kowhaiwhai

   

This year our parting koha for pt England school we have  designed  and painted our own kowhaiwhai. These will be mounted permanently as our koha as year 8 of 2018.

I've called my artwork  ko au\me it has symbols that represent my family.   

The green and yellow pattern in particular  represents my baby sister Noelle.
The steps that I took to produce this are
1.I had to sketch my design on paper first
2.Then I painted my sketch
3.I drew the same sketch on the wooden board
4.Then I painted the wooden board

And the photo that you see is my finished  project. 
   

Strawberry milk adds

 Write for a range of audiences

God and Adam

LEARN Investigate and explain how artists express meaning in their work

Able to explain 3 or more elements (e.g. line, shape, colour, form) that artists use to share messages through their work; can identify an artist’s message (e.g personal identity, a story, opinion on social issues)

This piece of art is Michelangelo's interpretation of the creation of Adam.

In this peace of art Michelangelo used space line and colour.

DMIC Measurement

  Agree on a solution that each can we can explain

 SUCCESS CRITERIA: I  know I can do this when:

  - I can ask other students questions and they are able to explain to me how they worked problem out

This is my answers and working out of the this DMIC Maths problems.

Move ya body

last term our schools topic is MOVE YA BODY and with that being our topic team five had to learn a new skill.Room one try'd juggling and it was a success.Weeks later we were given a task to learn  another skill but this time we could split into  groups so us being aloud choose our one groups obviously I would go with Toni,Richard and BJ.We chose to leran how to do line dancing

Movie Problem solving

Here is my answers and working out of the times of the movie some in 24-hour time

Pourquoi tales How did the giraffe get his long neck.

How did the giraffe get his long neck.

One day there was a giraffe with the most beautiful dots in the world  he loved everything about him especially his short and shiney neck. Life was good for him but sometimes he had  problems. He couldn't eat very much because most things grew on trees and his most favorite fruit was red,crunchy apples but those grew on trees too.

 The next  day he decided to wake up early and  for a walk. While he was walking he thought to himself “I wonder what it would be like to have a longer neck”He carried on walking when suddenly he heard the sound of breaking branches he turned his head sharply trying to find the source of the commotion.He couldn't see anything or anyone so he bravely  tramped in the in the direction that he heard the sound .

As he was walking he heard the sound again he walked faster and faster and soon his walk turned in to  a sprint he tripped on a rock and fell on his four knees and his head hit  the hard, compact ground. He became unconscious for some hours. As his vision cleared he noticed  his head wedged between two rock’s he tried to wriggle his head out of the two rocks but the more he wriggled the more it got tight he gave up after afew minutes and tried yelling out for help. Luckily there was a herd of enormous african elephants nearby they walked over and saw him in pickled position.They all wrapped there trunks around his body and pulled and pulled and eventually his head slipped out from between the rocks, he stood up,and  for a second he thought he was a bird but looked down and saw his feet,he freaked out but then thought to himself my wish came true.And so from that day on he ate 50 apples a day.

And that's how the giraffe go his long neck 

 

Move ur body

This term room one were practising to juggle it was a success for me and my group.
Our groups new ideas are Uni cycling,Bx,Pogo stick,fire dancing 
We will try most of these things through out the term ahead.
 

Eat your veggies every day (cover by Justus)

Using the information you have learnt about the benefits of exercise to the mind and body you are going to write the lyrics for a song or rap about these benefits. 

Original Song

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb,

little lamb, 

Mary had a little lamb

whose fleece was white as snow. 

everywhere that Mary went, mary went, mary went

Everywhere that mary went

The lamb was sure to go.

My song

Eat your vegetables every day,and exercise   every day,

Eat your vegetables every day

And your body will get strong.

Exercise every day every day every day 

Exercise everyday

self confidence will come along

Probblem sloveing

Personification

WALT: Identify and use personification in our writing

play waiting tonee

Boy by Roald Dahl

I was told by a  clever man to read 'Boy' by Roald Dahl.   I knew that this same author wrote the BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory.  BFG is one of my favourites!

Back to Boy!   I really enjoyed reading this book.  I won't spoil it for you, I'll give you just a few hints.

If you want to read about a young clever boy who found things tough but still 'Strives to succeed' (our school motto) then you really need to read this book.


 It is very entertaining AND will have you wanting to read more.  It's a page turner!
Thanks Mr Dale for telling me about this awesome book!

year eight leader ship camp

Recount includes a series of events	x
A variety of sentence structures have been used (simple/compound/complex)	x
Adverbs have been used (swiftly, happily, etc)	x
Includes reflection on the event - I felt… because...	x
Includes at least 3/5 senses (see, smell, hear, feel & taste)	x
Includes a variety of punctuation (. ! ? , “ )	x

Every year the year eights go to a leadership camp and train to be better leaders.

And this year I got to go on this camp along with the year eights of 2018.

I was most excited about the activities that we would do, there was  archery,air rifles,paintballing and much more.

But one of my favorite activities was the go cart.

As I waited in line for what felt like all day it was finally my turn I put a helmet on and got in and started  driving,

It felt like I was going  100 miles per hour as I flew past the cones mud flicked from the front tyres on to my face now my vision went blurry.

I had just pass the start line and I could barely see were I was going

I drifted  around a sharp corner  and swerved around a cone finally

But sadly my turn was over.

D MIC Problem solving

Introduction to decimals

Half the class is with Mrs. Salu while the other half work on                  independent activities

How do planes fly

Number chart

Today I didn't read a book to my baby sister I helped  my baby sister start counting I’ve made up my own chart from 1 - 10.  Check through my images to see if I’ve covered them all...watch out I’ve done a number twice. 

What do you think I should teach her next. 

Little red rocking hood

This is a picture of me reading to my sister.  Isn’t it great that at the age of 3 months you can be read to and enjoy it!  The best thing about reading to my sister today is that if I get a word wrong she wont correct  me.

The very cranky bear

Today I read a book too my baby sister
and it was called the very cranky bear.
This book is about a zebra loin sheep and a moose.
all 4 animals try to make the bear happy but all they do is make him more cranky.

I hope you go on to reading this book.

visual mihi

This is my visual mihi

Maths