Holidays

This holiday has been a great holiday so far. Today is Christmas and I want to say Merry Christmas to who ever that is reading this. 

For Christmas my whole family slept over my uncle's place. At 12.00 my cousin's and I opened our present we were all looking forward to what we were getting. For my present I got a Kathmandu jacket, chocolate and much much more.Today we are going to have an BBQ and a party so we can show who much we love Christmas.

Being a year 8 student I just want to say a very special MERRY CHRISTMAS to all the teachers that have taught me this year especially Miss King cause she has taught me more than  a lot and to all my class mates and my year 7 friends and all so the rest of Point England school.

Camp Highlights

The Agradom was one of my favourite highlights. The reason why I liked the Agradom was because as the instructor was talking to us his helper let out sheep one by one on each sides. We saw at least 19 different sheep on the stage and at least 3 with horns. It was pretty awesome seeing all the sheep's going to there actual spot because there were stairs which they had to stand on. After that the instructor blew the whistle to get the 3 dogs attention they ran fast on to the stage while the instructor was opening this cupboard. While he was opening it we saw a massive cow walking on to the stage, the instructor picked a few people to hop on the stage and milk the cow. From our school Waata and Max went on the stage and tried to milk the cows. 

Then he opened the door and all the baby lambs started running to the people who were holding the bottles and started feeding them. They were so cute. It was finished and we could go on the stage to see the sheep. Then me and Dante went to a sheep that looked like it had dreadlocks on it but with Justin Biebers style of hair. After that we went to a white sheep that had fur like a nice soft carpet, it felt so soft that I wanted to sleep on it. Then I took a photo with the black sheep thats the best highlight that I had at camp this year.

My Netbook Reflection

What special thing have you learnt from your teacher this year?
The thing that I have learnt from my teacher this year was having a girl teacher because I haven't had one for ages. The other special thing that I have learnt from Miss King is diffrent kinds of ways to solve a maths problem.

What significant thing have you learnt all by yourself?
I learnt that arguing with your friends doesn't make things better. I also learnt how to use my netbook properly.

This year has been a really good year. I have learnt a lot of things to do with maths and how I can  solve fraction problems. And in writing I learnt about different people like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. I

For me I think that Net books are really good to use because when we need help we can just type it up on our internet so called as 'Wairehe' to connect with it. I have had my Net book for 1 years now and I haven't really done that much damage to it, but I will still be having it because I am going to Tamaki College.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was a man who stopped racism for all the people around the world. The main points about Nelson is how he changed the world for everyone to make it a better place. He even had to spend 27 years in prison just because people believed in him that he could change everything. The white people knew that whatever Nelson planned to do they knew that a lot of people would believe in him so that's why they put him in prison.

Nelson's father died when he was a child and during his years without his father he became a ward of Jongintaba at the great place in Mqhekezweni. He was the first in his family to attend a school and it was while there that the young Rolihlahla was given the name Nelson.

Nelson Mandela died on Thursday at the age of 95. The former President of South Africa left an indelible mark on both his country and the world, becoming an international symbol of the fight against injustice and human rights abuses. He will be remembered in our hearts forever and ever because he was a man that not only cared about his family but also the whole entire world.

last blog post

Point England School has been a great school. Point England school has taught me a lot especially my teacher Miss King she has taught heaps. I finally love doing maths last year I didn't really do any work at my other school because I didn't know what to do and how to do it but Miss King taught me really good strategies for solving maths problems and heaps more.


The one thing I really loved to do was blog posting. This is my last blog post for 2013. As a year 8 this is my last blog post forever. Blog posting has taught me a lot and has taught other people a lot to. At the beginning of this year I had no clue how to use my blog but terms went past and I finally got a hang of it. This year I have posted 48 story's on my blog.

I just want to say a big as thank you to every one that has helped me this year. I also want to thank my best friends that had been there for me through good and bad times.

Swimming

Diving into the pool my body was shaking and I felt like getting out. Seconds  later I felt warm so I stayed inside the pool. The first task Miss king told us to do was to practice kicking. She made us to practice kicking for about one minute. I hated doing that because if anyone touched the ground then she will start the one minutes again. So two people were tired and they touched the ground. We had to do that for about three minutes. Then the last time everyone did it really well.

After finishing the task Miss king told us to get into groups of 4. So Me, Dante, Sesalina and Senolita got in to groups. We quickly got into a straight line. Miss king gave us a point for being the first organised group. We were so happy because we knew that we were going to win. When everyone was quite then Miss King told us the Instruction for what we were going to do. After she finished explaining our group got organised to see who was going first, second, third and forth. We all were ready and I had to start first. "GO," Miss King yelled. We quickly worked together to get to first place. I swam down there legs and got back up. Our team was in the lead and our group won by miles. So we got another point and we had two altogether and we won.

Swimming has been great so far I have enjoyed every bit of it. I also want to thanks all the people to payed for our swimming lesson. We wouldn't have this good experience. I also want to thank Miss King for Teaching us how to swim.

Frist day at school

My first day of school

As I got to the gates of Pt England school there were many feelings running down my body. Sweat was running down my head and I didn't want to enter because I didn't know where to go and what to do. But then I had no choice so I just went. A few steps later this girl came up to me and asked me if I have been here before and I said no. So she took me around the school and showed me where the office,Library, playground and courts were.

The first bell rang so we went back to the gates and waited for her friends to come then we went to the hall and sat at the back. Finally the second bell rang and assemble started first I didn't know that Mr burt was the principal because all the schools I went to had ladies as the principal. Then we had to sing songs but I didn't know the lyrics to it so I didn’t sing. Then Mr Burt said “ If you are a year 8 please stand” I stood up and I had butterflies in my tummy I did not know what he would say next. Then he told us to go to the street I did not know where the street was so I just followed the others.

Walking into the street with eyes looking at me there was sweat coming down my face. As I sat down I was so frightened I wanted to be in the same class as the girl that showed me around but then Mrs Nua called out the names for room 15 I was so scared I didn't know what to do each name she said I was getting very nervous until she said the people that I called to follow miss king I relief but then suddenly mrs Nua asked who Kimberly was so I putted my hand up she told me to follow miss King to I was so shy I didn't know what to do.

Getting past the big crowd of children walking from the street to room 15 I was so scared. as I entered  people were just staring and that made me even more nervous. Just sitting at the back by myself I had heaps of sad feelings. Then Miss King told us to do a task with a group I didn't know what to do cause I didn't know anyone to go with. Then thats when Turuhira and Dante asked me if I wanted to be with them and I said yes. We started to plan what we were going to film. It was really cool and really funny. Then we finished our planning and started to film. It was really cool because it was my first time I have ever been in front of a  camera at school. At first we kept on getting it wrong and we kept on laughing about it. But then we got serious so we can finish our filming.

That is how me and my friends became best friends from the beginning of the year till the end of the year through good times and bad times. I would never want to split from my friends they are like my family.That was a my very fun first day of Point England school I wish that day will repeat. How did you feel on your first day?.

My mihimihi

Kia ora koutou
greetings to you all

Kua  haere mai nei
 who have come

Ki tenei wahi
to this place

Ki te whakapakari I to reo Maori

to develop your Maori Language

ka nui te hari

great is the joy

mo koutou maia
for your strength

ki te aro mai

in attending

ki te ako

to learn

i te reo Maori

the Maori language

No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra tatou katoa

Therefore greetings once, greetings twice, greetings again to us all.

My maths problem

I have worked really hard trying to work this out hope you enjoy!!!!

My year book

Year book from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This year has been a great for me best I got to make a lot of movies and have fun with my new friends and my new Teacher Miss King.

Math movie 1

Elizabeth and Kimberly math movie 1 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Elizabeth and I have been working really hard trying to find the answer for the golf ball question and putting the movie altogether. We Hope you enjoy and learn something from it.

India sends rocket to Mars

                                          

India sends spacecraft to Mars

In India they have started their first spacecraft to Mars. Their hoping that the spacecraft will reach Mars safety. They planned to send the spacecraft to travel 300 days. The rocket had lifted off on Tuesday the 5th of November and it should reach mars  in September 2014.

People are asking whether  India should be spending $130 million on a space rocket when their country is one of the highest position for childhood malnutrition in the world.  We think that India should not have paid $130 million dollars just for a space rocket when their are many children that needs to be feed.

If their plan succeeds then India will be the fourth space agency to reach Mars.  What will you choose, spend $130 million on a spacecraft or save more children from dying of hunger?.

Visit to Grandpa's

Waking up with sun shining on his eyes he was so excited. Sam got ready because he was going to a different country. A few minutes later Sam was ready to go. Sam grabbed his bags and headed towards the van. “Be good when you get there ok,” sam’s mum exclaimed.

Sam rolled his eyes as his mum was talking to him.

They arrived at the airport. Sam and his mum took the bags inside. Sam said his goodbyes and went to check in. He went into the plane feeling really excited He looked outside The window I won't be seeing Australia in a while sam thought to himself.

About 3hrs later The plane landed Sam walked out and he saw his grandpa with all his cousins and aunties. They all welcomed him and took him to his grandpa’s house. Minutes later they arrived to a really big house, “who lives in here” Sam asked I do grandpa said. “You have a big house sam exclaimed,” Sam wondered what happened to his other house because that had all his memories from when he was little boy and how he remembered about the stories grandpa had been telling him from when he was in the army.

They walked in the house and Sam’s cousins took his bags into his room he was going to sleep in. As his cousin’s were doing that, Sam and his grandpa sat down on the couch. Grandpa wanted to tell him something. Grandpa looked really sad, that was when Sam knew it was going to be bad news.

“I am going to die soon because I am very sick that is why I called your mum to send you here, I know that you we have not spend that much time together,” Grandpa Explained, Sam’s smile was fading away. Tears started to pour down his face. “How long do you have to live,” Sam asked. Grandpa didn’t really know because his doctor didn’t tell him yet. Grandpa wiped Sam’s tears away and took him into The back yard. When sam was little Grandpa didn’t get to finish off the story of him in the army because Sam and his family moved to Australia. That was the saddest day grandpa have ever had.

Grandpa showed Sam the necklace his wife gave to him before he left to go to the army. “This means everything to me because this was my last thing that she gave me and that was the last day that I saw her.” Grandpa’s wife died 6 months after he left to go to the army. Sam felt really sorry for him.

6 months have almost past and Sam was having great fun with his Grandpa. It was 8 o'clock in the morning Sam heard heaps of noise, he wipe his eyes and went to check out what was happening. All his aunties and cousins were running in his grandpa’s room. Sam ran to his grandpa’s room knowing what had happened. His Grandpa was just lying on the bed. His grandpa have sadly passed away. His Aunties and cousin were all crying. Sam out of the room and walked  to the backyard and started crying.

The next day they did a funeral for his grandpa at the cemetery Sam’s mum came and sat next to him. Sam said a speech telling how much his grandpa did for him and how his  grandpa never gave up on him. After Sam finished his speech he laid the necklace that the grandpa said that it meant everything to him. When he sat down he heard a whisper but no one was there he knew it was his grandpa telling him that he did the right thing. Sam felt happy of himself to.

Halloween

Halloween first started like about in the 1900’s. Halloween was created at the time to celebrate dead people. Now Halloween was turned into a holiday for children. 

Halloween was first celebrated by the ancient Celts Who were around 800 B.C, as the festival of Samhain that marked the end of  harvest and the beginning of winter, when the Celts believed that spirits of the dead returned to earth.  

Halloween is celebrated around the world in different kinds of ways. Austrilia, New Zealand, canada and many more countries celebrate Halloween. In canada Halloween began with the arrival of scottish and irish immigrants in 1800’s.

All around the world children and many adults look forward to Halloween mostly children. Around the world and in diffrent religon some people do not celebrate Halloween because they don't believe in the histroy of Halloween. From my opinion Children love Halloween just because of the lollies. But what we don't know is the meaning of Halloween.

Kimberly, Lizabeth and ana Cyclone in India

In India half a million of people have been evacuated out of there houses in eastern India due to a powerful cyclone. During that cyclone there has been a powerful hit, it has washed away tens and thousands of people. Roof tops from huts has been washed away from the mud, And flooding towns and villages.

Kimberly, Annlliz and Ana's Rock pool

Kimberly maths from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

resturant problem

Kimberly pizza problem from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

The Pizza Place in my town has three

tables of the same size. The Chicken

N Chips restaurant has four of the

same sort of table.

The Chicken N Chips can just seat 24

people. How many people can The

Pizza Place seat?

Now a third of the seats at The Chicken N Chips were

empty and a half of the places at The Pizza Place were

empty. If 18 more people wanted to eat out, how many

would have to be turned away from the two restaurants?

Move reflection

Think carefully about the message the you shared about “Love”.

Is your message clear? I

s your message entertaining and well made?

Think carefully about how you worked this week.

Did you collaborate well with your group and come up with plan that everyone worked on?

Did you focus your energy on creating an exceptional creation?

Write  at least 1 paragraph for each “hat”.

Post this on your blog.

Using De Bono’s hats is a great way to help you think about your tasks and learning.

Yellow Hat - The things I enjoyed

 The thing that I enjoyed was working with my friends and Mr luifau. Mr Liufau was a great actor and mostly made us laugh. We loved co-operating together and having fun during the scenes. We had a great time talking and laughing during our plan. Sesalina, Kimberly, Dante and Turuhira worked really well and managed ourselves really well.

Black Hat - Which things didn’t I like.

Things that we did not like was that we did not pay attention properly on what my group was doing. We also never helped each other out, we also fight if we should lip-sync or not. We made up a rough ending which didn’t quite go well. But still we loved it and went on.

Green Hat - What was something interesting about this week.

The interesting thing about this week was that everyone in our group finished our work on time. We also worked together to make this movie very interesting. The interesting fact is that it’s our first time having a teacher in our class and also making a movie about ‘LOVE’.

White Hat - What did I learn.

The thing that i learned was filming in different kinds of ways like mid shot, wide shot, point view, wide shot, close up, extremely close and wide shot. We also learnt to remember to be nice and also enjoy ourselves. I learnt to be a good actor and not to fiddle around and not concentrating.

Blue Hat - What can I do better next time.

The thing that I can do better next time is help my friends by editing the movie so we can  have heaps of helping hands around instead of doing nothing.

TKSD movie

TKSD Movie Room15 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This week has been a great week cause Turuhira, Sesalina, Dante and I had been working together.

TKSD planning

TKS fairytale movie

TKS Movie Room 15 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

TKS fairytale storyboard

TKS fairytale reflection

Use this template to construct a reflection about your week making your Fairytale Move.

Post this table on your blog.

P	The good things that our group loved was cooperating together and having fun. Also putting a great movie together. We enjoyed making a storyboard about our twisted fairy tale stories that  we had written. We also enjoyed giving each others ideas to make our Trailer better.
M	The thing that we didn’t like was when other people distract us when we were doing our work.
I	The thing that our group learned was learning acting and putting the movie together fast and good.

P - Positive - The good things

M - Minus - The not so great things

I - Interesting - The things I learnt and I can do better on next time.

Fairytale

Once upon a time there were three young wolf’s who lived on a farm with their family. One day when they were kicking back the mother said “ GET UP AND GET OUT!!! You're getting too old , and I’m getting sick of doing your room when YOU’RE supposed to do it yourself. So the three wolfs split up and went out on a journey to find out where they might  live.

The first wolf was really lazy he just wanted his house to finish quick so he could kick back inside. He made his house out of plastic bottles. It was finished within half an hour he was really happy and said “Hahaha I finished  before you all and you can’t bet that shame. So off he went to kick back in his new house. The terrifying pig came along and knocked at the door. “Who is it” the wolf said with a lazy voice. “Big wolf big wolf please let me in” the terrifying pig said. You can come in if you want. The pig enter the house and the wolf was really scared. “Oh no” the wolf.

Can you please get out off my house he said. The pig went out and shut the door then he blow the house down. AAAAAAAh he screamed then he ran to his other brother house that was right next to him. His house was made out of candy then the pig knocked  on the door. “Come in” the wolf said. The pig walked in and gave the wolf his furious face. Then the wolf told him to get out and the pig ran away.

Prospective student

The boy, with a lean wiry body,  climbed the tall towering mountains. Feeling scared and nervous he kept climbing to get to the top . going through all that tough things he finally made it to the top. When he got there he felt very exhausted and his muscles were aching. As he was walking towards the big door he crossed his finger’s with hope.

He knocked on the door and the sensei opened it, he took a ball to the sensei ,and sensei pointed. He thought that he was telling him to go away,  but the boy was feeling very sad and rejected.

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Prospective Student Movie

tks @ 15 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

My reflection

Yellow Hat - The things I enjoyed

The thing that I enjoyed doing was being with my friends. The other thing that I enjoyed was making a song out of garageband.

Black Hat - Which things didn’t I like.

The thing that i didn’t like was when me and my group did not get our work finish on time.

Green Hat - What was something interesting about this week.

The thing that was interesting about this week was when all of my group worked together. Also being with my best friends.

White Hat - What did I learn.

I learned how to use garage band .I also learned how to make a trailer.

Blue Hat - What can I do better next time.

I could give more hand to my friends to help out with the trailer we are doing. i will also try next time to be on task.

trailer presentation

The girl in the haunted house

It was a  dark night and I was alone in a strange house suddenly i heard a noise.I saw a door so I ran towards it. I got there and went in and I saw nothing  it was just all pitch black I could hardly see the switch for the lights. At that moment  I was feeling very frightened. Felt something touch me so I screamed and went back out the door that I came from. My heart was racing so fast. I was feeling very scared I needed to find a somewhere out of here.

I looked left then right but there were lots of doors to be seen but I did not know witch one to  choose I ran to the first door that I could see. I opened the door and I slowly stepped in. I put  the light on and all I saw were  spider webs lots of them I was so scared cause I thought I saw something zoom past “hello” I said scaredly  is anyone I asked scaredly there was no reply I was so frightened. I saw something moving at the back of the curtain I was really scared but I wanted to know what it was so I walked slowly towards the the curtain and I opened the curtains quickly with fright. But it was just a little mouse. I  was really relieved because I thought it was something really serious so I went back out the door.

I walked out and went into the next door it was dark but not really dark because i saw a little light i knew it could lead me out this house so i ran towards the  light and there was a door and it said the way outside. I opened  it and i was finally safe. OR WAS I......

Famous movie

Selina and Kimberly and Annliz from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

friends mtv

FRIENDS MTV MOVIE from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Kimberly Cuboid

We had to build our own cuboid out of paper because there was no-more cardboard. It was a big experience at measuring and finding out how things can be equal.

This is a 2D cube the length is 14cm and the width id 4cm so if we multiply the 14cm and the 4 cm we will get 56cm2.

 The next one id a 3D shape the width of this 3D shape is 3cm3.

 The length of this shape is 4cm3.

The height of this 3D shape is 14cm3.

So if we multiply the width of the 3D shape, The length of the 3D shape and also the height of the 3D shape. So that will be 14cmx3cmx14cm = 588.

Independent and Dependent Clause

Turuhira and Kimberly from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This is a movie that my friend Turuhira and me made. We found out about Independent and Dependent Clause. It was a big experienced, for Turuhira and Me throughout our learning.

The giant hamburger

It was a fine afternoon and Lizzy was feeling very hungry. While walking along the street, she saw a restaurant called  king of  burgers. “What could be in there?” Lizzy asked herself. Opening the door, she walked inside and saw a giant hamburger sitting on the counter.

Ding ding Lizzy rang the bell that was on the counter. A man showed up and asked “What would you like” Lizzy was looking at the menu and said “ Can I just have a hamburger please” lIzzy paid the amount of  money that she needed to pay. Then she went to sit on a table and waited. She was waiting for along time. She didn’t know why the man was taking very long. 30 minutes later the man came out with a  giant hamburger on a plate, lizzy was staring at the giant burger.  She was so shocked at how big the burger was it had  fat buns with 3 packets of cheese and 3 huge patties. she was trying to take a bite but she didn't know where start. Lizzy was so hungry so she just took a bite of the burger and she thought it was yuck so she went out.......