka was the group I was chosen for, Maori is one of my passions too. In kapa haka us students prepare for powhiri’s ,welcoming people and special events . We like to have our Waiata or songs in order to perform in .

I feel that being in Kapa Haka is fun, It also gives me confidence to perform and I also can learn new songs, my favourite song would have to be Kapioioi.

creative way of introducing Miss dempster

2011-05-17T14:25:00.003+12:00

This morning room 22 had a visitor join our classroom her name is Miss Dempster, she will be in our class for 5 weeks. Miss Dempster is a second year student from Auckland University and she is training to be a teacher.

Miss Dempster’s favourite thing to do is mow the lawns every fortnight. She hangs out with her friends cow and moose, they like to go to the Panmure markets every Sunday. Everyday, Miss Dempster plays her saxophone that scares her chimpanzee.

Miss Dempster has 5 pets, a cow ,porcupine ,elephant ,moose and daddy rat. They all live in her spare kitchen and she feeds them peanut butter sandwiches. Just recently she had to chase after her Moose in her timber gumboots.

creative way of introducing Miss dempster

2011-05-17T14:25:00.000+12:00

What is creativity?.

2011-05-11T09:35:00.000+12:00

In room 22 we have been learning about creativity .
Creativity involves thinking skills and is also a form of using your own imagination, creating something different to others or something that’s never been made before.

The task we were given was to come up with a creative idea to present our name. The resources that I used in my creation was maths equipment, teachers resources and a pair of shoes. ‘ What a challenge!’.

Values- DLO

2011-05-10T09:30:00.000+12:00

Reflection - DLO

2011-05-10T09:23:00.002+12:00

One of the things I was pleased about last term was My DLO. My rubric showed that I received 11 out of 16. I feel that I still need to work on giving more detail in my projects .

One thing that I need to improve in is managing my time well as my work was handed in at the last minute . The next time we are given a project I will definitely be on task.

Some of my highlights for last term were being able to stand up in front of
team 5 syndicate and start our day off with karakia (prayer) or mihimihi .
Secondly finding out that my applications were successful enough to be able to take charge of a lot of responsibilities around the school. Last term was good, this term is going to be greater.

These are my results that I was given for my DLO.

Mihi Mihi and karakia

2011-03-29T12:52:00.007+13:00

Kia inoi tatau
Whakatuwhiritia ,mai te kuaha o te pono, o te teka, o te matau ranga , me te aroha amatau e whakamoemiiti e whaka kroria tia to ingoa tapu
ake ake ake amene.

Translation
Open the door of truth,riteouness of knoledge and love
through us we are praising glory to your name
forever and ever
amen

He mihi whanui tenei kia tatau katoa kia koe te rangatira
e _________________tena koe mo to mahi whakamoemiti
ki to tatau matua e te rangi .
No reira tena koutau tena koutau tenara tatou katoa

Class arrival

2011-02-18T10:31:00.006+13:00

It was day one for Pt England students to start back at school on the 7th of February 2011. As I strolled through the school gates, I was stoked to see the new classrooms that had been built for the year 7 and 8 students to learn in.

The new part of the building known as the street was flooded with children and teachers. Beside me I could feel the breeze whispering in my ear. Not knowing what class I was in, made me more excited.

‘About time’ I said to myself. Finally, I found out who my teacher was. I was happy to hear that I was in Ms Tito’s Class again. After Mrs Nua’s announcement, I Raced to my new classroom and explored it feeling ecstatic.

I glanced around at my new classmates said to myself, ”This is going to be a great year.” I’m looking forward for what this year has to offer me .

All about Me

2011-02-16T09:27:00.002+13:00

Kiaora My name is Ngaina i’m 11 years of age and i’m a year 8 student at Pt England School. I live in Glen Innes which is located in Auckland New zealand . My favourite
subject at school is writing also i like learning te reo Maori.There are so many new things arriving at our school like our netbooks,new students and also new classrooms.
Im passionate about school so i’m happy for whatever this year has to offer me.

2011-02-16T09:23:00.002+13:00

Kiaora My name is Ngaina i’m 11 years of age and i’m a year 8 student at Pt England School. I live in Glen Innes which is located in Auckland New Zealand . My favourite
subject at school is writing also i like learning Te reo Maori.There are so many new things arriving at our school like our net- books,new students and also new classrooms.
I'm passionate about school so i’m happy for whatever this year has to offer me.

market day

2010-12-07T10:05:00.006+13:00

It was still the early hours of the morning when I arrived at school ready to set up my store for the year 7 market day.

At 7 o'clock Ms Tito arrived at school to help other students prepare too.
Firstly Ms T helped me carry the bullet board into the breeze which was used for my displays for my store and also some desk for my products to sit on .

Our market started at 11. 30 class by class arriving and coming in and out buying things from our stores.The products that ocean and I were selling was lollie boxes selling at the price of 1.00, inside were mixed lollies and a balloon.
Not allot of people were buying our products but as soon as the market started getting packed a variety of students came to our store and bought our selling products

At the end we fun raised alot of profit that is going towards our next years year 8 camp .
Market day was fun seeing all the kids and teachers buying products store by store i hope we get to have another market day next year if you look down bottem you will se a video that you can watch to see how well the market went :)

Market Day from KPE TV on Vimeo< /a>.

three features on a butterfly

2010-11-30T09:47:00.006+13:00

Little Critters

Identify- how to find something
unique-special
Features- not normal

butterfly
the 3 features on a butterfly are
abdomen, thorax, and wings.

to identify a butterfly you look for the colour -orange and black
also the abdomen, wing,head and the thorax

shared day at mairangi bay

2010-11-23T12:48:00.003+13:00

Mairangi bay surf life saving education

8.45 the bus was leaving school to take the year 7 classes (room19 and 20) to Mairangi bay for surf live saving education.

During the drive to Mairangi Bay I was waiting patiently on the bus but inside I was excited. The children on the bus were full of laughter who knows why? . Here we are finally in Mairangi bay , the students seated on the grass and listened to the following instructions that were given from Mrs Nua . We then strolled up into the club house to meet the life guards told by the names as Meghan,Recaul and Rosy.

After the few boring activity's we then went out side an played some beach games which were Octopus life guards coming
The teachers were playing and the children were chasing after them like they were dogs side to side
. We were having loads of fun.

Yay ! After eating my lunch I quickly got changed into my swimming togs ready to get into some water activity's .
For our water activity's only one of the life guards could stay with us as the other to life guards Requal and Rosy had an important job to do . After everyone had changed we all gathered around Meghan to listen to the following instructions She explained to us and the teachers ,"teachers make a box in the water and that will be the children's Boundaries Boys have the Boigie boards and the girls can use the tubes so off we went into the water splashing and swimming it was loads of fun

Washing off to go home wiping our selves down who knows when we will be back. We said our thankyou's for sharing the day with us and we hope we could come back soon . I learnt alot of information at the surf life saving education we jumped on the bus and drove back to school it was a fun day everyone was a bit tired but wanted to stay for more .

cicadas information

2010-11-18T13:38:00.002+13:00

there are 40 specie of cicadas

cicadas are known as a bug

any bug with wings is known as insects

cicadas wings are huge transparent with its vein

this bugs are proboscis mouth piece which sucks juice from plants and trees

part of cicadas is spent in soil

cicadas use there tube which is called a ovipositor it thrust eggs and shrubs and plants

during winter the eggs start over hatching in spring

the nympus drops from plants and burrow into the ground

they suck saps of roots

the nympus are white and look like adults except of their wings

they may hide in the ground for up to 3 years or more.and

when there is an emerge they find A TREE trunk and they climb up and take off

they shrub their skin moulting .

they sometimes lay under trees when their dead

bugs

2010-10-22T11:52:00.004+13:00

We are learning how to share the love properly by using screen shots of pictures and linking them from the internet to my blog. If you click on the photo above it will take you to the site we got it from.

Thames SPCA Voluntree shelter

2010-10-18T09:27:00.001+13:00

Volunteering to help out at the Thames SPCA shelter is really fun.Heading towards the shelter I was excited about walking the dogs,cleaning kennels,feeding pets and more .

My auntie and I helped out three other volunteers clean and wash out the dog cages ,while i was washing the cages i saw a dog run past me, wondering how did that dog get out. So I went after before it got past the gate.The dogs name was Jyinx his skin colour was tan and his eyes were black. As i went after Jyinx I shut the gate before the other dogs got out,finally the dog stopped because he was scared of the cows that were sitting on the edge of the paddock fence.

I was that organized that I was carrying a dog leash with me. So I rushed over and caught his collar and attached the the leash on and took him for a walk down to the other end of the drive and back up again.

Looking after the dogs was fun it was also a great experience for me . I also didn't mind chasing after the dog. actually i wouldn't mind visiting again .

Capsize Drill

2010-09-07T12:33:00.003+12:00

Capsize Drill

This is the way you practice a capsizing drill.
Firstly you get a little away from shore then you all lean to one side and over the boat goes .
We always have to be clear from the sails and ropes and swim around to where the centreboard sticks out from the bottom of the boat.
Someone climbs on the centre-board and,hold the side of the boat and lean back . The boat comes up slowly. We have to keep it facing towards the wind, or it might sail off without us , last we lean over the side and start to bail.

Who Am I?

2010-08-17T12:49:00.002+12:00

Mt Taranaki DLO

2010-07-20T16:41:00.000+12:00

Active Earth is our theme that our school is studying this term. We as a class looked at the Legend of Mount Taranaki and we had to retell the story. After a discussion outside on the deck, we decided use animation to retell our story.

We were a group of 3. Vaine, Maree and me. Maree took charge of the animating, Vaine was in charge of the storyboard and I did the voiceover. Our storyboard turned out great.

Our group tried hard to get our DLO finished in time but we will try harder next time.

Our DLO assessment for Term One

2010-04-22T09:53:00.002+12:00

Last term we were asked to make movies showing our understanding of some of the korero that helps our students remember the 'Pt England Way'. We worked in groups of 5 or 6 and were assessed on a number of things.
The post you are about to see is our DLO. We gained the top mark in the class. If you check the rubric (above), you will see our final assessment.

2008-12-12T10:36:00.000+13:00

On Wednesday next week it is my birthday but on Saturday the 13 of December i am going to rainbows end and i am taking Helen Tupou there with me me and Helen are going but on Wednesday my mums going to make a cake it might be a chocolate cake with lollies on top of it
and i am going to share my birthday with my class i get my birthday presents with my Christmas presents .last year i got alot of presents it was c0ol have a happy merry Christmas every body

swimming

2008-12-02T18:08:00.000+13:00

This week room15 and room 18 went swimming at the YMCA pools we are learning to do back stroke freestyle and to keep our tummy up when we are doing backstroke.Also to keep our arms straight when we are doing freestyle my favorite thing was doing freestyle because i like to move my arms around in the water we where swimming with room 18 Ms Squires and Mrs Lagitupu was teaching us after that we got to have free tie for maybe about 10 minutes

BY NGAINAi am doing freestyle from ngaina

mancala

2008-11-19T09:05:00.000+13:00

The Zigzag group made an old African game called Mancala .

We used cardboard and egg cartons to make our game because we are trying to reuse and recycle
our rubbish.
First we cut up the egg carton
second we painted the egg carton
third we made the boxes to put our beans in
We played the game like this you have to choose a partner to play with you get 4 beans and put them in the hole if you land in a empty hole your turn is over.

rotations

2008-11-05T13:15:00.000+13:00

Last week on Friday we were doing a rotation around the field doing some sports.
We had a game of high jump disks running and shot putt we had atlease 5 minutes each of our game. The first game i did was running we ran until we had to do our next game . we had about 5 people in our group that i competed with including myself. The next game our group done was

high jump we had atleast 5 goes on the high jump it was cool giving it ago we all tried and tried it was so fun The next game we done was the shot putt i Haven,t done shot putt or disks be fore either but i gave them a go i had a fun time playing out on the field and rotating aroud the field after that we went to cre to learn more

BY NGAINA M

My weekends

2008-11-05T10:27:00.000+13:00

in the weekend i went to a birthday and it was my friends birthday her name is Latisha Haywood and she turned 5 years old and when she had her birthday on saturday we took her to rainbows end and to play at the park we went to rocket park and moon park it was pretty cool Latisha thought it was pretty cool to after that we took her home and she told her mum all about it then on Sunday i went to another birthday we had to try and get the treasure and find the clue but when i got half way up the tree i grabbed the brunch and fell down to the ground my arm and my leg hurt badly that i had to go to the doctors then i was time to go to my aunty's in putaruru and then we went to the frangton Hamilton market my aunt brought alot of thing i was tired so then i went home with my uncle and cousin and had a sleep

BY NGAINA M

2008-08-28T10:20:00.000+12:00

On Saturday my aunt ' uncle' cousins and my koro came to my house at 5 o'clock at the night the next day my koro got up at 9 o'clock in the morning and got ready to go to a birthday party with my aunt and uncle. i couldn't i had to look after my cousins but my dad took us to the park and we went to the mount Eden park the first thing we went on was the swing and then we went on to the monkey bars me and my cousins had a race to see who could go across the monkey bars the fasts. We had twenty minutes to play on the park when we were going home we seen a lot of police because there was a car crash the man had to tell us to go around the cones because there was glass everywhere but that was so lucky because my dad thought we didn't have our Reg and warrant but i said we do actually have our Reg and warrant . When we got home my aunt and uncle were at home they stayed with us for a little while then they went back to Rotorua