Toitoi challenge - Tuesday

 This is the a story call The virtual world. I have have finished this challenge and if you want to check it out go to Toitoi 18, Page 96. 

Totoi challenge - Monday

 

 I have finished one my Toitoi challenges, This is a poem about a tornado. If you want to check it out make sure to check out Toitoi 22, page 54, 

Should we have school uniform

Should we have school uniforms? 

There are many reasons why we should and should not have uniforms. Firstly school uniforms are used to represent your school, and for people to know what school you attend . Others can misunderstand you  when you are not wearing a uniform. School uniforms can also be dangerous if you have social media such as tiktok , snap chat EXT. Our answer is yes because when wearing uniform it will feel like we are an actual school

Our answer is yes because by wearing the same uniform students would feel more included and comfortable around the school. Wearing a uniform will help improve students' self esteem and be more confident. As a school we should look more professional by wearing school uniforms. Uniforms are one of the reasons we can call school a school. 

 The question of whether we should have school uniforms is really something to think about but It is clear that school uniforms make the school feel like more of a school and are more comfortable for the students. Of course uniforms can sometimes be expensive, then people can't afford them, but school uniforms are really important. 

School uniforms have many advantages and disadvantages. Besides, uniforms help people be more confident and pleasant in themselves. For example, if there is a meeting and you are required to connect with students from different schools wearing school uniforms wouldn’t make you uncomfortable. Furthermore, students who are wearing uniforms also feel satisfied with their school. 

Wearing school uniforms helps the student feel more positive about themselves and they participate in more activities voluntarily with high efforts to demonstrate that their school is good. Uniforms are not only to help students be unique from other people, to be more beautiful, but also to make them feel equal to other students. Furthermore, they can be proud of their current school if they are recognized by a lot of people. Uniforms can keep students safe because people know where they belong, especially on school trips,  plus parents won’t have to spend a lot of money on designer clothes. The reason uniforms should remain is because it brings a lot of advantages to students. School uniforms promote a sense of belonging. To conclude this argument, as long as you keep your uniform tidy and safe everything will be okay. 

By Melepalu and Bailey

Term 4 week 5 - Thursday Maths

How to keep safe in my school bubble

 

Maths - Geometry

 

For Maths we have been learning about geometry which is basically things based around shapes. Please take a look at my slideshow to learn even more about shapes. Hope you enjoy!!

Tools needed for testing soil

 

Warm up DLO - Maths

 

Art project

 

For art, room 10 made anything using what they can find at home. I made my face smiling because I was happy getting to do this project with my classmates. The materials I used were carrots, leaves, red pebbles, weaves and grass. I was really proud of this creation because mine was different from the others in many different ways. I hope  you like my creation I made during lockdown!!

Maths - Friday

 

Experiment for soil

 

Room 10 has been learning about soil. Today we did an experiment. To do this, we needed some soil  a clear bottle half filled up with water. First we put the soil in the bottle, if the hole in the bottle was small, we used a funnel made of paper. We poured the soil into the bottle with water. We then closed the bottle with the lid and shook it well. Lastly, we left the mixture in a safe place for a day to settle.

Word of the week

 

Today Room 10 have been learning the meanings of words we don't understand. My word is natural .I did give a guess of what I thought it could be. For my picture it means natural blonde hair, natural brunette hair. Hope you learnt something from my poster.

Maths - day 2

 

Te Reo - Colours

 

Today for Te Reo Room 10 learnt about colours. We were set a challenge to sing the colours song, so here is my video. Hope you enjoy!!!

Room 10 first google meet!

 

Today room 10 started their first google meeting. It was really great to see that everybody was doing well at home and being safe. I personally liked today's meeting. It was as if I haven't seen these people in a long time but really its only been 1 day. I can't wait for tomorrows google meet!!

Cybersmart challenge - 19

 

Maths - decimals into percentages

 

How to make rain gauges

Solar system - Week 8 Term 2

Here is my reading slideshow. Learning a lot about the solar system and planets were so interesting, Look at my slide show to see what I learnt.

                     

What makes me? - Cybersmart challenge 16

 Today I did challenge 16 cyber smart challenge. The title for today is ,What makes me? I put lots of word art to show what makes me. !! Enjoy!!

Pwc - Information/Thank you

 Price - Water house - Coopers

Learning how to save money was great. I have learned that we should put our earned money in the bank because it would be a safe place to put it in. Room 10 and I also learned about lending , we did a few Role plays to show what a good lender and a bad lender looks likes. Getting the chance to work with Tom, Rochelle and Aleisha was awesome. They made lending and saving more understanding for someone young like me. I definitely enjoyed the sessions with you three.

Get your game on!!

 The bell rings for us to go and play. We had got your game on. For our school it was really competitive but sometimes too competitive if you know what I mean. Anyway during morning tea the  kids were all scrambling in the bathrooms trying to shine out in their colours. Our colors are Rata, Nikau, Kowhai and Kauri or Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. All the girls in Rata really went full out with  red lavas, Red face paint, red T- Shirt, Red shoes and Ribbons for their hair. I alway just wore a blue T - Shirt and that's all. I heard the bell go again. It was time for us to go to class and get ready to settle down on the courts.

Room 10´s first game was Lape. It was a really cool samoan game that one of our teachers made. For Lape, the rules were, your class will be separated into 2 teams , for us it was Kauri and Nikau versus Kowhai and Rata. One team will be batters and the other team will me feilding but you will eventually switch. The pitcher will throw it gently and the batter has to hit the ball with their hand. You cannot hit it on the grass therefore that is out of bounds . Lastly after you have hit the ball you run to all corners without stopping and when you touch the middle cone that is a Home run. Whichever team gets the most home runs wins the whole thing.

Our second game was to rob the nest. This was a really quick game. Again we were separated into 2 teams and tried to get as many cones as we could get. When the cones were all finished, before we could steal from the other side we had to do an exercise move 5 times. That was the hardest part. My team didn't win but we still tried our best and cheered ourselves up.

Lastly we played silent ball. Everyone knew how to play this, We just passed it on to someone else without making noise. If you make any noise or drop the ball you are out. However if the game gets a little boring we do hot potato but the same rules apply. There will be more rules added such as one leg up and one eye closed. I won one of those rounds, but I did say good game to the other player. After our game, All classes met back up on the courts. 

Our Deputy principal congratulated everyone for trying their best at all of the games. She then asked  everyone to go back to their classes. This  term got you game one. It was great. I wonder what game the teachers have set up for us Next term.

Room 10 Favorite colours

 After asking everybody in class what their favourite colour was, Me and my class put it on a chart/tally. !!Enjoy!!

Maths - Stem and leaf graph

 Today we have been learning about stem and leaf graph. After working with our teacher we created a stem and leaf graph, here is an example of what we did.

Maths - Statistics, Term 2 week 7

 Room 10 has been learning about Statistics in math. Here is our Ethnic groups in Room 10

Qualities of a blog - Challenge 14

History - Challenge 13

History is part of the Cyber Smart challenge 13. Here is some of my History I was on today:) 

What we share? - Challenge 12

 For the Cyber smart challenge we have been learning about what to keep public and what to keep private. Enjoy!!

Ko wai au - Cyber smart challenge 11

 Who am I? Read this poster to find out!!

Giving compliments

 Giving compliments is part of our Te Whare Tapa Wha theme. Today I gave out 5 compliments to people in my class room

Fire Fast Food

 

Should junk food be banned from school?

Banning junk food could be a good idea because it would be helpful for eating healthy. But let's think about the bad thing.

 Kids already break so many rules why put junk food not allowed when yet people can still bring it in so there is no point.  If you see, bringing junk food is just a little treat for the kids but I still can't see why junk food should be banned.

Furthermore, if I were to ban unhealthy food, I strongly believe that if someone cared about what kids weighed and what they ate they would have to encourage the kids them self to stop. It is not a situation that should be brought up to school, such as fat shaming.

Another point is that by banning junk food, The school would have to put a lot of work into it. Like I said in my first argument they break so many rules it could cause some chaos. When I say chaos I mean kids getting in trouble for bringing a packet of chips and kids sneaking them in.

 So my answer is no. If you could see there is a point in my argument so I say no banning our junk food.

Taha Tinana

We have been studying
about Te Whare Tapa Wha. This week we looked at some of the things we need to do to keep ourselves physically Healthy. Here is my DLO to show what I have learnt

Smart learners - Cybersmart

 

Fish drawing

 

Challenge 2 - Cybersmart

 

Ready for google meets - Challenge 2

Tidy drive - Challenge 6

 

Charging my chromebook

Challenge 8- Boat animation

 

Fractions and percentages

After our beginning of the year assessment, I discoverd that I had some gaps in my learning about fractions and percentages. We worked in groups and with our learning buddies to illustrate fractions and percentages. I did a DLO to show my understanding of fractions and percentages.

 

Diversity - The same game

 

Challenge 5 - cybersmart

 Here is the drawing I created with my classmate Talaofa. Hope you like it!!

Resilience Melepalu

 Here I have my poster about resilience. Hope you enjoy!!!!!

The History of New Zealand

 

Challenge 4- Bookmarks/folders

 Today I did challenge 4 for the cyber smart. Here are the folders I decided to make

Complex sentences

 

My morning tea

After my google meeting I had my morning tea. We cant work on a empty stomach!!!! 

Compound Sentences

 Og : Maggie had completed her run. She was covered in mud.

Compound sentence: Maggie had just finished her jog and  she was covered in mud and very tired.

Og: The plant was dying. It was covered in greenfly.

Compound sentence: The plant was suffering and covered in greenfly.

Og: The wind nearly blew Aaron away. He decided to shelter in a nearby church.

Compound sentence: The heavy wind almost blew Aaron away so he decided to get shelter from a nearby church.

Og: The bunny hopped onto the road. The car swerved into the bush

Compound sentence: The bunny jumped into the road and made a car swerve into the bushes

Room 10 google meet

 Today Room 10 had one of their first google meet with our teacher here are a few images.

Cybersmart - challenge 1

Here we have my three poster from challenge one of the cyber smart challenge 

The kawa of care

 Today I made a poster about The kawa of care. I you didn't know the kawa of care is about how to keep your Chromebook safe. Hope you enjoy!!

Class treaty

 Here is my class treaty. It has things on how to respect learning, others, property, environment and self hope you enjoy!!

Problem solving

 I did A video for a question I thought was really hard and showed how I solved it. The problem solving is pretty hard but easy at the same time, hopefully you guys understand.

Pepeha

 Here we have a screen recording of me saying my pepeha. Hope you Enjoy!!!!!!!

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My rap

 Here is a Rap I did please Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

Covid 19 poem

Here is a Covid 19 rap. Hope you enjoy!!!

 

Haiku

Here is a haiku about Room 10 teacher. I hope you enjoy it 

My Pepeha

 This week we have  been learning our Pepeha. I hope you will learn something about me 

Haiku - Summer

 For the past two weeks we, have been learning about poetry writing. The special type of poetry we learnt about is called Haiku. A Haiku has 3 lines with a total of 17 syllables. The first line has 5 syllables,  the second line has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables. Altogether that makes 17 and that is how you write a haiku. Hope you learnt something!!!